Moloch is receiving many victims to-day by way of salacious literature and drama, loose marital relations, and crimes of passion. The Modern Worship of Moloch

KELD J. REYNOLDS

ARK and formless, over the red fagots in the and that all abnormal behavior is due to the presence Tophet, towers the mighty bulk of the idol of of sex complexes, the past few years have witnessed D Moloch, lord of the Baalim. The flame leaps either a tremendous increase in sex interest or else a upward, lurid symbol of the life principle, and bold tearing aside of the modesties and inhibitions illumines the charred forms of the human victims on that society has erected for its protection. It is the altar, while from the throng below rises a fierce probably the latter. But the choice of causes matters and bestial chant." little ; the results are the same in either case,—an By some strange twist of association, this descrip- emphasis upon sex altogether out of proportion to its tion of the phallic ceremonies of a heathen people, importance to humankind, and increased misery due read long ago, leaps into my mind when some fresh bit to this accumulation of false values. of news reveals the further development of the sex The book market is flooded with the productions of complex, of which modern society seems to be increas- writers who claim to be the exponents of the "new ingly the victim. Perhaps the association of ideas is psychology," when, in reality, their works are gen- not so strange. Certainly Moloch is receiving many erally analyses of the lowest types of mind that society victims to-day by way of salacious literature and produces. As one reviewer has pointedly stated, the drama, loose marital relations, and, finally, crimes of works of the modern novelists are mere "pathological passion. In the words of a modern seer, "the pagan- specimens." The theater and cinema are following the ism which Christianity once confronted and conquered same line. Their productions, in the main, are nothing is riding high on a return wave, and there are visible more than the posturing of characters in different evidences that we are on the brink of that corruption positions on the eternal triangle. Literary produc-• and sensualism which preceded the crash of the Roman tions, dramatic and others, must be realistic; that is, world and the emptying of her temples." they must paint life as it is,—or would be, stripped of As if determined to prove the truth of Freud's all the restraints of religion and civilization,—the theories that all human behavior is due to the sex urge natural man, in other words. And, since the savants

VOL. 53, NO. 6 FEBRUARY 9, 1926 now would have us believe that man is frankness — brutal frankness — in re- in following the dictates of his natural descended from brute ancestors, in all gard to matters which were once con- impulses, he will find his destiny. his bestial colors he must be painted. versationally taboo. Many are deceived by this sophistry, Opposed to this active stimulation of While this new condition may pos- not realizing that, since "natural" is man's lower nature--acquired by de- sess some value, having rid us of false usually taken to mean impulses pertain- generation, not by descent—are the modesty and prudery, it is more an evil ing to the animal nature, the impulses forces of public opinion, law, custom, than a good, since it gives license to the of the "natural" man, if followed, are and Christian ethics ; and between these degenerates present in all classes of sure to lead to mere gratification of the two mighty forces the battle is raging. society to practice their vices more or senses and not to the development of It is time for us to examine our condi- less openly. The young people, not yet a noble character such as the Creator tion and to determine upon a remedial wise in the eternal laws of life and de- intended man should have when He course of action. It is true that we are ceived by the publicity enjoyed by these created him upright, and therefore dif- on the brink of moral collapse ; but so degenerates, are led to believe that the ferent from the other members of the long as civiliiation has not plunged degenerate exception is a normal aver- animal kingdom. into the pit, there is still hope for a age; and so the moral level of society is SUFFERING FROM SEX COMPLEX return to safety and a climb to moral- lowered. As Dr. Cadman has said : Whatever the urge, whether the de- • ity, both public and private. But be- "If vice can flaunt its sealskins and fore this happy result can be hoped for, diamonds while virtue treads a hard, sire for realism or frankness, or an in- we must see more victories won on the prosaic path, it is scarcely surprising tense individualism, or the mere as- side of man's higher nature, which is that the young are not keen enough to cendancy of the lower man, it is a fact just another name for the soul directed detect the fool's head and the death's that society is suffering from a sex by divine Wisdom. head beneath these perishable gew- complex. "As it was in the days of In looking for the causes of the pres- c,aws." Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son. of man, They did eat, they ent condition of morals, we find a situa- The excessive individualism of the drank, they married wives, they were tion something like this : the prudery present day may also be named as a and excessive reticence in matters of contributing cause of the moral delin- given in marriage." Luke 17: 26, 27. sex, which was rather characteristic of quency of society. It is an individual- This is the Saviour's description of our society a few years ago, and which pre- ism of sensuality, for which man, with time. At first sight it might seem to vented a normal approach and a whole- his momentary whims, passions, and fit all time ; but a study of the text and some acquisition of knowledge of the impulses, is the sole arbiter of moral a comparison with the Old Testament subject, has brought on a violent reac- values. Its central doctrine is that man record of the social conditions in the tion. The pendulum has swung to the is the resultant of selective and evolu- antediluvian world, make clear the other end of the arc, and we are there- tionary processes ; that what he is by meaning. It is not that the conditions fore witnessing a veritable orgy of nature is what he should be ; and that, described. are wrong in themselves ; but we are to understand that the people of that time gave themselves over so completely to the gratification of their natural desires that they had neither time for, nor interest in, the higher spiritual things' of life. In a short time such a state of affairs led to moral atrophy and a swift descent into actual and open immorality, producing social decay, and blasting civilization itself. The same ,results followed iden- tical causes in the history of Greece and Rome. Always the cult of the natural man ends in the worship of the carnal The Failures of Yesterday nature of the lower man and a follow- ing of its dictates. THEO. G. WEIS Interpreting the prophecy 'in this HE future knows no failure," I have late heat of self-pity's parching sun. way, we see it being fulfilled before T heard it said; and "I made a mistake," To them, to-morrow's dew of blessing is our eyes. As truly to-day as in that not certain; and too often God's pearls refers to yesterday. night of long ago in a. heathen temple, On the street car, in the office, in the of morning freshness are spent on the shop, and in the railway station, we meet dried petals of an early, faded, human the fires of Moloch leap up and devour rose. men as they are—loyal, cheerful, patient, their human victims. Thousands are The morning star of hope never shines steady men, with always some good amid upon the past. The fragrant roses bloom sacrificed yearly. Thousands more their very worst. They all fall into one in the present and the future only. The drag out a miserable existence in the or the other of two great classes,—the past always has its faded petals in the hospitals and asylums of the country. men who live and plan in the future, who alabaster box of pleasant memories. Yet This should not be—it need not be— dream of the golden rays of to-morrow's there is something alluringly sure that dawn; and the men who still live yes- draws men to the paths they have once in this enlightened land. Wholesome • terday, whose eyes miss the glory of the traveled. Unless we guard ourselves, sex instruction by parents at the proper present because of misfortune's saddened we'll think more often of crushed blos- time,. a practical public program of sunset skies that tinted with bitterness soms and stains than of the pure, white the last rays of yesterday. lily Now. mental hygiene, a sensible public atti- May we never be of the second class; This very moment we have new beauty tude toward matters of sex, less leni- nor may despair, that darkness which to find, new hopes to nourish, friends to ency of juries and courts toward sex divides our to-morrows from our yester- cheer, and clean records to keep. This offenders, a rigid insistence upon the days, ever clutch us in its grasp ! Those only we need : Let Him who made us who fail, failed yesterday, and too often as we are, who has a future far beyond adherence of all to the divine and the they lose faith in to-morrow. They our plans, let Him guard the treasures of civil codes,—these will go far toward gitope blindly in the darkness of dis- our hearts; let Him hide the failures of reducing the evil, though it can never couragement. They wilt and dry in the yesterday. be wholly cured while sin remains in the heart of man.

V o 1. 5 3 SIGNS of the TIMES, FEBRUARY 9, 1 9 2 6 No 6 Printed and published weekly by. the Pacific Press Publishing Association, at Mountain View, California, U. S. A, Entered as second-class matter September 15, 1904, at the Mountain View, California, post office, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1379. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage, provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, and authorized September 18, 1918. Page Two SIGNS of the TIMES CMOSES and NEXICO

the traditions held by the people of Mexico correspond strangely with the story given us by the He- • brew chronicler.

GEA.RHARDT G. BROWN. One of the mountain lakes of Mexico Missionary in Latin America

ANY persons are fond of .at- among the ruins of the ancient empires of the heaven ; and they were destroyed tacking Moses now that he is of Anahuac. from the earth: and Noah only re- M dead. They tried it while he Of the ancient Quiche nation, it is mained alive, and they that were with was alive, and a good many of them said : "The tradition of their origin . him in the ark." Genesis 7 : 18-23. failed,—failed not only in sustaining states that they came from the far east, From the Compendium above their argument, but in preserving their across immense tracts of land and quoted, we translate the following : lives. Pharaoh, with his heathen water ; that in their former home they "The deposits of these bones that are hordes ; Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, had multiplied considerably and lived discovered in very many places show and their two hundred fifty rebel without civilization and with but few that there was a time in which • the princes ; and whole tribes or nations wants ; they paid no tribute, spoke a quadrupeds known to the old world withstood him. And where are they ? common language, did not bow down abounded here, among these the great About all that is known of them is what to wood and stone, but, lifting their pachyderms, and therefore the remains Moses himself wrote. So let him take eyes toward heaven, observed the. will of corpulent animals now extinct, heed who tries to gainsay a man for of their Creator; they attended with found in the caves of Tlaxcala and of whom God worked in such a marvelous respect the rising of the sun, and sa- the modern Puebla, perpetuated among way. Moses was human ; he made mis- luted with their invocations the morn- the `Nahoas' the belief that these places takes ; but these mistakes are noted in ing star ; with loving and obedient were the last to have been inhabited by his own books. That is more than can hearts, they addressed their prayers to the `Quinames'—giants, . . . and, ac- be said for modern Jannes and Jambres Heaven for the gift of offspring. cording to a third tradition, the giants (2 Timothy 3 : 8),—that they record Moses wrote : "There were giants in perished by drowning when Atonaluik, their own failures. Moses wrote many the earth in those days." The follow- or Sun of Water, the first of the four things,—some events mentioned hap- ing translation of a paragraph from a great catastrophes, that, according to pened before his time, some during his "Compendium of General History," by the belief of the Nahoas, had destroyed clay, and some a long time afterwards, Julio Zarate, 1913, pages 13 and 14, humanity,—only one pair in each case while some are still in the process of throws some light on the belief of the being saved, thus serving to perpetuate fulfillment, and as yet the Korah, the earliest inhabitants of Mexico in this the race." Dathan, the Abiram, the Ingersoll, the respect : "In the origins of all the an- THE DELUGE AND THE TOWER infidel, has not arisen who has gainsaid cient peoples, history encounters the OF BABEL with success anything that he wrote. fable of the giants. These inhabited, Of the Maya-Quiche nation, Butler MOSES AND CREATION in the beginning, our territory, ac- cording to the belief of the most an- says in his "Merrick Lectures," page Take, for instance, the question of cient nations that established them- 39: "The founder of this great empire the creation of the world. Moses selves in it, and they proved it by the was one Votan, who arrived on the makes plain statements regarding it, great fossils." western shores about moo B. c. Of without any if's or hut's; and, although him Clavigero writes : 'They say that whole schools of false scientists have A DELUGE TRADITION IN MEXICO Votan, the grandson of that respectable made the sea of human thought foam Again Moses wrote : "The waters old man who built the great ark to save and whirl for a time, have they affected prevailed, and were increased greatly himself and family from the Deluge, • Moses ?--No ! Moses continues to tell upon the earth ; and the ark went upon and one of those who undertook the the same story, and all the newest dis- the face of the waters. And the waters building of that lofty edifice which was coveries in every branch of science up- prevailed exceedingly upon the earth : to reach up to heaven, went by express hold what he says. Practically all the and all the high hills, that were under command of the Lord to people that discoveries in recent years in the ruins the whole heaven, were covered. 'Fif- land." of the proud monarchies of the past re- teen cubits upward did the waters pre- Giving 'clue allowance for the warp- veal the agreement of history with the vail ; and the mountains were covered. ing effect of time and tradition, one record of Moses, and with the fact that And all flesh died that moved upon the sees in these and in many more like the ancients held to the belief in a earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and statements regarding the early -history creation. Take Mexico, for example. of beast, and of every creepims-, thing of man on the American .Continent, This country is our near neighbor, and that creepeth upon. the earth, and- every evidences of the knowledge in remote is overlooked in our search for knowl- man : all in whose nostrils was the times of the creation and the Flood. edge ; yet we find even here the evi- breath of life, of all that was in the dry Besides all this, the topography of .the dence of a knowledge of creation. land, died. And every living substance country also bears out the Bible story Covered with the cobwebs of tradition was destroyed which was upon the face of the Flood. Many of the mountains as well as with the dust of centuries, the of the ground, both man, and cattle, show unmistakable evidences of the germ of truth can be unearthed from `and the creeping things, and the fowl (Continued on page 14) for FEBRUARY'9, 1926 Page Three The banks of the Nile, once so verdant with grasses and shrubs, are now naked. Egypt Another one of the "Christian son to an agnos- tic father" letters. Mr. Rowell's father admits that the evidence for the supernatural origin of a MONUMENT to the Bible that his son is piling up, is getting so mountainous that he has quit trying to explain it all away. PROPHECY Lest some of our readers may think that these are not actual letters, next week we will pub- lish the photographs of the father and son who are involved in this correspondence. EARLE ALBERT ROWELL

Y dear Father,— writes : "Its ruins offer to the eyes of gin] of Egypt shall be diminished and In my last letter I considered some the spectator a collection of wonderful dried up." of the many marvelous predictions con- works which confound the intellect, Of the original seven branches of the cerning Egypt. I now call your atten- and to describe which the most elo- Nile, only two are now used; and these tion to others. In Ezekiel 3o : 13 are quent man would labor in vain ; every are the two that Herodotus distin- these words : "Thus saith the Lord glance we cast upon the ruins reveals guished as the work of man. The Jehovah : I will also destroy the idols, a new charm." other five have long ago silted up, and and I will cause the images to cease Thus 2,000 years after the prediction are now foul pools and marshes. from Memphis." A. R. V. it was still unfulfilled. No one can Now it is a fact that Memphis, claim that the prediction was written by PAPYRUS PLANT NOW UNKNOWN founded by Menes, was known as "the analogy or after the event, nor that the "The reeds and flags shall wither great temple city of Egypt." A more facts have been juggled to fit the away. The meadows by the Nile, by unlikely fate could hardly be imagined prophecy. the brink of the Nile, and all the sown than the destruction of the idols and How about it to-day?—So com- fields of the Nile, shall become dry, images of Memphis; because,- pletely has the doom been fulfilled that, be driven away, and be no more." 1. The climate of Egypt keeps in a until recently, the very site of Memphis Isaiah 19 : 6, 7. state of perfect preservation for thou- was a matter of dispute. For hundreds of years the water sands of years whatever is buried in its Miss Amelia B. Edwards, Egyptolo- plants of the Nile were so abundant as soil. gist, mentions finding "a number of to be a great source of revenue. Egypt 2. In all the other cities of Egypt, sculptured fragments. And this-is all, was called the land of the papyrus and whether in ruins or now flourishing, that remains of Memphis, eldest of the lotus. These plants were so strik- idols and images are found in super- cities; a few rubbish heaps, a dozen or ing a feature of Upper and Lower abundance. Thebes, former capital of so of broken statues, and a name! . . . Egypt respectively that they became Egypt, though in ruins while Memphis Where are the stately ruins that even in the symbols of these districts, and were was still in splendor of power and pop- the Middle Ages extended over a space a boon to the people and a rich revenue ulation, has them in abundance. estimated at 'half a day's journey in to the rulers. Seeds of the lotus were 3. At the beginning of the Christian every direction' ? One can hardly be- pounded and made into bread. Papy- era, the predicted ruin seemed more im- lieve that a great city ever flourished rus was used as firewood, and for mak- probable still. Memphis was large and on this spot, or understand how it ing various utensils. They even made populous, second in size in Egypt— should have been effaced so utterly." small boats of the plant, says Pliny, and Alexandria being first. —"A Thousand Miles up the Nile," out of the rind made sails, mats, 4. In the beginning of the seventh pages 97-99. clothes, bedding, and ropes, as well as century, it was the residence ,of the In Ezekiel 3o : 12, we read : "I will writing material, for which it was governor of Egypt. make the rivers dry." See also Isaiah famous. We know that papyrus was 5. Abdul-Latif, an Arab traveler 19 : 5, 6. "And the rivers shall become obtained from Egypt until the seventh who visited it in the thirteenth century, foul; the streams [or "canals," mar- century. Page Four SIGNS of the TIMES But how is it to-day ?—"The plant is no sign of its fulfillment. When land into the hand of evil men." Eze- now unknown in Egypt," says Wilkin- Alexander, 4.5o years later, conquered kiel 30 : 12. son, in "Ancient Egyptians," volume 2, Egypt, 'new 'markets were opened up "I will sell the land," is a phrase de- page 97. The traveler is struck by the for her products, and the destruction of noting the unresisting surrender into absence of verdure on the Nile banks. Tyre and Sidon gave new life to her the hand of an enemy, just as slaves "It is a curious fact that no water already extensive commerce. Never- were sold. The slave has no rights, plants or weeds grow on the banks of theless, to-day the completeness with the wicked no mercy. the Nile; a sedgy margin is never to be which the doom has been fulfilled Volney, the French skeptic, calls met with in the country." arouses only pity or scorn where once Egypt "the country of slavery and Consider also the fact that fishing there was only admiration and envy. tyranny." Malte Brun, the traveler, writes of "the arbitrary sway of the was once a prominent industry in SURROUNDED BY DESOLATION Egypt for two thousand or more years. ruffian masters of Egypt." Of Ali Fish was so abundant it was a common In the following sentence the Bey, who reigned from 1766 to 1772, food of every one, and the chief food prophet utters matter of tremendous it was said : "Like his predecessors, he Ak of the poor. In Lake Mceris alone, scope : "They shall be desolate in the considered Egypt as his private prop- 1p the abundance of fish was such that the -midst of the countries that are desolate, erty or live estate, and the natives as Pharaohs received an annual revenue and her cities shall be in the midst of the live stock -disposable at his• pleas- of $500,000 from their sale. Dried the cities that are wasted." Ezekiel 3o : ure." fish was a large item in Egypt's ex- 7. Here is predicted disaster not only The history of Egypt for the past ports till after the time of Christ. for Egypt but. also for all surrounding 1,800 years is but a commentary on the But it stood written : "The fishers countries. But at the beginning of the words, "I will sell the land into the shall lament, and all they that cast Christian era, 700 years after the hand of the wicked." The terrible im- angle into the Nile shall mourn, and prophecy, it was utterly impossible that press of that hand is everywhere seen. any human wisdom could have fore- they that spread nets upon the waters STRANGERS ALWAYS HAVE RULED shall languish." Isaiah 19 : 8. seen such a fate. Such a prediction In this connection, consider another Only a few fish are now to be found would seem like the doom of the whole prediction : "I will make the land where once they were a leading in- earth, for it would cover practically all dustry and a large part of the diet. the known world. desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers." Ezekiel 30 :.12. In Isaiah 19 : 9, 10, 15, a number of While Egypt was bounded on the Never once in all this past 2,500 years other industries and arts are selected north by the blue waters of the Medi- has Egypt been under the rule of her for a prediction of doom. Egypt was terranean, on the west, south, and famous, not for her military power, own prince, but always, without a soli- partly on the east, she looked out upon tary exception to prove the rule, has but for the perfection of her arts and other countries which, for many cen- she been ruled by strangers,—Persians, industries. turies after Christ, were powerful and For insta,-ice, the "combed flax" Greeks, Romans, Byzantine Greeks, populous. But gradually on every Saracens, Turks, French, and now the mentioned,by the prophet, was sold for side, the victorious enemy, the pillag- British,—strangers, always strangers. its weight in gold. The linen, which ing barbarian, the violent Turk, re- How did the prophet know that the they exported to Arabia and India, was duced all countries bordering on Egypt peopleiwould never regain control of far superior to any other in the world. 2,000 years to utter desolation. It took their government? Other nations • In the face of stupendous and varied to fulfill this prediction. And for the have been subject nations and have activities in arts and industries, into daily a past 600 years it has continued thrown off the yoke, grown in power, which the strength and the unrivaled miracle of testimony to the strange, and finally made their former masters ' skill of the entire population was put, almost weird, accuracy of the predic- serve them. Think what would be the it was declared by the prophet that all tion. jubilation of the skeptic if a native should pass away. For 1,500 years they Let us now see if the prophet could prince were now ruling Egypt in face had excelled in these. For centuries rightly foretell the character of of the prediction that "there shall be after this prediction of doom there was Egypt's masters : "I will . . . sell the no more a prince from the land of Egypt." Ezekiel 3o : 13. Mark the cause of the desolation of Egypt. It might have come from the convulsions of nature, from the greed or rapacity of the native rulers of Egypt, or in spite of the best efforts of her foreign rulers to prevent it. It did not happen in spite of the strangers. It is the work of these strangers, ex; actly as Ezekiel foretold. Land, people, and resources have all been wasted by her foreign rulers. EVIDENCE TOO MUCH FOR FATHER You do not attempt to point out that these prophecies are unfulfilled. On the contrary, you admit their fulfill- ment; and when I press you to account for these facts, you reply, as in your last letter, "I don't try to account for them." The kindness and • generosity of Robert G. Ingersoll won for him many friends who deeply regretted his opinions. Among these was Henry Ward Beecher. In the study of the © Boston Photo famous preacher was an elaborate The Bible prophesied, while Egypt was still in her glory, that strangers would some day rule her. celestial globe. On the surface, in deli- For hundreds and thousands of years, Egypt has never had a native ruler. Above are the remains of a temple which the great Rameses built, and which was graced with scores of statues of himself. (Continued on page 14) for FEBRUARY 9 , 1 9 26 Page Five Evolution Scouts the Atonement

Christianity and evolution are in • of skeptics and atheists, such as Hume, direct contrast in the matter of Third in the series on, Can Voltaire, Paine, and Ingersoll. But in As the origin of sin, so also we Revelation and Evolution Be our day this rejection of the basic idea may notice, next, that they are in the Harmonized? of Christianity finds its chief support in same diametric opposition when they that widespread theory of the origin of come to deal with the problem of the man which makes the doctrine of the remedy for the sin and evil of our GEORGE MCCREADY PRICE atonement meaningless, through its ex- world. planation of sin as mere inherited ani- The Bible treats of sin as a desper- malism and nothing really very bad after all. As R. J. Campbell has ex- ate condition, something insuring eter- themselves Christians,—Durant Drake pressed it : If there ever was a "fall," nal death, eternal separation from God, even being a well-known teacher of a unless it is remedied. And it offers certain form of "advanced" religion. it was a fall "upward" ! that unique remedy for sin which is But we can better understand the Surely, there is no possible method, called the atonement. The desperate- logic of the situation from the follow- consistent with .logical and honest ness of the situation called sin can be ing pungent statement of Robert thinking, by which this inherent teach- estimated only in the light of the amaz- Blatch ford : ing of organic evolution can be har- ing remedy for it ; namely, the death "But—no Adam, no fall ; no fall, no monized with the historic form of of a divine sacrifice. In the very na- atonement ; no atonement, no Saviour. Christianity, as represented by the ture of things, this awful remedy Accepting evolution, how can we be- Bible. would not have been required if men lieve in a • fall ? When did man fall ; could have been saved from sin in any EVOLUTION'S FUTURE ONLY DESPAIR was it before he ceased to be a monkey, Evolution's forecast of the future of other possible way. Indeed, Peter de- or after? Was it when he was a tree clared that there is no salvation in any the human race is by no means cheer- man, or later? Was it in the Stone ing. Until the outbreak of the World other way. (Acts 4: 12.) Age, or the Bronze Age, or in the Age But what conceivable place is there War, its picture of the future was of Iron? . . . And if there never was roseate and glorious, like that of a for a substitutionary atonement in the a fall, why should there be any atone- bright summer morn. Man was a scheme of organic evolution ? Not ment ?"—"God and MI' Neighbor," rapidly rising being; he had already only is there no room for such a page 159: Chicago, 1917. remedial system through the death of progressed so far that the future was There is surely no need of multiply- assured. Soon the war drums would the Son of God, but, almost to a man, ing testimony on this point to prove evolutionists and "advanced" theolo- throb no longer, and the battle flags that evolution and Christianity are as would be forever furled, in,the parlia- gians seem to exhibit a strong antipathy far asunder as the poles in their atti- to any such idea. The following from ment of man, the federation of the tude toward the remedy for sin. The world ! But the sad and grim reality of Sir Oliver Lodge is quite typical of this Bible, as the divine Revelatibn of class : the past ten years has changed all this. Christianity, comes to a focus in its To-day the most hopelessly pessimistic "As a matter of fact, the higher man remedy for sin, through the vicarious of the world's prophets, for example, of to-day is not worrying about his death of the divine-human Sacrifice on H. G. Wells, are those who have most sins at all, still less about their punish- the cross of Calvary. The utter repu- completely adopted and assimilated the ment. His mission, if he is good for diation of this provisional remedy for doctrine of organic evolution. The anything, is to be up and doing; and in sin has long been familiar to the his- more enthusiastic followers of Marx- So far as he acts wrongly or unwisely torian, from the writings of Celsus and ian Socialism, with its program of the he expects to suffer. He may uncon- Porphyry, down through the long line dictatorship of the proletariat, are, so sciously plead for mitigation on the far as I know, about the only evolution- ground of good intentions ; but never ists who take at all a cheerful view of either consciously or unconsciously will the world's future. The others all paint anyone but a cur ask for the punish- the picture in dark shadows ; the col- ment to fall on some one else, nor re- lapse of civilization, the utter extinc- joice if told that it already has so tion of the race of mankind, are the fallen."—"Man and the Universe," favorite titles. page 204. The implacable hatred shown toward ONLY CHRISTIANITY PRESENTS A the Bible doctrine of the atonement, on BRIGHT FUTURE the part of evolutionists, may be The future of mankind is made a further illustrated by the following biological fate, grim and ineluctable, from Durant Drake : after the example of the extinction of the trilobites, the dinosaurs, the dodo, BLATCHFORD'S LOGIC IRREFUTABLE and the great auk. "Our little systems "What sort of justice is it that could have their day ; they have their day be satisfied with the punishing of one and cease to be." True, each of these innocent man and the free pardon of evolutionary prophets has his infallible myriads of guilty men ? The theory remedy, which, if the world would but. seems a remnant of the ancient idea adopt it, would long postpone, perhaps that the gods need to be placated ; but entirely avert, the impending doom. by the side of the pagan gods, who But the stubborn race goes on, heedless were content with humble offerings of of suggested panaceas ; and, accord- flesh and fruit, the Christian God, de- ingly, these world forecasters have be- manding the suffering and death of come, almost invariably, preachers of His own Son, appears a monster of world disaster and oblivion. cruelty."—"Problems of Religion," On the other hand, the Bible does not page 176. - Evolution has no solace for sorrow, no hope give a bright or hopeful picture of the These two quotations sound very for despair. Only Christianity can give hope amid the troubles of this present life, world's future, so far as the present strange as corning from men who call and an expectation of a life to come. (Continued on page 14) Page Six SIGNS of the TIMES A CHANGED ATTITUDE Toward the SABBATH

First-clay observers are feeling the loss of a Scriptural basis for Sab- bath keeping.

Christ observed the seventh-day Sabbath only. Neither He nor His disciples knew anything of first-day worship. CHARLES S. LONGACRE

HERE has been quite a change in The Sunday observer is beginning to bath clay was intended to serve as a the attitude of Sunday keepers realize that there is absolutely no di- bulwark against all this drifting away T toward the seventh-clay Sabbath. vine command for. Sunday observance from the true Creator and this turning The more the Sunday observer exam- either in the Old Testament or in the to man-made gods. ines the historical and Scriptural rea- New. Nowhere, from Genesis to He who forsakes the Sabbath of the sons for observing the first day of the Revelation, is the first day of the week Creator as the sign of His power to week as holy time, the more he becomes called the Lord's day or the Sabbath. create and to redeem, is in grave convinced that those who still observe On the contrary, the LOrd calls the danger of ultimately forsaking the the seventh clay Of the week have the Sabbath His holy day, and asserts that word of God as the basis of his faith. preponderance of historical and Bibli- He is Lord of the Sabbath day. If He No one can measure the great loss cal evidence in their favor. When the is Lord of the Sabbath day, then we• the Christian church suffered when the fact dawns upon them that Sunday as must conclude that the seventh and not vast majority accepted the human in- a religious institution has no other basis the first day of the week is "the Lord's ventions and devisings of Christian for authority than a voluntary custom clay." philosophers of the third and fourth and a human ordinance, and that the The fact that none of the genuine centuries, who sought to adapt the seventh day of the week was divinely but only the spurious epistles of the Christian religion to pagan customs. ordained at the foundation of the world church fathers call the first clay of the The Sabbath from time immemorial in commemoration of creation, and was week "the Lord's day" for the first two had been the sign of loyalty to God as so observed by all the holy people of centuries of the Christian era, is an- the Creator of all things, just as the God for more than 4,00o years, and other proof that the first day of the Star Spangled Banner is the sign of lastly by Christ Himself, as an example week is not "the Lord's day," but was loyalty to American patriotism. Jeho- for His followers, the first day of the a human invention of the third century vah says : "I gave them My Sabbaths, week loses•its prestige and authority. when the Christian church was pagan- to be a sign between Me and them, that KEENLY FEEL ITS LOSS ized to a large extent by Christian phi- they might know that I am the Lord The following expressions of regret losophers. that sanctify them." "Hallow My Sab- for losing sight of the original Sabbath. As the students of history are mak- baths ; and they shall be a sign between are all made by Sunday observers, both ing these discoveries, their confidence Me and you, that ye may know that I Catholics and Protestants alike : is being shaken in some of the tradi- am the Lord your God." Ezekiel "It was a distinct loss that the sev- tions they received from the elders, and 20 : 12, 20. enth clay, or Jewish Sabbath, gradually they realize that. the strength of their He who consciously and deliberately fell into disuse; for it represented the appeal has lost its authority when they tramples upon the American flag or the commemoration of the creation of all try to bolster up Sunday observance flag of any nation dishonors that na- things by God, when God rested from upon divine authority. tion; and he who deliberately tramples His work which He had created and Therefore, they recognize the solemn upon the Sabbath of the Creator like- made—a point of attachment to the fact that the observer of the original wise dishonors the Lord of heaven.and natural order, in keeping with the Sabbath, the seventh day of the week, earth. Loyalty to God means loyalty Catholic purpose."—Allen's "Christian which was divinely instituted in the to the institutions He has established Institutions!' beginning and reaffirmed in the Deca- for His honor and authority. When "I would rather keep Saturday." logue and glorified in the life of Christ, we substitute our own institutions in "I am sorry the church left the Sab- has an appeal of "added power" "based place of the divine, we not only lose our bath and baptism." upon the Bible." power of appeal but we reflect upon the "Without doubt the Bible is on your A BULWARK AGAINST ERROR honor and• authority of God. If we can not succeed in getting men to honor side." If the Sabbath day as a memorial of and respect the divine institutions and "If not a Seventh-Day Baptist, I am creation in honor of the Creator had ordinances, they certainly will have less at heart a Seventh-Day Presbyterian. never been lost sight of, the world respect for our own human devisings The Sabbath ought to be a rallying would never have drifted into heathen- and commandments. One reason why point for all who believe in the word ism and the worshiping of idols of the ministers have lost their appeal to a of God. What added power would wood and stone, nor would it have large extent is that they are substitut- come to the appeal of the church on be- drifted into modern evolution, which ing the precepts of men for the laws of half of Sabbath keeping if that appeal denies the fact of a special creation by God. were based upon the Bible !" the Creator of the universe. The Sab- (Continued on page it) for FEBRUARY 9, 1926 Page Seven An ancient Oriental narrative that has a lesson for us of the twentieth century • CLIFFORD A. RUSSELL

the father; these we may ask the heavenly Father. What? What wilt Thou have me to do ? Where? Where can I best serve Thee to-day ? When? When can I best accomplish this task? I-Pow? How can I serve The customs which were preva- Thee best ? lent in Bible times are, in most Why? Never ! instances,-the customs of the East to-day. God is too loving to afflict willingly. He is too wise to err. The highest type of worship we may render our N all the realm of literature you Jeremiah might have said, "I don't Father,—God,—is that of unquestion- will not find more graphic or more want to go away down there to the ing, implicit obedience. The "why," I beautiful pictures than are to be potter's house, Lord. What's the use? we'll understand sometime. found in the Bible. The object lessons I'm tired. You can tell me what You and parables of Jesus and the pen- have to say just as well right here as "Sometime, when all life's lessons have been learned, pictures and allegories of the Old Tes- for me to go off down there. 'Speak, And sun and stars forevermore have set, tament writers are unsurpassed. Lord, for Thy servant heareth.' " But The things which our weak judgments here Many Christians are more familiar he didn't. He went. have spurned, with the psalms of David and the beau- The things o'er which we grieved with One of the greatest lessons we mor- lashes wet, tiful imagery. of Isaiah than with the tals have to learn is that of prompt, Will flash before us out of life's dark night, writings of Ezekiel and Jeremiah. willing, unquestioning obedience. It As stars shine most in deeper tints of But let us lose ourselves for a moment takes faith to believe the promise, "All blue; And we shall see how all God's plans are in one of the most beautiful pictures things work together for good to them right, portrayed by the latter prophet. that love God." We want to know the And how what seemed reproof was love Read Jeremiah 18: i-6. "why" of everything. most true." "The word which came to Jeremiah There are many things which we from the Lord." Listen ! Not a con- may not understand. To-day they are "Then I went down to the potter's jecture, not a supposition from some clouded in mystery. To-morrow, when house, and, behold, he wrought a work man, no matter how wise, how gifted, the mists are rolled away, when we on the wheels. how well educated ; but a word from shall see Him face to face, when the "And the vessel that he made of clay "the Lord," Creator of heaven and curtain of the future is drawn aside, we was marred in the hand of the potter: earth, Ruler of the universe. When shall understand. so he made it again another vessel, as God speaks, let man listen. seemed good to the potter to make it. It is safe to trust God. If you and "Then the word of the Lord came "THEN I WENT" I could see the end from the beginning to me, saying, "Saying, Arise, and go down to the as God sees, we should be just as "0 house of Israel, can not I do with potter's house, and there I will cause thankful for the rain as for the sun- you as this potter ? saith the Lord. thee to hear My words. Then I went." shine ; for the darker shadings which Behold, as the clay is in the potter's There is no mark of punctuation are painted into life's picture as for hand, so are ye in Mine hand, 0 house after "went" in the Bible. We have the brighter tints. "All sunshine makes of Israel." placed one there arbitrarily; for, to us, the desert," says an old Arab proverb. Jeremiah knew exactly why It is true in life as in nature— Now one of the most important lessons in the Lord asked him to go, down to the all the Bible is taught here. "Into each life some rain must fall ; potter's house. He wanted to impress, "Then I went." When ?—"Then." Some days must be dark and dreary." upon the mind of the prophet a beauti- Where ?—Exactly where God told him ful lesson. He could do so most ef- to go. Why?—That was none of So when God says, "Go," go. When fectively while the object lesson was Jeremiah's business. God told him to He says, "Stay," stay. There are cer- directly before him. go. That is enough. He went. tain questions which the child may ask The force and beauty of this illus-

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I see the old potter ; the wheel ; the clay ; the finished product. And I say, "0 Lord, help me to be as clay in the hand of the potter; as soft, plastic, I the POTTER yielding clay in Thy hand, Thou Master Potter." . Then I .think again of the tender ap- tration never impressed me so much-as I was thinking of the "wheel" and peal as God says : "0 house of Is- when, a few years ago, I visited the Jeremiah's picture. rael,"—O My people, My child,—"Can Panama-California Exposition in San "Have you worked long at the pot- not I do with you as this potter? Be- Diego. Having but one day at my dis- ter's trade ?" hold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, posal, I was at the grounds when the "All my life. Ever• since I was a so are ye in Mine hand, 0 house of gates were opened in the morning, and boy." Israel." I remained until they were closed at He was about sixty-five, I guessed. When that potter dropped the piece • night. I was still watching. I was fasci- of clay upon the revolving wheel it A POTTER "POTTERING" nated. Presently I observed : stuck ; it didn't try to get off. It didn't "That looks easy, doesn't it ?" rebel. It didn't find any fault. It In the middle of the afternoon, as I "It is ; swould you like to try it ?" was walking up and down the corridors didn't say : "I do not want to be a vase ; I looked around. A little group of I want to be a teacup." It didn't say of one of the big Exposition buildings, people had gathered, listening to our having eyes to see, but seeing not, anything. It just permitted itself to be conversation. I said, "No, thank you, molded into the very object which the through sheer weariness, suddenly I I guess not—not just now, at least." woke up, My attention was attracted potter had in his mind to make of that This time I noticed a whole row of particular piece of clay. Oh that we at once. those little vases set up on a shelf to What so suddenly stirred my lagging might as willingly, as fully, yield our dry. Some one had touched a bit of little lives into the hand of the Master faculties ?—Just a potter. And he was color to one side, and tied a bow of "pottering." Potter to be molded and fashioned into baby ribbon around each one. I con- a vessel meet for the Master's use! I had read Jeremiah i8 many times. cluded they were for souvenirs of the I had tried to picture the scene. I won- Fair. I wanted one. I wanted it for THE. SAME CLAY THAT CRUMBLED dered what the "wheels" had to do with the beautiful lesson. Remembering the Upon a subsequent occasion, I was it. I didn't know. I had never seen a exorbitant price usually asked for such watching another potter at work. He potter 'at work. You have—some of articles, I hesitated to inquire. Finally had almost completed a large, beautiful you perhaps, but not all. I must tell I got my courage up to the point, and piece of art work, when, from no ap- you about it. said: "Are those for 'sale as souve- parent cause, it began to break, and He had a "wheel." It was a rude nirs?" crumbled down into a shapeless mass. sort of hand-made apparatus. The "Yes, sir, would you like one?" Involuntarily I caught my breath. The wheel itself was simply sawed out in "How much are they ?" I faltered. potter said nothing. He was very pa- circular form from an inch board, and "Ten cents," he said. • tient. He began examining the clay, was, I suppose, twelve or fourteen I bought one. It stands to-day on and soon found the cause. In the clay inches in diameter. It was made to our mantel at home. Every time I was a bit of extraneous substance, a revolve horizontally, not vertically, by read the time of day, I lift my eyes at tiny sliver of wood. He removed it, means of a foot treadle. a little higher angle of vision, and they and of the same clay he made another I watched him. rest upon that little piece of pottery. vessel, this time a perfect one. He took up a lump of clay not larger The whole picture comes before me. Oh, how many times our Potter, in than my fist. It was soft and plastic. seeking to fashion our lives, He dropped the mass onto the center is obliged to remove extra- of the revolving wheel. It stuck. And neous matter ! Sometimes then, wonder of wonders, before my the process is a painful one. astonished gaze there grew up a thing But if we willingly, eyen of beauty! I could think of nothing cheerfully, permit the work more wonderful except the unfolding to go on, He will at last pro- of the petals of a beautiful rose before duce a vessel of honor "meet my very eyes. In some dexterous way, for the Master's use." known best to him, he held his mois- Turn again to Jeremiah's tened hand beside the yielding clay, picture. Meditate upon it. gradually lifting it, and actually turn- Then in the words of the ing out, much as a wood turner works poet say, or sing: at his trade, from that lump of clay a "Have Thine own way, Lord! thing of beauty—a perfect little vase. Have Thine own way! 00 When it was finished,—and it didn't Thou art the Potter; take as long to make as it has to de- I am the clay. Mold me and make me scribe,—I breathed again. After Thy will, Then I thought, "I must do this While I am waiting Fair. I can't stand here the rest of the Yielded and still. day." So I started on. But such was "Have Thine own way, Lord! the fascination of the potter and the Have Thine own way! Hold o'er my being clay that I soon found myself standing Absolute sway! on the same square foot of floor space, Fill with Thy Spirit looking with both eyes. Till all shall see This time I found my voice. Christ only, always "Pardon me, please, but is that the Living in me !" way they used to work away back in It is not our part to do the olden 'times ?" work of the potter. Our "Yes, sir, exactly." part is to yield ourselves to When Jeremiah went "down to the potter's house," he "With that same sort of apparatus ?" traveled along some street quite like this one—"Chris- be molded by the Master "Yes, sir." tian Street," in modern Jerusalem. Worker. for FEBRUARY 9, 192 6 Page Nine Did the APOSTLES Keep Sunday? • Even though you may disagree with the answer given in the opening par- agraph of this article, keep on read- ing. You will find that the writer brings forth strong Scriptural argu- ments in support of his contention.

BYRON E. TEFFT

Many there are who believe that Pente- cost came on Sunday, and that that, for UR answer to the question, "Did disciples were within, and Thomas with some reason, adds a sanctity to the day. But Pentecost did not come on Sunday; the .apostles keep Sunday after them : then came Jesus, the doors being and even if it had, without an express the resurrection of Christ ?" is shut, and stood in the midst, and said, command to substantiate it that would be 0 no argument for Sunday observance. positively, NO. Some teachers, feel- Peace be unto you." John 20 : 26. ing the necessity of Scripture to sup- This meeting was not on Sunday at port Sunday keeping, have made a all. Seven days from the first meeting of Sunday sacredness was this, from rope-of-sand argument from certain would have reached to the next Sun- either Paul or his companions. The texts that we will notice : day evening; and eight days, to Mon- fact is, at that time, no one had ever 1. The first meeting after the Sav- day evening. This meeting was "after thought of Sunday as a sacred day. iour rose from the dead was on the eight clays," and could not, therefore, Speaking of this meeting, Cony- evening of the resurrection day. "The have been earlier in the week than beare and Howson, in "The Life and same day at evening, being the first day Monday evening, and might have been Epistles of Saint Paul," page 592, of the week, when the doors were shut on the next Tuesday evening. People's Edition, 1906, says : "It was the evening. which succeeded the Jew- where the disciples were assembled for 3. "And upon the first day of the ish Sabbath. On the Sunday morning fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood week, when the disciples came together the vessel was about to sail." "He in the midst, and saith unto them, to break bread, 'Paul preached unto 20: 19. pursued his lonely road that Sunday Peace be unto you." John them, ready to depart on the morrow ; afternoon in spring, among the oak This meeting was not to celebrate and continued his speech until mid- the resurrection, for the disciples did night." Acts zo : 7. woods and the streams of Ida."—Id., not believe He had risen. Mary re- page 595. Professor McGarvey, in ported that she had seen Him alive, but ON SATURDAY NIGHT commenting on Acts, says : "On Sun- they "believed not." Mark 16 : 9-11. This is the only record in the Bible day morning, Paul and his companions Two of the disciples returned to Jeru- of a meeting on the first day of the resumed their journey." salem and told about His walk with week. It was an evening meeting, for Dr. John Kitto, says : "The evening them to Emmaus ; "neither believed there "were many lights in the upper of the first day of the week would be they them." Mark 16 : 12, 13 ; Luke chamber." Verse 8. In Bible times, our Saturday evening." He says the 24 : 13-35. Finally, "Jesus Himself the day began at evening ; and evening apostle "resumed his journey on Sun- stood in the midst of them. . . . But begins at sunset. "And the evening day morning."—"Cyclopedia of Bibli- they were terrified and affrighted, and and the morning were the first day." cal Literature,." art, "Lord's Day." supposed that they had seen a spirit." Genesis I : 5. "From even unto even, "Because the text saith there were Luke 24: 36, 37. shall ye celebrate your Sabbaths." many lights in the upper room where So convinced were the apostles that Leviticus 23: 32. they were gathered together, and that Jesus had not risen, that He invited "And at even, when the sun did set." Paul preached from the time of their them to handle Him ; and He ate in Mark I : 32. An evening meeting on coming together till midnight, . . . their presence before they could believe the first day of the week would have this meeting of the disciples at Troas, that their Guest was really their risen been the evening following Saturday, and Paul's preaching to them, began Master, and not an apparition. There- that day having closed at sunset. While at evening. . . . St. Luke records that fore, this meeting was not to celebrate Paul was holding this night Meeting, it was upon the first day of the week an event they had not a particle of his companions were rowing around when this meeting was.. . . confidence in. At this' time they had a the peninsula to Assos, where he had "Therefore it must needs be on the common abode (Acts I: 12, 13), and arranged to meet them. (Acts zo : 13.) Saturday, not on our Sunday evening, were partaking of their evening meal In order to do this the next day,— since the Sunday evening in St. Luke's (Mark 16 : 14), and the doors were Sunday,—he traveled ,on foot across and the Scripture account was no part shut for safety, "for fear of the Jews." the country to Assos, nineteen and one- of the first, but of the second day, the 2. "And after eight days again His hal f miles. Not a very good example day ever beginning and ending at eve- Page Ten SIGNS of the TIMES Prynne in "Disserta- the seventh clay, that would not fur- the Lord's clay." Although not so tion on. the Lord's Dad'," pages 36-41, nish evidence that it was the Sabbath. stated, it is claimed that this was the 1633. However, what proof we have on the first day of the week, or Sunday. The The above are all learned first-day subject indicates that the Pentecost first day of the week is mentioned in authorities. The fact that the apostle marked by the outpouring of the Holy both the Old and the New Testament broke bread on this occasion gives no Spirit came on the seventh day. just nine times, as follows : sacredness to this clay more than to any The Passover was celebrated the I. Moses, 1490 B. c.: "The evening other, for bread was broken on any evening of the 14th of Abib, or Nisan. and the morning were the first day." day of the week. The early disciples (Exodus 12 : 2, 6 ; 13 : 4.) The next Genesis I : 5. broke bread "daily." Acts 2: 46. clay was the Passover Sabbath ; this 2. Matthew, 41 A. D.: "In the end of This was Paul's last visit' to Troas, was Nisan 15th. (Leviticus 23 : 5-7.) the Sabbath, as it began to dawn to- and it was fitting that its closing hours "And ye shall count unto you from ward the first day of the week." Mat- should be spent in partaking of the the morrow after the sabbath (the thew 28: I. emblems of our Lord's broken body Passover sabbath), . . seven sab- 3. Paul, 57 A. D.: "Upon the first and spilt blood ; but these memorialized baths shall be complete : even unto the clay of the week." I Corinthians 16: 2. • His death, not His resurrection. ( morrow after the seventh sabbath shall 4. Luke, 6o A. D.: "Now upon the Corinthians IT : 26. ) ye number fifty clays." Leviticus 23: first day of the week." Luke 24: I. A PRIVATE TRANSACTION 15, 16. The morrow after the Sabbath 5. Luke, 63 A. D.: "And upon the would be Nisan 16th, and the Feast of 4. More than half of the books of the first day of the week." Acts 2o: 7. Pentecost came fifty days later, includ- New Testament were written by Paul, 6. Mark, 64 A. D.: "Very early in the the apostle to the gentiles. He men- ing Nisan 16th. Astronomical calcula- morning the first day of the week." tion shows that Nisan 14th, in 31 A. D., tions the first day of the week but once. Mark 16 : 2. Writing to the church at Corinth "con- came on Thursday. The Passover sup- 7. Mark, "Now when Jesus was cerning the collection for the saints," per was celebrated that evening, and risen early the first day of the week." he says : "Upon the first day of the the next day was Friday, Nisan 15th, Mark 16 : 9. week let every one of you lay by him the clay of the crucifixion, and also the 8. John, 97 A. D.: "The first day of in store, as God bath prospered him, Passover sabbath ; evidently, this was the week cometh Mary Magdalene that there be no gatherings when I the reason the Jews would not enter early." John 20: I. come." I Corinthians 16: 2. Pilate's judgment hall. ( John 18 : 28.) 9. John, 97 A. D.: "Then the same This was an annual sabbath and came It has been claimed that this was a clay at evening, being the first day of on a different day each year. In the public collection, and therefore proof the week." John 20: 19. that the early church conducted their Not once is the first day of the week worship on the first day of the week. modified by such terms as "holy," "My Nothing can be further from the facts holy day," "the • Sabbath," . "Lord's in the case. Where was this offering clay," or any title or descriptive words made ?—The text says, "Let every one or phrases that would indicate that it of you lay by him in store." was considered otherwise than one of Greenfield translates this expression, "the six working days." Ezekiel 46: T. "With one's self, i. e., at home." The (Continued next week) Latin of the Vulgate, "Aptcd se„ with one's self ; at home." A CHANGED ATTITUDE TO- Martin, Osterwald, and De Sacy, three French translators, render it, WARD THE SABBATH "Chez soi,. at his own house ; at home." (Continued from page 7) Luther's German gives, "Bei sick It is refreshing to know, however, selbst, by himself ; at home" ; the Dutch that there are honest men who recog- is the same as the German. nize the fact that there is no divine The Italian of Diodati, "Appresso di authority for Sunday observance. se, in his own presence ; at home" When learned men like the late Dr. Felippe Scio, Spanish, has, "En sic casa, Lyman Abbott come out boldly and ad- in his own house" ; the Portuguese of mit that the ministers are fooling- the Ferreira, "Para isso, with himself" ; the people on this point, it ought to cause Swedish, "Nay sig self, near himself." them to consider their ways. The disciples of Christ, even after His Webster defines "lay by," to "lay ascension into heaven, never knew any- Dr. Abbott says that "the current away." There is not a hint in any of thing of Sunday as a holy day. notion that Christ and His apostles these expressions of a public meeting. authoritatively substituted the first day The first day of the week, the begin- year 31 A. 0., the year of the crucifix- for the seventh, is absolutely without ning of its laboring portion, one was to ion, it came on Friday, Nisan 15th ; and any authority in the New Testament." look over his past week's income, and consequently,' the feast of Pentecost, If Dr. Abbott could not find in the 110 lay away a sum according as God had which was fifty clays later, would occur New Testament the authority for the prospered him. This fund was reck- on Saturday, the Lord's Sabbath in change of the Sabbath from the sev- oned on the basis of his prosperity. In 31 A. D. Olshausen, the great German enth to the first clay of the week, the the case of a merchant or business man, authority, writing of the Pentecost, appeal of any other preacher for Sun- it would involve an examination of his after giving several reasons, concludes day observance must be. a weak one. accounts. This would be more in keep- by saying, "The fiftieth day fell, there- The only basis for faith must be ing with a working clay than with the fore, it appears, upon Saturday." found in the Bible ; and when we Sabbath. • Jennings,, in "Jewish Antiquities," preach doctrines that contradict the 5. It has been stated that Pentecost says, "The clay of Pentecost must fall Bible, we have lost our appeal. came on Sunday, and the descent of the on the Saturday, or the Jewish' Sab- The only safe course for the child of Holy Spirit witnessed to the change of bath." Such eminent scholars as Prof. God to follow is. the Bible. No one the Sabbath. The very thing to be H. B. Hackett, D. D., Lightfoot, Kui- need fear the judgment day if his con- proved is assumed. Assumption with- nol, Hitzig, and Weisler sustain this duct measures up to the standard of out a divine command is worthless. position. God's word as authority. In the judg- Even if the Pentecost came on the first 6. The last text in the Bible used to ment day, God will honor His own day, that, in itself, offers no proof of a support Sunday is Revelation I: To, word and justify every life that con- change of the Sabbath ; or, if it came on which reads : "I was in the Spirit on forms to His word. for FEBRUARY 9, 1926 Page Eleven . W,hat's Wrong with the Cigarette

ET us go to the chemical laboratory the stimulation needed. Whisky, after , to see if we can there learn why the stimulation has passed, leaves its J 4 it is that tobacco, in the form of devotees in what we call a drunken cigarette smoking, is so much more stupor, from which he must take time harmful and so different in its effects to sober up; the furfurole of the cig- upon the body than when used in other arette would do exactly the same thing ways. To be wholly honest in this dis- were it not for the presence of the cussion, we want to say that the man other chemical by-product,—acrolein. who chews tobacco and the woman who Acrolein, or acraldehyde as it is dips snuff deal only with the poison technically called, is a powerful nerve known as nicotine, and that, so far as stimulant, having a most depressing tobacco is concerned, 'they get none of Not a question, but an answer. after effect. The name means, "a • the by-products, or chemical corn-• sharp oil," which indeed it is ; and our pounds, but nicotine only; while the The second half of the article, books tell us that "it attacks the mucous smoker is dealing chiefly with chemical The Chemist and the Cigarette. membranes in a most violent manner." compounds that are produced as by- It is the extraordinary stimulating ef- products in the burning, or combus- fect that makes it such a diabolical com- tion, of the tobacco. OTHO C. GODSMARK, M. D. panion of the debasing furfurole. The There is little or no nicotine found furfurole alone would so stupefy the in the smoke. That is not where the smoker as to leave him in a semicon- during the long process of aging. It trouble lies. From the stem of the scious condition, just as whisky does, is claimed to be fifty times more pipe and the stub of the cigar and only for a shorter length of time. But cigarette there is a certain amount of poisonous than is whisky. It is this the acrolein prolongs the stimulation furfurole that makes the newly made, nicotine derived, with its ' damaging and the good-feeling effect the smoker wildcat whisky so terrible in its effects. effects ; but, in this article, we are not desires. Were it not for the acrolein, The man or boy who smokes a cigarette dealing with nicotine, but with the the cigarette smoker would simply be a is taking into his system the very same three chemical by-products produced in whisky fiend ; but the acrolein miti- chemical that makes the wildcat whisky the smoking of the cigarette. gates the effects of the furfurole in al- what it is. He is drinking as well as most the same way as morphine In the pipe and the cigar, the nicotine smoking, and the drunkard is no more smooths over and shortens the un- is largely changed into two elements enchained by thirst for drink than is pleasant effects of alcoholic excess. known as collidine and pyridine; while the cigarette smoker by the cigarette. DEFINE DAMAGE DONE in the cigarette it is largely changed The chemical in whisky and the chemi- into furfurole, acrolein, and carbon cal produced by smoking the cigarette When a chemical fifty times more monoxide. are one and the same thing; only the poisonous than whisky is drawn di- To the tobacco user, nothing could one is claimed to be fifty times more rectly into the air passages where the seem more harmless than the innocent- destructive to the living tissues of the blood stream rushes it on to the deli- looking cigarette. So often have I had body than is the other. cate membranes of the brain, we must it said to me, "What's wrong with my The drunkard must take large expect that damage will be done ; and cigarette ? I buy the very choicest of draughts of liquor in order to get the we must not be surprised if the micros- tobacco. No one's hands touch it but stimulation desired; but so powerful is copists tell us that they find that the my own. I wrap it in the very purest, the narcotic from the cigarette that a terminal buds of the rootlets that go whitest paper that money can buy. few puffs will, for a time, supply all out into the brain in search of food do Now, what's wrong with my ciga- seem to be burned off, or in some way rette ?" That is the very question we stunted in their activity. The blood are here to answer. Your tobacco may stream going from the heart to the be as good as it is possible for tobacco The Unseen Way brain gathers up these poisons that "at- to be. The paper, Which we are in- ROBERT HARE tack the mucous membrane in a most violent manner" in the throat and nasal formed is made principally from rice Unseen the path that lies before, and all straw, is, probably, as clean as paper Unknown the way that waits my wearied passages, and carries them direct to feet. can ever be ; but when tobacco is burned Unmeasured still the distant steeps that rise where the nerve cells are located. Where misty clouds and lofty mountains When the tender, terminal bud of the in connection with this very paper, the meet ; nicotine of the tobacco is, by the pro- Yet, confident, I ever hasten on, unfolding fern leaf becomes injured, Waiting in hope His brighter dawn. cess of combustion, changed into three the growth of that leaf is stopped right Rude thorns may pierce, divergent paths be- distinct chemical products ; namely fur- tray, there. When the growing boy inhales furole, acrolein, and carbon monoxide, While darkness hides the flowers that the fearful furfurole gas into his nasal cheering bloom; entirely different products from the Pitfalls distress and rougher tempests blow, and bronchial passages, how can the Sending their terror to the deepening collidine and pyridine into which the gloom. tender, terminal buds of the rootlets of nicotine is changed when tobacco is Held by His hand, I hasten onward still, the cells of his brain escape? Trusting the greatness of His will. burned in the bowl of the pipe or in the All know carbon monoxide to be a Friendship may change, withdraw its smile, cigar. This may be due to the burning and die, deadly poison, the same as comes from of the rice straw itself or to the small And loving lips turn cold in hate or death; the exhaust of the automobile. It is The charms that cheered all disappear and amount of arsenic that is said to be pass this poison that affects the lungs and As mist-born clouds or morning's sunny used in bleaching the paper. breath. the heart's action. Pledged by His promise, still I calmly rest, The sad part about the cigarette THE CHEMISTRY OF A CIGARETTE Believing all He wills is best. habit is that many smokers do not, can Having found this difference, let us 0 heart of mine, fear not; He knows the way, not, see the harm it is doing them. The study the three chemical by-products in The thorns that pierce, the cherished hopes whisky drinker will usually thank you that die, their order. First, the furfurole is Friendships that pass, and rugged steeps that for any effort you may try to make to chemically known as one of the alde- rise To meet the arching of the distant sky. help him to quit his habit. The smoker hydes; that is, it is one of the alcohols He knows; but still He kindly calls me on, will usually lay aside his pipe or cigar To meet the glory of His coming dawn. derived from its hydrogen. It is found • long enough to argue the case with you in newly made whiskies, but disappears (Continued on slags 15)

Page Twelve SIGNS of the TIMES The Abundance of God's Pardon

HOUGH ye have lien among the a sermon by of their lives. Thus many who are pots, yet shall ye be as the wings trying to be Christians carry a great T of a dove covered with silver, WILLIAM H. BRANSON burden needlessly, fearing that perhaps and her feathers with yellow gold." God has not forgiven something of Psalm 68: 13. which they have been guilty. In the days when these words were Notice the marginal rendering here. written, cooking was done out of doors Where it says in the text, "He will over open fires. Naturally, the pots abundantly pardon," the margin says, thus used became very black. It was - "He will multiply to pardon." God customary for one suffering great sor- does not stint the pardon given to men S row or bereavement to make a public and women who repent of their sins. exhibition of his distress by sitting in He will not only pardon us, but He will the ashes and among these smutty pots. multiply pardon, making it so full and David uses this as an illustration to complete and so abundant that it cov- show the terrible contaminating, black- ers every possible sin that we have ever ening influence of sin. As the one who committed, so that an individual who lay among the pots would be blackened, fect such a complete separation that the has received this pardon from the so is he who mingles with sin or cher- individual need not perish, is set forth Lord can stand before Him just as ishes it in his life. in the last part of our text : "Though pure and innocent and clean as though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall he had never sinned at all. SIN BRINGETH FORTH DEATH ye be as the wings of a dove covered Another use of the word "abun- All that is wrong with the world is with silver, and her feathers with yel- dantly" is made in Ephesians 3: 17- sin. Sin is the only thing that mars low gold." 20: "That Christ may dwell in your and blackens the life. Sin is respon- What a striking contrast ! A life hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted sible for all the sorrow and the misery blackened and ruined by in, as though and grounded in love, may be able to and the degradation in the world to- lying among the pots, so completely comprehend with all saints what is the day. And so terrible is its contaminat- cleansed from defilement that it can be breadth, and length, and depth, and ing influence and effect that it brings likened to the wings of a dove, a bird height; and to know the love of Christ, death to all who have to do with it. symbolical of beauty, purity, and inno- which passeth knowledge, that ye James tells us that "when lust hath con- cence ! And then, in order to make the might be filled with all the fullness of ceived, it bringeth forth sin : and sin, contrast still more striking, we are God. Now unto Him that is able to do when it is finished, bringeth forth given the picture of a dove whose exceeding abundantly above all that we death.' James I: 15. Sin may not wings are covered with silver. ask or think, according to the power seem so harmful at first, but when it is TO THE UTTERMOST that worketh in us.". finished, when it is full-grown, when Thus Isaiah says, "He will abun- the ultimate conclusion , -has been This thought is in harmony with that dantly pardon." But Paul here goes reached, it brings death. Sin so com- expressed in Hebrews 7: 25, where the further, and emphasizes the abundance pletely ruins the individual that he is writer declares that Christ is able to with which God will pardon. He says unfit to live even in this world,—much save to the uttermost all who come He will "do exceeding abundantly unto God by Him. There is no limit less in God's kingdom. above all that we ask or think." Or as There was a time in the history of to what God can do for the sinner who expressed in the Modern Speech y-- s- the world when God dealt direct with will come to Him for cleansing. The lation, "Now to Him who, in tne ex- His people, and through the priest re- depths into which he may have fallen, ercise of His power that is at work vealed His will in individual cases. the number of times he may have within us, is able to do infinitely beyond Then a man who willfully broke one of fallen, matter not; Jesus can lift him all our highest prayers or thoughts." the divine commandments was taken up and save him to the uttermost. Such outside the camp, and stoned immedi- a statement does not mean that He will A COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION ately. His sin was so heinous in the pardon some iniquities, leaving the life What are your prayers and your eyes of God, and his influence was so only partly blackened, but that every thoughts, your desires regarding the contaminating to others, that he was particle of defilement is taken away. forgiveness of your sins? As you regarded as unfit to mingle with his Not only is our Saviour able to cleanse kneel before God, and, in meditation, fellow men. the life, but He longs to do it. He gave your failures arise before your mind, His life that He might have the privi- The days of the theocracy are in the you think, "0 that God might blot lege of doing it. His yearning to do past, and the wicked are not immedi- them all out so completely that I need this is set forth in the words of Isaiah : ately destroyed. God allows sin to go never think of them again !" Possibly "Seek ye the Lord while He may be O on ; but by His word He warns men you even get the courage to ask God to that if they do not forsake sin, it will found, call ye upon Him while He is do it ; and yet, after all that, you are not only ruin their lives and blacken near : let the wicked forsake his way, still troubled over those sins. Such an their characters, but it will finally re- and the unrighteous man his thoughts : experience is unnecessary ; God is able and let him return unto the Lord, and sult in death. God can not take sin to do infinitely more than we ask or into His kingdom. It is sin that has He will have mercy upon him ; and to think when we seek His forgiveness. caused the separation between man and our God, for He will abundantly par- Our heavenly Father not only for- his Maker; and in order for the com- don." Isaiah 55 : 6, 7. gives the sins, of men and women whose plete restoration of God's kingdom, it The emphasis is on the word "abun- lives have been so blackened with sin, must eventually be destroyed. dantly." It is not uncommon for so completely ruined that they are un- people to feel that some of their sins fit to live in human society, but He so GOD MUST DESTROY SIN have been so grievous that God could transforms these poor sinners that they God must destroy sin,—if not by a not possibly, pardon them. They do not can be called the sons of God. No complete separation of it from the life, doubt that God can and will forgive wonder the apostle John exclaimed : then it must be by the destruction of what they think are the lesser sins, but "Behold, what manner of love the the individual with the sin from which they can not believe that He will Father hath bestowed upon us, that we he refuses to part. God's ability to ef- pardon the great outstanding misdeeds should be called the sons of God" ! for FEBRUARY 9, 1926 Page Thirteen EVOLUTION SCOUTS THE cheered an innumerable company of present discussion is to point out that ATONEMENT the saints of all ages in loneliness, in such a scheme of cosmic despair is torture, at the stake, or in toil while completely at variance with that por- page 6) (Continued from proclaiming it in distant lands ; are we trayed in the Christian's Bible. And age or the present order of things is asked to surrender this hope for such a unless the latter is completely false, the concerned. True, it has a bright future gospel of despair as this, now offered former is merely the invention of in- in store, when "there shall be no more us in the name of organic evolution? genious unbelievers, who refuse to ac- death, neither sorrow, nor crying, The Christian view is that the pres- cept that warm, joyful, inspiring solu- neither shall there be any more pain." ent order is but a temporary condition ; tion of the enigma of life which has Revelation 21 : 4. But it treats the the time is,coming when a great world- been revealed to mankind direct by present condition of the world as being change will occur, when the world will the only Being in the universe who can hopelessly diseased ; and only by the come under the direct and special rule really know what the future is to be. abrupt ending of the present age and of the Lord Jesus Christ. This change (Concluded next week) the supernatural replacement of the is not a gradual kind of transition ; it • present by the direct reign of Christ as is sudden and abrupt. In the Christian EGYPT, A MONUMENT TO King of kings and Lord of lords, can S view of the matter, it is utterly un- PROPHECY. that reign of eternal joy and happiness thinkable that the present order—in- (Continued from page 5) be ushered in. But between this and volving innumerable births and deaths, that lies a dark shadow, like the death with incomputable suffering and mis- cate workmanship, were raised figures of the race; only on the other side of ery in the interim—should continue of the constellations, and the stars which can the vision of faith discern throughout eternity. which composed them. The globe the tearless eye, the fadeless cheek, and struck Ingersoll's fancy. He turned it a social state unmarred by sin, hatred, Thank God, the Holy Bible gives no around and around with admiration. or oppression. countenance to such a hopeless world- "That is just what I want," he said. The evolution doctrine, even at its nightmare ; there is to be a change, and "Who made it ?" highest level of hopefulness, never had by many it is thought that the change "Who made it, do you ask, colonel ?" any such outlook. At best, it promised is not far distant. However this may repeated Beecher. "Who made this a sort of salvation of the race through be, the chief point is that there is to globe ?—Why, nobody, of course. It the alleged .perfectibility of mankind as be a change ; and that ultimately the just happened." a whole, and tried to cheer us with the long reign of sinning and suffering and When confronted with facts of ful- dying will become but a memory, if hazy hope, as Philip Mauro expresses fillment of prophecy, you are compelled indeed even the relic of a memory will it, that the world might at some time by the evidence to admit that your sole remain to fret and annoy those who are "become a more comfortable place for explanation is, "It just happened:" the man of the future to sin and die in." so happy as to become partakers of The fact that it has never happened that bright•immortal life. But the evo- But such a hope is pitifully inadequate outside the Bible you do not attempt to lution doctrine has nothing -as a sub- as a message for those who, here and explain. You do say that you will not stitute for this hope of the world, as now, under this hideous handicap of accept any explanation that has the revealed in the Christian's Bible. sin, fail in the sad conflict with in- supernatural in it. Is that a reasonable herited animalism. Certain is it that EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAM FUTILE attitude to take toward evidence, es- evolution has no message of salvation The utter futility of the evolutionary pecially when you admit that you can for the moral failures of our day, nor program for the future is well stated not explain on natural grounds the for those of all past ages, unless it may by Dr. Joseph A. Leighton of Ohio many marvelous examples of fulfilled be supposed that, at some future time, State Uni,.-crsity. Even if we may sup- prophecy I have given,—and which are such beings are to be reincarnated at a pose that moral and humane progress not a hundredth part of what might be higher stage of the racial development goes on through the welter of indus- adduced ? and provided with another chance un- trialism, commercialism, and war, who, In my next letter I will consider the der less hard conditions. And, of he asks, are to enjoy the final fruits of most all-embracing prophecy in the course, in the minds of those evolution- this progress? Is humanity, as it toils Bible, outlining the history of all na- ists who hold such views, the program in history, "engaged in an endless and tions of the earth, beginning more than of racial development, reincarnation, goalless task" ? Or is the goal to be two thousand years ago and reaching and all, is to be accomplished fatalisti- reached only by some far-off genera- to the present moment. cally, quite without the intervention of tion, while "all the preceding genera- I was glad to receive your last letter any divine mediator and the death of a tions will have been mere 'hewers of telling us of your proposed visit for divine sacrifice. wood and drawers of water' to serve the holidays. You know how welcome Most evolutionists, however, have the welfare of the final happy one"? your visit will be. not been able to cheer themselves with "Is it the lot of the living members of Your loving son, any such hope, feeble and uncertain each generation simply to toil, and suf- EARLS. though it be. Most of them would fer, and achieve somewhat, in order to • probably express themselves in the hand on to the following generation a MOSES AND MEXICO pathetic language of Bertrand Russell : nest of problems, with (and at) which (C6ntinued from page 3) "Brief and powerless is man's life ; that generation, in turn, will labor, to washing of the waves as the water low- on him and all his race the slow, sure pass to the grave, and be forgotten ered itself into its present place. The doom falls pitiless and dark." "The after a brief toil at an endless task— deposits of sea fossils are strong evi- life of man is a long march through one which is never done, but continues dence of the time when the country was the night, surrounded by invisible foes. and changes throughout the centuries overflowed by the Flood. I have, in tortured by weariness and pain, toward and the eons without final goal ?"— my study, many rock formations show- a goal that few can hope ,to reach, and "The Field of Philosophy," page 5or; ing clearly the imprint of shells and where none may tarry long. 'One by edition of 1923. sea animals. They are exactly like the one, as they march, our comrades van- There is no need for us to dwell on shells to be found to-day, thus showing ish from our sight, seized by the silent the utter inadequacy of such a system also that there is no new creation going orders of omnipotent Death."—"Ilivs- of philosophy, with its endless round of on now. ticisin and Logic," page 56. birth, struggle, and death, until our That which Moses wrote about the Are we, as Christians, asked to sur- earth finally tumbles into the sun, or finished creation is true:, likewise that render our hope of immortal life,—a becomes frozen by the exhaustion of which he wrote of the Flood is true. hope that has been confirmed by the the central heating plant of the solar Mexico and Moses are one on these resurrection of our Lord, that has system. The one thing pertinent to our points: Page Fourteen SIGNS of the TIMES SIG S. 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for FEBRUARY 9, 1 9 2 6 Page Fifteen EN may deny the existence honest ; the brutal and the profli- M of God, and scoff at the gate become meek and pure; and thought of the Infinite One; but the hardened sinner becomes a they can not deny His works, or child of God. Everywhere in ignore the laws of nature laid every land the story is the same. down by Him who is the Creator. The seeds of the word are' sown, All nature is controlled by certain and the savage is changed into fixed laws, and our very existence the image of Christ; the heathen, is dependent upon them. We are surrounded • this is the law laid down by the Creator, steeped in superstition and darkness, is by laws. We see them in operation every- when He said : "Let the earth bring forth changed to a living Christian ; so changed where. grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit that the very expression on his face is dif- An apple is broken off the tree. It does tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed ferent. God's man is in every sense different not remain suspended in midair or fly away is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so." from Buddha's man. And we are led to into space; it falls to the ground. This is Genesis 1: exclaim: "What bath God wrought!" the law of nature. Men call it the law of The power of that word, spoken six thou- The word of God is the living word, and gravitation. It is that mighty unseen "pull," sand years ago, is still manifested in all na- it obeys the law of its Author—it brings unexplainable by science, that stretches its ture to-day. That word is still living and forth fruit. Men may ridicule this word, arm across the abyss of space, and holds our active, and all nature obeys. but they can not deny its fruits, which are earth in its orbit. Were it not for this law, There is also power in the word of God to apparent everywhere. Can we imagine a chaos would be the result. But this "law of change the lives of men. When this word watch and no watchmaker, or a house and gravitation" is only another term used to is planted in the human heart, it, too, will no builder? Can there be laws but no law- express the power of God manifested in His bring forth fruit after its own kind. It will giver? fruit produced without seed? Ah, word. It is not inanimate nature, but the bring forth the fruit of the Spirit of God. men may deny the Creator and ignore His Eternal One, who upholds "all things by the We can but marvel at the change that is word ; but His laws are with us still! "He word of His power," and by whom "all wrought in the hearts of men by the power hath made His wonderful Works to be re- things • consist." of this word. We plant the seeds of truth, membered." Psalm III : 4. The fruit of Wheat will not bring forth potatoes, nor and the fruit of the gospel appears in all its His word remains. Yea, they may deny; will corn bring forth squash. Each plant beauty. The drunkard is changed into a but, surely, He who dwells in the heavens can but bring forth after its own kind, for sober man; the robber and the thief become and sees all must marvel at such stupidity!