Hours to Seconds WHAT DOES TO-DAY 'S Mile's to Inches RAPID PACE MEAN? JOH.N• L

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For safer transoceanic flying, Germany is specializing in huge flying boats. The "Narwall," at the left, is a sixteen-passenger ship.

UNDERWOOD PHOTO ressing Hours to Seconds WHAT DOES TO-DAY 'S Mile's to Inches RAPID PACE MEAN? JOH.N• L. SHULER 4

THE silent waters of a placid stream marked speeding-up process in_ the affairs of that the decade 1911-1921 will go down in approaching first a rapids then a our world. Things are moving to-day at a history as the greatest of all historical eras, Asmighty drop over the cliff quicken tremendous speed. Epochal events and de- and easily surpasses any previous period in in pace and swirl on in ever-increasing agi- cisive changes pass before us day by day with the extent of the transformation it has wit- tation till mingled with the tumult of the startling rapidity. Mr. Lloyd George has well nessed and in the superlative character of rushing water is added the deeper roar of expressed it thus: "There are times in his- its achievements. He says: the falls, so are current conditions in the tory when the world spins so leisurely along "The great epochs of the past extended stream of time. The ever-increasing intens- its destined course that it seems for cen- over relatively long periods of time. Very ity of present conditions and current hap- turies to be at 'a standstill. There are, also few are less than fifty years long, and most penings show that we are rapidly approach- times when it runs along at a giddy pace, - extend over one hundred or more years. In ing the crisis of the ages, and that the long- covering the track of centuries in a year. times.past the march of events was extremely awaited yet universally dreaded. climax is These are the times we are living in now." slow, and no man living before the present right upon us. Mr. Franklin H. Hooper, American editor century could expect to see many changes Thoughtful men everywhere recognize of the Encyclopedia Britannica, in a bro: of importance during his own lifetime. That that during recent years there has .come a chure entitled "The Great Decade," declares a scant ten years could change the whole Read "A JUNGLE BATTLE" page 3' V 0 L.s 5 5, N O. 2 9 JU LY 24, 1 9 2 face of the World—not merely politically to make the trip. In 1819, when the first transact business there, and return before but in nearly. every branch of human en- ocean vessel to make use of steam crossed dnrk." deavor—would have been regarded as a the Atlantic, the trip required almost a Seventy-five years ago it took six months wildly fantastic dream. The decade 1911- month, from May '22 to June 20. It was to cross the American continent in the cov- 1921 has proved that such a dream could be not until 1838 that the first ship crossed ered wagon; or "prairie schooner." To-day a sober reality. During these ten years we under steam power alone. In that year the one can go from New York to San Francisco have witnessed an acceleration of events and pioneer steamers, "Great Western" and in a Pullman in eighty-three hours, which changes, a kind of 'speeding up' of history, "Sirius," crossed from England to America. is more than fifty times faster than our, that has been absolutely without parallel in One hundred years ago, when men first fathers covered the same distance in their the history of the world. The result is that talked of making a voyage • directly from animal-drawn emigrant train.. this wonderful decade constitutes an epoch New York to Liverpool under isteam alone, Seventy-five years ago . it took twenty- beside which previous great eras, even those the majority of people pronounced it per- eight days for the stagecoaches to go from covering the longest periods of time, sink fectly chimerical, and said that they might New York to Chicago. Now the mail planes into relative insignificance. . . . In every as well talk of making a voyage from New make the trip regularly in eight hours, while phase of human life and activity the forces York or Liverpool to the moon. When on December 16, 1926, a mail plane covered that make for change, for progress, for ships of iron were first suggested, it was the distance between these two cities in two achievement, have been acting with explo- said that even if they could be made to hours and twenty minutes flying time. sive, volcanic energy for which there is no keep afloat,—which was "impossible,"—they FROM-DAWN-TO-DUSK TRAVEL comparison in all history." couldn't carry enough coal to make the trip. In 1924 Lieutenant Maughan made a EXAMPLES OF SPEEDY PROGRESS But during this last century marine trans- record dawn-to-dusk flight from New York This speeding-up process has been even portation has made such enormous strides to San Francisco in twenty-one and one-half more pronounced since 1921. The world is that to-day there are thousands of liners hours, eating breakfast on the Atlantic forging ahead at a pace never before known. that plow their way across the Atlantic four Coast and supper on the shores of the Pacific. We are advancing from one stage to another times as fast as even those pioneer steamers This was about two hundred times as fast with a rapidity that leaves even thoughtful in 1838. as men crossed the continent by ox team or students of history dazed. More history is In the summer of 1925 a motor boat was on foot in 1824. being made in a few days than our grand- driven down the Hudson River from Albany About a century and a quarter ago Meri- fathers could have made in as many years. to New York in less than the schedule time wether Lewis made what was then consid- A United States Senator expressed the same of the "Twentieth Century Limited.", The ered a record trip from the Pacific Coast to thought in this language.: "Ten years of or- running time of this boat was eleven times Washington, D. C., in 326 days—nearly dinary time in the life of a nation is longer, better than that of Robert Fulton's "Cler- 8,000 hours. When Lieutenant Maughan as events now happen, than a century would mont" in 1807. flew from •coast to coast in a little less than twenty-two hours in. 1924, he crossed the country three hundred fifty-five times as fast as Lewis made it. ' We can go as far in one day as our grand- fathers could travel in three months by stage team. Men' travel now through the air faster than the rifle bullets that our fathers shot in the Civil War. Months have been cut to days and days to hours in the transport of man and things; and it seems that we are on the edge of further unbeliev- able cuts in time. One needs seven-league boots to keep up with the marvelous developments that are being made from day to day.

IT WAS ALL FORETOLD In the prophecy of Daniel 12:4, we find that the dawn of the nineteenth century, as •the beginning of "the time of the end," was to mark the introduction of a new era of increased knowledge and travel, when a quickening of pace or speeding-up process was to take hold of things. HERBERT PHOTO C. A. Lehman, a school-teacher of Long Beach, California, has worked out perfect minia- Everybody knows that this is exactly what ture models that will operate under their own steam,'to show at the Pacific Southwest Ex- has taken place. Every step toward this re- position the progress in locomotives during a hundred years. The exhibit, as arranged by Miss Brown of Long Beach, begins with the "Tom Thumb," the "DeWitt Clinton," and markable acceleration in transportation, the "Pioneer," at the right, and goes on to the latest three-cylinder passenger locomotive communication, and manufacture has come at the left. within that final period of time known in Scripture as the time of the end. The modern rush that we see now before our eyes is sure evidence that we are living in the last have been under the conditions of two cen- On June 14, 1919, Alcock and Brown, days, and that we soon shall see the ushering turies ago." Let us note now some concrete British aviators, in a Vickers-Vimy plane, in of the glad day of our Lord's return. examples of this acceleration of speed. crossed the Atlantic in the first nonstop .Bible prophecy makes it plain that when From the time that the ark carried Noah flight, with a total flight time of fifteen hours God's day is about to dawn and Jesus Christ safely through the Deluge down to that and fifty-seven minutes. This was forty-two is about to return to the earth, God will memorable day in 1807 when the "Cler- times faster than the time used by the first quicken all the faculties of the human mind mont" made its way up the Hudson from steam vessel to cross the ocean, in 1819. for the purpose of bringing into use all man- New York to Albany under its own steam, Aviation experts predict that soon air- ner of devices, equipment, and inventions, man's speed on the water depended on the ships will cross the ocean in from eight to in order that "this gospel of the kingdom" wind and tide. For thousands of years man ten hours. One authority goes so far as to may be quickly carried to every land and traveled in the sailing ship at the same slow say that, "it soon will be possible for a people on the globe. Don't overlook the pace. business man in New York to leave at six closing words of the text. When this gospel When Columbus ventured across the At- o'clock in the morning, arrive in London or work is'finished as predicted, "then shall the lantic, it required two months and nine days other European metropolis in time for lunch, end come." Matthew 24:14.

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HARA told me when I first came to MR. HARE, THE work in Kamamaung, "Of course un- "THARA" OF THIS til we get our own teachers we will STORY, TELLS AN giveyou your Sundays off." I was a Sunday EXPERIENCE OF A keeper then, and was being called in to fill NATIVE TEACHER a temporary gap. "But," Thara continued, "we feel that you must respect our school law, that no one connected with this school shall smoke or use tobacco in any way." I consented easily enough, for I could see that that was only fair; but little did I dream of the terrible battle that was to follow. I had smoked since' I was a baby—pipes, ci- "That was four years ago, and I gars, cigarettes; and chewed. anything that haven't touched the cursed stuff smelt like tobacco. And I was perfectly since." honest in believing that I could stop when I said I would. The first day dragged along smoothly enough. The work was new and interesting, Then my cigarettes gave out; and, before I realized it, I was walking to the nearest shop and a firm will kept my hands out of mis- "I was mad! chief ; but evening came, bringing .a head- I was crazy! a mile away to buy some more, while pray- The demOn ing that the Lord would deliver me. ache and an appetite which I knew nothing had me in btit a cigarette would relieve. After seeming its clutches." The Lord did deliver me, too, for just as ages, I dropped off to sleep, feeling as hun- I was nearing the shop, half a dozen school gry as though I had not tasted food all day; boys caught up with-me. They stayed with but about midnight I awakened for my usual me, delighted with my company, all the time cigarette. till we got back to school. The next day I And thus I lived for a' month, thinking set out again in another direction, still pray- AN UNSPEAKABLE CRAVING that nobody knew. The sneaky feeling being to be delivered, yet going as fast as I I pooh-poohed the idea, for I had said gan to leave me, and I argued that if' I could to satisfy my craving. r But again I that I was going to quit; but every fiber of could smoke secretly at night, why couldn't was delivered—the shop was just out of my body was ablaze with an unspeakable I do the same in the day? So I began sneak- stock. craving for the stuff. The cold perspiration ing off 'in, the day, outwardly to go for a VICTORY AND FREEDOM . stood out on my face, and all trace of sleep stroll, really to have a smoke. left me. Nervousness shook my frame, and One day thus occupied I was startled to It now looked as if the Lord was taking it seemed that the hours of daylight would hear heavy footsteps near by. I at once my prayers seriously, and it was evident that never come. sprang behind a log, and lay in the long I had either to stop praying or stop smoking. How can I describe the horrors of the grass. It was Thara.. My conscience painted. Oh, the shame of it! But, such is the weak- next day! I could not eat; every little noise him as a policeman seeking my arrest. I was ness of the flesh. I stopped praying, and the made me jump and start; my students irri- afraid. The footsteps came closer. I next day bought some more cigarettes. But tated me; and I felt as though my head would crouched lower,--felt something soft on my while the cigarettes soothed my passion-in- burst into a thousand fragments—unless I Ieg, and found to my horror that several flamed nerves, they smote my conscience, had a smoke. leeches had crawled out of the grass 'and for I was now well aware of the enslaving By midnight I could stand it no longer, were after my blood. But I was more afraid. power of the demon. So once more I prayed, and, stealing away off under cover of the of Thara than of the leeches, so I crouched and again the Lord delivered me, but in a way so remarkable that I want to tell you •thick jungle near by, I smoked. Oh, heav- still lower. But the footsteps went farther enly feeling! My senses came back, my away. Thara was on another path. He was about it. nerves were steadied, and, crawling back to evidently going somewhere, and was not He allowed me to be smitten with large my room, I slept soundly. looking for me. Oli, the relief ! But oh, the sores on my legs, so bad that it was all I could do to walk around at my daily tasks. MY CONSCIENCE WOULD TALK realization of my shame and weakness! I felt thoroughly, ashamed of myself. It was impossible' for me either to crawl far The next day was easier, but for my con- Then came the Week of Prayer. I had al- enough away to have a secret smoke or to science. It kept saying, "You promised, you ways been a Christian—I believed in prayer, replenish my stock of cigarettes when they promised; you're a slave, you're a slave, and I entered with a mind into the studies were done. I put ointment on my sores, but you're a slave." But I wouldn't own that I and meetings. There I decided to make this to no avail. I pleaded with the Lord to heal was a slave 'to the little white things. The tobacco business a matter of prayer, for the my sores, but to no avail. consciousness that I had broken my promise miserable stuff was Making a deceiver and I was mad! I was crazy! The demon had made me feel like a sneak. I couldn't look a coward of me. me in its clutches. I was tormented day and Thara in the eye. It made my face flush all night, but only for a week; then my appe- the time, and at night the appetite returned A STRANGE EXPERIENCE tite began to return, my legs began to get with doubled fury. By midnight I was so And then I had another strange experience. better. The day dawned. I got out of bed, undone that I sneaked off to the jungle again Here was I, praying and longing in my soul •and blessed be the name of the Lord, I was to have a smoke; then came crawling back to be rid of the terrible habit, and here were free! in, thoroughly loathing myself for thus giv- my feet going into secret places, and my That was four years ago, and I haven't ing in to the tobacco demon. hands striking matches. What was I to do? touched the cursed stuff since.

Vol. 55 SIGNS of the TIMES, JULY 24, 1928 No. 29 Printed and published weekly by the Pacific Press Publishing Association, at M ountain View, California, U. S. A. Entered as second-class matter September 15, 1904, at the Mountain View, California, post office, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage, provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, and authorized September 18, 1918. for JULY 24, 192'8 Page Three • 'DEAD OR ALIVE? Does it make any difference?

OLD as the world is the question of W.. E. GERALD hastened through to bliss by the prayers and man's condition in and after death. money of those left behind. Thus the glo- ASWill it make any particular differ- rious doctrine of the resurrection is nullified. ence to me when I die whether I have a cor- lieved in the natural immortality of the soul, My friend was still in doubt as to the real. rect theory or an incorrect theory about it, and it should prove an error? I replied by damage he would sustain if his belief in a —whether I believe I shall go immediately the following illustration: Let us suppose a never-dying soul was an error. Again I an- to heaven, or wait in the grave till the resur- •man comes along with a horse to sell, and swered: A lie is to the mind what dope is to rection at the second coming of Christ? A he claims that the animal's life is indestruct- the body. There is sure to be a blurring of friend recently asked me this question, and ible,—that the creature will never die,— the spiritual vision so that you lose the capac- I could only reply that to me it was impor- and by plausible arguments persuades me ity to perceive other truths. One lie believed tant because it was a question of believing to mortgage my entire property to obtain will pave the way to receive others. A man a lie or believing the truth. Both ideas can it. Upon his promise that the horse, besides, never knows what he may do when he swal- not be correct, so one of them must be an will live without feeding, and in hopes of lows a narcotic. It goes all through his sys- error; and therefore all but the,careless and being the gainer by owning an animal so tem, bathing the tender blood vessels with the obstinate will want to avoid the lie. valuable that it precludes the necessity of its paralyzing poison, and a very strange, er- What was the example of Christ on this ever having to secure another, I finally in- ratic course may ensue. vest; but after a time the horse dies, and I question,—does it furnish any clue to a cor- YOU WILL BE IN EARNEST rect understanding? When He stood at the am bankrupt and ruined.' But if you believe that everlasting life tomb of His friend Lazarus, he did not call DECEIVED BY A LIE to Lazarus to come down from heaven, but and immortality are fobnd only in Christ, Even so Satan approached our first parents He said, "Lazarus, come forth." Similarly, you will present yourself to Him in serious in Eden, and suggested that they would get when the icy clutch of death had closed upon earnestness to know on what terms it may a bigger investment of life if they only par- the widow of Nain's son, tearing away from be obtained. His answer is given through His took of the forbidden tree. They succumbed her the only support she had in the world, inspired servant, Paul: at the last trump to the wile, and found immediately that they Christ did not call the son down from heaven, (1 Corinthians 15:52-54), this mortal puts had been deceived; instead of grasping more but addressed the body on the bier, saying: on immortality, which is the inherent attri- of what did not belong to them, they had "Youngman, I say unto thee, Arise." bute of God alone (1 Timothy 6:16); the forfeited what they had. They had grasped very last enemy that is destroyed is death WHERE THE DEAD COME FROM at a shadow. (1 Corinthians 15:26), and that is not fully In harmony also with the example of This lie of Satan's once introduced into accomplished till the end of the millennium Christ is the testimony of Paul in his Corin- the world, has never been eradicated, but has (Revelation. 20:14). Christ Hiinself also thian epistle, where he says: "In a moment, cropped out in various forms: as Hinduism, answers directly (John 6:40), that every in the twinkling of an eye, . . . the dead which believes in an eternity of soul, trans- soul who, with a sense of his helplessness shall be raised incorruptible.", Chapter 15: Migrating from one shape to another; in and impending doom, flings himself on the 52. Mark that the word Paul uses is "raised," Christian Science, Theosophy, Unity, New mercy of the divine Son of God, believing not "called down." And in his Thessalonian Thought, and all forms of pantheism, which that His triumph in.,the terrible wilderness epistle he says: "The Lord Himself shall de- say that man is immortal, for he is God; and and in awful Gethsemane and His death on scend from heaven with a shout: . . . and in the Platonic theory entertained by almost dark Calvary's brow all have an important the dead in Christ shall rise first." 1 Thes- all popular Christendom, including Roman bearing on his eternal Welfare, shall be raised salonians 4:16. Note again that he says they Catholicism, with its doctrine of purgatory, up at the last day. "rise," instead of an immortal soul's com- which says that after death the soul may be Just from 'an esthetic standpoint, dear ing down from heaven to reclaim a body that friend, which would you rather be- has moldered to dust. lieve, the truth or a lie? which do Therefore we must deduce that there are you prefer, a counterfeit bill or a no people from the ranks of mankind who genuine one? The words of Solomon have reached heaven as yet, unless they are are pertinent: "Get wisdom, get un- an exception, as, for instance, Enoch and derstanding. . . ,Forsake her not, Elijah, who were translated without seeing and she shall preserve thee.. . death; also Moses, who died, and was buried, Exalt her, and she shall promote and some time afterwards' was resurrected, thee: she shall .bring thee to honor, as is proved by the epistle of Jude and the when thou dost embrace her.. . . transfiguration scene; also, the company of Take fast hold of instruction: let saints who were specially resurrected at the her not go: keep her; for she is thy time of the crucifixion (Matthew 27:52), life." Proverbs 4:5-13. and accompanied Christ back to heaven at TRUTH IS BETTER His ascension (Ephesians 4:8) as trophies • As the •truth is incomparably bet- of His sacrificial work. Job might have been ter than a lie, the honest person's one of those trophies, but he did not have inquiry will be, like Pilate's, "What any expectation of being treated any, dif- is truth?" or like Jeremiah's, "What ferently than the average, for he said: "If is the chaff to the wheat?" But even I wait, the grave is mine house." "Man lieth as the Jews in Christ's time claimed `down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no they were not in bondage, yet were more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out bound by their own man-made tra- of their sleep." "I know that my Redeemer ditions, so to-day many bbast of liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter freedom, when, alas, they are slaves day upon the earth: . . . whom I shall see to the customs and precedents of for myself." Job 17:13; 14:12; 19:25-27. their ancestors, and, as a conse- Again my friend asked what particular quence; resist new truths. To the harm could come to him supposing he be- Jesus addressed the body on the bier. 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ow Sport Town was about fifty miles them nowhere, and came on down to destruc- So as these; along with other hordes of the south of my own town, on a down tion and the enjoyment of sin for a season. city, proceeded to board as passengers, there grade as the train proceeds to Tat- Yet a few stood and dared to pray for better stood that stranger, right in the way, preach- tlers' City. Sport Town is destined to be- times. And then, after enduring for a while, ing the gospel of the kingdom. The captain come the largest city on the globe, owing to even some of these would turn from the good of the host tried to evade the speaker, and its growth and patronage from all nations. old way, and sing the song,—"Oh, What's not allow his constituents to hear the word, In recent years it has grown by leaps and the Use!" but could not, for, already, many were weep- bounds, and has already about outstripped ing and praying. I noticed, too, that, with- all competitors. It has room for expansion, YIELD TO THE SEDUCTIONS out exception, those who had been reared too, with water on but one side and land on The girl here who refused to drink or in good religious homes, though they had three sides. smoke or to be petted and man-handled sunk ever so low, repented at the preaching •SO now as the Hell Train ran into Sport could not expect the favor of' the people; of the gospel; for, in less time than it takes Town, both it and its owners were over- and many yielded, not because they wanted to tell it, those who had reluctantly fallen in.. showered with plaudits and compliments to, but to get on in the city.. Pooyhings! the tempting city, returned-now gladly and from the gentry of the city. The indications God send relief. Moreover,, the churches with thanksgiving and praise. So I found were that a tremendous business would be and ministry joined hands with the world out here that godly training is never lost, done here'f or the train, but a precious little here. At the ball games on Sundays the though the recipient sink to the lowest for the Lord. But we shall see, for it is writ- worldly people could not get standing room depths. The word of the kingdom will re-. ten: "My word . . . shall not return unto for the church folks who reserved the right store such, if really preached; for in every Me void." to show them the mysteries of God, and the well-trained heart, the seed of life remains. THOU FOOL ' way to glory. For this cause many of the Also those who had withstood the evils in the town wept for joy when they heard the The inh-abitants of the place were all of lost refused to respect the church and sacred' the pleasure-seeking kind, old and young, things, saying: "Wherein are church folks word preached; for the joyful sound was marrow to their bones, balm to their hearts, male and female, and were ever practicing better than we?" and music to their ears. Blessed are those something that would not pay in the end. Also at the dance parties, some who led. who know and hear the joyful sound. Sports in this city have taken away the key in the church on Sunday were the first on of knowledge, desecrated the Sabbath of the floor. Old women with gray hair, who THE DEVIL DISAPPOINTED God, broken down the family altar, closed should have set their daughters a holy ex- So as the train pulled out of Sport Town, church doors, and written across the face • ample by hdlding family devotion, were the although the devil had done a good- business, of ministers: "Thou fool! thou fool!" first to dance, with akirts up above their he was much disappointed and very crabbed, Here, rewards and special distinction for knees. Not only so, but over in the corner for the cream of the city had been saved, and the most studious and best-behaved in from where the music emanated could be instructed to • take the. Narrow Way. , And schools and colleges were no longer awarded found church officials playing the fiddle. many did, being glad of the opportunity, and to the chaste and virtuous, but to such as Then said the sinners who hoped to be saved declared, as they went, that they would excelled in sports; the best football or base- by and through the church, "Everybody is never be again entangled with the yoke of ball player received the best diploma, re- doomed anyway!" and struck out for the bondage. gardless of other accomplishments. The girl Hell Train in great glee. Moreover, as they ascended the hill which who would lower her womanly dignity and led up and away from the train, they *ere THE CHURCH SWEPT ASIDE become the best "pal" to men, would leave an awe-inspiring sight, and their songs echoed college with colors flying. Attendance at church in great numbers and reechoed, seemingly from every cloud So it was not strange to see well-reared was a thing of the-past on account of open and every hilltop. Even the sight of the vic- students from godly homes desist from well- sports of various kinds on,, the Lord's day, tors marching on, convicted many on the set principles after entering the city. They and the ministers were afraid to speak against train who beheld the sight, and they declared would soon see-that virtue did not pay, and them. If one did, his pulpit would be vacant there was a mystery about the way of the that they who would climb up some other on the next Sunday. So, since he received cross. way were no longer thieves and robbers, as his meat, his bread, his house- and car, to- So we went on to the next place to see they had been taught. .So all who left the gether with his salary, by saying nothing what would be the result there, for now path of virtue and the old rugged way of about these things, he concluded to let well every minute of time was an interesting event' truth and right for falsehood and frivolity enough alone. Therefore these all were between Light and Darkness, each of which were encouraged. Many soon saw that the bound for the Hell Trajn, and could not was determined to win. old paths of .good home training would get escape. (Two weeks hence the train runs to Tattlers' City.) for JULY 24, 1928 Page Five The "SIGNS" QUESTION CORNER Conducted by WILLIAM G. WIRTH, 5447 EL VERANO AVENUE, EAGLE ROCK, CALIFORNIA

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EASTER SUNDAY apostle is told not to go, if 'he regarded only at heart, and their greater experience with Mrs. M. F. Hellenderth of California his personal safety. But Paul was not the life and its problems ought to be cheerfully wishes to know the history of Easter Sunday. kind of Christian worker who thought of his drawn on by those who call them father and own convenience and comfort. With him mother. Many unfortunate and unhappy The word "Easter" does not properly oc- the cause of God was always first, regardless conjugal unions would 'be avoided were cur in the Bible. The one place where it is of the consequences to himself personally. • proper heed given to the advice of our elders. mentioned in the Authorized Version, Acts For later on in the same chapter when the Physiologically and socially it has been 12:4, appears correctly as Passover in the prophet Agabus took Paul's girdle and demonstrated that, ordinarily speaking, Revised Version. The apostolic church did "bound his own feet and hands, and said, marked difference in the ages of the couple not celebrate Easter, nor do we find it spoken Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews. who marry is not advisable. of in the writings of the apostolic fathers. at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this The ecclesiastical historian Socrates ("Hist. girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands I I I Eccl." V:22) rightly states that neither the of the Gentiles;" and when the disciples "of GENEALOGY OF CHRIST Lord nor His disciples enjoined the keeping that place besought him not to go up to Jeru- of this or any other festival. salem," we find Paul answering: "What do I. E. Emerson of Michigan Wishes to be If it is asked, then, why Christendom now ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I shown the harmony between Matthew 1:6 observes this day, it is easy to answer. It is am ready not to be bound only, but also to and Luke 3:31. but one of those pagan institutions which die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord The genealogies of Christ given in Mat- an apostate Christianity incorporated into Jesus." Acts 21:10-14. It is of this stuff thew and Luke show that our Lord came the worship of the church. Directly, the that God's heroes are made. word "Easter" comes from the Anglo-Saxon from David through both Solomon and Na- ff f1 than. (Matthew 1: 6; Luke 3: 31.) This Eastre or Estera, the Teutonic goddess of spring. It was in April that sacrifice was of- AGE OF THE WORLD is to'be explained thus: In Matthew 1: 12 and 1 Chronicles 3: 17 Shealtiel is given as fered to that goddess, and, further, at that Mrs. E. F. Ha'rvell of Calif ornid wishes to same time of the year, a Lenten season was the son of Jechoniah, the king of Judah; know if the world is now six thousand years whereas Luke (3: observed in her honor. In its compromise 27) makes him the son old, and if so why have we not entered into of Neri. This Jechoniah is called Coniah in with, heathenism, the dominant apostate the one thousand years of millennial rest. Christianity of early centuries adapted this Jeremiah 22: 24 and Jehoiachin in Jeremiah to the resurrection of Jesus. But Easter has That the world is about six thousand years 52:31, 2 Kings 24:6, and 2 Chronicles 36: old is proved from the chronology in the 8, 9. All three names mean, "The Lord will an earlier pagan ancestry than even our pa- establish." gan Anglo-Saxon forefathers. Indirectly, Old Testament,—and we must ever keep in From Jeremiah 22: 30 we learn that Je- without doubt, it comes from Astarte (let mind that the Old Testament has its own the reader note the similarity of the two chronology distinct from any purely human choniah had no children. Therefore, the line of David words), one of the titles of Beltis, the an- chronology. However, there are places in through Solomon became extinct cient Babylonian goddess who was queen of Scriptural chronology that are subject to in him. In view of this, the three pedigrees heaven, and who, with other pagan institu- various interpretations (the period of the of Matthew, Luke, and 1 Chronicles would tions, passed over into Europe. judges, for example). Because of this,, Bible indicate that an heir for the childless Jecho- , ? scholars place the date of creation at differ- niah was found in Shealtiel, the son of Neri, who was of the house of David through Na- HOW WAS,PAUL LED? ent times. Ussher put the creation in 4004 B. c.; Philip Mauro, drawing from Dr. An- than. (Luke 3: 27-31.) This shows the Paul A. Schulz of California wishes to stey's able work on Bible chronology, places junction of the two lines of descent in She- know if Paul went to Jerusalem contrary to it in 4046 B. C. Bliss, in his "Sacred Chronol- altiel and Zerubbabel: Shealtiel was the son the counsel of the Holy Spirit. ogy!" gives the world's beginning, if I re- of Neri of Nathan's line and also the heir While both the Authorized Version and the member correctly, as 4128 B. c.; while the of Jeconiah of Solomon's line. (Matthew 1: 6-12.) As Shealtiel had no sons himself, American Standard Revised Version. begin Septuagint places it at about 4600 B. C. It the word "spirit" in Acts 20:22 with a lower- will be easily seen from this divergence of he had his nephew Zerubbabel as his adopted case letter, Goodspeed, in his recent transla- opinion that to dogmatize on Old Testament son and heir (1 Chronicles 3: 17-19). tion of the New Testament, begins this word chronology and to say the creation posi- I I I I with an upper-case, or capital, letter. The tively occurred in such and such a year RESURRECTION OF ANIMALS former mode implies that Paul purposed to would be most hazardous and unwise. Mrs. Helen M. Sprague of Kansas wishes go to Jerusalem through the urge of his own There is nothing in the Bible to show that to know about animals in the new earth. will and desire; the latter that Paul went to when the world becomes six thousand years Jerusalem because he felt it was the will of old there is to follow a "thousand years of While the Bible does not, of course, show the Holy Spirit. The latter interpretation rest." However, in view of the fact that any resurrection of the lower animals, since seems to be the better one. Directed as he Bible prediction shows indisputably that we they are not free moral agents, in the earth was in his movements by the Third Person are living in the very end of this present made new and purified from sin animals will of the Godhead (see Acts 13:3, 4; 16:6, 7), world, it is true that the Lord will come the nevertheless exist. See Isaiah 11: 6-9; 65: it is not likely that such an important deci- second time when the world is about six 17, 25. sion as was this of going to Jerusalem was thousand years old. undertaken by Paul only in accordance with III I his own wish, as undoubtedly Paul ardently CONCERNING MARRIAGE WHEN THE PLAGUES ARE wanted to go. See Acts 20:16. POURED OUT A reader from the Northwest wishes to While the Spirit gave His consent to Paul's A. J. Jackson of Florida wishes to know going, He plainly revealed to the apostle know if parents should be consulted with reference to the marriage of their children, about the pouring out of the plagues. that "bonds and afflictions" awaited him (Acts 20:23). The statement in Acts 21:4 and should a girl of ' twenty-one marry a The questioner is undoubtedly correct that the disciples "said to Paul through the an of forty.-five. when he places the fulfillment of Job 38: Spirit, that he should not set foot in Jeru- It is certainly the tenor of Scriptural 22, 23; Ezekiel 38:23 at the time of the salem" does not contradict the position just teaching that children should counsel with pouring out of the plagues mentioned in taken. As the Holy Spirit had warned Paul their parents regarding the serious and most Revelation 16. These all focus upon the de- himself of the great dangers ahead of him important matter of marriage. Most par- struction of this present world at the time in Jerusalem, so through these disciples the ents have the best interests of their children of the second coming of Christ. Page Six ' SIGNS of the TIMES EDITORIAL ASA OSCAR TAIT ALONZO L. BAKER

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HEN Jesus was dealing with the caviling un- If men would accept the teachings of the Old Tes- believers during His personal work on earth, tament Scriptures, they 'would sense the solemnity He presented to them evidence that was more and the majesty of the warnings against sin. They striking and more convincing than would be shown in would realize, for instance, the importance of the the resurrection of the dead. The statement of the statement made by the Master,, as recorded in the Master comes as an impressive conclusion to His par- very next chapter of Luke, which reads : "As it came able of the rich man and Lazarus, and is expressed in to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the following words : the days of the Son of man." Luke 17: 26. "And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that But can the individual receive that warning con- thou wouldest send him to my father's house ; for I cerning the days of Noah when he rejects the author- have five brethren ; that he may testify unto them, ity of Moses and his writings? If we would turn to lest they also come into this place ,of torment. But the first book of Moses, we read concerning the Abraham saith, They have Moses and the prophets ; days of Noah that "the earth was corrupt before God, let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abra- and the earth was filled with violence." Genesis 6 : 11. ham : but if one go to them from the dead, they will We would also read the warning, "The end of all flesh ' repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses is come before Me; for the earth is filled with vio- and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if lence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them one rise from the dead." Luke 16: 27-31. with the earth." Genesis 6 : 13. These are the very words of Jesus Christ Himself, Violence brings destruction upon, itself as its sure the great Teacher: How impressively does He tell us reward. If we would heed the writings of Moses and to hear "Moses and the prophets"! and how forceful the prophets, we would be impressed deeply with the is His statement that "if they hear not Moses and the violence of this time, and the tremendous significance prophets, neither will 'they be persuaded, if one rise of it. A current dispatch to the San Francisco Chron- from the dead"! - icle reads : God has given us the most striking evidence that "As showing the grip gangland has upon Chicago Infinite Wisdom could command, in order to show the and its broken-down courts and system of justice, a supreme love of the divine Father Himself ; and this report issued to-day by the Illinois Association for evidence is couched in the writings of the' Old Testa- Criminal Justice cites two hundred fifteen murders - ment Scriptures. They are a complete and perfect without a solitary conviction. There were many other 'story of God's dealings with men from creation to the murders, but this number has to do solely with gang- days of Malachi. And Jesus, the Author of those Old land's warfare for control of booze, gambling and vice Testament Scriptures, emphasized and extolled their privileges." importance and virtue. And although He had the The foregoing dispatch is merely illustrative of the power, as was clearly manifested in His life, to raise violence throughout the world as represented not the dead, He refused to allow that power the supreme merely in murders, but in. rebellions, revolutions, and place of influence, because He wished to make the the general spirit of war. The very spirit of the age impression deep and profound that the writings of is one of violence and corruption, and the warning of "lVIoses and the prophets" were in themselves a con- Jesus is that the end of all things is at hand, and His vincing miracle more powerful and with greater influ- coming is very near. ence upon the mind than would be manifested in the But the great rebel leader, while with one hand he actual raising of the dead. As a matter of fact, Jesus is, stirring up violence and rebellion throughout the actually did raise from the dead the son of the widow world, with the other is seeking to cover the clear and of Nain, and Lazarus, the brother of Mary and stirring warnings of .the Old Testament Scriptures Martha. But these mighty miracles failed to impress concerning this time. the determined infidelity of many in His time, because If we will.heed the counsels of wisdom and divine they had failed to comprehend the value of the writ- love, we will listen to the Master as He affirms, "If ings of Moses and the prophets. The people of Jesus' they, hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will time rejected the Christ, while extolling Moses. But they be persuaded, if one rise from the dead." And the Master showed them that they did not really be- heeding the warnings and admonitions of the Master, lieve the writings of Moses ; otherwise, they would . we shall also accept His invitation, "Come unto Me, have accepted Him. And to-day men are rejecting all ye •that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give Moses while extolling the Christ, who made that re- you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me ; markable statement : "If they hear not Moses and the for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if one rise rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My from the dead." burden is light." Matthew 11 : 28-30. T.

for JULY 24, 1928 Page Seven How SUNDAY Was SUBS'

If you do not know the origin of Sunday observance, here's your chance to find out.

CARLYL,E B. HAYNES

UNDAY observance began at an early name; but only to. sanctify and improve period in the history of the church. Its both, as they did also the pagan temples pol- Searly introduction is not, however, an luted before with idolatrous services, and argument for its genuineness as a Scriptural other instances wherein those good men were obligation. Only a Scriptural command is always tender to work any other change than sufficient for that; and there is no such what was evidently necessary, and in such Scriptural command for Sunday obseryance. things as were plainly inconsistent with the There was no Bible evidence for the in-, Christian religion; so that Sunday being the troduction of any of the corruptions that day on which the Gentiles solemnly adored were brought into the early church and that that planet, and called it Sunday, partly from later developed into the papacy. On this, its influence on that day especially, and .Dowling, in his "History of Romanism," re- partly in respect to its diVine body (as they marks: "There is scarcely anything which conceived it), the Christians thought fit to strikes the mind of the careful student of keep the same day and the same name of it, ancient ecclesiastical history with greater that they might not appear causelessly peev- surprise than the comparatively early period ish, and by that means hinder the conversion at which many of the corruptions of Chris- of the Gentiles, and bring a greater prejudice tianity, which are embodied in the Romish than might be otherwise taken against the system, took their rise; yet it is not to be gospel."—Pages 22, 23. supposed that when the first originators of many of these unscriptural notions and prac- CORRUPT CHRISTIANITY AND1 PAGANISM tices planted those germs of corruption, they • anticipated or even imagined that they would The amalgamation of corrupt Christian- ever grow into such a vast and hideous sys- ity and Paganism, which produced Roman tem of superstition and error as is that of Catholicism, was the soil in which also grew popey."—Book 2, chapter 1, section 1. the counterfeit observance of Sunday. The 05ncerning the adoption of this pagan hol- papacy and Sunday belong together. Both iday dedicated to the sun, the North British originated in paganism, and both were Review says this: "That very day was the grafted upon the Christian church at the Sunday of their heathen neighbors and re- same time. They both swept the field of all spective countrymen; and patriotism gladly opposition, and became ruling factors in' united with expediency in making.it.at once Christendom. After they had been estab- their Lord's day and their Sabbath. . . . If lished, they both sought to trace their origin the authority of the church is to be ignored back to apostolic times. The pope cla.imed altogether by Protestants, there is no matter; to be the successor of Peter, and Sunday because opportunity and common expedi- claimed to go back to the day of Christ's ency are surely argument enough for so cere- resurrection. Neither claim was true, nor has either claim been established. Never- monial a change as the mere day of the week Southeast corner of the for the observance of the rest and holy con- theless both of these frauds grew to enor- vocation of the Jewish Sabbath. That primi- mous size and power, the pope becoming tive church, in fact, was shut up to the adop- lord of bishops, and Sunday the lord of days, tion of the Sunday, until it became estab- "the Lord's day ; " but their success drove the lished and supreme, when it was too late to Lord of life out of the church, and left only make another alteration."—Vol. 18, page Antichrist and a fallen, apostate church. the direction of the sunrise? It is you, at 409. One of the apologists for this pagan day all events, who have admitted the sun into The motives that prompted the change in those early years, Tertullian, a father of the calendar of the week; and ydu have se- from the true Sabbath to the day of the sun the Catholic Church, addressed a book to the lected its day (Sunday) in preference to the are further described by a Church of Eng- nations still in idolatry, and in it endeavored preceding day, as the most suitable in the land rector, Rev. T. H. Morer, in his book, to meet the confusion created by the adop- week for either an entire abstinence from "Six Dialogues on the Lord's Day": tion of Sunday by Christians, which had the bath, or for its postponement until the "It is not to be denied but we borrow the given rise to the thought that they were going evening, or for taking rest, and for banquet- name of this day from the ancient Greeks over to sun worship altogether. He says: ing. By resorting to these customs, you de- and Romans, and we allow that the old "Others, with greater regard to good man- liberately deviate from your own religious Egyptians worshiped the sun, and as a ners, it must'be confessed, suppose that the rites to those of strangers."—"Ad Nationes," standing memorial of their veneration, dedi- sun is the God of the Christians, because it book 1, chapter 13.. cated this day to him. And we find by the is a well-known fact that we pray toward The only defense for adopting Sunday influence of their examples, other nations, the east, or because we make Sunday a day from the heathen, which this early Catholic and among them the Jews themselves, doing of festivity. What then? Do you do less father could make, was to ask the question, him homage; yet these abuses did not hinder than this? Do not many among you, with "Do you do less than this?" It was the pa- the fathers of the Christian church simply an affectation of sometimes worshiping the gans, he points out, who had admitted "the to repeal, or altogether lay by, the day or its heavenly bodies likewise, move your lips in sun into the calendar of the week," and who Page Eight SIGNS of the TIMES

TUTED for the SABBATH

ing or for vine planting; lest by neglecting cultural labor."—Encyclopedia Britannica, the proper moment for such operations, the , eleventh edition, article "Sunday." ' bounty of heaven should be lost. (Given the ".Constantine the Great made a law for 7th, day of March, Crispus and Constantine the whole empire (321 A. D.) that Sunday being consuls each of them for the second , should be kept as a day of rest in all cities time.)"—Codex Justinianus, lib. 3, tit. 12, 3; and towns;. but he allowed the country peo- cited in "History of the Christian Church," ple to follow their •work."—Encyclopedia (seven-volume edition); Philip Schaff, D. D., Americana, article "Sabbath." Vol. 3; page 380. "Unquestionably the first law, either ec- Constantine, was emperor of Rome from clesiastical or civil, by which the Sabbatical 306 to 337 A. D. He was a sun worshiper dur- observance of that day is known to have ing the years of his reign. Later he pro- been ordained, is the edict of Constantine, fessed conversion to • Christianity, but at . 321 A. D."—Chambers' Encyciopedia, article heart remained a devotee' of the sun to his "Sabbath." latest breath. Of his religion Gibbon, in his' That this Sunday legislation had no con- "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," nection with Christianity is clearly seen when says: "The devotion of Constantine was the facts contained in the following quota- more peculiarly directed to the genius of tion are considered: the fun, the Apollo of Greek and Roman "This legislation by/ Coristantine probably mythology; and he was pleased to be repre- bore no relation to Christianity; it appears, sented with the symbols of the god of light on the contrary, that the emperor, in his and poetry. The unerring -shafts of that capacity of Pontifex Maximus, was only deity, the brightness of his eyes, his lautel adding the day of the,sun, the worship of wreath„"immortal beauty, and elegant ac- which was then firmly, established in the complishments, seem to point him out as the Roman Empire, to the other serial days of patron of a young hero. The altars of Apollo the sacred calendar."—"Rest Days," Prof. were crowned with the votive offerings of Hutton Webster, Ph. D., page 122. Constantine; and the credulous multitude were taught to believe that the emperor was COMPELLING SUNDAY OBSERVANCE pertnitted to behold with mortal eyes the Following this initial legislation, both em- invisible majesty of their tutelar deity; and perors and popes in succeeding centuries that, either waking or in a vision, lie was added other laws to strengthen Sunday ob- blessed with the auspicious omens of'a long servance. and victorious reign. The sun was univer- "What began, however, as a pagan ordi- sally celebrated as.the invincible guide and nance, ended as a Christian regulation; and protector of Constantine."—Vol. 2, chapter a long series of imperial decrees, during the 20, paragraph 3.- fourth, 'fifth, and sixth centuries, enjoined with increasing stringency abstinence from SUN WORSHIP, NOT CHRISTIANITY labor on Sunday."—"Rest Days," by Prof. The legislation inaugurated by Constan- Hutton Webster, page 270. tine for the establishment of Sunday observ- What these further steps were which both ance is thus referred to by three encyclope- church and state took to make certain that dias: "The earliest recognition of the ob- Sunday should displace the Sabbath is cov- . servance of Sunday as a legal duty is. a con- ered in-a few paragraphs by a distinguished the sun at Baalbeck stitution of Constantine in 321 A. D., enact- lawyer of Baltimore, Maryland, the late Mr. ing that all courts of justice, inhabitants of James T. Ringgold: "In 386, under Gratian, towns, and workshops were to be at rest on Valentinian, a_nd Theodosius, it was decreed Sunday ( venerabili . die solis), with an ex- • that all litigation and business should cease ception in favor of those engaged in agri- (on Sunday). . . .

had preferred Sunday above the preceding day, which was the Sabbath. How, then, he argues, could they chide the Christians for following their own example? which is certainly evidence enough regarding the source from which Sunday observance originated. THE FIRST SUNDAY LAW The earliest Sunday law known to history is that of Constantine, promulgated in 321 A. D. It reads: "On the venerable day of the sun let the magistrates and people residing in the cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the . country, however, persons engaged in agri- culture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits; because it often happens that another day is not so suitable for grain sow- A stone sixty-eight feet four inches in length, only partially cut from the "quarry at Baalbeck" for JULY 24, 1928 Page Nine "Among the doctrines laid down in a letter of Pope Innocent I, written in the last. year of his papacy (416), is that Saturday should be observed as a fast day. . . "In 425, under Theodosius the Younger, 'Weighed in the Balances" abstinence from theatricals and the circus (on Sunday) was enjoined. . . . '4ZE! ALLEN WALKER "In 538, at a council at Orleans, . . . it was ordained that everything previously permitted on Sunday should still be lawful; but E ARE living in a day of many de- there is a test to prove whether this claim is that work at the plow, or in the vineyard, ceptions and counterfeits. Because true or not. This we find in Luke 8:21. He and cutting, reaping, threshing, tilling, and Wof this, there is an imperative de- says, "My brethren are these which hear the hedging should be abstained from, that peo- mand for proof that a thing is genuine and word of God, and do it." A man who claims ple might more conveniently attend church. not an imitation. Almost everything to-day to be a spiritual kinsman of our Lord, and "About 590 Pope Gregory, in a letter to . must be put to the test to prove its genuine- then does not hear and practice the word the Roman people, denounced as the proph- ness. Government men go from city to city, only proves that he is not kin to Him. ets of Antichrist those who maintained that testing scales, to make sure that people are The test of knowing Him. Jesus said that work ought not to be done on the seventh getting honest weight. Foods, cloth, coins, to know Him and His Father was "life eter- day."—"The Law of Sunday," pages 265- bills, drinking water, in fact, everything is nal." How important it is to know the Lord! 267. being tested to see if it is up to standard. Many there are who claim that they know The closing paragraph of the above quo- Cautious people insist on having the genuine. Him; but does their claim stand the test? tation indicates that there were still those Perhaps it is safe to say that in the realm We find this test in I John 2 :4, "He that in the church as late as 590 A. D., who were of religion there are more counterfeits and saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His both observing and teaching the observance imitations than in anything else. This being commandments, is a liar, and the truth is of the Bible Sabbath. Indeed, such observ- the case,. how necessary it is to put the re- not in him." No man who rejects the com- ance on the part of a faithful few has been ligion we profess to the test. And the word mandments of God knows the Lord. His followed throughout all the Christian cen- of God is this test. It is interesting to note claim is not true. turies. The Waldenses were observers of the how all claims are tested in this way. How heart searching are these tests ! What seventh day. "They kept the Sabbath day, An honest heart. What is God's test of an great importance is attached to the word ! observed the ordinance of baptism accord- honest heart? We find it in Luke 8:15: The God brings every claim to the standard of ing to the primitive church, instructed their seeds that fell "on the good ground are they, His immutable word, and, unless it stands children in the articles of the Christian faith which in an honest and good heart, having this test, the claim is false and a counterfeit. and the commandments of God."—Jones' heard the word, keep it." - If a man claims "Church History," Vol. 2, chapter 5, sec- that he has an honest heart, and then declines tion 4. to hear and to keep the word of God, that WHAT GOD WILL NOT DO The ecclesiastical and civil laws referred proves that he is dishonest; his claim is THERE is one thing God will not do for to above in the development of Sunday legis- false. ., man: He will not force him to accept His lation make clear that Eusebius, a noted The test of discipleship. There are millions love and mercy, but He has gone to the very bishop of the Catholic Church, the reputed who claim to be disciples of Christ. They limit of His love and justice to keep man father of ecclesiastical history, and a flat- profess to be His followers. But there is a from ruin and destruction. terer of, and father confessor to, Constan- test to prove whether this claim is true or An aged Christian in a Canadian town had tine, was justified in saying: "All things not, and we find it in John 8:31: "Then said a son who had gone into evil ways. He spent whatsoever that it was duty to do on the Jesus, . . . If ye continue in My word, then his nights in gambling dens and other places Sabbath, these we have transferred to the are ye My disciples indeed." A man who of evil repute. His father remonstrated with Lord's day."—"Commentary on the Psalms," claims to be a disciple of the Lord and re- him in vain; he only grew worse. One even- cited in "A Commentary on the Apocalypse," jects His word, thereby disproves his claim. ing, as he was about to leave his home; his Moses Stuart, Vol. 2, page 40. He fails to stand the test which would give father earnestly remonstrated with him • him a place as a true disciple. again, begging him not to go. The son grew DEAD OR ALIVE? The test of love to Jesus. All professed sullen and angry. Then said the father: "My (Continued from page 4) followers of the Lord claim that they love son, I am an old man, and you are young. I soul that in humility and sincerity and can- Him. But this does not say that they do. can no longer restrain you against your will. dor asks: "May we know the truth?" Christ's, What is the test of this love? We find it in But I am determined that if you go out this answer is: "Ye shall know the truth,and the John 14:23, where Jesus said: "If a man love night, you will have fo pass over my body." truth shall make you free." John 8:32. Me, he will keep My words." • With this he lay down on the floor before If it is true that "the dead know not any- The test of friendship. It would be rather the open door. The young man set his teeth, thing; . . neither have they any more a difficult to find a person who does not claim coolly stepped over his. father's body, and portion forever in anything that is done un- to be the friend of Jesus. The rankest in- went his way to further sin. der the sun" (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6), then the fidels have spoken very highly of Him. But God is infinitely able to put any check He truthseeker will be glad to know it. But if there is a test to prove whether or not this desires upon man; but because He has it is a deCeption that man is more conscious friendship is genuine. In John 15:14 we created him with a free will, and because He after death than before; if it is a delusion read: "Ye are My friends, if ye do whatso- can be satisfied in man only as man gives that, after his funeral, man is progressing ever I command you." What He has com- Him love and obedience by free choice, He either heavenward or hellward, then the can- manded will be found in God's word. .A will never force Him to tread the paths of did soul will be glad to be disillusioned and friendship that ignores His word is false. righteousness. Yet His word is full of plead- escape the catastrophe outlined by Paul for The test of loyalty. How many there are ing. "Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; those who, through mental dishonesty, stul- who claim loyalty to our Lord ! But will for why will ye die?" Ezekiel 33 :11. tify their consciences and prepare themselves this claim stand the test found in Luke 6: And not only does God plead with man. to be caught in some other of Satan's de- 46: "Why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do He has set before him the broken body of vices: "Because they received not the love not the things which I say?', If we wish .to His own Son as an eternal witness to the fact of the truth, . . God shall send them strong find what Jesus says, we find it in the Bible. that He is not willing that any should perish, delusion, that they should believe a lie." 2 Any one who is loyal will cheerfully do all but that all might come to repentance. Thessalonians 2 :10, 11. that Jesus commands A claim to loyalty Man may choose to turn aside or step Dear friend, are you sure that you know that rejects the word is false. over God's sacrifice on Calvary and to go out the truth? And, if not, do you want to The test of kinship. Jesus claims that all into sin and utter darkness, but he can never know it? May God anoint your eyes with the children of God are His "brethren." All say that God has not done all that He could the eyesalvei of His Holy Spirit, that you who claim to be His followers are putting do to save him from eternal, death—Sunday may know the truth as it is in Jesus. forth the claim to kinship with Him. But School Time.i. Page Ten 'SIGNS of the TIMES The School of ADVERSITY

HE blacksmith thrusts the stubborn JESSIE F. MOSER ye shall eat the good of the land: but if ye iron into the fiery forge to teach it refuse and' rebel, ye shall be devoured with T obedience. Only when at a red heat the sword: for the mouth of the Lord bath does it become perfectly pliable so that it as a last resort. Not until they had been spoken it." Isaiah 1:10-13, 19, 20. may be molded into any desired form. given every opportunity to repent. and re- And these calamities were to come upon Stubborn, iron-willed men should not turn to God. Not until Isaiah, "with his fire- them, He declared, because they had "cast think it strange, then, when they also are tipped tongue sublime," had warned, and away the law of the Lord of hosts, and de- cast into a furnace of fiery trial. (1 Peter pleaded, and persuaded. Not until Jeremiah, spised -the word of the Holy One of Israel." 4:12; 1:6, 7.) SoMetimes it is the only way "the prophet of the broken heart," had il- Isaiah 5:24. :` T here f ore, thus saith Jehovah that the Father in heaven can teach them lustrated and prophesied and wept and en- of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try obedience. Thus it was with the Israelites. treated and offered pardon—during the reign them; for how else 'should I do, because of Very tenderly the Lord had dealt with them, of five kings. Not until the message had the daughter of My people?" Jeremiah 9:7, instructing them by His prophets line upon come, "Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith A. R. V. In other words, what elk could line, precept upon precept. • ButAhey would the Lord; and I will not cause Mine anger the Lord do but to purify and refine them, not hearken unto His voice; they "walked to fall upon you; for I am merciful. . . . like gold? It was the only way left in which in their own counsels," and would have none Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou to teach them and save them. of Him. (Psalm 81:11.) hast transgressed against the Lord thy God." PUNISHED,.BUT WITH MERCY As a result of rejecting His law and hav- "And I will heal your backslidings." Jere- "Because they have forsaken My law ing their own way, their iniquities increased miah 3:12, 13, 22. which I set before them, and have not obeyed until the dhildren of Israel became like the THE LESSON LEARNED My voice, 'neither walked therein," declared people who lived in the days of Noah and' the Lord through Jeremiah, "therefore . . . For a.time, the people seemed to make a in the days of Lot. (Hosea 4:1, 2; Jeremiah Behold, I will feed them, even this.people, sort of half-hearted effort to gain the favor 6:13; Isaiah 2:8; Jeremiah 2:27, 28; Micah with wormwood, and give them water of of God by offering more sacrifices, and by 7:6; Ezekiel 22:7; Isaiah 1:5, 6.) gall to drink. I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have' known." "Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Neliuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land. . . . And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years." Jeremiah 9: la-16; 25:9, 11. And seventy years they did serve the king of Babylon; for the Lord kept His promise, as He always does. For seventy long years they were captives in a ,strange land, and hung their harps upon the willows, and wept when they sat down by the rivers of Baby- lon and remembered Zion. ,(Psalm 137:1, 2.) Contempt and hatred were lavished upon them. There were those who languished in prisons—their feet hurt with fetters and their hands bound with heavy chains. "Cer- tain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes,"—the very cream of the nation,—were placed under the prince of the eunuchs and forced to learn a foreign language, and endure terrible temptations and tests of character. Some "These calamities were to come upon them ... because they were cast into a literal furnace of fire, be- had cast away the law of the Lord of hosts." cause they would not bow down to the king's image of gold. Because a certain man would They were especially instructed to hallow being more attentive to the forms of reli- not cease praying to the living God, he was the Sabbath day, as the Lord had com- .gion. "They did everything but the one es- cast into a den of hungry lions. manded their fathers, and the Lord promised sential—of leaving off their sins and crimes, But, oh, the tender mercy and love that that if they would do this, Jerusalem should and obeying God's law with their whole were mixed with all their trials! The Lord remain forever; "but they obeyed not, hearts." Himself went with them into the prison and neither inclined their ear, but made their. But they learned at last that beautiful the palace, into the lions' den, and the fiery neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor re- forms and plentiful offerings, could not take furnace; and He strengthened .them, and ceive instruction." Jeremiah 17:19-25; the place of true devotion and loving obe- comforted them, and helped them to learn Ezekiel 22:8. dience to God's law. "Hear the word of the the lessons that they would not learn in What could be done to teach these' way- Lord," said Isaiah, "Give ear untoi the law times of peace. ' ward children obedience? Prosperity had of our God. . . . To what purpose is the mul- WHEN DELIVERED not done it. God's protecting care and ever- titude of your sacrifices unto Me? saith the And the children of Israel did finally learn lasting kindness had only made them more Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of the lesson "that their prosperity depended rebellious. Messages of love and counsel rams, and the fat of fed beasts;, and I de- upon their obedience to the law of . God;" through the prophets had been spurned. light not in the blood of bullocks, or of that all their blessings had come from the (Jeremiah 25:4.) Must they, like the black- lambs, or of he goats. . . . Bring no more Lord, and all their sufferings and disasters smith's iron, be melted in the fire before vain oblations; incense is an abomination had come from forsaking and disobeying they would yield to.the Masters will? Only unto Me." "If ye be willing and obedient, (Continued on page 14) for JULY 24, 1928 Page Eleven CATARRH, COLD HEMIPLEGIA, WITH APHASIA "For years I have had a tenacious drop- Readers of the "Signs of the Times" who "I am thirty years old. Have been numb send questions regarding health, with two down one side for eight years, with loss of ping at back of throat, and I seem to take ' cents return postage, to Dr. ,Heald will re- cold easily; and the last three weeks the cold ceive prompt reply by mail. But, remember, speech, and severe pain in the head. Attacks has been persistent. The only way I can he can not diagnose or treat disease by mail. come at intervals of two weeks to five Persons who are sick need an examination months. I live very quietly, looking after clear my head is to snuff salt water, bringing and the personal attention of a physician. large chunks of greenish-yellowish gray mat- No questions will be answered direct my household. What can I do for myself?" ter. P f ear that by snuffing the water, I may through this column. The answers which ap- I regret that I can not do very much for infect the sinuses. What do you suggest?" pear here are selected from'the doctor's cor- respondence. you. In 'order to determine what is back of Send questions, with a two-cent stamp, to your condition, it will be necessary for you Perhaps the salt solution will not make Dr. G. H. Heald, 140 Eastern Avenue, your sinus trouble much worse, for probably Takoma Park, D. C. to have an expert medical examination. much of the material that falls into the back You must, of course, continue to live a of your mouth is from infected sinuses. But very quiet life. High blood pressure may be with a good nasal spray you may be able to one of the causes of your condition, and if do better work than you have done by snuff- fect on the human system; but it should be so, a base-forming diet 'might benefit you ing. You may use either salt, or baking soda, remembered that the human body almost in lowering the pressure and in preventing or a mixture of salt and soda, in the propor- invariably carries small amounts of quite a further arterial hardening. I am sending you tion of a teaspoonful to a pint of water. If number of metals that are not useful in the a leaflet describing such a diet. it is too strong or too weak, it is more irritat- body,—metals which have been taken with ing. some of the foods. BUTTERMILK, FOUL BREATH, But this local treatment is only palliative. Certainly one gets only a small propor- AND SLEEPLESSNESS It' is possible that you will obtain benefit tion of aluminum from these dishes com- "Is a quart of buttermilk a day too much? from the use of a base-forming diet,—no pared with what one gets when using bread If so, how much should one drink to receive meat (fish, flesh, or fowl), little if any egg, raised with alum baking power. Now it has the greatest benefit? What causes foul less cereal and bread by half than you have ' been the constant practice of a manufac- breath after sleeping a short time? Teeth been using, more fruits and vegetables, and turer of a cream-of-tartar baking powder to have been attended to and tonsils removed. orange juice or lemonade (best weak and put out propaganda matter to the effect that There is,no digestive trouble. Sleep is poor, unsweetened) between meals. If you make alum is very much more injurious than cream and I feel tired on waking." of tartar. But so far as I can find from the a business of following up this diet, I think You may be getting too much'pkotein, and you will in a short time begin to see results. officials of the government departments which look into such matters, these state- if so, might do better with a pint of butter- One of the most startling developments milk a day. as to the nature of the common cold is.' the ments have not been proved, and there is a question whether alum powder is any more Foul breath after sleeping may be caused work of a Chicago physician who failed over by sleeping with mouth open. and over again to,produce colds by inoculat- harmful than some other powders. It is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Tired feeling is most often caused by ing patients with 'infectious matter from a acidosis, so-called, that is, a, reduction of person with a cold, and on the other hand he the alkaline reserve 'of the body, and it is repeatedly produced all the symptoms of VARICOSE VEINS possible that you will be benefited by the, colds even to flu symptoms by the adminis- "For two or three years I have had under use of a low-protein, base-forMing diet; as tration of acid. And, moreover, he cured the skin, from my knees to my ankles, some- per the inclosed lists. Take freely of orange" many cases of cold by administering alkali. thing resembling red veins and red splotches, juice, or lemonade (weak and unsweetened) We believe that an alkalizing diet is more hardly noticeable in the simmer, but very between meals. You might enjoy a "butter- natural, and nature's preventive of colds. noticeable in cold weather. It did not bother milk" prepared by squeezing half a lemon Try it. me till last winter. The trouble is going into a cup of milk. I might add that milk is base-forming, and higher above my knees, and blisters are form- If your body has a strong tendency to you may use a pint or more a day. And, if ing and breaking, forming scabs. My stock- acid, you will have to push the•alkaline- you wish, you can, with lemon juice, make a ings keep them rubbed and raw all the time. forming. foods, and may have to reduce the very palatable form of "buttermilk." They are worse when I get around the fire. amount of cereal foods to a minimum, and My legs are always sore, and I can hardly use more fruits and vegetables. ALUMINUM, ALUM bear to touch them. One doctor told me there was no cure. I would have to keep LAXATIVE FOR CHILD "An article declares that aluminum cook- them bandaged. The other told me it was "Bran muffins made with sour milk and a ing utensils are likely to poison food; and just skin disease, and gave me some black little soda used to keep my little girl's that alum and aluminum are the same min- salve, which did no good. A chiropractor bowels regular. Recently I read that soda eral. Are these statements true?" wanted to massage the leg, but I had little or baking powder should not be used. If I have been unable to find at any of the faith in him." this is so, how can I make muffins so baby government departments anything to con- I am inclined to believe the first doctor can use-them?" firm the idea that there is any danger in the was right as to the condition. He probably Possibly the way you use soda it is fully use of aluminum vessels. I 'was referred to thought it was varicose veins. I do not know . neutralized. Still I would suggest some the work of one of ,the most influential what the other man expected to accomplish other way of regulating the child. of British medical journals, the London by massage to the legs. I am inclosing a If, instead of using cereals, you regulate Lancet.. As the result of work done by sheet giving treatment for varicose veins. the child with base-forming fruits and the Lancet laboratory„they, gave out the If that'is your trouble, you should arrange vegetables, it may be better for her. Vege- opinion that the use of aluminum cooking your life to be off your feet as much as pos- tables can be passed through a colander to vessels is not likely to cause poisoning, un- sible; and if you have to be on'your feet a avoid all lumps. In this way you may use less possibly when some alkali is used in good deal, you must arrange to have periods spinach, carrot, parsnip, and other vege- cooking, such as baking soda. But even in when you will lie down for from fifteen to tables, and also banana' and other fruits. that case, it was thought that the, danger thirty minutes, two or three times a day, Be sure the fruits are fully ripe, but not would 'be slight. with the feet higher than the head. It will overripe. For instance, the skins of bananas , In cooking with aluminum dishes, there be well, also, to have the foot of your bed a should have dark broWn spots, but the in- is a minute quantity of aluminum dissolved, few inches higher than the head. In every side should not be discolored. Yoil may and it would•be impossible to say that this way favor the return of the blood from the give her quite freely of orange juice be- in cumulative doses has absolutely no ef- legs. . • tween meals. Page Twelve • SIGNS of the TIMES Sin and Satan,

AILING to understand fultly the import ject is granted full liberty to obey or to dis- of the temptation and fall of Adam, How they came obey. A forced obedience would make of Fwe are quite certain to misunderstand into existence • man a mere machine, and render his acts or every vital and basic truth taught in the words as inanimate and as unappreciative as Bible. In fact, there would have been no and why' those of an,automaton or a phonograph. To Bible, no plan of redemption, and no world make disobedience impossible means forced such as we have with its six-thousand-year obedience.- True,.loving obedience can take epoch of sin, suffering, and death, had not EDWIN K. SLADE place only as there exists in the alternative man fallen from his original state of inno- the liberty of choice. There will never be a cence and perfection. Superficial students time when 'subjects of God's kingdom will of the word of God have failed either by he knoweth that'he hath but a short time." 'not be r.ermitted to sin if they choose. We - turning from the Scripture to man-made Revelation 12:7-12. have the assurance that the King of the uni- theories or by charging God with responsi- The existence of a personal devil and of verse will never abandon the plan of -full bility for the apparent failure in an arranger fallen angels, who have been cast out of liberty even though it involves the possibil- ment that would' permit sin to occur. Sin • heaven and who are continuing the warfare ity of sin, suffering, and death. In fact, we did not begin with Adam and Eve. It had that began with the fall of Lucifer, can not may as well abandon the terms "obedience" ' its origin before they were created.. And in be overlooked or denied. In this fall and and, "sin" when liberty does not exist, for considering the fall of man, it is well that rebellion, the perfect, divine love has been they become meaningless when the 'respon- we lcnow how sin and Satan came into -ex- supplanted by a love of self, and a nature sibility for one's acts is wholly vested in an- istence. differing from the divine nature as does the other. densest darkness of midnight compared with SATAN FELL AS LIGHTNING Sin will not occur again after. redemption the brightest noonday, is Pitted against God, is completed and God's perfect order is re- On one occasion Christ declared to His and His government. It,is the great con- stored. Such assurance is given as a precious disciples: "I beheld Satan as lightning tall trovergy between Christ and the loyal angels promise in these words: "He will make an from heaven." Luke 10:18. Before his fall and Lucifer and his rebellious followers, utter end: affliction shall not rise up the shifted from its place of origin to this planet, his position seems to have been one of great second time." Nahum 1:9. importance in heaven. Evidently he ranked where God's love, wisdom, - justice, fairness,' as a leader among the angels, and performed and long-suffering will be'witnessed and His ONCE IS ENOUGH a work that brought him in close associa- government vindicated in His dealing with, Once will be enough. The dreadful re- tion with the Father and the Son. Isaiah and disposing of, sin, sinners, and Satan for sults of sin, the ruin that it has wrought, and 14:12 gives his name as "Lucifer, son of the all eternity, to the satisfaction of every sub- the anguish, distress, heartache, and death morning," while Ezekiel 28:1-19 provides ject of, the universe. will have been seen by every subject of the a description of his high state, his leading at- WHY DID GOD PERMIT SIN? universe. This one terrible epoch- will be tributes, and the inception of sin in his life We can as well at this place as anywhere sufficient for all eternity. Thank the Lord, as his "heart is lifted up" and he gives ex- consider briefly the question, "Why did God there will be no "second time" of such "af- • pression to his ambition and pride by say- permit of a possibility for sin to occur?" fliction." - ing, "I am a god, I sit in the seat of God." The-principle involved will apply in the fall All beings-will have seen, also, the nature He was created a perfect being, as declared of Lucifer as Well as in the fall of Adam, so of God in a new light. They will have seen in verse fifteen: "Thou wast perfect in thy '- that will be in mind as we proceed. His love as it was revealed in the giving of ways from the day that thou wast created, Without liberty of choice and action, His Son that the sinner and his home might till iniquity was found in thee.", there can be no guilt of sin, no formation of be redeemed. They will have seen the law Sin originated in the heart of Lucifer, and character, and no appreciative manifestation of God's kingdom magnified and made hon- later made its appearance in his life: "How of love or loyalty. In God's plan every sub- orable by the infinite sacrifice required to art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son satisfy its demands. They will have had of the morning! how art thou cut down to such revelations of God's' wisdom,- power, the ground, which didst weaken the nations! and love in meeting this awful emergency For thou hast said in thine heart, I will as- as to make willing, loving obedience natural cend into heaven, I will exalt my • throne and certain. The fullest liberty will be en- above the stars of God: I will sit also upon joyed in all eternity with no repetition of sin the mount of the congregation, in the sides -and rebellion, for the only remaining marks of the north: I will ascend above the heights of sin seen upon Him.who hore the iniquity of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. of us all will serve to all eternity, that we Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell." shall never forget the dreadfulness of sin on Isaiah 14:12-15. • the one 'hand and the desirableness of' His WAR IN HEAVEN . rule, His law, and His love on the other. ' Further Scriptural evidence of Lucifer's ADAM'S DISOBEDIENCE fall and of the disaffection spreading among Adam was made acquainted with Satan's the angels is furnished in these words: rebellion and expulsion, from heaven.' He "There was war in heaven: Michael [Christ] enjoyed the association of Christ and un- and His angels fought against the dragon; fallen angels who made known the will of and the dragon fought and his angels, and God as well as the designs of Satan and the prevailed not; neither was their place found danger of his deceptions. He was informed any more in heaven. And the great dragon concerning the forbidden fruit and the re- •was cast out, that old serpent, called the sult of disobedience by these unmistakable devil, and Satan, whichs deceiveth the whole words: "The Lord God took the man, and world: he was cast out into the earth, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress his angels were cast out with him.. . it and to keep it. And the Lord God com- Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that manded the man, saying, Of every tree of dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of "The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, earth and of the sea! for the devil is come called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, down unto you, having great wrath, because world." thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that

for. JULY 24, 1928 . Page Thirtegn thou eatest thereof, dying thou shalt die." Returning to our main topic, let us not Genesis 2:15-17, margin. overlook the fact that the fall of man marks A careful study of the deception and dis- a great change in the status of this world obedience that followed reveals the fact that and the beginning of this epoch of sin which THE WORLD'S PROPHETIC Satan's word was believed rather than God's, has now existed nearly six thousand years. Advocating a return to the simple gospel of Christ, and a preparation that the fruit was seen to be good and bene- The fall was precipitous, and the change for His imminent second appearing ficial rather than damaging, and that 'dis- was radical. The first man born in this world obedience apparently resulted in fuller life was a murderer. At the beginning of this A. 0. TAIT, A. L. BARER, Editors rather than in death. By this complete de- reign of sin, men's hearts seemed to be aban- J. R. 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Cap- So He drove out the man; and He placed at tivity, and fetters, and prisons, and fiery the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims, trials, and disappointments, and troubles, and a flaming sword which turned every way, and sickness, and poverty, are permitted to to keep the way of the tree of life." Genesis come upon *His wayward children to soften 3:22-24. What Color in Heaven? and subdue and make them pliable in His Barring the way to the tree of life that he By FANNIE VICKREY DONNELLY hands. If we, like Daniel and his fellows, might not "eat" and "live forever" would yield quickly to God's will, and learn the les- have been a useless precaution had Adam "What color will we be in heav'n?" son of perfect obedience, we, too, shall be possessed immortality in himself. The doc- Some Socrates has asked. What color now predominates? able to witness for Him before nations; for trine of "natural immortality" is as damag- 'Tis not Caucasia's mask. He will go with us into the fiery furnace and ing and as basicly wrong as is the theory of into the lions' den, and deliver us from all But since our Christ was color-blind, evolution, and had its origin in the same mas- What cause for great concern harm. (Isaiah 43:2.) ter mind. The bold and untruthful declara- If, white or black or red or brown, And when the lesson of obedience is fully tion, "Ye shall not surely die," seems to have We at His feet may learn? learned, and God's law is enshrined within laid 'a foundation for a whole line of error our hearts, we, too, shall be delivered from and false conceptions, such as the following: the land of the enemy, and shall come with singing unto Zion. (Isaiah 51:7, 11.) Death being only the release of the soul ideal of a world, or such as He made. It is from the body. not a world on the way to perfection through Consciousness in death. the process of evolution, neither is man pro- LITERATURE WANTED Entering into, reward or punishment at gressing heavenward. On the contrary, man death. and this world began in perfection, as created THE following persons desire late, clean Spirits of the dead visiting us. by a wise and mighty Creator, and the pres- copies of Watchman, Life and Health, Lib- Spiritualism. ent state of things may be clearly under- erty, Present Truth, Youth's Instructor, Our Eternal suffering in a lake of fire. stood as being the result of man's apostasy Little Friend, SIGNS OE THE TIMES, and Confusion about the home of the saved. and fall. The fuller results of this fall and tracts, for free distribution: Perplexity about the need of a resurrec- God's glorious purpose and plan to rescue tion. Mr. Richard Wilson, 929 North Mans- and redeem must remain for articles in later field St., Memphis, Tennessee. False notions about the time and the na- issues. ture of the judgment. Mrs. H. M. Klock, 233 Broad St., Lake Confusion about the time, nature, and Charles, Louisiana. need of Christ's second coming. THE SCHOOL OF ADVERSITY Mrs. S. M. Leiby, Corner 14th and Logan Sts., Lafayette, Indiana. In fact, it is such fundamental errors as (Continued from page 11) these that throw so many into confusion and Him. We are told that the nation was "en- J. A. McClain, Westfield, Texas, English darkness, and into rejecting the Bible as a tirely cured of idolatry by their discipline, and German literature. book of conflictions and contradictions, and never afterward relapsed into it." Emma B. Kincaid, 2950 Dahlia St., Den- when, in reality, it is perfectly consistent and As the refiner removes the gold from the ver, Colorado, wishes Spanish, Italian, Jap- harmonious throughout in all subjects by all fire as soon as the dross has been consumed, anese, Jewish, and English tracts and papers. writers in all ages. In this connection we can so the Lord sends deliverance to His tried Mr: Harold Pearsall, % C. C. Elliott, no more than thus point to the danger and children as soon as the work to be accom- Brooks, Alberta; wishes copies of the Watch- the design of the deceiver in the false doc- plishectby the affliction is completed. At the man, Review, and Youth's Instructor from trine of natural immortality. end of the seventy years, the Lord delivered January, 1927 to May, 1928.

Page Fourteen SIGNS of the TIMES The tutor, cleverly wise in handling his charge, one day said: "Sir, permit me to pin BELIEVING ON JESUS this bit of ribbon to the lapel of your coat; you see it is the royal purple of France." Pinning it on, he continued: "Now when- house. It was not usually so quiet where ever you are tempted to say or do anything LIZZIE M. unbecoming to a royal prince, listen to the GREGG that boy was. So the mother called, 'Charles, where are you? what are you doing?' and as appeal of the purple, and refuse to stoop." she spoke Was moving over toward the room In Revelation 1 the believer is declared where he had his toys and books. to be a king and priest to God. He belongs "And as she came within range of the to the blood royal of heaven. The purple of door, partly open, she saw the boy sitting redeeming love is on his heart and life. quietly, with his hands folded on his knees, And when alluring evil comes tempting and his head bent. And the boy, not know- the Christian to stoop and do or say the ing that his mother was there, called out ignoble and debasing thing, the Spirit of quietly: 'I am believing on the Lord Jesus.' God appeals to the purple, "Let every one He was thinking about Him, loving Him, that nameth the name of Christ depart from thanking Him that He died, and telling Him iniquity." E RECALL the little lad of six years he would try to please Him." Only a single, rose may be set in an out-of - who asked his mother, "What does Can not we older ones learn to believe on the-way corner in the room, yet its presence Wit mean to believe on the Lord Jesus in this simple way, and become His is soon known by the drifting fragrance. Jesus?" Having been brought up in a Chris- Yoyal followers? Are we not so far from Him Nor can the lowliest life possessed by Jesus tian home, and with Christian training, be- becadse we do not sit down and think about Christ, altogether be hid. The sheen of its ginning to think and reason out the meaning Him, talk with Him, and thank Him for what purple, the perfume of its good, tells for of words for himself, this little one was un- He has done for us? He wants us; we need Him. consciously being drawn to the children's Him. Let us believe on the Lord Jesus Even the rude judges, hailing the disciples Saviour. Quoting from one of S. D. Gordon's Christ, and be saved. 4 to their tribunal, discovered that, for "they books on prayer, we read that the mother • • took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus." Those early comrades" of the • ' answered very simply: " 'Why, you know, THE APPEAL OF THE my son, it means thinking about Jesus, and cross wore the King's purple, they carried • PURPLE thanking Him that He died for you, and the Rose of God. "Who follows in their train?"—George Douglas. loving Him, and telling Him that you will . IN the days of old France, ever fascinat- try to please Him in everything you do.' ing reading, a certain tutor was appointed And the boy listened, but she could not tell for one of the king's sons. "WITH our first parents, intemperate de- whether he had taken it in. The prince, like other boys, sometimes sire resulted in the loss of Eden. Temper- "About an hour later things were suspi- needed correction; but how could a poor ance in all things has more to do with our ciously quiet in the boy's corner of the teacher discipline a prince of the blood royal. restoration to Eden than men realize."

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Paper Peace Pacts all the world for a testimony to all na- ing the neutrality of Belgium in case of tions. But— war. But as soon as Germany decided to rinHE Secretary of State, Frank B. Kel- We fear lest the peoples of the world make war on France, the promised neu- l1 logg, has just announced the text of become lulled into a false security by the trality of Belgium became "a scrap of the treaty outlawing war which he is now idea that, because many of the nations paper," and the gray-clail armies of the negotiating with fourteen other nations sign a treaty outlawing war, this means Central Powers marched across Belgium of the world. The three articles. of the the banishment of war from the world. just as blithely as if no treaty had ever pact are, in part, as follows: The devil would be delighted with nothing been signed. A treaty of this character is good only• "ARTICLE 1 else so much as to get all of us to sleep with the sedative that the millennium has so long as the nations signing it are good. "The high contracting parties soleMnly If they decide to break it, there is nothing declare in the names of their respective arrived. Then he could bring destruction upon us in a twinkling, before we could to keep them from it. If any of the fif- peoples that they condemn recourse to teen nations included in Mr. Kellogg's war for the solution of international con- awake. And that is exactly what he is going to do with many. The apostle Paul list decide it is more to their advantage to troversies, and renounce it as an instru- fight than to be at peace, then the, whole ment of national policy in their relations prophesied of our very day that "when they are saying, Peace and safety, then treaty evaporates with the first shot fired. with one another. sudden destruction cometh upon them, Furthermore, "wars of defense" are "ARTICLE 2 as travail upon a woman with child; and exempted. This is the joker, for every nation that has ever gone to war has al- "The high contracting parties agree they shall in nowise escape." ways declared it was fighting a "war of that the settlement or solution of all dis- • That we may not appear in the role of defense." Germany said she was on the putes or conflicts of whatever nature or doleful Jeremiahs, let us explain that the defensive in 1914-1918. So did the Allies. , of whatever origin they may be, which treaty outlawing war which the nations Before we can acclaim the advent of may arise among them, shall never be may sign is no guarantee against war. In permanent peace in our world, all the sought except by pacific means. the first place, it has no binding force except as the signatory nations keep their causes of war must be done away with. "ARTICLE 3 good faith. In 1914 some of the nations A peace pact such as Mr. Kellogg pro- "The present treaty shall be ratified by in Europe had signed a treaty guarantee- poses is like putting salve on a cancer. the high contracting parties named in the Do away with the cancer, and the salve Preamble in accordance with their respec- will be superfluous. So long as the cancers tive constitutional requirements.. . . of hatred, revenge, conflict over bound- "This treaty shall, when it has come ary lines, subject peoples, imperialism, into effect . . . remain open as long as acute economic rivalry, and such like, may be necessary for adherence by all the persist in the world, we shall have war. other powers of the world." And these will be with us just so long as In the note written by: Mr. Kellogg, sin is with us, for they are the results of which accompanied a copy of the pact' to sin. And sin will be with us until Jesus the nations, he says: Christ comes the second time to purify "If the governments of Australia, Bel- the earth of sin and sinners, and to estab- gium, Canada, Czecho-Slovakia, France, lish thereon His kingdom of righteousness Germany, Great Britain, India, the Irish and peace everlasting. Free State, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Let us pray for that day! B. Poland, South Africa, and the United States can now agree to conclude this ‘‘My Peace Give I Unto You" antiwar treaty among themselves, my '''ESUS CHRIST,. who long ago was pro- government is confident that the other claimed by Isaiah "the Prince of nations of the world will, as soon as the peace," announced the one and only treaty comes into force, gladly adhere 'source of peace: "Peace I leave with you; thereto, and that this simple procedure My peace I give unto you: not as the will bring mankind's age-long aspirations world giveth, give I unto you. Let not for universal peace nearer to practical ful- your heart be troubled, neither let it be fillment than ever before in the history of fearful." "These things have I spoken the world." unto you, that in Me ye may have peace. Now we very much respect Mr. Kel- In the world ye have tribulation: but be logg and his colleagues for the valiant ef- of good cheer; I have overcome the forts they are making to promote world world." John 14 :27; 16 :33. peace these days. Surely anything that The world, because of its self-centered can be done to dissipate the,war spirit on INTERNATIONAL PHOTO wickedness, can hope for nothing but tri- our troubled planet is most laudable. We How the world is absorbing the church is strik- bulation and strife. In Jesus Christ, and ingly shown in the above picture, in which a noted sincerely hope that the winds of strife and dramatic oactress and a famous opera tenor are in Him alone, may be found full and per- conflict can be held in leash by such standing before the altar in St. Mark's Church, fect peace. And this peace may be the New York City, to supply the congregation with worthy efforts as these until the gospel drama and opera, rather than, with the gospel of constant joy of every one who will re- of the Prince of peace can be preached in Jesus Christ. ceive it. T.

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