NOVEMBER, 1952 . . . . TWENTY-FIVE CENTS

A BIBLICAL INTERPRETER

IN THIS ISSUE: Small Fry Criminals ifsf;TIMES., From Our Readers F NOVEMBER, 1952 VOL. 61 No. 11

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2 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 "History is but the un- "We have also a more PAGEANT of sure word of proph- rolled scroll of proph- ecy."—Garfield. P PHECY ecy."-2 Peter 1:19. Because of the hundreds of Bible texts dealing prophetically with our troubled days, THESE TIMES presents this new feature. It will bring in to sharp focus the true meaning of world events.

FLYING SAUCERS. Prophecy: "And fearful sights...shall there be from heaven." Luke 21:11.

The Bible predicts that one of the striking phenomena of these last days (when anything can happen, it seems) is the appearance, in the skies, of sights that produce fear.

This is not the first time in history that supernatural sights have occurred in the heavens. For example, all the awesome predictions given by Christ concern- ing the destruction of Jerusalem were fulfilled to the letter about forty years after His death. Signs and wonders appeared, foreboding disaster and doom. In the midst of the night an unnatural light shone over the temple and the altar. Upon the clouds at sunset were pictured chariots and men of war gathering for battle. The priests ministering by night in the sanctuary were terrified by mysterious sounds; the earth trembled, and a multitude of voices were heard crying, "Let us depart hence." The great eastern gate, which was so heavy that it could hardly be shut by a score of men, and which was secured by immense bars of iron fastened deep in the pavement of solid stone, opened at midnight, without visible agency. These occurrences were substantiated by the historian Milan in his History of the Jews, book 13.

So far, it is true that the flying saucers have not produced mass fear. Yet indications are that they are being taken very seriously by scientists and high governmental officials....Recently the Air Defense Command alerted jet interceptor pilots to take off instantly in pursuit of any flying saucers sighted anywhere in the country. (The phenomenon is not limited to the U.S.; for the saucers have been seen in Cuba, England, Russia, and elsewhere. Within one month saucers were reported by people in 148 states.) Scientific observation posts have been set up in New Mexico, where we are testing guided missiles to track flying saucers. The Air Force has instructed its 150,000 volunteer aircraft spotters to watch not only for enemy planes but flying saucers. Special cameras have been set up on radar screens to keep a pictorial record of flying saucers or any other strange objects flitting across the screens.

Adding to the uncertainty concerning the saucers are the statements by two top scientists. Dr. Walther Riedel, once chief designer and research director at the German rocket center in Peenemunde, now engaged in secret work for the U.S., says, "I am completely convinced that they have an out-of-world basis." Dr. Maurice A. Hot, one of the leading aerodynamicists in the U.S. and a prominent mathematical physicist, states, "My opinion for some time has been that they have an extraterrestrial origin."

What is the Biblical answer to the flying saucers? There is much Scriptural backing to the conclusion that the saucers are the work of demons. (Satan is the prince of the air.) With these saucerlike shapes as a beginning, Satan and his forces could appear in various manifestations and perform miracle after miracle, all designed to draw men's attention from the things of God. The saucers as such may or may not continue, but like fearful sights will appear more and more fre- quently, according to the Bible.

THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 3 INTERNATIONAL NEWS Illinois' youngest murderer. This eager reader of comics killed his seven-year-old playmate. Below: This fifteen-year-old boy shot and killed a younger chum of his in "make-believe" handling of a gun. By ARNOLD BENGSTON

E LOOKED no different from your portant that our youth have the physical, neighbors' college-age sons—alert, mental, and moral stamina to meet the H clean-cut, wearing a white sweat uncertainties and discouragements, as shirt and neat gray trousers. He was well as the accomplishments and re- twenty years old and had served time in wards, of life. three prisons since he was sixteen. What is a juvenile delinquent? The Through the wire barrier he talked about National Probation and Parole Associa- many things in the casual, detached way tion defines a delinquent child as "(a) of the younger generation. We talked one who has violated any law of the some, too; but mostly we listened, in- state; (b) one who by reason of being wardly marveling at the similarity of his wayward, or habitually disobedient, is general appearance to that of a hundred uncontrolled by his parents, guardian,

INTERNATIONAL NEWS other boys we had seen. or custodian; (c) one who is habitually This fifteen-year-old boy faces the cell which will In an urgent, puzzled tone he asked a truant from school or home; (d) one be his home through a twenty-five-year prison sen- question, which was in essence: "I wish who habitually deports himself so as to tence. He was convicted of killing a married woman. you would explain one thing to me. I impair or endanger the morals or health was born in a religious home; my mother of himself." The pressing fact is that was a Christian; I went to church and one of the most critical and challenging had all the advantages of Christian as- problems confronting the American peo- sociation. Yet here I am in prison, while ple in this generation is the maladjust- many others who have never seen the ment of increasing numbers of our inside of a church are free to come and youth. go as they please." Whenever a person approaches the To some people it is a deep and dark subject of juvenile delinquency, he mystery why some people go wrong and ought to do so objectively, and with an others do not. We didn't try to get to eye to the present state of society, as the bottom of his story, but he seemed represented by the home and com- very willing to talk. We later found out munity. Modern-day people, busy mak- that his father was a drunkard and that ing a living in this hectic world, despair his home life had been far from perfect. over the younger generation, and refer He had other things to say that were in- one back to the "good old days when I teresting. was young," avowing that they never INTERNATIONAL NEWS "I wish," he continued in a pensive got away with half of what is generally A seventeen-year-old college student is led toward imprisonment for twenty-four burglaries, five assault mood, "that there were some way that all accepted or condoned today. charges, and a murder. He is in the sheriff's custody. these young kids had the chance to have One is inclined to believe that there a good look at the inside of a prison cell is some truth in that. Discipline in the and see the results of a life of crime, and home is not what it used to be, with to- there would be less trouble with teen- day's slackening of moral standards. A agers." home was then a home. Today, what is It is during his childhood and teen it? We, as Americans, pride ourselves on age that a person builds the frame- good homes, but in many cases, what are work into which his life must fit. The they more than just places to sleep and opportunities that come to him later— eat? And in some instances they are not both social and material—depend upon even that. what kind of character he develops in his Says the Federal Bureau of Investiga- younger years. That is why it is so im- tion: "The basic cause of juvenile delin- THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 CRIM

quency can be found in unsatisfactory home conditions, where divorce, poverty, ignorant parents, and similar factors militate against the children getting a firm start in life." Consider these typical case histories from a public welfare office: "Sarah's mother brought her to us when Sarah was two months old. Her mother, ill in mind and body, had been moving from one place to another, stay- ing in cheap rooming houses and hotels ever since her husband died two months before Sarah's birth. Sarah was im- mediately placed in the hospital, and the mother and child-welfare worker re- quested the juvenile court to give the department of public welfare temporary custody of Sarah, who was critically ill. She weighed only a few ounces more than she had at birth, could make no sound except a faint wail, and no food seemed to agree with her. After a week in the hospital, she was discharged to our care and placed in a foster home. . . . Permanent plans for Sarah depend on what progress her mother makes in the hospital where she is now a patient." "Jack was eighteen months old when the juvenile court asked the department

of public welfare to provide for him. His M. M. LAMBERT mother had placed him in a large com- mercial nursery, and then left the city without making further plans. When he came to us, he could not walk or talk, Juvenile Victims of Circumstances? ate no solid foods, and was contented only in a baby bed. He was afraid of everyone, but especially of men. It took home following his mother's death and restaurants for his food. Sometimes, after several months for the court to deter- his father's disappearance." working until midnight, he did not go mine permanent custody, and during "Billy, thirteen years old, was reported to school the next day. . . . Billy was that time, Jack lived in one of our foster to us by his teacher because he was large for his age, quiet, sometimes sullen, homes, learning to walk and talk, to truanting from school. The school had suspicious of everyone, and seemingly with no close friends, either boys his play with toys, and to find out that all found out that his parents were both people were not his natural enemies." dead, and his relatives had put him out own age or adults." "Joe had been in five schools in less of their home after an argument. He was What a start these children have had than two years when he went to a foster sleeping in cars and working at night in in life! Or perhaps we should say, What THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 5 have neglected the Bible and its princi- ples, and have not brought up their chil- Small Fry CRIMINALS Continued . . . . dren "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." The judge of a juvenile court in one a lack of it! In their early days, just cent-looking in their appearance—but of our large cities proved this to his own when it is most imperative that a child over all there is that unmistakable aura satisfaction by asking each of 3,000 receive the proper home training and of boyish masculinity. There we saw cases of juvenile delinquency to repeat parental affection, these and many other big, friendly, red-haired B.; smaller, the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Command- children of today have hardly a smatter- twinkle-in-his-eye T. (with air ing of proper care and management. Is it any wonder that they grow up into a life of delinquency and crime? Fortunate indeed is the child The youth of today are militated whose parents will give him against—are handicapped in making a good beginning to the game of life, not the joy of love and com- only in the home, but in the environ- panionship, and show him ment which the collective homes make the power to be gained in up. Note this kaleidoscope of stumbling worshiping God. He is thus blocks, quoted as a simple summary of assured of a preparation for world conditions in The Youth's In- the game of life which will structor, March 25, 1952: ensure his success in taking "Capone! Dillinger! 'Pretty Boy' on the responsibilities of Floyd! Gamblers, gunmen, murderers, adulthood. sex crimes, teen-age narcotic addicts! In- creased juvenile delinquency! An over- worked F.B.I. Corrupt leaders on city, state, and national levels. Multibillion- dollar alcohol consumption. Drunken driving. Public utterances by distin- guished leaders concerning the attributes and habits of their opponents. Over- crowded mental institutions. Continual labor-management strife, and the use of A. ROBERTS force, strikes, lockouts, and the like at any time and with no regard to the cropped short for running away); roly- effect on anyone, including the sick and poly, always-smiling G.; and long-legged, dying. A succession of movies that slim, truant J.—examples of thousands of glorify crime, sex, loose living, and any others of those creatures known as boys, other thing that is contemplated to at- boys who had gone "wrong." The in- tract the public eye, and attract some of herent traits were exemplified there: the public money. The glorious sport of the insatiable curiosity, the boastful air, professional wrestling. Corruptions in the quick sense of humor, the disarming amateur sports. The passion to grasp a frankness, and the outwardly indifferent dollar, no matter who suffers." attitude belied by a hero-worshipful eye. What chance has the innocent, naive One has a strong feeling that here are youngster of today against such a be- growing youth of tremendous poten- wildering array of contaminating in- tiality, destined to be corrupted and fluences as these! And if you protest that wasted if someone does not help them. you don't have a "naive youngster," but One author has described these boys in EWING GALLOWAY an exceptionally bright, discerning boy high-flown language as the "evil spawn who can see through these things and of a materialistic world"; to others of us not be affected by them, you certainly they are just boys who have never had ments, and the twenty-third Psalm. are fortunate; but, unfortunately, you a chance. However we generalize about Only one of these thousands was able I are in the minority. Nobody needs to be their status, it is obvious that most of to quote these passages of Scripture. The told that our juvenile courts, our reform them are victims of circumstances. Most "wantonness" cannot better be exempli- schools, and our prisons of today are not of them (ruling out some mental de- fied than by the wave of vandalism wasting space. fectives and some so-called "incorrigi- which has been plaguing the country's In most of our "training schools" bles") have in them the stuff to be large cities of late. Vandalism in New throughout the country, the situation is normal, decent, law-abiding citizens. York City's parks and playgrounds in generally the same. Most of them are While shopping for causes, we should 1951 cost $250,000. In other cities, overcrowded. The first thing one sees remember that the Bible predicts that Nashville, for example, there has been when he visits a certain training school our age would be characterized by wan- an epidemic of broken windows, for boys is boys. They are all over the tonness and a general disregard for par- wrecked school buildings, and defaced place—tall ones, short ones, fat and slim, ents' authority by their children. It is the public and private property. dark and fair, mean-looking and inno- inevitable result of centuries of sin. Men Jack Gould, in the New York Times 6 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 for April 29, 1951, tells the poignant story of a "question [which] was as spon- taneous as it could possibly be" put by a small boy in a classroom discussion in that city. • "Mister,' the boy said earnestly, 'the If you can use your heart when all about you cops and teachers keep tellin' us that Have silenced theirs and think you sentimental too; crime doesn't pay and all that. If they're If you can trust your boy when all men doubt him right, how come television puts on so And let him see you really trust him too; much crime stuff and shows how to do If you can know large victory comes by small ones it?' " Yet always keep tlait larger one in view: The heading of that paragraph in the If )itott can wait results with endless patience Times could not have been more perti- Yet never feel that waiting's all to do; nent. It was, "Logic." If you can p.ww the lad when praise is needed At the juvenile aid bureau in one of our southern cities the chief probation Yet never let him feel that victory's easily won; officer made the following significant If you can let him blunder when so doing statements during our conversation with He'll know himself the stronger once the task is done; him: If you can see him fail and then repeat his failures "Delinquents in this court," he said, Yet keep your courage and sustain his courage too; "come mostly from broken homes. We If you can see beneath his awkward strivings seldom have a child where father, The same impulse that motivates you too; mother, and children attend church If you can get him thrills that hurt not him or others regularly together; we have a few where And help him fill his days with zestful things to do; parents send their children and stay home themselves. In this community If you can represent for him adulthood liquor is a contributing cause in 90 to Possessing poise and vigor and an appetite for fun; 95 per cent of our cases, as used either If you can help him see himself becoming by the parents or the delinquent him- The victorious person he really would become; self. Very few drunkards' children have You'll then discharge in part your duty any respect for them. There is a decided And help to make a social being out of him! failure on the part of the parents to —Thurston, Concerning Juvenile Delinquency, pp. 139, 140. supervise their children's activities. The church has failed to reach the average child and surround him with proper re- ligious training; it is too formal." Notice in these statements that the emphasis is on outside influences—the more than good moral and social atmos- cal needs, the clothing, shelter, and home, the church, the community—not medical care needed. Failure to provide on the wayward juvenile himself. When phere, it is no wonder that the child shows impiety and a tendency toward proper supervision, leadership, and guid- parents love money and worldly interests infidelity. The child is a great imitator. ance within the home is a more serious more than the welfare of their child, He will emulate the characteristics of form of neglect; its consequences are anyone from Hopalong Cassidy to often the most telling factor in the de-

EDWARD ZYCHAL General Eisenhower. Especially in his velopment of delinquency patterns in very early years, the child's gods are his the child." father and mother. His conception of In this day of race hatred, class con- deity is very limited; all his contact is flict, commercial rivalry, the "consecutive with father, mother, brother, and sister. polygamy" of modern divorces, condon- It is in these early years that the child ing of lowered moral standards, worship acquires the characteristics which fash- of the "almighty dollar," and crime, who ion his personality and pattern his life. can blame our children if they succumb Whether his home influence is good or to a confused state of affairs and soak up bad may decide where the child is a little of it? ultimately to belong, with the good or The following paragraph is quoted the bad; and whichever path he takes, verbatim from The World Almanac for he learns from his home environment 1952: "A total of 1,790,030 major crimes and the example and influence of his were committed in the United States elders. during 1950. A major crime was com- Judge Jacob Panken, of a New York mitted every 18 seconds. In an average domestic relations court, has made a day, 1,129 places were robbed and 301 statement that must seem obvious to all persons were feloniously killed or as- who think seriously about it. He declares saulted. Each day, an average of 146 that "most delinquent conduct and crime persons were robbed, 2,861 other thefts stems from neglect of children. Neglect occurred, and 468 cars were stolen. is not merely failure to provide the physi- (Continued on page 13) THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 7 Sukkoth (THE OLD THANKSGIVING)

Our National Thanksgiving Has Its Beginning in Antiquity

HE ANCIENT Feast of Taber- moved into tents, and even the fact that of the festival week are eaten. Even nacles was a season of universal joy many were traveling did not keep them though there might be a scarcity of T to all the people. It was a festival from being in the holiday mood. There gardens in the city, those living in apart- ordained by the Lord in about the year were sacrifices in and before the temple, ment houses place branches and fruits 1490 s.c. We find this recorded in and the matchless choral music, the over the apartment balcony. The chil- Leviticus 23:33-36, 42, 43. It begins on feast, and general attitude of thankful- dren also help build a large booth, either Tishri 15, and continues for seven days. ness on the part of all the people brought just outside or inside the city synagogue, Sukkoth was appointed for two reasons: great joy to all. and decorate it with fruits and flowers First, it was to be an occasion of annual exactly as their ancestors had done in thanksgiving after the ingathering of the ages past. Then, during the synagogue harvest, and secondly, it was to remind By festivities, the ark is opened, and one the Israelites that their fathers had lived roll of the Torah is taken out. As in in tents in the wilderness. KATHERINE BEVIS Palestine of old, so this procession carries On the day before the festival, each a palm branch to represent the trees of family went out into the country. There long ago, and also a lemon-like fruit is they would cut boughs off the olive, On the eighth day the Hebrews left carried to remind the people that their myrtle, pine, and other thick foliage their huts, dismantled them, and re- ancestors had tilled the soil. As the pro- trees. Then they would carry these turned to their homes, for this day was cession moves around the synagogue, the branches to their homes, and, on top of a day of holy convocation of peculiar cantor and the congregation chant the roofs, which were low and flat, solemnity. hosanna prayers, which they recite each would construct a little tent or booth. Jewish people today still keep the day for the seven days of Sukkoth. The They would lattice the roofs of these Feast of Tabernacles, and in smaller final day of this ceremony is followed by little buildings so one could see the stars towns the children help build a little a feast in the booths. and feel God's presence. Then they arbor in the family yard where the meals In New England, in the autumn of were decorated with green 1621, Governor Bradford leaves and fruits, and in this proclaimed a day of thanks- little structure the family giving which was to become lived for seven days. the forerunner of our present While the men roasted Thanksgiving. Wild turkeys meat, the women baked flat, THANKSGIVING brought in by the men were round cakes of bread and pre- carefully prepared by the pared fresh vegetables from Dear God, I lift my heart in glad thanksgiving women of the settlement. the gardens for a great feast, For all the world of beauty that is mine, Along with these, the women which was always in order at For joyousness I find in simple living, prepared and cooked as many this season. Then each fam- For faith that breathes from grass and tree and vine. delicacies as the natural of- ily would sit down and enjoy ferings from the wilderness it in their booth, and often Dear God, upon my knees my soul is voicing afforded them. Then from they would share the meal Thanksgiving for the moon and stars and sun, the hilltop came a cannon salute, the signal for the peo- with those in destitute cir- For dreams, for friends, and for the sweet rejoicing cumstances, or with some ple to go to the meeting- Of larks and lilacs when the night is done. stranger in their midst. Songs house. A procession of three of praise were sung to God abreast was now formed, the for all His goodness, and Dear God, my pulses mutely sing Thy praises men being led by the thank offerings were taken For strength to toil from dawning until dusk, preacher, who carried the to the place of worship in For weariness, for food Thy glory raises great Bible, while at the rear gratitude for the harvested Up from the clod, for love as sweet as musk. walked Governor Bradford. crops. Imagine the colonists' sur- Everyone who could do so Dear God, for all Thy kindnesses to me prise when after the service, went to Jerusalem for the I humbly bow and give awed thanks to Thee. as they had gathered together Festival of Booths. The city for the dinner, ninety In- —Edgar Daniel Kramer in Weekly Unity. looked like a great camp dur- dians, having in some way ing this time. It was then learned of the white men's that the entire population plans, appeared with several 8 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 Believing people throughout the ages have recognized that the blessings of life come from God. Our modern Thanksgiving stems from this belief. haunches of venison. Originally, the states as to what date it would be ob- national celebration of this day could be celebration had been planned for only served. held, and invitations were sent to all the one day, but it lengthened into three; A woman editor, Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, Latin-American countries to send repre- three full days filled to overflowing with connected with Godey's Lady's Book, sentatives to attend a Pan-American cele- activities. Prayers, singing of psalms, a magazine having a circulation of 150, bration at the nation's capital. feastings, and even war dances by the 000, urged in her editorials the setting This was really epochal, for it was friendly Indians were part of the regular aside of a uniform day for the observance the first time in history that all the re- program. of Thanksgiving. Her last editorial pub- publics of the Western world had ever Following this first day of thanksgiv- lished on the subject was based on the gathered for a religious service. ing, there were frequent but irregular words of Nehemiah, in the eighth chap- This year, as we celebrate Thanksgiv- celebrations held in the New England ter and tenth verse, and reads as follows: colonies. Sometimes a year or two would "Can we not then, following the appoint- ing, our lives can be enriched by the be skipped, then again there would be ment of Jehovah in the 'Feast of Weeks,' understanding and appreciation of the two festivals in one year. Nevertheless, or harvest festival, establish our yearly fact that this day of celebration is a vital by the year 1664 the day of thanksgiving Thanksgiving as a permanent American thread in our pattern of life. This day had become an annual celebration in all national festival which shall be cele- will mean more to us than just another New England, the month for this festi- brated on the last Thursday in Novem- holiday, especially as we trace the history of Thanksgiving from the early Jewish val being August. ber in every state of the Union?" So it Then, more than a century later, in was that President Lincoln issued the Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkoth. 1789, President George Washington or- first national Thanksgiving proclamation To be sure, we may not be able to dered a day of national thanksgiving for on October 3, 1863, designating the last carry out the letter of the ancient com- the giving of thanks and the offering up Thursday in November as the day to be mand of God and, laying all secular in- of prayer, "acknowledging the many observed. He requested in the procla- terests aside, dwell in wooden booths signal favors of God, and especially His mation that the day be one of reverence. for a week as did ancient Israel; but affording us an opportunity of establish- After religious services in the churches, there is one thing we cah do. By grate- ing a constitution of government for our families would enjoy their dinners of fully acknowledging God as the only safety and happiness." turkey, which of course was the high Giver of all of life's blessings, we can, For many years after this presidential light of the meal, with desserts of as it were, build more stately mansions order his successors in office issued gen- pumpkin pie. for our souls, mansions which will be- eral proclamations for a day of thanks- Later, in 1909, an idea was conceived come a veritable foretaste of those which giving; but more often than not it was a by Rev. Dr. William T. Russell, of Jesus has gone before to prepare for decision made by the governors of the Washington, D.C., whereby an inter- His own. THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 9 * * * BRIGHT NEW METAL.—Titanium, "May the United States Brewers put into use recently. Now a firm in used for some time in paint, promises to Foundation be conscious of its high Germany has ordered one so huge that become one of the wonder metals of the responsibility before Thee, and so con- the operator on its "bridge" sees the future. It is twice as heavy as aluminum duct its business that it may merit the shovel end operate only through tele- but as strong as steel; and, most impor- commendation of all men, and Thy vision. This giant coal digger will be tant, it maintains its strength at high divine blessings. Amen." used in a surface mine. It will be 585 temperatures. Chief obstacles to its use At the Small Brewers' Annual Con- feet long; its buckets will hold four tons in the past, as a metal, have been the vention, Rev. John P. Downey, S.J., of of coal each, and it will be able to load difficulty in melting and molding it, and Loyola University, Chicago, had this to six trains of coal an hour. its scarcity. With the first of these diffi- say: "In the Roman Ritual, I chanced culties met, the second seems destined upon this blessing. Brief as it is, I be- * * * to be also dealt with in the near future. lieve it is most important that it be NOT TOO OLD.—A lotus seed esti- Aviation experts hail the production quoted on this occasion. It is the official mated to be two thousand years old was of titanium in quantity as revolutionary prayer of the Catholic Church for beer. found in Japan not long ago, buried in in their business, since one of the diffi- `Bless, 0 Lord, this Thy creature, Beer, a swamp. Carefully planted amid favor- culties in supersonic flight is finding which You have designed to produce able surroundings, the lotus sprouted, metals that will retain their strength at from the heart of grain, in order that it grew, and finally bloomed before the the heats developed by atmospheric fric- might be a healthful remedy for man- delighted gaze of a lotus expert. tion. Titanium is thought to be the kind. And grant that, through the in- While he was at it, the expert not answer to this problem. Jet engines also vocation of Your holy name, whoever only found that the ancient seed would are dependent upon metals with this shall drink of it shall receive health of grow, but demonstrated that lotus characteristic. body and safeguard of soul, through flowers do not open with an audible * * * Christ our Lord. Amen.' " "pop," as popular legend says they do. * * * * * * IT REALLY HAPPENED.—The fol- lowing prayer was offered by the Very MORE ATOMICS.—The Atomic En- FIFTY MILES A SECOND.—Speeds Rev. Thomas J. Shields, S.J., president ergy Commission recently announced up to 235 times the velocity of sound at of Loyola University of the South at the that it has awarded a contract for a sea level are being simulated in Ameri- February 4, 1952, convention of the nuclear reactor, "suitable for propulsion can laboratories today. Although they United States Brewers Foundation in of large naval vessels, such as aircraft are not produced on a practical level, New Orleans: carriers." The first reactor is to be built they are enabling scientists to study the "Almighty and Eternal God, Creator by Westinghouse, near Pittsburgh, and effects of such speed on matter. of the Universe, who through the will probably power a flush-deck type Two different methods have been wondrous workings of natural laws pub- giant carrier of the "Forrestal" class. used in the researches, as reported. A lished and ordered by Thy divine provi- To power the carrier, uranium rods speed of 180,000 miles an hour has been dence, had placed on this earth an abun- will produce high temperature in a achieved by building up air pressure dance of plant and vegetable life for reactor which will be cooled by liquid within a tube, then discharging it sud- the nourishment and comfort of man- metal which will then be pumped into denly against a stream of very small kind. 0 God, of infinitive intellect and heat exchangers where the liquid will particles of matter moving at very high power, who has endowed man with the heat water into steam to run the carrier's speed in the opposite direction. The knowledge and ability to use the cereal turbines. The carrier is designed for a other method is that of shooting a bullet plants and grain together with the displacement of 60,000 tons. at 7,000 feet a second through a cham- waters of the earth, to make a beverage Just when the reactor will be com- ber filled with krypton, a heavy gas. The both nourishing for the body and pleas- pleted is not known, but 1955 is thought weight of the gas makes up for the lack ing to the heart of man, we ask Thy to be a probable date. A ship so powered of actual speed and duplicates resistance blessings upon all here assembled, in will have an almost unlimited range. that would be met with at the speed of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who Space used by 9,000 tons of fuel will be 26,000 miles an hour. Refrigerating the manifested His divine power by chang- available for jet fuel and ammunition. krypton makes it still more dense, and ing water into wine at the wedding feast it produces other effects. * * * in Cana, thereby teaching us that it is These experiments are designed to re- not the moderate use but the irrational EXIT THE COAL MINER?—Several veal difficulties awaiting man if and abuse of beverages which is sinful. robot coal-mining machines have been when he attempts space flight. 10 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 Top: The navy experiments with a new life raft at the Floyd Top: 1,238 m.p.h.—almost twice the speed of sound—was recently at- Bennett Airfield in New York. This 230-pound lifeboat inflates tained by this Douglas Skyrocket at El Segundo, California, by test itself half a minute after hitting the water. It has been designed pilot Bill Bridgman. The plane carries a refrigeration unit to pro- to maintain a 70-degree temperature in sub-zero, as well as tropical, tect it against melting when flying at high speeds. Below: When the weather. Bottom: An artist's idea of refueling while in flight. Two city of New Haven, Conn., decided to tear this old house down, it jet fighter planes are about to make contact with a flying boat was found to be of unusually strong construction. Consequently the tanker. Through remote control, the tanker's crew pumps the fuel. job fell not to a wrecking contractor, but to the fire department. Seconds before this head-on crash the eight people who met death here were alive and happy. The Bible tells what happens to such people right after their physical lives cease.

using a figure to illustrate it: "Consider and hear me, 0 Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death." Psalm 13:3. Jesus uses the same figure in dis- cussing the experience of His friend Lazarus in the eleventh chapter of John. Let us read it: "After that He saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said His disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit, Jesus spake of his death: but they thought

ACME ARE DEAD FOLK

By G. G. BROWN

QUESTION such then passed upon man—Adam and Eve— that He had spoken of taking of rest in A because of transgression. (Genesis 2:17; sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, as the above title asks appears self-contra- dictory, and many people would be in- 3.) Lazarus is dead." Verses 11-14. clined to say, "Do not be foolish; of We call again upon the Apostle Paul This illustration of the character of course they are not alive!" But on the for his comment on this experience. He death was well understood, it seems, other hand, others do teach that the dead says: "Wherefore, as by one man sin for the Apostle Paul uses it at a later are alive, that they are either in heaven, entered into the world, and death by sin; time in these words: "But I would not hell, or purgatory; and that they can and so death passed upon all men, for have you to be ignorant, brethren, con- even communicate with us. What, then, that all have sinned." "For the wages of cerning them which are asleep, that ye can we do about this problem? Perhaps sin is death." Romans 5:12; 6:23. sorrow not, even as others which have no it is best to lay aside our own precon- Now men may quibble all they please hope." 1 Thessalonians 4:13. ceived opinions, read what the Bible about the cause of our mortal state; but It is not normal sleep that worries says, and then draw our conclusions. we have the results, and God gives us people, but the thought of death—either Let us, to begin with, ask the writer the cause—sin. The worst infidel under their own, or that of their loved ones. It of the Book of Hebrews for a statement the sun must admit that he is traveling is quite plain that a sound sleep, when regarding this matter: "It is appointed the path from the cradle to the grave, all consciousness and use of mental unto men once to die." Hebrews 9:27. that there is no discharge in this war. faculties are dormant, can very well rep- This means that sometime, some- Solomon's testimony is: "The living resent death itself. Now if the dead are where, an appointment was made with know that they shall die." Ecclesiastes "asleep," where do they sleep? Let us humanity concerning death; and man- 9:5. Our daily experience is enough to ask Christ and Daniel to answer this kind has been meeting it within recent demonstrate this fact without the added question: Daniel says (quoting the years at a rate of around 37,500,000 an- testimony of Scripture; but we all like angel): "Many of them that sleep in the nually, according to some estimates. to know what the Bible says. dust of the earth shall awake." Daniel We look for this appointment, and Now for our introductory question: 12:2. we find it in the story of the fall of man "Are the dead alive?" We think David And Jesus adds: "The hour is coming in the Garden of Eden. Sentence was can throw some light upon this matter, in the which all that are in their graves 12 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 shall hear His voice, and shall come the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do thereto& dead until God sees fit to re- forth." John 5:28, 29. this day; the father to the children shall store life to them once more. They have The testimony is clear that the dead make known Thy truth." Isaiah 38:18, no anxieties over loved ones. They are sleep in their graves, the dust of the 19. "at rest" until the call of the Life-giver earth. If they are "asleep" in their graves, These and other Bible characters awakens them at the sounding of the what is their condition while there? Let knew full well that the dead are utterly last trump. What a marvelous assurance us receive the testimony of the wise man oblivious to all that goes on around and wonderful consolation for the be- again. He writes: "For to him that is them. This, however, suggests another lievers! joined to all the living there is hope: for question, namely, How long will the a living dog is better than a dead lion. dead sleep in their graves? Is death the Small Fry Criminals For the living know that they shall die: end of them? Job comes forward with but the dead know not anything. . . . his answer: "If a man die, shall he live (Continued from page 7) Also their love, and their hatred, and again? All the days of my appointed Every 5 minutes around the clock, there their envy, is now perished; neither have time will I wait, till my change come. was a crime of murder, manslaughter, they any more a portion forever in any- Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: rape, or assault to kill!" thing that is done under the sun. . . . Thou wilt have a desire to the work of Other authors have had much to say Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do Thine hands." Job 14:14, 15. on this subject of juvenile delinquency; it with thy might; for there is no work, We are not left to conjecture as to and as this bad situation grows worse, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, when Job's change will come, and when concern over the problems of youth is in the grave, whither thou goest." Eccle- he will be called by God from his grave growing. But in many people's minds, it siastes 9:4-6, 10. to a life more abundant, for he exclaims: stops right there; like the old saw about The psalmist also gives supporting "For I know that my Redeemer liveth, the weather, "everybody talks about it, testimony in the following words: "His and that He shall stand at the latter day but nobody does anything about it." It breath goeth forth, he returneth to his upon the earth: and though after my is as Mr. Satterfield, superintendent of earth; in that very day his thoughts skin worms destroy this body, yet in my the Tennessee State Training and Agri- perish." Psalm 146:4. flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see cultural School, said: "When a child These witnesses indicate very clearly for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, winds up in an institution, the parents that the ones who are "asleep" or dead and not another." Job 19:25-27. think something terrible has gone wrong in their graves are not alive, for all the Job was not alone in his anticipation all of a sudden. They don't seem to real- functions of body and mind have ceased. of the resurrection from the grave, for ize that a gradual influence for evil, Physically and mentally they are dor- David sings: "As for me, I _will behold caused by their neglect and wrong ex- mant. Thy face in righteousness: I shall be ample, has been slowly misshaping their But what about the "spirit"? Does it satisfied, when I wake, with Thy like- child's outlook." not hover around the loved ones with a ness." Psalm 17:15. Most people realize that human na- full knowledge of their condition? Let And the great Apostle Paul, in his ture is weak and has within itself the us call upon the patriarch Job for an marvelous chapter regarding the res- seeds of misbehavior and evil, due to the answer. He replies: "Man dieth, and urrection from the dead, writes: "Be- fallen state of man. "All have sinned, wasteth away: yea, . . . man giveth up hold, I will show you, a mystery; We and come short of the glory of God"; the ghost [spirit] and where is he? His shall not all sleep, but we shall all be and even in the best of families, responsi- sons come to honor, and he knoweth it changed, in a moment, in the twinkling ble and cautious parents sometimes have not; they are brought low, but he per- of an eye, at the last trump: for the tragedies in their homes in the form of ceiveth it not of them." Job 14:10, 21. trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall children who must sow their wild oats, Surely the "spirit" of the dead man is be raised incorruptible, and we shall be no matter what the consequences. This in heaven praising God around his changed. For this corruptible must put fact, however, should not be regarded as throne. How about that? Let us ask the on incorruption, and this mortal must a license for license; rather, it should psalmist again. Here is his answer: "The put on immortality." 1 Corinthians cause sober reflection on the part of dead praise not the Lord, neither any 15:51-53. parents, for it is they who have the that go down into silence." Psalm How clear is the teaching of the biggest stake in the youth problem. 115:17. "For in death there is no remem- Bible! The righteous dead are asleep, Whatever affects the children affects the brance of Thee: in the grave who shall unconscious of earthly conditions, until parents, both in an active and a passive give Thee thanks?" Psalm 6:5. the resurrection day at the coming of way. In most cases if the youth have Of David himself Peter says: "Men their Redeemer. Let us look forward to been delinquent in fact, their parents and brethren, let me freely speak unto that day. have been delinquent in duty. Who can you of the patriarch David, that he is It is very apparent from the testimony say which is worse? both dead and buried, and his sepulcher of these witnesses that the dead are It is said that a civil code of the is with us unto this day. . . . For David asleep, unconscious, and dormant in Chinese provides that when anyone dis- is not ascended into the heavens." Acts their graves. This condition will con- tinguishes himself in the service of the 2:29, 34. tinue until the resurrection of the right- country, his parents are cited and pub- We can call upon Hezekiah, king of eous, which takes place at the second licly honored by the state in the spirit Israel, for a further word in answer to coming of Christ, and until the resurrec- of "as father, so son." Thus, rewards for this question. Speaking under inspira- tion of the wicked, which occurs one noble deeds go primarily to the parents tion, he declares: "For the grave cannot thousand years later. (Revelation 20:5.) of the patriots who performed them. praise Thee, death cannot celebrate The dead do not love, hate, think, or This somewhat unlikely custom could Thee: they that go down into the pit function otherwise, until the resurrec- well be applied in this land of ours, in cannot hope for Thy truth. The living, tion day. They are not alive—they are (Continued on page 27) THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 13 ( By HARVEY C. HANSEN

THE COLORFUL, in- triguing star groups with which God "hath garnished the heavens" (Job 26: 13) not only attract the eye, but they also afford some interesting comparisons. Peter and Jude speak of false, corrupt teachers as being "wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of dark- ness forever," "to whom the mist of dark- ness is reserved forever." Jude 13; 2 Peter 2:17. The other objects—empty wells, rag- ing waves, waterless clouds, and dead, uprooted trees—to which this class of religious leaders is compared are real. Perhaps "wandering stars" and "the mist If not actually Among the most spectacular objects in the heavens as viewed through a telescope are of darkness" are also real. the nebulae. On the left is pictured the Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius; on the right is significant in this connection, the the nebula north of the great Orion Nebula. Both portray the wonder of God's works. scientists' descriptions of the Horsehead nebula in the constellation of Orion, the Northern Coal Sack in the constellation of Cygnus, and the black rift or division in the Milky Way are certainly interest- ing. The rift in the Milky Way, for ex- ample, is described as "a vast cloud of dark, obscuring dust or galactic 'smoke' that entirely shuts off our vision and for- ever hides millions of the stars of the galaxy that lie beyond our line of sight." '74 Se4,14 —Henry M. Neely, A Primer for Star Gazers, pp. 272, 116, 175. Used by per- mission of Harper & Brothers, New to that of the moon. And scientists have does not appear to move. But all the York, N.Y. found many stars to be thousands of other stars in the northern sky appear Paul wrote, "There is one glory of times brighter than even our sun. The to circle it in a counterclockwise direc- the sun, and another glory of the moon, star Rigel in Orion, for example, is 14,- tion once every twenty-four hours. For and another glory of the stars. . . . So 000 times brighter than the sun. example, in early December evenings also is the resurrection of the dead. It is With our attention called to the tre- the Big Dipper is below Polaris with the sown in corruption; it is raised in in- mendous difference between "celestial pointers projecting upward. Approxi- corruption: it is sown in dishonor; it is bodies, and bodies terrestrial" (1 Co- mately twelve hours later it reaches a raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; rinthians 15:40), we may expect that the position above Polaris with the pointers it is raised in power: it is sown a natural reward and the life which those who protruding downward. body; it is raised a spiritual body." 1 labor in the Lord and are privileged to Thus an imaginary hour hand at- Corinthians 15:41-44. In the same vein, put on immortality shall experience shall tached to the North Star and extended Daniel says, "And many of them that be glorious far beyond the most abun- through the Dipper's pointers sweeps sleep in the dust of the earth shall dant life possible here. See also 1 Co- around the face of the northern sky as awake, some to everlasting life, and rinthians 2:9; 2 Corinthians 4:17; Ro- though it were on a clock running back- some to shame and everlasting contempt. mans 8:18. wards—a star-studded clock that never And they that be wise shall shine as the Besides being objects for comparison, needs winding and that always keeps brightness of the firmament; and they the "lights in the firmament of heaven" super-accurate time. This, in fact, is the that turn many to righteousness as the are "for seasons, and for days, and years." "clock" man uses as a standard when he stars for ever and ever." Daniel 12:2, 3. Genesis 1:14. wants to correct his own timepieces; and We are familiar with the much The North Star is so near in line with this "star time" is termed sidereal time. greater "glory" of the sun as compared the north-south axis of the earth that it The Bible also tells us that "while the 14 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 PHOTOS COURTESY OF MOUNT WILSCN OBSERVATORY shaken." Matthew 24:29; Luke 21:25, 26. Here too the Scriptures give a com- forting promise that shines in earth's darkest hours with commanding bright- ness. "And when these things begin to come to pass," Jesus says, "then look up, and lift up your heads; for your re- demption draweth nigh." Luke 21:28. As celestial ornaments, as objects of comparison, as measurers of times and seasons, and "for signs," the stars may rightly claim our study and admiration— but never our adoration. God's instruc- tion to Israel was this: "Take ye there- fore good heed unto yourselves; . . . lest ye corrupt yourselves, . . . and lest

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thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and 99 when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven." Deuteronomy 4:15-19. ei de Isaiah says, "Lift up your eyes on earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, awakened; for the Lord sustained me." high, and behold who hath created these and cold and heat, and summer and Psalm 3:5. things." Isaiah 40:26. The celestial ob- winter, and day and night shall not The stars are also "for signs." (Genesis jects are God's handiwork and indicate cease." Genesis 8:22. Without the sun, 1:14.) The Dark Day of May 19, 1780, His unlimited power, great glory, and which is the star closest to our earth (the and the falling of the stars on November wondrous love, and are intended to di- stars are actually suns), we would have 13, 1833, have been established by stu- rect our worship to Him. (Psalm 19:1; no seasons. Though going forth as a dents of Bible prophecy as being part of 8; Isaiah 66:1, 2; Romans 1:20.) "Wor- strong man to run a race, the sun does the fulfillment of the words of the Lord ship Him that made heaven, and earth, not run away. (Psalm 19:5, 6.) Both the recorded by Matthew and Luke as fol- and the sea, and the fountains of sun and earth ever continue in their lows: "Immediately after the tribulation waters," says John the revelator. (Revela- circuits in the way which produces the of those days shall the sun be darkened, tion 14:7; 1:1.) seasons. and the moon shall not give her light, So, as we view "the stars of the sky in The sun (the seasons' star) and the and the stars shall fall from heaven, and multitude" (Hebrews 11:12), it is stars of the sky-clock do not fail, because the powers of the heavens shall be proper and well to let thoughts of Jesus, He who maintains them is God. "For shaken." "And there shall be signs in the"Star out of Jacob," "the bright and that He is strong in power; not one the sun, and in .the moon, and in the morning Star" (Numbers 24:17; Revela- faileth." Isaiah 40:26. stars; and upon the earth distress of tion 22:16), arise in our minds and There is personal assurance to be nations, with perplexity; the sea and the hearts. His words, His prophecies, His found here. He who sustains the steady waves roaring; men's hearts failing them promises, are more enduring than even stars is the One who safely keeps you for fear, and for looking after those heaven and earth, and are more sure and me through every night of our lives. things which are coming on the earth: than "day and night in their season." David said, "I laid me down and slept; I for the powers of heaven shall be (Luke 21:33; Jeremiah 33:20, 21.) THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 15 ‘040 imed

YOUR LIFE?

By ARTHUR MOUNTAIN

door. From time to time he would leave for a few minutes to see what his com- panions were doing. During one of these absences, a man, black from head to foot, crawled out from the coal bunkers and said to the engineer, "I will give you $10,000 to save my life." The engineer replied, "I cannot save myself; how can I save you!" The man from Australia "All That a Man Hath went back into the coal; he realized that although he would gladly give all, his Will He Give for His Life." money could not save him. Turning into Bias Bay, the pirates were surprised to see a British gunboat and a Chinese customs launch lying at anchor. Now they had to work fast. Heading the ship straight for land, they began loading two of the lifeboats with T WAS a beautiful day when the like ordinary people, but beneath their loot and several rich passengers, among "Tean" pulled out of Hong Kong clothes were concealed revolvers and them the man from Australia—they had I on her regular run up the China daggers—they were pirates. Undetected, found him. The gunboat and launch coast. The passengers chattered happily they had come on board, and little did immediately hove anchor and gave on deck, enjoying the fine weather and that group of peaceful passengers sense chase. Nearing shore, the pirates low- calm seas. Among them was a man re- the terrible fate that hung over them. ered the two boats and pulled to land, turning from Australia, where for twenty Suddenly the quiet was shattered by followed quickly by soldiers. But they years he had worked and saved for this revolver shots. Passengers ran shrieking knew the trail and escaped into the very day when he could go back, a rich to their cabins. The captain, who was rocky hills. The soldiers halted at the man, to his native village. resting, jumped up to find himself look- foot of a cliff, finding some discarded Aware of the danger of being recog- ing into a gun barrel. The pirates had baggage and the body of the man from nized as a man of means, he had made taken control of the ship, and had Australia. careful preparations in Hong Kong. He ordered the pilot to steer for Bias Bay, This story is as true as the fact which had sold his foreign clothes and bought notorious pirates' stronghold. One of it illustrates—that man's life is the most ordinary Chinese ones. He had disposed them stood guard at each cabin door, precious thing in this world. "Yea, all of his expensive luggage, and replaced while their companions went through that a man hath will he give for his life." it with rattan suitcases. He had bought every piece of baggage, taking whatever Job 2:4. God nut this value into man a bamboo pole, hollowed out some of they desired. But one passenger was when He created him. Christ stated it in the joints, and placed most of his money missing, the man from Australia. He had the language of love, "Greater love hath inside, so that on leaving the ship he disappeared. no man than this, that a man lay down could trot off, carrying his own things The pirates ordered the cooks to pre- his life for his friends." John 15:13. like a very ordinary countryman. He was pare a feast and to bring out the cap- Our customs testify to the high value the happiest man on board. tain's wines. They had plenty of time. placed on human life, and our felicita- But there were others who also looked One stood guard at the engine-room (Continued on page 28) 16 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 EWSPAPER headlines such as "Man Dies of Rattlesnake Bite in Church N Service" shock some people and dis- gust others. But few have stopped to FAITH consider the texts of Scripture upon which the poor victim based his actions as he took into his hands the snake that caused his death. Is it true that the Lord has promised to protect His children when handling the poisonous reptiles, and even while drinking poisons that would naturally bring death to others? There must surely be a strong belief in such protection, or men and women FAN GS would not place their lives in jeopardy to test its effectiveness. Faith is founded on the plain promises of the living God as contained in the Does Handling Snakes Indicate Faith? Bible. One of them is that given by Jesus to His disciples, and to all who are His to the end of time: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My "It is written, . . . Thou shalt not speeding automobile—that would not be name shall they cast out devils; they tempt the Lord thy God." Matthew 4 : 7. exercising faith, but rank presumption. shall speak with new tongues; they shall Thus Jesus taught us to do our part in In the light of this, what does the take up serpents; and if they drink any caring for ourselves before we expect promise of protection from poisonous deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; the miracle-working power of God to be serpents really mean to the Christian? they shall lay hands on the sick, and manifested in our behalf. To seek, for We find an occasion in the life of the they shall recover." Mark 16:17, 18. instance, the protection of God, and Apostle Paul when this promise was Any such promise is the only rightful then deliberately walk out in front of a (Continued on page 30) ground for faith. But we should always remember that O. STEMLER, ARTIST while a promise can be the ground for faith, it can also become the excuse for presumption when misapplied. God has

By A. L. DICKERSON

never made a promise that is no longer good, and His Word will ever be true, but some claim promises that do not apply to their situation. Here lies the difference between faith and presump- tion, for by misapplication of a promise we may expect God to do something for us which He never promised to do. Satan tried to use this reasoning on Jesus when he brought to Him the temptations in the wilderness. There is a promise in the Scriptures which Satan used. He reminded Jesus of it by quot- ing Psalm 91:11, 12: "For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thv ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." Having complete trust in His Father, who had made that prom- ise, Jesus discerned a trap when Satan suggested that He throw Himself down from the temple. Calmly, He replied: God's promise to protect His messengers from harm from serpents was fulfilled in the exper- ience of the Apostle Paul pictured here. THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 I

* Light That Fails We object to the commentary writers' unfortunate and will add to the skepti- use of the expression "the end of the cism of our age. Its certain widespread WHAT is said to be the first full- age" rather than "the end of the world." use will surely be disastrous to the faith scale Bible commentary in fifty years has Although there may be linguistic reasons of students in theological schools where been launched by the Abingdon-Cokes- for using such an expression, it seems it may find its way, and eventually to bury Press of New York City and Nash- to have been used as a means of avoid- those to whom they preach. ville, Tennessee. The commentary is ing the more forceful one, and as a way It has been designed to be a light in called The Interpreter's Bible and is to of avoiding the admission of the pos- this generation. It is a light that fails. be issued in twelve volumes. Volume sibility that the world will come to a seven was first off the press, it being the cataclysmic end. As an instance of this * Not by Bread Alone first volume dealing with the New attitude, the comment on Matthew Testament. It is a handsomely and 24:27, "For as the lightning cometh out WE HAVE NOT studiously listened substantially bound book, beautifully of the east, and shineth even unto the to many political speeches this year. It printed. west; so shall also the coming of the Son is more profitable to read a digest of them in a reliable and accurate journal. The amount of scholarship and care of man be," refers the reader to the Among the few we heard, one stood out required in such a work is staggering, as coming of the kingdom of God—on because it held out no challenge to the the expense of publication must also be. earth, through natural causes, by in- American people—only promises. The list of scholars having a part in the ference. Further comment is that the present endeavor is impressive. writer (of Matthew) believed that At that, the promises were the wrong No doubt a new commentary on the Christ would return supernaturally, but kind, for they were entirely promises of Bible is needed, since certain archeo- that beyond that we must recognize that logical discoveries bearing on the Bible we can find such tokens of Christ in have been made in this century, and every age. His truth, the commentator better understanding of some of the says, is like lightning. ancient languages also exists. A full- Again and again the writers of the scale Bible commentary, if widely ac- Gospels are made responsible for the cepted, inevitably exerts a tremendous meaning, and in some instances the influence on the clergy and, finally, on words, of Christ Himself. Speculation is the people who are spiritually led by indulged in freely as to the sources from them. which the disciples got their material. It is, therefore, with sincere regret In dealing with the miracles in Mark's that we cannot recommend The Inter- Gospel the commentator observes that preter's Bible. Our reason is, briefly there is little hope of solving the prob- stated, that it is permeated by modern- lem of the nature miracles such as the ism and humanism. By the latter expres- stilling of the storm by Jesus. He adds sion we mean that the writers of that today the miracles are more of a the commentary consistently treat the burden than a help to faith. Thus is re- writers of Matthew and Mark as authors vealed the attitude that refuses to accept who wholly depend upon their own the supernatural, even when it is sup- wisdom and skill, and who freely borrow ported by plain gospel narrative. from outside sources including word-of- mouth stories and local "folk lore," This attitude is further revealed in rather than as men who are led by the the comment on the entrance of the Holy Spirit in writing a sacred account. demons into the herd of swine in In this initial volume it seems to us Gadara. Rather than attempt to explain that the fault is more in the approach the miracle, the commentator says, it and attitude than in specific statements. should be thought of as a neighborhood Such expressions as, "It may be sup- folk tale. posed," "the author evidently thought," It is not the purpose of this editorial and the like do not impart confidence to give a detailed analysis of this volume. Secretary of the Navy Dan A. Kimball (right) i in the writings of the Bible. But it is our belief that its publication is powered submarine at ceremonies honoring Navy 18 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 material gains to be made if the proper the statement of the Master: "It is new start will be without sin, and that party were supported. written, Man shall not live by bread one fact will go far in solving all the We do not believe that the American alone." Matthew 4:4. He lives, the text problems that now plague the human people have reached the level to which says, by the words of God. race. Of this great solution the Bible this orator appealed—not the majority of says, "The day of the Lord will come as them. There are some things that they * Only God Can Solve Them a thief in the night; in the which the want more than full stomachs and full heavens shall pass away with a great garages. They need them a great deal TEN PROBLEMS that face the noise, and the elements shall melt with more, too. American people today are presented in fervent heat, the earth also and the They want the basic freedoms that an editorial by Norman Cousins in The works that are therein shall be burned make a man a man. They want them not Saturday Review of August 2. They are up. . . . Nevertheless we, according to only for themselves but for all men. as follows: His promise, look for new heavens and They believe that these freedoms are 1. Every four years the world's pop- a new earth, wherein dwelleth right- worth more than bread and motorcars. ulation increases one hundred million. eousness." 2 Peter 3:10, 13. We cannot yet be persuaded that Ameri- 2. The earth is growing smaller. Land cans will not follow a leader who will is wearing out, eroding away, becoming * In the Byways point toward the things of the spirit as less productive. the most valuable. Americans know 3. Mineral resources are being used THE DRIVE-IN movie theater is that the good life includes those things. up faster than new ones are being dis- here to stay, it seems. The drive-in Our friend, the orator, should read covered. church is just making its entry into 4. Too much of our time, resources, public life. Two or three experiments UNITED PRESS PHOTO and energy is being used in preparation have been under way during the past for defense. This is true not only of two or three years. Their success seems America but of many nations. likely to mean that there will be more 5. The next war will be fought with of them. Some conduct worship services weapons against which there is no de- for those already members of a church; fense. others are evangelistic in character. 6. Such a war will probably destroy Both feature pictures, moving and still, society as it now exists. and adequate public address systems. 7. People today are looking for spir- Religion needs to be carried to the itual anchorage. This is a generation in people where they are. It does no good search of its soul. for the clergy to say that people ought 8. Almost half of the people of the to come to church for their religious world are hungry, sick, or poorly housed. life. If they don't or won't come, it is 9. Many of the world's people are up to the clergy to go to them. A good shopping for a revolution. friend of ours who recently did evan- 10. War is not between armies today, gelistic preaching in the Orient demon- but between populations. Single states strated this principle. He was distressed cannot always determine whether they over the small number attending his will go to war or not. meetings. Coming out of his church Surely any ordinary man, looking at after the service was over, he found a this list, will feel despair come upon patent medicine vendor on the street him, as far as his own capabilities are corner with several hundred people concerned. No man can meet these clustered around him. The evangelist problems; no group of men can meet thought over the unpleasant comparison them. With this statement Mr. Cousins in numbers. Then he armed himself would not agree; nevertheless we believe with a few wooden boxes, some musical it is so. talent in the persons of enthusiastic There is only one solver of these youth, and a plentiful supply of tracts. On the street corner he found himself Dects a scale model of the world's first atomic- problems—God. His solution will be to plain H. G. Rickover, who led in its development. wipe the slate clean and start over. The (Continued on page 33) THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 19 When new Bible truths were brought to the Slaybaughs, they went to several preachers, com- paring opinions.

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By ROSE SLAYBAUGH

Illustrated by DON SIBLEY

SYNOPSIS: The sudden loss of their only son at the age of twenty turned the thoughts of Roy and Rose Slaybaugh to religion. Through reading several books, personal contacts of a coincidental nature, and finally through attendance at an evangelistic campaign, they became interested in the doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists. With a great deal of trepidation they decided to attend the city's Seventh-day Adventist church one Saturday morning.

T HERE'S the preacher," I exclaimed. hundred people, and there was not an- I said, "Men, nothing! Look at the He stood at the top of the porch in a other seat left for us. What were all ladies! Look at these fine, well-dressed dark suit. As we neared the top of the these people doing up here this Saturday ladies." steps he stepped over to us, extended his morning? We could not imagine that What a surprise we got that morning! hand, and addressed us as "friends." He they had come here to worship. The One thing we noticed above everything said, "Good morning, friends; we're place where we worshiped every Sunday else was the atmosphere of reverence in happy to have you with us this morn- morning in the downtown church seated this church. There was no whispering. ing." He made us feel so welcome. Just fifteen hundred, but there was generally Everyone was sitting quietly, some read- then another man stepped out from the only a little handful of people present. ing the Bible, some sitting there with door, and he too called us "friends." He "Roy," I suggested, "there must be heads bowed. started to apologize. "I'm sorry, folks; something special going on here. Per- We didn't have very much to say I don't believe there's another seat left, haps they're having a wedding." when we left. We went to a restaurant but come in. Would you mind sitting He started to get up, saying, "We'd to get a little lunch. As we sat down I in these two little folding chairs right better not stay." said, "Roy, what are we going to do here by the door?" He handed us a I replied, "Sit down. They won't about it?" hymnbook, and we sat down. know we're here." (I love weddings!) He said,. "We're going to put a stop I nudged Roy a little and whispered, But there was no wedding. I looked to all this. We can't go on like this any "Just what we ordered, right here by the at all these people and said, "Roy, look!" longer. There must be a reason why door." He answered, "Rose, look at all the thousands and thousands of people all We looked at the large audience. I fine men. Look at the young men, look over the world worship on Sunday, the think that the church seated six or seven at the old men." first day of the week. There must be a 20 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 in front of us. "What is it now?" he asked. I explained, "Just a moment and we'll be gone, but we've come to ask you for help." "Well, what is it?" And then Roy asked him. He pointed to the Bible and remarked, "Would you please open the Bible and find us a scripture authorizing the keep- ing of Sunday, the first day of the week?" That man became angry. He couldn't speak. He turned white. He pushed himself back from the desk. When he had his back turned to us he said, "You've been talking to some Seventh- day Adventist. That's what's the matter with you." I interposed, "That is hardly fair. We don't even know any Seventh-day Ad- ventist to talk to." After he got control of himself, he sat down and preached to us for over two hours, and the more he talked, the more confused he became and the less we knew. "The Ten Commandments?" he fi- nally concluded. "We don't keep the Ten Commandments any more; they were nailed to the cross." "Then you mean that we can go out and lie and steal and do all those things," suggested Roy. "Oh, no," he explained, "you can't do those things; it's the fourth command- ment that you don't have to keep any more. We're living in New Testament times. We're not under the law; we're not living according to the Ten Com- mandments. They were done away with." "Why," he went on, "you know that 99 per cent of all the people in the world worship on Sunday. The majority good reason. We'll find it yet. As soon as going to just tell us like these other is always right." we finish our lunch, Rose, you're going ministers have, but he's going to open What had we read in Deuteronomy to that telephone booth and call our the Bible and read a scripture that says 7, beginning with the 6th verse? "For minister." that we, with thousands upon thousands thou art an holy people unto the Lord Why hadn't we gone to him for help of people all over the world, can deliber- thy God; the Lord thy God hath chosen before? I suppose because he was a busy ately break the fourth commandment thee to be a special people unto Him- man. He was not only pastor of a great every week and still please God." self, above all people that are upon the downtown church, but also an officer I called him. He was busy, and told face of the earth. The Lord did not set in four or five civic clubs in the city. me, "You know, Saturday afternoon is His love upon you, nor choose you, be- He was also the president of the Minis- the busiest time of the week for me." cause ve were more in number than terial Association, and conducted more "But," I argued, "it's very important, any people; for ve were the fewest of all weddings and funerals than any minister and we'll only take a few moments of people. Know therefore that the Lord in the whole city. He was one of the your time." thy God, He is God, the faithful God, most popular ministers in the city of "All right. Come over to the church. which keepeth covenant and mercy with Spokane. Could we bother such a busy My secretary is in my study, and will them that love Him and keep His com- man with a simple little question as to let you in." mandments to a thousand generations." who changed the Sabbath? His secretary seated us in two chairs Then I had a question. "Do you say Roy had it all figured out: "He's going in front of the minister's beautiful, that we don't have to keep the command- to give us a little of .his time. He'll highly polished mahogany desk. Not a ments any more?" straighten us out and tell us. No," he thing was on it but a beautiful Bible. "Why, of course not continued, "on second thought, he isn't Soon the minister came in and sat down (Continued on page 30) THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 21 Large rooms with lots of light can use dark colors to good advantage. This is the reason, no doubt, that such colors are now so much in vogue. However, if your rooms are small and poorly lighted, the best thing to do is admit it and em- H APPY ploy space-making colors such as white, yellow, cream, and beige. This is not to say that colors in small rooms need to be weak and anemic, but certainly deep tones should not be used on all four walls. Many times decorators feel that rooms with cool north exposures should be painted yellow or rosy tones for warmth. To me, however, the warm yellows and reds are never quite at their best until displayed in full sun. This is a matter of personal preference. Color Gives a Lift Recently I was taken through a small home of which the owner was quite proud. As we entered the average-size 111 ITH long winter days only a few Think too what this would do to the living room the lady laughed and said, weeks away and more and more color of streams, lakes, and oceans. The "I just threw caution to the winds and hours being spent indoors each day thought of it is depressing. Nature has went modern with my color scheme." by the family, homemakers should look used the most perfect background colors All four walls and the ceiling were a about them. in the green of grass and the brown, deep, raspberry red. If her furniture had Study each room in the home as if tan, biege, and terra cotta of the soil been blond this might have saved the you had suddenly seen it for the first itself and has arched it over with the day, but it was mahogany. I shudder to time. Ask yourself some simple ques- coolest, most restful color of all to fur- think of spending warm summer eve- tions about each room. Does this room nish a background for the brighter nings with artificial light in that de- make me feel happy or depressed? Does colors of nature. pressing room. this room invite me to relax and read There are many places to start in Some of the most pleasing color or listen to good music? Does this one choosing a color scheme. Some dec- schemes, well suited to the average small seem spacious and uncluttered or orators advise starting with a lovely pic- home, have been built around one basic cramped and busy? In the kitchen one ture which you may already possess. The color carried throughout the house, with should have a feeling of cheer, efficiency, reasoning here is that the one who varying accent colors to add individ- and cleanliness. painted the picture had to be a master uality to each room. If your home lacks character, warmth, of color harmony in order to be a suc- A color scheme on which you can and cheer for the winter days ahead, cessful artist. Many lovely decorating hardly go wrong may be achieved by looks tired and abject, you can do some- schemes may be developed in this way. using varying shades of the same color. thing about it. Another good plan to follow is to Begin with the floor. If you plan to use Color is a tool that every homemaker study pictures of rooms in magazines. linoleum or broadloom, carry this color should learn to use and use well. Color Make sure, however, that you are study- throughout the house or at least into the costs no more than drabness. Color can ing color, and are not carried away with rooms that open directly into the living accomplish more for the appearance of a the beauty of the furniture or by other area. home than any other one decorating factors in the picture. One way to avoid Next paint the walls a lighter shade of factor. Color can make space for you, this mistake is to study color away from the basic color you have used on the make apparent structural changes, and the distraction of furniture arrange- floor. If the rooms are small and ir- do a face lifting job that will add greatly ments. Go to the towel or blanket de- regular, it will add greatly to the ap- to the joy and pride of the family in partment of some large store, explain to parent size of the room to make the their home. the sales clerk what you are doing, and woodwork the same color as the walls. The best place for a basic lesson in then find what colors please you most. The same is true of Venetian blinds or color harmony is in nature itself. Green When you think you have arrived at a the indoor shutters that are so popular and blue are restful colors, blend well, pleasing combination, take your choice just now. and make a pleasing backdrop for the into the daylight to be sure it pleases So far things may look quite monot- other colors of the spectrum. The darker you in varying lights and shadows. Re- onous and uninteresting, as I can imag- colors beneath our feet give us a more member that the intensity of a color ine the world must have looked in the anchored, solid feeling, while lighter determines to a large degree how much beginning without the parrots and cardi- colors above give a feeling of spacious- should be used in a color scheme. nals, poppies and tulips, and the gaudy ness. Did you ever stop to think what it The effect of light on color should be gold and black of the tiger's coat. The would be like to have the colors of studied. Many homes today are designed background serves to make the furnish- earth and sky reversed? We would soon with large areas which admit a great ings even more beautiful when they are feel a tired heaviness from a dark, green deal of light. Often rooms are much introduced into the picture. sky bearing down on us from the atmos- larger than in homes built a few years Ceilings are important and in the past phere above. hack. few years have really come into their 22 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 The Surprise for Grandpa Peters By INEZ BRASIER

ERRY was talking hurriedly in- "No!" cried all the girls. "We began doing things in the little stead of eating his dinner so he will all make pictures and write kitchen. The girls helped her. J could be at school on time. letters. We will all go to grandpa Everyone worked and laughed "Grandpa Peters fell and hurt Peters. We will all do things for and talked to grandpa Peters. Soon himself, so he can't walk for two him." the floors were swept and the side- whole weeks." Just then the buzzer buzzed. walk was cleaned. "What's that? What's that?" The boys and girls went to their The boys put grandpa Peters' asked great-grandfather. "What room. They studied hard. Then, kitchen table by his chair. They are you going to do about it?" with Miss Anderson's help, they helped Miss Anderson put the "All the boys and girls in third made pretty pictures and wrote good things she had cooked on the grade are going to make pretty the letters. table. pictures and write little letters this "This isn't all we are going to "I really am hungry now," afternoon. I am going to take them do," said Jerry. "We are going to grandpa Peters told them. to him right after school." grandpa Peters' house right after "We are all going to come every Great-grandfather thumped the school and bring in wood and day after school so you will not floor with his stout cane as he al- sweep the snow from his walk, have to think about anything," ways did when he was thinking and the girls are going to do promised the boys and girls. hard about something. things, too." "Our fathers are going to come "Is that all you can do? If I were "That is just fine," said Miss every day to help you go to bed a big boy eight years old, I would Anderson. "I want to do some- and get up, and our mothers are not do that. No sir, I would not." thing, too. I will go with you." going to bring you lots and lots Great-grandfather chuckled as he She looked at her watch. "It is of good things to eat," said Jerry. often did now that he was happy three o'clock. Put your books and "You can read these letters and most of the time. papers and pencils away, and we look at the pictures we made so "Why, why—" Jerry could not will go now." you won't be lonesome. We will say a thing but why. Then he Grandpa Peters 'sat by his stove. come every day after school." laughed and began to eat very fast. But he was not warm, for there Johnny did not know what else to "Please 'scuse me, Grandma. I was no wood in the box and he say. know what great-grandfather could not walk to the shed to get Before grandpa Peters could means, and I thought of some- it. Just then, someone knocked on say one word, the boys and the thing." his door, and all the boys and girls and Miss Anderson were Jerry ran all the way to school. girls and Miss Anderson came in. gone. He closed his eyes for a He talked to the boys and girls in "Surprise! Surprise!" they called. minute. third grade. The boys filled the wood box. "Thank You, Jesus, for such "The girls can make the pictures Miss Anderson soon had a fire helpful boys and girls. Thank You and write the letters," said Johnny. burning in the big stove. Then she for such kind neighbors."

proper place in decorators' planning. If you well on the way to a pleasant room. three walls, or some contrasting color. your rooms lack light, white ceilings Interesting effects result from using Another way to accomplish this is by help a great deal. If ceilings are too the ceiling color in one room on the wall the use of figured wallpaper, but not a high, they may be brought down by of the next room which is viewed scenic design. using dark colors or appropriate pat- through the open door. Perhaps the most difficult part of terned papers. Dropping the ceiling If you have a wall you wish to push decorating is in the choice of appropriate color down on the wall surface helps out for added spacious feeling, bring the accessories. Color is like music, and red further to bring the ceiling height down. lighter ceiling color down and use it on is like the staccato notes that add interest Many times the ceiling is the ideal that wall. On the other hand if you have and sparkle to musical compositions. place to introduce the second color of a very long room and wish to draw the Orange, too, very popular at the mo- your color scheme. Repeating the ceil- end walls in for a more cozy feeling, this ment, is a very effective accent color. ing color, but with greater intensity, in may be accomplished by using a deeper Accent colors are best introduced in draperies and upholstered furniture puts tone of the same color used on the other (Continued on page 30) THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 23 eegotterizer CHRIST'S KINGDOM CANNOT BE ESTABLISHED BY CIVIL LAW

IKE the Jews of the days of Jesus, the kingdom of Christ ere this would our Lord the answer to the men of today who "would take Him by force, to have become a glorious reality. To who would take Him by the force of L make Him a king," there are those establish the name of Christ in our Con- law and make Him king? today who would establish Christ as king stitution is their answer to the prayer of The social gospel was not a part of of the nations by force of law and arms. the centuries: "Thy kingdom come." the teaching of Jesus. Men are saved "My kingdom is not of this world" is the Peace on earth, good will towards men one by one, not en masse. The gospel of answer of Jesus to these misguided men. is possible through legal enactments salvation is for the individual. There Jesus is king of a spiritual, not a tem- rigidly enforced—such is the philosophy must be laws to safeguard society, but poral, kingdom. Citizenship, in His of the "religion by law" enthusiasts. a law that would open the door of the kingdom, is determined by the new The very opposite is true. Our Found- church and force men to enter would birth, not by the natural birth or legal ing Fathers were not ungodly men. bring not salvation but ruin to society. enactments. Their choice, their decision, was There was a time, not too many years There are determined efforts these Heaven-inspired.. Theirs was the wisest ago, when church and state walked hand days to change the Constitution of the decision ever made by mortal men in the in hand. Tragedy was written on the United States to read: "We, the people framing of a government. The Constitu- blood-stained pages of history when the of the United States, devoutly recogniz- tion, through all these years, has been church enforced its teachings through ing the authority and law of the Lord the guardian of our freedom, the pro- the iron arm of the state. Jesus Christ, the Saviour and King of tector of our God-given liberties. Re- What is a state? It is the union of in- nations, . . . do ordain and establish ligion has flourished in America, largely dividuals—many of them Christian in this Constitution for the United States untrammeled by state interference and name, some Christian in heart, some of America." Specious arguments are unfettered by government regulation. rank unbelievers. And in America they presented to make the change appear Never before has there been such op- are all citizens. The Jew is as much an reasonable and desirable, American as the Gentile, the Catholic as the Protestant, while a veritable crusade for (Editor's note: This is the second of an impor- Christ is championed by the atheist as the theist, and tant series of articles on "The Kingdom of God.") those who would make the unbeliever as the be- America Christian by law. liever. Religion is not a test Little do they realize that, of office, neither is it a test in such a misguided effort, By VARNER J. JOHNS of citizenship. Change this they deny the very teachings basic concept of our Ameri- set forth by our Lord as the can way, and this would no guiding principles for His longer be America. We dare kingdom. Little do they realize that the portunity for full and free expression of not revert to a concept of govern- end of their effort is to open the way not religious faith. ment that would bring us the dark for the reign of Christ, but for the reign Men would have us believe that a ages of depotism. Read the records of a of antichrist; not for liberty, but for theocracy is preferable to a democracy. thousand years, call the roll of the tyranny; not for righteousness, but for If all men were righteous, a theocracy nations of Europe, medieval and mod- ruin. Liberty would be lost forever if would be ideal. However, until right- ern, give trial to the church-and-state the Christian Amendment movement eousness covers the earth as the waters idea of government, and we are filled succeeds in its objectives. cover the sea, a theocracy is not possible. with fear. The stake and the rack, the "America for Christ" is the call of the If righteousness could have come dungeon and the sword, are coercive Christian Amendment crusaders. Ac- through the enthronement of the King weapons in the hands of the religious cording to them, our Founding Fathers, of righteousness, Jesus would have taken zealot. in keeping the name of Christ out of the the kingdom and ruled among men on a The modern apostles of medievalism Constitution, made a fatal decision. visible throne. The very object of His deny that they advocate a union of They make the founders of our republic ministry, and of His teaching, was to church and state, but their contention is responsible for the ever-increasing in- show the fallacy of the kingdom-of-God- a mere subterfuge. A confederacy of iquity in America. Had they enthroned on-earth idea. "My kingdom is not of churches, uniting to enforce certain Christ as the ruler of the United States, this world," said Jesus. Is not the word of common beliefs, is more to be feared 24 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 We think not. There is no prejudice quite so intense as religious prejudice; there is no persecution quite so bitter as religious persecution. Were Christian laws made and en- forced by the state, those laws would be made at the instigation and direction of K NGDOM religious organizations. These laws would be enforced by men who were elected to office because their candidacy was endorsed by these same organiza- tions. Who would be elected to office in a Christian state? Only men who bear the name of Christian. Would the Ro- man Catholic bloc be any less zealous in its political action program under a Christian democracy? Would the fed- erated Protestant groups apply less po- litical pressure? No. Instead, these groups would dominate every phase of our national life. There would be re- ligious regimentation. For the good of the majority, which is usually wrong, the rights of the minority would be trampled underfoot. Religious freedom, as we now experience it, would be no more. Of course the Christian Amend- ment group deny such a possibility. In fact they forecast greater freedom for all under the Christian state. But can they not read the lessons of the past? Are they blind to the facts of history? Dissenters had a sorry time in the so- called good old days. The fires burned fiercely around the bodies of Huss and Jerome, Ridley and Cranmer, and thou- sands more like them. Protestants as well as Catholics were guilty of fearful atroci- ties, committed in the name of Chris- Free people in a free nation go to the church of their choice. Regimentation does not bring vitality into the church; it stifles the initiative that makes faith live. tianity and a Christian state. Is modern Rome more tolerant than was Rome of the Dark Ages? Let Spain answer for than a single church. No one church in smoke, and drink. Many Roman Cath- Europe, and Colombia for South Amer- America can ever hope to be in the olics and Protestants are not against al- ica. Where can we find love, forbear- majority. A confederated church, how- coholic drinks. If Christians were meas- ance, freedom to worship God according ever, controlling the state and dictating ured as God measures them, few would to the dictates of conscience, in any its laws and civil decrees, would wield be found walking in the narrow way. state, medieval or modern, where a to- almost unlimited power. A religio-politi- Would a Christian amendment to our talitarian church is in power? We do not cal government is no different from a Constitution change this dark religious question the sincerity of autocratic re- church-state government. Its end is co- picture? History says No! The Bible says ligionists, but we would not risk their ercion and persecution. No! There have been times in days gone charity. Let us, for a moment, consider the by when everything else was closed on Religion has an open field in our church statistics of our country. Many Sunday except the door to the church. America. Men are free to preach, to Americans have no church affiliation. Of The result was not love, joy, peace, long- teach, to worship. The very Constitu- church members, the Roman Catholics suffering, gentleness, kindness, but dis- tion which some would destroy has been are in the majority. In the large cities sension and persecution. Great and good through all these years our bulwark of the percentage of Roman Catholics is men, zealous for their faith as was Saul freedom. There is only one way to make very high. Among the minority groups of Tarsus, have committed great wrongs converts to Christianity, and that is are the Jews, who do not accept Jesus in their supposed defense of Chris- God's way: conversion, not coercion. as the Messiah. Sad to say, even among tianity. John Calvin established a Chris- Preach the Word, convict the sinner of Christians a large bloc reject the doctrine tian state in Geneva. The velvet glove of his sins, and bring to him the gospel of of the deity of Jesus, and true religion is Christian zeal covered the mailed fist of salvation, which does a work of grace difficult to find. The world and the cruel intolerance. Death came to the upon the human heart. But the religious church walk hand in hand. Christians dissenter in Calvin's Christian state. Has zealot is not satisfied with God's way of dance, play cards, attend theaters, human nature changed for the better? (Continued on page 29) THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 25 The answers to health questions are supplied to the readers of THESE TIMES by Owen S. Parrett, M.D. Address your queries to him in care of this magazine.

I am a woman forty-eight years of as that found in fruits, which is natural Milk causes more mucus for some age and living in the damp North- to man and not that found in cane and people; and if such is the case, it should west. I am suffering from a mild type beets, which are better adapted to horse be used sparingly. Buttermilk may be of arthritis, but it is getting worse in and cow feed, it is usually and for most better tolerated. A diet high in vitamins spite of good diet and general hy- people tolerated better than sugar. There C and A should be used and supple- giene. Please advise.—L.W.P. are a few people who may be allergic to mented with these two vitamins in the Let us presume that you are eating honey, which might even be due to the form of tablets or liquid. Sun bathing correctly. That means whole-grain cere- pollen granules which it contains. and graduated baths (beginning with als, a good variety of both green and Honey can be substituted for sugar a warm spray and finishing with cold yellow vegetables (both raw and cooked in most all foods unless it be cakes and followed by vigorous rubbing of the barely done), some milk, a few eggs, (special recipes must be used). Honey skin with a coarse Turkish towel) may some cottage cheese, little or no meat, cookies are excellent. All sweets should help bring up the general vitality and no tea and coffee, and perhaps a few be used more as a flavor to render foods also produce an immunity to sudden nuts. You should also be getting plenty attractive. Since sweets are high in changes of temperature. Sleep in rooms of sleep. Most essential, perhaps, of any calories and contain rather low vitamin with ample ventilation, but avoid cool single factor in trying to cure arthritis percentages, there is danger that they cross-currents over the head as you sleep. is to avoid all emotional strain. Curb may be used to excess. Honey ice cream Keep the bowels open, and use a great your efforts to do everything painstak- is delightful if the honey is mild, such deal of fresh, raw fruits and vegetable ingly perfect. In other words, relax and as orange, black sage, basswood, or salads, little or no meat, and very few take it a little easy. Get some type of clover; but use as little as possible, keep- eggs. ing it undersweetened rather than using sun lamp to use whenever the real Is the Cayenne pepper used so to excess. sunshine is hiding, or it is too cool, much in Mexico and other foreign which is common in your part of the What is the best treatment for sinus countries really harmful?—G.B.S. country. Carbon arc light is best, but trouble?—H.E.W. many types of mercury vapor lamps can Anything as irritating as red pepper also be used very effectively. Of course Sinus trouble is probably more com- cannot be anything but harmful when if it becomes necessary, you should move mon than almost any other ailment. So- placed in the stomach. It must be re- to a drier and warmer climate, such as called catarrh of the nose and throat to membered that the effects of certain in New Mexico, Arizona, or inland a greater or less extent affects a large kinds of physical or chemical agents are southern California. Keeping your gen- number of people. It is largely a disease not registered by the stomach as pain. eral health at the highest level possible of civilization; and it, therefore, is rare For example, if one were able to touch is most essential if you want to live among people who live out of doors a the lining of the stomach with a hot above the arthritic level. great deal, and whose habits are simple. cautery, it would elicit little or no pain. A common provoking cause is over- If on the other hand one could pinch Is it possible to have mumps more heated homes, and it would seem that the stomach, the response would be im- than once?—L.H. the hotter the average room tempera- mediate and severe pain, and pinching If occurring on only one side, mumps tures, the more we find colds and sinus the gall bladder would cause nausea. may subsequently develop on the other infections. One who has this trouble I do not find the Mexican people free side. Otherwise the disease very rarely cannot immediately begin exposing him- from symptoms of ulcer, having just occurs twice with the same patient. The self to cold. He can dress sufficiently had such a case quite recently. I am swelling from mumps is located immedi- warm so that he can allow the room aware that some people take capsules of ately in front of the ear and extends temperature to be about 70° F., which Cayenne pepper as a medicine, but even from the angle of the jaw to a point is high enough for normal people. In though no pain results and this power- exactly half way up the front, of the ear. summer, of course, the temperature may ful rubefacient may seem to whip up the Swellings below this are not mumps. rise considerably above this. Air condi- stomach to increased glandular activity, tioning may cause sinus trouble by I still would strongly advise against its Is there such a thing as using honey rapidly subjecting the body to coolness use as a medicine or a food. However, to excess?—L.C.E. while sitting still, especially after being the bell peppers and other forms of Any food may be used to excess, honey in warm air and having perspiration on peppers that when eaten are not hot included. Since honey, however, is a the skin. This cools the body too sud- may be an excellent food as well as a natural sweet and the same type of sugar denly and rapidly. source of some of the essential vitamins. 26 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 Small fry Criminals 2. A general "moral and spiritual cent of all delinquents are found to have breakdown." A general lowering of received adequate religious training and (Continued from page 13) standards, condoned instead of con- moral development. One might logically demned by people today, who want infer that a good part of the remaining both a negative and a positive way. If popularity, fame, and money, at the ex- parents could conceivably be rewarded 98 per cent who did not might have pense of reputation and character. This grown up to be moral, law-abiding for good deeds of their children, why not men passes on to children. and women if their parents had looked punish them for the bad? It is obvious 3. "Latch-key children" left to shift more toward their spiritual welfare. to anyone that as the seeds of virtue are for themselves while their parents work, sown and developed in the home and A child that does not respect parental thereby removing the opportunity for family, so are those of sin and vice. authority cannot be expected to respect parental supervision. This is made clear in the Bible story civil laws. Parents should supervise their 4. Overindulgent parents, who furnish of Eli and God's judgments upon him children's activities; no delinquent can their offspring with "easy" money with- for neglecting his parental duty. God take all the blame if his parents didn't out accompanying instruction on how to start early enough on him. To coddle the said that He would "judge his house for- spend it, on one hand, and extreme ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; child and humor his wayward tenden- poverty on the other. because his sons made themselves vile, cies, and then attempt to straighten him and he restrained them not." (1 Samuel out when in the middle of his adventur- 3:13.) Following the story into the next ous teens he becomes secretive, self- chapter, we find that Eli's wicked sons, assertive, and wild, is the height of folly. Hophni and Phinehas, were slain in a The first five years of a person's life do battle with the Philistines; and the old most toward shaping his character, child father, when he heard the news, fell CRITICISM psychologists tell us. Gentle but firm dis- over backwards, broke his neck, and cipline is a requisite toward maintaining died. These two sons were among the Versus a spirit of obedience and respect for first juvenile delinquents, and their PRAISE authority. father was the prototype of all parents We would be the last ones to belittle who are derelict in their home responsi- the efforts of youth leaders of today who It seems so easy to criticize— bilities. believe that youth organizations, recrea- One author has stated—and we must Is it any harder to praise? tional centers, clubs, technical schools, reiterate—that the chief cause of youth A few harsh words can mar bright skies, hobbies, etc., are doing vast good among delinquency is the "woeful lack of moral Take happy glow from some person's young America. We heartily endorse most of these types of activity, yet here education and direction on the part of eyes, parents." Certainly this is the crux of their basic premise is wrong. Some of the whole matter. Parents are bound to And spoil the pleasure of many days! these leaders mistakenly believe that correct their children, as is plainly out- It seems so easy to criticize— recreation will solve a moral problem. If lined in God's Book, but how many of Is it any harder to praise? human nature were not inherently evil, it might do so, but there is no substitute them fail to make a sustained effort to do -CLAUDIA M. ADAMS. so! Of course the other factors—the for religion. It is more than a way of life; school, church, community, etc.—should it is the way of life. "Train up a child bear their share of the responsibility and in the way he should go: and when the blame; but the home, the smallest he is old, he will not depart from it." unit of society, is, after all, basic. Homes Proverbs 22:6. make up the communities; their mem- What are we as parents, adults, citi- bers make up the schools and churches. 11.Congestion, unsanitary conditions, zens, going to do about it? Is it any Other well-known religious authors and inadequate recreational facilities in concern of ours? Should we shrug our echo what one of them has to say: "It the cities. (Most delinquents come from shoulders with some, and say, "Well, is by the youth and children of today urban areas.) some boys are just naturally bad; there that the future of society is to be de- 12.Adult absorption in business and have to be a few mean ones. You are termined, and what these youth and social activities, leaving children with- making too much of this juvenile de- children shall be depends upon the out an opportunity to expend their emo- linquency situation; there may be more home. To the lack of right home training tions under proper supervision. delinquents today than there were fifty may be traced the larger share of the 13. The illogical economic situation years ago, but the population is growing, disease and misery and crime that curse which permits teen-age youngsters to too. There will always be a few bad humanity. If the home life were pure leave school and earn as much or more ones." Do we have to adopt such a and true, if the children who went as the teachers under whom they passive attitude? The answer is No! forth from its care were prepared to studied. The youth of today are the citizens of meet life's responsibilities and dangers, 14.Community slowness in recognizing tomorrow. We all have a stake in our what a change would be seen in the that a delinquency problem exists, with youth, even in those not of our immedi- world!" lack of co-ordination of corrective efforts. ate family or community. Whether you In a state-wide survey conducted in Notice that only two of these eight admit it or not, they are your problem, Michigan recently to find the chief factors are not directly concerned with your responsibility, your heritage. Visit causes of the upward trend in delin- the parents' role of responsibility. For one of our corrective institutions as I did, quency, the following were significant: those who say that "parents might not and let the facts convince you of one 1. Broken homes. (About one divorce go to church, but they are not so bad," thing as it did me: These boys are not out of every three marriages.) we might note that less than 2 per "bad"! THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 27 How Arch for Your Life? (Continued from page 16) tions are also usually concerned with long life. On birthdays, it is "Many happy returns of the day"; at weddings, The journey "Long life and happiness." It was the rule anciently for a man entering the presence of the king to say first, "0 My childish world disturbed, king, live forever" similar to the Jap- I questioned why our careful plans anese patriotic cry of "Banzai"—"10,- 000 years"—to the emperor. The Chinese Had been deranged. With anxious eyes put a wan nien ku-10,000 year hoop of I watched the twisting upward trail, silver—around the necks of children to preserve their lives. Ignoring flowers, bright skies, But in spite of all our desires and good Until my father smiled: wishes, death, the great enemy, wins. "The road is rough, but these are lovely detours; We fight it from the cradle to the grave. Our wan nien ku will not work; our You must grow up, my child." good wishes fail; our "Banzai's" don't succeed; the king joins the beggar in re- Again I knew dismay: turning to dust. We buy life insurance, but there is no such thing; it is death My careful plans, my charted course insurance. The earth is one great ceme- Disturbed and changed, storm-ravaged skies tery. Obscuring view. Distressed, No wonder that, through the ages, men have sought for an antidote to I raised inquiring eyes. death, for the fountain of youth, the God took my hand, and smiled: elixir of life, some herb or potent mix- ture that would preserve life. Seven of "The road is rough, yet there must be no detours; the twenty-two kings of the Chinese You have grown up, dear child." Tang dynasty died, and wasted the lives -J. MIRIAM COLE. of thousands of their subjects, while ex- perimenting with life-saving drugs. Tsing Chi Wong sent 3,000 men and women to the Eastern Islands in search of the elixir of life. Centuries later, their descendants—Japanese—returned, and in airplanes, dropping death over the land of their extraction. Ponce de Leon went to Florida to seek a fabled fountain of A Frenchman once thought that to The great mystery of life and death youth. Shot by a poisoned arrow, he re- exclude all germs would prevent death, remains unexplained by science; all it turned home to die. Arabian chemists and so he built a prophylactic palace out knows is that "life comes only from life." distilled an essence that they thought in the country. A special sterilizing room But the Book of life gives the answer was the elixir of life—a wonderful, disinfected everything brought inside, clearly and understandably. God is the vivifying liquid. We now call it alcohol, but one day, in that immaculately clean source of life, "in Him we live, and and nothing has ever exercised a more place, he fell sick. Finally he called for move, and have our being." Acts 17:28. baneful influence in shortening human a doctor who rushed him to the hospital, The poison that causes death is sin; "the life. where he died of a ruptured appendix. sting of death is sin." 1 Corinthians Because all man's efforts to find the While busy excluding germs from the 15:56. Sin is the transgression of God's source of life have failed, shall we say outside, the seeds of death had been law; and "the wages of sin is death" that the search was foolish? No, in vain working in his own body. (Romans 6:23), "and so death passed it has been, but not foolish. Man has Dr. Alexis Carrel and Charles Lind- upon all men, for that all have sinned." really been seeking for something that bergh once performed a remarkable ex- Romans 5:12. This is the cause of death he had actually lost. "He hath set periment in an endeavor to solve the —the reason why man has lost the divine eternity in their heart." Ecclesiastes mystery of life. A heart was removed heritage of unending life. Yet man is not 3:11, margin. God created him as a alive from a chicken and placed im- without hope. candidate for eternal life. Man has been mediately in a nutrient liquid, where it "For God so loved the world, that He trying to recover his lost heritage. The was kept living and beating for nine gave His only begotten Son, that who- search having failed, he has tried to find years. But, although this was a most in- soever believeth in Him should not the cause of death, but that still remains teresting achievement, nothing could be perish, but have everlasting life." John as great a mystery as life. As Confucius done with it. The heart could not grow 3:16. Christ not only said that, but He said, 'We know not life, how can we a new chicken, so the experiment was also took our death penalty upon Him- understand death!" discontinued. self. "I am come that they might have 28 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 life, and that they might have it more of this world. He cannot, will not, reign ance. Forsaking our sins will bring re- abundantly." John 10:10. over sinful men. Only by the new birth vival in our churches and a reformation If there is any other way, we have not can men enter the kingdom of God. in our homes. Pentecostal power will found it. For 6,000 years man has Jesus reigns over twice-born men. There bring conversions and transformations. searched in vain for the elixir of life. are no gamblers, no idolaters, no adul- This is the only way to "Christianize" He has looked too low; it is not on the terers, no covetous or self-righteous per- America. This is the way of grace. The earth. It is with God: "With Thee is the sons in the kingdom of Christ. There are legal method, if it were followed, would fountain of life." Psalm 36:9. There is no worshipers of images nor consulters write "finis" to freedom and bring ruin no other way to obtain it than His way, with familiar spirits, no proud or profane to religion. Already there are signs of "for there is none other name under in the kingdom over which Christ is regimentation in civil affairs. God help heaven given among men, whereby we King. The kingdom of Christ is an in- America and all of us if there comes must be saved." Acts 4:12. And—strange visible kingdom of grace. The ruling regimentation in religion. anomaly—while man has been searching principle of His kingdom is love, not Let us ever pray: "Thy kingdom for the fountain of life, the Fountain of force. Not until Christ comes the second come. Thy will be done in earth, as it life has been seeking for him with the time to destroy sin and sinners, not un- is in heaven." Let us add to our prayer gracious invitation, "Let him that is til all men everywhere are righteous, will the Christian plea: "Be ye reconciled to athirst come. . . . Let him take the the visible kingdom of glory be estab- God." Through the preaching of the water of life freely." Revelation 22:17. lished. everlasting gospel of the kingdom, let Friend, do you seek life? Then try Such a picture of the kingdom of us unite with our Lord in a Christian God's way; that of man has failed. Ex- Christ is Biblical. In contrast, the Chris- crusade to bring men into the kingdom plorers will never find it; chemists will tian Amendment way is purely un- of grace. Let us pray, also, for the com- never compound it; doctors will never Biblical and unchristian. It is a will-o'- ing of Christ in glory and the establish- discover it; money can never buv it; it the-wisp, a false light on the shore, one ment of the kingdom of glory at His is the gift of God through Jesus Christ. which would carry our ship of state coming. But, whatever we do, let us not onto the rocks of intolerance. Must take the fatal step of asking the aid of The Counterfeit Kingdom America turn back to the days of Old Caesar in establishing the kingdom of Heaven. The love of Christ, not the (Continued from page 25) World despotism and medieval dark- ness? Turn the pages in the lesson book laws of the state, must constrain us in grace; he would make men righteous by of history to the days of Constantine. the winning of souls for the kingdom. law. Let the majority vote a Christian Under pagan Rome, Christians were Caesar could not make Rome a Chris- amendment, is their plea, and America proscribed and persecuted. Then came tian nation in his day; nor can Congress will be a Christian nation. the dawn of a supposed new day. The make America that way today. The best "Come now, and let us reason to- emperor of Rome was converted to help, the only help that Congress can gether." Let us suppose that 49 per cent Christianity. Under his direction, Chris- consistently give to Christianity is to of the American people were professed tianity became the religion of the state, safeguard the freedoms guaranteed to Christians, and thereby still in the mi- at which time it was proclaimed by the all men by our Constitution. May our nority. The name of Christ would not bishops that the kingdom of Christ was modern statesmen follow in the footsteps be placed in the Constitution. Then 2 at long last an established fact. Con- of the founders of our republic. In so per cent more become church members. stantine and the church leaders were in doing they will follow the leadership of Now the 51 per cent are in the ma- complete accord. Religious laws were our God. For it was the Christ of Chris- jority, and America is a Christian nation! passed, and paganism was finished. tianity who said: "Render therefore unto What folly! Our Lord X-rays the human Christianity had taken its place, but Caesar the things which are Caesar's; heart. The majority of professed Chris- with what result? and unto God the things that are God's." tians will, in the judgment, hear these The persecuted became the persecu- words of Christ: "Depart from Me . . . The Death of Saul I never knew you." No, a majority can- tors. The pagans were now proscribed. not vote a nation Christian, nor legislate Christianity rode in the gilded chariot of (Continued from page 35) Christianity into the hearts of men. the empire. It was a sorry day for Chris- Chapter 31:1. And it was not on the Ours is a representative government, or- tianity. That gilded chariot led the morrow after Saul inquired of the ganized for the very purpose of protect- church into the desert of darkness and familiar spirit, as the spirit said it would ing the rights of minorities. If America despotism. The new day was a day of be, so the "thing did not follow, nor were made a Christian nation by law, deep darkness. The golden door of come to pass," as it had said. Therefore then the Jew and unbeliever could not Christianity-by-law opened into the the Lord did not speak by that spirit, be an American. At best, he would be Dark Ages. Religion-by-law brought and we are not afraid of him. See Deu- tolerated; at worst killed. Suppose our persecution. Those were days of distress teronomy 18:22. Christian amendment advocates should and despair. Not until the birth of If you want to see a prophecy spoken find themselves in a Mohammedan land America was man made free to worship by the Spirit of the Lord concerning to- —would they advocate majority rule in God according to the dictates of his con- morrow, and fulfilled to the very letter, religion under such circumstances? science. America must not follow the read 2 Kings 7. Why then the effort to "Christianize" false lights into the darkness of des- So we find that on that point, as well America by changing the Constitution? potism. as on every other, the Scripture proves It is the old kingdom-of-God-on-earth de- There is a better way for Christianity to an absolute certainty that it was an lusion in modern dress. The premise is than the religion-by-law way. Let us evil, lying spirit, even one of the "spirits false; and so is the conclusion. Its ad- repent of our sins—not in a hypocritical, of devils" (Revelation 16:14), that ap- vocates would take Jesus by force and impersonal, "Uncle Sam" repentance— peared to the woman of Endor and com- make Him king, but His kingdom is not but in a sincere and individual repent- municated with Saul. THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 29 faith and fangs formers sometimes are bitten and perish gifted, can choose the color scheme of from their presumptuous acts. your home for you. A room may be ever (Continued from page 17) The promises of God's protection and so beautiful, but if done in yellow when you do not like yellow, it will never look claimed by faith, and the God of heaven care over those who put their trust in right to you. A home should be the true responded by working a wonderful de- Him may, like "other scriptures," be expression of the homemaker in particu- liverance. Paul was on his way to Rome, twisted out of their true meaning to the and had the assurance of God that he "destruction" of those who are "un- lar and the whole family in general. The true role of the decorator is to discover was on God's errand, when his ship was stable" or "unlearned" in them. (2 Peter wrecked near an island. When all had 3:16.) The Lord Jesus gave us an ex- the colors and things that most please gotten ashore, Paul busied himself by ample of the duty to do our part to care the client and then arrange and balance them to best advantage. gathering sticks for a fire to warm the for ourselves, and not to tempt God to chilled survivors. Suddenly, a deadly permit our destruction by deliberately For a happy winter at home with the family make home the gayest, pleas- viper lunged out of the fire and bit him placing ourselves in danger. on the hand, causing the inhabitants of The missionary who goes into snake- antest place of all with color. the island to believe that he would infested countries with the good news of shortly fall "down dead." (Acts 28:6.) the gospel can rightfully claim the pro- Escape from Death tection of his God in time of danger. Paul did not play with the viper, or (Continued from page 21) call the attention of the others to the We, too, when brought into danger fact that it was fastened on his hand, while doing His will, may with simple "But," I argued, "what does this mean in Ecclesiastes 12:13? The wisest man but quickly shook it off. He made no faith look up to the God of the Bible and boast of his faith, but calmly in his heart lay hold of the promises placed there for in all the world wrote these words, let claimed the promise of the Saviour and just such a time, knowing that He will us hear the conclusion of the whole received in his own body the wonderful not allow His Word to fail. matter: Fear God, and keep His com- mandments: for this is the whole duty answer of the living God. The record of God's Word says that he "felt no Color Gives a lift of man.' " harm." (Verse 5.) "Oh, well, Mrs. Slaybaugh, you're (Continued from page 23) The fact is that the handling of any reading now out of the Old Testament. kind of snake could not possibly be an carefully chosen accessories such as lamp We live according to the New Testa- expression of faith, for many of the shades, bookbindings, vases, cushions, ment." world's snake charmers have little or no pictures, and mats. Painting the insides I retorted, "All right, what about John knowledge of God, and make no pro- of cupboards and bookshelves with the 14:15? Jesus said, 'If ye love Me, keep fession of faith. Also, the American In- accent color adds life to dull rooms. My commandments.' And in 1 John dians still hold their annual snake If you have difficulty choosing acces- 2:4, 'He that saith, I know Him, and dances, in which some under the in- sories, it is well to remember that keepeth not His commandments, is a fluence of alcohol, and others in the polished metals such as brass, copper, liar, and the truth is not in Him.' " frenzy of spirit possession, take up the and chrome add sparkle and harmonize He looked at me, and these were his most poisonous snakes and handle them with the most difficult color combina- words: "Mrs. Slaybaugh, you ask too freely. There is nothing Christian about tions. many questions. The trouble with you such demonstrations, and these per- I do not believe anyone, however people is you've been reading too much. You've been studying too much. You're taking these things too seriously. Now," he said, "if you must read the Bible (and he picked up a small portion in the center of the Bible), here are the Four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and There's Nobody Just Like You John. Read these, but don't take them too seriously, or you're going to get yourselves into trouble." There's nobody just like you, my friend, Roy stood up, but not in silence. "Thank you. We'll be going now. But Though all the wide world we search. before we go. would you please tell us And you can reach, through your gentle speech, who these people are whom God is speaking about in Revelation 14:12? Some soul that none other can touch. He's calling somebody saints: 'Here is And you were born at the proper time the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, To fulfill a purpose true. and the faith of Jesus.'" And because of God's plan for your type of man— He didn't answer him. Then Roy There's nobody just like you! turned a few more pages to Revelation 22:14. He put his finger on it, and -WELDON TAYLOR HAMMOND. said, "Please tell us who are these peo- ple whom God places a special blessing upon, for it reads, 'Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may

30 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 enter in through the gates into the city." With that the minister slammed the Bible shut and almost shouted, "I can't do anything more with you people. You're determined to take the Bible liter- ally. You can't do that. Do you know what you would have to be if you tried to live according to the Bible just as it is written?" "No," Roy pretended not to know, "what would we have to be?" "Why," the minister informed him, "you would have to be Seventh-day Ad- ventists, but who wants to be Seventh- day Adventists!" We thanked him and left, never again going back to that church. • • • We were baptized one Friday night, SI the fifth of December, along with a large PLASTICS AT WORK.—Ion-exchange ocean bottom. Salvage operations in the group of other people. After we had resins, which have the ability to take future may be completely planned be- been church members for over a year, certain chemicals from liquids in ex- fore a diver ever goes down to do the and had helped others do missionary change for others which they release, actual work. work, Roy and I decided that we would are being used in a new-type home water softener. Such softeners are more like to go out alone with the Lord's help. SI • • • We had always lived inland and had than twice as efficient as the old. Already SYNTHETIC WONDERS. — Dr. never seen the ocean, so we decided the process is being used on a large Roger Adams of the University of Illi- that we would like to go out to the scale by cities such as Los Angeles, nois forecasts the following for man- Pacific coast. We leased our farm, stored where two hundred million gallons a kind's synthetic future: our furniture, and bade good-by to all of day are treated. Pears, apples, and oranges the size of our new friends. We left Spokane the The process is so cheap that it is grapefruit. list of February, drove to Portland, thought to be adaptable for purification People happy, healthy, and kittenish Oregon, and then southward. Every of sea water for irrigation purposes. If at the age of one hundred. little town we came to we stopped and this is accomplished, the fear of water Interplanetary football matches and inquired, "Is there a Seventh-day Ad- shortage in coastal areas will be a thing celestially anchored refreshment stands ventist church here?" The answer was of the past. on rocket ship routes. always Yes. Clothing made from coal and oil. Finally we were 350 miles south of • • • SI Chemicals to kill the viruses that Portland, in Gold Beach, Oregon, at the BULLET IN BLOODSTREAM OF cause such stubborn diseases as colds, mouth of the Rogue River. We asked BOY.—A bullet which entered the large poliomyelitis, meningitis, influenza, if there were a Seventh-day Adventist artery near the heart of a sixteen-year-old virus pneumonia, mumps, measles, and church there and found only two boy and then slowly drifted through his others. churches: a Catholic church and a bloodstream to his knee probably won't community church. Neither were there kill him, doctors said. Doctors at Holzer any Seventh-day Adventists there. • • • Hospital of Gallipolis, Ohio, said Gene SI Roy and I decided this would be the Webb is recovering nicely from a rare NEW GAS AND GERM UNIFORM. place to stop for a while. We rented a operation on the aorta, where the bullet —The army recently introduced a new pretty little house on the north bank stopped after he was accidentally shot. airtight uniform for protection against of the river. Gold Beach proper is on poison gas and germ warfare. The pro- the south side of the Rogue River. We tective suit, made of noninflammable also bought a small tract of land about SI • • • butyl rubber, is designed to be worn over four-and-a-half miles south of town. UNDERWATER TV CAMERAS.— the regular clothing. It is supplemented We began with our Bible studies. I These cameras, developed by the navy's with a detachable hood, to be worn with would call from door to door inviting Bureau of Ships, will safeguard human a gas mask and with rubberized boot the folks to come and study with us. I life and facilitate salvage and other covers and gloves. "It provides body pro- found many people who were interested underwater operations, as well as save tection against the most powerful toxic in the teachings of the Bible but had valuable time. The TV camera may be agents known today, and enough com- no one to help them. Night after night, quickly lowered and raised; with sus- fort and convenience to allow the wearer every night in the week, they came, pended lights, personnel on board ship to carry on his normal duties with com- until we couldn't crowd any more into may make lengthy observations of the parative efficiency," the army said. the house. Then we asked C. A. Scriven, who at that time was president of the Oregon Conference, to send us some help, which he willingly did. He ar- ranged for Pastors H. D. Strever and W. A. Blehm to hold meetings. THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 31 We secured a large hall over a store fast as one can drive safely. But, right I just said, "All right, that will be building. It was a nice place, and the in front of the tract that we bought, fine." owner kindly let us have it without the road straightens out for about a mile Since becoming Christians we had paying rent. The Lord richly blessed and a quarter, and going north it is learned to pray. We never start our day's those meetings, because it was not very slightly down hill. At the end of this work or journey without first getting long until we could organize a little straightaway there is a very sharp curve down on our knees and asking God's church of eighteen members. This was to the right around a ravine. watchcare over us. So we had had our the kind of work we were doing when Some of the officers had already worship before Roy got ready to go. tragedy struck our home the second reached the Wimer place enquiring if He left the house. He took just a step time, and without a moment's warning. they had seen anything of the boys. The or two and came back. Thinking he had It happened on Sunday morning Wimers are Seventh-day Adventist forgotten the car keys, I said, "No, you about nine o'clock, August 19, 1945. friends of ours who had moved to Gold have them." Two boys, fifteen and nineteen years Beach. Just then they drove past at a "Oh yes, I've got the keys." But he old, had left their home near Chicago, terrific speed. (The officers told us later came into the house and asked, "Rose, and started out on a life of crime, which that they must have been going 85 or have we had our worship this morning?" ended in the Oregon State Penitentiary. 90 miles an hour.) "Why," I questioned, "don't you re- They had arrived in Gold Beach, looked Fred Wimer shouted, "Officer, I don't member?" the little town over, and waited until know who you're after, but if I were "Well, I was just thinking about it," the early hours of the morning. They you I'd take after that car." he replied. "But let's kneel again and ask picked a store they were going to rob, God to watch over each of us." a ready-to-wear establishment. They So there in our tiny little kitchen we broke the glass in the door and gained knelt and again asked for God's protec- entrance. When they had their car tion over us. With this he left the house loaded, and were ready to go on south, again. Down the little lane he went to something happened. There was a where we parked the car. I watched him bakery shop next door and the baker SOLVING THE PROBLEM as he stood there for several moments had come down early to start the ovens. with his hand on the door. Then slowly He heard a commotion next door, he turned around and came back up to through the partition, discovered what Happiness is best acquired the house. was going on, and gave the alarm. The From arithmetic of life, I was surprised. "What is it this time, boys were arrested and placed in jail. Adding up all pleasant mem- dear?" They had several guns in their car, and ories He came all the way into the house one of the boys had concealed a tiny and said, "Rose, what did you say you pistol in his shirt sleeve. This gun was And subtracting all past were going to do this morning?" I told overlooked by the officer. strife. him. The following morning the boys held —Thelma Ireland. He slowly answered, "I wish you up the sheriff when he went into the wouldn't do anything this morning. jail to talk to them. Taking his car keys, Come into the living room, sit on the his gun, and tying him up and locking davenport, and watch the boats down him in the jail, they took his car and on the river." We had a large window started south. overlooking the mouth of the river. I The sheriff knew they couldn't get sensed that he was worried about some- very far. There is only one highway "No," explained the sheriff, "we're thing. down the coast, with the ocean to the not after anyone in a Pontiac. We're "Roy, are you worried about anything west and the mountains to the east. The after two boys in my car." this morning?" I asked. boys started south, then they turned Nevertheless, Wimer yelled again, "No," he explained, "I'm not worried around and started north again, and "The way those people are driving, about myself, but I never like to leave caught up with a new Pontiac driven by they're going to kill someone." Just then you behind." We had stayed pretty close an elderly man. The boys were driving they heard a crash. to one another since we lost Jack. with authority for there was a siren on While the foregoing events were tak- He had a premonition that something the sheriff's car. They drove up behind ing place, "Dad" Wimer had come to was going to happen, but he thought it this car and sounded the siren. The our place and asked Roy if he could was going to happen to me. driver of the Pontiac stopped. The boys help get the power saw ready for work. "You'd better run along now, Roy," jumped out, ordered the people out of Roy is always happy to help his friends, I suggested, "or we won't either of us the car, and, leaving the sheriff's car so he got ready to go, thinking I was get anything done." behind, they were now disguised in this going with him. With that, he was gone. This was at second car traveling north, toward Gold But I excused myself. "I must stay about nine o'clock in the morning. As Beach again. home this morning and do a little work. he was slowly driving around the outer By this time the sheriff had called a I'd like to work in the garden a little curve, the boys in the stolen car were passer-by for help and had been let out while and perhaps do a little canning." coming at terrific speed. They crashed of jail. The alarm had been given, a "Well," he decided, "I'll run along into the front left-hand corner of our posse formed, and all the highways were now. I'll be home at one o'clock for car, and the cars doubled around one blocked. The coastal highway is very lunch. You plan your work so you can another. In our travels we have seen crooked in that section of the country, go with me, and we'll play and work and many automobile accidents, but we have and about thirty miles an hour is as visit and have a good time." never seen a more demolished car than 32 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 this Pontiac the boys were driving that "Vicky, where is Roy?" I asked. The Mail Path morning. It was nothing but a mass of "He's in the hospital." wrinkled tin and broken glass; yet those "Is he badly hurt?" (Continued from page 34) two boys crawled out of it untouched She answered, "I don't think so, just was so narrow there that when the and unhurt. But our car was demolished. a little bump on the head." copperhead met me head on and hissed Later it was pulled into the brush along I knew very well that people are not his demand for right of way, I immedi- the road, where it stayed. taken to the hospital with little bumps ately retreated to the woods, where the The boys were taken back to town on their heads. "Wait just a moment path was wide enough for two. There by the sheriff and locked up again. while I change my clothes, and I'll go have not been too many copperheads in I was busy all morning. At one o'clock back with you," I said. I was frightened. life, and there has always been a "way I had lunch ready and was waiting for "No," she argued, "I mustn't wait of escape" provided. Roy. Someone walked around the front now, Rose. The bus is due right now and Then over the last rail fence, and part of the house. I looked through the Clyde will come, and I must be there there on the grassy roadside was the window and saw it was Vicky Wimer when the bus reaches the station or he mailbox, with letters from the far-away and her father-in-law, Dad Wimer. I won't know where I am." Clyde, a min- world of cities and multitudes of poor called to them to come in. ister, was her husband, and was coming people who did not have a mail path to loiter a lifetime of thought along. In the Byways (Continued from page 19) able to outdraw the medicine salesman. Today I Long for Peace We take off our editorial hat to this evangelist. He faced realities, quit grumbling about the people who Today I long for peace of mind and heart, wouldn't come to his meetings, and then he did something about it. For I am weary with the fret and jar, Even the luxurious air-conditioned The ceaseless toil of life that round me rolls. theaters all around us have found that I long for quietness in woodland far. in the summer people like to be out-of- doors with their cars. The churches, The heavenly hush of trees, cathedral arched, which in the main are unfortunately Will to my soul bring rest and peace in Thee; not air conditioned, are finding out the same thing. And all the things that daily vex me here— Jesus said, "Go out into the highways The little hurts—will cease to burden me. and hedges, and compel them to come in." Luke 14:23. More ministers should Alone, in fern-bound aisles, this soul of mine, be more willing to carry out this instruc- So bruised now and sad, will healing find; tion. A low bow is due the drive-in And I shall walk once more the paths of men, preachers. Remembering that Thou to me art kind. * Watch Out for the Bible! —INEZ BRASIER. WHO WAS IT said that the Bible is explosive literature? No matter, it is. Thus we rejoice that someone has had the excellent idea of sending it, by balloon, into certain countries which bar its import. How exciting! "Did you come with Roy?" I asked. from Spokane to spend a few days' vaca- The thought carries us clear back to "No." tion on the coast. the Pitcairn Islands where Alexander "Well," I replied, "he'll be here in just I was so excited I scarcely knew what Smith discovered the Bible after every a moment and then we can all have to do. other man on the island had violently lunch together." I forgot all about Dad Wimer. He died and the place had become a hell- Mrs. Wimer, however, knew differ- walked out and around the house. Hur- hole of iniquity. The Bible "exploded" ently. "No, Rose, Roy isn't coming riedly I changed my clothes. I couldn't in Smith's hands, so to speak. It blew home." wait for anybody to come back and pick liquor off the island. Away went im- "Oh, yes, he is." me up. I had to get to Roy. I left the morality, profanity, thievery. "No, Rose," she insisted. "Roy got house and walked down the little lane. We wish no countries ill. We wish hurt." Then I looked back and saw Mr. them all well; that's why we hope thou- "Did he get mixed up with the saw Wimer. I called to him and said, "Come, sands of Bibles and Bible portions fall in some way?" let's walk on over. I can't wait for any- into the hands of everyone that does not "No, there were two boys who ran body." have them now. As surely as they land, into him." (To be continued next month) they will explode! THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 33 path, and it seemed too holy for my feet. A wave of awe used to come over me when I would see her go out along the mail path and turn off into the side path. I have tried to walk the prayer path many a time since then, however, re- membering the light on her face when she came back. Along the other side of the orchard were cultivated rows of peanut plants, each plant looking like a clump of sweet clover. The path left the orchard by a By gap in the old rail fence and tumbled Mary Hunter Moore down a few steps into the bed of a dry creek that cut through the main bluff The Mail Path of the valley. Here in coolness and damp, rich soil grew many a semi-rare wild flower. The old ravine was so full T WAS about a half mile from the strip of plowed ground beside the of plants and long grass and so over- old house in Crumbie's Holler in the orchard. shadowed with trees tied with grape- I Ozark Mountains to the mailbox out No one will ever know why he did vines that the path was in danger of on the county road where the rural what he did next; the rows of tomato being lost. I've come to that part of life carrier passed. Mail could be delivered plants were plainly visible, and there since then, too. there, or we could walk three miles each were too few weeds to hide them. But But the mail path hurried out of the way into town for it—or when my mother went undergrowth and turned sharply up the drive, which was some- out a little later to see his corner of the bluff. To the climber it felt thing of an experience work, there was a deep like going up the corner of a house roof; over Arkansas roads nearly furrow right down every and like Bunyan's Pilgrim one fell from a half century ago. tomato row, no others any- running to going, and from going to So the old mail path where else, and every last creeping; for the path was going up out began at our back porch one of her precious plants of the valley along the line of juncture and ended at the box be- was thoroughly destroyed. of the valley bluff and the side of the side the road, half a mile To this day I vividly re- tributary creek valley. A step either way away. That was the mail member my mother's face from the path would bring one downhill path in short. In long, the as she turned back to the toward the valley or the creek bed. And mail path was almost a house. But a few minutes the path itself was treacherous, for it was lifetime. It ran a few steps later she came out of her across the rolling stones of the hillside. from the back porch across room to answer his knock But there were convenient handles of the short grass of the yard, and thank him heartily blueberry bushes to catch. Life walks then across a rod of for his helpfulness, when such paths as that too. plowed land along the he came to report that he At the top of this hill the path ig- edge of the orchard. had finished his work. He nominiously scrambled over a rail fence That plowed land stood was obviously so thrilled and under a strand of barbed wire which for victory. My mother to have done his day's ran from angle to angle of the zigzag had had my brother plow good deed, that nobody fence to ward off marauding cattle and, it up as an annex to the told him he had com- incidentally, scratch travelers. Beyond regular vegetable garden mitted murder. My moth- that the path seemed lost, indeed; for farther away. At consider- er's self-control kept alive there were thick woods to pass through, able expense, for pennies then were like a plant of friendship that lasts to this and the ground was covered with infinite dollars now, she had sent away for some day. And those dead tomato plants have numbers of small gray stones, each ex- very fine tomato seeds and had carefully strengthened me many a time since actly like every other one. I've thought tended the tiny plants till they were big when some friend has forced good on of that part of the path through many a enough to set out. The plants were very me according to her own idea instead of monotonous year. But an instinctive promising, and she was anticipating mine. drawing toward the mailbox led one eagerly the unusual kinds she would The mail path went on between the safely through the woods where, if it have. last row of apple trees and the high was toward evening, the chuck-will's- As it happened, a man who desired a north bluff wall of Crumbie's Holler. widow snapped its harsh exclamations country home for his family had rented The bluff was desolate looking, covered overhead. So the most monotonous day a tenant house on our farm. He was thickly with rough "blackjack" oaks, and has always had some unexpected event home on a vacation from his work in the ground was hidden beneath the layer to snap one alert. St. Louis when he heard some remark of rough, gray, flint stones that pro- Then the path wound around the old my mother made about being behind in claimed the Ozarks. At one place a side burned snag with the bird's nest in it, her weeding of the tomatoes. He urged path turned off among some bushes. I into an abandoned pasture where the her to let him cultivate them with the never walked on that path; in fact, I sedge grass grew higher than one's head single-horse plow. With some misgivings always stepped over the place where it and rustled like dead leaves. The path she yielded, and he went to work on the diverged. That was my mother's prayer (Continued on page 33) 34 THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952

Address your questions to Editor, THESE TIMES, Box 59, Nashville 2, Tennessee. The Death of Saul

What kind of spirit appeared to the woman of Endor and communicated ss / , ....T:I Aphek with Saul?—A. L.

0/1 / The death of Saul did not occur on tr, 1 I the morrow after his visit to the woman fp I''' o 1 t/ /I ::, of Endor. Notice first, the word "to- Ta , 1 i = s_4 morrow" signifies the day following the lo ,F''' i / N night during which it is spoken. See 1 4.; a, I p, * ---4 / // Samuel 19:10, 11: "And Saul sought to To dezoe-EL 4 hf/LES TO 1 smite David even to the wall with a 0 Cr """- —"--f"" -* Shunem javelin; but he slipped away out of /L BOA TO S NUN EM 7 L E Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall; and David fled and es- Endor Saul also sent mes- To zwoom /0 Af/I ES caped that night. 0 sengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, say- division of time following that night. apart, for Aphek is about that distance ing, If thou save not thy life to-night, In the second place, we want to from Jezreel. But while the Philistines to-morrow thou shalt be slain." And understand the position of the two were moving from Shunem to Aphek, Acts 23:31, 32: "Then the soldiers, as armies at that time, and their move- passing "on by hundreds, and by thou- it was commanded them, took Paul, and ments afterward; and to assist the reader sands," their princes saw David and his brought him by night to Antipatris. On in understanding this, I give a plan men in the rearward with Achish, and the morrow they left the horsemen to go here of the places named, their relative objected to their going to the battle with with him, and returned to the castle." positions and distances. There are five them. Chapter 29:2-5. Then Achish Also Acts 20:7-11: "And upon the first places named in the narrative: Shunem, ordered David and his men to return to day of the week, when the disciples Gilboa, Endor, Aphek, and Jezreel; and their homes; but it was too late in the came together to break bread, Paul they lay as indicated in this diagram. day for them to start that day, so Achish preached unto them, ready to depart on Now, 1 Samuel 28:4 says: "And the said to David: "Now rise up early in the the morrow; and continued his speech Philistines gathered themselves together, morning with thy master's servants that until midnight." Then Eutychus fell out and came and pitched in Shunem; and are come with thee; and as soon as ye of the window and was killed, and Paul Saul gathered all Israel together, and be up early in the morning, and have brought him to life again, etc. "When they pitched in Gilboa." Thus the first light, depart." Verse 10. he therefore was come up again, and had day Israel is in Gilboa and the Philistines Now the second day, the tomorrow broken bread, and eaten, and talked a in Shunem, seven miles apart. That of the spirit, is past, the battle has not long while, even till break of day, so he night Saul went to Endor, ten miles, and yet been fought, and cannot be; for the departed." This text says that he inquired of the spirit; the spirt told him two armies are four miles apart, and preached till midnight, ready to depart that he and his sons should be with him Saul and his sons are yet alive upon the on the morrow, and that he departed at "tomorrow." Verse 19. Then Saul and earth. break of day. his servants "rose up, and went away Third day. Verse eleven: "So David So it is plain from these scriptures that night" (verse twenty-five), back to and his men rose up early to depart in that the term "tomorrow" means the day, Gilboa, making in all twenty miles that the morning, to return into the land of or light part of the time following the Saul traveled that night. the Philistines. And the Philistines went night, or dark part, and that it begins in Second day (the tomorrow of verse up to Jezreel." the morning, or even at "break of day." 19). Chapter 29:1: "Now the Philis- At Jezreel was where Saul and the Therefore, when the spirit told Saul, tines gathered together all their armies Israelites were, and there was where the through the woman, "Tomorrow shalt to Aphek [three miles from Shunem]; battle was fought, and the Israelites thou and thy sons be with me," that is, and the Israelites pitched by a fountain "fled from before the Philistines, and that they should be dead, he meant by which is in Jezreel" (four miles from fell down slain in Mount Gilboa." the word "tomorrow" the daylight Gilboa). Now they are about four miles (Continued on page 29) THESE TIMES, NOVEMBER, 1952 35 RAINBOW SERIES

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