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Harold M. Lambert NOVEMBER 'Ilium lime • • • • • 1960 Volume 69 VETERAN MISSIONARY and evangelist Frederick Lee ("Past, Present, No. 12 and Future of the Sabbath," p. 18) spent twenty-six years in China, where he served as administrator of local A RELIGIOUS MAGAZINE dedicated to the strengthening of the mental, physi- and union missions, ed- cal, and spiritual life of the individual reader. Basing its recommendations on the ited the Chinese Signs of living truths of the entire Bible, THESE TIMES promotes evangelical Christianity, the care of the needy at home and abroad, religious liberty, the systematic study of the Times, and was mis- the Bible, the exaltation of Jesus Christ, and the glad news of His literal soon coming. sion evangelist. For nine- teen and one-half years ARTICLES he was an associate ed- Older People Need Our Help H. H. Heiman 4 itor of The Review and What Faith in God Means to Me LeRoy Collins 7 Herald. Trailing Along With "It Is Written" M. Carol Hetzell 12 An authority on the Past, Present, and Future of the Sabbath Frederick Lee 18 Sabbath, Lee has done extensive research in It Happened 300 Years Ago Vincent Edwards 21 Sabbatical history and has written numerous "Why Not Try the Truth?" W. Clay Missimer 22 articles on the subject. His article emphasizes Bible Be's 24 the fact that the Sabbath as an institution dates "Brother, Let Us Pray" John M. Gibson 26 back to the dawn of history; its future can be 29 The First Thanksgiving _ projected to the new earth, where God's people W. E. Straw 30 Which Is the Way Out? _ will worship "from one sabbath to another." Retired in Yucaipa, California, author Lee REGULAR FEATURES has three children: Milton, a returned mission- This Time 3 Editorials __ 17 ary who now serves as a minister; Mary, a Events of These Times 8 Dear Editor: __ 25 missionary's wife in Thailand; and Anne Lil- "Apples of Gold" 16 In View of These Times 34 lian, a physician's wife in California.

POETRY Prayer for a Sports-minded Boy Grace V. Watkins 6 QUOTES FROM THIS ISSUE "I might as well come right out with the proper term and label it for what it was. Corer: Camera Cli.v I was the most expert liar in the company. Then came the test—only I did not realize that it was a test when it did come." (Page 22.) "Do you want to change your personality for the better? Here is all the power you KENNETH J. HOLLAND, Editor need." (Page 24.) "And while the holdup man stood there as Associate Editor Art Director though frozen, the tall man with the Lincoln. GORDON F. DALRYMPLE ROBERT M. ELDRIDGE esque bearing prayed for him, for the good Assistant Editor Layout Artist people of Birmingham, and for the big city's JAMES JOINER SHIRLEY C. ELDRIDGE poor, sick, and hungry." (Page 26.) General Manager Circulation Manager IRVIN H. IHRIG R. J. CHRISTIAN

Contributing Editors: Daniel Walther, Rodney E. Finney, INSIDE front cover photo, A Jr., Cecil Coffey, R. D. Vine, Wesley Osborne, Roland by H. M. Lambert: For golden harvest fields, C Hegstad, G. M. Mathews, Merlin L. Neff, C. A. Oliphant, for life and health, for peace and prosperity, H. M. S. Richards, Siegfried H. Horn, Mary Hunter for every good and perfect gift that has come P Moore, Herbert Ford, Fenton L. Hopp, Robert H. Pierson. from above, thanksgiving is owed by the chil- Address all correspondence to Box 59, Nashville 2, Tennessee dren of men. In the words of the hymn: "We gather together to ask the Lord's Printed in the United States of America Established in 1891. Published monthly (except September. when semimonthly) blessing; by the Southern Publishing Association, 2119 Twenty-fourth Avenue, North, He chastens and hastens His will to make Nashville 8, Tennessee. Entered as second-class matter January 19, 1909, at the post office in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A., under Act of Congress of March 3, known; 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section The wicked oppressing now cease from 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, and authorized July 11, 1918. Rates: 35 cents a copy; one year, $4.00; two years, $7.50; three years, $10.00; five years, $15.00, in distressing, the United States and Canada. Rates higher for other countries. Change of Address: Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not Please give both the old and the new addresses. Expiration: Unless renewed in advance, the magazine stops at the expiration date which is shown on the wrapper. His own." THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 3 ance have done much to take the economic burden from our older peo- ple. But even where there is economic security, there are often heartaches, frustrations, loneliness, and despond- ency. The problems are not all solved when the economic needs are met. The economic needs often are minor even though they are fundamental. The years that are added may be years full of emotional disturbances as distressing as those that beset youth. Aging is very often a shock, a profound shock. You can help relieve that shock. Friendly visits are so easily made and do so much. But you must like to make these visits and have a real interest in and concern for these older people. The emotional, mental, and spiritual

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AVE you noticed the increasing to their need. Those who are sixty-five disturbances which harass older people number of people over sixty-five may expect to live more than thirteen are great. They can be alleviated if we H who reside in your neighbor- years longer; those seventy, more than approach these problems with sympa- hood? If your vicinity is an average ten years longer; those who are eighty, thy and understanding. Some of the American community, one person in nearly six years longer—lots of years 'disturbances are but the result of eight is over sixty. There are more than in which to be neglected! wrong attitudes and habits, the wrong fifteen million in our nation who are How to make these remaining years kind of thinking and living, on the way over sixty-five. The number is increas- happy and meaningful is the problem. to becoming old. They nest close in ing each year. Women will experience more of these the aged and are hard to shake off. What is happening to these older added years, for women live longer Help is needed, and there are few ready people? One denominational magazine than men. By the time average women to bring this help. One kind lady said points out that our elderly people are reach seventy years, one half of them to a complaining woman in her eight- the most neglected and lonely group will be widows; but by the time average ies, "Did you ever stop to consider in the Christian fellowship. They are men reach seventy years, three fourths which habits you formed back through neglected by their children and their of them will still be married. Obviously the years brought you the greatest relatives, by their neighbors and their the widows and the widowers present blessing?" This question lifted her friends, and by the church itself. Of the greatest problems and the greatest sights and caused some introspection. course, this is not true everywhere, but needs. They present an area of need Some questions facing those who it seems to be the rule. Many of these where you who care might be able to wish to help older people include: people will be neglected for many help. Just what makes older people un- years more, unless somebody awakens Social security and old-age assist- happy? 4 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 rate, their creative powers to dwindle, their mind sets to harden, their preju- By H. H. HELMAN dices to become deep-rooted. So many just meet aging "head on" without the slightest preparation. They are in trouble, real trouble, many of Why do old people cease to be crea- How can the aged get proper medi- them. They need help, and lay people tive? cal care? can give it. Of course, you cannot help Can the attitude of society toward How can old people keep growing? them grow young again or stop them older people be changed? The average lay person may not from getting older. The process of Can children and relatives be trained need to know all the answers in order aging cannot be stopped. But you can in methods of helping? to help. Many older people will never help them to see that getting old is a How can the church be awakened to experience the best that "is yet to be" privilege and a blessing. A visitor from her responsibility? without help. For those who approach the church said to an aged lady who What kind of recreation is best for old age well prepared mentally, psy- considered being old a "pain in the older people? chologically, and spiritually, our duty neck," "Being so old, I'll bet you have What kind of shelter: homes for the is not so great or so difficult. Many did more pleasant memories than any one aged, hotel rooms, house trailers, a not meet old age adequately prepared, of us." It took this to turn her to help- room in the children's homes, or what? but allowed their capacities to deterio- ful reminiscing. You do not need to be commissioned and installed as a teacher or elected to the deacon's office or ordained as a minister to serve or help the older adults. All it should take is an aware- ness of the need and a feeling that you should do it. You might help them to meet the "shelving process." The day a factory or office employee is given his last pay check and told that he has reached retirement age brings misery to many

Ewing Galloway a man who feels able and capable to continue as efficiently as ever. Unless he has prepared for this exit from employment and for the leisure time it imposes, he will get terribly bored. He does not know what to do with the leisure time. He has spent his life putting something into life, and now suddenly finds himself wanting to get something out of life. But how? He becomes emotionally unstable. He grows sensitive to criti- cism. He is easily irritated. Small prob- lems become big ones. Short hours be- come long hours. He cannot stand it to be inactive and does not know how to become active. Frustration and fear beset him, and he sees the years ahead as something to dread. He feels that life has betrayed him. He has to live but has not anything to live for. He becomes alarmed—a stranger to him- self. To meet such cases some corpora- tions, like the Standard Oil Company of California, give their retired work- ers a booklet to guide them through the early days and weeks of retirement. There are almost innumerable postre- tirement paying occupations, such as elevator operator, cabinetmaker, truck gardener, hospital orderly, gateman, janitor, night watchman, truant officer, 5 probation officer, yardman, stock- lose all desire to be useful, but it hap- keeper, to mention a few. pens. To lead old people out of this A fundamental difficulty with many Playet lot attitude would be a real service to retired folk is their refusal to accept a Spotti-minded them. Find their interests and direct the facts about their age and the atti- them in finding something within the tude of society toward the aged. They Boy scope of these interests. Lift their find themselves in competition with sights and help them feel that they can what should have been instead of ad- still be useful. One woman in Fresno, justing to what is. The best one can do Oh, let the glory of the game California, was led to make scrap- for such people is to help them see Be joy for him, a shining flame books for children in mission fields. the situation and to ask themselves, Surpassing any lose or win. They were made from greeting cards, "Where can I go from here?" You can Plant deep humility within from pictures cut from magazines, from help them find new interests, new chal- actual photos. This gave her interest Him, Lord, in time of victory. lenges, new achievements, new pur- and activity until her death in her suits. How to help any one individual In time of losing, let him be eighties. will depend much upon his experi- Undaunted, unembittered, still God did not intend that life should ences, his surroundings, and of course, Eager to climb tomorrow's hill. suddenly cease to have meaning at his attitudes. If you know another per- And oh, through every rugged race, sixty-five or seventy. The abundant life son who has retired well adjusted, you Lord. keep his heart an altar place. Jesus taught is an all-of-life experi- could get that person together with ence. the unadjusted individual. Discourage —Grace V. Watkins. Some old people have a great fear old people from pouring out their of total disability and death. I was woes. Guide them to become hopeful, talking to an old lady recently in a useful. rest home. She had been a very self- The need for friends is an area reliant person, able to manage her af- where lay people can help older adults. fairs efficiently. A stroke paralyzed one Often they have lost, in death or by side, and it was a terrible shock to her. moving, most of their old friends. It is "I must find someone, some doctor, very difficult to find or make new some medicine, something, that will friends when old. Society tends to take care of this," she cried. I could shut off the elderly. They cannot get not tell her that this was possible, but around among people as they once I did try to get her to see that the con- did. Former friends tend to forget, and dition was something we can live with they are left without many friends. if we only learn how. She is trying. The You can be a friend or you can send Lionel Green aging process is a conditioning of the a friend to them. Getting lonely old mind and soul for death. But still people together is a real help. But a center where the elderly can congre- some old people live in fear of death. do not feel that they need only the gate, chat, play. Then you could help You could spend an hour with such a aged for friends. They appreciate them find a place in women's clubs, person reading appropriate psalms, younger adults and even children. It church men's leagues, and community poems, or Bible texts on life after will help them keep a youthful spirit. organizations. Many old folk do not death. There are some tendencies in old feel wanted in any group, because so- If the church and the church people age which you may find annoying and ciety seems to say, "You are old; you cannot make the abundant life possible which may test your love and patience. are not needed any more." Help them to these older adults, where is another Many old people become selfish, de- find a worthwhile social group where agency or people left to do it? Old peo- manding, critical, and suspicious. they will feel welcome. ple are too much neglected and too Really these traits are carry-overs from The golden-ager who has lost his or often forgotten. We can help them to former years, as indicated above. The her creativity represents a need for grow and feel useful and important, golden years may find them embedded help. Many communities have estab- keep them optimistic and hopeful, turn in the soul and very disquieting. To lished small shops and factories where them to growing interests and expand- get old people to build up appreciation, only older people may be hired. The ing horizons, help them retain the as- consideration, patience, and optimism Community Council of Yellow Springs, surance of God's continuing love, give amid these fortified tendencies is a Ohio, uses an old opera house for this them a perspective that evaluates both real task. Find them an optimistic purpose. For the women there are time and eternity, bring them to ac- poem, appropriate Bible verses, a worktables, sewing machines, and quilt- cept willingly the fact that today youth hymn, a book, or a picture which por- ing frames. For the men there are all are the peers in society, and to realize trays these needed traits. This would kinds of hand and power tools. Arti- that to be loved they must love, and be a real help. cles repaired are paid for and articles challenge them to endure hardness Recreation is another need. Self- made are sold. You might set up a like a good soldier and keep on keep- help is weak here. It is a community baby-sitting agency, with a training ing on until God calls them. Older responsibility, the same as for children program, or an employment center people need your help. and youth. Perhaps you could spark where easy jobs are secured for men. One of the best examples of real a move to have the community provide It is unfortunate that anyone should (Continued on page 25) 6 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 What

AM CONVINCED that never too often is not "Does it have quality?" before has the Christian lay- Faith but simply "Will it sell?"—in this day man's position been as impor- when standards of living are made to tant as now. I hope you will overshadow standards of character— I find it understandable why in is it fear that keeps us so quiet in the my remarks there will be overtones of forest? Will we wait until just before politics. Religious belief and moral in death to cry out? conviction should not and cannot be In the summer of 1959 I attended a separated from political life in a de- Baptist church service in Russia. I was mocracy. If a people are indifferent to in Leningrad with a group of nine their religious sensibilities or lose their American governors. We had heard morality, then it follows as night the God about this church and wanted to see for day that they shall lose their democratic ourselves what it was like. The church rights and institutions. And conversely, was crowded. They were mostly old without the support for freedom and people, their faces grooved from the the dignity of man that democratic in- burden of years stretched out to cover stitutions provide, religion as we know Means the torture of war. As the minister it would not have a chance for survival. welcomed us, 1 noted several banners. Most forms of government peculiar The big one back of the pulpit read to Western civilization have had their (translated), "God is love." One on foundation on the sure certainty of the to the side was a quotation from the New existence of God and the love of Him. Testament: "Come unto me, all ye During the day of monarchy it was the that labour and are heavy laden, and king's right and duty to speak for God. I will give you rest." In the days of the medieval church it I was called to the pulpit to respond was the role of the church's hierarchy e to the minister's welcome, and I shall to speak for God. But today in a never forget that great sea of quiet democracy, and especially in this de- faces before me. I told them we had mocracy, the spokesmen for God must come from America, where people were be not only the churches of the nation in church singing and worshiping God but also the individuals who comprise under that same banner, "God is love"; these churches. Neither you nor I can that though we were widely separated escape the responsibility of this wit- geographically, though our economic ness. systems and our governments were Some time ago there was a very al- vastly different, this banner evidenced legorical type of movie in which a a common bond and a common pur- white man and a colored man, chained pose. They began nodding and saying together, escaped from prison. During aloud, "Da," "Da," meaning "Yes," their escape they fell into a deep pit LeRoy Collins "Yes." together. There was only one way out, Governor of Florida Then they sang for us that great and that was for one to stand on the hymn we have sung since childhood: shoulders of the other. Since the Negro "God Be With You Till We Meet was the stronger, the white man stood Again." All of us joined in, and the on his shoulders and climbed over the mixing of English words with Russian edge of the pit. Since they were chained words made no difference. There fol- together, the white man had no alterna- cry from within the forest, and the lowed a verse sung very softly, and tive but to pull the colored man out of white man asked, "What's that?" The the Russians all took out their hand- the pit after him. During their flight colored man said, "It's a weasel; some- kerchiefs and waved them slowly in a they progressed to the edge of a forest thing got him." The white man specu- farewell which will live always in my at dusk; and noting the stillness of the lated, "That's funny. All your life you memory. I do not believe there was a deep forest, the white man said, "How are quiet, and just before you die, you dry eye in the whole congregation— come it's so quiet?" The colored man cry out." Americans and Russians alike. answered, "The animals are afraid. In this day of the fast buck—in this As we left the church, I asked the They have to be quiet or they'll be day of the easy fix—in this day when minister, "Where are your young peo- caught." Suddenly there was a shrill in the marketplace the crucial question (Continued on page 32) THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 7 The church is not outside the men- acing influence, for it is frequently tak- ing the deep personal element out of worship. Christianity is a life, not a creed. The church should be a com- THE VANISHING INDIVIDUAL munity of members who by their fel- Do we see our fellow men as living, lowship strengthen one another. Yet breathing persons? This may seem like some members think all they need is a a foolish question, but after a moment's radio sermon or a televised church thought we will see it is vital in modern service—a poor substitute for personal, life. In an age of the machine, auto- community worship that draws one mation, and scientific attitudes, we are close to God. in danger of becoming depersonalized. The example of Jesus Christ should For example, when you are at the be set before the modern church. The wheel of your car in heavy traffic or on Master saw individuals, not masses, the highway, do you see persons or goals, or statistics. He stopped to help friends in the autos ahead or that pass every person in need—the woman at you? Usually we see only certain model the well, the blind man, the ten lepers, cars and "stupid drivers" who get in the woman who anointed His feet. The our way. A pedestrian is a two-legged gospel was a personal message of hope, creature that slows our progress. and Jesus sent His disciples to the These attitudes are only symptoms towns and villages to speak to men in- of the malady that grips us. Edward dividually in their homes. The words V. Stein, in the Christian Century (June of Jesus were not vague generalities to 22, 1960), declares that "our relations be tossed around glibly; they were with our friends and neighbors are deeds to be put into daily living. The often fleeting and impersonal. Speed Saviour took time to hold a child on is overvalued. Time is equated with His lap, to see a boy with a small basket of bread and fish, to heal a woman who in a crowd touched His robe. The love of Christ can counteract the menace of depersonalization. When divine love is permeating the life, we will see in every person a human being for whom Jesus died. Our circle of friends will widen as we pour the spirit of genuine friendliness from our hearts. EVENTS Christianity centers in a Person. We cannot depersonalize the church; we must not mechanize our daily experi- ence, or we will have destroyed the es- OF THESE TIMES sence of Christianity. BELIEF OR UNBELIEF? One out of every eight Protestant Episcopal clergymen does not believe money. . . . A cashier becomes a hand- in the virgin birth of Christ, according with-money, the clerk becomes a voice- to a survey by The Living Church, an with-answers, the wife a cook-with-sex, Episcopal magazine. the child a nuisance-with-need." By refusing to accept the statement Our cities are teeming with lonely, of the New Testament, we could say bewildered human beings who have that one in eight of these churchmen little or no warm, personal contacts does not believe the Bible. If they have with others. The factory is depersonal- no confidence in this cardinal doctrine, ized, the stores are "self-service," the we doubt if their faith is strong on recreation largely without spectator other points, such as the resurrection, participation. As Dr. Samuel H. Mil- the atoning work of Christ, or the ler, dean of Harvard Divinity School, promise of His return. sees the precision-tooled, mechanized It is impossible to accept the divine way of life, he warns, "The principali- story of Jesus, the Son of God, without ties and powers are bent on dehuman- taking the entire teaching concerning izing us." His birth, His sinless life, His teach- 8 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 ings, His atoning death, and His resur- rection and ascension. If we begin to take the Bible to pieces, believing one doctrine and refusing another, we do not have God's Word; we have our conception of what we would like to believe! "All scripture is given by inspiration CURRENT of God," says the New Testament con- cerning itself. (2 Timothy 3:16.) Fur- thermore, we are told by the Apostle Paul, "Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord." 2 Timo- AND thy 1:8. The faith of men is tested today. What do they believe about God, man, or devil? Often very little. If Jesus Christ is mere man, then He did not QUOTABLE redeem sinners, and we are completely, eternally lost. This is the price we must pay for our unbelief. There is no alter- native. "If in this life only we have RNS hope in Christ, we are of all men most CHARLES MALIK miserable." 1 Corinthians 15:19.

SMOKERS' PERSONALITY You are known by the way you smoke or do not smoke, according to Charles Malik, president of the United Nations: "Only those who Dr. H. J. Eysenck, psychiatrist. A study stay very close to Christ can help others who are far away." of 2,360 men reveals that the average John Steinbeck, author: "A strange species we are. We can stand smoker, nonsmoker, and ex-smoker anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I have personalities that differ from each wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would other. have it on its knees miserable, greedy, sick." A series of questions was given to each of the persons surveyed. It was Dr. C. A. Roberts, Oklahoma pastor: "No one is listening to the found that typical cigarette smokers church's valid message. Problems of boredom, worry, and guilt will are extroverts and have less rigid per- not be solved by the same old sermons, and today's churches are sonalities than others. They "live at an not trying to solve their communications problems. Tennessee Wil- accelerated rate, drinking harder, liams and William Faulkner are telling us more about man's de- smoking harder, living more irregular pravity than the church is." lives, staying up longer, and generally Dr. Jon L. Regier, minister: "Let us not make our churches so `living it up' more," says the person- ality comparison report. sound-proofed that we cannot hear the cries of the lonely, the hun- We could be sure that the findings gry, and those discriminated against." would reveal less will power in the Gen. Carlos Romulo, of the Philippines: "We have harnessed average heavy cigarette smoker. He the atom, but we will never make war obsolete until we find a force will usually admit this, for he knows that will bridle the passions of men and nations." smoking is injuring his health, but he cannot quit. Dr. Arthur L. Bietz, Los Angeles, California, pastor, suggesting the Lack of will power seems to be in- need for a "fresh redefinition of Christian belief": "Many laymen creasing, for with the proven medical are living in the twilight of their parents' religion. When the twilight testimony of the menace of cigarettes is past, they will be in complete darkness unless they make the vital on the lungs and the heart, we would ideals of their parents a part of their own experiences." think that sensible people would re- Jurgen Jacobsen, of Three Lions Studio: "If a mother were paid solve to quit and live up to their reso- wages for all the tasks she performs during her daily routine, the lution. But no! Cigarette sales are total cost to the head of the family would easily be several hundred mounting with each annual sales report, dollars a week." and the nicotine-saturated individual knows that his will power is slumping 0. A. Geiseman, pastor: "The child of God is never alone. There again, for he is the victim of subtle ad- is always One who said, 'Lo, I am with you alway.'" vertising propaganda, social pressure, and a hedonistic view of life—eat, smoke, and don't care what happens!

THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 9 EVENTS

World War III comes. Future warfare will be directed against the mass popu- lation; it will seek to make life impos- sible! Today we exist in a world with power, but man has lost control of it. There is no way to control the fiendish forces let loose from the laboratories of science. Men talk about whether a nation has a "right" to destroy half the world. Of course, this is lawlessness at its height; but who is able to stop it? Lawlessness springs from the refusal of men and nations to acknowledge and obey a higher authority. We may see millions die in a ghastly chaos of civilization because man has degener- ated until he is without hope and without God. LOST BRAIN POWER Wasting the brain power of the na- tion is one of America's weaknesses. Over 400,000 of the best minds of youth—those in the upper third in high school studies—never go on and finish college. John V. Monro, dean of Har- vard College, says, "We lose more tal- ented students after they arrive in col- lege than we lose between high school graduation and college admission." Lack of finances, the discouraging outlook of the times, the attitude of parents—these are major factors in causing youth to stop their advance in education. We are losing to the good of RNS America and her future tens of thou- EIGHT NEW POLISH Baptist Christians, surrounded by more than 500 relatives, sands of talented men and women be- friends, and onlookers, kneel in prayer with Pastor Jan Pancewicz (top) before their cause they are underpriviliged, come baptism by immersion in the Warta River at Poznan (bottom). Baptist work in Poland, from minority groups, or have been begun in 1858, has had a slow growth in a predominantly Roman Catholic country. given little or no challenge to achieve. To encourage a youth to dedicate his life in achievements that will better ALL-OUT WARFARE which is cheap to produce. It can pene- his fellow men, that will contribute to trate a person's skin, and he will be the moral and spiritual welfare of his Chemical, biological, radiological dead in less than fifteen minutes. Again, country, is one of the greatest con- warfare—these deadly techniques are there is the new group of chemicals being discussed in books, magazines, tributions an adult can make to the that change a man's personality. They younger generation. and newspapers with an airing of the produce confusion and cowardice, and When have you given a teen-age boy horrible possibilities they portend. make him submissive in spite of all his or girl the challenge to grow, to de- There are chemicals in gas or liquid good intentions. velop his talent for God and country? form which can be used widely to in- Again, the laboratories have manu- Try it, for it pays rich dividends. terfere with man's oxygen supply and factured germs that can spread crip- injure his nervous system. Other chemi- pling or deadly disease among the MACHINE TRANSLATION cals in gas form burn the skin, produce enemy population. They can destroy Scientists have created a machine blindness, or interfere with the internal food crops and thus paralyze a nation. which, by its implications, staggers the organs of the body. These, along with the injury of man mind. The I.B.M. engineers have per- Hideous to consider is the new nerve by radioactive materials, make life on fected a translating machine which can gas—an odorless, invisible weapon the earth precarious, indeed, when convert Russian books and scientific 10 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 essays into English. This fabulous in- and state affairs be silent. Rome has today, Burman states, "The church can strument translates 1,800 words a min- spoken. She is interested in influencing no longer spend hundreds of years in ute, and soon it will step up its power government "especially when politics construction process. Today only a to handle 2,400 words a minute. touch the altar." year or two may elapse from the first Of course, the ability of the machine idea to the final completion of the to translate idiomatic expressions has CHURCH ARCHITECTURE church building, and the church must something to be desired. But it will cut Church building has shown phe- be designed for the needs of a con- translating time to such a minimum nomenal growth in the past few years, stantly changing constituency. . . . New that thousands of books can be trans- as evidenced by the expenditure of facilities are required for the educa- lated into many languages where only $800,000,000 for new worship edifices tional, social, and recreational require- one could be produced before. Books, in 1959. Robert Burman, church ar- ments of its membership." including many volumes on religion, chitect in Los Angeles, California, With church membership constantly can someday soon be taken from Eng- points out that the churches of America increasing, it is obvious that even more lish into a score of other languages. are revising their attitudes and concepts church building will take place in the Thus knowledge could be spread rap- of the architectural needs of the times. future. Since the days when God gave idly around the world! One of the more unusual trends of the command in Exodus 25:8, "Let In the words of Robert J. Clements, current church architecture is use of them make me a sanctuary; that I may writing for Saturday Review (July 16, lighter materials, such as aluminum, dwell among them," church congrega- 1960), "Probably no such powerful glue-laminated wood, stressed skin and tions have confronted the problem of instrument for the eventual dissemina- sandwich panels, lightweight concrete, building. Architecture is rapidly being tion of literature has come along since and plastics. recognized as a social art, vitally re- the invention of printing, which also Commenting on architectural trends lated to the people it serves. *** progressed to the point of confounding critics and skeptics." Cry Of Futility Jack Hamm POLITICS AND CATHOLICISM The official newspaper of the Vati- $ */ can, L 'Osservatore Romano, recently stated the official position of the Ro- man Catholic Church in politics. It declared that this church has the right to give guidance in social and politi- cal activities. The Catholic paper declared that the world faces "a great confusion of ideas," and that this confusion was "especially true in some nations, even among Catholics, with regard to rela- tions between Catholic doctrine and social and political activity, and be- tween the ecclesiastical hierarchy and the Catholic laymen in the civil field." Then the Vatican journal asserted that "the political-social problem cannot be separated from religion because it is a highly human problem. . . . As a con- sequence the church cannot remain aloof, especially when politics touch the altar." We appreciate the frank statement "GO AND CRY UNTO of the Vatican concerning its position. THE G006 WHICH Catholicism will use its influence in YE HAVE CHOSEN; the politics of a nation whenever it LET *THEM DELIVER will profit the Catholic Church. It will YOU IN THE TIME seek to mix into the affairs of state OF YOUR 1RIF3U- when such relations will be of value to LA-TIONu the church. Let those who say that there is no design by Catholicism to mix church ..acte,v4m44 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 11 - Ird7a1/111,9 7,4c/o1199 W(V4

slipped off the back of a experience and the foreshadowing of donkey and another when the cross of Christ. a porter had tossed it "It was a thrilling moment," Vande- out a train window as man says. "We stayed at the St. Cath- a convenient method of erine's Monastery, established in the unloading. Fortunately, fourth century by Greek Orthodox both times the camera monks. We weren't too sure we were had been in its case. Now the first or the last to sleep between the it was out, ready for in- sheets, but what did it matter? We stant action. were at Sinai! The next morning, with The other American, zoom lens, we were able to stand where George Vandeman, of Moses stood and zoom right down into Washington, D.C., found the valley where once were encamped himself propelled back- the hosts of Israel." ward in time nearly 3,000 The footage secured on this wilder- years. His ears caught ness jaunt has since become a part of Photo by Review arid Herald the sounds of shouting two films in the "It Is Written" TV children, men's and wom- series. These are entitled "The Passion en's voices, lowing cat- Play in the Desert" and "God and Fate tle, the creak of wooden in Collision." The incident is typical wheels grinding out an of the lengths to which this evangelist WO TAXIS of rather unknown trail. Through this wilderness of the air waves will go to secure ma- ancient vintage snaked Moses had led the children of Israel in terial to prove his point and to make a purposeful trail among their exodus from Egypt. Here they Bible facts come to life. the huge boulders and had worshiped God, trusted Him, wit- The general format of the "It Is rocky crags of the bleak nessed His miracles; and here they had Written" program is informal. There is Wilderness of Sin in the Sinai Penin- denied Him over and over again until very little in the way of frills or music. sula. Hours ago the macadam road out heavenly patience might seem utterly A dramatic opening brings into one's of Cairo had disintegrated into wash- exhausted. home the Bible, and the remainder of board gravel. At what precise point the Dusk had come quickly upon the the program makes a straightforward drivers had decided to abandon the travelers, and almost as quickly now presentation of Bible truths, with Van- road and launch out across desert the driver of Vandeman's car began deman speaking in conversational tones wasteland, their three American pas- to jabber excitedly. He had spotted a in the setting of a paneled study. Spe- sengers would never know. Without tiny light in the distance. Mount Sinai! cial on-the-scene film footage illustrates benefit of road signs or any other visi- The words were electrifying! For- the truths presented. ble markers the incredible Arab taxi gotten was the long and bone-cracking In Jordan, Vandeman stood with drivers headed cross country. drive, the emptiness of wasteland. Here, Pierre de Vauex and watched while The battered old cars groaned and at this spot, God had spoken with man! archeologists uncovered further proof creaked as they jolted over the uneven Here Moses had received from the of Bible stories. "We stood on a fresh terrain. When they finally turned very hand of God two tables of stone dig," he says, "just as the men came abruptly and took off up a dry creek that were to guide man in all his rela- upon new discoveries. Our cameras bed, Leston Post, sound technician tions with God and his fellow beings— focused on the very inkwells and slab from southern California, reflected the Ten Commandments. To reach this desks used in the writing of the Dead wryly that there was certainly little spot Vandeman and his sound-camera Sea Scrolls. The dried ink in these ink- resemblance here to a Los Angeles team had traveled nearly half a world. wells matches identically with that freeway. As director and speaker of the reli- found on the scrolls." In his television Byron Logan, photographer, took a gious telecast "It Is Written," George series this experience has been used to firmer hold on the movie camera rest- Vandeman had purposed to bring back tell how the Bible came into being. ing on his knees. It had already sur- a film documentary that would make To help illustrate another message, vived two crises—one when it had more real to his audiences the Sinai in his film entitled "Red Stairs to the 12 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 By M. Carol Hetzell

Standing in the arch located on Mount Sinai, "It Is Written" speaker George Vandeman con- templates the setting which met the eye of Moses as that prophet returned from God's presence with the Ten Commandments.

Sun," Vandeman and his camera team made the rather difficult trek on horse- back to Petra, an ancient deserted city carved out of the solid red rock of a hidden canyon. Here they recorded on film the carved red stairs ascending to the place of sun worship and sacrifice. Egypt's pyramids and sphinx; Jeru- salem and other Holy Land spots; the J. Byro, Log,Im site of Tyre, city condemned of God, where fishermen now spread their nets Vandeman even has movie footage understood by mere mortals—the to dry, as predicted in Scripture; the of Mars! This is used in his program meaning of eternity and endless space. treasures of history preserved in the "Life on Other Worlds." However, When these have been comprehended great museums of London, Rome, contrary to what this may seem to and one comes to realize his own Cairo—all these Vandeman's hungry indicate, Vandeman did not go to Mars finitesimal insignificance, the evangelist ;camera has devoured, to be shared to take the pictures. These films do then points out that in spite of all later with his television viewers. have a rather interesting background this, an omnipotent God loved us so When the Mayflower II and its di- though. much that He gave His only Son to minutive sister ships put into Plymouth Some parts of the Bible story, Van- save us. The point drives home; it is for the first time, Vandeman was there deman believes, can best be illustrated irrefutable. to get the story on film. and understood by a knowledge of For years the evangelist had sought When Queen Elizabeth II was astronomy, and in holding an evange- the best in pictures to illustrate this par- crowned, Vandeman was on hand. listic series of meetings he always ticular subject. "I must have searched When Pompeii was destroyed by brings to the attention of his audiences the globe," he says, always looking for the hot breath of Vesuvius, Vandeman the other planets and universes that something better. "I used the most —well, he wasn't there, but he has film occupy the heavens and make more beautiful colored pictures direct from to illustrate the disaster! understandable—if such a thing can be Palomar, the Observatory of India, the THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 13 iadiotelescope at Manchester, England. western town of Pueblo, Colorado, in modate all the people who attempted But I kept thinking that maybe some- 1916, always knew he would be "a to attend his services, it was necessary where there would be pictures of the preacher." His father was a minister, for him to lecture as many as three stars in motion. I kept after it and kept and that opened many opportunities times an evening. Even then hundreds after it." for him to try his hand. He was eight- had to be turned away because there Then, not long after returning from een when he preached his first sermon. was not room for them in the theater holding a series of evangelistic services Then folks began to call him "the boy (seating capacity: 2,500). at the New Gallery in the heart of evangelist." By anyone else's standards Vande- London, Vandeman found right at "During my first college years I man should have been happy about home the very thing he had sought tire- was more interested in preaching than the success of his meetings in London. lessly. studying," Vandeman reflects. "It was Instead he says, "I came back from Dr. LeRoy Sibley, an astronomer several years before I caught the vision England restless. We were not meeting of fifty years, had decided to retire. He of what I needed to do scholastically the challenge. We were just touching was preparing to move to Florida when if I would succeed at my chosen ca- the edges, as it were." He kept seeing Vandeman chanced to visit his home. reer. By then I was married and had the millions in London who had never It is not hard to imagine Vandeman's a family to occupy my spare time." even known that he was there. excitement when he learned what Sibley The once "reluctant scholar" got It was then that the idea of "It Is had in his possession. He explains: down to business. He finished the Written" began to take shape. Televi- "Saturn takes twenty-nine and a half theological course at Emmanuel Mis- sion could take the gospel to those years to encircle the sun. Its year, sionary College in Berrien Springs, other millions. Some earlier evange- then, is twenty-nine and a half times Michigan, in 1942. With considerable listic films had been made, financed by as long as ours. We see it from earth practical application of his studies in- two West Coast doctors. These had in different angles over that period. terspersed, he then secured his master been straight doctrinal presentations, Sibley had taken time-lapse motion of arts degree from the University of and the speakers varied, with George pictures of Saturn through the tele- Michigan in 1945. He was ordained Vandeman among those taking turns. scope every year for twenty-two years. to the ministry that same With these pieces of film synchronized, year. you actually see what God alone sees." Rather slight of build, Vandeman breathes the word softly. and refined in manner, Van- "You see Saturn circling the sun. You deman yet gives no appear- see the melting of the polar caps on ance of one who lacks cer- Mars. You see the color variations tainty of direction. He very marking the change of the seasons definitely knows where he is there, the vegetation changing color." going and usually how he Other pictures in this series show will get there. His manner explosions on the sun with flames of delivery both on the air tossing thousands of miles upward and on the lecture platform from the surface. is a far cry from that of At one time Sibley had rented his the run-of-the-mill shouting priceless film to the National Broad- evangelist. His speech is casting Company for a science program soft, yet round and rich for the government. The rental fee paid with a carrying quality that for one night had been a fabulous sum. reaches the listener without "You can imagine how I got smaller strain or difficulty. A news- and smaller and smaller," Vandeman paper reporter in one mid- RNS Photo said. "With my limited budget my western state put it this hopes for purchasing the film seemed way: "The listener feels as if he is the "I did my notes for the films while I so fantastic." only one in the audience and Vande- was on my way to another assignment, Apparently they did not seem so man is talking just to him." and we shot nine films in three days." fantastic to the retiring astronomer. Perhaps it was this unusual ability (The "It Is Written" films require When he learned the purpose which that carried the young minister to a about three months each, though more the films could serve, his offer took the top spot in the Seventh-day Adventists' than one can be in process at one evangelist completely by surprise. evangelistic program in 1947. As as- time.) "I'm ready to retire, Vandeman," sociate secretary of the denomination's For all their lack of appeal these Sibley said. "I'll let you have the whole ministerial association, he spent the early films brought results when placed shebang for $2,000." greater portion of his time coaching on TV in Texas, where there was a The "It Is Written" series now has evangelists and demonstrating sound captive audience for lack of any other three films which include footage from methods of evangelism. program at the same time. The leaders this marvelous collection: "The Heav- In 1952 he was invited to hold a of the denomination were convinced ens Are Telling." "Seven Wonders on series of evangelistic meetings in Lon- that greater results could be achieved Other Worlds," and "Life on Other don, the world's largest city. Here his with a similar program more skillfully Worlds." sound speaking techniques stood him prepared. Others were of the same George Vandeman, born in the little in good stead, for in order to accom- opinion, and the funds came in. Vande- 14 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 of Mr. Penney, who thoroughly disgusted with him. Finally has contributed the message got through. Today that heavily to church man is a converted, clear-thinking, work ever since he wonderful Christian, and the whole spent some time at neighborhood wonders what happened. Battle Creek Sani- He and his family attend church to- tarium to recoup his gether, and he is so thrilled with the health. It was there story of salvation that he talks to ev- that he heard the erybody he picks up in his cab." nurses singing in On the other end of the pendulum morning worship, may be found lawyers, a congress- "God Will Take woman, doctors, teachers, and busi- Care of You." And nessmen—all strongly interested in the it changed his life. message of "It Is Written." Mr. Penney partici- The Nielsen rating for the telecast pated personally in is consistently high, even compared V andeman's film to some popular entertainment shows. "God Is My Part- One report revealed "It Is Written" ner." had eight points to "My Little Mar- "Our passion," gie's" seven points. When the series Vandeman says, ran in Washington, D.C., a pulse rating "was to take a was eight as compared to fourteen for straight message "Meet the Press." Other religious pro- and illustrate it so grams ran consistently lower. that it would hold Since the number of films now in an appeal and give the program series totals only thirty- interest. We tried nine, it is obvious that it will not run When the Mayflower II and its diminutive sister ships put into to have on the pro- over any one station indefinitely. Does Plymouth for the first time, Vandeman was there to get the story gram the actual this mean, then, that those who have on film. Reportorial tactics such as this have enabled the tele- people associated felt their interest stirred in Biblical vision personality to make "It Is Written" one of the most with any incident. subjects will be abandoned? Not at all. appealing programs now being presented in the United States. When we filmed the And this is the beauty of Vandeman's story on divine plan. For it makes the average church man has a word for it—providential. healing, for instance, we flew in the member a pastoral assistant, an as- In many of the wonderful things that very people themselves who had ex- signment not only beneficial to pro- have happened to "It Is Written" since perienced this miracle." gram listeners but also strengthening that day, he has seen the hand of Prov- Even what might be termed "the to the spiritual experience of the church idence. commercial" uses the genuine article. member himself. It multiplies enor- The way doors have opened for film- One film closes with a policeman, mously the work that the minister in ing projects connected with the pro- a nurse, and a watchmaker asking any specific area can do. gram, the chance meeting of influential whether the program's Bible corre- The "It Is Written" staff has pre- persons who could make certain film spondence course, "Take His Word," pared a series of lessons on Bible sub- sequences available, the ready accept- is for them. At the end of another pro- jects dealt with in the films. Entitled ance on the part of important TV sta- gram the question is asked individually "Take His Word," these lessons are tions, the strong financial support— by an eye surgeon, an army officer, and delivered by church members to the all these are to the dedicated evangelist an official of the California Depart- homes of the community in which the evidences of providential guidance. ment of Education. TV series is running. Interested view- There have been a number of good- Response to the program comes ers do not suffer the results of inertia, sized single contributions made by per- from all quarters and all levels. Vande- a factor which prevents many from sons impressed by the message of the man rather hopes it has a special ap- writing in to request something ad- program and convinced of the ability peal for the intellectual type, and it vertised on the air or in a newspaper of the speaker. One man's gifts now does. But the appeal does not stop or magazine. The church member call- total $200,000. In addition to such there, as may be proved by a letter ing at their door helps to overcome gifts people of smaller means help to from one correspondent addressed to that inertia and gives them that addi- make possible placing the program "It Is Wrote." tional impetus that sometimes makes on the air in their immediate localities. That the program reaps results can- the difference between a Christian and For example, at a Wednesday night not be gainsaid. Vandeman tells of one a non-Christian. meeting in Seattle the people at ading case that came to his attention. A taxi In addition to these personal visits, gave in cash and pledges $18,000. driver who was an inveterate drinker follow-up evangelistic meetings are Providential too is the co-operation began watching his program. "He held, usually concurrently with the Vandeman has had from such promi- would drink continually in front of the showing of the "It Is Written" pro- nent persons as J. C. Penney. One of TV set. The faster I talked, the faster gram. In some cases Vandeman him- the "It Is Written" films tells the story he would drink. The neighbors were (Continued on page 25) THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 15 "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold Appfm, o4/ Gott," in pictures of silver." Proverbs 25: 11 .

You have been told, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but CHINESE PARABLE half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. A man went to market with a string of seven To measure you by your smallest deed is to coins. Seeing a beggar who asked for alms, he reckon the power of the ocean by the frailty of gave the poor man six of the coins and kept just one for himself. The beggar, instead of its foam. being thankful, followed the good man and Gibran. stole the seventh coin also. Would you. to From Angela F. Kaess. whom God has given six days, steal the sev- enth also? —WILLIAM HOEKMAN, in Christian Herald. I am bigger than anything that can happen From Cora Linville. to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key. Christ is not valued at all un- —Charles Fletcher Lummis. less He be valued above all. From Anna Quinlan. —St. Augustine.

"IF I HAD ONLY KNOWN" Our grandfathers could wait for a twice-a-week A wealthy real-estate man consulted with one of his con- stagecoach without running a temperature; modern tractors who had built many houses for him about the plans, man gets mad if he misses one section of a revolv- color, and details of an attractive residence which he was to ing door. Life is gulped down, not savored. The build. Then the owner left for Europe. The contractor cheap- ened the house by using second-grade lumber, iron pipes for only new vice of the past three hundred years is brass, and by every possible means where it would not be dis- the breathless blasphemy of speed. Pascal's pro- covered at once. found word is considered mere gibberish: "The When the owner returned, he did as he had planned and unhappiness of mankind is due to one thing: we gave the house to the contractor for him and his family to have not the wisdom to remain in tranquillity at live in. The contractor kept saying, "If I had only known it was for home." me." —JAMES W. CLARKE, in Dynamic Preaching —LEONARD CAMPBELL. (Fleming H. Revell Company ). From Judy Campbell.

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16 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 MISSION TO THE WORLD shaping common life are secular. Again, here is a challenge to vital Christianity. A. GREAT deal of soul searching is going on in the What is disappointing in the approach of Christian United States today concerning our mission to the leaders to the whole situation is the lack of prophetic, world. Perhaps this is a salutary result of Mr. Khrush- apocalyptic authority in their answers. If we are to chev's visit, which reminded us of communism's boast make an impression on the hearts of men, we cannot that it alone fulfills the rising expectations of under- continue to dwell on organizational ecumenism or even privileged societies. On this point, Walter Lippmann mass evangelism; but we must speak with Heaven-sent charges that "the critical weakness of U.S. society is certainty of a personal judgment, of righteousness and that for the time being the people do not have great purity, of a soon-coming, sin-pardoning Christ who purposes which they are united in wanting to achieve." works mightily in individual hearts. The individual is "For the time being" is hopeful, although time may be the key. shorter than we think. OUR MISSION in the world is not so much to help To American Christians the answer to this charge men achieve freedom of the mind from phobias, faction- must be found in a spiritual context. Have we forgotten alisms, and superstitions, but to convince all that are that the great commission of the New Testament—to ungodly of their ungodly deeds. preach the gospel to all the world—is still our marching Dare we pray for men like Enoch of old who, while orders? This is our day of opportunity, and we dare not seeking purity of soul that he might be in harmony with be found inadequate. Large areas of the world are in Heaven, was a fearless reprover of sin? Although he desperate need of the everlasting gospel, and calls for preached the love of God in Christ to the people before help come to us in increasing numbers. Japan and the Flood and pleaded with them to forsake their evil Europe are good examples. ways, he rebuked the prevailing iniquity and warned the men of his generation that judgment would surely be ALTHOUGH Christianity has been in Japan for one visited upon the transgressor. hundred years, less than one half of 1 per cent of its It was Enoch who predicted the corrupt state of the 93,000,000 are Christian. Tokyo is one of the world's world when Christ would appear the second time. There largest cities—completely modern, with the finest rail- would be, he said, a boastful, presumptuous, self-willed roads, the highest TV tower in the world, up-to-the- generation, denying the only God and the Lord Jesus minute buildings and improvements. She is the most Christ, trampling upon the law, and despising the atone- literate nation in the world. There are 340,000 univer- ment. What would he say of our TV viewing, which sity students in Tokyo alone. More of her homes are reaches an unbelievable average of five hours a day, of electrified than in the United States, and last year she our demand for more and more economic security, of supplied nearly $2,000,000,000 in foreign aid to Asia. our insatiable search for "fun" rather than genuine Now, in Japan's time of spiritual crisis, of unrest and pleasure, of our rollicking spending spree? confusion, she looks to the church to speak with new conviction and authority. THANK GOD there are witnesses today who are Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, general secretary of the seeking purity of heart and conformity to His will. World Council of Churches, speaking in Lausanne, Like Enoch they are warning the world of the Lord's Switzerland, last July, said, "Europe finds it difficult second coming and of the judgments to be visited upon to adjust to a new world which does not regard it as the transgression, and by their holy conversation and ex- center of the universe." He feels that the deepest reason ample they are condemning the sins of the ungodly. for Europe's present uncertainty and frustration is that They are fulfilling their mission to the world. its people have become spiritually uprooted, and the The antediluvian world rejected the warning words life and culture of Europe as a whole are no longer of him who walked with God. Unfortunately, the Bible conditioned by Christian conviction. In one large part tells us, so will the last generation make light of the of Europe a non-Christian ideology seeks to penetrate warnings of the Lord's messengers. the whole of human existence, while in the other, lip As the world was once destroyed by water, so it will service is paid to Christian values but the decisive forces soon be destroyed by fire. K. J. H. THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 17 E. Bachmann, Artist

Throughout history's broad sweep, from the dawn of creation to those glorious hours in the new earth, the Sabbath has endured and will continue to remain, enshrined forever in the hearts of God's people as a memorial of His creative power.

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HE SABBATH is an institu- tion that goes back to the dawn of history. Since crea- tion week this divinely ap- pointed day has been known and ob- served. Christ spoke most truly when He de- clared, "The Sabbath was made for man." Mark 2:27. It belongs to the human race and not alone to any seg- ment of it. Some would have us believe that it is Jewish, but long before the days of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Sab- bath was held to be a sacred day of rest. Its observance began the very next day after man was created. Of this we are told: Robert Ayres, Artist "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER. 1960 . rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified Here is the story of an institution it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and divinely appointed by God made." Genesis 2:2, 3. God would not have instituted such but often misunderstood by men. a day without commanding man to ob- serve it. That this command was given is clear when reading the fourth part of the Decalogue, which was reiterated "Behold, I will rain bread from I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign on Sinai about 2,500 years later. This heaven for you; and the people shall between me and them, that they might reads as follows: go out and gather a certain rate every know that I am the Lord that sanctify "Remember the sabbath day, to day, that I may prove them, whether them." Ezekiel 20:12. Thus the Sab- keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, they will walk in my law, or no." Ex- bath was to set aside those who fol- and do all thy work: but the seventh odus 16:4. lowed God throughout all ages, and it day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: Concerning the double portion on was to be a sign of His sanctifying in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, the sixth day, He said, "To morrow is power. nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy the rest of the holy sabbath unto the When we come to New Testament manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor Lord: bake that which ye will bake to times, we find that the Sabbath was re- thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and garded as a sacred institution by Christ within thy gates: for in six days the that which remaineth over lay up for and His disciples and later by the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, you to be kept until the morning." Apostle Paul. and all that in them is, and rested the "Six days ye shall gather it; but on the Christ did not do away with the seventh day: wherefore the Lord seventh day, which is the sabbath, in Sabbath. He made it a more spiritual blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it there shall be none." Verses 23, 26. institution by clearing away the rub- it." Exodus 20:8-11. When some disobeyed and went out bish of tradition that had gathered God began this commandment with on the seventh day to look for manna, about it through the centuries. He kept the word remember. He was not speak- the Lord said to Moses, "How long the Sabbath in the right spirit Himself.

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ing of something new but of that which refuse ye to keep my commandments Thus we are told, "And he came to was already known. It had almost been and my laws?" Verse 28. Nazareth, where he had been brought forgotten during the long years when In the giving of the manna, for forty up: and, as his custom was, he went Israel was in slavery. It was then being years God pointed out which day of the into the synagogue on the sabbath day, revived. This is clear when we learn week was the true seventh day. and stood up for to read." Luke 4:16. how God instructed Moses to insist on Some time after God delivered the At one time, as He was discussing the observance of the Sabbath before Ten Commandments to Moses, He the keeping of the Sabbath, He de- He came down on Sinai to deliver the said to him, "Speak thou also unto the clared, "Wherefore it is lawful to do Ten Commandments. children of Israel, saying, Verily my well on the sabbath days." Matthew In the giving of manna to the chil- sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign 12:12. dren of Israel God made a test of between me and you throughout your Christ made it clear that the ob- Sabbath observance. The manna de- generations; that ye may know that servance of the Sabbath was not to scended like dew every morning. A I am the Lord that doth sanctify you." cease at the cross, for in His prophecy certain amount was to be gathered for "It is a sign between me and the chil- concerning the destruction of Jeru- each person on five days of the week, dren of Israel for ever: for in six days salem, which took place many years and on the sixth day a double portion the Lord made heaven and earth, and after His ascension, He told His disci- was to be gathered in preparation for on the seventh day he rested, and was ples, "Pray ye that your flight be not the Sabbath day, when no manna would refreshed." Exodus 31:13, 17. . . . on the sabbath day." Matthew appear. God told the children of Israel Many years afterward God said to 24:20. clearly: the prophet Ezekiel, "Moreover also Furthermore, Christ did not teach THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 19 His followers to disregard the Sabbath, from Athens, and came to Corinth." they that keep the commandments of for we are told that after He had died "And he reasoned in the synagogue God, and the faith of Jesus." Revela- on the cross, "the women also, which every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews tion 14:12. came with him from Galilee, followed and the Greeks." Acts 18:1, 4. Thus the seventh-day Sabbath, which after, and beheld the sepulchre, and Here we read of Paul's preaching to is a part of the Ten Commandments, how his body was laid. And they re- Jews and Gentiles in the synagogues will be observed by God's people who turned, and prepared spices and oint- and in other places on the Sabbath. In are waiting for Christ to come. They ments; and rested the sabbath day ac- none of his epistles to the churches do not keep the Sabbath in order that cording to the commandment." Luke did he give substance to any idea that they may be saved, but they keep it as 23:55, 56. another day was to be substituted for a sign of that salvation which they After Saul, the ardent Jew who was the Sabbath of the fourth command- receive through Christ Jesus. That is later called Paul. was converted, he ment. why they are said to have "the faith of was careful in his observance of the In the Book of Revelation the Apos- Jesus." Sabbath. In the Acts of the Apostles tle John expressly called attention to After the saints are gathered into we read of Paul's observance of this a vision that came to him on "the the heavenly kingdom, they will con- holy day as follows: Lord's day." We have no reason to tinue to observe the Sabbath. This is "But when they departed from Perga, believe that he referred to any other clearly stated in the Word of truth. they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and day than the seventh-day Sabbath. Of the new earth which is to come, went into the synagogue on the sab- Christ said, "The Son of man is Lord the prophet Isaiah says: bath day, and sat down." "And when . . . of the sabbath." Mark 2:28. In "For as the new heavens and the the Jews were gone out of the syna- the fourth commandment the seventh new earth, which I will make, shall gogue, the Gentiles besought that these day is definitely called "the sabbath remain before me, saith the Lord, so words might be preached to them the of the Lord." In another place we find shall your seed and your name remain. next sabbath." "And the next sabbath that the Lord in referring to the Sab- And it shall come to pass, that from day came almost the whole city to- bath called it "my holy day." (Isaiah one new moon to another, and from gether to hear the word of God." Acts 58:13.) one sabbath to another, shall all flesh 13:14, 42, 44. Search the Scriptures through and come to worship before me, saith the "And on the sabbath we went out of through from Genesis to Revelation, Lord." Isaiah 66:22, 23. the city by a river side, where prayer and you will find only one holy day of Do you not want to follow the Lord was wont to be made; and we sat down, the week—the seventh day, which God in all His ways? Do you not want to be and spake unto the women which re- set aside at the very beginning of the among those who worship Him upon sorted thither." Acts 16:13. world by blessing and sanctifying it. the Sabbath day in the new earth? "Now when they had passed through Referring to the last days of this Then be sure that you do it here and Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came earth's history, the Book of Revelation now. If this is a point in the Ten Com- to Thessalonica, where was a syna- states that the church will be composed mandments over which you have been gogue of the Jews: and Paul, as his of those "which keep the command- stumbling, listen to God's plea: "0 manner was, went in unto them, and ments of God, and have the testimony that thou hadst hearkened to my com- three sabbath days reasoned with them of Jesus Christ." (Revelation 12:17.) mandments! then had thy peace been out of the scriptures." Acts 17:1, 2. Of this same people we read, "Here is as a river, and thy righteousness as the "After these things Paul departed the patience of the saints: here are waves of the sea." Isaiah 48:18. ***

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UST three hundred years ago— dren), nor with his carrying on his on the night of November 12, writings. If there had been, his Pil- 1660—a young man stood be- grim's Progress would never have seen fore his congregation, Bible in the light. hand, ready to begin preaching When release came at last in 1672, in the little village of Samsell in Eng- John Bunyan resumed preaching with land. more fervor than ever. Shortly he be- Suddenly there came a rude inter- came one of the most celebrated voices ruption. A group of constables burst of Nonconformism in England—an ex- into the meetinghouse. Carrying a war- ponent of the religious freedom to rant for his arrest, they took into which the nation was ever afterward custody John Bunyan, the fearless committed. Nonconformist Baptist preacher, and John Bunyan's last act was typical committed him to the Bedford jail. John Bunyan of the man. Hearing of a bitter quarrel It marked the beginning of a long between a father and his son, he twelve-year confinement that gave the thought he could bring about rec- English-speaking world its most cele- onciliation and set out on a long brated religious allegory—The Pilgrim's ing. When Bunyan refused, he com- journey to their home. Upon his ar- Progress. If the gay monarch Charles mitted him to jail for three months. rival, both parties gave heed to his II had not tried to bend Nonconform- The curious part of this sentence counsel, and peace was restored. But, ists to his will, John Bunyan's great was that, because the resolute de- returning, the faithful pastor got caught work would probably never have been fendant could not bring himself to con- in a rain and was drenched to the skin. written. form to the religious pattern of the He went to bed with a chill, and soon Bunyan, the son of a humble tinker, times, his imprisonment dragged on was mortally ill. Death followed on will always be remembered for his for more than a dozen years. But he August 31, 1688, and he was buried courage. When authorities forbade him would not go against the voice of his in Bunhill Fields. to preach, he was willing to risk im- own conscience. Strong convictions John Bunyan was dead—but not his prisonment, exile, and even death itself set him against the popular tide, and he spirit. Thanks to The Pilgrim's Prog- for the right to speak from deep con- became Mr. Valiant-for-Truth in real ress, that was more alive than ever. viction. life—an outstanding figure in Puritan All over England the book was being He was the most prominent dis- England. read, and it became more popular as senter in the neighborhood, and in- As regards his imprisonment, it the years went by. The great religious formers had been set upon his track. could not have been very harsh. allegory was translated into more lan- But when a member of his own congre- Doubtless, because the law enforce- guages than any other book except the gation told him of the trap, John Bun- ment officers themselves respected Bible. Its characters—Christian, Apol- yan gave up his plan to go out of town Bunyan's character, he was given un- lyon, Giant Despair—and its scenes— that evening and remained to face the usual liberties. For a time he was even the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, consequences of his forthright minis- allowed to go where he pleased, but and the Celestial City—are names try. this was stopped when he took ad- familiar to thousands. The magistrate before whom he was vantage of a trip to London to preach This noncompromising man who brought at the Quarter Sessions had to some followers. was ready to challenge the king's wrath no desire to be hard on this father of Yet, there was never any interference has left an indelible impression on four young children. He talked kindly with his making tagged shoelaces for generations past and present. Across with the prisoner and sought to per- the support of his family (there was the gulf of three centuries his example suade him to give up his public preach- a blind daughter among his four chil- still kindles men's spirits. *** THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 21 Courageously the secretary suggested, "Why Not Tr

PRESIDENT and general manager of the plant, promises. "Owing to the serious fire we had in our anneal- AVI had earned the reputation of being pretty smooth. ing department," I would begin my letters, and then My associates said I could crawl out of any precarious elaborate on the situation as to how the fire had set us a situation and trump up the most expert and convincing couple of weeks back in delivery. excuses to our customers as to why we had failed to make I might as well come right out with the proper term and deliveries of castings. I rather gloried in my reputation. label it for what it was. I was the most expert liar in the For a year after we had had a small fire in our annealing company. Then came the test—only I did not realize that room, I used that fire as a reason for falling down on it was a test when it did come. The new switchboard operator had been with us a month. She was an efficient girl with satisfactory previous experience. She was a plain-looking type, somewhat old- fashioned in appearance. Good-looking, but too modestly and quietly dressed to be termed attractive. The episode centered around her. A letter came in one morning, and tracing through an order to which this letter referred brought to light the fact that I was in a jam. I had made a terrible blunder. Skay Raddimoor, manager of the plant in question, was going to call me long-distance the following morning about the status of an order he had given me personally ten days before, but which I had carelessly overlooked. The next morning I hurried out to the switchboard operator's desk. Her plainness and her old-fashioned, prudish appearance gave me a sort of misgiving as I stopped before her. I made my instructions brief and curt. "A Mr. Skay Raddimoor, of the XL Manu- facturing Company, will call me long-distance this morning. Tell him I'm not here, that I'm out of the city. Won't be back until Monday." I saw the girl take a quick breath as if to make some argumentative reply, and I turned and hurried up the corridor to my office. The call must have come in before I reached my desk. I had just sat down when in she walked. Unafraid, she came right up to me. She said quietly but with the moral courage of her con- victions: "This is going to cost me my job, but I have always been a stickler for the truth. So has my father. So has my grandfather. I'll not tell a lie for anyone. Mr. Skay Raddimoor is on long- distance. I told him you are in and will talk to him at once." I guess I turned white. "Why—you-- You're fired! Get your money and get out!" She had the cool courage to smile. "I ex- 22 THESE TIMES. NOVEMBER, 1960

11 By W. Clay Missimer the Truth

pected that," she said. "I told you this would cost me my job. So I'm fired. Now before I go, let me say this. Get on that phone, and no matter what kind of jam you're in, tell this man Raddimoor the truth. My father always said the truth never hurt anyone—that the truth will get peo- ple out of many a nasty situation where lies will not. You go to church every week, and you're supposed to be a Christian. In spite of that, you've got the reputation in this town of being a smooth, slick, crafty liar. You're one of the men who are causing the ethics and moral fiber of our great country to break down. Why not start honest and Christian practices in your business? In this case, at least, why not try the truth for once? See what it will get you! Now I'll go back to my board and put you on. Then hav- ing been fired, I'll be on my way." She flounced down the corridor to her switchboard. There was nothing I could do. I took up the phone and snarled into it, "I'm here waiting." Then her voice, smooth, cool, calm, could be heard. "Mr. Raddimoor, Mr. Peerce is on the line. Go right ahead. . . . You're welcome." Skay Raddimoor went ahead. He asked if we would make the first shipment of castings tomorrow as promised, on the order he had given me ten days ago. For a few seconds I hemmed and cleared my throat. Then, as if she were at my elbow, came the words the operator had flung at me not a minute before: "Why not try the truth for once?" I took a deep breath. All right, I would try the truth. "Mr. Raddimoor, I've made a terrible blunder. It's on me, all my fault. The order you handed me ten days ago he began, "That puts us in a nasty jam, Peerce. But ,' when I was in your plant got pushed into a pile of papers He hesitated. "You say you'll begin shipment eight days on my desk. When your letter came in yesterday, I put from today—that's the eighteenth—with at least 1,500 a tracer on the inquiry. No order had been booked." castings?" He tried to break in, but I hurried on. "When I dis- "You can count on it." covered this yesterday I got the pattern into the sand at Another silence. Then he came back with this: "Let once. I put another molder on to run the pattern all night. me tell you something." Well, here it was coming, I was The day molder is piling up molds like nobody's business. sure. He went on. "Let me tell you why we started to All of your castings poured today will be taken off the floor give you orders two years ago. One of our suppliers got in tonight while hot and packed special in the anneal. Eight a jam and tried to lie his way out. Lying is something I'll days from today we'll make shipment of the first 1,500, never stand for. I can't depend on or have trust and faith and daily shipments thereafter. I'm terribly sorry about in a man that lies. I want the truth. No matter the jam it all this. I don't know how I pushed this order into my puts us in, I want the truth. I'll overlook mistakes if not other papers and then forgot about it, but I did. That's too numerous, but I can't rely on a company that lies to my story, and it's the truth." me. I feel I can depend on a man like you that tells the Dead silence, long, long silence. Then Raddimoor's truth. I know it cost you something to 'fess up. It's a hard voice. He was supposed to be a hard man in business. But thing to do. But the truth never hurt anyone. And the truth THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 23 immei

will help us over more hills in life than lies will. Thanks, old man, for coming clean. I'm going to send you another pattern, casting something similar, with an order for ten thousand. Thanks again. Good-by." He hung up. I sat there stunned. Then I leaped out of my chair and rushed down to the switchboard. Our fill-in BIBLE BE'S operator was just sitting down in the other girl's place. Without a look at me, the girl I had fired started across the office toward the paymaster's desk. I caught up with her. "Come back to my desk a minute, Miss Brown." She eyed me questioningly. I smiled. "I want to apologize to you. Come with me." She followed me as if somewhat dazed. "I want to thank you, Miss Brown," I said sincerely. "You were right, your father was right, your grandfather was right. I used the truth. It worked. It got me out of a nasty situation. I appreciate your attitude, your moral courage to stand up to me and tell me what my reputation for lying is. Hereafter this business will be run on the truth, on honesty, and on Christian principles. Go back to your switchboard. I'm putting a five-dollar-a-week raise through for you." She thanked me. But still she stood there. I saw there THE COPULA to be has the same creative was something running through her mind. She started power of God in it to produce the quality of life away, stopped, hesitated, and finally left my office. I do commanded as the Ten Creative Words of Genesis not think I had ever been so deeply moved as I was that 1 had to produce the material universe. But we day. I left the office early. I went home, talked to Marga- must be willing to co-operate with God, all of ret, my wife, for a minute or two, then went into my study. whose commands are enablings. I unearthed our Bible. I began to read the Gospels in the New Testament. I read until dinnertime. "Be ye therefore perfect." Matthew 5:48. "That's the way things go sometimes, I guess, Marga- "Be ye holy in all manner of conversation; . . . ret," I said. "Here I was this morning in the regular course be ye holy; for I am holy.- 1 Peter 1:15, 16. of my everyday life. Then this happened. And something "Be patient." James 5:7. worked through me that I can't explain. I was shaken as "Be at peace." Job 22:21. I have never been. And suddenly, all I wanted to do was "Be of good cheer; it is 1; be not afraid." Mat- to get away from the office and go home and read the thew 14:27. Gospels, the life of Jesus Christ." Margaret understood. I know I understood. "Be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, In the morning, Miss Brown came to my office. She without spot, and blameless.- 2 Peter 3:14. stood there hesitating, trying apparently to nerve herself "Be subject one to another." 1 Peter 5:5. to say something that she had wanted to say the day before. "Be clothed with humility." I Peter 5:5. Finally she took a deep breath and began. "Be sober, be vigilant." 1 Peter 5:8. "Mr. Peerce, I'm glad you're going to run our business "Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiv- on truth, honesty, and Christian principles. But—you're ing one another." Ephesians 4:32. not going to do this just to get more business or to keep "Be strong and of a good courage." Joshua 1:6. the business you have, are you?" She stopped, her face red. But having gone that far, she Do you want to change your personality for the continued: "That would be unchristian, wouldn't it?" better? Here is all the power you need. Just co- "It certainly would." I smiled. Then I told her to sit operate with God; make an effort to put the above down, and I continued: qualities into practice in your life, and God will "Yesterday, Miss Brown, was a milestone in my life. give you success. Man can accomplish nothing You taught me a lot. This business hereafter will be run without God, and God has arranged His plans so on Christian principles as Jesus Christ taught them to us as to accomplish nothing in the restoration of the in the Holy Gospels. I have—well, I have been drawn to human race without the co-operation of the human Him—maybe I should say I have been converted from with the divine. The part man is required to sustain what I was to what I am now and will be hereafter. No is immeasurably small, yet in the plan of God it is matter if telling the truth, sticking up for the right, for just that force that is needed to make the work principles and goodness as Jesus Christ taught them, loses us some business, nevertheless I will still tell the truth, a success. We are laborers together with God. stick up for the right and for the things that Christ taught This is the Lord's own wise arrangement. The us. Let me thank you again for your part in all this. Now co-operation of the human will and endeavor go back to your switchboard, Miss Brown. And thank you with divine energy is the link that binds men up again." *** with one another and with God. 24 THESE TIMES. NOVEMBER. 1960 "It Is Written" nom, E14.04: (Continued from page 15) self may be the speaker at the services. At present there are thirty states cov- ered in part by the program. Films are Combating Obscenity subject is so neglected by preachers. I'd being shown on television in Canada like to know where this lady goes to and are beginning also in Australia. FRANK C. ARMSTRONG, JR. church! It would be impossible for one man to Post Office Department Official The author has presented a deep, logi- be everywhere at once. Washington, D.C. cal, and very spiritual analysis of the Future plans, designed to meet this Postmaster General Summerfield and I subject that is really uplifting. It reveals dilemma, include a transition film. This much study, fine expressions, and a very appreciate your interest in the crusade of may be a five-minute introduction by mature mind. the Post Office Department to rid the Vandeman of the staff member who mails of obscene and pornographic ma- [Mrs. Buck attends the Miami Springs, will be conducting the live study or terials. The timely article in your recent Florida, Seventh-day Adventist church, issue will undoubtedly aid in combating where her husband is pastor.—Ed.] evangelistic service connected with the this vile business geared to corrupt the TV program. He further plans some- morals of our youth. Promote Health and Welfare thing on film that will help bring to a MRS. J. E. LAURASH climax the live appeal of the staff mem- Pride in Achievement Decatur, Illinois ber, tying it still more closely to the T. ALLEN LYNCH Enclosed you will find literature ex- television program which set in motion Manager, Kaiser Steel plaining about fluoridation; and then per- the local meetings. Fontana, California haps wonder, as I did, why the article in Those who work with him will the July issue was allowed to be printed. Would it be possible to obtain per- readily testify that for Vandeman there God has stated He wants us to drink mission from you and author William will always be plans shaping up for im- pure water. You should be promoting the L. Roper to reprint the article entitled proving the program, discovering bet- health and welfare of the people instead "Fontana Has Found a Way"? As you of drugs and shots. ter ways for reaching the unchurched, can imagine, this story is about Fontana, getting across the story of Jesus. There the location of Kaiser Steel, and we cer- will always be the excitement of fresh tainly take pride in the achievements of "I Feel His Presence" endeavor. He is a tireless dynamo of the leaders in the community for initiat- MRS. W. C. HELTON energy directed against the blackout of ing this move of counseling young people. Natchez, Alabama misunderstanding or lack of knowledge I thought I could do without THESE No Hard-Core Sectarian Journal that threatens the salvation of multi- TIMES, but something forces me to send tudes. He is equally tireless in his pur- in my renewal. Don't ask me what it is; H. R. TATE, Pastor suit of facts to prove that the Bible is St. Louis, Missouri I do not know, but somehow I feel it is needed in my home. God's Word to man. One film editor is Enclosed please fmd check for one quoted as saying of "It Is Written," year's subscription to THESE TIMES. I I read it from cover to cover, and al- recently became acquainted with it, and ways after reading it I just have to drop "The Bible is the star of this show." much to my surprise it is quite different on my knees and pray. It makes God so It is also the star of George Vande- from either the hard-core sectarian jour- very real. I feel His presence. It's as m an 's life. *** nal or the hodgepodge of "free," individ- though I can reach out and touch Him. ualistic literature. It's wonderful. Thank you so much for giving the country such a grand maga- Where Does She Worship? zine. Old People Need Our Help DR. FREDERICK M. ROSSITER Bound Volume Appreciated (Continued from page 6) Paradise, California RUTH BELL GRAHAM The article "Church Etiquette," by Evangelist's Wife service to an aged person came to my Elsie Landon Buck [August, 1960], is Mon treat, N.C. attention recently. An aged woman I wish we could tell you how much we lived with a daughter who was physi- appreciate the bound copy of THESE cally and mentally unable to attend to TIMES for 1959. It was such a lovely, her mother. A neighbor woman in her thoughtful thing for you to do, and you late thirties, with three children in her may be sure they will be read and en- home, went each morning to this aged joyed to the fullest! Thank you so very, lady's home, helped her out of bed, very much. dressed her, combed her hair, got her We want you to know, also, how breakfast, and then settled her com- deeply we appreciate your interest and fortably in her rocker. She left with your prayers. May the Lord continue to the most beautiful presentation of this bless you in the wonderful work that you a cheery good-by and urged her to vital subject I have ever read. I shall are doing, and to bless others through send for her if any help was needed read it again. It should be reproduced in you. through the day. More than that, she leaflet form. The truth of the article is I must add that we thoroughly enjoy often read to the lady. Her kind is so much needed in the churches, and the THESE TIMES each month. It's excellent! rare, but we need more like her. *** THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 25 Before death finally stilled that gen- tle, persuasive voice in 1941, fully half of Birmingham had heard it speak those same words, "Brother (or Sister), let us pray." Some had heard it just once or twice, others hundreds of times. For more than half a century those words were as firmly identified in peo- ple's minds with Pastor James Alexan- der Bryan as his stooped shoulders, his

"Brother,

Literally thousands of people re- sponded to Brother Bryan's gen- Vandyke beard, and his soft, tle invitation so frequently given, compassionate eyes. And no "Brother, let us pray." His was a place was so sumptuous or so remarkable ministry that reached squalid, so remote or so con- out to both the rich and the poor. gested, so quiet or so boister- ous, so sacred or so wicked, that anyone living, working, or Photos by Birmingts,so; News rollicking there might not look up at any hour of the day or night, meet those gentle, plead- ing eyes, and hear that quiet voice say, "Brother, let us OSSING one of Birming- pray." ham's dark alleys some People waiting in parked years ago, a thin, slightly cars would be startled to see a stooped man in a seedy wrinkled, bearded face sud- suit heard a noise behind denly poked inside. Before him. Swinging around, he they could recover from their felt a pistol barrel being pressed surprise, Brother Bryan would firmly against his stomach. Out ask whether he might have a of the darkness of the night few words of prayer with them. came the command: "Hand's up!" The answer was almost always, "Yes, He obediently lifted his arms, and Brother Bryan." Then he would say, the other man went through his pock- poor, sick, and hungry. After the firmly "Brother, let us pray." After it was ets. The latter didn't find much, though spoken "amen," the robber started go- over, he would say, "God bless you, —just a few coins and a watch. Dis- ing through his own pockets. As soon Brother," wave a friendly farewell, and gusted, he was about to start looking as he had returned the stolen coins and be off. for another victim when a quiet voice the timepiece, he told his victim to go A young businesswoman, late for a spoke for the first time: "Brother, let ahead, and then disappeared. "Brother luncheon engagement, fumed at a traf- us pray." And while the holdup man Bryan" of Birmingham may not have fic light that had turned red before she stood there as though frozen, the tall won another convert, but he had lived could cross the street. Her exasperation man with the Lincolnesque bearing up to his promise to himself and to his boiled over into an under-the-breath prayed for him, for the good people of God that he would pray with anyone oath. She felt a light touch on her Birmingham, and for the big city's who would let him. shoulder. Brother Bryan had heard 26 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 her. "Sister, let us pray," he said. And ing the relatively prosperous times that people fitted nicely into God's plans to while she missed another green light, followed, and expanded it greatly dur- help the needy. he prayed, "Oh, Lord, give us patience ing the depression of the 1930's. When Greenbacks, checks, and money or- to bear with these traffic lights. Amen!" the weather was pleasant, he and his ders "for God's poor and hungry" ar- Thousands whom he did not have volunteer assistants would serve food rived through the mail. He would open the time or physical strength to see on the church lawn. At other times his front door and find a ten-dollar found him on the other end of the line they ate in the basement. For fourteen bill; somebody had stuck it there and when they answered their telephones. months or longer those they fed aver- walked on. The staff of a local radio No other person, living or dead, ever aged two hundred or more a day. He station raised money for shoes. Mem- used the telephone so often for such sent food baskets to many others. A bers of a civic club turned over to him

TT By John M. Gibson

He Prayed With Thousands

a purpose. He was especially fond of spot check showed that a typical meal what they had been saving for Christ- calling people—members of his Third was consumed by residents of ten dif- mas. During a particularly hard winter Presbyterian Church and others—who ferent states. To many families he sent he ran out of potatoes. About five were sick or had close relatives in the or took clothing and desperately needed o'clock one morning a wagon stopped hospital. He'd hear that someone—it medicines. To others he supplied in front of his house. It was loaded didn't matter who—had suffered a trained nurses for sick children. All with potatoes. "You married me and misfortune. If he couldn't get in a this was done by a none-too-robust my wife ten years ago," the driver told visit, he would call up. Whenever he elderly man who also preached thirty- him. "We had some extra potatoes. found some time on his hands, he six sermons a week (sixteen of them We thought you might be able to use would begin calling people at random over the radio), conducted more funer- them." from the telephone book. And some- One of Birmingham's largest hospi- where in every telephone conversation, tals gave him all its leftover bread. So the other person would hear him say, did dozens of bakeries. A sandwich First suggested by William Lawson, "Brother (or Sister), let us pray." San Francisco, California, this story shop specializing in chicken sandwiches People called him, too, thousands appeared in our October, 1951, issue. sent him great quantities of chicken and thousands of them. The unem- Send us your favorite story (from any broth. Grocers and fruit dealers called ployed asked him to pray that they source). If you're first to nominate it, him whenever they found themselves would get jobs. Women with husbands and we use it, you'll receive $25. with fruit and vegetables not quite up -EDITORS. and children about to undergo serious to their customers' standards. Leftovers operations asked him to pray that they from fashionable weddings and parties would not die on the operating table. were packed into automobiles and Young people starting out on their als and officiated at more marriages trucks and taken to his church. Many first jobs wanted him to pray that they than any other minister in the United farmers emulated the man with the would make good. Businessmen about States, and did enough other things to wagonload of potatoes. to embark on new enterprises asked break down many a man half his age. But his work for "God's poor and him to pray for their success. One tele- Where did this simple man of God, hungry" received its greatest financial phone caller said he was going to whose salary was never more than boost from his weddings and funerals, commit suicide in a few minutes and twenty-five hundred dollars a year, get especially the former. He never kept wanted Brother Bryan to pray for him what he needed to feed so many hungry any records of either. But when, some before he died. people and care for the needs of so years before he died, newspapers all But Brother Bryan did more for many other unfortunates? Many asked all over the country published a dis- people than pray for them. He began him that question, and for all he had patch containing an estimate of the feeding the hungry at his church in the same answer: "From God." But number of each he had performed, and the panic of the 1890's, kept it up dur- he readily admitted that kindhearted stating that his record in either field THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 27 had never been matched by another that he did not have a watch, he told married. When someone chided him American minister, the statement was him it was in hock for five dollars. "I for getting up so early on Sunday morn- never challenged. It was not unusual ought to have received more for it," ings, he pointed out that he needed to for him to preach five or more funerals Brother Bryan explained, "for it cost be up early; otherwise he would not a day. One day he preached fourteen. twenty dollars. But a woman needed be able to talk to and pray on the An ordinary Saturday would bring some money for sickness, and I just streets with Negro servants, who had from five to eight couples to his study had to get it. But somebody will help to leave home early. to be married, although during the me get that watch back. They always Brother Bryan turned down innu- week they might drop off to one or two do. It's been back and forth to the merable chances to go to larger and a day. (The number would have been pawnshop a hundred times." wealthier churches simply because he much larger if he hadn't always re- He almost never had more than one could not leave what he was doing. fused to marry those who told him, suit. He would leave home properly "It's almost sinful to love a city like when he asked them, that they drank dressed and return with something— I love Birmingham," he once said. or were not so strong in their religious or several things—missing. "I met And, sinful or not, Birmingham faith as he thought they ought to be.) someone who needed it more than I loved him as it has never loved any And every cent he received in funeral did," was his simple explanation. Some other man. For years before his death and wedding fees that he could spare admirers gave him a new overcoat, his money was no good in many of the went to buy food, clothing, medicine, and he gave it away on the way home. city's stores and restaurants. He would and other necessary things for those pick out a cheap suit or order a simple in need. To snatch the passing moment meal. The manager would insist upon his having something much better and Not all his funerals aided his fund and examine it for signs of eter- tell him it was the establishment's way for "God's poor and hungry," however. nity is the noblest of occupations. Many, in fact, involved an actual loss. of thanking him for the good he was For a large proportion of those whose —Louis J. Halle. doing. When the Birmingham News funerals he preached were utterly pen- began awarding a loving cup in 1921 niless, as well as complete strangers Even Mrs. Bryan's and the children's to the city's outstanding citizen of the to him, except for the fact that he had clothing was not entirely safe. He often year, nobody else was seriously con- visited them just before their deaths. spent his last cent for meals for hungry sidered. Four thousand people crowded Among them were men and women men he would see on the street. Be- into a mass meeting in the City Audi- whom almost no other decent person fore some friends gave him a second- torium celebrating the fiftieth anni- would have anything to do with. No- hand bus, he paid taxi fares for chil- versary of his Birmingham (and only) body will ever know how many thieves, dren who had no other way of getting pastorate. (Two thousand of them held murderers, prostitutes, and other out- to Sunday school. up their hands when the chairman casts found courage to face the Great Brother Bryan was by far Birming- asked those to do so who had received Unknown in his simple prayers at their ham's most potent force for tolerance, personal visits from Brother Bryan.) bedsides and in his promise that, in friendship, and understanding among His seventy-fifth birthday was officially spite of what they had been and done, different races and religions. Several proclaimed Brother Bryan Day. A he would see that they received decent Chinese were members of his church. year later station WSGN dedicated a burials. An Italian mission, in charge of an thirty-minute program to him. Work- Every promise of that kind Brother Italian minister, was one of the twenty- ing people would stop him on the Bryan kept faithfully, regardless of five or more churches and missions he street and speak to him in eating places, how much it cost him. Sometimes un- established. Jewish merchants were telling him how greatly they and their dertakers and cemetery companies among the most generous contributors, families had been helped by baskets would give him cheap caskets. When in cash and goods, to his charitable of food or jobs he had found for them he could not get them that way, he work. He carried on special preaching, when times were tough. would buy them on the installment plan, teaching, and food-distributing work in In 1934, when a Birmingham sculp- clearing up the indebtedness months the Negro sections. Priests and rabbis tor was commissioned to do a public later. In either case, he would ride were among his closest personal friends. art works project and was told to through Birmingham streets on the (Some time before his death he re- choose his own subject, he made the seat with the driver of the hearse. There quested that, between the time it would choice all Birmingham wanted him to usually were no attendants. No rela- occur and the hour of his funeral, his make, even though it is most unusual tives or friends of the deceased, if there church be open for special services to to erect a statue to a living man. The were any, cared enough to go along be conducted by Catholic, Jewish, and marble Brother Bryan, like the flesh- as mourners. The two men would Protestant clergymen, white and Ne- and-blood one, is on his knees. He handle the casket at the graveside. gro.) People of every race and religion crumples a battered hat in his long, They might or might not have help went to his all-day "handshakings," wiry fingers. The familiar shawl hangs from volunteers to fill the grave. beginning at nine in the morning and across his lean shoulders. His face, Even this marryingest minister in lasting until midnight. All races and like his faith, looks toward heaven. the United States (if not in the world) creeds were represented, too, at the But he is not on a pedestal. In marble, did not collect anything like enough once-a-year memorial services for those as in the flesh, he is with the people he in fees and otherwise to keep his head whose funerals he had preached during loved and served. And those people— above water financially. He was chron- the year and the special services he "God's poor and hungry"—would not ically "broke." When a friend noticed held every year for couples he had have him anywhere else. *** 28 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 Tbe jitr5t Tbanti5gitung one of the great documents in man- When autumn arrived, the three log kind's search for freedom. warehouses were filled with provisions. The Pilgrim's first winter is a tragic By this time Plymouth Colony also —and precious—page in American boasted seven dwellings and a com- history. In The Story of the Pilgrims, bined church and town meeting hall. published in the John Hancock Mutual Not only did the Pilgrims enjoy a HE WATER was too shal- Life Insurance Company's popular his- bountiful harvest, but the waters Tlow to land the boat. But torical booklet series, the group's suf- abounded with fish and the woods were the harbor was well sheltered, and it ferings are described. "Before the win- filled with deer and wild turkey. looked like the kind of landing place ter was over, half the entire band had Governor William Bradford and the they were seeking. perished of disease, hunger, and ex- Plymouth Council deliberated gravely. "Bring her alongside that rock!" posure." It was fitting, they thought, to celebrate said Captain Miles Standish. The dead were buried on nearby and give thanks for their good fortune. The tiny boat, its mast split in three Cole's Hill, and grain was sown over The Pilgrims issued a formal invita- places, turned its side to the gray De- the burial plot to conceal from the In- tion to Massasoit, grand sachem of the cember sea and drifted up against the dians how many of the band had died. Pokanoket Indians, to join them in a great boulder. The intrepid Standish It was feared that this knowledge might feast of Thanksgiving. Massasoit ar- stepped over the gunwhale and planted embolden the Indians to attack. rived with ninety of his followers and his foot on the New England granite. Early in March the incredibly cold stayed for three days! The boulder was—Plymouth Rock. winter finally began to recede. On As with all Thanksgiving Days since For the Pilgrims it was "the end of March 26 another hopeful event took that first celebration at Plymouth, it the beginning." Behind lay persecution, place when Samoset, grand sachem of was an occasion that combined gaiety exile, and the momentous decision to the Monhegan Indians, entered the vil- with solemnity. The devout Pilgrims seek religious freedom in the uncharted lage exclaiming "Welcome!" Through added prayers of thanks to their feast- New World. Ahead lay hardship, him the Puritans became acquainted ing. death, and immortality. with Squanto, and these two Indians The days of suffering, however, were It was four days before Christmas played an important role in the history not yet over. Famine was to come to when Standish and his small group of of the colony. Plymouth again in succeeding winters. men went ashore at Plymouth. They They told the Pilgrims to plant In- But for the Pilgrims, once they had set returned to the Mayflower, anchored dian corn "when the oak-leaves are as foot on Plymouth Rock, there was no off Provincetown, with the good news big as mouse-ears" and to catch fish thought of turning back. They came that a site for the new settlement had to fertilize the soil. Thus the seeds were to build a society of free men in the been found. sown for the first Thanksgiving harvest. inhospitable wilderness, and this they On December 26 the Mayflower, Twenty-one men and "six large were determined to do. braving high wintry winds, made a suc- boys"—the entire surviving able-bodied In later years Governor Bradford cessful passage into Plymouth Harbor. male working force of the colony—did wrote in his famous History of Plym- The Mayflower had set out for the planting. They had no horses or outh Plantation: "Out of small begin- America on September 16, 1620, with other domestic animals. With heavy nings greater things have been pro- 102 passengers. On November 19 land hoes they broke the earth and planted duced. As one small candle may light was sighted. A few days later the Pil- twenty acres of corn. Then they sowed a thousand, so the light here kindled grims met in the cabin of the ship and six more acres with wheat, rye, barley, hath shone onto many." drew up the famous Mayflower Com- and peas. He, of course, could not know that pact, establishing themselves as a civic It was a warm and bright summer, the light he helped to kindle would one body under a government of law. It is and the crops grew and thrived. day shine throughout the earth. *** THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 29 S WE LOOK out upon the cherub, who became exalted in his Lucifer, son of the morning! how art world of trouble and confu- position and wanted to take the place thou cut down to the ground, which sion, we wonder: Why all of Deity. didst weaken the nations! For thou hast A this? What brought it about? Here are the words of God: "Thou said in thine heart, 1 will ascend into And what is to be the outcome? Why art the anointed cherub that covereth; heaven, I will exalt my throne above are we here? What ought we to do? and I have set thee so. . . . Thou wast the stars of God: I will sit also upon And what is at the end of the way? perfect in thy ways from the day that the mount of the congregation, in the Are we on the verge of a great explo- thou wast created, till iniquity was sides of the north: I will ascend above sion, when another great war is about found in thee." "Thine heart was lifted the heights of the clouds; I will be like to break upon the world and end all up because of thy beauty, thou hast the most High." Isaiah 14:12-14. things in chaos and ruin, as some seem corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy This being became proud and dis- to predict? Why does God allow all brightness." Ezekiel 28:14, 15, 17. satisfied with his position as subordi- this sorrow and confusion? Or is there "How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 nate to a higher power. He thought

a God? Is there just energy and force dependent upon chance, with no in- The answer to the turmoil, telligence at the helm to direct and bring peace from this world of confu- confusion, and uncertainty sion and trouble? Sometimes we are almost led to the latter conclusion. of our age lies in But when we give further thought to the question, we are forced to realize divine revelation. that this world of law and system di- recting life with its purpose and intri- cate balances can come only from thought and intelligence, and these can come only from a person. For purpose implies a purposer; design, a designer; and plan, a planner. All laws and systems are the result of thought and intelligence, and they indicate person- ality. All thought in every field of en- deavor—whether it be mechanics, medicine, science, or philosophy—rests upon the law of cause and effect. Fur- ther, this law must have been eternal, for there is no place for it to begin or inject itself into thought; it is the basis of thought. Hence, to accept the law of thought by which all information is received we must accept as a necessity an intelligent being as the author of life and thought and all things. Yet this does not explain why the world is as it is, with all this turmoil, confusion, and uncertainty. That ques- tion is a great mystery beyond the realm of the human mind. It can come to us only by revelation, from someone outside our realm. Jesus said it was an enemy that had done this; and the Bible further informs us that this enemy was one of the superior beings of the heavenly realm—Lucifer, the covering Carew-Caldwell from Monkmeyer

30 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER. 1960 that he could improve upon God's and of all the sorrows that have come the bestowal of justice, are on the same system by doing away with laws and from the time of Adam to the present footing. . . . If the precept is just and standards of conduct and allowing hour. the penalty just, the intervention of a people to follow their inclinations with- "Yes," someone may say, "but why prerogative voiding its execution would out consideration of the welfare and does God allow all this trouble and be unjust. . . . God could not be just wishes and needs of others. That, he sorrow?" That is an important ques- and justify the ungodly. It would com- contended, would bring freedom and tion, the answer to which resolves itself promise God and justify sin."—The happiness. But that is selfishness, the into the question of freedom and char- Law and the Cross, p. 27. basis of all sin, and the cause of all the acter; for there can be no character God could not excuse sin and still sorrow, heartaches, and trouble of the development without choice and free- maintain His government. If He could, world. It is the cause of divorce, of dom of action. We also recognize that Jesus need not have died. If God could crime, of the conflict between capital there can be no freedom of choice overlook one sin or offense, on the and labor, of strife between neighbors, without the possibility of someone basis of justice, He would be obliged choosing contrary to what is desired. to overlook all sin. But if He did that, This necessarily brings the possibility there would be no law. of sin, for sin is going contrary to the God established laws and systems plan of God. Dr. E. S. Kiek puts it for the benefit, welfare, and happiness thus: of the inhabitants of the universe. It "You may reply that in a perfect was because He believed in the neces- world sin would never be permitted; to sity of law that He allowed His only- which the unanswerable rejoinder is begotten Son to come into this world simply the abuse of freedom, without and demonstrate its working and stand- which no moral existence is conceiv- ard of love. Jesus died on the cruel able. If men were automatic, they could cross for sinful man to save him from certainly not be sinners, but equally death and bring him back into harmony certain they could not be men in any with God; thus He upheld the govern- Eftwur01z,_.. true sense of the term. Moral capacity ment before the people of the universe. in the nature of the case must co- This was accomplished because a Sub- exist with possibility of moral lapse. stitute was found for the sinner to pay Even God could not determine other- the penalty for his guilt and extend the TRUW wise, any more than He could make a benefits for that transaction to the square with the properties of a triangle. guilty. Then was imputed to him the . . . God can neither make a square righteousness that the Substitute had triangle nor a moral automaton; fur- earned and given to the guilty. This ther, He cannot allow sin to go un- was done to bring the guilty one back punished. God does not will that any into harmony with his Maker and gov- should sin, but He does will that every ernment. This is the only instance on man shall have a chance to become record where mercy has been extended like Himself in moral character and to the guilty and, at the same time, disposition, which involves that every justice in the government maintained. man has also a chance of becoming Although the plan of redemption lower than the brute."—The Modern was accomplished for all, yet it oper- Religious Situation, p. 34. ates only for those who want it and ac- cept it and desire to comply with its The Plan of Redemption regulations and standards. God does The contention that Lucifer could not thrust His program upon those produce a better government without who do not desire it. He still gives law than God could with law was be- man freedom of choice and freedom of fore the inhabitants of the universe. action. A plan was made whereby With that problem before them it be- Christ's perfect life could be imputed came clear that man could not be re- to all who desire it and are willing to stored in harmony and favor with God conform their lives to God's standard by either ignoring or changing the law. and ways. The death of Christ clears Dr. C. F. Creighton, a Methodist one's record to date. After this it is minister, writes: necessary to apply Jesus' power by the "God is just. . . . In a government, Holy Spirit to direct and control that perfect in constitution and perfect in life to keep it in the good way and fit administration, pardon is impossible it for the realm of those who live above without an atonement. That God will sin. This can be done for those who are condemn vice and approve virtue is willing for it to be accomplished and assured by the very fact of His right- who allow that power to take posses- eousness. . . . Protection of the inno- sion of their lives. In Scripture this is cent and punishment of the guilty, as called sanctification. *** THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER. 1960 31

Convictions, of course, in no sense `What faith in god _Weans to JVte commit one to a static course. In fact, convictions regarding truth and justice (Continued from page 7) and God impel us forward. Frontiers never dreamed of are being opened each day in science, tech- ple?" He gestured with open hands would differ with the one first called nology, agriculture, and industry. These without responding. "Don't you realize upon. The test was to show how many are being dramatically brought to our your church cannot grow—cannot live would stand by their previously formed attention with increasing emphasis. even—without your youth?" I pressed. and announced opinions in the face of Our scientists are not standpatters. There was no understandable response. such overwhelming disagreement. Trag- They do not spend their time raking The young people in Russia are not ically, the results showed, after running over dead coals. To the contrary, they prohibited from going to church. The the test many times, that a large ma- seek new lights, new trails to the future. measures taken to keep them out are jority of students would buckle under But to me, there are equal if not more effective than direct compulsion. and change their opinions about an greater frontiers in public service. They are educated away and attracted obvious physical fact when they learned away from the church. the crowd all felt the other way. The Baptist church in Leningrad is Then they made a slight variation not dead, but it is dying. in the test. They permitted one person Well, how are we doing with our from the fourteen, after some hesita- young people? tion, to support the opinion of the We seem to be getting them into fifteenth. And again the results were the churches very well, but what kind amazing. In a large majority of the of convictions do they have? Is their cases where the lone opinion was forti- religion meaningful and strengthening fied with just one other voice, the dis- in their lives? senter would hold to his convictions I read of a test that was made in a despite the disagreement of the thir- college a little while back to demon- teen. strate a theory of how consent can be A lone voice may be squelched. But engineered. They took a class of fifteen one does not know when his voice will students. The instructor and fourteen be the second voice which will cause of the students secretly planned to test a wavering witness to stand firm. And will help you: the fifteenth. It was understood that what a challenge this presents! Solve your problems a series of lines would be shown on Now I do not believe for a minute Understand today's events a paper with all but one exactly con- that our youth in the main are as weak forming, and that one slightly longer. as the reports of this experiment would Enjoy happiness and The fifteenth student would be asked indicate. But this does give us a clue peace of mind if all lines conformed, and then when to the seriousness of the "follow the he said No and pointed out the irregu- crowd" impulse and should impress lar one, the teacher would show sur- upon us the necessity for inculcating Fill in the coupon and prise and call on the other fourteen for conviction and the courage to stand hand to your representa- their opinions. By prearrangement, all by convictions. tive or mail to

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32 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 Our nation, our states, our com- There is a price which has to be paid It was a time of decision, and the munities, desperately need to under- for leadership, for standing up for what crowd was hostile. But Elijah was stand that in public service we cannot you believe at a time when it may be ready. He did not mince words. He stand pat. We must have new ideas to unpopular. That price can come pretty boomed out the challenge: implement ideals which are ageless. high at times. But it is the price of in- "If the Lord be God, follow him: Internationally, we need new ideas tegrity. But if Baal, then follow him." to obtain peace and freedom from I like the story told about Herbert destruction. Bayard Swope, one of the great news- Elijah chided the priests of Baal Nationally, we need new ideas to en- papermen of his day. into a demonstration of strength, and sure a united effort to achieve progress Upon his retirement, someone asked when their futility was completely dem- for justice under law. Mr. Swope for his formula for success. onstrated, he called upon God to show Our states need new ideas enabling "I cannot give you a formula for all present that He was the true and them to meet squarely emerging new success," he said, and after reflecting living God. The victory was complete. needs and to assume the sovereignty a moment, he added, "but I can give This is a time of decision for individ- and position expected of them under you a sure-fire formula for failure: uals. the Constitution of the United States. Try to please everyone." This is a time of decision for our Our communities need new ideas Leaders cannot stand still. They states and communities. which will enable them to become must take sides, stand up and be This is a time of decision for our great centers of culture, business activ- counted, and keep moving forward. nation and for the world. ity, and the good life—and to avoid It is not enough for us to decide if becoming cesspools of crime, delin- the Lord is God or if materialism is god quency, alcoholism, and decadence. PEACE PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS —for I am sure that this decision in To meet these challenges we must "Lord, make me an instrument of the abstract has already been made by have men who do not consider that Thy peace; where there is hatred, let all. It is imperative, however, that we they are conveniently compartmental- me sow love; where there is injury, regard critically inconsistencies between ized—one part to worship with, an- pardon; where there is doubt, faith; our beliefs and our performance. other to scheme with for making where there is despair, hope; where The heart and mind of a man can be money, another to sin with a little on there is darkness, light; and where moved by many spirits—by love of the side, another to look after the chil- there is sadness, joy. country, by passion for a cause, by dren with, and so on. But they must be "0 Divine Master, grant that I may loyalty to a friend, by dedication to a whole men—men willing to be partici- not so much seek to be consoled, as to job, a business enterprise, a political pating citizens in the good life of their console; to be understood, as to under- party, a community. communities, their state, their nation, stand; to be loved, as to love: for it These diverse spirits can tear a man and the world around them. As the is in giving, that we receive; it is in apart, and if there is no unifying spirit poet said: pardoning, that we are pardoned; and in his life, he is easily led into excess and into spiritual blind alleys. "Men who possess opinions and a will; it is in dying, that we are born to eternal life." It is the Holy Spirit emanating from Men who have honor; men who will God which can transcend the partial not lie; spirits struggling for our allegiance and Men who can stand before a dema- One of the greatest sermons I have give to our lives the unity we must gogue ever heard was by Peter Marshall. It have to become whole men. And damn his treacherous flatteries was entitled "Trial by Fire." He de- The challenge to us as Christian lay- without winking; scribed the great showdown on Mount men is declared in the words of Elijah: Tall men, sun-crowned, who live Carmel between Elijah and the Lord above the fog "If the Lord be God, follow Him: on one side, and the priests and their In public duty and in private think- But if Baal, then follow him." god of materialism, Baal, on the other. ing." Marshall summarized the background We cannot follow God and stop to It is not enough that responsible of the situation then in striking paral- kneel at every altar set up in the citizens make wise choices. There is lel to conditions of our day. The peo- marketplace. Nor can we find the spir- an implicit obligation upon them also ple, he said, "had been taught that itual strength to be whole men if we to give a measure of leadership. obedience to the laws of God was the blindly follow the crowd into the popu- Leadership is no easy form of serv- only foundation for national greatness lar temples of the day. ice. It is far easier to follow than to —for liberty and security. As long as We cannot follow God on one day lead. the nation recognized God as supreme, and Baal on the other six days of the It is one thing to stand up and speak it could stand. But something had been week. out clearly on behalf of some cause happening in the national life. The We cannot take God as our guide in when there is no longer any uncertainty faith and the vision of the founding fa- our personal affairs and let the spirit of about its triumph. thers had faded. Moral decay had set Baal rule the affairs of government and It is something else to stick your in. There was confusion in the minds the public life of our society. neck out when the cause is unpopular, of the people. They were beginning to We must recognize one God in our and to keep it out while even your forget the principle that had made them lives and live and work and play in the friends may be disapproving and oth- a nation. They began to love things bright light of that commitment. Faith ers jeering. more than principles." in God means this to me. *** THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1960 33 tion, faith, and knowledge on all and J sundry. As he matures and seeks suc- cess in terms of achievement, the dan- WHAT IS SUCCESS? ger is that he will turn his thinking and energies wholly to this and forsake the inborn art of successful living which brought him and all others who knew N THE famous painting by Mun- standard of living, our know-how, him so much happiness during his kacsy, "Christ Before Pilate," we mark us as being highly civilized. Is childhood. I see Christ, the prisoner, standing this the whole truth? Are the success- For to be truly successful, we must before Pilate, the judge. Christ stands ful people those who are financially in- do more than make a living—we must alone, but composed, serene, and se- dependent; those who sit at the top of make life worth living. Achieving suc- cure. Looking directly at Pilate, He our society in position, power, and in- cess financially and socially, reaching seems to be saying quietly but ear- fluence? Not necessarily. the top in business and society, may nestly, "This is your moment of su- In our harrowed, haunted, and fran- even hinder us from real, successful preme decision. Weigh most carefully tic world, it is extremely difficult to living. Many who control an empire your choice." assess values accurately. With thou- do not control themselves—and that Pilate avoids the gaze of Jesus. He sands of voices sounding in our ears— is where successful living begins! is in deep thought. At this moment each loudly affirming that his is the "Thus saith the Lord. Let not the justice and human rights are being way of success and happiness and full wise man glory in his wisdom, neither weighed against materialism, rank, and living—it is indeed arduous to dis- let the mighty man glory in his might, political success. "If I," Pilate ponders, criminate and judge sensibly. In these let not the rich man glory in his "heed the desires of the angry mob and complex and highly neurotic times, is riches." Jeremiah 9:23. Do not glory crucify this innocent man, I'll greatly there anything that will help us dis- in worldly wisdom and knowledge— enhance my position and influence with cover what true successful living is and it is like a dog following his tail—ut- the Jewish leaders—and that is very how to find it? I think so. terly futile and unsatisfactory! Not in important to me. Or, if 1 do as justice Success in terms of achievement worldly power—it is like drug addic- and law demand, I'll set the prisoner must be acquired; the art of living suc- tion—the more we get, the more we free and risk all my future political cessfully is inborn. A small child want. Not in riches, for no one can buy aspirations." It was a hard decision, catches the rhythm and color of his happiness and serenity, goodness and even for a proud, ambitious, godless environment, however bleak it may truth—the ingredients of the good life. man. In the end popularity and selfish appear to adult eyes. He laps up every- Then what? interests won, and the guiltless Son of thing—our gifts of love and constant "But let him that glorieth glory in God died on the cruel cross. devotion to his needs, the motion and this, that he understandeth and know- But the things for which Pilate paid magic of the world about him—and eth me." Verse 24. The ancient proph- such a high price were never realized. squanders his precious hoard of affec- et's words are just as apropos for us Soon after his cowardly decision he of the space age as for our ancestors. was relieved of his position and exiled The great moral principles which had to Gaul; he finally committed suicide validity in the generations now gone there. 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