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CRY FROM AFAR OUR TIMES THE COMING KING A SURE FAITH IN A SURE FUTURE A TRIUMPH FOR TRUTH

In Quietness and Confidence

by Marjorie H. Cooper

N quietness and confidence I Shall be your strength," In waiting patiently, your Reward at length; Serenely resting in God's love Brings peace of mind; Walking in His perfect ways is Light to the blind; Enduring trustfully, in this Last time of test, Assures the heart for ever that Our God knows best.

THE BIBLE and This month ...

SCIENCE and technology loom large in human affairs today, but Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, in his presidential address to the British Association, admits that science does not have all OUR TIMES the answers. We comment on his striking discourse in our editorial, "Science and the Ultimate."—Page 4.

The remarkable messages and pic- tures which came back millions of A FAMILY JOURNAL OF CHRISTIAN LIVING DEDICATED TO THE PROCLAMATION miles across space from Mariner IV OF THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. PRESENTING THE BIBLE AS THE WORD OF GOD remind A. S. Maxwell that even a whispered prayer is heard by God. AND JESUS CHRIST AS OUR ALL-SUFFICIENT SAVIOUJ2 AND COMING KING Read his article, "Cry from Afar." —Page 7.

EDITOR W LESLIE EMMERSON That modern scientific achievement ASSISTANT EDITOR RAYMOND D. VINE stimulates faith in God, is the theme also of J. R. Lewis's article, "Talking ART DIRECTOR . . . C. M. HUBERT COWEN to God."—Page 8. CIRCULATION MANAGER W J NEWMAN Watching Emperor Haile Selassie descend from the sky on his recent VOLUME 81 • NOVEMBER, 1965 • PRICE 1/- visit to Zambia, led B. Pilmoor to think of the soon-coming, also in the clouds, of the real Lion of the Tribe PRINTED AND PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE STANBOROUGH PRESS LIMITED of Judah, the Lord Jesus Himself. WATFORD ' HERTFORDSHIRE • ENGLAND See "The Coming King."—Page 10.

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, including postage 17/6 ' SIX MONTHS 8/9 In his studies on the great sayings Please notify change of address promptly of Jesus, J. A. McMillan draws at- tention to His solemn warning, "Take Heed."—Page 12. CONTENTS Further comment on the Crathorne EDITORIALS Report on Sunday Observance comes from V. N. Olsen in "Britain's Sun- SCIENCE AND THE ULTIMATE 4 day."—Page 14. GENERAL ARTICLES Christians today may not always CRY FROM AFAR A. S. Maxwell 7 practise what they preach, but neither TALKING TO GOD J. R. Lewis 8 did the worthies of the Bible. Cer- THE COMING KING! B Pilmoor 1 0 tainly, asserts Ernest Cox, this is no JESUS SAID-11 excuse for not seeking grace to fol- "Take Heed" J. A. McMillan 12 low Christ. See "Inconsistent Chris- BRITAIN'S SUNDAY V. Norskov Olsen 14 tians."—Page 16. INCONSISTENT CHRISTIANS Ernest Cox 16 TRIUMPH FOR FAITH R. D. Vine 18 The remarkable capitulation of the THOU SHALT LOVE Lois L. Lane 20 Lysenko school of biologists in Soviet IF WE CONFESS R. T. Bolton 22 Russia is, as R. D. Vine points out, HEREDITY, ENVIRONMENT, AND GOD . J. C. Mitchell 24 a significant "Triumph for Truth" in "TICKLING THE DRAGON'S TAIL" Leo van Dotson 26 the evolution controversy.—Page 18. GIVE ME THINE HEART K. Fretson Taylor 28 BIBLE FLORA AND FAUNA-3 The relation of "Heredity, Environ- The Burning Bush and Others Eric Hardy, F.Z.S. 29 ment, and God" in spiritual life is discussed by J. C. Mitchell.—Page 24. REGULAR FEATURES YOUR BIBLE QUESTIONS ANSWERED 30 The third of Eric Hardy's informa- THE CHILDREN'S PAGES 32 tive series on animals and plants of MIRROR OF OUR TIME 35 the Bible deals with "The Burning Bush."—Page 29. POEM IN QUIETNESS AND CONFIDENCE . Marjorie H. Cooper 2 The Children's Pages, as always, have many interesting features for COVER PICTURE: Autumn in Regents Park, London our younger readers.—Pages 32-34. DISCERNING THE TIMES...

CURRENT EVENTS IN THE LIGHT OF THE BIBLE

BY THE EDITOR

SCIENCE and THE ULTIMATE

HE annual gathering of the mostly from trivial to denunciatory, "Let there be no doubt about it," British Association for the but since "two great wars" have he declared, "science is one of the T Advancement of Science, said high-lighted "the power of applied great activities of the human mind Sir Cyril Hinshelwood in beginning science to affect our lives," the atti- and soul," and "we shall forget at his presidential address at the recent tude of the public "can very nearly our cost that an honoured place in Cambridge meeting, "is tradition- be called a revolution." the community must be found for ally the occasion . . . when the At the present time, he said, the dedicated thinker" who seeks scientists try to explain themselves "there is not much doubt that the "not only to know but to organize and expound what they are doing, general interest centres on applied knowledge into a coherent picture and the lay world listens with vary- science rather than on pure science. of the world." ing proportions of excitement, sym- Governments are anxious for eco- To illustrate this he cited first pathy, criticism, scepticism, or nomic advantages from technology, three great physiologists, Ivan Pav- amusement." so too is industry, and so, on the lov, Ramon y Cajal, and Sir Charles In the early days of the Associa- basis of what he is told, is the Sherrington, who between them, tion, he went on, comment varied ordinary man." have given us our modern under- But, warned Sir Cyril, though standing of the "architecture of the "the most urgent task may be to nervous system." gather the fruit from the tree, woe Next he instanced three great betide those who kill the roots of physicists, Max Planck, Sir Arthur the tree in the process. There could Eddington, and Baron Ernest be no surer way of rendering the Rutherford, whose primary en- future completely barren" than to deavour was to find "the inner re- issue "any kind of Draconian edict lations between the microcosm with- that all scientific work must hence- in the atom and the macrocosm of forth be devoted to demonstrably the stellar universe." practical ends." While the work of these men "led to world-transforming practical discoveries," they were, first and foremost, "creative scientists," whose primary aim was a continually grow- ing "representation of the world" and an ever-increasing understand- Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, president of the ing of "the relations of things to British Association this year, examines a one another." "learning machine" simulating certain features of animal behaviour. But even so, Sir Cyril went on

4 to admit, the most dedicated cre- "the multiplication of cells and the science we come up against what ative scientist, in whatever sphere handing on of life." But ultimately are probably the inherent limita- of nature he is working, comes the biologist comes to the realiza- tions of human understanding. At ultimately to a point where seem- tion that the "major code-bearing the edge of biology we meet the ingly he can go no further, and molecules," cannot "replicate them- chasm between what science des- significantly that point is on the selves in isolation. They do so only cribes and what the mind experi- threshold of the "fundamental prob- in the integrated organism of the ences. In the physical sciences too lems" of existence, the problems of living cell." And as to what life we encounter insoluble contradic- "the nature of the cosmos, the is he knows absolutely nothing. tions if we try to contemplate the nature of matter, the nature of "Great advances have been made limits of space, or the beginning life." in understanding the working of of time." Sir James Jeans very appropri- the nervous system, and we have a Science knows nothing and can ately called one of his last books, rough idea how that most subtle know nothing of the ultimates of The Mysterious Universe, because and elaborate of all computers, the whence? whither ? and why ? although astronomy has made human brain, performs its functions. Up to this point Sir Cyril known to us amazing facts about But what remains utterly incompre- Hinshelwood's description of the structure of the universe, it can hensible is how and why the brain "science," and "scientists" as he tell us nothing of "the origin of becomes the vehicle of conscious- conceives them was indeed an ad- things" or the "beginning of time." ness." mirable combination of dedication "One of the greatest concentra- As Sir Charles Sherrington per- and true modesty. tions of recent effort has been on tinently said, "Mind knows itself He refused, on the one hand, to the physics and chemistry of living and knows the world : chemistry accept the idea that the purpose matter. There is now an essential and physics, explaining so much, of science is merely to provide man- understanding of the complex mole- cannot undertake to explain Mind kind with technological gimmicks of cular patterns" which constitute the itself." one kind or another. The true "genetic code" which in turn pro- The fact is, Sir Cyril admitted, scientist is dedicated to the pursuit vides the mysterious guidance in that "at all the boundaries of of knowledge not so much to pro- duce wealth or power, but for the satisfaction of knowing all he can about the world in which he lives. At the same time Sir Cyril ad- mitted that the scientist cannot pro- vide the answers to every question, for in whichever direction he goes, he comes to a "chasm" which he cannot cross. The ultimates are be- yond his ken. We could wish that all his fellow-scientists were equally modest. But it was for the very reason that up to this point Sir Cyril's ad- dress could not be faulted, that his last sentences produced a disap- pointing sense of anti-climax. For his only suggestion as to what he and his scientific colleagues could do when they reached the "chasm" at which the unaided mind is halted, was that they should con- tentedly turn their backs upon it in

Left —Baron Ernest Rutherford, pioneer in "splitting the atom." Right.—Ivan Pavlov, noted for his re- searches on the nervous system.

5 Right.—Spanish physiologist Ramon y Cajal, famous for his researches on the nervous system.

Left.—Sir James Jeans, celebrated astronomer and author of "The Mys- terious Universe."

dissolved in nuclear annihilation. If the unaided mind of man can- not bridge the "chasm" which bounds man's material existence, should he not ask whether a bridge has been thrown across to him from the Beyond ? If man "by searching" cannot "find out God" (Job 11:7), may it not be that God is Himself seek- the knowledge that there is "plenty ing to make contact with the spirit which is still calling from beyond of room . . . on the canvas on of man? the "chasm" bounding our material which they represent the world . . . In troubled days long ago when existence, "If ye will inquire, in- to paint magnificent pictures which men cried out in anguish as they quire ye." "Today, if ye will hear inspire the inquiring mind, delight saw the omens of destruction all His voice, harden not your hearts." those who have the sense of won- around, a Voice was heard above Isa. 21 :12 ; Heb. 3:7, 8. der, and, if the natural perversity the turmoil, "If ye will inquire, in- of man does not frustrate the effort, quire ye: return, come." Isa. 21 :2. show the way to benefit humanity Centuries later, in similar days of for many centuries to come." crisis, the Voice spoke again, "He Earlier in his address he had ad- that hath an ear, let him hear what THE BATTLE FOR mitted that the "fundamental prob- the Spirit saith." Rev. 3:22. LIBERTY lems" of whence? whither? and And today, in the greatest crisis why? "in the long run will have of all time, there is a saving Word ANY hope that the proposed the greatest effect on human life," from across the "chasm," undetect- declaration by the Roman Church and in his final sentence he sig- able by the most sensitive apparatus on the subject of Religious Liberty nificantly warned that science will of "science," but apprehended by would be quickly approved by the be able to benefit humanity for the simplest of "faith." Fourth and last session of the Vati- many centuries to come only "if Sad to say, millions are turning can Council was dissipated when, the natural perversity of man does back from the brink of the "chasm" on the first debating day, the final not frustrate the effort." satisfied that they can live their draft ran into the fiercest barrage Surely then he would have been lives without a thought for what of criticism ever from the "con- wise to urge that man cannot afford lies beyond. servative" wing of the Council to occupy himself exclusively either But the Bible, God's message Fathers. with the possibilities of "applied from the Beyond, warns that "if Arch-conservatives Cardinal science," or even with the fascinat- in this life only we have hope Ruffini of Palermo, Cardinal Siri of ing explorations of "c r ea tiv e . . . we are," or will soon discover Genoa, and Cardinal Arriba y science," and leave these "funda- ourselves to be, "of all men most Castro of Tarragona led the van in mental problems" of existence to miserable." 1 Cor. 15 :19. a determined attack on the docu- chance. Jesus the Incarnate Word from ment and a plea not to "weaken" He could well have stressed that the Beyond came to tell men how or even "bring ruin" to the church alongside the search for scientific they may have "life more abun- in certain areas by the "indiscrimin- "facts" there was an even more dant," both now and hereafter. ate" defence of liberty. urgent need of a search for spiritual Whether we attain to life at its In a later issue we hope to com- "values," without which all the best will depend upon whether we ment on the outcome of this critical hopes of scientific utopia may be are prepared to listen to the Voice battle for "the gospel of freedom."

6 CRY FRQM AFA R

by ARTHUR S. MAXWELL

CIENTISTS are still evaluating the photographs of Mars taken by Mariner IV, while the public S continues to marvel at this incredible adventure in space. No matter how unrevealing the photos may prove to be, the fact that a man-made instrument sent them back to earth across so vast a distance is triumph enough for the men at Cal-Tech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft itself was a bundle of "miracles"— a "space scientist's dream laboratory—crammed to capacity," as Time magazine described it. "Its four panel blades shone purple from the thin sapphire- glass coating that protected their 28,224 solar cells from radiation damage. Its silvery octagonal body, made of magnesium and aluminium alloy, carried 138,000 components, including 31,696 delicate elec- tronic components ranging from a computer to a small 101 watt radio transmitter. It was pro- grammed and equipped to send to earth a continuous stream of reports on thirty-nine scientific and ninety engineering measurements. Crowded into the space- Above.—Spacecraft Mariner IV sets off on its 325 million mile journey to send back television pictures of the planet craft were a new type of helium gas magnetometer Mars. to study magnetic fields, an ionization chamber and Below.—Technicians assembling the spacecraft in the Jet Geiger counter to measure galactic cosmic rays, a Propulsion Laboratory in Pasedena, California. collector cup to measure the solar wind's barrage of protons, a cosmic-ray telescope and cosmic-dust col- lector—plus the all-important TV camera." With its solar wings unfolded, Mariner IV measured twenty-two feet seven and a half inches across, and nine and a half feet to the top of its antenna. Weighing 575 pounds, it was sent aloft by a powerful Atlas-Agena rocket. Placing this costly packet into orbit was another miracle of modern science, but directing it across millions of miles of space to intercept Mars at the right moment in its orbit was an achievement with- out parallel in history. Computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory "took into account Mariner's speed and trajectory, its loca- tion in relation to the point in Mars' orbit where the encounter should take place, and the influence of the sun, the earth, and Mars itself." (Continued on page 31.)

7 his muzzle on your knee and gaze plaintively into your eyes, but he cannot speak. The poodle cannot discuss with the dachshund the relative merits of Potsdam and the Paris boulevards, whence came their ancestors. Unique in all creation is homo sapiens. He can communicate every shade of thought to his neighbour. He can channel encyclopaedias of intricate knowledge through his mind, and with his lips communicate that knowledge to another. Every pain, joy, and need he can describe to his fellows. In an inarticulate world the man with the gift of talking is king. With this gift he has subdued the whole earth. (Gen. 1 :28.) Speaking to God But this is not all. Until recent times, it was be- lieved that man could do more than speak to his fellows. It was believed that he could also speak to God. He could pray. The fascinating opportunity of being able to hold a conversation with God gave inestimable strength WO young mothers, pushing prams from op- to those who schooled themselves to take advantage posite ends of the High Street, meet in the of this gift, and proved a great challenge to those T middle, and, oblivious of all other pedestrians who had the faith to try it. surging past, enjoy a gossip. Unfortunately, with the beginning of the age of They demonstrate that which is fundamental in science men began to view life differently. It was the make-up of all men and women. People have said that the existence of God could not be proved, a yearning to communicate with one another. And that there was indeed no need for a God. And again, what is more (and this is so obvious that the wonder the whole of the universe had been charted, and of it is quite forgotten), they have been given the there was no locality which could be described as absolutely unique gift and ability to exchange their heaven. There was no heaven and no God in it to thoughts and ideas. They can talk. hear a man's prayer. The habit of prayer began to be Man has a gift which no other animal enjoys. That abandoned, and far too many people still live in great tortoise at the Zoo, it weighs over a hundred- the gloomy shade of this late nineteenth century weight, it sleeps all morning, opens and shuts its cloud of rationalistic agnosticism. eyes, sleeps all the afternoon. Not in all the fifty But times are ever changing. The more recent age years of its life has it communicated one thought of scientific developments has produced its own to another animal or man. The dog can by his growl marvels and miracles in kaleidoscopic variety. It has and snarl let you know that he will not permit you led many to return to that greatest of all concepts, to enter the garden gate; by his whining he can the possibility for man to pray, to "talk with God persuade you to take him for a stroll ; he can rest as with a friend."

by J. R. LEWIS

8 fantasy; yet the breath-taking exploit fades before a greater wonder. Communication was kept up con- tinuously with the spacecraft, and messages were transmitted across 55 million miles of space to hit the tiny capsule only nine and a half feet long. The messages took some ten minutes to cross the limitless emptiness of space. Photographs were taken, and these were transmitted back to earth at the order, and under the direction of the master-mind on earth. Planet to planet communication! This was indeed talking across the heavens. Incredible! One purpose of the Bible is to encourage men to hold conversations across space, to lift up holy hands and pray. "Men ought always to pray, and not to faint," said Jesus. (Luke 18:1.) We often faint because we do not pray. If we pray, we shall not faint. The Bible is quite practical when it advocates the habit of prayer, for the people who wrote the Left.—The blast-off of Gemini V which took two American astronauts on the longest-ever manned obital flight in space. Bible were people like ourselves, and when they Right.—One of the fuel cells which threatened to cut short advised talking with God, it was because they had the historic flight. found the benefit of so doing from personal ex- perience. Such men handled fishing nets, chisels, ac- Science stimulates faith count books, ploughs, and even cabinet meeting In the nineties of last century the only methods problems. In their occupations they found that the of communication developed by man during some habit of talking to God assisted them. These people thousands of years were speech, semaphore, the prayed when they were glad, sad, sick, or perplexed. megaphone, and the heliograph. Then an event oc- Daniel, a prime minister prayed three times a day, curred in 1898 which was to transform not only the planning his daily programme, busy as it was, so earth, but also space itself. that specific hours were allotted for his talk across I refer to an event marked by a plaque and space to God. (See especially Daniel 9:21.) David obelisk which the thousands of holiday-makers at the shepherd did the same. Alum Bay in the Isle of Wight pass every summer. The plaque commemorates a stay on the island of Learning the Janguage of heaven Gugliemo Marconi, who personally supervised the A baby left to itself to grow up in the jungle, transmission of man's first wireless message. Here will never learn to speak. It will grunt and squeal. a signal was exchanged from the station on the A child raised in France will learn to communicate white cliffs to a tug in Alum Bay. A little later in the French language, for it will only hear French there passed through the atmosphere a message to sounds. Likewise the German or the Czech. Let us Bournemouth, fourteen miles away; then to Brown- not think it strange,. then, that the language of sea Island, Poole, eighteen miles away. The range heaven has to be learned and recognized. A baby, was extended, and a wireless message was sent to lad, or a man can only communicate with a heavenly a ship forty miles away. It was a tremendous achieve- Father when he learns, and practises, the language ment, and scientists came from all over Europe to of heaven. Yet the language of heaven is easier than study the new marvel of communicating through the our mother tongue if one will only have faith to atmosphere. On November 15, 1899, news was trans- cry "Father," and have patience to wait, listen, and mitted to the United States liner St. Paul, some forty "be still." And generally speaking, those who attend miles away, and the first ship's newspaper was a place of worship, and who associate themselves printed. From here, Lord Kelvin sent the first wire- with others who do so, will learn the art of prayer less telegraph message for which payment was made. more quickly. Man did not know it, but the age of space com- Let us be assured of this, that God, our heavenly munications had begun. Father, with whom nothing is impossible, hears The events of today now make the great experi- us when we talk with Him, and when we patiently ments of Marconi appear as childish games. I refer wait and listen, He answers us. particularly to the recent trip of Mariner IV to the "Let us draw near, and, with "full assurance of vicinity of the planet Mars, an incredible orbital faith," open our hearts to God. Let us, as did Jesus, journey of 325 million miles which took some seven lift up our eyes to heaven, and say these wonderful months. The journey was almost in the nature of words, "Our Father, hallowed be Thy name."

9 N the historic day of July 29, 1965, His the crowd pressed forward. At last, there was a cry, Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie, the Emperor the King had come. Every eye now saw him. The O of Ethiopia, paid a state visit to Lusaka, the people cheered wildly as the Emperor stood in the capital city of Zambia. It was a time of great excite- rear of the state car and waved to the multitudes. ment for the peoples of this new nation. An air of who vigorously reciprocated. expectancy was in every heart awaiting the coming King! "He cometh with clouds" At three o'clock, every eye looked up into a clear As I witnessed this colourful state visit of the blue sky as the Royal Visitor arrived by air. The Emperor of Ethiopia, the one who claims the title King came in the clouds! In the meanwhile, every of "the Lion of the tribe of Judah," my mind went man, woman, and child waited eagerly to see the back to the Word of God which tells us of the state car journeying past, on its way to the Civic coming of the King of kings, the Emperor of em- Centre. Everyone wanted to see the King. As the perors! mounted cavalry pranced along the great highway, "Behold thy King cometh," is the cry of Scrip- ture. "Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him," records John the Revelator. Every eye shall see Him sweeping down the vaulted sky, not as the penniless teacher of Nazareth, but as "Lord of lords, and King of kings," the real "Lion of the tribe of Judah." Rev. 5:5. You may see His face, but what a contrast to the visit of an earthly king. The Lord of Glory, Jesus Christ, His Excellency, the Emperor of Eternity coming on His state visit with all the countless angels of heaven, ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands, innumerable millions, is beyond the comprehension of man's mind. All heaven will be emptied of every angel as they accompany their Imperial Majesty to this world. But are the multitudes of earth eagerly awaiting His arrival? Oh, no! Will there be a great shout of jubilation at His second advent? Tragic to tell, the Holy Record states briefly: "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." Matt. 24:30. Then it adds, "There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Matt. 25 :30, 31.

THE COMING KING! by B. PILMOOR

10 The waiting remnant awakening is here pictured, a direct response to the Recently, a lady said to me, "I don't like to hear presentation of the everlasting Gospel. In Bible times about Christ's coming; it makes me afraid." No Ethiopia was understood to comprise the whole wonder! the sinful, selfish heart does not rejoice in African region south of Egypt. The Greeks and the reality of the second coming of Christ. This Romans thought of any country peopled by the impending event of events threatens all our personal darker races as "Ethiopia." Thus the prophecy prob- ambitions and plans for the future. It short-circuits ably has reference not only to the territory which our material hopes for tomorrow. today is ruled by Haile Selassie, but to the whole of However, there is a happier side to the picture. the African continent. And today people all over When Christ, the coming King arrives, there will be Africa are leaving their superstitions and turning with a faithful remnant who will be watching and wait- sincere repentance to the God of heaven. By thou- ing to witness their Lord's return. In triumphant sands they are seeking and finding the Pearl of great joy they will shout, "Lo, this is our God; we have price. As troubles multiply in all the world, many waited for Him, and He will save us." Isa. 25:9. in the Dark Continent are quietly studying God's What a wonderful and glorious King awaits our Word. Only today, as I returned home, I found our sight! African servant sitting in a wheel-barrow, uncon- scious of my presence, reading aloud the Ten Com- Yesterday, He was the King of Israel, the King mandments from my son's Bible story book. How it of the Jews. Pilate had the privilege of a personal gladdens the heart to know that God has a people interview with this Emperor of eternity. As he saw who are watching and waiting for their coming Him, and stood face to face with Jesus, he inquired, "Art Thou a king? To this, Christ replied, "Thou King, the people whom John saw two thousand years ago. To him was given the privilege of seeing sayest . . . ," or, being interpreted, "You say so, and you are right. To this end was I born, and for in a vision the people of last-day prophecy. He wrote, "Here are they that keep the commandments this cause came I into the world." He could have of God, and the faith of Jesus." May the God of added, "And for this cause will I die"—and die Heaven, the coming King, give you grace to pre- He did! A cruel, horrible, painful death of torture pare your heart and mind that you may be at peace and shame. The cry of Pilate, "Behold, your king!" with Him when He shall come. brought an immediate and thunderous response, "Away with Him. Crucify Him!" "Away with Him," was the cry of the sinful heart, ********************* the heart that needed desperately to be born again. Nailed to a wooden cross the Holy One of Israel died and His enemies scoffed, "He saved others; Are YOU looking for health, happiness. security Himself He cannot save." But that is why Christians love their King so much. It was because He did not and a key to the future? want to save Himself, but others. And so today He is personally known to millions as the King of DAILY BROADCAST love. RADIO CITY 299 m Does your heart yearn to learn more of this 7.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. divine and eternal love of Christ? It should. Cer- (SUNDAY 7.30 a.m and 7 p.m.) tainly, as we look around in a sad and sinful world our hearts ache as we see so much evil, lust', and crime. The newspapers of the world echo and re-echo THE VOICE OF PROPHECY RADIO SERVICE broadcasting from 950 radio stations every week around the world and the pitiful state of fallen mankind. Every page offering free home Bible reading guides to all. Inquiries welcomed.

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11 E live in a heedless age. Whether it be due to the fear of atomic destruction, the after- W math of two destructive world wars, the economic and political upheavals of our twentieth century, or other psychological factors, the fact sticks out like a sore thumb that carelessness about life and limb, manners and morals, sex and sin, principles and policies, prevails on every hand and in every land. It is therefore very pertinent to listen to the TAKE words of Jesus that have travelled down the centuries to our time, "Take heed to yourselves." Luke 21:34. The setting of this significant admonition is of special interest to us today. Our Lord was answering two questions that His disciples had asked con- HEED cerning His second coming and the end of the world. (See Luke 21 :7 ; Matthew 24:3, 4.) He out- lined the events that would transpire from the days of the apostles to the very end of time, and it was in connection with the conditions of the "last days" that He gave this caution, "Take heed to yourselves." The New English Bible brings this into relevant relationship with our modern affluent society : "Keep Great Britain 7,820 killed a watch on yourselves ; do not let your minds be West Germany 14,116 killed dulled by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly France 9,928 killed cares so that the great Day closes upon you suddenly Italy 9,683 killed like a trap ; for that day will come on all men, where- U.S.A. 40,804 killed ever they are, the whole world over. Be on the alert, Over forty years ago, I saw an announcement praying at all times for strength to pass safely through that a certain evangelist was to speak on "The all these imminent troubles and to stand in the World's Mad Gallop." Comparing the speed and presence of the Son of man." Luke 21:34-36. intensity of the sixties with the twenties, that "Mad Gallop" was but a gentle canter when compared with The world's "mad gallop" the frenzied haste of this decade. Let us be frank about the church and the world We have fought and struggled to get leisure from today! The climate of social security and secular edu- the grinding toil of making a living, but what has cation is hostile to a fervent expectation of the happened to our dearly-won freedom from want coming again of Jesus to this earth. We live in a and work? We crowd onto the ever-thickening high- world that is rushing forward with tremendous ways to breathe carbon-monoxide, we rush to the speed. "An intensity such as never before was seen Bingo halls to play with feverish anxiety a game of is taking possession of the world. In amusement, chance, we sit fascinated—or bored—before a tele- in money-making, in the contest for power, in the vision set, and so our fretful days and restless nights very struggle for existence, there is a terrible force are rushing away from us. that engrosses body and mind and soul." How much we need to pray— The appalling massacre on our roads is but one indication of the heedless rush of our modern world. "Drop Thy still dews of quietness, The road casualties recorded for 1964 are staggering: Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress And let our ordered lives con fess— T he beauty of Thy peace." —J. G. Whittier. JESUS SAID: Days of peril The eleventh There is a purpose behind the prophetic utterances article in of the Bible prophets. Those of them who high- lighted the events of the last days were unanimous the series by on two factors. Let us note these significant agree- J. A. McMillan ments. First, they are agreed that "the time of the end" period would be one of peril to the soul of man.

12 When Jesus spoke of the need to "pray always, that ye may . . . escape all these things that shall come to pass," He was crystallizing the numerous pre- dictions of the Hebrew prophets. Isaiah was one of the first to des- cribe "the Day of the Lord." He wrote: "Howl ye ; for the day of the Lord is at hand ; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty." Isa. 13:6. Then he goes on to say that in that day, "shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt." Joel takes up this theme and adds many vivid flashes, taking his imagery from a plague of locusts ravaging the land. And he declares that in that foreboding day of the Lord, "joy and gladness [shall be cut off) from the house of our God." Joel 1 :16. Prince Zephaniah also recorded his inspired impressions of the latter days and in the Discerning "the signs of the times" sombre picture that he portrays, he says that God The second point on which the Bible prophets "will bring distress upon men, that they may walk are agreed is the urgent need of awareness. Jesus like blind men because they have sinned against the spoke of this as the ability to "discern the signs of Lord." Zeph. 1:17. the times." Matt. 16:3. Daniel, to whom, more than to the other prophets, If the coming again of Jesus to take over the detailed and connected visions of the time of the rulership of the world coincides with the darkest end were given, sees the ultimate victory of Christ hour in the world's history, then there is the utmost over the forces of evil, but he also recorded that need for watchfulness. the glorious dawn would be preceded by a "time of In the cryptic visions of Isaiah: trouble, such as never was since there was a nation." "A voice is calling out of Seir to me, Dan. 12:1. 'How far has the night gone, Watchman? How far has the night gone, Watchman?' The New Testament prophets echo this melancholy The Watchman answers, refrain. Paul spoke of the Spirit's premonitions "that 'Morning comes, morning, and night; in after times some will desert from the faith and Would you know more, give their minds to subversive doctrines inspired by Come back again.' " Isa. 21:11, 12, Moffatt. devils, through the specious falsehoods of men whose In an earlier vision, the message is clear : own conscience is branded with the devil's sign." 1 "For this is the Eternal's word to me, Tim. 4:1, 2, N.E.B. He further added that "men 'Set your spirit on the watch, . . . will love nothing but money and self ; they will be let it mark them heedfully." Isa. 21:6, 7, Moffatt. arrogant, boastful, and abusive; with no respect for Zephaniah earnestly appeals to the careless in Zion, parents, no gratitude, no piety, no natural affection ; "Before the decree bring forth, . . . Seek ye the they will be implacable in their hatreds, scandal- Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought mongers, intemperate and fierce, strangers to all good- His judgment ; seek righteousness, seek meekness ; it ness, traitors, adventurers, swollen with self-impor- may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's tance. They will be men who put pleasure in the anger." Zeph. 2:2, 3. place of God, men who preserve the outward form of religion, but are a standing denial of its reality." 2 Tim. 3:1-5, N.E.B. Men that wait The most solemn and tender appeals come from Peter also predicted a similarly sombre picture of the Master Himself. Again and again, He urges the last-day conditions, when he wrote: "In the last necessity to "be like men who wait for their master's days there will come men who scoff at religion and return from a wedding-party, ready to let him in live self-indulgent lives, and they will say: Where the moment he arrives and knocks. Happy are those now is the promise of His coming ?" 2 Peter 3:3, 4, N.E.B. (Continued on page 25.)

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HOULD there be any Sunday laws in today's that the object of the law "should be to promote the Britain ? If so, on what principles should they Christian observance of Sunday." S be based ? The Lord's Day Observance Society based their After a three-year study a government committee testimony on the principle that "Sunday should be has come up with answers that seem to straddle the preserved by law as a day for worship and for rest fence between the position of church groups demand- and quiet." The society opposed relaxation of the ing more "toothy" laws, and religious libertarians existing statutory restrictions and opted for stronger calling for total "extraction." laws to prevent evasions and to improve enforce- Sunday laws, said the Crathorne committee, were ment. In their view "the law should be based on not valid on any religious basis but could be defended Christian principles even if the liberty of some indi- "on other grounds," namely that "of preserving the viduals had to be curtailed for the benefit of the special characteristic of Sunday as a day that provides community." at least a measure of freedom from compulsory The committee challenged the assumption that work." religious laws' encouraged church attendance. If they On the face of it, the committee seems to have did, Great Britain would have a very high percentage adopted the rationale for Sunday laws accepted by of church attendance every Sunday morning. Instead, the United States Supreme Court in its 1961 decision: they found that "regular church goers constituted Sunday laws today have acquired civil purpose and only twelve to fifteen per cent of the population." can be justified on that basis. To enforce observance of Sunday by limiting Behind the British committee's final report in employment and recreation on that day would not December, 1964, was a three-year record of thirty- be in harmony with principles of religious liberty, three meetings, oral testimony from twenty-two the committee also ruled. Such actions were called organizations, and study of thousands of pages of "contrary to the freedom of the individual." historical documents. The eight parliamentarians, under the chairman- No religious justification ship of Lord Crathorne, began their study with the Having thus rejected the traditional arguments Sunday Fairs Law of 1448, earliest Sunday law still for Sunday laws, the perplexed parliamentarians on Great Britain's statute books. Undergirding this sought to find what, if any, principles law and revisions that followed in 1625, 1627, could be laid down to support Sunday legislation. Their conclusion : 1677, and 1780, the committee found two strongly "We cannot . . . join forces with those who wish religious motivations : first, to encourage "church to impose on the general public their own interpre- attendance and religious conformity . . . by pro- hibiting secular activities and restricting employment" tation of keeping the Lord's day holy. We do not and, second, to prohibit "entertainments and amuse- agree that any secular activities should be prohibited in order to encourage church attendance. ments [that) profaned the Lord's Day." "But," the committee hedged, "we think the sug- gestion has merits on other grounds, namely that What churches said of preserving the special characteristic of Sunday as a Among church groups that expressed their opinions, day that provides at least a measure of freedom from the committee found sharp cleavage. The British compulsory work." Council of Churches, of which the major Protestant Sunday legislation founded on purely religious bodies are members, submitted that "Sunday should motives should therefore be repealed, according to provide an opportunity, first, for corporate worship the committee's recommendation. and, second, for rest and recreation and for family And what of members of minority religious groups pursuits." The Council spokesman held that "cor- who worship on another day and who thus would porate worship on the first day of the week was lose an additional day of income after resting on fundamental to Christian doctrine and practice and their Sabbath? that no other day would be an acceptable substitute." "If legislation was considered necessary for the Though arguing for no privileged position, the protection of the leisure and recreation of workers," Council hoped that "any revision of the law would said the report, "provisions should be made for all make it easier rather than more difficult to observe those whose religions demanded observance of a day Sunday according to Christian practice." other than Sunday." The Council of Churches of Wales emphasized The fact is that those churches arguing for the

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will disguise to some degree the paucity of their witness is to stress their commitment to freedom of As seen conscience while calling for Sunday observance on by a committee the basis of non-religious rationalizations—health, appointed by the British welfare, togetherness, tradition, etc. Government "to review the These are the grounds, lumped together under law relating to Sunday entertainments, "special chracteristics of Sunday," that the committee seemingly has chosen to defend. sports, pastimes, and trading But if Britons get exercised enough over Sunday in England and Wales laws to seek a biblical basis for their worship, we and to make recom- may once again find church attendance picking up mendations" in Britain—in churches that honour the true seventh- day Sabbath.

by V. NORSKOV OLSEN

religious nature of Sunday are themselves liable to challenge. Most of them subscribe to creeds and confessions that testify to the immutablity of the law of God, including the Sabbath commandment. On what basis could they argue before the committee that the fourth commandment, which specifies that God's Sabbath is the seventh day of the week, means, instead, Sunday, the first day of the week ?

Keeping the true Sabbath When confronted with this question early in the history of British Sunday laws, a few men of note, after careful study, began to keep the seventh day of the week, Saturday. Among these were the famous court physician, Dr. Peter Chamberlen, Edward Stennett, Francis and Thomas Bampfield, all of whom lived in England during the latter part of the seventeenth century. Their witness led to the organization of Sabbath-keeping churches in England.. At least eleven such churches were organized before the close of the seventeenth century. In America, the first Sabbath-keeping church was organized in 1671. It seems, further, that churches which call upon the state to set aside Sunday for the sake of church attendance acknowledge the penury of their preach- ing, for they ask the state to do for them what Christ empowered them to do for themselves through the medium of the Holy Spirit—fill their pews. Further, they repudiate the New Testament doctrines of separa- tion of church and state and the sanctity of individual conscience. The alternative to which they are now coming that

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INCO NSISTENT

CHRISTIANS

by ERNEST COX

NE of the most frequently-heard criticisms of The Bible is a very "human" Book. Its outstanding Christians is that they are so inconsistent. characters are not the improbable paragons of all O Very often the worldling will seek to hide the virtues. They are mostly portrayed as striving for his own laxity by saying of Christians in general that the right, though sometimes straying into the wrong they "do not practise what they preach," or, "their paths of conduct. With very few exceptions, they performance belittles their profession," or, "they say all, at times, were guilty of varying degrees of in- one thing and do another." consistency. In simple fact it is easy to charge any good man Nevertheless God often worked mightily through with inconsistency. For the reason that the good man, them because His power is not restricted by human however exemplary he may be, is not yet, in all attainment. Peter may have betrayed his Lord, but things perfect. Also, his very imperfections are often he also preached his great Pentecostal sermon. John accentuated by the high standards he has attained may have been ambitious, but he was also the "dis- in other respects. ciple whom Jesus loved." John 21:7. Thomas may For example, everyone knows that Moses was, have been sceptical, but he eventually showed on one occasion, tragically impatient. It is easy to triumphant personal faith by calling Jesus, "My Lord forget how, for years previously, Moses had meekly and my God." John 20:28. Paul may initially have borne with a vacillating and exasperating multitude. persecuted the Christians, but after he had seen the For his fault he was denied entrance to the earthly Lord, he became a powerful propagator of the faith. Canaan, but he was granted a glorious admission to All men, as yet, are a curious mixture of good the heavenly "Canaan." and evil. God is great, but it is everywhere apparent David, a "man after God's own heart," and Israel's that the devil is not dead! Even the godly Paul, most illustrious king, sank, in a moment of stress, to after years of Christian experience and ministry, the commission of homicide and adultery. Again, had to admit, "With the mind I myself serve the it is easy to forget his earlier life of devotion, his law of God ; but with the flesh the law of sin." devout authorship of noble songs, and his eventual, Through his carnal nature he was prone to incon- deep contrition for his sin. (Psa. 51.) sistency. It was only as the "law of the Spirit of Indeed, it is the easiest thing in the world to life in Christ Jesus" was constantly with him that charge God's struggling children with inconsistency. he was made "free from the law of sin and death." Faithful Peter was impetuous. Lovable John was am- Rom. 7 :25 ; 8 :2. bitious. Simple Thomas was sceptical. And even the Only One has ever walked this earth who could saintly Paul was, on one occasion, quite unnecessarily not, at any time, be justifiably charged with incon- intolerant. (Acts 15:36-39.) sistency. Indeed, Jesus challenged His opponents, on

16 one occasion, "Which of you convinceth Me of sin ?" dividual relationship to Christ will alone decide John 8:46. with which class we find our eternal destiny. This forthright demand brought nothing from His The fact, then, of God's inevitable and individual enemies but an embarrassed silence. Bitterly as they judgment, should lead us not only to careful, personal hated Him, they could not recall any way in which preparation ourselves, but also to far more forbearance His life denied His words, or His conduct contra- with, and toleration of, our fellow-men. For every dicted His creed. He was always righteously con- man, in the judgment, must meet God, as we must. sistent with Himself. But He was the only One so Each man's fate, without reference to any other, will to be. The rest of us are only too conscious that, be for ever settled before the "judgment seat of left to ourselves, we are often guilty of glaring in- Christ." consistencies. With Paul, we know that only "the Before that awful Judgment Seat, none of us is law of the Spirit," abiding constantly with us, can entitled, or qualified, to act as prosecuting counsel. "keep us from falling." Jude 24. None of us sits in a jury box. We are all, as sinners, without exception, in the dock. No excuse Paul emphasizes this when he declares, "Thou However, the acknowledged inconsistency of Chris- art inexcusable, 0 man, whosoever thou art that tians, be it much or little, negligible or considerable, judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou is no excuse for spurning the Gospel invitation. condemnest thyself ; for thou that judgest doest the Often a man will declare, "I am as good as many same things. . . . Thinkest thou . . . that thou shalt who go to church. Their churchgoing does not make escape the judgment of God? . . . God . . . will them, to my mind, any kinder, or any more honest render to every man according to his deeds. . . . than other people. Therefore I will not go to church. Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man I will not become a Christian as such. I will not that doeth evil ; . . . but glory, honour, and peace add to my (admitted) faults, those of insincerity, to every man that worketh good." Rom. 2:1-10. hypocrisy, and inconsistency." There are millions today who talk somewhat "Be vie kind" proudly, and not very intelligently, in just this way. Sometimes, of course, the inconsistencies of other They do not realize that the thoughtful Christian Christians may be more than of just academic in- will readily admit his sometime inconsistencies. They terest to us. They may, for a time, very actively do not know that such honest self-knowledge is discourage us. a spur to higher achievement and to fuller conse- We perhaps put someone "on a pedestal," and, to cration, rather than being a brake on spiritual pro- our later surprise and shock, he falls off ! We thought gress. someone was unswervingly truthful, and then we Moreover, the Bible urges us carefully to examine detect him in a lie. We thought someone else was our own inconsistency before we explore or exploit unshakably virtuous, and later we learn of his moral that of others. For Paul asks, "Dost thou judge thy lapse. brother ? . . . dost thou set at nought thy brother ?" Are we then justified in giving up Christ alto- Then he adds, very significantly, "For we shall all gether because some few of His professed followers stand before the judgment seat of Christ. . . . Every are very fallible? Is Christianity itself to be blamed one of us shall give account of himself to God." because we all fall, more or less, below its accepted Rom. 14:10, 12. standards? The apostle here is stressing that the awful and Surely not ! For even God's perfect Book, as we precise judgment of God is a highly personal and have seen, is largely the Record of very imperfect individual matter. We shall not "scrape through" people. Abraham was sometimes fickle, although he with a crowd. We shall not be divided into sectional was generally faithful. Solomon was apparently vol- companies, and accepted or rejected according to our uptuous, as well as very wise. Only One stands out church or creed. The final judgment is not con- in striking and magnificent contrast to all the rest. cerned with affiliations, but with persons. It has not And it is He alone with whom, finally, "we have to do with creeds ultimately, but with the individual to do." Heb. 4:13. alone. We shall not bear responsibility for our His word to us, in the meantime, is that although brother's faults, but for our own. Neither will our others may be even sinful, and woefully inconsistent brother's . faith save us, but only our own trust in with Christian standards in their conduct toward us, Christ will ensure our salvation. we are nevertheless to be consistently forgiving in Jesus Himself declared that the final judgment our response to them. "Forgive men their trespasses," will but serve to divide the "sheep" from the "goats," Jesus says, and "your heavenly Father will also for- the "wise" from the "foolish," the "profitable" from give you." Matt. 6:14. the "unprofitable." (Matt. 25.) All mankind will The best way to deal with the inconsistent Chris- thus be separated into two great classes. Our in- tian, is to be toward him, tonstantly Christlike!

17 EVENTEEN years ago, a spirited battle began Lamarck rejected the Bible story of creation. He between east and west. It was known as the taught the theory that the evolution of creatures S "Lysenko Controversy." resulted from peculiarities acquired due to environ- Attack and counter-attack were vigorously launched ment being transmitted to later generations. He by means of press and radio. They were often spiced believed, in fact, that acquired characteristics are with a degree of acrimony rare among men of inherited. learning. Mendel experimented with pea plants in the An early "broadside" was John Langdon-Davies' monastery garden at Briinn. In 1886, two years after book, Russia Puts the Clock Back. This was fol- his death, his theory, known as Mendelism, was lowed by Julian Huxley's Soviet Genetics and World published. In a word, it suggested that the nature of Science.

What it was about The battle was about the science of genetics, TRIUMPH and mainly revolved around two men and two The famous 'q.YSENKO CONTROVERSY" in theories. scientists of East and West. Nov it Genetics is the science of descent and heredity. Of only limited popular future generations is mainly shaped by the com- interest perhaps, yet it bining of factors already existing in the parent cells. is vitally important to by R. Christians who believe East and West take opposite sides the Bible. The two men mainly Russia, under biologists Michurin and Lysenko, involved were Jean accepted Lamarck and rejected Mendel. Scientists Lamarck, the f amous who failed to line up, were condemned and dropped. French zoologist (1744- The West, shocked and amazed at what they con- 1829), and the equally sidered to be a rejection of demonstrable fact, clung famous Austrian biolo- to Mendel. gist, Gregor Mendel. In consequence, a battle raged, for fundamental (1822-1884.) issues were at stake—particularly so for Christians who uphold the Bible. Michurin and Lysenko realized the virtual im- possibility of evolution unless Lamarck's theory were true. They evaluated Mendel—quite rightly and logically—in terms of special creation. They under- stood Mendel's theory to mean that change and variation in creatures, are limited to qualities and characteristics already present in the vital germ cells, and that any "newness" in future generations is Lamarck's (upper) only due to a rearranging of these factors at the evolutionary theory on the time of conception. inheritance of acquired They saw that on this basis, the radical changes characteristics was promoted demanded by evolution—from mollusc to man—were by the Soviet scientist impossible. Mendel, they concluded, gave too much Lysenko against the findings support to the Bible story which records God's of Mendel (lower) on decree at creation, Let everything "bring forth . . the mechanism of biological after his kind." Gen. 1:24. inheritance. "Two opposite trends" In September, 1948, Russia's national paper Izvestia, published an editorial supporting Lysenko and "Michurism" in the contention that Lamarck was right and Mendel was wrong. Written by M. Kaftanof, Minister of Education, it stated : "There

18 are two opposite trends in biological science. One Bykovsky is refreshingly frank. He says: "Unfor- of them is progressive and materialistic, called tunately in our country there developed at one time Michurin's theory, . . . the other is the reactionary, rotten theories and dogmas in biology, and admini- idealistic Mendel-Morgan theory. . . . Michurin's strative measures were used to retard the develop- materialistic theory has been continually enriched ment of biology, especially genetics." (This is a by the works of his followers, with the academician reference to the 1948 session of the Academy of T. D. Lysenko at their head. . . . Thanks to the Agricultural Sciences at which genetics was declared care of the Bolshevist party and of the Soviet Govern- to be a "bourgeois pseudo-science.") ment, as well as to the personal care of our great leaders, Lenin and Stalin, Michurin's theory has been Courageous reversal Now comes the stupendous task of re-educating 100,000 biology teachers, and writing new text-books. This bold and courageous reversal of outlook in Russia, is demonstrated by what the Soviet Encyclo- paedia published in 1954, and what Pravda published OR TRUTH in 1965. The Encyclopaedia states : "Mendel was an Austrian logy began seventeen years ago between the monk who developed a reactionary theory in biological science. . . ." ettled in the face of irresistible facts Pravda now states: "The finest commemorative monument to this leading son of the Czech people [Mendel) should be the further development of preserved. . . . All biological chairs and faculties must research in the study of inheritance to which he be held and supported by qualified Michurinists. . . devoted his remarkable talents." VINE We must have text-books based on the progressive Michurin theory Mendel and the Bible This resolute stand was, in fact, an attempt to defeat the opponents of evolution. However, this does not mean that all geneticists who support Mendel are believers in the Bible story Capitulation of creation, though some have honestly surrendered to the obvious fact that if Mendel is right, then But this year, 1965, has brought a heart-warming evolution is wrong. capitulation. Under the title, "Soviet biology says One of these courageous few is Lund University's the final farewell to dogma," Medical News reports botanical scientist H. Nilsson. He writes: "It is the ending of "the dark age" of Russian genetics. obvious that the investigations of the last three Lamarck, Michurin, and Lysenko have now been decades into the problem of the origin of species officially deprived of their "sainthood." But Mendel have not been able to show that a variational material is "beatified" as a discoverer of genetic truth. Lysenko capable of competition in the struggle for existence was gently dropped "for health reasons" in 1962. is formed by mutation. Further, as it has also been Writing recently in Pravda, Russian scientist B. impossible to demonstrate a progressive adaptation by means of the transmission of acquired characters, we are forced to this conclusion that the theory of evolution has not been verified by experimental in- vestigations of the origin of species."—Hereditas, Vol. 20, page 236. (Italics his.) Those who now advocate the so-called Neo- Mendelism—and this would include the Russians— believe that evolution is possible by mutations, or changes, in the parent cells. Experiments since 1910, especially with the fruit- fly, prove how such changes can most certainly be achieved. By X-rays and other means, scientists have induced changes in the germ cells, in an effort to produce an entirely new creature. But despite all the changes, after 800 generations (equivalent to 20,000 years on the human scale), the fly still remains a fly. Striking changes of many kinds have been achieved, but all are simply "patho- (Continued on page 23.)

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L the commandments of God, all the exhorta- it not been demonstrated in the life, and death, of A tions of apostles and prophets, all the preach- Jesus Christ on earth. ing and writing of godly men, all the ques- I believe that God implants in every heart the tionings and arguments about right and wrong, may seed of this divine love, and that if it be not wilfully be epitomized, answered, settled by the one great crushed, it will grow and ennoble our poor human commandment, "Thou shalt love." love, and its fruit will be seen in all the good deeds When God speaks of love, He is, of course, re- and words, all the loving-kindness and self-sacrificing ferring to godly love, the pure element unmixed with service that are found, not only in Christians, but in selfishness, lust, or passion ; the kind of love that many who make no special religious profession. This man could never have imagined or believed in had seed of divine love will create a little holy place

20 in the heart, and is "the light that lighteth every him as one of themselves, with one law for all. We man that cometh into the world." Into that sanctuary have all at one time been strangers to God, and the Spirit of God waits for some opportune time to because He loved us and adopted us into His family, enter and to transform the whole life with the glory we are to love the stranger and give him an example of the love of God. of the fruit of love in our lives: "Joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self- Thou shalt love the Lord thy God control." Gal. 5:22, 23, N.E.B. The command to 'love Him was given to those whom God called His people, and who called Him Thou shalt love thine enemies their God. They had every reason to love Him, for It is natural to love our friends who love us, He had delivered them from bondage by great signs for "sinners also love those that love them," but and wonders, had supplied all their needs, given only divine love in us can make us love our enemies. them victory over all their enemies and brought all When we remember that it was while we ourselves those who believed in Him and obeyed Him into were yet sinners and enemies of God that God loved a land of peace and plenty. us and Jesus died for us, we must conclude that Those who accept God as their God today have God loves all His enemies, and that Jesus died for the same reasons for loving Him. He delivers them them also. Therefore we must love our enemies and from the bondage of sin, supplies all their need, do all we can to bring them into contact with the gives them victory over all the power of the enemy, divine love that will save them. Returning good for and sets before them the glorious promise of a new evil, love for hatred, blessing for cursing, is the and perfect world of peace and joy and life ever- way to show them the love of God, and win them lasting. to Him. In addition to these reasons, the Christian today has the factual proof of God's love, in the giving Husbands, love your wives of His beloved and divine Son to endure the abuse Marriage is a symbol of the relationship between and hatred of those He came to save, the agony of Christ and His church, and the vital principle of being crushed under the weight of the whole of both is love. Without mutual love between husband human sin upon His sinless soul, and the cruel and and wife, and between Christ and His church, the shameful death on the cross to atone for that sin. relationship is imperfect. It is only Christ who loves Could any stronger reasons be given why we should perfectly, but that is the ideal toward which husbands love the Lord our God with all the heart, mind, soul, and wives, and also the church, should strive, and and strength? the nearer they come to that standard, the more per- fect will be the relationship both in marriage and Thou shalt love thy neigbour between Christ and those who confess His name. Apart from this being a natural result of loving God, it is also profitable from our own point of view. Thou shalt love one another Love begets love, and loving our neighbour is likely This is a command to Christians, and if they were to encourage him to love us, which promotes a happy all to obey it, what a mighty witness for God they relationship. But even if he rebuffs our love, and would be in the world! No church squabbles, no returns evil for good, we must still love him, as one jockeying for position, no envy or enmity or back- who is loved of our God, and for whom He paid biting; each one esteeming the other better than him- the same infinite price that He gave for us. We self, and seeking the other's good rather than his must love him in the hope that at some time he own ; no taking offence or holding a grudge, no will respond, not only to our love, but to the love of judging or condemning one another, but just loving, God manifested through us. Loving our neighbour without any reservations or conditions or considera- is not limited to the one living next door, but, as tions of how others treat us. shown by the parable of the good Samaritan, includes Let us all earnestly strive for, pray for, and anyone we meet to whom we may show, by word practise the love of God, and so fulfil His command or deed, the love with which God has loved us. to love as He has loved us.

Thou shalt love the stranger It was the purpose of God that through His people READERS WHO WOULD LIKE TO KNOW the whole world should learn of His love for them more about the great truths of the Bible, are all, and should respond to that love and join with earnestly invited to avail themselves of the His people in loving and serving Him and rejoicing special, free, HOME BIBLE STUDY GUIDES in all the blessings that His love bestows. To that end God gave the command to His people to love advertised on the back cover. Edit& the stranger ; not to vex or oppress him, but treat

21 HEN George Herbert wrote, "Open con- fession is good for the soul," he, no doubt, W was writing of his own experience. If so, it confirms what was written by another nearly two thousand years ago concerning the blessing which can come to those who make "open confession." It reads as follows: "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9. But it would be an over-simplification to say that here is the plain and simple way of getting rid of the galling bondage that sin imposes, for confession to be spiritually efficacious must be accompanied by sincere repentance. Hence we should put along with the above text another which reads, "Repent, and -turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin." Ezek. 18 :30. We may also add Christ's words, "The kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye and believe the Gospel." Mark 1:15. A s broken heart will accompany every true con- fession of sin. "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit." Psa. 34:18. When we realize to the full that "the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked," then shall we be able to

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by R. T. BOLTON utter the words of a true confession which will be willing to forgive, or that you have committed the acceptable. unpardonable sin, because "if we confess our sins, When Nathan, the prophet, told King David the He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and parable of the little ewe lamb (2 Samuel 12), he to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9. recognized how deceitful and desperately wicked he Therefore it must be one of two things: First, it was at heart, and this moved him to make an open may be your lack of faith to believe that God will confession acceptable to God. We have it recorded do what He promises, though your sin be of the in Psalm 51:3, 4: "For I acknowledge my trans- deepest dye; or that the confession and repentance gressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against are themselves defective. If there is a true repentance Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil and a genuine confession these will lead us to make in Thy sight: that Thou mightest be justified when restitution, as far as is within our power, to those Thou speakest, and be clear when Thou judgest." we have injured or it may be, robbed. When this has been done with a full, free, and humble heart, Repentance and restitution God will graciously forgive our sins and we shall If you have not found peace with God after the then be at peace with Him and with our fellow-men. confession of your sins, it is not because God is un- The Bible, which lays down broad principles of

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conduct for every age, dealt with this matter of set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him restitution accompanying confession in Leviticus with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by." 6:1-5. When sins are secret and personal they are Zech. 3:1-5. What God did for Joshua He will do to be confessed to God; they should not be confessed for you. to either friend or priest, but to God alone. No restitution is here required, except that we now use Feeling or faith? the faculties, once squandered on our lusts and evil It may be that some are troubled about the for- desires, in obedience to the divine will, which we giveness of their sins because they are expecting to will freely acknowledge to be our "reasonable ser- have a happy flight of feeling; and because they vice." do not feel any different, they suppose that God has Some fearful and sensitive souls never seem to be not forgiven their sins. These should say to them- able to find peace with God though all the con- selves in faith, "I believe what God has promised, ditions have been met. The devil harries them with and I know He has forgiven my sins." For remember, his suggestions that God will not forgive their sins, the just shall live by his faith—that is, keep on trust- for they are too filthy even to be named. Such should ing in God's promises to forgive sins every day, and read and mark well the following words: "And he in due time the assurance of sins forgiven will showed me Joshua the high priest, standing before the come, seeing you have fulfilled the conditions, and angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand the Spirit of God will witness with your spirit that to resist him. And the Lord said unto Satan, The you are accepted into the family of God. All this Lord rebuke thee, 0 Satan ; even the Lord that hath is because Christ has, through His sacrifice, made chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand possible the forgiveness of all sin—your sins and plucked out of the fire ? Now Joshua was clothed my sins. This is God's way of "righting wrong," of with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. making the unjust, just. What He has spoken that And he answered and spake unto those that stood He will do, so let your response be: before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have Just as I am—without one plea, caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will But that Thy blood was shed for me, clothe thee with a change of raiment. And I said, And that Thou bidst me come to Thee, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they 0 Lamb of God, I come, I come. * • * • * • • * • * • * • * •

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logical departures from normality." It has been conceded that without the supporting Mutations, generally, are bad. Some are even lethal. evidence of genetics, evolution cannot honestly be They result in defects which may be interesting, but accepted as valid. After over half a century of in- which cause the creature loss of vitality. tensive study, that support has not come. Which all adds up to the fact that the Bible is true. Nor will it come; for the inspired declaration of When He made the world and all within it, the the Bible is that God's Word "is true from the be- Creator said, "Let everything bring forth after its ginning"—and that means Genesis. (Psa. 119:160.) kind." Thereby God established the fixity of species. It means that God is our Creator—not blind evo- True to this decree, the fruit-fly still remains a fruit- lutionary forces. "It is He that hath made us, and fly despite all the experiments. So also do all other not we ourselves." Psa. 100:3. creatures remain stable within their family group. It means that as our Creator, God has a just claim on our allegiance, belief, and worship. Family boundaries fixed and It means that we should cease from conformity inviolable with those who do not "like to retain God in their Variations we certainly do see. But these are limited knowledge" (Rom. 1:28), and "worship Him that by nature's boundaries fixed by the Lord Himself at made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the foun- the time of creation. tains of waters." Rev. 14:7.

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EREDITY and environment are factors which play a big part in human life. Every babe is, H as Charles Kingsley sang, "heir of all the ages' gain," and every child starts out upon the 0 journey of life with certain inheritances for which he has either to thank or despise his forebears. There is no doubt too, that man is strongly in- fluenced by his surroundings. We know from our own observations that environment helps or hinders in the realm of human life. People who are denied rest, refreshing sleep, and privacy because they live in appalling housing conditions, suffer in character as well as in body. A man I know returned home z after several years of war service, and the horrors he had seen, and the conditions under which he had lived influenced him so strongly that he refused to admit the possibility of there being a God in con- trol of this world. He actually taught his two boys to despise and reject "all this talk about God." Yet man stands above nature. Great triumphs of the human spirit have taken place under the worst z conditions, and conversely great tragedies have oc- curred in the best of surroundings. We are much CW more than the meeting-place for external forces.

Why Judas was lost Think of Judas Iscariot! His act of betrayal demonstrates that environment is not the all-dominat- ing factor in the development of our moral and spiritual life. The best environment in the world did not save Judas from his downward course. He was the companion of the Lord of love, but that didn't save him from his awful act of betrayal. Judas lived in the atmosphere of love, but his heart was bent on evil. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is." The real determining forces of life are in the heart and the will. I remember a young man whose home environment was appalling. He had set his mind on giving his life to the service of God. His father was dead against him, but the lad won through. The factor that saved him from defeat LU was his inner resolve. His mind and heart were dominated by a set purpose, and by God's grace he triumphed over all that was without. He refused to be moulded by the evil environment in which he lived, and God helped him to become his best. I would lose all faith in life if heredity and en- vironment were the all-dominating factors in mould- ing it. The grace of God can enable a man to triumph over the limitations which heredity and en- vironment may impose. Percy Ainsworth said, "Christ LU in a man's heart is greater than the devil in his path- OC way." Saints in Caesar's household LU The complete answer to the most discouraging en-

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2 4 vironment is, "There were saints in Caesar's house- hold." Caesar's household! What a place in which to live! The Christian slaves had to endure terrible conditions, and face crushing circumstances. Their master, Nero, was a monster, the vilest monarch who ever ruled. He destroyed his mother, his wife, his brother, and to these he added more terrible crimes. But amid such conditions there were men and women who maintained their Christian faith. Paul and Silas in the inner prison at Philippi, with their feet fast in the stocks, sang praises to God at midnight. Bunyan in Bedford jail wrote Pilgrim's Progress. The secret of their victory is found in the fact that while their bodies were restricted their souls were free.

Lilies from mud There is no flower more beautiful than the white lily in the pond. It is firmly rooted in the mud at the bottom of the pond, but it rises from the slime like a white-robed angel. If you were to think only of its offensive surroundings, you would declare that such beauty from such a place would be impossible. But by a secret chemistry the seed extracts from the mud a miracle of beauty. What the lily is able to do under the control of God-given natural forces, man has done and still can do, under the guidance of the spirit of God. Judas, after three and a half years of close association Christian faith is a flower that can bloom on the with Jesus, betrayed Him into the hands of His enemies. bleak heights as well as in the sheltered valley. God knows our address, our circumstances, and all that we need. By His grace we can triumph over the with things that are without. It is possible, by God's limitations which heredity and environment may im- help, to transform a dead end into a field of glorious pose. What we are within determines how we deal victory. -)Ic • * • * • * • * • -* • * • *- •

(Continued it. "Keep awake then ; for you never know the day "TAKE HEED" from page 13.) or the hour." Matt. 25 :13, N.E.B. Pearl Harbour provides a modern example of the need for watchfulness. The pride and power of servants whom the Master finds on the alert when the United States' Navy rode at anchor. Japanese He comes. . . . Even if it is the middle of the night envoys parleyed at Washington. Sailors enjoyed their or before dawn when He comes, happy they if He quiet Sunday break. Ominous signs showed on screens finds them alert. And remember, if the householder and detectors, but the guards were either asleep or had known what time the burglar was coming he unconcerned. would not have let his house be broken into. Hold yourselves ready, then, because the Son of Man is Suddenly, out of the blue, destruction and death coming at the time you least expect Him." Luke rained down out of the sky. In an hour it was all 12:35-40, N.E.B. over—a nation's pride humbled, a powerful fleet crippled, a bitter price to pay for heedlessness. The coming of Jesus is both certain and uncertain. When Jesus comes unexpectedly, taking the un- It is certain as to the event. He will come. There suspecting world by surprise, "for as a snare shall is no doubt about it. Let mockers mock and sceptics it come on all them that dwell on the face of the deride, He will surely come. "He who is to come whole earth," may you and I be ready to welcome will come." Heb. 10:38, N.E.B. Him, and be welcomed by Him, because we watched, But it is uncertain as to time. His arrival will be prayed, and worked for His coming and His king- unexpected, even by those who look and long for dom. (Luke 21:35, 36.)

25 ORTY times Louis Slotin "tickled the dragon's tail" and lived to tell about it. The forty-first F time he lost his life! Dr. Louis Slotin was a thirty-four-year-old scientist stationed at the atomic laboratory near Los Alamos, New Mexico, when in May, 1946, he lost his life in the experiment he called "tickling the dragon's tail." This experiment, which was essential in producing the atomic bomb, consisted of manipulating two half- spheres of fissionable material until the whole amount went critical, then quickly separating the lumps of metal before the chain reaction became lethal. Dr. Slotin, according to an article published in a widely circulated national magazine several years ago, could have taken advantage of a simple safety device that had been perfected after three of his colleagues had lost their lives when the same experiment went wrong. But he refused to do so. He loved the ex, periment and had a "feeling" for it. So he preferred the old method—manipulating the two half-spheres of metal to the critical point with a screw-driver. But this time something went wrong. Possibly he put just a little too much pressure on the screw-driver at the critical moment. The Geiger counter began clicking insanely, then stopped dead—an indication that the material had become dangerously radioactive. Slotin immediate threw himself forward and pulled the lumps of metal apart. His action saved those with him in the laboratory, but nine days later he was dead. Louis Slotin, we are told, was fully aware of the danger involved in the experiment. One of those who had already lost his life in this dangerous assignment was his own laboratory assistant. But Slotin was con- fident that he would not get hurt.

Playing with sin Many today are "tickling the dragon's tail" by playing with those sinful follies that they know to be dangerous. The standard response to those who warn them is, "I know what I'm doing. I realize it's harmful. But I enjoy what I'm doing. It won't hurt to continue a little longer this way. I can quit any time I want to." But it is a deadly folly to continue "tickling the dragon's tail" of sin, for in this case the dragon is the wily and dangerous Satan. This is the way he is por- trayed in the Bible. "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world." Rev. 12:9. So the dragon is Satan, and every time we continue to do that which we know to be sinful, we are "tickling the dragon's tail." There are those who could assure us that sin is just an old-fashioned notion and that no thinking person really believes in sin or the devil any more. Maybe you don't like to acknowledge that there is sin in this world, but you lock your door when you

26 go out and are happy to see the policeman on his ated life in the first place has power to re-create us beat. in His image and remove sin from our lives. Actually we don't have to go very far to become First, we must realize our need. How can we do acquainted with the problem of sin. We just need to so? Paul answers, "I had not known sin, but by the look within ourselves, for the Bible clearly states: law." Rom. 7:7. God's law is not our saviour. It "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory cannot heal us from the cancer of sin. Instead it is of God." Rom. 3:23. And John bluntly tells us that the mirror (see James 1 :23-25) which reveals our "if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, hopelessness and need. It won't do any good to break and the truth is not in us." 1 John 1:8. the mirror or throw it away. Our sin would still be Some think that if everyone has sinned it must be there. The law of God points out our need and thus the common lot of man to do so and sin just can't leads us to the One who can supply that need. be so bad after all. But sin is a viper—a poisonous, Christ is the answer to our need. The law reveals deadly viper—that sinks its fangs into the soul of God's standard of righteousness. It sets forth the a man and poisons his heart, maddens his brain, and eternal principles of love. (Matt. 22:37-40.) We fall cripples his moral capabilities. short of such perfection. We cannot meet the claims It may seem amusing to "tickle the dragon's tail," of God's holy law: But Christ can. That's why He but after a while we wake up to the fact that sin is a came and lived among men. He didn't come just to loathsome, horrible cancer that permeates the whole die for our sins. He lived a perfect, holy life. He system, disgracing and disfiguring its victim. Sin is offers us His perfect character in exchange for our like that. It destroys and blights and kills. lives of sin. Thus it is only through Christ that a way of salva- Drastic action needed tion from sin has been provided. Jesus proclaimed, "I There is only one way to get rid of the cancer of am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh sin. That is through surgery. Fortunately there is a unto the Father, but by Me." John 14:6. God loved Great Physician who can perform it successfully. us so much and was so desirous of providing a way There are those who prefer to die from cancer to overcome the sin problem that He gave Himself rather than risk surgery. And, strangely, there are a for our salvation. He humiliated Himself to become large number who are afraid to come to Christ for a man. He lived a selfless, sinless life under the most healing from the cancer of sin because such healing trying conditions. He suffered the shame and agony demands surgery of the soul. There is no other way, of Calvary. Why? Because there was no other way however. No "Do-It-Yourself" home remedy can re- of doing away with sin. move the cancerous growth of evil that threatens to In the light of all that God has done for us, can destroy the soul. Man's inability to remove his own we carelessly continue playing with sin, "tickling the sin is illustrated by the prophet Jeremiah: "Though dragon's tail," wounding the Father's heart of love? you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the The artist Stenberg gave his heart to Christ one stain of your guilt is still before Me, says the Lord night at a religious meeting in a shabby house on the God." Jer. 2:22, R.S.V. outskirts of Dusseldorf. His heart burned with love Why is it that we cannot remove the stains of for the One who had loved him so much that He was sin ourselves ? Because they go too deep. They per- willing to die for his sins. He longed to do something meate our whole being. "The whole head is sick, and that would help others appreciate the love and con- the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot descension of Christ. He couldn't speak, but he could even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but paint. He determined to paint a picture of Christ that bruises and sores and bleeding wounds." Isa. 1:5, would reveal His love to the world. 6, R.S.V. He painted just the head and shoulders of Jesus Because the condition is grave, the remedy must with the crown of thorns on His brow. But somehow be drastic. Actually it demands a new life, and this he was able to capture the love of Christ in the ex- we cannot obtain for ourselves. Only God who cre- pression of the face and the look of the eyes. The painting was hung in the art gallery of Dusseldorf, and underneath the painting Stenberg wrote these words: by LEO VAN DOLSON All this I did for thee; What hast thou done for Me? That painting won many who were willing to let Christ become their Saviour from sin. Finally it was "TICKLING destroyed in a fire that swept through the art gallery. But its message is for us, too. The Christ who gave Himself for us lovingly challenges, "All this I did THE DRAGON'S TAIL" for thee; what hast thou done for Me?"

27 ALVATION, a gift from God. This is the good news of the Gospel. And what a costly gift. S We read that "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." John 3:16. It is im- possible for us to realize the agony of heart that God suffered when He looked upon the awful scene of Calvary. Each nail that pierced the flesh of His Son was driven also into God's heart. What a sacri- fice; what love! God not only gave, but Christ willingly laid down His life. As the shepherd would be willing to lay down his life for his sheep, so the Good Shepherd gave His all. sat down in the right hand of the Majesty on high." Then the Lord gave Him a more excellent name: "Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee, and again, I will be to Him a Father." Christ, in doing the will of God, by providing a way of sal- GIVE ME THINE HEART vation for man, confirmed this father-son relation- ship. Jesus indeed is our example, for while on earth He gave His whole heart to His Father. From the beginning of His life on earth, He belonged to God, by K. FRETSON TAYLOR for He "was born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" (John We may ask ourselves, What was the purpose of 1:13), and as a Son, He said, "I seek not Mine this great act of love ? John puts it this way : "Behold Own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon Me." John 5:30. Christ's desires and aims were us, that we should be called the sons of God." 1 centred on God. This experience must be ours if we John 3:1. This is the purpose of salvation, to bring want God to guide us into truth. "If any man will us back into the family of God. Now, through do His {God's} will, he shall know of the doctrine, Christ, our relationship with God is restored. When whether it be of God." John 7 :17 . God first created man in his perfection, Adam walked with God ; but when he fell, he hid from God. No Example of love longer did man have this special relationship with Paul tells us that the supreme act in God's plan his Master. Now Christ has lifted the veil of sin of salvation was prompted by love in the heart of which separated us ; we are sons of God once more. Christ. "And walk in love, as Christ hath loved us, I think the wise man put this father-son relation- and hath given Himself for us, an offering and a ship in a nutshell when he said, "My son, give me sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour." Eph. thine heart." Prov. 23 :26. This is the secret ; it 5 :2. No man can have greater love in his heart than must be a heart relationship. But what do we mean when it leads him to give up his life. Christ not by the heart ? In the Bible, the word "heart" is used in only obeyed the will of God, but loved to do it. different ways, having different shades of meaning. Do we walk in His love? Do we give to our heavenly The Psalmist says, "Delight thyself in the Lord ; and Father such limitless love? All through the gospel of He shall give thee the desires of thine heart." Psa. John we see the oneness of Christ with the Father. 37:4. Here we see that the heart is the seat of all Such statements as: "I and My Father are one." John our desires and aims. Moses said, "And thou shalt 10:30. "The words that I speak unto you, I speak love the Lord thy God with all thine heart." Deut. not of Myself, but the Father that dwelleth in Me, 6:5. The heart is here represented as the seat of our He doeth the works." John 14:10. Such words show affections. Moses also likened the heart to the mind to us that they were one in mind. This can and must of a person: "Therefore shall ye lay up these My be our own experience. "Let this mind be in you words in thy heart." Deut. 11:18. In other words, which was also in Christ Jesus." Phil. 2:5. Then in the Israelites were to bear his words in mind. Then verse eight, Paul adds: "He was obedient unto death, the wise man give this advice, "Keep thy heart with even the death of the cross." Christ gave His life all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." as a sacrifice; this is complete obedience—what are Prov. 4:23. So when the son gives his heart to the we giving? "Present your bodies a living sacrifice father, he gives his desires, affection, mind, and life unto God, which is your reasonable service." Rom. to his father. 12:1. Are we doing our reasonable service? We can best see this father-son relationship in the God is still saying, "My son, give Me thine heart." life of Christ. We are told in Hebrews 1:3, 5 that May we respond and say, "Father, here is my heart, Christ, "when He had by Himself, purged our sins; make it like unto Thine."

28 word is seneh. In Job 30:4, 7 we read of those "who cut up mallows by the bushes." The common mallow of our wayside is a frequent sight in the dusty hills of the Holy Land, and in more frugal times people there ate mallow-shoots. The bushes in Isaiah 7:19, may refer to the acacia thorn, a frequent shrub in desert places, or to the Christ's thorn tree, Zizyphus. St. Luke's tree in chapter 6, verse 44, is obviously a fruit tree, and his bush a bramble. This is quite different Third Article in the Series from Moses' burning bush, which Luke refers to by Eric Hardy, F.Z.S. (chapter 20:37), and which we find again in Acts 7:30 and Mark 12:26. The BURNING BUSH- and OTHERS

ANY English gardeners grow a novelty bush, A bush could also be a resting place to give some M Dictamnus alba, or its red or purple- shade from the midday sun, and its roots would often flowered varieties, which is nicknamed Burn- indicate water lower down. Sometimes if we dig ing Bush, or Gas Plant, because it glows with a out widely-scattered bushes in the desert, we find that flame when a match is applied to ignite the volatile they are not separate bushes at all, but the flourishing gas which comes from its stem, or leaves, or fruit. tips of boughs of some great tree of ancient times The flame does not destroy the plant, even if a which has become engulfed in sandstorms, and all match is applied to the foliage when in full bloom but these tips of foliage are smothered from view in May or June. in a giant sandhill. This must often have happened It certainly makes a handsome border plant, for in Sinai over the centuries. its foliage is also attractive; but the guess made in the handbook to Bangor Cathedral's Bible Garden, I have see Bedouin Arabs settling down for the that this was the biblical "burning bush" (Exod. night beside a lonely desert bush, and seated under 3:2-4) is a rather far-fetched idea. The appearance its shade by day. Like the famous "Gospel oaks" in of flame in the Exodus story did not emanate from our own country, great giants which were the wan- the bush, but from God who overshadowed it. dering preachers' landmarks before churches were Furthermore, this is a European plant which doesn't built, so the lonely bush became a landmark, a appear to have grown south of Mount Cassius meeting place, in the almost trackless desert with its anyway. rocky ranges, dried-out gorges, and the endless ex- More likely plants to have reflected the glowing panse of gravelly dust. I used to look forward to red colour in the desert of Midian would have been reaching these bushes not least for the birds I knew a red-foliaged sumach, like Rhus coronaria, or a might be resting in them. heavily-berried desert hawthorn like Crataegus sinaitica, both of which I have seen growing in the area. The rapidly westering sun gives a rich and fiery glow to many things among the red Nubian sandstone, and with bushes so few and far between, a matter of miles perhaps, the illusion can be dramatic. There are many references to bushes in the Scriptures, ob- viously being used to refer to different species. The general

Young Jewish settlers set out to plant tamarisk bushes in the desert through which their ancestors wan- dered on their way to the Promised Land. 29 24.) Yes, prayer is the strength of the Christian. And whatever problems you meet from day to day if you 1011S. decide to do nothing that will displease God, you will know after praying to Him about your problems tilttlltat just what course of action you should take. Remember, truth will triumph. In everything the 1,11111 Holy Spirit co-operates for good with those who love God and are called according to His purpose. (Rom. 8 :28.)

DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE BAPTISM I FEEL GOD DOESN'T ANSWER MY OF LNFANTS? I CANNOT FIND ANY- PRAYERS. WHATEVER I DO SEEMS TO THING ABOUT THIS IN THE BIBLE. TURN OUT WRONG. PERHAPS I AM —C.T.J. NOT A CHRISTIAN. CAN YOU HELP ME? —L.K. SOME churches do sprinkle babies, basing their THE apostle Paul told us that the Christian life practice on the text in John 3 :5, "No-one can enter is not easy. It is a battle. He said: "Our fight is not the kingdom of God without being born from water against human foes, but against cosmic powers, against and the Spirit." (N.E.B.) They think that if water the authorities and potentates of this dark world, is an essential, the earlier it is applied the better. But against the superhuman forces of evil in the heavens. the Bible indicates that before one may be baptized Therefore, take up God's armour, then you will be one must meet two conditions. able to stand your ground when things are at their It is necessary to confess one's sins (Matt. 3:5, 6), worst." Few people realize this, that the forces with and to whole-heartedly believe in Christ. (Acts 8:37.) which Christians grapple are superhuman. But God Jesus said to His disciples: "Go forth to every has given us armour to wear for our protection: part of the world and proclaim the good news to Truth as a belt, integrity as a coat of mail. The the whole creation. Those who believe it and receive Gospel as shoes to give us a firm footing; faith as baptism will find salvation ; those who do not be- a shield which can withstand any flaming arrows that lieve it will be condemned." Mark 16:15, 16. the devil can fling at us. Salvation as a helmet and It is quite clear that a baby cannot understand the words that come from God as a sword. the Gospel or have faith in Christ. The Bible clearly Thus armed and fortified the Christian can with- teaches that baptism—which means immersion or stand any onslaught, any temptation, any tragedy. But dipping in water—is for adults who can understand as Paul declares—we must continue to receive strength the Gospel. from prayer, from communion with God, and if we persevere in trusting God we can be victorious in I TRY TO BE A CHRISTIAN, BUT I HAVE TOO MANY WEAKNESSES. I every battle. Jesus can keep us from falling. (Jude FEEL IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO LIVE A PERFECT LIFE. DO YOU THINK I HAVE TOO HIGH A STAN- DARD?—F.M.C. I'M sure many people feel just as you do. They feel that perfection is impossible, so they excuse ph, • their weakness as an adequate reason why a loving God would not expect perfection from them. So they

PHONE NOW continue to do wrong, knowing it to be wrong, and their consciences become hardened. Others who feel BELFAST—BELFAST 32421 that perfection is impossible immediately give up the BIRMINGHAM—VICtoria 5754 struggle, often saying that they do not wish to be BOLTON (Lancs.)—BOLTON 24111 hypocrites. So they don't go to church. They turn CARDIFF—CARDIFF 40811 their backs on things Christian. They seek no help, DUNDEE—DUNDEE 40333 and they flounder along with no certain direction. O And an aimless life is a living death. NEWPORT (Mon.)—NEWPORT 73051 But through Christ we may be helped to victory over evil habits. The new life from Christ is nothing A community service by telephone provided by the Seventh-day to be compared with our past lives, for the Christian Adventist Church lives as a result of rebirth. Christ called it "the new THE TWO-MINUTE MESSAGE birth." Jesus said, "In truth, in very truth I tell you, AND PRAYER IS CHANGED DAILY unless a man has been born over again he cannot see the kingdom of God."

30 But, like Nicodemus, you may say, But how—how These faint whispers were picked up by big-dish is it possible? Jesus said, "Flesh can give birth only antennas—at Johannesburg, South Africa; Woomera, to flesh; it is Spirit that gives birth to spirit. You Australia; and Goldstone, California—and amplified ought not to be astonished then when I tell you that a thousand times. you must be born over again." John 3:3-8, N.E.B. As the messages were "digested" and "developed" So, in answer to your question I would say, Your by computers, pictures appeared and people on earth standard is not too high. But the way to reach it began to see—albeit crudely—what its sister planet has hitherto eluded you. Living for Christ is easy is like. when you are "dead to sin," said Paul. "Put your- Also learned was the even more important truth selves at the disposal of God, as dead men raised that the faintest cry of a needy soul can be heard in to life; yield your bodies to Him as implements for heaven, no matter how many millions of miles away doing right ; for sin shall no longer be your master, it may be. because you are no longer under law but under the Perhaps we can all better understand now what grace of God." Rom. 6:13, 14, N.E.B. This is God's God meant when He said, "Before they call, I will way to happiness and peace of heart. answer ; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear." Time and distance matter not at all where He is con- cerned. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT ONLY 144;000 To the prophet Jeremiah, confined in prison, his PEOPLE WI LL BE SAVED ?—P.H4F. spirits no doubt at lowest ebb, He sent this message: * "Thus says the Lord, who made the earth, who No, the Bible does not say this anywhere. John, the author of the book of Revelation, describes in created it, and who established it. . . Call to Me, his Apocalypse the 144,000 as having passed through and I will answer you, and reveal to you great and intense tribulation. They are the bodyguard of Jesus mighty things which you do not know." Jer. 33:2, 3. Christ who accompany Him always. "They have been (Berkeley's translation.) ransomed as the firstfruits of humanity for God and Jeremiah called. God heard. Mighty things began the Lamb." Rev. 14:5. But John said that in his to happen. God-sent visions on Patmos he also saw a vast throng That is God's way. As Creator and Redeemer He which no-one could count, from every nation, of all hears the faintest cry from the lowliest creature in tribes, peoples, and languages, standing in front of the uttermost part of His universe—and rushes help the throne and before the Lamb. They were robed "in time of need." Heb. 4:16. in white and shouted together : "Victory to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb!" There is no limit to the number of those who may be saved. We alone limit God. Salvation has been procured for all, but as Jesus said, "Not everyone that calls Me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom heaven, but only those who do the will of My WE ARE SURE YOU HAVE heavenly Father." ENJOYED READING THIS ********************* ISSUE OF " OUR TIMES " CRY FROM AFAR WHY NOT BECOME A REGULAR READER ? (Continued from page 7.) Fill in the coupon and post with cheque or postal Equally marvellous was the way that command order to : The Circulation Manager, signals from the watching scientists were received The Stanborough Press Ltd., by the spacecraft and instantly obeyed. Power to activate the tape-recorder was turned on and off as Watford, Hertfordshire. if it had been but a few feet away. r MIN INN Ell I= MN Most marvellous of all, however, was the way the My postal subscription of 17/6 for twelve months. spacecraft spoke to earth and relayed the "photos" My postal subscription of 8/9 for six months. taken with its TV camera. The only power available Place a tick against the order of your choice. was its tiny solar-activated battery—while the distance Mr./Mrs./Miss to be covered was 135 million miles. Address By the time the signals reached a tracking station I on earth they were no stronger than one-billionth of Block letters please one-billionth of a watt! Yet they got through! mit J

31

The Tale of a Hymn by EDYTH HARPER

OT every hymn in your Tyng was a very practical man, 1,000 people came forward, but hymn-book is well known. keenly interested in farming. Near that week, the beloved preacher met NSome are rarely sung ; others his parsonage, he had a large barn his death, trapped in the clumsy are used again and again until the where in his leisure hours, he liked mechanism of his threshing words are almost known by heart. to work. In it was a rough kind of machine. Perhaps one of the best known threshing machine worked by a His friend, the Presbyterian mini- is the old hymn that begins, "Stand mule. The mule plodded round ster named George Duffield asked up, stand up for Jesus." It was in- in a circle, turning wheels that him for any last message. Tyng spired by an American Episcopal threshed the corn. replied, "Tell the people to stand minister, and written by a fellow The ministers in the town joined up for Jesus." Duffield set the minister in the same town, who together to hold services in Jaynes words in the form of a hymn, a was a Presbyterian. Hall, a building holding 5,000 hymn that became popular all over Dudley Tyng lived in the middle people. Tyng was one of the most the world. When he preached his of the nineteenth century. The son popular preachers and always had last sermon on the text, "Ye that of a minister, he too, went into a large congregation. After one are men, now serve Him," Tyng the church and eventually became service in 1858, he appealed for little knew how far his sermon Rector in the town of Philadelphia. volunteers to serve the Lord. Over would reach.

by FELICITY FAYERS

A BIBLE QUIZ 5. Finish this verse from Psalm 122 : "I was glad when they said unto me...." 6. What was the cause of the great ABOUT JOY AND GLADNESS joy in Jerusalem that we read of in Nehemiah 12 :43? EOPLE think of the Bible as a casions in the Bible when people 7. What were the tidings of great had cause for rejoicing. Here are joy which angels told the shepherds very solemn and serious book, of Bethlehem? p and so it is. But as we read twelve questions for you to answer. 8. An angel told Zacharias that he its pages we find there is also a Six are found in the Old Testament, should have joy and gladness. What great deal of joy. God wants us to and six in the New Testament. happened to make this come true? be happy, and if in our lives we 9. What, according to Jesus, would try to please Him, He gives us the 1. In 1 Kings 8:66 we read that the cause "joy in the presence of the gift of inward happiness. people "went into their tents joyful angels"? and glad of heart." What event had 10. What was the name of the publi- That doesn't mean that we shall made them rejoice? never have any troubles. The can who climbed a tree to see Jesus 2. Whioh king was glad when he pass by, and who later received Him apostle Paul, whose life was full found Daniel unharmed after spend- joyfully at his house? of difficulties could still say, "I ing a night in the lions' den? 11. After our Lord's resurrection, rejoice, yea, and will rejoice." 3. In Ezra, chapter 3, we read that which apostle preached to the men Paul knew that however hard many people "shouted aloud for joy." of Israel so that they gladly received his life was, God would help him What was the event that made them the Word and were baptized? joyful? to preach the Gospel of Jesus, and 12. What was the name of the little give him strength to do his work. 4. Which Psalm begins : "Make a girl who "opened not the gate for joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye gladness" when she heard Peter Let us think in our Quiz of oc- lands. Serve the Lord with gladness"? knocking at the door?

32 CHERRY TREE FARM

by RONALD JAMES

"Badgers don't eat bark," jeered Tim. "We wouldn't see a badger in the day- "That they do," snapped Kay. time, surely," pro- "Well, I don't know where you tested Kay. got that crazy idea from, but I do know that rabbits are noted bark-eaters, so there," Tim replied. "Furthermore, they cause a lot of damage in the process." "Well, I know that, Mr. Smarty!" Kay answered. "I did not say rab- HAT were a badger, sure as "Quite a detective, aren't you!" bits don't eat bark, but I did say harvest," said Sam, to old sniffed Kay, but her brother wisely badgers do, and that might have T Lijah. ignored this remark. been a badger." "There always were badgers in Presently Tim gave a shout of "Well, we will ask Dad when Bluebell Wood ; reckon they like triumph. we get back to the farm," said Tim. themselves there," Lijah answered. "There you are! I bet it's the "I think Tim is probably right "I count that's a true word," same print Sam saw, because you and that rabbits were the culprits, agreed Sam. can see someone with hobnailed Kay," said Farmer Jones, after hear- "I heard Sam telling Lijah he boots has been around here, too." ing about the white patches. saw a badger's footprint in Bluebell "I can't see how you can be sure "I told you so!" gloated Tim. Wood," Kay said to her brother it's not the footprint of a big dog," "Rabbits eat bark when the weather Tim. said Kay doubtfully. is severe and other food is scarce." "Let's go and see if we can spot "There are five distinct toe-marks ; "But the weather hasn't been any traces of it," suggested Tim a dog only makes four !" Tim ex- severe lately," protested Kay. eagerly. plained. "1 say, look! there's a "Kay has a point there, Tim," "We wouldn't see a badger in great spotted woodpecker." chuckled the farmer. "During hard the daytime, surely," protested Kay. weather, rabbits, squirrels, and hares Kay turned just in time to see "I meant the footprint, you are all likely to resort to bark- a beautiful black and white bird ninny!" retorted Tim rudely. eating, but rabbits are often guilty Reaching Bluebell Wood some with a scarlet patch, before it van- ished from view. of gnawing the bark for other pur- time later, the children began a poses. They are rodents you see, careful search for old Brock's foot- "I guessed the print would be consequently it is necessary for them prints. by the stream," boasted Tim. "Bet to continually gnaw at something, "You should have asked Sam old Brock came for a drink." so as to prevent their incisors or whereabouts he saw them," com- "Pity you didn't think of it be- fore teeth from growing to an ab- plained Tim, after half an hour's fore we hunted over half Bluebell normal length. Incidentally, badgers fruitless searching. "Tell you what, Wood," said Kay, tartly. have been known to eat bark oc- we'll work along the bank of the "See those white patches where casionally." stream as far as the old log bridge, the bark has been eaten away? This last remark brought a smirk then we'll cross and search the op- That's the work of rabbits," Tim of satisfaction to Kay's face, form- posite bank. It's almost certain Sam told his sister. ing a strong contrast to the pained saw the prints where the soil was "It might have been a badger," frown which appeared on Tim's very soft. Kay commented. features.

33 we wish we could switch on some sunshine now ! Although we can never discover how to shed the warm beams of sun- shine which put the colour into the flowers and fruit; and a glow on the cheeks of boys and girls, because that is one of God's own secrets, yet there is a very special kind of "sun- shine" which we can produce. It has the same power to make people happy, and to brighten gloomy places. My. Dem. "Now it's my turn," said the sun This kind of sunshine is created by 54.44.440.4 eagerly. And he smiled broadly as he smiles, kind words, and cheerful concentrated his warm beams onto deeds. An old fable tells the story of an the man. In a short time, beads of In fact there is a Sunbeam Band argument between the sun and the perspiration rolled down the travel- composed of nearly 6,000 Sunbeams wind concerning which force was the ler's face, and he hastily flung off who make their own particular brand stronger. his coat! of sunshine. Boys and girls who make The debate went on for some time, Well, this is just a story, but it sunshine are happy people. ,Some are and neither seemed to be able to does remind us of the tremendous shining in countries far away, in prove his point, until finally the sun power of the sun. Strength is not lands dark with fear and superstition, smilingly said : "You see that man always found in blustery things like other are brightening dull corners in travelling along the road below? The storms and wind; but outstanding our own land. You would like to join first one of us who is able to force things are accomplished, especially for them? Write now for an application him to remove his coat shall be con- good, by quiet forces like the sun, form for an early enrolment to: sidered the stronger." whose rays bring light and warmth Auntie Pam, The Sunbeam Band, "All right," grumpily agreed the and healing to us. Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts. wind, confident that he would prove As I write to you, bright beams of Good-bye for now, boys and girls. his point in a very short time. He sunshine are filtering through the huffed and he puffed as hard as he office venetian blind, and making pat- Yours affectionately, could, but every icy breath directed terns on my desk top. However, on him caused the poor man to draw these moments of sunshine are rare his coat even more closely around now, and during November we can 11“.44:11. him. At last, furious at the prospect expect a number of cold and rather of defeat, the wind howled into a drab days, when horrid, clinging fog bitterly cold gale. The man bowed shrouds every familiar thing with its his head, and a final sharp gust of grey dampness, transforming the RESULTS OF AUGUST COMPETITION wind bowled him right over, still en- street where we live and even our own Prize-winners.—Clare Smithson, Manor veloped in his coat. rooms into places of gloom. How Farm, Orby, Skegness, Lincs. Age 10; Anne Crawford, White Lodge, Denewood Road, West Moors, Dorset. Age 8. Honourable Mention.—Carol Coughlin .:::.: (York); Charmaine Bee (Worcester); Sheila Walmsley (Goxhill); Barbara Petrov (Bin- field); Catherine Keen (Southend-on-Sea); Rosemary Allen (Ballymena); Carol Ran- dal (High Wycombe); Lynn Machen (Dringhouses); Trevor Helps (Exeter); Kim Stewart (Liverpool 13); Doreen Jees (Co. Antrim); E. J. 'Turffrey (Leigh-on-Sea); Margaret Sharrock (Plymouth); Barbara Mears (Benfleet); Susan Grice (Walkden); Nicholas Wright (Hanley); Heather Cutts (Gt. Wenham); Richard Gallivan (Garston); Graham Hall (Plymouth). Those who tried hard.—Connie Morford (Derby); Wendy Kitchen (Cleator Moor); Gary Gainsbury (London, W.7); David See how nicely Lean (St. Austell); Angela Lean (St. you can colour this Austell); Linda Watts (Kingswood); Pat picture and send it Brown (Manchester, ,14); Gloria Grizzle with your name, (Bristol, 5); Lynda Beaumont (Bagley); age, and address to Joy Price (Newport); Catherine Williams Auntie Pam, (Blaenau Ffestiniog); Bruce McGorum The Stanborough (Dunfermline); Carl Thompson (Harrow); Press Ltd., Watford, E. Mortimer (Bracknell); Jonathan Gwyn Herts., not later (Walthamstow); Raymond Atkinson than December 5th. (Whitby); Josephine Garnet (Derby); Ken- neth Durham (Oxford); Ernest Daley (Clap- ton, E.5); Carol Ann Crew (Glynneath); Theresa Lloyd (Wimbledon); Rhonda Bissessar (Fulham); Susan Lusty (Glou- cester); Denis Bissessar (Fulham); Danielle Lawniczak (Kettering).

BIBLE QUIZ ANSWERS 1. The dedication of King Solomon's Temple; 2. King Darius (Dan. 6:23); 3. The laying of the foundation of the new temple; 4. Psalm 100; 5. "Let us go into the house of the Lord"; 6. The dedication of the re-built wall of Jerusa- lem; 7. The birth of the infant Jesus (Luke 2:10); 8. The birth of John the Baptist; 19. The repentance of one sinner (Luke 15:10); 10. Zacchaeus (Luke 19:6); 11. Peter (Acts 2:411); 12. Rhoda (Acts 12:14).

34 Greatest upheaval in history Pope believes Europe will unite "No one of us, I think," asserts Walter Lippmann ADDRESSING members of "Young Europe" organ- in the New York Herald Tribune, "has as yet been izations in Rome, Pope Paul said that in spite of able to comprehend how much the relations have grave obstacles "we have firm belief that the cause changed in the twenty-five years since World War of the unification of Europe will finally overcome II. Virtually the whole structure of power as it all difficulties. These can truly block and slow down existed in 1940, has been destroyed, and there is unification, but they cannot definitely cut off the as yet no new equilibrium of power to replace it. . . . road toward the unity of peoples whose history and We are confronted with what is almost certainly the geography tend to make them mutually understand- greatest human upheaval in the history of mankind." able."

Finding a name Persian national monument ASKED at the Athens space congress about the GROWING appreciation of Iran's great past has names used to designate space fliers, U.S.S.R. Col. led to the famous Behistun Rock, with its victory Belyayer said he preferred "cosmonauts" because inscription of Darius the Great, being named a man is at present confronting the problems of space national monument under the care of the Department (or cosmos) just beyond the earth. "When man of Antiquities. Its trilingual inscription unravelled the flies between the planets," he added, the term "astron- mysteries of the cuneiform script of ancient Babylon auts" would doubtless be more appropriate. and Assyria.

No need to believe In sheep's clothing WHILE Dr. Leslie Weatherhead protests in the RETURNING from South Korea, the Rev. James Roe preface of his book, The Christian Agnostic, that of the British and Foreign Bible Society revealed that he is not attempting to "remove from the Christian the Communists are circulating in South Korea propa- religion all those things which the modern man finds ganda material bound in the standard covers of the it hard to believe," many will feel that he is doing gospel of Luke! just this when he says, "I do not ask the believer to accept the Virgin birth if it offends his intellect." Alcoholism in France "IT is estimated," states a correspondent in the Illiteracy increasing Times, "that about a million French women drink at THE staggering fact was brought out at the least one litre and a half of wine a day. Two million UNESCO world conference on illiteracy that despite men and 300,000 women drink two and a half all the efforts put forward, the number of the world's litres." illiterates increased by 35 millions between 1952 and 1960. "Space" trar WHILE plans for reaching the moon will continue Moondays replace Sundays to be a major concern of the Soviet Union and the BEGINNING in January, 1966, Buddhist Ceylon will United States, the chief preoccupation of both these have holidays at the time of each new phase of the countries is with military developments in "near moon and Sunday will become a working day. space." Already the United States is operating several Christians will be allowed a break to attend church kinds of "spy" satellites and the latest project author- services on their day of rest. ized is a manned orbiting space laboratory. ******************************

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