ber, 25e. A Page of Poetry By NATHANIEL KRUM
FAITH
I pray not, Lord, for faith As large as mustard seed, That mountains may no more My heavenward path impede.
But this my simple prayer, I'd have Thee, Lord, fulfil,— Just give me faith and strength To move each day's molehill!
LITTLE SINS
A little sin it seemed, Eve took the fruit And ate, then passed it on to Adam's stainless hand: A little sin, but dire the flood of guilt unstayed To blight and mar the perfect pleasure of God's land.
A little sin, this cutting word I've spoken, I didn't mean it, no, 'twas but a thoughtless joke, But it has torn its way into the heart,— Lord, save me from the thought--that heart has broken!
0 who can know the stinging, endless sorrow That comes from little acts and words like these? Give, God, a mind to sense my sins, though little, And vict'ry o'er them as I meet Thee on my knees.
CHARITY
My love was once political — I gave that I might get, Expecting wealth and praise from man, My crafty course I set.
But now, alt, now, since Christ in me Has wrought a new creation, I give as He has prompted me — Without dissimulation! WORLD LEADERS SAY there are BREAKERS AHEAD
p LOOK TO YOUR CHART AND COMPASS ! By M. N. Campbell, Winnipeg IN December last year Sir George Paish expressed under the Baldwin government specially qualifies the conviction that a complete world breakdown him to speak, expresses his deliberate conviction that would take place within two months. Without a "Europe is moving uneasily, slowly, but certainly, doubt Sir George fully believed what he stated. to a new catastrophe," Mr. Lloyd George asserts His forecast met with a storm of disapproval from emphatically that, "Civilization is doomed within those who feel that it is very dangerous to express this generation to a catastrophe such as the world convictions that reflect doubt about a return of has never known." prosperity and good times. Sir George Paish is an Writing in the Nineteenth Century magazine eminent English authority on finance and in his Francis Gribble remarks, "The historian of the heart he feels despondent over the future, but the future will write that 'sometime in the early part outburst of resentment over this honest expression of the twentieth century, the last and most highly of his views led him to sound a more optimistic note. organized of the world's civilizations deliberately The world is getting desperately weary of these committed suicide.' " "hard" times and longs for a message of cheer and The opinion of Dean Inge is: "We are witness- hopefulness. ing the suicide of a social order, and our descendants Face the Future will marvel at our madness." It would be folly to look for what is unlikely to Going Backward happen. The Lord warns against saying "Peace, peace; when there is no peace." Jer. 6: 14. We While Ferrero says: "We are travelling, step by must face the realities and prepare ourselves for step, back toward paganism." what is on the way. Thoughtful observers of the H. G. Wells has summed up the situation by times have gone on record as to their convictions saying, "Destruction is not threatening civilization; regarding the future. The following quotations are it is happening to civilization before our eyes. The to the point: ship of civilization is not going to sink in five years' Lord Robert Cecil says of this situation, "The time, nor in fifty years. It is sinking NOW." whole world is threatened by economic disaster, ter- Raymond B. Fosdick, lawyer, author and lecturer ribly serious and incredibly imminent. I believe we in New York Times magazine December 27, 1931, are heading straight for one of the greatest disasters declared, "Western civilization has begun to look that has ever come upon mankind." Austen Cham- furtively around, listening behind it for the silent • berlain, whose experience as a Foreign Secretary tread of some dread spectre of destruction."
a Canadian National Steamship en- tering Vancouver Harbor.
FOR SEPTEMBER, 1932 3 Governor Norman of the Bank of England to The above quotations are from men whose judg- Governor Moret of the Bank of France: "Unless ment and mental equilibrium is above question. drastic measures are taken to save it, the capitalistic They are not given to sensational pronouncements. system throughout the civilized world, will be These statements have been forced from them by wrecked within a year. I should like this predic- the terrible trend of events. The word of God tion to be filed for future reference." corroborates the forecasts of the writers quoted Sir Arthur Salter for many years head of the above. It points out that a serious crisis is to arise Economic Section of the League of Nations: "This in the industrial world in the last days. In the is a somber and indeed a terrifying prospect. The fifth chapter of the book of James it is made plain foundations of the system under which we have that a general movement on the part of workmen grown up are threatened. Many of the institutions against those whom they regard as their oppressors which have been the main pillars of our economic will take place resulting in death and destruction and political structure may be destroyed or pro- to the possessors of wealth. "Go to now, ye rich foundly modified." men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and Pouring Oil on the Flames your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and sil- Kirby Page, editor of the World Tomorrow ver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a writes: "At this critical period, when the fires of witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it international fear and hatred are burning furiously, were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the militarists of the various countries are pouring the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers ... oil on the flames by campaigns of military prepared- which is of you kept back by fraud." ness." In Russia this reaction has already taken place. General Smuts: "In the next great war if that Terrible cruelties have been visited upon the rich. is ever allowed to occur science will, like some They have been dispossessed of their belongings and angry outraged deity, go far to destroy mankind those who escaped death went into exile in alien itself.. . . lands. The tide of dissatisfaction among industrial "It will fight with new and unheard of chemical workers is steadily rising in every land. The day weapons. It will cover the fair land and the great of vengeance is not far off. cities with poison and disease germs. It will sat- urate vast areas with a deadly atmosphere. There When the Hungry Break Loose will be no escape not even for the statesmen and A prominent capitalist in a great city when asked the war-makers, and a pall of death will rest over why he did not build himself a palatial mansion in all. And in our time some lunatic will press the the wealthy section of the place replied, "I do not button and the flower of the human race will be want my home to be so conspicuous or so easily trapped and destroyed." (Concluded on page 26)
Attack planes of the 57th Squadron flying in forma- • . tion. Nations are keeping in readiness • for troubles which they fear may come.
CANADIAN WATCHMAN Another product of our Ma- chine Age,— a speed car of the rails.
MACHINES and NEN
THEO. G. WEIS HE problems facing the laboring class today Tare the most perplexing that have ever faced any class of society. The jobless man, conscientiously Utopia, no Burke's Atlanta, or any kind of ideal seeking work, seeing home and property slipping state to advocate. It is our hope, to voice in no • out of his toil worn hands while he walks the many uncertain tones, the warning message of God's sa- miles of street in utter desperation, is a force we cred book, a message penned for just such an hour • do well to study soberly. A system, a civilization as this. "For in those days shall be affliction, such that creates and fosters such a situation is worn and as was not from the beginning of the creation which • will rot of its own weight. We enter upon this God created unto this time, neither shall be." "Now subject of labor and unemployment, mindful of learn a parable of the fig tree; when her branch is the fact that the path we are taking is both perilous yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that and narrow. It is paralleled by the quicksands of summer is near: so ye in like manner, when ye shall idealism and of socialism, in whose depths are see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, buried both the dreams of the philosopher and the even at the doors." Mark 13: 19, 28, 29. cries of the revolutionist. Some miss the laborer's Lessons from the Past path entirely, they see only the smiling acres of Lotus land, where it is always afternoon, always Ancient Israel faced a crisis and went down in it. springtime, always idle pleasure, such are dulled There were a few in that nation, who because they by the opiate of their own contentedness to a degree heeded God's message of warning, escaped the fear- that they possess no perspective of what the future ful siege of the armies of Titus. We may profit years hold in store for our vast Canadian empire. by their error. In the last days of this world's his- We have no castles to build upon the treacherous tory a few will accept God's warning and act ac- sands of socialism, communism or any other kind cordingly, others (the large and indifferent major- of ism. We have no poet's scheme, no Moore's ity) will be overwhelmed by the catastrophes of
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Canada being advertised in British cities, in an effort to keep the machines humming here at home.
disintegration that face this world. The laborer's They are needed today. Let us copy their courage. struggle for his daily bread, the everincreasing rate Let us forgive them for drawing the sword. John of production so mechanized as to lessen the hours A. MacDonald rose in an hour when our national of man-power yet increase the quantity of output unity was facing its Gethsemane. He and his con- are danger signs we do well to heed. temporaries outrode the conflict to victory. In Everyone admits that there is a chronic problem every hour of great national need, God will find of unemployment to be settled. It is a world prob- a leader who will wisely guide the ship of state. • lem in the sense that every country is suffering, In every hour of testing, God has His men who 4 and, it is a Canadian problem in the sense that are tried and true. Canada will have to settle it to the satisfaction of We, who are a part of this great Dominion, need her own people. We are not facing a political to bear in mind the duty we hold toward our God problem, which might be solved by some particular and our land this day, this hour. In the struggles political party whether Conservative, Liberal, Pro- of this generation let us heed the principles of free- gressive, Labor, or United Farmer. We are con- dom and equality that bind us together; let us do cerned over the spirit of our time; the questionings our share toward the solution of our national prob- that are brittling the moral fiber of our most lems; let us not be selfish, but let us live the gospel loyal citizens of the working classes. We shall of Jesus Christ in our own lives, let us help the endeavor to find our solace in the Guide Book of man and his family who by force of circumstances God. have no honest day's task to perform. God pity Stalwart Hearts Needed the man who is denied an honest job. The days of Wolfe and Montcalm still stir our We Must Look Up blood. In those days, when two of the nation's grandest heroes sincerely fought to the death in an From east to west we have built cities where once endeavor to solve satisfactorily the perplexing prob- forests stood. We have transformed a wilderness lem of their time, stalwart hearts were needed. into a nation of activity and industry. We have
6 CANADIAN WATCHMAN equally great stores of natural wealth yet untouched. mechanic who repairs our automobile, the jeweller We, who are heirs of the northland's boundless who times our watch, the expert who overhauls our riches, must tear this pall of depression from our machinery, the printer who prepares our reading vision, must turn our eyes to higher things, and with material, the doctor who examines the heart of our determined faith destroy this dreaded of modern children, the nurse who sits by our bedside, the monsters — unemployment. teacher who advises and admonishes our sons and daughters, the preacher who marries us, the police- Who Is a Laborer? man who keeps us from driving while the light is Before we go farther in our discussion of this red, the judge who tells us just where we are age of machines, of speed, of mass education, and of wrong. No item of modern =life is entirely inde- thousands of unemployed men, let us arrive at a pendent of labor or the laborer. Every paper dol- definition of the term laborer, this will aid us in lar going on its errand of exchange, every silver identifying what class we would call the unfortun- coin swelling the coffers of the nation's banks, every ates of this sudden slump of world ,values. The "iron horse" that hauls our .freight from province standard dictionary reads: a laborer is one who does to province bears the thumb print of the laborer. physical labor or work that requires strength rather Identified with every airplane that skims past the than skill. This you will say is narrow. Perhaps skyline, with every radio broadcast that sends its we should, when attempting to formulate a defini- waves across the boundless ether, with every delicate tion, include the farmer who grows the grain, breeds instrument in the accurate hand of the skilled sur- the sheep, the tailor who cuts the garment, the miner geon, there is somewhere some human being who who digs the coal, the builder who constructs our bears the marks of the furnace, the tool, the effort dwellings, the painter who decorates our homes, the (Continued on page 26)
A display of Canadian manufactured and natural products as shown at the International Exposition at Antwerp.
FOR SEPTEMBER, 1932 7
A Worldwide WARNING •
In Noah's day the Lord warned the world of a coming flood. The world is being warned today of Christ's second coming and the end of the world.
OD says that before the kingdom of righteous- considered in this article. It is found in Revelation G ness and peace is established on this earth, 14:6, 7. the world we know is to be destroyed by fire. The A Message to All the World fire will be as real as were the waters which sub- merged the ancient world in Noah's day. This first message is a repetition of the everlast- ing Gospel of Christ's power to save from sin, and The apostle Peter speaks very explicitly of these -4 fires. He prefaces his warnings with a statement is accompanied by a command to return allegiance that in the last days of the world's history men to the Creator of men. would scoff even at the idea of Jesus Christ ever "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of returning to this earth. Hear what he says: heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto "Be mindful of the words which were spoken be- them that dwell on the earth, and sto every nation, fore by the holy prophets, . . . Knowing this first, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walk- a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him; ing after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the for the hour of His judgment is come: and worship promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and asleep, all things continue as they were from the the fountains of waters." beginning of the creation." The startling, arousing thing about this message Peter continues in his second epistle the third is that it is in the present tense: "The hour of His chapter and the tenth verse: "But the day of the judgment is come." The judgment is no longer Lord will come as a thief in the night ; in the future. The cases are actually being tried. If this which the heavens shall pass away with a great message is sounding now, it means that the judgment noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent is on in heaven. Some cases will have already been heat ; the earth also and the works that are therein decided, and your case and mine may come up for shall be burned up." investigation any day in the immediate future. If this message is already being given, it would be the • Scoffers utmost folly to postpone one day our acceptance of The Scripture describes Noah as "a preacher of Jesus Christ, as our personal Saviour, as our ad- righteousness." There were scoffers in his day. vocate in the High Court of heaven above, and as a He preached by the Spirit of Christ for 120 years, the "Life, the Truth, and the Way" for every while preparing the ark for the safety of such as Christian. would hear his message. Seven persons listened to How apt the symbols are which God uses! When- his warnings, and were saved from the deluge. The ever earthly governments are represented, even the rest of the world mocked and scoffed, and finally best of them, the symbol used is nearly always the went down to destruction. likeness of some cruel and ravenous wild beast. (See Said Jesus, "As the days of Noe (Noah) were, Daniel 7.) But, when the work of God is set so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." forth, an 'angel clad in beauty and girt with power Matt. 24: 37. And, as in the days of Noah, so, is used to symbolize it. before the coming of Jesus Christ "in flaming fire," (2 Thess. 1: 7-8) a warning will be sounded. Un- A Timely Warning 1 der the symbol of angels, "flying in the midst of There is something else to notice about this mes- heaven," three separate messages of warning and sage. It is the same old gospel of Christ's power a mercy are predicted as going to the inhabitants of to save, but a more urgent note is added, because the world. Only the first of these messages will be there is only a little time to get ready for the • 8 CANADIAN WATCHMAN Lord's coming. "Fear God !" the gospel messenger then look up . . . for your redemption draweth cries. Why this note? Because fear of God has nigh." Then after describing the social condi- left the hearts of men. That is why there is so tions, the political distress, and the moral depravity much violence and corruption in the earth. "Wor- which should characterize the days just prior to ship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the His return, He warned: "When ye shall see all sea, and the fountains of waters." The purpose these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." of the commandment most neglected in our day was to call man's mind back to the creative power of Where Are We? • God. "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, Reader, unless you believe that Jesus Christ lied, . . . for in six days the Lord made heaven and you cannot escape the conclusion that "the end of earth, the sea, and all that in them is." A benevo- all things is at hand." The apostle Peter foresaw lent God created us. that the Saviour of men would tarry, and that for "Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour this reason men would scoff at the promise of His of His judgment is come:" no longer future, but return, but he explains the reason why He would present tense! The judgment of those who have tarry. In 2 Peter 3:9 he says: "The Lord is not fallen asleep began eighty-eight long years ago, slack concerning His promise, as some men count when the great time-prophecy of Daniel 8: 14 and slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not will- Daniel 9 came to an end. The great Lisbon earth- ing that any should perish, but that all should come quake of 1755, the inexplicable dark day of May to repentance." When every case has been decided 19, 1780, and the falling stars of November 13, in the judgment hall above, it will be too late to 1833, were signs that Jesus would soon enter the repent. Then the proclamation will go forth: • Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary, and "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he + the "time of the end" would begin. Unquestionably which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that our great High Priest is ministering there today, is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that and the judgment is on. Vindication of the sig- is holy, let him be holy still." • nificance of the phenomena is given by Christ Him- Daniel, the prophet, in vision, received a picture self. (Read all of Matthew 24 and Luke 21.) of the judgment day. Thus he describes it: "I be- Said He, "When these things begin to come to pass, held till the thrones were cast down, and the An-
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Scene at the Eucharistic Conference in Dublin, June, 1932. FOR SEPTEMBER. 1932 9 cient of days did sit, whose garment was white as sin. Our hopeless condition apart from Christ is snow; . . . ten thousand times ten thousand stood brought plainly to view in Jeremiah 2: 22. "Though before Him: the judgment was set, and the books thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much were opened." "And behold, one like the Son of soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Lord God." Pilate took water and washed the Ancient of days, and they brought Him near his hands, declaring "I am free from it." But his before Him." Dan. 7: 9, 10, 13. guilt remained. The blood of Jesus Christ is the Court began in heaven, "And the books were only thing that can blot out the record of your sins opened," says Daniel. There are at least three and mine. Only the power of a resurrected Christ • books in heaven concerned with doings upon this can save you from sinning. earth, for we read of a book of life, and a record Says John in Revelation 20: 12, "And the dead hook, and (in Malachi 3: 16) of a book of remem- were judged out of those things which were written brance, in which is written the names of all who in the book, according to their works." "Behold, regularly meet together to talk over and ponder I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to spiritual things. They may be neither of paper or give every man according as his work shall be." parchment, though as parchments they doubtless ap- Rev. 22: 12. You and I, reader, will be judged peared to Daniel ; but we can know that no inven- out of those things that are recorded in the books tion of man for recording speech or action ap- of heaven. Everything is recorded there. One un- proaches the accuracy and truthfulness of the rec- confessed sin, one transgression of God's law un- ords in those imperishable books of heaven. repented of and unforsaken, will be sufficient to debar us from eternal life. But, "Blessed are they Our Advocate that do His commandments, that they may have • Every secret sin is recorded there, every ungen- right to the tree of life, and may enter in through • erous thought, every transgression of God's Law. the gates into the city." Rev. 22: 14. "He that The future was being opened to the prophet, and overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white rai- He saw that a day of reckoning was part of God's ment; and I will not blot out his name out of the • plan. While he watched, the Advocate came in— book of life, but I will confess His name before ane "like unto the Son of man." In every court My Father, and before His angels." Rev. 3: 5. case there is an advocate. Jesus Christ is ours, and Friend, is your name written there? When the we have reason to be thankful that He was "in Lord reveals His will to you, obey. When He brings all points tempted like as we are." "These things to you some light, walk in it, delight in it. The write I unto you, that ye sin not," wrote John the message of the second angel, found in Revelation beloved. But, "if any man sin, we have an Ad- 14: 8 will be the theme of an article in the next vocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." issue of this magazine. 1 John 2: 1. Daniel saw Jesus going into heaven's court as our Advocate, to plead His shed blood in our be- NATURE PROCLAIMS half. We may be sure He will do the best He THOMAS E. HIRST can for those for whom He saw the pangs of death, Eternal God Thy glory streams but a great deal depends upon ourselves. Every- In every lustered star, thing, in fact, depends on whether or not, after we We see Thine ever-present self In worlds that gleam afar. have confessed our sins, and Jesus has blotted them The suns and moons rotating space out, we open our hearts to His Holy Spirit and are Are each a portrait clear, henceforth led by Him. We have no power in our- Revealing in their silvered light selves to overcome our inherited sinful natures, or Thy presence ever near. to battle against the tide of the world's scorn. But, From leafy glade, each throated song That feathered songsters sing, thank God, there is such a thing as a re-birth. God Are echoes of Thy mighty voice who created the world in six days, can also re- Thy love to us doth bring. create, and the Sabbath is a sign of God's power The rolling clouds that reddened burn, in this respect. Eze. 20: 12. If God is able to When sets our sun each night, Are but the shadow of Thy self take a particular day of the week (the Seventh), Upon Thy ceaseless flight. and make it more holy than all the other days of The seas aspume with mighty waves the week (though there appears to be no difference Thy power doth proclaim, between them) it is a sign that He can sanctify us Each mountain brook, each waterfall and make us holy, though our cases appear as hope- Thy signature and name. The belching flame and lavaed stream less as the cases of criminals already condemned. In Are each Thy passing breath, the light of God's Holy Law we all stand con- The shaking earth, the trembled mount demned, but it is Christ's delight to justify all who Thy footprints Thou hast left. confess and forsake their sin. Rom. 8: 34. Ah, earth and sea, and sky announce Thine omnipresent face, Our Only Hope And all the Universe is filled With Thy beauty and Thy grace. Only Christ can cleanse the heart of sin. Only Christ can bring power into the life to overcome 10 CANADIAN WATCHMAN I have a plant growing in my garden, year after year I
have tried to root it up, not because it was not beautiful but
because I had never taken interest enough in it to find out what it was as a plant. U I have grubbed around it and pulled away at its stem, I but always some tiny rootlet was left in the ground and so year after year it would reappear, a tiny, stunted thing trying
so hard to grow; bravely trying and struggling to fulfill its
appointed mission in life.
This year I allowed it to grow and such a pretty flower
it bore. The foliage was different from any that I had and
altogether I am glad that I spared it.
This little flower of mine grows near a foundation wall and 0 always when I have tried to dig it up some of the roots have found their way under the wall. Thus it was spared. Not be-
cause of my care for it but in spite of it.
Oh! beloved. What an allegory of God's desire to bear fruit in us. By The cares of this world are the hands we use to root up T His beautiful little plant which is growing in the soil of our THOMAS hearts. But thank God, the roots have found sustenance and life in the heart of God on the other side of the walls of our E. HIRST H hearts. I Year after year His plant springs up anew as the twining roots from Christ find a fresh hold in our hearts only to be
pulled out again and again by the surfeiting and cares of
S this world.
This year may we let them grow. He longs to bear fruit
in our souls and to reproduce His likeness in our hearts and
lives.
If we refuse there will come a time when His plant denied E fruition in our lives will no longer seek to grow in such barren soil and we shall be given over to the weeds and tares of life. S Then the thorns and thistles will grow where the Master of Life had intended to have His flowers yield their fragrance
and attract with their beauty.
What shall our choice be? Thorns and thistles of sin, or
flowers and fruit of life?
FOR SEPTEMBER, 1932 11 IS OUR WORLD IN wHy SUCH A PLIGHT? By F. D. Nichol QUESTION mark is on the lips of men in Then there is the steadily mounting total of mur- A every land today. No one feels certain as to ders, kidnapings, robberies, crimes of all kinds, what may happen tomorrow, or even what may crimes that reveal wholesale disregard for the moral happen yet today. And the questions are not born standards either of God or of man. Even the briefest of curiosity, but "Men's hearts failing them for survey of conditions in other lands reveals that the fear, and for looking after those things which are problem of crime is not confined to one country. coming on the earth." Luke 21: 26. There is a Again the question is raised: Why are these things cry arising from an ever-growing host of troubled happening? people, for someone to explain why our world is in We confidently believe that in the Bible is found such a desperate plight. the only explanation of these startling world condi- Millions of families, hungry and destitute, ask, tions. In its pages are divine prophecies that mark Why such a pitiable state of affairs? And well out the important events in world history. These may they ask, for the situation daily grows more prophecies reveal that we are living right now in alarming. In some countries the financial strain the very closing years of earth's history. Those who of unemployment is threatening the very safety of are willing to study these prophecies will come to • the government and breeding riots and revolution. the definite conclusion that we are living very near t Even favored America has now been drawn down to the time when Christ will come again to this into the pit of depression. And the end is not yet, earth. He came once nineteen hundred years ago nor is it even in sight. in response to definite prophecies. The same proph- But the capital and labor problem is only part ets wrote of both advents. They proved true of our present day troubles. Every day's paper then. We are confident they will be proved true brings us news of larger plans for battleships, sub- again. marines, airplanes, poison gases, and every kind of The Prophetic Yardstick device for killing men wholesale. And those same In order that men might have no reason to be papers tell us that the nations have even greater uncertain as to the nearness of the second advent fears and suspicions of each other than they had in of Christ, two different kinds of proof are given the days just before the World War. This mad in the prophecies. First, there are time prophecies race for bigger and deadlier weapons is costing the that measure off the centuries down to our day, nations nearly five billion dollars a year. And to though they do not enable anyone to learn the exact think that this money is being spent for destruction time of Christ's return, for that is not revealed to when millions of men, women and children are man. These great yardsticks of prophecy all point hungry and homeless. Why such a state of affairs? to our day as being the termination of earth's his- tory. Far East Aroused But we can check on this conclusion by a second When we look far out across the Pacific we see line of prophecies. The Bible is filled with brief new, sinister forces stirring themselves. The peo- prophetic pen pictures of conditions that will exist ples of the Far East are aroused. In former years in the world in "the last days." If we are correct we thought it dangerous enough to have the West- in our conclusion from the time-prophecies we should ern nations always poised for conflict. Now we be able to find these pen pictures being acted out have rumblings of war amid the peoples of the before us today. Can we? Let us see. East as well. Why this military fever that has fastened itself upon the erstwhile drowsy yellow Capital and Labor at War peoples? Well may we ask, Why? for the states- The Bible declares that when the "coming of the men of the world look with fear toward Asia, see- Lord draweth nigh" the wealth of the world will ing there the grave danger of a new world war. be so unevenly divided as to call down from heaven a condemnation upon the rich who have "heaped Peace Plans together treasures in the last days." (A.R.V.) De- Never before have the nations given so much clares the prophet: "Go to now, ye rich men, weep study to insuring peace. There has been a whole and howl for your miseries that shall come upon series of peace conferences, including the signing of you. Your riches are corrupted, and your gar- a treaty to outlaw war. And yet to think that ments are motheaten. . . . Behold, the hire of the all this has been going on at the same time that the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which • nations have been spending five billion yearly for is of you kept back by fraud, crieth." Read the • war preparations! Could contradiction be greater? whole passage in James 5, and then ask yourself Small wonder that the question is on everyone's lips, whether it does not give a real meaning to the Why, why? capital and labor problem that so troubles our world. •
12 CANADIAN WATCHMAN The Bible, too, declares that in the last days peace, that some will feel so sure that peace is the nations will lay the greatest plans for war, that, ahead that they will be proclaiming "peace and in fact, the world's history will close with the safety" until the very moment final destruction marshaling of all the nations in a final battle. Wrote breaks. "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; the Revelator: "The nations were angry, and Thy then sudden destruction cometh upon them, . . . and wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they they shall not escape." I Thess. 5: 3. Even so should be judged." Rev. 11: 18. In the book of we find it today. The plans for peace and the plans • Joel we read of how the angry nations follow the for war go on side by side and with an intensity un- command : "Beat your plowshares into swords, and known before. See also Isa. 2: 2-4. This is a your pruning hooks into spears." Joel 3: 10. Cer- prophecy of what "many people," not God, will be tainly we do not have to look far to find that pic- saying in "the last days" concerning peace. God ture being painted before our very eyes. declares that Armageddon, not peace, will end What is more, the Bible definitely names the earth's history. "kings of the East" in describing the final array of Again, the Bible states that in the last days there nations at Armageddon, as though to indicate that will be a state of affairs in society similar to the these powers will play a very prominent part. And condition in ancient Sodom and Gomorrah. "This behold when we look abroad we see the peoples of know also, that in the last days perilous times shall the east suddenly arousing themselves to a fever of come," says the Apostle Paul, who proceeds to give military preparation unknown before. See Rev. a detailed statement of conditions in the world. 16: 12-16. 2 Tim. 3: 1-5. (See also Luke 17: 26-30.) The A Paradox vivid picture of corruption, immorality, and lawless- But the Good Book declares that at the very time ness that the prophets painted with their pens is now the nations are preparing for this last mighty con- being painted in blood before our eyes. (Concluded on page 29) 4 flict there will be sounding forth a great cry for •
• The men who were studying the why of world conditions at the Disarmament Conference at Lausanne, and who made an earnest endeavor to reduce the armaments of the world. In the center is Chancellor Von Papen of Germany, and immediately on his left, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of England, and Prime Minister Edouard Herriot of France. TOR SEPTEMBER, 1932 13 EDITORIAL I A PRAYER GREATEST INSTRU- GIVE ME LONDON, ENGLAND, MENT HE USES SAYS PLEASE! FAMOUS SURGEON You may now ask central to give you Lon- DOCTOR HOWARD A. KELLEY Who iS Well don, Liverpool, or Leeds, and the connection known as a professor, author and surgeon visit- will be made in about the same time as any ed Toronto recently, and when interviewed, gave other long distance call, for we have been the reporter a real shock when he declared that hooked up with the Old Country by an all- he considered "prayer of more importance than British telephone line. Formerly long distance the scalpel." Doctor Kelley is connected with calls for across the sea had to go by way of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and New York City, which meant delay and incon- is one of the outstanding surgeons of the pres- veniences. Now we have a line of our own. ent day. He is a Christian and conducts a What a thrill Alexander Graham Bell would large Bible class in his church. get today if he could carry on a conversation "Prayer is the greatest instrument any sur- with some one across the sea. geon can possess," declared Doctor Kelley. Mother Shipton once prophesied that "Every true doctor, especially a surgeon, should "Thoughts around the world shall fly, in the call in the aid of prayer. I believe in the pri- twinkling of an eye." And the prophet Daniel vate supplication of patient and physician, they in the twelfth chapter and fourth verse of his are both in our Father's hands. A doctor who prophecy told of a remarkable increase of does his work as ever in the great Taskmaster's knowledge just before Christ's return. Miracles eye will be more fastidious of conscience, more follow one another in such quick succession to- painstaking, more faithful. Besides, all healing day, that we pass them by with little notice. is of God." This direct telephone connection between Then the newspaperman asked the great sur- Canada and England will mean much to both geon if he didn't feel that religion choked scien- countries. In any emergency, in the home, in tific vision. "No," the doctor replied, "the business, or in affairs of state, the parties con- true Christian sees God in everything. He can cerned may be gotten together in a few min- never get into God's home by the back door. utes, and may talk as though face to face. It There is a front door, it is the cross. Adam is difficult for us who have had access to most tried getting in by the back door, he didn't of these modern conveniences to realize just make much of it. All scientists are in the wil- what progress has been made in a few years. derness when they try to crowd out God. On It was only a little more than a century ago, to the table was a huge pile of books on science, be exact, on January 8, 1815, that two thousand all written by Dr. Kelley. "Books are a triv- men were killed and wounded in the battle of iality," the great man said. "The Bible is New Orleans, two weeks after the treaty of the only book." And to emphasize the thought Ghent had been signed between the United • that true religion may be interwoven with the States and Great Britain. The only way of duties of every day he said, "we want more carrying messages in that time was by slow- men in all walks of life who are simply chil- moving sailing vessels and the contending gen- dren of God with no professionalism about it." erals knew nothing about the treaty of peace. • How refreshing in this modern time to find And it is very interesting to us that this a man of such faith, a professor, an author, a direct connection should be made with the scientist, a great surgeon, and a humble, sim- Motherland just before the Empire Conference. ple, trusting Christian. And who wouldn't Doubtless the delegates will make frequent use rather trust himself in the hands of such a of this direct line during this important gather- surgeon, than one who is an atheist, an unbe- ing. P. liever? Whether the surgeon believes or not • • • in God as a creator, God does the healing just CHRISTIANITY MAKES A the same. The surgeon has his work to do, DIFFERENCE but only God can heal a wound or restore us RECENTLY bandits attacked the village of to health again. The surgeon can co-operate Panliuchia in China, killed twenty or more in- with the divine power, but without that divine habitants, wounded scores, and carried two • power the doctor would be helpless, no matter hundred captives away with them. In one of how many handles he may have to his name. P. the groups, which had been tied together by
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I .4 r the bandits, was the wife of a mission school conies, in bathing suits, lying for hours on teacher, Mrs. Liu Chin Chung. With her sandy beaches in such attire, and walking baby in her arms she was tied to other unfor- through villages and along highways clad only V tunate captives and hurried away from the vil- in bathing suits." lage. If you have visited a bathing beach this sum- Realizing she could not carry her babe with mer and seen some of the "next-to-nothings" her she gave it to her ten-year-old son who had that are being worn, you will perhaps agree with been running along behind her group, and the archbishop. The bathing suit has been ab- asked him to try to carry his baby sister back breviated on both ends, and then pretty well cut to safety, and to try to get word to her hus- out otherwise, until there is not much left. band. The thing that we wonder at is the psychol- Reaching a village about daybreak, the help- ogy of the wearers. If you should call at a less captives were placed in a large room and home and find a woman arrayed in as little as one by one were taken out and mercilessly she wears on the beach she would be embar- beaten. In this way the captors tried to find rassed beyond words, but on the beach she a out if they had property and to whom they parades before the public with no thought of should apply for a ransom. Mrs. Chung heard immodesty. If the same costume were worn the cries of her fellow captives, and as they on our city streets the individual would, in all returned to the room, saw their bleeding backs. 'probability, be arrested. P. She prayed to God for help. • A A It was nearing Mrs. Chung's turn to be call- WORLD ARMAMENT BILL ed out when a bandit in charge said to her, THE yearly armament bill for the world has "You look different from the others. You are now reached the staggering sum of four billion clean and tidy. You must be wealthy." "No," dollars and more, — a sum it is difficult for replied Mrs. Chung, "it is because I am a us to comprehend. It is interesting to compare Christian. My husband is only a teacher in the amount spent by the great nations in 1913, a mission school, and works for a very small the year before the World War, which was wage." supposed to end all war, and the ill for arma- The bandit asked her to lie down on the floor ments in 1930. Here are the figures in mil- and covered her with a large rug. He then lions of dollars,— conferred with the robbers higher up and se- 9 1930 cured her release. She was allowed to return Great Britain 197111 535 home, and a bandit sent along to show her France 348.7 455.3 the way. She reached her family safe and un- Germany 463.3 170.4 harmed, and supremely happy. Italy 179.1 258.9 Even a hard-hearted bandit could see that Japan 95.5 232.1 0 she was different from the other captives. The Russia 447.7 579.4 Bible and the influences of the Christian re- United States 244.6 727.7 ligion had entered her home, and brought a We are spending more money in war prep- change in her life. Christianity will do the aration today than in any other time in the same for an individual in Canada or any other world's history, and holding more peace con- country. The Christian should be different. ferences too. The statesmen sign a disarma- The gospel cleans us up both inside and out, ment agreement, or peace treaty, and almost and its fruits will be seen in our lives seven before the ink is dry, sign a cheque to buy more days in the week. P. guns, faster airplanes, and bigger battleships. • • • A boy with a sling shot or a rifle is a menace, and nations heavily armed, don't make for BATHING SUITS TOO BRIEF peace. One way to keep the boy out of trouble THE Catholic Church through its archbishop is to take the sling shot from him. Mr. Frank in Quebec, Mgr. Villeneuve, recently issued a B. Kellogg said in an address in Paris in July statement, frowning on the modern bathing of this year, "The way to security and peace is suit. "Bathing suits should be more modest in through disarmament, and the way to disarm, is • design, and bathers more discreet in their con- to disarm." And the only way to get a nation duct," he says. "There is manifest immodesty to disarm is for that nation to get a change of in bathers loafing about hammocks and bal- heart, a change of viewpoint. P. p •
• FOR SEPTEMBER, 1932 15 The Imperial Economic conference I T the stroke of eleven on the morning of the statesmen of the world wait for news telling A July 21, the echo of the booming cannon died what has been accomplished in the deliberations of away, the music of the carillon bells in the peace this conference, which is perhaps, one of the greatest tower was wafted afar by the breeze, stalwart police- ever held. With their ears to the ground, the men on guard closed the doors to the gallery of people of the world wait expectantly for some hope- the House of Commons in the Dominion Parliament ful news from this important gathering. at Ottawa. Motion picture machines whirred, and "There is being written," says one scribe, "in radio announcers began to tell the world about the the capital of Canada, a new Magna Charta. At august assembly. Pencils of the press representa- this second Runnymede are gathered, not armed tives were busy as Lord Bessborough, Governor Gen- barons, demanding from a tyrant, liberty and jus- eral of Canada, delivered the king's message and tice for an island kingdom, but peaceful statesmen, extended greetings to the delegates from abroad. seeking in friendliest co-operation, unity and pros- The Imperial Economic Conference had begun. perity for a world-wide Empire." The World Watching Never before, perhaps, in all the world's history, The eyes of the civilized world turned anxiously have so many able statesmen, representing so much • toward the Canadian capital. Breathlessly, almost, of the world's population, met in an economic con-
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The opening session of the Imperial Economic Conference, in the House of Commons Chambers at Ot- tawa. Five hundred million British subjects are represented in this conference.
16 CANADIAN WATCHMAN At Ottawa
C. L. Paddock
Governor General Bessborough re- ceiving the solute of the troops at the opening of the Conference. H e al s o delivered to the delegates the king's message on this occasion.
ference of this kind. From all parts of the British are thousands of idle men ;—yes, in the larger coun- Empire, " on which the sun never sets," have come tries millions are unemployed. With granaries delegates, representing about 500,000,000 British bulging with grain, children are crying for bread. subjects. From the British Isles, India, Australia, With produce rotting in the fields unharvested, mil- New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia, and New- lions are under-nourished and wanting even the foundland, statesmen and economic experts have simplest foods. The wheels of industry have ceased gathered at Ottawa, and earnestly, seriously they to turn, and the worker is now idle, is restless, an- have been discussing economic problems which af- xious, troubled. Bank vaults are stuffed with gold fect not only the Empire, but all the world. and silver, but never were so many without funds with which to secure the bare necessities of life. Day of Prayer Men who are working have had their wages cut The people of Canada were so concerned about again and again. The farmer raises produce, but this Conference and its outcome, that July 24 was can find no market. The manufacturer has laid set apart as a day of prayer, and from the Atlantic off employees and cut down his production, and to the Pacific there went up to heaven a unanimous still he cannot find buyers for his limited output. petition that God would guide and bless to the This is why these delegates have crossed the good of the Empire and the world. seven seas for a conference in Ottawa. They are The opening scenes of the conference will long hoping, sincerely hoping, to put to productive use • be remembered by those present. All in all it was the wealth now lying idle, to stimulate sales, re- an impressive occasion, with the booming of guns, vive business, confidence, bring back prosperity, lift the brilliant display of uniforms, and the band the clouds overhanging the world, and alleviate playing national airs. Careful preparations had much of the suffering of the millions of unemployed. been made for this eventful day, and Ottawa was The Outcome dressed in gala attire. The many miles of drives As these lines are being written, the conference in the city were never more beautiful, buildings is still in session. By the time you read this, more were decorated with bunting and flags. The re- definite information will be in hand as to what has motest officer in the remotest corner of Ottawa had really been accomplished. Of one thing I am con- every button on his uniform brightly burnished. fident — these delegates are making a sincere effort The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in their to better conditions. As I looked into their faces tunics of scarlet, never looked better than on this and listened to their earnest words, there came a • July day. conviction to my heart that these men and women • Why the Conference? have not come to this conference with selfish mo- In the past two years the trade of the world has tives. They are wrestling with these problems for dropped forty per cent, and in every country there (Continued on page 28)
FOR SEPTEMBER, 1932 17 A Safe Investment
In these days of uncertainty when banks are failing and stock markets declining, many are seeking securities that can be depended upon. Read of the investment our mission- aries are making, an investment in the lives of men and women. Ministering to the sick and afflicted in Eritrea, East Africa.
UPALE, what does that old man want? I handicapped conditions. Not having sufficient band- L mean the one with white hair who is waiting ages, the missionary frequently tears up old clothes at the dispensary." The lady missionary was speak- and bedding in order to supply their needs. Never- ing to a native boy on the mission. theless, in spite of many handicaps, the native patient "This old man is from Kombilu, and he has badly quickly responds to treatment and some of the most burned his hand," came the reply. dreadful sores have been healed. Inquiry was made for the "Bwana" (the teacher), but he was away supervising the making of bricks. Openings in Northern Nigeria So the missionary's wife went to the dispensary ; and There is no way of winning the hearts of the what a sight she saw! Here was an old man who heathen people of Africa more effectively than by could just hobble along. He was so badly maimed means of medical work. When we minister to that a relative living in a village near the mission their physical needs they are much more ready to had to bring him to the dispensary. While he was listen to the words of healing for their souls. sleeping by the fire, his blanket caught alight, with Recently I visited a town in the interior and the consequence that he was severely injured before spent a little over a week there. I did not go to he could extricate himself from the burning blanket. do medical work, but, as is the case with most At the bidding of the missionary, the native boy missionaries when they travel through the country, removed the filthy dressing which was filled with I had a limited supply of cotton, and wool band- vermin : maggots were in the huge sore, and flies ages and disinfectants with me. I soon discovered were already laying their eggs in it. that there was a real need for all the medicine I These bad burns were now treated and clean had. Many people were in great distress owing to bandages replaced the old. "Do not remove these jigger trouble. They were crippled and suffering bandages," the native orderly admonished the patient, agonies, for these little pests had affected them "for if you do the flies will lay their eggs in the very badly. The jiggers burrow into the toes and wound." after a short time they grow large, the toes become J After instructions were passed on for the patient swollen and painful and finally break out into bad, to return to the dispensary every day for treatment, open sores. All kinds of dirt and infection enter 1 the old man was taken back to the village, happy the wounds and the feet become great festering .4 to know that someone could help him out of trouble, sores. Often nails and even the bones decay and • and pleased that someone would take such an in- the toes drop off. terest in a very old man. I soon got to work in this village with what He returned to the dispensary for treatment medicines I had. Kerosene pans were utilized to faithfully, but on three occasions marks of fire were boil water. Government head pans which are used seen on his bandage. He had nearly burned his by the natives for carrying gravel, stones, etc., on hand again. the roads were secured for giving hot foot baths, Such terrible sores which are found among the and soon an active medical work was started right natives of Africa are treated and healed under most in the open street, close to the Chief's house.
EDITOR'S NOTE: We have kept in close touch with many of these self-sacrificing missionaries year after year. If after reading of their work in the accompanying article you feel you would like to have a little part with them and put some of your money where it will bring you sure returns, • send your donation to the Editor of the Watchman, Oshawa, Ontario, and we will be glad to pass it on to the Mission Board, and send you a receipt for your offering.
18 CANADIAN WATCHMAN Natives are usually somewhat skeptical of the Africa is a land where superstition reigns. It European's fuss over cleanliness, hot fomentations, is not the easiest thing here in this country to etc., but soon their doubts gave way as they saw the teach and inculcate these principles of hygiene and wonderful results obtained by the use of compara- cleanliness. The Africans idea of medicine is based • tively simple means. Many of these people who quite largely on superstition ; superstitions which had not been able to sleep day or night for weeks have been handed down from one generation to because of the excruciating pain, soon found relief. another. Remedies for diseases consist of the most • There was quite a crowd of people at the dressing unheard of substances. Here are a few which will p give an idea of the way some of the most common ailments- are- treated by these people. The cure of scrofula consists of a mixture com- posed of cotton seed and a part of a common mouse, which has been well dried. This combination is applied to the sore. Leprosy, a very common dis- ease in this region, is treated by the use of ointment made of cat's blood and butter. Pleurisy and pneu- monia are treated by making various cuts on the patient. The blood which flows from the cuts is taken by the Hakin (doctor) by means of a horn or a piece of reed. Sometimes a more drastic rem- edy is adopted. This means piercing the thorax of the unfortunate patient with a red-hot iron. Sometimes, however, plasters made with mud and excrement are applied to the affected part. Filthiness, parasitic diseases, scant protection of clothing, and syphilis, are the cause of affection in crusty, ulcerous, and gangrenous growths. Hysteria and epilepsy are very common especially among women. The Abyssinians think that contortion in such diseases is due to evil spirits, therefore they whip and stone the affected person, convinced that they are driving away the devil. One can easily imagine the pitiable condition to which these un- fortunate beings are reduced after receiving so many floggings. Sometimes they remain on the ground for several days unable to make even the A native woman at Uganda Mission station, full of slightest movement. wounds and bruises and putrefying sores. Chronic sores are treated with fire or by apply- ing a piece of tin to the affected part, after the station. Within the week I had over a hundred com- latter has been spread with Abyssinian butter, wax, ing twice a day for treatment. Some came assisted by ox-grease, or covered with a piece of monkey's their friends. Others arrived on heavy sticks and flesh. With such superstitious ideas, it is not an crutches. One old Mohammedan Mallam, or teach- easy thing to lead these people to appreciate the er, who was not able to use his leg, for he not only (Continued on page 27) had jiggers in his feet, but also a frightful ulcer on his ankle, shuffled himself along on the ground. I had never seen such a sight before. I had to leave them, but these people will not soon forget the help given. The news of what I had done even reached the ears of one of the most important ruling Emirs in the country and he expressed his thanks and ap- preciation through the district officer. The people themselves are very anxious for us to open up medical work in their midst. They are calling for doctors, nurses and teachers and they are worthy of our help. Here is an opportunity we must not let pass by. The people are ready, not only for medical care, but for the "balm of Gilead" which will bring healing to their sin-sick souls. One of the patients at a busy mission station.
IFOR SEPTEMBER, 1932 19 Your Health
A RECIPE FORA DAY Take a little dash of water cold, And a little leaven of prayer, And a little bit of morning gold, Dissolved in the morning air. Add to your meal some merriment, And a thought for kith and kin, And then, as your prime ingredient, A plenty of work thrown in. And spice it all with the essence of love And a little whiff of play; • Let the wise old Book, and a glance above, Complete the well-made day. 4 —Amos R. Wells.
Beware of HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE S. W. LEISKE, M. D.
HE saying that a man is as old as his arteries take out the elasticity of the arterial wall and the Tis becoming to be recognized more and more. It very life of the soul. Where merriment is the oil is not that we are concerned so much about the of life to the cylinder wall, worry is the sand of changes in the arteries, as to the condition respon- sure destruction. I sible for the arterial change, and the effects that Next to worry comes the question of food. Im- are going to be manifested in other important and proper and overindulgence of food. Most people vital structures, due to the persistent irregularity eat too much. We are too often guilty of irregu- from the normal of the arterial wall. larity about our meals, improper and poor mastica- To find the cause of a blood pressure that is per- tion and hasty eating. High blood pressure is quite sistently or intermittently above the normal level uncommon among people living on a plain, simple we must consider conditions in the body that are diet, but shows a great disposition to people who not in harmony with normal physiology of the body love to eat. tissues and the laws of nature. The use of tea, even though in a moderate way, In general we may state that anything that is is far from beneficial. Then there is a still greater going to throw an extra strain upon the body is offender, the tobacco weed and alcoholic beverages. going to have a direct effect upon the pressure in The French heart specialist, the late Professor Hu- the arterial reservoir and indirectly upon the gen- chard of Paris, attributed the changes which take eral circulation and vital organs of the body. place in the blood vessels to the circulation of poisons in the blood. He made many experiments with Some Causes animals by which he demonstrated that minute If there is one thing above any other that plays a quantities of poisons and various irritating sub- p big role in laying the foundation for a most certain stances when introduced into the blood stream daily, and persistent increase in arterial tension, worry is during long periods, very uniformly caused changes foremost. Worry over a long period of time will in the blood vessel. Infectious diseases flood the
20 CANADIAN WATCHMAN body with poisons which can be eliminated only a degree that the waste products which it is their through the blood stream. The poisons of diphtheria duty to eliminate, are left to accumulate in the and scarlet fever are among the most deadly known. blood. Chronic infection of the teeth, tonsils, gall bladder In many cases high blood pressure is associated and other organs is a common source of bacterial with disease of the arteries, which become hardened, poisons which promote degenerative changes. with thickening of their walls, thus losing their Chronic infection of the prostate gland, of the elasticity and so increasing the work of the heart. uterus and uterine appendages in women, are def- The hardened arteries become narrow and many inite sources of focal infection. The most common, are obliterated, still further adding to the burden though usually neglected source of infection is the of the heart, since the blood pressure must be raised colon, as found in habitual constipation and chronic sufficiently to compensate for the increase in resist- infection of the colon. Boix of Paris showed that ance. The arteries of the heart as well as of other colon poison as well as such common alimentary parts are likely to be damaged and so the heart poisons as mustard, pepper and various spices, cause may suffer not only from an increased burden of hardening of the liver and kidneys as well as gen- work, but from a lessening of its capacity for work eral arteriosclerosis. due to the decrease in blood supply. When the vessels of the brain are the seat of degenerative Associated With Other Diseases changes, apoplexy or a stroke is likely to occur. When high blood pressure begins at an early age, Apoplectic attacks, however, are not confined to. say twenty-five or thirty years, it is usually associated cases in which the blood pressure is unusually high. with diseases of the kidneys, which not infrequently The cause of the rupture of the blood vessels is owes its origin to acute nephritis, occurring as a r not the high blood pressure, but the degenerative • complication of scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid, process by which the tough, elastic tissue of the smallpox or some other infectious disease in child- normal vessel is softened and rendered so fragile hood. The kidneys have been damaged in such a that it is easily ruptured. way that more pressure is needed to force the blood High blood pressure with hardening of the ar- • through them. Unfortunately the kidney disease teries occurs most frequently in persons past fifty is progressive and so the prospect as regards length years of age. It must not be considered, however, of days is most unpromising. The only hope lies a necessary accompaniment of advanced age. The in arresting the kidney disease and by lightening writer has had patients whose arteries were soft yet their load. This is possible in many cases. The were well over eighty years of age, and again other hopeful cases are the early ones, that is, those in patients not out of the thirties with arteries hard- which the kidneys have not been destroyed to such ened that give a feeling of small pipes.
Some Simple Ailments and What to Do By Belle Wood-Comstock, M. D.
TN spite of good care, our children will be sick 4. Rest, sometimes, and may have a cold now and then. 5. Hot applications, often called They will get the flu, or maybe tonsillitis. They fomentations, may get the stomach ache, or a digestive upset. We 6. Cold compresses, can hardly hope that they will not have the measles, 7. Baths, whooping cough, or chicken pox. And when some 8. Enemas. morning they don't want any breakfast, seem dull And that is about all. Every home should have and listless, with heavy breath and coated tongue; a few simple things on hand for treatment; for or some afternoon they lie around with flushed even if the family never need them, they can very cheeks, refusing to play, what are we to do? well be used by the neighbors. Fomentation cloths Perhaps a doctor is not to be had; or if he is, and an enema outfit are among the most important possibly not for several hours. And, anyway, if we for general treatment. For cuts, wounds, etc., knew some simple thing to do, maybe we wouldn't which are never wholly avoided even in the best- need the doctor. All right, what are the simple regulated families, there should be a bottle of tinc- things, and when are they to be done? They are ture of iodine, a jar of boric acid crystals, some few and easily remembered, but are very important: absorbent cotton, gauze, and adhesive tape. Argyrol 1. Absence of food, 10 per cent is a valuable remedy for swabbing a 2. Simplified diet, sore throat or for dropping in inflamed eyes, but 3. Water drinking, it cannot be kept on hand for any length of time,
FOR SEPTEMBER, 1932 21 as it deteriorates. Zinc oxide ointment, calamine skin if necessary by an extra thickness of dry flan- lotion, carbolated vaseline, plain vaseline, camphorat- nel or towel. Leave the fomentation in place three ed oil, alcohol, menthol crystals, eucalyptus oil, un- to five minutes. Repeat two or three times, and guentine, are among the things that it is very con- finish by rubbing the skin with ice-cold water or venient.to find on the shelf for ailments that may a cold wet cloth. The treatment, if effective, leaves need attention in any home. the skin decidedly pink. No matter what the con- Perhaps we can do no better than enumerate the dition is, the above treatment can do no harm, most common ailments, and tell which one of the and in most cases is very helpful. If pain persists above lines of treatment or remedies should be in spite of the treatment, by all means call the used in any particular condition. doctor. Stomach Ache. In stomach ache, or pain in the Vomiting. Treatment same as above, except that abdomen, absence of food is first in importance. a cold compress to the stomach may relieve the Don't make your child eat if his stomach hurts. nausea more than the hot application. Or a com- Let him skip a meal. This abstinence may be the bination of both may be good. For example, the only treatment needed. Don't even suggest water hot fomentation to the abdomen, with a smaller drinking to him. Next think of an enema — a cold compress or ice bag at the pit of the stomach; pint or more of water injected slowly into the or a hot fomentation for three minutes, followed bowel. This should be warm (about 100°), and by a cold compress for a half minute or longer; or may have a little salt in it, a teaspoonful to a a fomentation across the small of the back with a pint. This may be the only treatment necessary, cold compress over the stomach; or a cold compress and is often very effective, especially in connection to the throat, with or without the fomentation to with abstinence from food. Sometimes a flaxseed the abdomen. enema is better than a plain water enema. This If the vomiting is due simply to indigestion, omit- is especially true if there is pain in the abdomen, ting food for a meal or two, with perhaps an enema, or if the water does not return easily after the may be quite sufficient. Vomiting that persists at enema. The flaxseed enema is made by adding two all in spite of the above treatment should be an in- 4 or three tablespoonfuls of whole flaxseed to a quart dication for calling the doctor. or more of water, allowing it to cook slowly for Diarrhea. The important treatment for this a few minutes or until it gets slimy, then straining condition is a very warm enema, even as hot as off the seeds and using the slimy liquid. If the 105°. It may be well to add a teaspoonful of salt solution is too thick, enough water should be added to every pint of water used in the enema. The so that it will run easily through the enema tube. flaxseed enema as suggested above is a very good Such an enema should be taken warm. treatment for diarrhea. Diarrhea is practically al- Fomentations. Fomentation cloths are made of ways due to irritation of some kind in the bowel, and blanket material, preferably, but not necessarily, the soothing action of the flaxseed solution is very part wool. Each fomentation cloth is from two helpful. Remember that an enema is given, not to three feet wide by three or three and a half feet only to make the bowels move, but quite as often long. There should be three or four of these. A as a treatment applied to the bowel mucous mem- single half-wool blanket, cut in four or six equal brane. The indication for an enema may be just as parts, makes very good fomentation cloths. Fold great in diarrhea as it is in constipation. For a one of these lengthwise, dip into boiling water, keep- meal or two, it is well to omit solid food entirely, ing enough dry at the ends for handles; wring by and to avoid drinking cold water. One to two twisting and pulling. Shake out, wrap in dry glasses of boiled milk may be given every two to fomentation cloth, and apply to abdomen. Protect four hours. Cream rice gruel is very good for this
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Simple treatments for many of the common ailments may be given in your own home. Another valuable article will appear on this subject in our next issue.
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•• • 22 CANADIAN WATCHMAN condition, also a gruel made from browned flour. usually more or less chronic. If your child is con- To make the browned-flour gruel, heat the milk stipated, he is probably not eating enough fruit, or and stir in the flour, which has been smoothed in a in its absence, enough raw vegetables. His fruit, small amount of milk, as you would make a milk both raw and cooked, should be increased at break- gravy. In this way either a gruel or a porridge fast and supper or lunch, and if possible a drink may be made, according to the quantity of flour or two of fruit juice should be given between meals. used. Other simple foods, such as baked potato Orange juice taken regularly is a very good medi- and cream puree soups, crisp dry toast or milk cine for sluggish bowels. Free water drinking should be encouraged. Coarse breads and cereals, • toast, may be added soon. If diarrhea is a compli- ■ and vegetables both raw and cooked, favor bowel cation of a cold or other infectious process, the activity. Honey, dates, prunes, figs, and raisins addition of orange juice to the diet may be a def- should be used freely; but butter and the free fats inite help. This may be alternated with boiled should be used sparingly. milk or gruels. Fomentations to the abdomen are On the normal feeding program as outlined in indicated in diarrhea, and are often a great help. our previous articles, few children will be troubled If the diarrhea is severe, or if it persists after treat- with a constipation that cannot easily be corrected ment, a doctor should be called. by the addition of more fruit and fruit juices to Constipation. This is a common condition, and the diet. Laxatives should not be given.
HEALTH QUESTIONS ANSWERED For Subscribers by competent physicians without charge
Coffee. Ques.—Is there any brand of coffee or some other nerve irritant, which you do well to from which all the caffeine is removed? leave alone. Good doctors never use a great mix- Ans.—We know of no brand of decaffeined coffee ture of drugs such as these. If the patient needs that claims the entire removal of the caffeine. At potassium iodide, he gives it, but does not give it best the user still gets caffeine, even though it be in a "shotgun" prescription. in small amount. The harmful results, physically, No drugs rid the blood of impurities. The best are in proportion. Dr. W. A. Evans, health com- blood purifiers are pure water and clean, wholesome missioner of Chicago, says: "Coffee is a drug. Those food. who are addicted to its use are drug addicts. The Cod-liver oil is excellent when one lives in a place people of the United States are among the largest lacking sunshine. It is almost necessary for all users of coffee of all the peoples of the world. Its babies in a northern climate in winter, and perhaps use is on the increase. From the standpoint of even in summer, unless you can have ultra-violet public hygiene the coffee question is worth while. ray treatment. But if you need cod-liver oil, just It is much the most widespread form of drug ad- use it as it comes, and not in one of these tonic diction. Some people are certain that coffee is of mixtures, which only add to the expense of the medi- service to them; some are equally certain that it cine, without doing any real good. harms them. The largest number enjoy their cup Port wine is a "tonic," but let it alone. So are of coffee, and they care not at all whether it harms whisky and rum. In fact, so much of a tonic are them." Caffeine in any form or amount is a drug, they that soon a man can't get along without them. not a food. Its use for persons of normal health is Nux vomica "peps" one up; but it acts like a discouraged by the best medical authority. The whip, and forces the body to use up its own strength, list of ailments in which its use is forbidden is a leaving a man worse off and needing a larger dose long one. Very few people are well enough to the next time. You do not need and should avoid drink coffee without question. From the standpoint any drug that speeds up the heart. I can only of abstaining from that which is harmful, total warn you against using any of these deceptive abstinence is the only safe course. things. They may make you feel good, but so does whisky. Tonics. Ques.—Please enlighten me about these Goitre. Ques.—Could you please advise me as tonics: Sarsaparilla, Burdoc Compound (containing to the best treatment for goitre? some twenty or more ingredients), and Extract of Ans.—For a simple goitre you should rub into Cod Liver Oil Tonic (containing port wine, pure the swelling red iodide of mercury ointment. This extract of malt, and other ingredients). • is best done before an open fire or in hot sunshine. Ans.—These preparations are fine as a tonic to You should also see that your drinking water is the purse of the man who sells them. The only pure. It is, however, not really wise to treat this preparations which have "tonic" properties are those condition yourself, and we advise you to see your which contain strychnine or nux vomica or alcohol doctor. • FOR SEPTEMBER, 1932 23 11.1111.1.11111.111111
TIE H M EE f a "Sonny Boy"
AM saying this to you as you lie asleep, one "Then it began all over again in the late after- g little paw crumpled under your cheek and the noon. As I came up the hill road I spied you, blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. down on your knees playing marbles. There were I have stolen into your room alone. Just a few holes in your stockings. I htimiliated you before minutes ago, as I sat reading my paper in the library, your boy friends by making you march ahead of a hot, stifling wave of remorse swept over me. I me back to the house. Stockings were expensive— could not resist it, and guiltily I came to your bed- and if you had to buy them you would be more care- side. ful! Imagine that, son, from a father! It was "These are the things I was thinking, son : I had such silly, stupid logic. been cross to you. I scolded you as you were dress- "Do you remember, later when I was reading ing for school because you gave your face merely in" the library, how you came in, softly, timidly, a dab with a towel. I took you to task for not with a sort of hurt, hunted look in your eyes? When cleaning your shoes. I called out angrily when I I glanced up over my paper, impatient at the in- 4 found you had thrown some of your things on the terruption you hesitated at the door. 'What is floor. it you want?' I snapped. "At breakfast I found fault, too. You spilled "You said nothing, but ran across in one tem- things. You gulped down your food. You put pestuous plunge, and threw your arms around my your elbows on the table. You spread butter too neck and kissed me again and again, and your small thick on your bread. And as you started off to arms tightened with an affection that God has set play and I made for my train, you turned and waved blooming in your heart and which even neglect a little hand and called 'Good-bye Daddy!' and I could not wither. And then you were gone, pat- frowned, and said in reply 'Hold your shoulders tering up the stairs. back.' "Well son, it was shortly afterwards that my paper slipped from my hands and a terrible sicken- ing fear came over me. Suddenly I saw myself as I really was, in all my horrible selfishness, and I felt sick at heart. 'What has habit been doing to me?' The habit of complaining, of finding fault, or reprimanding — all of these were my rewards to you for being a boy. It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected so much of youth. It was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years. "And here was so much that was good, and fine and true in your character. You did not deserve my treatment of you, son. Your little heart was as big as the dawn itself over the wide hills. All this was shown by your spontaneous impulse to rush in and kiss me good-night. Nothing else matters tonight son, I have come to your bedside in the darkness, and I have knelt there choking with emo- tion, and so ashamed. "It is a feeble atonement; I know you would not understand these things if I told them to you during your waking hours, yet I must say what I am saying. I must burn sacrificial fires alone, here in your bedroom, and make free confession. And I have prayed God to strengthen me in my (Concluded on page 26)
24 CANADIAN WATCHMAN Alone with my dreams mother darling, Tonight I am thinking of you, While shadows of twilight are falling, And grey mists steal over the blue. While others around me are talking ■ And joining in laughter so gay, My heart from their revelry stealing Is missing someone far away.
Through eighteen short years I go backward As beautiful memories unfold, But ever and always they center Round one with a heart of pure gold; That heart with true love overflowing The pure love that never can die Was gladdened by smiles from her cherub, Or throbbed at the sound of a cry.
You led my first faltering footsteps In life's long, mysterious way, By thee in the eventide kneeling You patiently taught me to pray— Your love I received scarcely knowing The fathomless depths whence it came, TO But even in Babyhood realized The power in Mother's dear name. THE Through wandering, blundering childhood, I journeyed with never a fear, For Mother forgave and encouraged, PAL OF And wiped away each falling tear. My vain childish pranks often pained you, A sadness I saw in your eye, MY HEART But never a harsh word was spoken, You made me wish harder to try. You told me that character, only, Will stand though all else pass away. Then schooldays came on with their lessons, And often before "time for bed," Though weary beyond words' expressing Inspired by that vision you showed me, Through long knotty problems, you led The vision of hope held for me, My tangled thoughts, till lessons ended, The hope that to standards more lofty I sank into weary repose, Than any around that I see, While you with your work all before you, I strive, and though in my striving Still wrestled worse problems than those. I fall far too short of my goal Yet ever in Jesus is power To help the sincere seeking soul. Yet never the least note of sadness, Discouragement ne'er crossed your lips Alone and unaided you struggled, To you, Mother Mine, I can never Love-filled to your slim fingertips. Tell what you have meant in my life, None other could e'er have accomplished, Your face so angelic and tender The work you set to with a will, Takes 'way all the thoughts of life's strife. With none to encourage or help you When saddened and even down-hearted Your heart just kept singing on still. I think of the trust that you hold In me, and my life is made better While cares are away from me rolled. With girlhood came new joys and sorrows, New problems began to arise, But e'er with the same helpful spirit, So here's to my Mother forever, You pointed my soul to the skies: Not long in life's pathway I've trod, You told of the ideal the Saviour, But you've led my feet in the right way, Is holding for me day by day, You pointed my, soul up to God.
FOR SEPTEMBER, 1932 25 "SONNY BOY" inition in its widest sense must include every human (Concluded from page 24') being who exercises his faculties, be they those of new resolve. Tomorrow I will be a real Daddy! muscle and brawn or those of intellect and will, for I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer the development of the human race and for our and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue social prosperity. when impatient words come. I will keep saying as Every Canadian a Laborer if it were a ritual — 'He is nothing but a boy — 4 a little boy!' In a sense every Canadian belongs to the laboring "I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet class. In a narrower sense our definition concerns itself with that portion of our broadly defined lab- as I see you now, son, crumpled and weary in your EP cot, I see that you are still a baby. Yesterday you oring class who work in the mines, the forests, the were in your mother's arms, your head on her mills, the factories, the shops, the farmer's field, or shoulder. I have asked too much, too much. wherever it be, for a daily or hourly wage and "Dear boy! Dear little son! A penitent kneels whose life and the lives of whose family depend at your infant shrine, here in the moonlight, I kiss entirely upon these earning. This class with the the little fingers and the damp forehead." farmers form the vast majority of our total popu- lation. It is this class, the wage earners, that most • • • readily feels the pressure of a panic, that is most BREAKERS AHEAD frequently exploited in an unmerciful fashion. (Concluded from page 4) Space does not permit us to enter into the history found when the hungry fellows break loose." of the labor movements of centuries past. It will That the "hungry fellows" will break loose and be of value to reflect for a moment upon the im- • destroy the fruits of our civilization is the fear of mediate problem. This problem came into existence thinking men. A spirit of fear has permeated soci- within the lifetime of this generation, side by side ety. This was foretold by the Saviour when out- with mass production. The struggle to overcome the ravages of tuberculosis has exacted the toll of 4 lining the signs that would precede His second 4 coming, "And there shall be signs in the sun, and the centuries. The effort to throttle bigotry has in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth not been completed, though decades have passed. distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and Only fifteen years have elapsed, and we are begin- waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear ning to bend every thought to harness and control and for looking after those things which are coming this Frankenstein of the machine age — mass pr"- on the earth." The prophet Daniel writing of the duction. If we do it soon, and do it well, it will same period, the time when Michael (Christ) would . be one of the greatest achievements of our age. "stand up" to bring the affairs of this earth to a Where Tragedy Enters close, wrote, "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great Prince which standeth for the children Small-eyed pessimists frequently remind us of the of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, golden yesterdays. Nothing is farther from the such as never was since there was a nation even to truth. Today's achievements out-golden_ the most that same time: and at that time thy people shall golden of golden yesterdays. We have it upon the be delivered, every one that shall be found written word of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics that in in the book." Dan. 12: 1. the thirty years between 1900 and 1930 our popu- The thing that should engage our thoughts at lation increased from 5,371,313 to about ten mil- this time is not a possible return of good times lion, our farm products from $364,000,000 to $1,- when we may plunge again into money making or 240,000,000; our railroad mileage by the tens of • the pursuit of pleasure but how we may prepare thousands, to say nothing about busses and air- ourselves for the second coming of our Lord. That planes. We have more homes, more tilled acreage, event is imminent. The things of this world are more electric power plants, more and better roads, soon to pass away. Sin is eating up the earth and the volume output of our factories, mines and mills its children. Our security is found in full obedi- has increased tremendously. All this is cheerful ence to God. Those who are spoken of as ready enough, where the tragedy enters the picture is in for Christ's return are described thus "Here is the the fact that unemployment increases with mass pro- patience of the saints: here are they that keep the duction, and at an alarming rate. In our ten mil- commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." lion population are 200,000 jobless men. Here are Rev. 14: 12. some figures from the bureau of statistics. In 1900, • • • 339,000 persons were working in Canadian factories, they earned $113,000,000 in wages, and produced MACHINES AND MEN $481,000,000 worth of goods. In 1930, 650,000 per- (Continued from page 7) sons worked for $755,000,000 and produced $4,000,- of producing. There is another type of laborer, 000,000 worth of goods. A simple process of arith- other than the man who drains the swamps, dams metic reveals an increase of 731.6 per cent in the the streams, fells the trees, repairs the rails, quarries product, a 246 per cent increase in wages, a 77 per the marble; the Edison that invents the tungsten, cent increase in workers and a 71 per cent increase the Pasteur who looks into the test tube. Our def- in factories. It does not take much capacity to 26 CANADIAN WATCHMAN comprehend the facts in these figures. Unemploy- We shall strive to make better machinery. But we ment increases on a parallel scale with production. shall not pile up our productions in one season and "While it is commendable to see wages almost triple, then remain idle the other season. We shall nor- you find that the number of factories has not greatly malize the market, and save such a large number increased, but the total value of profit from the of our citizens the penalty of mass production, un- product has soared to the blue. Who pockets all employment, and its attendant penalty of morbid this profit? Certainly not the laborer! Certainly thoughts of discontent. This is a problem pertinent it counts on our per capita wealth, but it stands to this generation and must be settled not by Con- on the credit books of the few. Let us remember, servative or by Liberal, but by every honest citizen C. in spite of the marvels of our century of luxuries, despite his political creed. Let us lift up our hearts all is not so rosy. to God who gave us this country, filled to over- English history tells us the story of Jenny Lind, flowing with its abundant harvests of wheat, with who so vehemently protested against the innovation wealth of forests of timber, with mountains bursting of the mechanical loom that she threw her milk stool with untouched stores of minerals. Let us pray at the preacher who was praising it. Only a nar- God that we prove ourselves a country of courageous row person would advance the theory that we should men and women, indefatigable workers, peerless destroy our mass production machinery in order to thinkers, and honorable, obedient citizens. The make year-round work for all. It is only an un- master once said, "Call the laborers, and give them trained and cowardly mind which would disparage their hire, beginning from the last unto the first." our high-powered tools, our better arrangements of "And when they had received it, they murmured materials, and our more efficient managements. against the good man of the house." "But he an- swered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee Two Fundamental Laws no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a Every Canadian citizen recognizes two funda- penny? 'Ake that thine is, and go thy way: I mental laws; first the law of self-preservation which will give unto this last, even as unto thee." Matt. the Creator of life has so impressed upon every in- 20:8, 11, 13, 14. It does the Master's parable no dividual that it stands above every other law ; sec- injustice to read in it, aside from the great spiritual ond, the law of nature and of health — if a man lesson of equality before the eyes of an Almighty would live he must work. As citizens of this Dom- God, also the lesson of fair wages to the wage- inion we dare not forget the absolute necessity of earner. Let us pay what is right. Let us be con- these two laws. Upon them rests the bread, the 'erned over this matter of a just and living wage. butter, the shelter, the clothing, the health, and In this age the man and his family need be our the moral fiber of every adult man and woman of concern, not how much work we can get out of responsibility. Obedience to these laws will repel him by tying him to a machine by a chain of cir- idleness and its attendant miseries of poverty, star- cumstances. Let us see to it that the hands that vation, and nakedness. direct the modern Goliaths of industry do not work Briefly then if the individual has the inalienable themselves out of a job and become an added burden right to preserve his life, if citizens who are social in our already complex situation. beings must live under the just laws and regula- tions of a government which they themselves have • • • formed, and which exists for the majority and not for the few, then in turn the government must pro- A SAFE INVESTMENT vide (or see to it that provision is made), labor in (Continued from page 19) order that these citizens may live. This does not mean that the government should own factories, fact that man was created in the image of God. mills, farms, and mines. It does not mean that Nevertheless, miracles are taking place. The gos- some form of socialism must be set up. It means pel is gathering God's people from every nation, nothing so unfair to individual activity and produc- kindred, tongue and people. In this country, dur- tivity. It does mean, however, that the rights of ing the past three years, many souls have accepted the state and the rights of the individual shall al- Christ and are giving up every vice and false belief. ways stand above the rights of industrial and com- Our Opportunity mercial groups. It means guarding the rights of the individual against the exploiting greed of a The day of the harvest has come. Pathetic ap- selfish few. It means reducing abnormally high peals reach us from all parts asking for help. They profits and giving the under-dog room to appreciate say, "We need light, truth and life. We are sur- the work he is doing. rounded by false light. Send us missionaries! Teach It is only the fool who refuses to humble himself us the right way that leads to welfare and to ever- when he learns of his past mistakes. We must lasting life. Let us know the true God! Our souls, • learn to pay the wage earner a salary on which he as well as our bodies, which are full of disease as 4 can live. Now is the time, it is better to correct a result of sin, gnaws our very being and we need an error ourselves before some calamity of internal healing." strife forces the decision upon us. We shall retain How shall we answer these many appeals? How r our powered machinery and our productive tools. can we go and meet these souls that thirst after • FOR SEPTEMBER, 1932 27 truth and need our help? How shall we alleviate that the deliberations at Ottawa may be "Con- the pains of these creatures who are God's chil- ducive to the peace, and stability, not only of the dren? They suffer horribly; disease afflicts and British Commonwealth itself, but of the world at consumes them slowly, destroying both body and large." soul. Friends, don't remain deaf to these desperate These Conditions Foretold pitiable cries of suffering. Let your hearts be The unsettled conditions in our world today were a touched by the sweet voice of love; let not your foretold by prophets of God centuries ago. From hearts remain unmoved but let your hands be the earliest days of Christianity, Christians have quick to grant assistance. The Lord will bestow on looked forward to the second coming of Christ t • you abundant grace and souls who are now in dark- our world, as promised by the Saviour in John 14: ness will have cause to bless your name. 1-3. "Let not your heart be troubled :" He said to • • • His disciples, just before His return to heaven, "ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's THE IMPERIAL ECONOMIC house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would CONFERENCE have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And (Continued from page 17) if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come the good of the world. Every delegation seems again, and receive you unto myself ; that where I bent on overcoming obstacles and making the most am, there ye may be also." of every mutual benefit. One could feel the spirit Naturally the followers of the Saviour wondered of optimism and hope which pervaded the parlia- when He might fulfill this promise, and at one ment buildings. time they asked Him some of the signs which would precede His coming. He told them that just pre- If the Conference Fails • vious to His coming there would be wars, famines, The importance which men of the world attach pestilences and earthquakes. "Men's hearts failing to the conference may best be express!d by their them for fear, and for looking after those things own words. Rt. Hon. Viscount Elibank, D.L., which are coming on the earth." Never was there Chairman of the Federation of the Chambers of such concern in the minds of men as to the future, Commerce of the Empire, says, "If this conference as there is today. This concern has brought these is not successful, it might well mean the disin- statesmen to Ottawa for conference. tegration of the Empire. It might even mean world In the fifth chapter of James the Lord foretold a disintegration, because in these troublous times, so struggle between capital and labor just previous much depends on the Empire giving the lead to to His coming. Rich men would weep and howl the world in trade and financial matters. We can for the miseries which they brought upon them- contemplate neither, the one nor the other without selves by the oppression of the poor. James tells dismay." of a great heaping together of riches, and of the "The Ottawa Conference must succeed," says oppression of the laborer. Read this chapter and Canadian High Commissioner Ferguson, "for the see how perfectly the description fits our day. And alternatives to success are impossible to contem- after painting this picture of extravagance and lux- plate." Sir John A. R. Marriott, feels that "The ury by the rich, and want and misery among the welfare of the world is at stake." Sensing the poor, the Lord says, "Be ye also patient, . . . for solemn responsibility resting upon them, the leading the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." delegates assembled in a Memorial Chamber of the Read another description of our time by an in- parliament buildings, just preceding the conference, spired writer: "This know also, that in the last and with bowed heads, stood reverently, while Mr. days perilous times shall come. For men shall be Baldwin, words of classic .simplicity invoked "In lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, God's blessing on the pending deliberations." Is blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, un- it any wonder that the eyes of the world are turned holy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false on the conference, expecting that from it may come accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that a bread and clothing? are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of The Rest of the World pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form The United States and other countries not within of godliness, but denying the power thereof." 2 Tim- the British Empire circle are worried of course, othy 3: 1-5. fearing that the family agreements entered into by Our day is a day of peace conferences, councils the 500,000,000 people of the Empire may bring on disarmament, and an effort to bring about world even greater hardships to those not in the family. peace. The great movements for world peace were To such the words of the Prince of Wales will foretold by Isaiah the prophet in the book bearing be an encouragement, "It is of the utmost import- his name, in the second chapter and the first five ance in our own interests that, so far from taking verses. In verse two the prophet emphasized that this great clamoring for peace will take place in any steps that might discourage foreign countries, • we should make every effort at Ottawa to put heart "the last days." into the world, and concert measures in which other And in 1 Thessalonians the fifth chapter we read, countries may later co-operate." And Right Hon- "But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have orable J. Ramsay MacDonald expresses the hope no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know • 28 CANADIAN WATCHMAN perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a of mind has resulted pretty largely from the fact thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace that sin and immortal hope are relegated to the and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon background of life. them." No man knows the time of the Lord's com- The fact that a sinful act has its influence on ing, but we have every evidence that it is near. the sinner seems to be forgotten. If a man can As the Lord warned the world of an approaching "get by" with it, he is so much ahead. If he can- flood, so today by unusual happenings and unpre- not — well, it's just too bad. Infringement of cedented conditions He is seeking to turn our at- the eternal law of life, of God, is not looked upon tention to the fact that He is coming back to the as anything more than an unfortunate mistake to be • P earth and that we should live day by day that we avoided in the future, unless one can learn better may be ready for that great event. how to protect one's self and get the advantage Without a doubt the Imperial Conference will without having to pay too greatly in physical or bring many benefits to the world, but it cannot be mental discomfort. expected that all the wrongs of the past eighteen That there is a just God to whose sense of years may be set right in three weeks. And while rightness sin is forever repugnant, and that no sin- we admire these statesmen for their worthy en- ner may ever approach God or know Him is quite deavors, there are fundamental conditions over outside the thinking of men today.—The Congre- which they have no control, conditions which are gationalist. found in the heart of man. Sin and selfishness are • • • there, and their fruits are daily manifest. The HOW SCOTS DO IT Lord's plan is that He will return to this earth, wipe out sin and its results, and restore the earth ONE of the first things that strikes a visitor to to its original, sinless Edenic condition. While the the British Isles is the universal respect for law. There's a reason. world outlook shay not be the most encouraging, we should be thankful for the Christian's hope — That reason, we think, is illustrated pretty well the Lord is coming hack again to reward every man in the subjoined paragraph, taken from the Scots- man: "according as his work shall be." • • • Sheriff Laing, at the close of a two days' trial in Aberdeen, on January 8, imposed fines of $250 each, . WHY IS OUR WORLD IN SUCH or a total of $500, on William Robertson Bruce, A PLIGHT? fish merchant, 421 Great Western Road, Aberdeen, (Concluded from page 13) on his conviction of having recklessly driven a motor In every instance where the Bible describes some car when so much under the influence of liquor as world condition as belonging to the last days, we not to have proper control of the car, the result find that condition existing today. The day of being that a butcher lad on a push bicycle was God's mercy and probation for man is fast draw- knocked down on Christmas Eve and was so seri- ing to a close, and as the Divine Spirit is being ously injured that he lay in a critical condition in withdrawn from the earth the spirit of the evil Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for several days. The one takes increasing possession of men, and thus the Sheriff also suspended the accused's driving license troubles of our sin-sick world grow rapidly worse. for seven years. This is no time to scoff at the Bible. Rather is A few fines of this character, with suspension of it a time to study the sacred pages. Within that licenses for a few years instead of a few weeks, would soon end reckless driving in this country.— Book is found not only the explanation for these Ottawa Journal. troublous times, but a way of escape out of them. • • • "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." 2 Cor. 6: 2. THE BIBLE AND THE DEPRESSION Bible is not a book of political maxims or Reader: Are you making ready for a better world THE of economic theories. It is not a book of maxims than this? Are you preparing to meet Christ face to face at His second advent, which is so near at and theories at all. It is a book of living principles. Its spirit is the spirit of brotherliness and good will. hand? • • • It is a summons to helpfulness: "Bear ye one an- other's burdens." It is a summons also to self- MODERN ATTITUDE TOWARD SIN respecting independence: "Let every man bear his THE weakness of Christian living and the con- own burden." It teaches charity, but also justice. fusion of Christian thought today are not that peo- It calls us to the giving and serving which the ple have blotted God out of thinking. The common strong owe to the weak, and those who have to people accept the fact of God with little question. those who lack; but it also strikes straight and clear They are not debating, "Is there a God ?" — they at the moral defects in individuals who are re- take God for granted, as they do life and sunshine sponsible for a large part of the poverty and suffer- and electricity, and they have respect for the good ing of the world ; and also at the moral and eco- life. Ellit they do not see where these facts have nomic defects in society, in business relations, and meaning or value in everyday life. Moral and ethi- in the distribution of the common resources for the cal principles are felt to be sufficient. This state remaining part.—Robert E. Speer.
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THE Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, asparagus. Heart, liver, kidney, eggs, milk, whole is the world's largest annual exposition, held from cereals, and green vegetables are rated as good Aug. 26 to Sept. 10, excluding Sundays. sources, while lean meat is called a fair source. The WORD comes from Ottawa that the population of best sources of vitamin C, which prevents scurvy, Canada, according to the 1931 census, is 10,374,- are raw, vine-ripened tomatoes, grapefruit, lemons, 196, as compared with 8,788,487 in 1921. The and oranges, but bananas and pineapples are good rate of increase during the ten-year period was sources. Vitamin D, called the sunshine vitamin, largest in British Columbia, which now stands and which is necessary for the growth of bones, has sixth in the list of provinces. as its best source, the committee claims, cod-liver BESSF.S-O'-TH'-BARN, England's premier all-brass oil. Eggs are a good source, and milk and butter organization and the oldest band in existence, is to are fair sources. Vitamin E, believed to be neces- play at the Canadian National Exhibition. This sary for reproduction, is listed as obtainable only noted band has won the Gold Challenge Shield, 151 from wheat, the wheat germ being an excellent first prizes, five challenge cups and more than 100 source and whole-wheat grain a good one. One special awards. Thirty other prominent bands will of the newest vitamins, G, has excellent sources in also give free concerts. dried yeast, milk, eggs, liver, and kidney, and good THE removal of one of the four lock shifts on sources in wheat germ, meat, and green vegetables. the Panama Canal continuing sixteen-hour daily JUST before Lenin died, he requested Russia to operation, but limiting two-way traffic to eight erect no statues to him, but directed that any money hours instead of full-time has been ordered. It is raised to commemorate his work be used for the • explained that full-time status will be resumed erection of schools for the people. Notwithstanding • when the daily average traffic amounts again to this request, the city of Leningrad has decided to eighteen ships. The average is now twelve, and is erect a gigantic bronze statue to the Soviet prophet decreasing. in its harbor. It will be 370 feet high, patterned THE Australian rat kangaroo, lost to science somewhat after the statue of Liberty, and sur- since 1843, has been rediscovered, hale and frisky, mounted by a beacon light. Volunteer workers in the sand-hill plain country at the junction of will collect 1,250,000 roubles from the common South Australia and Queensland. The Australian people to pay the expenses of the enterprise. rat kangaroo is a marsupial, that is, it carries its Two hundred Russian emigrants recently sailed young in pouches. It is not related to the American from Halifax harbor in a single day. They have kangaroo rat. been promised work in Russia and were happy as A TABLE of representative foods containing the they left for the land of promise. These emigrants six principal vitamins, A, B, C, D, E, and G, has were from cities in all parts of the Dominion. been published by the Committee of Foods of the TRUSTEES of a one-roomed school near Hamilton American Medical Association. For vitamin A, advertised for a teacher for their school. They important for growth and resistance to germ in- had 200 applications for the position. It is but an fection, it lists butter as the best source. Tomatoes, indication of the number of people who are seeking whole yellow corn, and eggs are rated as good employment. sources and green vegetables as a fair source. Ex- ONE hundred years ago there were only 4,000 cellent sources for vitamin B, believed to be im- magazines and newspapers in the world. Today portant to the nervous system, are wheat germ and there are approximately 94,000. HIGH schools conducted under • religious auspices in America are NORWAY AlifttiV // as follows: Catholic, 1,648; Epis- copalian, 97, Seventh-day Advent- CANADA ist, 74; Presbyterian, 71; Baptist, SWITZER1AND 975 K.I. 66; and Methodist, 62. UNITED STATES 675 K W.H. "AT present, the average age of SWEDEN V / 576KW H. man is only thirty-seven years; and about one-third of the earth's GERMANY ,349 K.W.H. population die before the age of GREAT BRITAIN 256 K.W.H. COMPARISON OF ELECTRIC ENERGY eight years." LESTER P. BARLOW, an Ameri- FRANCE 245 A.W.H. PRODUCED PER CAPITA • can inventor, is offering to the AUSTRIA 242 K.W.H. IN LEADING COUNTRIES U. S. War Department an engine based Wm of destruction that will wipe out BELGIUM 224 K W H FIGURES FOR THE YEAR 1925 cities a thousand miles away. • :10 CANADIAN WATCHMAN Canadian c5able of Contents
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In front of the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa at the opening of the Economic Conference. The eyes of the world have been looking toward this important gathering at the Dominion Capital.