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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 Established in 1891 as The Southern Agent. Name changed to The Southern Review in 1892. to The Southern Watchman in 1901, to The Watchman in 1905, to The Watchman Magazine Found in a Garbage Can! in 1917. to Our Times in 1946. Incorporating: The Tennessee Sirs: River Watchman (1901), The Gospel Herald (1903). I found one of your old magazines in a garbage can and read it. I liked * * * it so well I kept it seventeen years and read it many times. I live in the Editor - - - RODNEY E. FINNEY country. My husband was unsaved and burdened down with children and work and bad health, but he was a believer in missions. I decided to write Circulation Manager - IRVIN H. IIIRIG you for any old copies you have and for any free literature you could send Art Director - - - ROBERT M. ELDRIDGE me. 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Johns . • 24 Sirs: The tone of your magazine is marked by a reverence and high-minded- Regular Departments ness that establishes it as a publication of note. Nashville, Tenn. W.B.S. Letters From Our Readers 2 Pageant of Prophecy 3 Reads It Before Personal Letters! Events of These Times 10 Interpreting These Times, by the Editor 18 Sirs: Happy Homes 22 I must tell you how pleased I am with THESE TIMES. I have just re- Let's Ask the Doctor 26 ceived the latest issue. I wish I had the money to give away a lot of Science Insights 31 subscriptions. As soon as I can, I want to start. In the meantime, I'll lend God's Two Books 34 my own copy. I sat right down and read some in it yesterday even Please Explain 35 before I opened my letters from my children. Then last night I read it from cover to cover before I went to bed. Poetry Waupaca, Wis. Mrs. E.C. If—Thurston 7 Thanksgiving—Edgar Daniel Kramer 8 Criticism Versus Praise—Claudia M. Adams . 27 The Journey—J. Miriam Cole 28 BE SURE TO READ ON PAGE 16 There's Nobody Just Like You—Weldon Taylor Ham- mond 30 Solving the Problem—Thelma Ireland 32 How Much for Your Life? Today I Long for Peace—Inez Brasier 33 The Cover Subscribe today and enjoy As our cover picture reminds us, November brings all the features planned for Thanksgiving Day, a time not only of big dinners and joyous reunions but also of serious religious thinking, THESE TIMES. church services, and personal prayer. The Kodachrome is the work of the Three Lions photographic service. 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.