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~ ~~~ ~ VOL. XII, NUMBER 1 JANUARY, 1963 WHY God’s Women Do Not Wear MAKE-UP Here is the answer to the question: “Is it a SIN?” Here are ull the FACTS-where, when, by whom, and why it originated --its history-what the BIBLE says about it. by Herbert W. Armstrong OST WOMEN, today, take the use GOD’SLAWS (I John 3:4).The Apostle thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done of make-up as a matter of course. Paul said he would not have known this evil in thy sight” (Psalm 51 :4). M To ask the question, “Is it wrong? what constituted sin; except by Gods David’s sin was against God alone! Is it a SIN?” would prove a little start- Law. He would not have known it was God’s laws were devised and set in ling, and probably ridiculous, to the sin to covet, had not the tenth com- motion for oar good. Do we not all average modern woman. mandment given him that knowledge. want to be happy? God’s laws are THE Your great - grandmother probably Many people today, by the same WAY to happiness. Do we not want to would not have thought such questions token, do not know whether it is sin to find everything and everybody at peace ridiculous. But the modern girl or wom- wear lipstick, or other make-up on the with us? God’s laws are THE WAY to an lives in a world in which it has be- face. They have not looked into God’s peace. They are the way to an interest- come as common to make up the face spiritual MIKKOH - His Law - to see ing, full, abundant life of real radiating as to put on clothes or arrange the whether make-up is sinful dirt on the JOY. They are the way to good health, hair. face! to prosperity, to the thrill of accorn- When we get so close to a habitual UNDERSTANDTHIS: God does not plishment and success. practise that we are surprised by these allow you to decide WHAT is sin. He Get this straight: questions, perhaps we need to stop right allows you to decide only WHETHER you 1) God forbids nothing that is good where we are, and take a hard look at will sin! for us. God’s laws forbid only what is THE FACTS! Before ancient Israel God set, on the bad for us-harmful to us or to others. one hand, right ways and blessings; and They are the way to pevent sickness Who Decides What is Sin! on the other hand, transgressions and and ill health, mental problems and dis- As God’s minister, I am commanded CURSES ending in eternal death. And He turbances, neuroses, heartaches, fears to lift up my voice and cry aloud, and commanded them: “CHOOSE!” He al- and worries, discouragements and frus- show God’s people their sins. Most peo- lowed them to choose the way of sin trations, boredoms and emptiness, pov- ple do not know what sin is. Most peo- and death; but He commanded them to erty and unhappiness. choose LIFE! You LaimJL decide WHAT plc assumc that sin is doing what thev 2) We cannot say that every custom is sin-but you may decide WHETHER -or society-believes to be wrong. or practise of this world’s society is to sin. And whatever you sow, that shall The very first thing we need to get “worldly,” wrong, sinful in Gods sight. you reap! It‘s inexorable! settled in our minds is this: GOD DOES Just the fact that a practise like the use SIN is against GOD, not people. King NOT ALLOW us TO DECIDE what IS of make-up is a universal custom in the David harmed a woman and her hus- SIN! Nor does He allow His ministers world does not, of itself, make it a sin. band when he forcibly committed adul- to decide it for you. GOD HIMSELFlays SIN is not defined or determined by tery with Bathsheba and then muidered down the law! God created and set in what may be or may not be a universal inexorable motion the laws it is SIN to her husband. But, in broken-hearted re- transgress. Sin is the transgression of pentance, David said to God: “Against (Please continue on page 4) 2 The GOOD NEWS Letters to the Editor Comments from French Broadcast that both of these pieces of literature are something very special -yes, the “Dear Sir: most interesting things I have ever “It sure is a good feeling to hear International magazine of read! ” someone speak of God as you do. Each THE CHURCH OF GOD Man from Frankfort am Main, ministerzng to its member! hfonday morning I leave for work, my W. Germany rcattered abrocd heart filed with joy from your broad- cast. Yet I also fear bxwse of the “The subjects you speak on are so in- -- ~ 70L. XI1 NO 1 things prophesied to come. I am 21 teresting and instructive that I contin- - ~~ years of age, and I bdieve in God. ually look forward to hearing you.” Published monthly at Pasadena, California Would you please write to me and help Man from Rilchingen-Iianweiler, c\ 1963 by Radio Church of God me grow.” W. Germany EDITOR I Ycung min from Saint-Michel, France I “I have received several issues of your HERBERTW. ARMSTRONG “I am wri:ing to tell you that I have magazine and have becomc vcry cn- never owned a Bible. Wculd you be thusiastic about them, also abmt your EXECUTIVE EDITOR , kind enougll to let me know where I booklet ‘Does God Exist.’ No one has Garner Ted Armstrong cm buy one and how much does it ever explained the Bible the way you do.” I cost.” Woman from Kassel, W. Germiny MANAGING EDITOR Man from Paris, France Herman L. Hoeh I “Thank you for “Die Reine Wahr- I “Please excuse my Inw grad?< on your hcit. Outside of the Bible it is the only SENIOR EDITOR Bible Course. Here are the rensons: first thing worth reading.” Roderick C. Meredith 1 of all I ail1 quite old, then I cannot se: Man from Lalor Park, N.S.W.. very clearly as I was badly wounded and Australia Arrociate Editors I mc,i!a:ed during the war-and finally I am beginning to lose my memory.” “I listen to Radio Luxembourg eariy Albert J. Portune David Jon Hill Man from Le Crensot, France each morning and also hear your pro- ContributinR Editors gram, which makes me especially prick “I was bap:iz-d when I was a child my ears. Mr. Klammer, if you W. A. Berg Ernest L. Martin up are Robert C. Boraker Raymond F. McNair and my education as a Christian stopped not a sect, please send me all the issues C. Wayne Ccle C. Paul Meredith after my first communion. That educa- of your magazine for 1962. We had al- Raymond C. Cole L. Leroy Neff tion was nothing more than belief in ways been searching tor the plain truth Charles V. Dorothy Ben~aminL. Rea Jack Lynn images and marvelous stories! Later, ah R. Elliott E. Torrance but had never found it. We couldn’t un- Selmer Hegvold Gerald Waterhouse an adolescent, I grew up having the derstand the Bib!e. We came home from Ronald Kelly Basil Woherton priest c!iant the high mass with a!l sorts church as empty as when we arrived. My Clint C. Zimmermnn of noises. This didn’t encourage me to husband, who recently died, was always pray. I therefore gave it up. It was by of the opinion that the truth was being Foods Consultants accident that I heard you early one deliberately kept from us.” m3rning. You immediately caught my Woman from Laichingen. W. Germany Velma Van der Veer interest as you seem to be a real guide. Mary E. Hegvold Isabel1 F. Hoeh Rose McDowell Please help me find the light.” “We heard you this morning at 7 a.m. Woman from L’Isle sur Sorgne, France We are always glad when we can hear your broadcast. You speak very clearly Editorial and Production Assistapits “Your prayers for my mother’s heal- for every man and speak to us directly James W. 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C., Canada. in Europe last summer haven’t been able to find one false doc- Our members in United Kingdom, Europe. and Africa should address the Editor Ambassador Col- trine in what you preach-everything lege. Bricket Wood. St. Albans: Herts., England. Response to German Broadcast you say is based on the Bible as the true Members in Australia and Southeast Asia should Word of God and the Son Jesus Christ address the Editor, Box 345, North Sydney, “Today I want to finally take the op- N. S. W.. Australia. as the One who died for our sins. I portunity to thank you from the bottom In the Philippines. Post Office Box 2601, h4anila. really can’t understand why the other of my heart for your magazine and the HE SURE TO NOTIFY us IMMEDIATELY of any side is warning against your message change in your address. Please inclose both old booklet ‘Does God Exist.’ I can say in and new address. IMPORTANT ! all sincerity from my own experience, (Please continue on page 16) But Where Is MARTINIQUE? by Dibar Apartian

. , ..“TF .,* . - .. - .- ...... , ...... - .- .. 8-I ’ES, where is MARTINIQUE?Many brethren ask me this question when Y I visit the Churches in the 1.0s An- geles area, and tell them that over in Martinique many people have left the Seventh-Day Adventist Church to turn to the truth. Strange as it may seem, Martinique is not too far away from the U.S.A. Un- like the legendary “Timbuktu” on thr Niger, whose geographical location somehow remains a mystery to millions who often speak of it, Martinique is al- most a neighbor of ours, located south- east of Puerto Rico. It is one of the Windward Islands in the West Indies, with a population of 260,000 French- speaking people of mixed race. But why should we, in God’s Church, be particularly concerned with Marti- nique? What importance does that small island have? Certainly, they don’t have This is the group that meets regularly every Sabbath in Martinique. The three a Fidel Castro for a leader threatening who were Adventist ministers are indicated by an arrow. Mr. Jubert is the our country, nor does the island offer an one in the middle. unknown hide-out to former Nazi lead- ers. Newspapers seldom, if ever, men- knew that GOD KNEW IT! And that’s Radio Caraibes did move to its new lo- tion its name. all that mattered! cation, and asked us to renew our con- mdCL However, this time, instead of God Opens a Door What Had Happened? being on the air once a week, they of- “It is with much regret that we were fered us twice a week-at a much BET- The fact is we wouldn’t have much forced to suspend - temporarily, we TER TIME! This happened last Septem- reason to be really concerned with Mar- hope! -the transmission of your pro- ber, a few weeks before the Feast of tinique, had it not been for God‘s call- gram,” wrote the Director of Radio Tabernacles. ing some of the people on that island Caraibes on December 20 1961. “Our What were the results? Astonishing! in this age. Radio-transmitter is located on land that We didn’t know it then, but God “And this gospel of the kingdom we have leased from an Irish-Catholic wanted to shake up the inhabitants of shall be preached in all the world for a College at St. Lucia. The priests of this the little island of Martinique. Ever WITNESS unto all nations; and then shall College were so strongly against the fact since last September, the letters have the end come” (Mat. 24:14). This that we had been transmitting non- been pouring in each week by the doz- prophecy is being fulfilled today. The Catholic programs, that they threatened ens, asking for our free booklets and Good News of the soon-coming King- us either with being evicted or stopping inquiring rrwhof’we are and “what” we dom of God is now preached almost such broadcasts. Presently, we are in- believe in. “What is your denomina- everywhere in the world-including the vestigating the possibility of transfer- tion?” is the classical question we are small island of Martinique. ring our station to another piece of asked. “What are your affiliations?” In May 1961, God opened a “door” property we have already acquired. But When we answer that we believe and before His Church, and we began preach- such a move requires both time and a teach the Bible, people seem to be at a ing His Gospel in the French language great deal of money. However, as soon totnl loss! Why-whoever has heard of over RADIO CARAIBES, a powerful 20,- as this is solved, we certainly hope that such a thing in this nuclear age? 000-watr station located near Marti- you will renew your confidence in Radio But actually, thc rcal cavalcade of nique. That station blankets both Mar- Caraibes and once again allow us to events began happening last October tinique and Guadeloupe, the two major transmit your excellent broadcast” when we received a long letter from an French-speaking islands in the West (Translation ours). ex-Adventist minister. Here are some Indies. But can Satan’s churches close a door excerpts translated from the French: From the beginning the response was that God has opened? Can they stop the “Your ‘LE MONDE A VENIR’ [The almost phenomenal. Within the first preaching of the Gospel before God’s WORLDTOMORROW) program caused a few months, we received from that lit- purposed time? “Behold, I have set be- split in the Adventist Church in Mar- tle island more than two hundred letters. fore thee an OPEN DOOR, and NO MAN tinique. Many are now realizing that But we didn’t have much time to rejoice CAN SHUT IT,” promises the Eternal the doctrines of Mrs. E. G. White are over this unexpected harvest, as things God to His Church (Rev. 3:8). false. I have been an elder for 27 years, suddenly changed. God allowed that but just turned in my resignation. Quite door to be closed. We didn’t know or Not Once, but Twice a Week! a few followed me, because I was one understand the reason then; but we Several months passed, but eventually of the most prominent officers in the 4 The GOOD NEWS January, 1963

Church. The upheaval has reached the whom have already enrolled in the Bible up is not directly or specifically men- stage of near uproar. The Adventists Correspondence Course which has been tioned in the Scriptures. would rather see us dead than alive. translated into the French language. Actually, God’s Word does reveal Please pray for us.” (Signed Louis 1%- “There is yet much persecution directly and specifically whether this bert). against us,” recently wrote Mr. Jubert. alteration of the appearance of the face A few weeks later, a second letter ar- “Most of our families are still behind, is sin! This will come as quite a surprise rived, written from another Adventist remaining in the Adventist Church. to nearly all who read this. elder who stated in part: “After being They will have to come to us, because How is it possible that painting the in the ministry for 12 years, I just we now know the truth. For us, there lips, cheeks, or eyes could be either for- turned in my letter of resignation. We is no way of going back.” bidden or approved by God’s LAW? It’s are now meeting at Mr. Jubert’s home This then is the reason we should be time we realize that the Spiritual Law inasmuch as certain others have also interested in the people on the small covers every act of right or wrong. dropped their membership to serve the island of Martinique. These are the peo- God’s Law is a great inexorable over- true God. We are in need of all the in- ple who have heard the truth and are all Law of SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES! It is structions you can give 11s in order to determined NOT to tgrn hack! Will they not merely ten literal commands. It must be strengthened in the truth. The de- really succeed? Will they remain stead- be obeyed according to all the scope of ception of the S.D.A.’s has greatly in- fast in their newly-found faith-or will its SPIRIT, as Well as its literal letter. fluenced our wives and children who are they fall by the wayside? Will they not yet able to understand the true Gos- continue obeying God‘s laws, paying The Principle of the Law pel. We are standing firm, but please His tithes, keeping His Sabbaths and All the spiritual Law may be summed pray for us and for our families ....” His Holy Days as they are now doing? up in one word-Low. Love is a spirit- Much depends on you and your ual principle. As the principle of rhe law What You Can Do prayers! is applied, it enlarges into the two great Today, there is a group of 57 people, Where then is Martinique? It is just laws -LOVE toward God and LOVE including children and THREE ex-Ad- a small island, somewhere in the Atlan- toward human neighbors. Love toward ventis[ elders who all get together every tic Ocean. but ir is another place where God, in turn, is enlarged into the first Sabbath to study the Bible with the God is calling a few to share the glory four of the Ten Commandments. And help of our booklets. They want to learn of this soon-coming Kingdom. These Love toward neighbor is enlarged into more of the truth-they want to grow people desperately need your prayers. the last six of the Ten Commandments. in it. Our present mailing list in Mar- Are you too busy to PRAY FOR But Jesus showed us, in His earthly tinique is over fow hundred, many of THEM? ministry, how He magnifies the law further, according to the application of its pinc+le. To merely look upon a woman lustfully is to violate the spirit WHY God’s Women Do Not of the law against adultery. To merely hate a brother breaks the law against Wear MAKE-UP murder. (Continwed from page I) A Surprise Scripture And so we come directly to a definite custom. Sin is transgression of GOD’S Perhaps you have a surprise coming. and positive declaration of Scripture. laws. Just read on, and you shall see that God’s We shall then show how this direct The basic Scripture on “worldliness” Law is abinclusive. It covers the WHOLE teaching reflects the principle of God’s is I John 2:15-16: “Love not the world, DUTY of man. It covers, in principle, spiritual LAW. neither the things that are in the world. everything that can be sin! The Church is founded upon the If any man love the world, the love of So what we needed to find out, in prophets, as well as the apostles, with the Father is not in him.” But what is order to know whether the use of lip- Jesus Christ the chief cornerstone (Eph. meant by “the world” in this Scripture? stick and make-up is wrong, is just as 2:20). One of those foundation proph- The next verse makes it plain: “For all simple as that! The only question is ets is Isaiah. His message is for us today. that is in the world, the lust of the flesh. whether it transgresses GOD’S LAW! He begins by saying: “HEAR.0 heav- and the lust of the eyes, and the pride Whoever continues in sin, wilfully, after ens, and give ear, 0 earth, for THE of life, is not of the Father, but is of receiving the knowledge of the truth is ETERNALHATH SPOKEN!” (1%. 1 :2.) the world.” doomed to eternal DEATH! He is speaking of our people, even today Lust, coveting-innrdinate desire rn It is not enough to say, as one woman -ISRAEL! An ox knows his owner. bu: have, to take, to acquire-and pride or wrote me: “I am willing to obey God in Israel does not seem to know or obey VANITY-that is what God here labels all things which 1 THINK are His will.” their GOD! We are a sinful nation-we as SIN, transgressing the PRINCIPLE of We must obey what GOD SAYS is His have forsaken the Eternal. (Verses 3 and His Law. More on this spirit of vanity will, and cease doing what GOD SAYS 4.) God pleads with us: “Come now, later. is sin. and let us reason together, saith the Lipstick Not Mentioned by Name Eternal; though your sins be as scarlet, Spirit, Not Letter of Law they shall be white as snow ...IF ye “But,” some might exclaim, “I never The English word “lipstick’ is not be willing and obedient.” Here is the thought of any connection between lip- used anywhere in any English transla- promise of remission of sins thru Christ. stick and the Ten Commandments! Sure- tion or version of the Bible. Nor do we This refers to NEWTestament Israel- ly the Ten Commandmenrs do not say find the modern words “make-up” or TODAY! anything about painting the lips or the “cosmetics.” Most people have believed In the 2nd chapter God’s Word to us face.” that the right or wrong of using make- thru Isaiah comes to the last days (verse January, 1963 Tbe GOOD NEWS 5

2). These first 4 verses refer to the Hebrew, falsifying their eyes.” “The order of thought is as follows: millennium. Then the message returns Ah, NOW we begin to see the real The luxurious pride of women, too, shall to our present time, just prior to the intended inspired meaning! be humbled (ver. 16, 17). In ver. 16 coming of Christ. The House of Jacob- REMEMBER- the custom of using sqq.-‘The prophet here resumes the our people-are replenished from the PAINT to color and to change the looks thread which had been dropped or bro- east-pagan beliefs and customs. One of of the face, to make it appear “prettier,” ken at the close of ver. 12, and recurs to these, we shall see later, is facial make- originated in harlotry, as I will prove the undue predominance of female in- up! (verse 6). Our land also is full of later. It was always used to seduce and fluence, but particularly to the prevalent silver and gold, neither is there any end lure men into LUST. In Bible times excess of female luxury, not only as SIN- of our treasures (v. 7 ) . Yes, we are the women painted their eyes, ptimafily-at FUL in itself but as a chief cause of the wealthiest nation that ever existed. This least the emphasis was then on the eyes, vio!ence and social disorder previously was NOT true of ancient Israel. tho they also used some paint, frequent- menticned, and therefore to b: PUN- But our land is also full of IDOLS- ly, on the cheeks and the lips. Some 40 ISHED by disease, widowhood, and shame- worshipping the things our own hands years ago the emphasis was on the ful exposure.” have manufactured and made! (Verse cheeks, tho some painted the eyes and And so there, propcrly translated, is 8.) It is the very present, when the DAY the lips to a lesser degree. Today the em- a PLAIN SCRIPTURE showing that the OF THE LORDis near (verse 12). God phasis is on the lips, tho to some extent act of painting the face (whether eyes, is soon going to abolish our idols, our women still paint, in lesser degree, the cheeks, or lips) is falsifying, intended pridc and vanity, our sins (verses 17- cheeks, and many the eyes. to DECEIVE, an expression of VANITY 18). It continues into chapter 3. The principle-the purpose-is the which is the very basis of all sin, and Children will begin to boss parents same, whether the painting emphasis is therefore it bxomes, with a plain “THUS and rule over them (verse 4). That is on the eyes, the cheeks, or the lips. SAlTH THE LORD,”a SIN! happening right now! Children are their WHATit is, is just the same. WHERE This, and the Scripcures that shall im- oppressors, and WOMEN “wear the it is placed may vary, with varying fads m-diately follow, show that this almost pants” (verse 12). They cause us to of the times. But it is all the same thing, universal custom, stimulated and kept SIN, and lead us in WRONG PATHS. so far as the principle of SIN is con- alive in the interest of multimillion- Now verse 16: “Moreover the ETER- cerned. dollar profits by the big cosmetic manu- NAL saith, because the daughters of Zion Clarke further explains that this He- facturers, is condemned by God Al- (U.S. and Britain) are haughty, and brew word is closely associated with the mighty as being a SIN! walk with stretched forth necks and noun “sikra” which the rabbis used for How, and WHY it is a sin-HOW it wanton eyes.. . therefore the ETERNAL “stibizcm, the mineral which was com- violates the SPIRIT OF THE LAW-will will smite with a scab the crown of the monly used in coloring the eyes.. . the be explained later in this article. head of the daughters of Zion,. . .” and Chaldee paraphrase explains it: stibio dire punishments for SIN follow. linitis oculis, ‘with eyes dressed with Where Make-up Originated Now what are “wanton eyes?” As this stibium.’ This fashion seems to have pre- Do you know where the use of make- is translated into the English language vailed very generally among the Eastern up originated? you dorl’t catch rhe real meaning in- people in ancient times; and they retain Actually the first “painted hussy” was spired by God into the original Hebrew the very same to this day.” Semiramis, the original mother of har- words at all! Actually, we saw a great deal of this lots, human author and founder of the Actually, when the meaning of the on our recent visit to the Middle East. world’s religions and of abominations inspired Hebrew is examined, there is From the “Critical and Experimental of the world. no one word in the English language to Commentary” : Nationally, it came out of ancient convey the intended meaning. And “16. and wanton eyes -Hebrew Egypt. Nearly everything evil and sin- rather than usc a whole sentence or two (mesha-quqzceroth, from shaquar, to de- ful came out of Egypt. Egypt is used as to express the inspired meaning, the ceive.) ‘deceiving with their eyes.’. , . the very TYPE of sin in the Scriptures. translators have chosen this one word Lowth, after the Chaldaic, ‘falsely setting When we were in Egypt this past “wanton.” off the eyes with paint.’ Women’s eye- spring we saw many of the statues and The English word they did use, lids in the East are often colored with idols of ancient Egypt. Two things were “wanton,” is defined by Webster as un- stibium, or powder of lead.” most prominent in the statues of their chaste, lewd, licentious, immoral, etc. These critical explanations make it ancient queens and the goddesses: the This expresses the spirit and character plain that painting the face has, since painting on their faces, which changed back of the act described, but not the ancient days, been intended to falsijy the their na:ural appearance, and the thin- method by which such lewdness and appearance of the face- to deceive! veiled gowns which exposed nudity un- licentiousness is manifested. It seems to Women today may not like to admit it, derneath. They had changed themselves be about as near as the translators could but there can be no purpose in applying from a modest and virtuous appearance get in rendering the Hebrew. lipstick or any kind of paint except to into one of sensuality. But let’s understand the full and com- change the appearance of the face- Changing facial appearance by paint- plete meaning of the Hebrew word. One and that very act means to FALSIFY thc ing thc face originated in harlotry. IL thing the Commentaries do give us face-to DECEIVE those who see them was used originally only as a device of accurately is the technical meaning of as to what their real appearance actually harlots to attract men in a manner de- Hebrew and Greek words. is! The very USE of lipstick or make- signed to break the 7th Commandment. up, even tho a woman denies the mo- Its modern, popular and almost uni- Clarke Makes It Clear tive in her heart, is to change the facial versal use today originated with the First, notice the rendering of the appearance -and this, in turn, is to harlots of Paris. From there it travelled Adam Clarke Commentary. flzlrify and to deceive-which is not to the old red-light districts of San Fran- “Verse 16. And wantolz eyes--‘And righteous or godly, but sinful. cisco, Denver, New Orleans, Chicago, falsely setting off their eyes with paint! Now from Lange’s Commentary: New York and other American cities. 6 The GOOD NEWS January, 1963

The Encyclopedia Britannica says: “lt is quite probable that cosmetics had their origin in the East, but it is necessary to turn to Egypt for the earliest records of these subscances and their application.” In the British Museum we tound com- plete and elaborate “make-up” kits, beau- tifully carved unguent boxes in alabaster, ivory, or carved wood, dated, according to inscriptions, back to 3500 B.C. There were tiny ivory and wooden sricks and eyelash brushes, combs, mirrors. Also materials for dyeing the finger nails! Even that custom came out of EGYPT! According to the Britannica, the prac- tice of facial subterfuge and deception by painting and make-up reached its zenith in the time of Cleopatra. The Britannica also states that the early inhabitants of Britain imported toilet articles front the East. In the passages from Isaiah cited above, chaptcr 2 and verse 6 says God is forsaking and punishing the House of Jacob “because they be replenished from the East!” Yes, that’s where they got the make-up idea and materials! Paint on the face in America was first used by the Indians, as “WAR PAINT.” We regarded it as a heathen, savage custom! Yet our women have taken up the cus- tom, copying from the harlots of Paris. The practice certainly did not originate trom GOD, but from harlotry and hea- rhenism. In 1770 the State of Pennsyl- vania passed a law that a marriage could be nullified if the wife had, in courtship, deceived and misled her prospective husband by having changed her appear- mce with make-up! It Is BIG Business The cosmetic industry has become one of America‘s greatest industries. By the postwar year of 1919 it had risen to B volume of 82 million dollars. By 1925 it had mounted to $147,000,000. But by Here you see a painted limestone bust of the Egyptian Queen Nefertari, 1955, the cosmetic industry spent in ad- the wife of Akhnaton. The paint on this bust, preserved for nearly 3,000 vertising to tempt the women into buy- years, shows the manner in which Egyptian women of note adorned ing cosmetics ONE MILLIONmore dollars themselves with cosmetics-plucked and redrawn eyebrows, shadowed than their entire sales volume had been eyes and painted lips. While visiting Egypt in 1956, Mr. and Mrs. Arm- in 1925. Not including soap, but just strong obtained the original full-color photograph. face-changing cosmetics, the industry spent for advertising $148,675,000! And Then it was used by the street-walker My mother -before she died - re- according to the March 28 New Yovb prostitutes to attract and seduce men. membered that she used to apply a little Time. American women in 1955 spent My wife remembers an incident that powder on her cheeks but didn’t seem ro change the appearance of their faces occurred when she was a little girl nine to remember at what time this custom (including perfumes ), $1,192,200,000!! yeais old. Her father ran a small-town started. But she did distinctly remember That’s one RILLION,one hundred ninety- general store. In the store she found two that her mother never once applied two MILLION. two hundred thousand small packages of face powder, one powder, paint, or any kind of cosmetics dollars! white, the other red. She began to apply whatsoever to her face. She was a very Perhaps most wntnrn ilo not realize. some of the colored powder to her face. virtuous and religious woman, and in or won’t admit, the extent of their Her mother saw her, and quickly took her time “only the bud women” put VANITY in wanting to make themselves the powder away from her. paint or powder on their faces. My own prettier than they really are, bgt thr “No, no! Loma,” said hcr mother. mother very enipharically declared rhar cmmetic manufncturers and their shreu’d “You mustn’t ever put that on your face. no lipstick ever touched her lips-a fact tcdt’erti.ring meia kiaou,! The average Only the bud women use that!” in which she took great satisfaction. Americsn business cannot profitably january, 1963 The GOOD NEWS 7

spend more than 44 of 1% up to a maximum of 4(‘5 of sales voluine in ad- vertising. Rut apparently the cosmetic industry, due to tcmaie vanity. IS ablc to spend 12j.i5;, and i~akeit pay! When maie GKI~EI)cashes in on femalc VANITY, the result is fabulous profits for s’irewrt commercial interests! Bible Examples Jesus said we must lice lq every Word of God. God’s Holy Word teaches us with all atithority HOW TO LIVE! We .$find this teaching in direct commands. adnionitions, and in recorded living cxamples. God says: “Now all these things hap- pened unto them (Old Testament ex- periences) fur examples”--or, ss better expressed in the Revised Standard Ver- sion: “us a rodming, but they were writ- ten down for ow instruction, upon whom the end of the age has come.” (I Cor. l0:ll). God gives examples in the Bible of women who were righteous, meek, hum- ble and obedient, and He also gives ex- amples of women who were prostitutes -w!w were seductive and satanic in- fluences on ochers. And LISTEN! In ei’erg’ single case where paintiiig the face is vzentioiied in Four Rih!e. GOD LABELS THE WOMAN A WHORE! Is that shocking? Yes, but TRUE! Painr- ing the facc is never once ni-n:ioneJ in conncctivri wirli a virtuous woman! HOW docs God label YOU? Every woin an should ask herself that question. Perhaps I have seen the oldest historic record of putting make-up on the face. Is this what YOU want to look like? Notice the make-up-the on our recent visit to ancient Egypt. God redrawn eyebrows-the painted lips and fingernails. WHY uses Egypt as a TYPE of sin, especially does this woman wear make-up? You guessed it?-she was in the lesson of Israel’s deliverancc from taken into custody for breach of the vice laws of California! Egyptian bondage. Most of the pagan Is this the kind of woman you want to portray? and sinful practices that befoul our wesr- ern civilization today came out of Egypt. ductively, and attempt to chunge her up- whom God had appointed to succeed In Egypt we saw many statues and pearance from her actual EVIL look, by Joram as king. paintings of ancient Egyptian women, deceiving the world into believing that “And it came to pass, when Joram and of their goddesses. Always their she “looks” virtuous and pure and holy. saw Jehu, that he said, ‘Is it peace, Jehu?’ faces were painted. But notice the high-points of the And he (Jehu) answered, ‘Whar peace, But parhaps the oldest written records story as it is in the Bible. so long as the whoredoms of thy mother are found in the Bible. “In the thirty and eighth year of Asa ]ezebel and her witchcrafts are so First is the case of the Gentile daugh- king of Judah began Ahab the son of many?”’ (I1 Ki. 9:22.) ter of a Zidonian King, Jezebel. King Omri to reign over Israel.. .And Ahab As Joram turned to flee, Jehu slew Ahab of Israel married her. God con- did evil in the sight of the Eternal above him. demned this evil woman to a horribic all that were before him. And it came to death because of her great WHOREDOMS. pass. as if it bud been a light thing for Is It a “Light Thing”? Jezebel applied the “art” of make-up to bim to walk in the sins of Jereboam, “And when Jehu was come to Jezreel. her face to make herself sexaally dttmr- that he took to wife Jezebel the daugh- Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her tiw in order to deceive and seduce men. ter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians fuce, and attired her head, and looked God uses this vile woman as a type 06 (king of Siclvn), and went and served out at the window.” (I1 KI. 9:5U.) She the great false charch (Rev. 2 :20),who Baal and worshipped him.” (I Kings was now making a desperate efforc to also is labeled in your Bible as a whore! 16 :29-3 1. ) seduce Jehu, lest he kill her. She resorted Just as this original Jezebel painted hcr Later, Joram, son of Ahab and Jezebel, to all her wiles of harlotry, and lewd- face to seduce men, so does this great was reigning as king of Israel. With the ness. collective woman deck herself out sc- king of Judah he went out against Jehu, WHY do women who profess to bc 8 The GOOD NEWS January, 1963

GOOD women resort to this same trick cepting this world as GOD’S world. It Is Sinning Moderately OK? of deception to attract men today? WHY came as a shock and a bewildering dis- If this thing is sin, IT IS slN--and have modern women, as if it were a light illusionment to finally realize that SO God does not condone “sinning moder- thing to walk in the sins of Jezebel, MANY of these generally accepted cus- ately.” There are some things which, in made this a11 allnost universal custom toms arc EVIL, and plain ABOMINATIONS moderation, are NOT sin-where it is today? in the sight of GOD! It was difficult to only the excessizle use that becomes sin Will GOD’S women, “the LIGHT of be weaned from them. -such as wine. The very PURPOSE of the world,”-the only light remaining But NOW I can see these things as drinking a “little wine for thy stomJch’s in this evil world-yield themselves “to through the eyes of GOD.When the true sake,” is good, not evil. But, as will b< be LIKE worldly women around them?” knowledge first came, the idea that pork, brought out later, the zwy purpose of From the very first historic records, oysters, sea-foods were nutritiously un- painting and changing the appearance painling he fuce has been an integral clean sccmcd ridiculous. We simply have of the face is EVIL, and a little evil is part of HARLOTRY, used to attract and to come to the knowledge that “there is still EVIL! seduce men! It was always part of the a way that seemeth RIGHT unto a man, And so now it is time and the duty equipment of a harlot. That is a simp!e but the end thereof are the ways of of Gnd’s ministers to “cry aloud anJ statement of FACT. It cannot be denied. DEATH.” spare not”-to lift up our voices, and The harlots of Paris use it. The whores In the same manner, it may be diffi. show God’s people their SINS! As God of the old United States “red-light” dis- cult, at first, for many women to realize reveals these things, GOD’S CHURCH tricts all used it. The street-walking chat make-up on the face is actually one MUST BE CLEANED UP! Those who knoa. prostitutes all used it before the profes- of those things that is AN ABOMINA- that The ETERNALis God must now get sing “decent” women copied after these TION in the sight of God-that its use over on GOD’Sside, and do those things daughters of Jezebel. is a SIN-a violation of GOD’SLAW, as I that are pleasing in His sight, and those Some women may say that “we don’t shall presently show! It may be difficult who are HOSTILE and of this world may use it for seductive purposes or as a for one who has always taken these continue on the world’s side, and do device of harlotry today!” Of course not! worldly custom for granted to realize those things thar are pleasing in the sight But, in like manner I’ve heard preachers chat a woman who “looks NICE” to the of the world. try to justify the pagan practices of ob- world actually looks like a painted pros- This thing of painting the face is now serving Christmas by arguing, “But we ritute in the sight of GOD! labeled by Jesus Christ as a SIN! It is don’t use it for the purpose they did- Do YOU Have False Fears? a transgression of Gon’s LAW, as I shall for worshipping Baal. We have adopted presently show. their custom for the purpose of worship- Some fear embarrassment without REMEMBERthat God says: “Wha? ping CHRIST.” make-up. A few years ago when we things soever we ask, we receive of Him But Gud says: “Thou shalt NOT en- boarded the Queen Mdry for Europe, because we keep His commandments quire after their gods, saying, ‘How did actunlly, when we looked around to ob- and do those things that are pleasing i?$ these nations serve their gods? even so serve, we were surprised to notice that His sight! (I John 3:22.) This is strong will I do likewise.’ Thou shalt NOT do perhaps a third of the women in the ralk, hut the PT-AGUES God soon is going so unto the Eternal thy God: for every Queen Mary dining room, although in to pour on the rebellious are going to abomination to the Eternal, which He evening dress, were not wearing lip- be MUCH STRONGER-poured out with- hateth, have they done unto their gods; stick! Our son Garner Ted and his wife out mixture of mercy! . . .Whatsoever I command you, observe Shirley joined us in Europe later. Shir- to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor iey had the same experience on ship- Israel’s Harlotry diminish from it.” (Deuteronomy 12: board. The younger women suffer no 30-32.) mgre embarrassment than their mothers! As the harlot Jezebel was a type of the great MOTHER of liarlots aid ABOMI- GODCOMMANDS US NOT TO FOLLOW Pasadena is one of the most cul- NATIONS of the earth, so bath Israel and THESE ABOMINABLE PRACTICES AND tural cities in America. Many wealthy Judah. the CHURCHof the Old Testa- CUSTOMS USED IN PAGAN IDOLATRY families, socially prominent, live here. ment, p!ayed the whore, and symboli- AND HARLOTRY! Facial make-up is onc And, surprising though it is, we have cally “painted their faces.’‘ of them! A woman may think she looks nxiced, at the Pasadena Civic Audito- Listen to THE WORD OF GOD! nice in the sight of the world with make- rium during a concert, that perhaps one- “This word from the Eternal came up. But how does she look ilz God’s third or more of these well-to-do women. to ine:”-uoting froin Ezekiel 23, Mof- sight? dressed in expensive clothes and mink furs do not wear make-up! fatt translation. ‘‘ ‘Scn of man, there were Abomination in God’s Sight Many other women have had the same when they were young, hey played the harlot in Egypt, wheie It’s true, we have been born in such experience. Once they are weaned from men pressed their breasts and handled a world, and grown up taking such it, they have discovered that their former their virgin nipples. Their nnmej were things for granted as much as we take FEARC of what people in the world any article of normal clothing for wculd think of them were without Ohola!i, the elder. and Oholibah. the younger. They became my wives and granted, accepting it as a normal custom foiindarion. Not one of them, so far as bore sons and daughters (as for their with never so much as a thought that 1 kn-)w, would now even think of using there could be anything sinful about it. “just a little,” “modestly,” on certain names, Oholah is Samaria. Oiolibii I grrw up, and so did most of you, occasions. God’s yielded and converted Jerusalem ) . “ ‘But Ohola played the harlot. thoug’i taking SUNDAY for granted-and Christ- women, themselves, have come to see she was my wife.. . and befouled her- mas, New Years’ revelry, Easter, and that what is SINFUL is never necessary. many other customs I supposed all good in any slight amount. self with the idols of everv man (xi CHRISTIANSaccepted and followed. I But if women of the world would whom she dored; she iicvrr ccasrd ha couldn’t see, at first, where all these cause embarrassment, that would not harlctry since in Egypt men lay with churches could be wrong. I grew up ac- condone use of make-up in God’s sight! (Plea.re contiwe on page 1 I i How to PZhz Your Meals

HE most important job every wife and mother has is that Learn to picture in ycur mind how the meal you have of feeding her family. Many women consider planning planned will look when it is placed on the table. Practice Tfor these meals a tedious task and not worth the time. artistry in planning and serving meals. It will help insure that This is a big mistake. It has caused many families to be ill-fed your meals are balanced. A dinner consisting of brown meat, and sickly. Menil planning can be fun and very rewarding. green vegetable, red tomatoes, white baked potato with yellow pineapple for dessert is not only attractive-it is nourishing. Why It Is Important SLudy the different food groups. You will find that each has The physical well-being, the mental alertness of your family a predominating color. Starchy foods, for instance, are mostly depend largely on what they eat. It is the job of the home- white (;r have a light color. The meats, after preparation, arc maker to plan and prepare the kind of meals capable of of different tones of brown or red brown. Likewise, several of achieving this. Menus hastily planned before serving may the varieties of dried beans. Vegetables introduce green into result in inadequate meals. Develop the habit of planning the our meals and both fruits and vegetables have bright tones of family’s meals several days or a week ahead. red, orange, yellow and purple. Let color help you achieve the Planning .ruz’e.r you money. “Impulse buying”-buying on proper proportions. A colorful p!ate usually indicates a well- the spur of the moment because something looks attractive or selected, well-balanced menu. is on “special-can raise your food costs. Take care that the colors are harmonious. Clashing colors Planning sut’ej time as well. Everything needed for your are unpleasant. The purple-red of red cabbage or beets does menus can be bought in one shopping trip, avoiding extra not look attractive with orange-red tomatoes. Use one and trips for something you might have forgotten if you had gone save the other for a later meal. shopping with only a vague idea of what might be needed. Ccnsider also the colors of the dishes in which the foot! Other advantages of advance planning are: will be served. Orange juice in a blue glass is not as appetiz- 0 less likelihood of repeating foods and ways they ing as orange juice served in a clear glass. Potatoes served in are prepared; a colorcd bowl appear more attractive than if served in a 0 more economical use of fuel and equipment-for white bowl. Or if you do serve them in a white bowl, put a example, oven meals or “one-dish” meals; pat of yellow butter on top and a green sprig of parsley on 0 helps cut down on time required for preparation; one side of the potatoes. 0 meals are more apt to be appetizing. Garnishes such as parsley, lemon or pimiento can be used Avoid monotony in menus by planning for variety in flavors, effectively as accent colors with other foods. When serving texture, color, method of preparation and shape or form of salads on lettuce leaves, use the leaves from the outside of the food. Thc mcnu planner should aim to provide a meal that is head for more color. a joy to the senses as well as wholesome. Keep a Balance-When you are planning, keep in mind the proper use of starchy vegetab!es in the meal. Remember These Points Following are two lists: One names the moderately starchy Flavor-Food flavors vary from quite strong to mild. Some vegetables; the other, vegetables which are very starchy. foods have a distinct flavor, as bananas, but are not especially STARCHYVEGETABLES strong. Several strong or distinct-flavored foods in the same (about 15% starch) meal are likely tn he iinplearing. Ry contrast, a meal of all mild-flavored foods lacks interest-have some distinct flavor Green Lima beans to pep up the meal. Avoid repeating similar flavors in a meal Parsnips as tomato soup and meat balls in tomato sauce or turnips and Green peas cauliflower in the same meal. Use a variety of seasonings-try VERY STARCHY VEGETABLES sage, thyme, marjoram, savory, basil for example. (about 20% starch) Flavor includes fragrance as well as taste. No one needs to Dried beans (kidney, pinto, Lima, be told that the appetizing aroma of a meal being cooked white beans and so forth) will automatically bring hungry folk to the table. Wholesome Corn (maize) fragrance excites eager anticipation of a meal. It is a subrlt Potatoes, white and sweet, and yams ally of the good cook. Tex-ture-For the average healthy person an all-soft meal or Suppose that you have a meal of cuukcd dried beans, corn one so liquid the foods run together is enough to discourage and potatoes. Eow can ycu tell whether or not this is a bal- a hearty appetite. Have a balance between soft and solid foods. anced meal? Check these points: l) the meal lacks color, one Serve something crisp with a soft dish. Crisp foods like carrot. good indicator of whether or not the meal is balanced. 2) it is celery or raw turnip sticks, radishes, or cauliflower or broccoli a very starchy meal as you can see from the list above. Some- flowerets offer satisfying contrast to soft dishes such as sauf- thing needs changing. What and how? Simply use only one fles, creamed chicken or scrambled eggs. Crackers with soup of the starchy foods and substitute other foods for the other is another example of texture contrast. two. Color-Have a variety of color in the meal. Pleasing color For example, if you choose the dried beans, with them you combinations contribute greatly to a meal’s interest. An all- could have some kind of quickly cooked greens-turnip tops. white or an all-yellow or all-green meal looks monotonous and beet tops, spinach or chard-and a custard dessert. Or in sea- is sadly lacking in eye and appetite appeal. son a mixed green salad could be served instead of the cooked A meal of mashed potatoes, creamed onions, liver and white greens. bread with rice pudding for dessert lacks color. It does little to If you have corn, the meal must include something for prv- tempt the taste buds. Neither is it a really balanced meal sincc, tein since the corn does not contain much of that. The corn the potatoes, bread and rice pudding are all decidedly starch!- could be made into a custard containing eggs, milk and per- foods. haps cheese. Then have with it cabbage (cole) slaw or a green 10 The GOOD NEWS January, 1963 salad and for dessert fresh fruit in season or canned fruit if ochcr meals too is: In general, provide meals that are adr- you chose the Cole slaw. quate enough so that no one needs a between-meal snack. Potatoes, the third vegetable in the high-starch list, are gen- ‘The remaining two meals will depend upon the occupation erally thought of as a vegetable that goes with other foods. of the family and their schedules. For example, do the chil- Beside other vegetables you can think of, they may be served dren in school eat at home or take a lunch to school? In some with one of the colorful less-starchy foods-green Limas or areas the dinner is served at noon, with a lighter meal called green peas. If milk is drunk along with these foods or if milk supper served in the evening. When the heavier dinner meal has been used in a gravy or sauce, they make a balanced meal is served at night the noon meal is usually a lighter one in with only the addition of a fruit dessert. the form of lunch. What is needed in the noon meal will Of course, with any of these menus, it is taken for granted depend upon what was served for breakfast or what is to be that you will serve butter, sour cream or another spread and served for the evening meal. This consideration is true for thc bread, though with meals where starchy vegetables are served, evening meal-the well-planned menu for this meal will be bread is not always necessary. They can be rounded out with affected by what was served for the two earlier ineais ot the olives, pickles, nuts and similar foods. day. The meals may be extremely simple-a one-dish meal- The cereal, rice, is sometimes used like a vegetable. Even or very elaborate-a formal dinner-and still meet the fam- after cooking, the amount of starch it contributes to a meai ily’s food needs. Check your menus to see if the meals tor the would be higher than any of the starchy vegetables listed. It is day include the types of foods needed daily. Plan your meais therefore wise not to use any of these starchy vegetables with by an orderly method; this will insure that the daily food in- it in a meal except perhaps a few green peas in a mixture cludes the needed quantities of protein, minerals and other where color contrast is wanted. nutrients. When these vegetables are in season, meals may have two of the less-starchy vegetables. For example, green Limas and What Foods to Include corn arc often served together, and green peas and potatoes. The various foods which are considered in meal planning Thc meal-planner should take care that the remaining items have been divided into four main groups. By using this daiiy in such a meal are izot starchy. Choose meat or some other food guide in your meal planning it IS possible to make B protein food as shown in the Food Guide, perhaps another quick check as to the nutritional adcquacy of your menus. vegetable (there are a host to choose from) and a light des- ‘l’hc division of the various foods is as follows: sert, either fruit, or a light sponge (a porous pudding of gela- tin, beaten egg whites, etc.) or custard to go with these A Daily Food Guide for Menu Planning starchy foods. I. Milk Group-some daily Don’t be afraid to include starchy foods in your meals. All children and teenagers4 to 4 cups daily are a good source of vitamins and minerals if they have adults -2 or more cups daily not heen peeled, polished or conked in large amniints of water pregnant and nursing which is afterward poured off. Their relative inexpensiveness mothers -4to 6 cups daily helps make every food dollar go farther, but do choose wisely Cheese-in prepared dishes, or sandwiches or plain the foods you serve with them. That way your family’s health (This can take the place of some of the milk ) will not suffer from your economy. 11. Meat and Protein Group-2 or more servings daily Vary Method of Preparation Beef, veal, lamb, poultry, eggs, fish, dry beans, Meals are more appetizing when the foods are prepared in dry peas, nuts, peanut butter, cheese. a variety of ways. Avoid having a number of creamed or fried 111. Vegetable-Fruit Group4 ur mure servings daily or breaded foods in the same meal. A collection of wholesome Include: recipes that the family enjoys are a major contribution to the 1) A citrus fruit or juice as grapefruit or orange, preparation of desirable meals. When re-using a favorite or tomatoes or tomato juice, or other fruit or recipe, add variety to the meal by serving different foods to vegetable as cantaloupe, strawberries, cabbage, accompany it than those used the last time that “favorite” was broccoli, green peppers or greens as turnip or served. If an inexpensive dish seems dull, vary it with different mustard. seasonings or a sauce or combine it with other foods. Some 2) A green or yellow vegetable. examples might be dried beans with herbs or tomato sauce, in 3) Other vegetables and fruits, including pota- chili, in soup or as bean loaf or beanburgers; potatoes, scal- toes. loped or with carrots or peas or green beans, or with a combi- 1V. Bread-Cereal Group-4 or more servings nation of vegetables in a casserole or hearty vegetable stew. Whole grain breads or cereals-wheat, oatmeal, Occasionally a meal will prove particularly successful. The brown rice, stone-ground corn meal-or wholc menu for such a meal deserves to be recorded for future use. grain products such as soy or whole wheat maca- Write such menus on small file cards and keep them in a file roni, spaghetti or noodles. box. They will prove helpful sometime when you are won- dering what to serve to guests or the family. To round out the meals, serve butter daily and use vege- Form or Shape-This is of less importance than the other table oils as needed in preparation and serving of meals. Des- factors previously mentioned, but it should not be forgotten serts and other sweets, as honey, may be used to finish off the in meal planning. Serve foods with a variety of natural shapes. meals and to satisfy the appetite. It is usually sufficient to Serve a vegetable or a salad having definite shape with a food serve a prepared dessert at only one of the daily meals. If that is creamed or mashed-such as mashed potatoes with honey, chutney, jam or jelly is served during the meals, no green beans or broccoli. Don’t spend extra effort and rime prepared dessert at all need be added. shaping foods into realistic forms like animal crackers. Use this Food Guide as a yardstick for your day’s menus. See if you have included the number of foods required in What Meals When each group. This may beem laboriuuh at first, but suun you As a general rule breakfast should contain 1/5 to 113 of will almost automatically choose the kind of foods that will the food needs for the day. A guide to go by here and in the insure your family a well-rounded diet. January, I963 The GOOD NEWS 11 Sample Menus Menus using protein-rich foods other than meat: Some sample menus which may be used as a help in your menu planning are: Breakfast Lunch (at home Dinner Menus with dinner in the evening having meat as the main 5/2 Grapefruit or packed) Baked Beans dish: Poached Eggs Cottage Cheese- Cauliflower with Bran Muffins and-Pineapple Grated Cheese Breakfast Lurzch (at home Dinner Butter Salad Mixed Vegctablr Orange, whole or packed) Meat Loaf Milk, Coffee or Sandwich Salad Whole-Wheat Egg Salad Baked Potatoes or Tea Carrot Sticks (Iornbread Sticks, Cereal Sandwich Green Beans Milk Butter Milk Celery Sticks Cabbage Slaw Raisins and Nuts Milk Coffee or Tea Apple Bread, Butter Apple Crisp (if desired) Milk Milk Peach Cobbler Menus with fish and other protein-rich foods as the main Menus with dinner at noon with a one-dish main course ot dishes and vitamin C-rich foods at meals other than breakfast: meat and vegetables: Breakfast Lunch (at home Dinner Breakfast Dinner Supper Stewed Prunes or packed) Tuna-Rice Tomato Juice Beef-Potato- Scalloped Corn Oatmeal Cheese Sandwich C a ss e r o1 e Soft Boiled Eggs Onion-Carrot with Cheese Scrambled Eggs Broccoli Flowerets Buttered Carrots Whole-Wheat Stew Broccoli Bread ( if needed ) Banana (cut and cooked Bread Lettuce Wedge Sliced Tomato- Milk, Coffee Fruit Juice in quarters) Butter with French and-Lettuce or Tea Cabbage-Green Milk, Coffec Dressing Salad Pepper Salad or Tea Homemade Bread, Butter Bread, Butter Whole-Wheat Milk Milk Crackers Oatmeal Cookies Milk Gingerhread with Thc quantity of fwJ fur the above menus varies, of course, Lemon Sauce according to one’s body-build, metabolism and occupation.

from God to modern women today! WHY God’s Women Do Not “ ‘This therefore is the Lord the ETER- NAL’S sentence: Bring a host of folk Wear MAKE-UP against them, and hand them over to be maltreated and robbed! Let them be (Continued from page 8) stoned and put to the sword.. . that all women 77my TAKE WARNING and avoid her as a girl and handled her virgin *‘ ‘Since you forgot ME and flung ME YOUR sensuul ways.. . and so learn that nipples and had intercourse with her aside, then suffer for your sensual harlot I am the Lord the ETERNAL!”’ freely. So I handed her over to her ways!’ ‘Son of man,’ said the Eternal, How about it? Do you want to argue lovers, to the Assyrians . . . They exposed ‘arraign Oholah and Oholibah, and show that God doesn’t mean YOu-or that her nakedness.. . and they slew her with them their detestable impieties. . . .They this does NOT apply to using make-up the sword, so punishment was inflicted did this to me also; they polluted my today? YOUR body is God’s temple on her, till she became a WARNING TO sanctuary and derecrated my sabbnth . . . today, and if you defile it, God says He WOMEN. And this is how they behaved within my will destroy YOU!

“ ‘Her sister Oholibah saw this, but temple; they actually sent for men who IN EVERY CASE where make-up is Fhe went further in depravity, in her came from abroad, sent messengers to mentioned in the Bible, God labels the lust and harlotry . . . I saw that she wa5 them! And for them you bathed your- woman who uses it a WHORE! befouling herself.. .but she carried her self, you PAINTED YOUR EYES, you put Always, its use is an attempt to change harlotry further, she saw men pictured on your ornaments, you sat on a hand- the appearance of the face! It is an at- upon walls, figures of Chaldeans drawn some divan, with a table spread in front tempt to make the face appear to bc (a in vermilion.. . and when she saw them of it.. .and sounds of revelry arose!”’ DECEPTION! ) more beautiful than it is. she doted upon them.. . Therefore, Oho- (Ezek. 23). Always in one way or another it is libah-here is the Lord the Eternal’s NOTICETHAT! Here God pictures VANITY! Today it is also an instinctive sentence-1 will rouse your lovers against Israel and Judah as harlot women. They human-nature pull to conform to the you.. . I will mass them all round you. have sent for men. In order to seduce ways of this world -perhaps without the Babylonians, all the Chaldeans . . . these men, and lead them into adultery, realizing that this is in direct disobedi- they shall attack you ...with a host of they PAINTED THEIR FACES! This has ence of God’s command: “Be NOT con-

nations’ ” (type of the punishment yet always been the main equipment of har- formed to this world, but be ye TRANS- to come on MODERN Israel for the SAME lots! It is the very instrument of harlotry. FORMED by the renewing of your mind,

sins and abominations! ) ‘I ‘. . . and they God CONDEMNS the ACT as SIN-and that ye may prove what is that good, and shall sentence you; I will vent my jeal- shows plainly that this paint was applied acceptable, and perfect WILL OF GOD!” ous fury upon you. and let them deal FOR THE PURPOSE of seduction. (Rorn. 12:2.) with you fiercely.. . . Now complete this blistering message (Please continue on next page) I2 The GOOD NFWS January, 1963

Whoring Judah to make the face prettier than it naturally tares definitely and positively condemn- is-WHICH IS VANITY! Either is a viola- ing make-up on the face! In the 4th Chapter of Jeremiah, God tion of Gods Law, and A SIN! Actually, This is a plain “THUS SAITH THE reveals the destruction to be poured out the only reason a woman wishes to con- LORD! ” on Judah, as a result of her whoredoms. form to the world is VANITY-fearing And did you notice that these pagan God cries out to these unfaithful Jews: what the world will think, more than women of the East, condemned by God, “0 Jerusalem, wash thine heart from fearing GOD- CARING more for the do not feel completely dressed without wickedness, that thou mayest be saved world and what it thinks than for GOD their make-up on? How many of our . . .For my peop!e is foolish, they have and what looks right IN HIS SIGHT! own modern women have sad the same not known me; they are sottish children, A woman may try to REASON and thing? It’s high time for GOD’Swomen and they have none understanding; they ARXJE around it, but every woman to REPENT, and with God’s help wean are to do to they wise evil, but do good knows in her heart this is ‘1HE I’RU’IH. themselves from that kind of heathen . have no knowledge.. .For thus hath the Every woman who has bzen CON- feeling! Ecernal said, ‘The whole land shall be QUERED by the Eternal God-who is Other Scriptures, however, do indicate desolate.. . and when thcu art spoiled, yielded to HIM-who has repented and Gods approval of certain ornamentation what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest is converted-who HAS AND IS LED BY of dress, or even earrings, especially on thyself with crimson, thcugh thou deck- GOD’S HOLYSPIRIT-will admit this, what might be called a royal or regal est thee with ornamenx of gold, though and TURN FROM THIS SIN! occasion, THOIJ RFNTFST (distort) THY FACE Back, now, to Isaiah 3. In Ezekiel 16 God symbolizes Israel as WITH PAINTING, in vain shah thcu make His bride-Eis queen. GOD is KING of thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, “Don’t Feel Dressed Without It” all the universe. The Old Covenant is they will seek thy life’ ” (Jer. 4:14, 22, represented as a marriage agreement. “As for my people,” says God, “chil- Of 27, 30). Queen Israel, God says: “1 clothed thee Here adulteress Judah is pictured as dren are their oppressors, and women also with broidered work, and shod thee rzcle over them. 0 my people, they which The ETERNAL’Swife, painting her face with sealskin, and I girded thee about lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy to seduce lovers into adu!tery. with fine linen, and I covered thee with THE WAY of thy paths.” (Verse 12.) And WHAT WAS THE ADULTERY OF silk. I decked thee also with ornaments, ISRAEL AND JUDAH? Women, in other words, “wear the trou- and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and sers.” Women have become haughty, Why, precisely the very thing that a chain on thy neck. I put a jewel on causes women to use lipstick and other full of VANITY, tiying to put themselves thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, above men. make-up today! They wanted to be like and a beautiful crown upon thine head. And how? “Because the daughters of the other nations around them! God Thus wast thou decked with gold and Zion are haughty, and walk with said to Israel: “When.. .thou shalt say, silver.. .and thou wast exceedingly beau- stretched forth necks (holding their “I will set a king over me, like as all the tiful, and thou didst prosper into a king- ” heads high as they walk-Moff att ) and nations that are about me. . .’ (Deut. , dom. And thy renown went forth among wanton eyes (falsely setting off their 17:14). the heathen for thy beauty: for it was eyes with PAINT)” (Isa. 3:12, 16). Again, “When thou art comr into the perfect through my comeliness, which I The Adam Clarke Commentary says, land which the Eternal thy God giveth had put upon thee, saith the Lord Eter- further, on this verse: “Her eyelashes, thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the nal” (Ezek. 16: 10-14). ABOMINATIONS of those nations.. . For which are long, and, according to the Of course, this is figurative, not literal, all that do those things are AN AEOMI- custom of the East, dressed with stibium and represents qualities of character, not NATION unto the Eternal.” (Deut. 18:9, (as we often read in the Holy Scriptures physical decoration. But it mentions ap- 12). of the Hebrew women of old, ler. 4:30; Ed. 23:40) ...‘But none of these la- provingly just about everything except WHY Women Wear It dies,’ says Dr. Shaw, Travels, p. 294, ‘take falsifying the face with paint! NEVER is this facial deception mentioned in If other nations around them had not themselves to be completely dressed, till they have tinged their hair and edges of connection with a virtuous woman in practiced these abominations, the Israel- thc Bible. ites wou!d never have wanted to do their eyelids with alkahol, the powder of lead ore.. .’ Ezekiel chap. 23:40, uses Keep in mind, however, that this them. figurative description is that of God’s LIKEWISE,if the women of the world the same word in the form of a verb, cachalt eynayik, ‘thou didst dress thine QUEENin royal and stately attire. This around you had never worn lipstick or is not to be construed as God’s approval make-up, not a single woman in God’s eyes with alkahol’; which the Septtlagint render ‘thou didst dress thine eyes with of over-ornamentation under ordinary Chzdrch would ever have wanted to circumstances. God’s teaching is modesty wear it! stibium’; . . . compare I1 Kings 9: 30; Jer. 4:30.” -the meek and quiet spirit! THINKTHAT OVER! No person can But when Israel and Judah played the dispute that! “Thus Saith the LORD’’ harlot and went after other “lovers” they IF the women of the world never wore are represented, then, as painting the it-IF they frowned on it and considered And so critical examination of the face as a device of harlotry to seduce it bad taste, NO WOMAN IN OR OUT OF original languages shows that ALL these “lovers” into adulterous relationship. THE CHURCH WOULD WEAR IT! Biblical passages, referring to Jezebel; Ir is piit on the face for one or both to whoring Israel and Judah as Aholah Virtuous Women of two general reasons: 1) to be like the and Aholibah; and to Judah, refer to the world around you-to BE CONFORMED same identical PAINTING OF THE FACE But if Gods Word labels these painted TO THIS WORLD, in direct DISOBEDIENCE that is definitely, sFecifically, literally, women of the world as ABOMINATIONS of God’s command; or else 2) “to look condemned as a SIN in Isaiah 3:16-17. and WHORES, ic also gives us descrip- nice,” as women express it, which means, Thus, when these Scriptures are con- tions of righteous, humble and virtuous simply, to CHANGE the appearance so as sidered together, we have FOUR Scr@- women. January, 1963 The GOOD NEWS 13

Gud’s PRINCIPLE is tlrar real beauly righteous intentions, is put to a sINfu1 Scripture approving facial make-up, in comes from WITHIN! Remember, GOD use. the Song of Solomon. She read chapter 3, verse 6, and jumped to the conclu- LOOKS ON THE HEART! Paint on the Modern Slang Shows WHY face wiil NEVER recommend you to God! sion that this pictiired the Rridegroom LISTEN! “Likewise, you wives, be sub. On the other hand, applying paint to putting face powder on his face. missive to your husbands.. . Let not the face changes and falsifies the appear- Now in the first place, what is wrong yours be the outward adorning with ance, DECEIVES those who see it, and zs is falsifying the face, in a manner to braiding of hair, decoration of gold, and ALWAYS pictured in co.nnection with change the appearance as a deception, by wearing of robes, but let it be the hid- HARLOTRY in the Bible! painting. Of course powder could be den person ( INWARD ADORNING) of the Today women in public places are plastered on so thick as to change the heart with the imperishable jewel of a heard excusing themselves thus: “I think appearance of the face, but unless so gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’$ I’ll go into the powder rcom and im- excessively used that it shows, there is sight (but not in the sight of the world prove on Mother Nature.” “Mother Na. no prohibition of a little powder, used is very precious. So once the holy women cure,” of course, in reality is GOD! to dispel an oily or soapy shine on who hoped in God used to adorn them- Or, a common expression among girls the face. selves and were submissive to their hus- today: “Let’s fix our faces!” Or, “Wait I quote from the Lange Commentary: bands.” (I Peter 3:1, 3-5.) till I put on my face, and I’ll be right “The contents place it beyond doubt Ask yourself: Do you want to “look there!” Yes, they KNOW it means putting that ch. 3:6-11 describes a bridal pro- nice” in the sight of GOD, or in the sight on a FALSE face! Sometimes women use cession.” It is not the “bridegroom.” of the ~O~~~-WHICH? the expression “repair my face.” Next, the Hebrew word for “powders” Actually this Scripture does not say These slang expressions in common --“powders of the merchant”-is “abaw- it is wrong to wear proper outward dec- use show where their minds are-and kaw” which means, according to the oration on clothing, or such decoration what is the intent of the heart! Hebrew-English lexicon, aromatic pow- as a necklace, earrings, or a bracelet. It The very words “make-up” mean “not der, very fine powder, dust-like and vol- says these things are not to be the true my real face, but my MADE-UPface.” atile. It is not face powder at all! Tt is ADORNING. A virtuous woman’s To MAKE is to re-CREATE. God says: a vaporizable incense powder. ADORNING comes from within. But “Who art thou that repliest against It is allegorically referring to the certainly it imples that when a woman GOD? Shall the thing formed say to Church coming up to the Marriage with does not radiate from within this spar- Him that formed it, ‘WHY hast thou Christ. Solomon, in this instance, was the kle of righteousness and intelligent spir- made me thus?’” (Rom. 9:20.) Yet type of Christ. Typically it refers also to itual character, but instead uses over- that is what women are replying ancient Israel coming up out of the wil- done showy and gaudy jewelry or other AGAINST GOD when they change and derness to the Old Testament marriage urnameiiration to attract attention, she falsify their faces! that made Israel a nation. is using the wrong kind of adorning. you know the definition of the Do The verse reads: “Who is this that word “cosmetics”? It is from the Greek cometh out of the wilderness like pillars Never Paint Over the Jewel word “kosmos,” is which the Greek word of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and representing THIS WORLD and its ways, Now this Scripture in I Peter 3 is ex- frankincense, with all powders of the which God condemns! pressing a PRINCIPLE, rather than specif- merchant?” Painting the face is condemned and ic details. Actually there are other Scrip- The Critical & Experimental Com- tures showing that it is not wrong, un- labeled SIN in the Bible. It is used ONLY mentary says: “The ‘who is this?’ in der proper conditions, for a woman to in VANITY or desire to be like the Hebrew is feminine, and must refer to world, or to conform to the world, or wear ornaments modestly on her clothes, the Bride riding in the Bridegroom’s or even in her hair, or even to wear ear- to look “prettier” to the world. palanquin. Pillars of smoke: from the rings. These, however, should be modest, NOWHEREdid God tell men or wom- perfumes burned round His bride. Image never gaudy, or over-large, to attract en to cover up, or put paint on, their from Israel.. . marching through the des- undue attention. faces-but He does tell us to put ert with the pillar of smoke by day and The principle is that the REAL clothes on our bodies! Proper and mod- fire by night, and the pillars of smoke BEAUTY IS IN THE HEART, and shines est ornamentation on the clothing that ascending from the altars of incense and out from the INSIDE! If that is there- covers the body is approved in many of atonement: so Jesus Christ’s right- if the woman is meek, modest, humble, Scriptures, and can be done with humil- eousness, atonement, and ever-living then to be dressed becomingly, and even ity of heart and purity of mind. This intercession.” with proper and modest decoration when applies alike to men’s neckties and From the Lange Commentary: “Per- the occasion warrants it, is right and women’s scarves, handkerchiefs, or orna- fumed with myrrh and incense: The proper in God’s sight. This merely puts mental decorations on dresses. bride coming to her wedding or more a becoming and modest outward and GOD’SPRINCIPLE is that we must not particularly her sedan and her DRESS are pleasing setting around the REAL JEWEL, put trust in outward appearance, as op- filled with refreshing perfumes (Prov. which is a humble spirit and contrite posed to meekness of a subdued mind 27 :9),” (where oiiitmeiits and perfumes heart and virtuous character. that is subject to God in everything! are approved). The “powders of the A jeweler does not paint over a dia- merchant” were the source of the per- mond, but he does enhance its pure Objections Examined fumes and the smoke. The 9erfume.r sparkle with appropriate setting! After the article appeared over 7 years were on the DRESS, not the face! But if it is done to show off the per- ago on lipstick, three or four letters Lange explains further that “She came son in a spirit of vanity, then the motive were received from women who did not perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, of heart is rvil, and the very same out- yet fally anderstand, or trying to pre- because myrrh was one of the principle ward decoration, which might be ap- sent Scriptures approving lipstick. ingredients in her HOLY OINTMENT proved when worn from chaste and One woman felt she had found a (Ex. 30:23), and incense was offered 14 The GOOD NEWS January, 1963 constantly on the golden altar before Holding a Job One was a dentist’s assistant. It was the veil.. . and because frankincense is necessary that she look smart! She Another objection voiced by two or the type of prayer offered by Him as stopped wearing all make-up. The den- three women was expressed in the same our priest and offered to Him as God. tist did speak to her about it. She ex- letter, as follows: And she is perfumed with all the pow- plained to him why she had removed it. “I was very much upset by the teach- ders or spices of the merchant because He didn’t know how to answer, so he ing against make-up, since this puts me ail the glories of the ancient ritual are asked his wife what to do. in rather an embarrassing position. I am spiritualized in the Gospel.” “Tell her to keep her make-up at the holding a position.. . that places me office, and put it on after arrival morn- This powder and perfume, then, is constantly before the public. ..It is as ings, and wash it off before leaving in connected with the holy ointments, necessary that I keep smart in appear- che evening,” said the wife. “Her church which, under severe penalty, the PEOPLE ance as it is that I think smart.” people won’t see it on her that way.” were forbidden to have or use. It was Some women are afraid of losing their “I can’t do that,” said this woman firm- cnly for special sacred and holy occa- jobs! sion and use. ly. “GOD would certainly see the make- Yes, lets THINK SMART! How many up on my face, and since I know it is IN NO MANNER does this Scripture MEN do you suppose have come to me wrong, and displeasing to God, I shall 11pp~)~falsifying the face with make-up with precisely the SAME OBJECTION not wear it.” or lipstick! about obeying God on another point- Her employer was silenced by that. Perfume is not condemned in the keeping God’s SABBATH?Scores have Iie never said any more about it. Blble. but good taste decrees that it come to me saying they are SURE they Another wrote me that she was a uid be used mry sparingly. A person will lose their jobs. Wouldn’t it be all ready-to-wear saleslady in a leading de- irnted with strong perfunx simply OK with God for them to just wink partment store. She, too, had to ”look STINKS. and becomes offerisivt. ro ocllcis. rheir eyes at the Sabbath command, so smart.” She, too, had to meet the public. The law of love to neighbm dermnds they wouldn’t lose their jobs? What do She wore no lipstick-used no make-up that IF used, it should be cery lightly you women think? of any kind. Her boss did not fire her- used. Many women cheapen themselve:; Let me tell you their experience. I al- because her sales continued to be the by vulgarly violating this rule. ways say to such men: “DONOT ask your highest in the department, though all bass he will let you off on Saturdays. Next, this woman jumped willingly if the other salesladies wore plenty of Instead go to him and tell him that you to the erroneous conclusion that she had make-up. are sorry if you are forced LU incoiiveii- found lipstick approved in the Song of I say to you women: “GODsees you! ience his operations, but you will not be Solomon 4:1-3. It reads: “Behold, thou Banish both fear and make-up, and able to work any more between Friday art fair, my love.. .thy lips are like a TRUST GOD!” thread of scarlet, and thy speech is sunset and Saturday sunset. Tell him you comely.” would be glad to work Sundays, when it The SPIRIT of the Law is so difficult to get men to work. But But if you read the WHOLE context, Now let’s understand WHY the Scrip- BE FIRM, and just announce that you it becomes most plain that the speaker is tures expounded in this article brand idelring to the NATURAL perfection of WILL NOT be able to work any morc on the use of lipstick or other make-up as the Sabbath. Tell him it is your religion, the “bride”- typical of the Bride of a SIN. and that you feel he is a fair and honest Christ as She shall be presented to HIM, Sin is the transgression of the spiritual as shown in Eph. 5:25-27: “Christ also employer who would not want to inter- LAW. How can that law, summed up in fere with a man’s personal religion, loved the Church, and gave Himself for or the Ten Commandments, cover every it; that He might sanctify and cleanse it persecute him for it.” possible act that is sin? The law does TH FACE-PAINTING I always recommend such men to pray not say “Thou shalt not smoke.” The that He might pre- first, asking God to give them favor in Ten Commandments do not say “Thou the eyes of their employers. sent it to Himself a glorious Church, not shalt not be a drunkard.” They do not Scores of men have felt absolutely hnviiig spot, or wrinkle, or any such say: “It is a SIN for a man to become thing; but that it should be holy, and SURE they would lose their jobs. But, in an effeminate.” without actual experience, nine in ten do not blemish .” But YOUR BIBLE does say: “Be not lose their jobs. They simply FEARED For example, this bride is spoken of deceived: neither. . . effeminate, nor. . . in verse 2 thus: “Thy teeth are like a they would. And the other tenth find drunkards.. . shall inherit the Kingdom hetter ones! flcck of sheep that are even shorn, which of God.” (I Cor. 6:9-10.) These things Sure, God gives us TESTS of FAITH! came up from the washing.” It is refer- do not violate the letter, but the SPIRIT ring to natural, and perfectly-formed, Perhaps some of you women are going of the Law. to have some TESTS OF FAITH! nnd we?z teeth, NOT to artificial or HOW Paul speaks of God, “who also hath altered teeth. It was custom in the days about it-can you TRUST God to make made us able ministers of the new testa- it possible to OBEY Him? That’s part of this was written for the pagan nations ment; not of the letter, but of the spirit: the coTzditions to SALVATION! of the middle-east to file off and sharpen for the letter killeth, but the SPIRIT giv- their teeth in an effort to beautify them. GOD WILL NOT COMPROMISE ONE eth life” (I1 Cor. 3;6). IOTA! But this Bride is pictured as natural: not What is the SPIRIT of the Law? What Rather than compromise with SIN, artificial. is the SPIRIT OF GOD? It is, first of all, Her lips were nuturally “like a thread God sent His own SON to pay the full LOVE! Love is the fulfilling of the law. of scarlet”-not painted! ptlllailyrur us! All the law is fulfilled by one word- IF these Scriptures in Song of Solo- Experience Proves It ! LOVE! mon did mean what this woman errone- Love is SelfLESSness. Love is giving, oiisly assumed, then it would be in direct I happen to know the experiences of and sharing. Love is toward God and contradiction with the other Scriptures a few women who have ceased to use neighbor-AWAY from self. That is its I have already given. make-up on jobs meeting the public. underlying principle of RIGHTEOUSNESS. January, 1Y63 The GOOD NEWS 15

What, then, is the underlying PRIN- I rlioughc [he dominating motivation of can know it?” (Jer. 17:9.) Yes, the CIPLE of SIN! It is the oposite of true his life was GREED. But I learned that it inner intents of the heart often deceilse love. was just plain VANITY! This man worked its owner. Sin is VANII‘Y, first of all. The very and schemed to amass millions to im- TO WHOM does this woman wish to root and core of human nature is VAN- press others-to exalt himself above “look nice”?-to GOD? NO, for to Go;) ITY! Vanity is SELF! Vanity expresses it- others-to put himself in place of GOD. she looks like a painted, artificial PROS- self in many ways, and in different ways Actually he was sick with inferiority. TITUTE! in different people. He devoted a lifetime to money-making, To WHOM do ycu wish to *‘looknice”: Vanity expresses itself in lust, in greed, injuring others, in a vain effort to escape “Well,” the average woman mig’i, in resentment, hatred. his inner sense of inferiority-an effort reply, “to other people.” I used to wonder if Solomon really to “kid himself” out of it. Poor man! Yes, but to zuhat other peoplc? TO was the wisest man who ever lived, after He was most unhappy! the people of GOD? No, because they all, when he said: “Vanity of vanities, Vanity in women may express itself are obedient to God-they have stoppid saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; in many ways, but the most common is using it-they have the miizd of Ck&t ALL is uuniby.” (Eccl. 1:2,) But when the innale de&e to be pretty. One wom- and see you as HE does! I came to understand the nature of van- an who probably would deny that her You see, when we pin it down, the ity, and the many ways in which it ex- iije of make-up is an expression of this woman who wears it “to look nice” is presses itself, I realized that Solomon very VANITY, said that she would rather trying to look nice to THE WORLD!Sht was right, and those words were inspired be pretty than to have “brains and in- is trying to conform to this world-to by GOD! telligence.” be LIKE the world-and God brands thi., as a SIN!-Rcmans 12:2. Yes, “ALL Is Vanity” WHY Women Use Make-up Women do NOT have to be like the Vanity is a sort of unrealized, unde- The very principle of SIN-the SPIRIT world in ways that transgress the spirit fined craving for the ADORATION of of sin-then, is VANITY and its mani- of God’s Law! They do NOT have to other peop!e-an adoration that belongs festations are self-desire, haughtiness, wmr lipstick or other make-up, any to GOD. Vanity springs from an inherent party-spirit, wanting to be like the peo- more than men have to break the Sab- feeling of inferiority, perhaps unrealized, ple of the world around us, wanting to bath! and asserts itself in a natural effort to conform to the world and its customs, Worldliness is conforming to the rise above that unpleasant inferior feel- the desire to be admired, the desire to world in ways that transgress the letter ing elevating the self above others, or by attract the opposite sex, the desire to or the spirit of God’s Law. Wearing by at least desiring to be “well thought make others jealous, the fear of being make-up is worldliness-and THE BIBLE of” others. by thought inferior or out of date or a non- brands worldliness as SIN! This instinctive reaching out for conformist, and, of course, greed, lust, Yes, it is either VANITY, or it is con- adoration violates the first command- selfishness, envy, jealousy, and the thou- forming to the world! It is SIN! ment, by making the SELF another god sand-and-one ways in which this SELF- before-that is, prior to-higher than- And God’s people must put away nature expresses itself. their sins. the true GOD. People do not. of course, stop to Now what is SIN? The expression of CHRIST had to shed His precious analyze this feeling and tendency in the innate, natural SELF, in any or several BLOOD -give His wonderful, perfect LIFE-because many of you women hazJe their natures. Yet, VANITY is in our of these many ways IS SIN! The viola- natures. VANITYis one of those things tion of the letter of any of the Ten been guilty of committing this SIN! the Christian must CRUSH-must keep Commandments is merely the expression That’s the price HE paid to CLEANSE SUBDUED. If any man or woman says, of this natural SELF in one or more of you of this habit! “I am not vain. I have no vanity,” that these many ways. LOVEis the principle of obedience to Your Decision person just doesn’t know himself or the There is so much more that could be nature that was born in him. the LAW. These manifold expressions of VANITY, or SELF, constitute the SPIRIT said on this subject that I could go on It is VANITY that makes people want and on and fill 100 pages! But I think to BELONG-tO be ACCEPTED by a clique, of transgression, or SIN. Remember, a THING is not sin. Lip- this is enough! Every woman who wants group, club. It is the basis of “party that deceitfulness and wickedness re- spirit,” and of competition. One of the stick, of itself, is not sin. Money is not, of itself, evil-but the love of it (which moved from her heart is going to remove fruits of the FLESH (violations of God’s that physical colored dirt from her face, Law), as translated by Moffatt, is party is actually LUST) is a root of all evil! once and for all! .spirit. This is the ingredient in human The use of lipstick in expressing vanity IS SIN! Those yielded to the CHRISTwho paid nature. - the SINFUL ingredient - that or conformity to the world makes people want to be like the people Most women, when asked WHY they such a PRICE for this very c!eansing will of the world around them-to RE CON- use lipstick, will, of course, not confess: need no more. Those not so yielded FORMED to this world. “I use it as an expression of VANITY,” would not repent and let the precious God commands, “be NOT conformed or “I use it to express an urge to be like blood of Christ cleanse them, and their to this world: but be ye transformed by the world.” faces, though I write ten thousand pages! the renewing of your mind” to the will No, most women will say: “I wear it God lays down the LAW. God tells LIS of GOD! (Rom. 12:2.) to look nice”- or “to avoid offense.” WHAT is sin, and He tells us that this VANITYin the male, if the man has They SAY it in words that sound harm- vain use of facial make-up is SIN! ambition, expresses itself often in the less. But GOD KNOWS YOUR HEARTS But God leaves it to YOU to decide desire to appear irnqbortant to other men. better than you do-and HE knows that whether to obey! You are a free moral 1 knew a niultirnillionaire who always the heart of women, as well as men, is agent. That decision is now YOUR RE- managed to get the best of a bargain- “DECEITFUL above all things, and des- SPONSIBILITY!What are yo” going to or else he didn’t do business. At first perately wicked.” And He asks: “Who do with it? 16 The GOOD NEWS January, 1963

ing you on the radio and reading your Finds Baking Hints Helpful Letters to the Editor magazine ‘Die Reine Wahrheit’ a total “To the Culinary Staff: (Contintled from page 2) change has taken place in my mind. Maybe I am one ot the greatest fallen “I enjoy your recipes in The Good Your messages have increased our faith creatures who lives on earth. I know News and am especially grateful for the and have become a guide to the events what kind of a penalty a person can information on bread-making. For the that are working out the plan of God heap upon himself when he is cut off past year I have been making whole- in this elid time.” from God. So there is nothing else ro whcat brcad, using a recipe that I found Man from Freusburg, W. Germany do now but to get back to God, who in Catherine Ellwood’s book, Feel Like is our Father.” a Million. Perhaps you have read it. “1 am a steady listener of your bibli- Man from Weidenhausen, W. Germany Well, at times it came out fairly well; cal lectures. I am especially happy to see then again I would have all kinds of that your talks have a genuinely bibli- “Would you please continue sending trouble with it. I never heard of bread cal foundation and that they also have me “Die Reine Wahrheit.’ Every time falling, but this did, if I wasn’t partic- a genuine historical basis, which corre- I read an issue I find satisfaction in the ularly careful. sponds to the real truth.” clarity and simplicity of your explana- “Several of your hints have been a Missionary from Othfresen, W. Germany tions. It really is a magazine of under- great help; namely, letting the bread standing.” rise just once in the bowl instead of “Today I heard your prograin uiiw Man from Niebull, W. Germany twice as I was doing; covering with a again. I can see very well that your ex- damp cloth, greasing top before baking, planations are correcx. Yes, in about 15 “Your magazine is amazingly well and baking in a hotter oven. My recipe years those who have heard you, those written and very instructive. It is very said 300” for 1 hour and 10 minutes. who are still living, will realize what invigorating to read and meditate on. but I find it does much better at 375” reality is!” Your magazine is the only one which for 45 minutes. (I then turn off the Woman from Pirmasena, W. Germany has given me a true explanation of the oven and leave it for 10 minutes more. Bible. Everything else is stupid hypoc- I usc a metal pan.) . . . Every loaf I make “Please excuse me for not having risy. Having your explanations of things comes out better and we are so glad to written you sooner to thank you for is better than being a clergyman.” have some good bread. your magazine ‘Die Reine Wahrheit.’ Man from Huttwil, Switzerland “One thing I do might be of help to Like many other readers, I have also you. I use oil on my hands to knead the come to the conclusion that your maga- “I would like to thank you very much for your magazine ‘Die Reine Wahr- bread; and, as I knead it for about 10 zine really does contain the plain truth. minutes, I find that it gets enough oil It would be good if all men could find heit.’ I am very happy to see that even my husband, who usually has no burn- without putting any in when I mix up out as soon as possible that what they the bread. Too much oil tends to make are told in the churches is mostly false ing desire to read such literature, is tak- ing an interest in it. When I received it crumbly. and has nothing to do with Christ.” the second magazine from you, he im- “We particularly enjoy the wheat Man from Trier, W. Germany mediately picked it up and said: ‘Very germ crackers. The other day I was out interesting.’ He is interested in politics. of wheat germ and substituted corn “Thank you very much for ‘Die Reine meal and they were very good. I make Wahrheit.’ It is very interesting. One “I am overjoyed to see such explana- tions of the Bible. I havc ncvcr sccn any them to go with soups and chowders. can see more and more clearly how all We don’t buy commercial crackers as the prophecies are being fulfilled in such thing before. May God use your magazine to cause many people to read we don’t know what is in them, except every detail before our very eyes.” for Triscuits occasionally. The home- Young man from E. Germany His Word. It does us good to know that there are men who present the plain made ones are much better. “I appreciated very much receiving truth, free from lies, and who explain “You are doing a wonderful job of the booklet ‘Divorce and Remarriage.’ everything right out of the Bible. It is helping your brethren to have better It applied to me personally. 1 wanted a great blessing from God in this end food to eat. It isn’t easy to cook with something concrete to help me in the time.” whole wheat, oil, etc., when you have been accustomed to cooking differently. miserable situation I am in. Yes, I must Woman from Hamburg, W. Germany concede that the Creator of Heaven and I have been making my own bread for Earth is a righteous Judge. Unfortu- “I am not sure whether you can re- almost 33 years, except for periods of nately, getting married is considered to ceive mail from the East Zone or illness, and have had to learn how to be a light thing today. No one takes whether your literature can reach me cook all over again. So any information into consideration that a marriage is to here. Until now I have not dared to on the subject is welcome. There are be kept holy. As a result of this, great write to you. 1 have been hearing your tricks to using whole wheat, and if we catastrophes are caused. Yes, it is really broadcasts over Radio Luxembourg for don’t know what they are, our cooking a crying shame the depths of despair a about two years. Once you spoke about operations cannot be successful. person can sink into when he is cut off people who always have one fear or an- “Your tip on greasing pans with but- from God’s blessing. The great majority other. This message was a Godsend for ter instead of oil was a big help. That of all people today are living according me. It was the first broadcast I heard. was in The Good News last spring, I to the lust of the flesh. I can vouch for I would like to give you my belated think. I was having an awful time get- that, because I have been around a lot thanks fur it. 1 am wiiting yvu iivw liot ting the bread out of the pail, ubiiig oil, of people in my lifetime. Even today I because I have become more daring bu+ but now have no trouble at all. am in a business where the people are because I have a visitor here from the “Keep up your good work, and thank only interested in fleshly lusts. I must West. He will take the letter with him you for all your efforts.” confess that I myself used to be one of and mail it from over there.” Member from Woodsville, these. But since the time I began hear- Woman from E. Germany New Hampshire