Banff Springs Hotel -- Luxurious in appointment, surrounded by nature at her best, in the heart,of the Canadian Rockies. 10c In This Issue .7) This Mighty Hour Blasting at the HILE visiting Dundee, Scot- And so it is with Jesus and our own • W land, an American who had THE THINGS souls; it is His personal concern in our heard much of Robert MacCheyne, salvation that grips us. The world is one of the "saints of Scotland," was full of great mottoes and fine sayings r/ anxious to find some one who could that GRIP US and there are none better than those give him a few personal reminiscences that Jesus Himself has given to us. of the great preacher. For that pur- ERNEST LLOYD Yet we may forget many of His words pose he went to see an old man who had of truth, and much of His noble phi- known MacCheyne and his preaching. "Ah," replied the old man, bright- losophy of life; we may fail to grasp "Can you tell me some of the texts ening, "that is a different question ! the breadth, depth, and perfect beauty of MacCheyne's great sermons ?" he One day when I was a laddie playing of His spiritual kingdom; but, having asked. by the roadside, Robert MacCheyne once come in contact with Him, we "I don't remember them," said the came along and, laying his hand upon can never escape His interest in our old man, shaking his head. my head, said, 'Jamie, I've been to see personal salvation. We are ever fas- "Then can you tell me some of the your pool sick sister. I'm always glad cinated by Him, whose heart yearns striking sentences he uttered or some to see her and help her as I can.' Then for the return of the prodigal, who lefe of his best sayings ?" he paused and after looking a bit into all to find the lone, lost sheep, and who "I've forgotten them entirely," was my eyes added : 'And, Jamie, I'm very died on the cross to prove His love the reply. much concerned about your own soul.' for us. The soul awakened by the The visitor was greatly disappointed. I've forgotten his texts and grand ser- touch and look of Jesus is never again "Well," he said, almost in despair, mons, sir, but I can still feel the satisfied with anything less inspiring "don't you remember anything about tremble of his hand and see the tear in than the presence of the Matchless him at all ?" his eye." One.

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seen, the cause has been discussed and precious things. He only told them the cure prescribed by many legislators, a half truth. The precious truth that TRUTH and scientific men of the day. What is would have made the Babylonians free the truth of the matter? The cause had they accepted it was never pro- • is sin, selfishness. What is the remedy? claimed by Hezekiah. The real truth YOUNG man fell down and re- Unselfishness—a practical application is, if we would obtain happiness, joy ceived a very serious injury to of the truth of God's word. Do unto in our accomplishments or possessions, Ahis arm. The doctor that was called others as ye would that they should we must give the glory to God. in, advised having an x-ray taken before do unto you. The truth cannot be suppressed. any attempt was made to treat the in- Truth lives forever. jured limb. He wanted to know the The Whole Truth If a California miner were to find truth before he could intelligently Knowing the truth, also means a piece of metal that he thought was apply the proper course of treatment. telling the truth, not half the truth. gold, the thing to do would be to have It would be a good thing for us if When the prophet Isaiah said unto it tested. Pure gold will always stand we would have an x-ray picture taken Hezekiah, "Set thine house in order the test no matter how rigorous. In of ourselves, so that we may know the for thou shalt die," did he say, "I have fact the more severe the test, the more truth. Why do I dislike Mr. So and fought a good fight, I have finished the firmly will its genuineness be estab- So? Why do I experience a feeling lished. Will your mode of life, your of relief when the sermon is over? church doctrines, stand the searching 4 Why am I very reluctant to go to test of the truth of God's word ?" prayer meeting? Why do I not give STANDS I repeat again, that the truth will as liberally as I should ? God is no only make us free when we have made respecter of persons. The x-ray re- work ?" No, the record says he turned a searching analysis and an x-ray of our veals the truth. Have we the courage his face unto the wall and wept sore. own hearts and frankly confess to God to apply the remedy? He was afraid to face the truth that all our vanity and miserable little sub On every hand we see evidences of he had come far short of living up to terfuges and have the courage to ac- God's creative power and if we accept his opportunities. God in His infin- cent God's truth in all its fullness. the truth of God's word, that God ite mercy gave him another chance and Then shall we be free indeed. created the heavens and the earth, it promised to prolong his life for fifteen "Ye shall know the truth, and the will free us from doubt and give us years, and even suspended or reversed truth shall make you free." • an effective shield that will turn aside the laws of nature to bolster up his all the -fiery darts of 'evolutionists-and weak- faith, - _ modernists. When the king of Babylon heard of EVERY TEST - It is the practical application of the wonderful thing that God had done truth that makes us free. The world in suspending the laws of nature he is passing through what is probably the sent messengers to Hezekiah to enquire J. H. DAVIES greatest depression the world has ever about it. Hezekiah showed them his

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Ezekiel Daniells

ANOTHER INTERESTING CHAPTER In the life of a very peculiar man

ELL, gentlemen," said Harry and loved his little joke on occasion. Knight at a gathering of the It was an open secret that Harry had `hot-stove club" at the general coun- planned to go to the University of try store, "what do you think about British Columbia, but somehow his H. A. LUKENS that ?" ambitions did not have enough iron A recent talk with Ezekiel Dan- in them to accomplish his resolve. iells had caused Harry to think on "If you had, you might have lost more serious subjects, and securing a your religion too." There was a gen- "You notice it says here that 4. copy of The Atlantic Monthly he had eral laugh, but Harry was evidently in the last days people would be 'will- just concluded reading an article by serious. ingly ignorant' that it was God who a young college graduate on the sub- Bible an Up-to-date Book made the world by His spoken word , ject, "What College did to My Reli- and that instead they would say that gion." "Yes, but I've been thinking a `all things continue as they were from Evidently Harry did not expect any whole lot about things lately. I was the beginning' of the creation. This reply to his question for he went on talking to 'Zeke the other day and he pretty well sums up the modern idea to elucidate for the benefit of the as- read me some statements from the of evolution, which holds there is no sembled company. Bible that seem to make it a real up-to- finished creation and that it is still • "Here's a college graduate who date book. I always thought of the going on ; whereas the Bible speaks writes on the subject,. 'What College Bible as written for people hundreds of creation as a finished act." did to My Religion.' He says that of years ago, but 'Zeke read some "But don't you know," said Tom nine out of every ten who received things that might almost have been Wilks, "that the silentists has showed • their college degrees last year must copied from to-day's newspaper." all them things to be true and that the admit that their college training had "Well, everybody knows there is world took millions of years to be acted as a poison to their faith. lie nothing to the Bible," said Tom built up ?" says that he grew up a strict Presby- Wilks. "At least, everybody with terian in one of the midwestern towns "No, I don't," replied Farmer Dan- any intelligence knows it." iells. "The evolutionists would have of America. The family always had Tom had once tried going to school prayers and every social activity of us believe that the earth was built up down in Kentucky, but somehow he in layers, one age upon another like • the town centered in the church. He hadn't seemed to agree with education says he really believed in God just as the coat of an onion, but as a matter of very much. He was like the young fact no scientist has ever located more much as in his own father, and he man who had gone to the law school also understood that the ten command- than three or four of such layers in for three days and returned to his any one place; and besides that, I was • ments meant what they said. Then home stating that the law wasn't what he talks about going to college and reading the other day that over in it was "cracked up" to be, and he was Alberta, and in a good many other imbibing the 'speculative reasoning sorry he had learned it. processes' which he says are at the base places, the so-called later periods are "Anyway," said Harry, " 'Zeke told of the teaching of all the larger Amer- buried underneath the earlier ones. ican and European colleges at the me he was coming down to-night and Some of the greatest scientists are resent time, and that they also teach I want him to tell you wise fellows openly admitting that evolution has one or two little things." never yet really been proven." • that even the God of the Bible came as a result of the evolution of men's A little later Ezekiel Daniells him- The discussion was getting beyond ideas, and, finally he says when he self came in and there was a general the depth of Tom Wilks so he wisely graduated 'life had lost its meaning; request for some information. In the subsided into silence. • I was desolate,' and, 'I remain irre- course of the remarks the magazine "Yes," declared Ezekiel, "this trievably lost to religion.' What do article which had started all the dis- Bible statement is just about true, tip you know about that ?" concluded cussion was mentioned, and the com- and if you want to find the reason for Harry Knight. pany was surprised to hear Farmer the trouble we are having in our world "Well, mebbe it's a good thing you Daniells state that this situation also to-day you don't have to search very didn't get to college after all, Harry," had been foretold in the Scriptures. much further to find out. In the sixth put in Captain Jackson slyly. Cap- Taking his well-worn Bible from chapter of Jeremiah beginning with tain Jackson was a retired "old salt" his pocket, Ezekiel read 2 Peter 3 :3-5. the sixteenth verse we are told how

MAY 1, 1933 3 God has repeatedly tried to get men ten commandments and only about when 'the earth was filled with vio- to obey His law, but because they re- one-fifth of the students knew any- lence,' you can understand the situa- fuse they must receive the natural thing about them at all!" tion. The so-called intelligent peo;a result of their own actions." "Well, it is only what you can ex- ple of these days have thought it was a "Why, it isn't only the colleges pect after a big war." said Hiram a smart thing to deny God. As this that are responsible for the decline in Martin. "You'll find things'li set- young man says, that Harry was read- 111 religion," said Captain Jackson. "I tle down a little later and be all right ing about, 'there is a wholesale apos- was reading the other day that when again." tasy of the younger generation,' and General Hughes, Superintendent of when men stop believing in God and ilttitude of our Youth Penitentiaries, was in Vancouver he a future life, it is bound to bring said that since the war the inmates of "But that's just where you're trouble. penitentiaries in Canada had increased wrong," declared Ezekiel Daniells. "Did you notice that some pub- from fourteen hundred and forty to "Did you notice that the warden of lishers in New York prepared a chil- over four thousand, and that he Sing Sing said the other day that he dren's book and submitted the proof blamed the training of the modern felt almost as if he was running a manuscripts to ladies of culture and home and school for this increase." Juvenile Home and that the killers education for their criticism, and thaa "Yes," said Harry Knight, "I was and gang leaders of to-day are only one of the things especially condemned reading that twenty simple Bible youngsters still in their teens or just was the picture of some children questions were given to over eighteen turned twenty. The criminals these kneeling reverently in prayer? The thousand school children in Virginia days had nothing to do with the war. wife of a professor at Columbia Uni- and less than half could answer them, But then when you read in 2 Timothy versity said, 'to introduce a small child and more than nine-tenths could not the third chapter of what is to happen to the idea of an omnipotent Father even name three Old Testament char- in these last days and remember that may easily rob him of his self-depend- acters! Then in a New York high Christ Himself stated that it would ence. He may form the habit of school questions were asked about the be 'as it was in the days of Noah' (Continued on page 14)

Queen Victoria's report card from school days. You will note the studies taken and the comments of her tutors.

CANADIAN WATCHMAN • •- BLASTING a t the ROCK

M. N. CAMPBELL • OME years ago a series of articles S appeared in a popular magazine under the above title. A competent reporter had been sent around to the leading colleges and universities to in- terview the professors as to their views on the Bible and the standards of Christian morality. The results of these interviews as published in the magazine were a genuine surprise to the reading public and a severe shock to Christian people. It was revealed that professors in even Christian in- • stitutions of learning were cynically scoffing at the cherished truths of Holy Scripture. The Eden story was taught to be mere folklore, the records of • miracles were dismissed as puerile. The marriage institution was declared to be obsolete and the ten command- ments branded as wholly inadequate to the needs of this modern age. Even in theological seminaries teachers were found who were practical infidels and scoffed at the record of creation as found in Genesis, the plagues of Egypt and the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea. Their unbelief did not halt on Easter Sunday what real difference sential teaching of the Christian faith. * with the Old Testament. They de- it would make to Christian faith and It still preserves the forms of godliness. nied the miraculous conception of the ideals if it turned out that Jesus did Christian hymns are sung and prayers Saviour and His resurrection and as- not rise from the dead. Had the are said. Texts are taken from the cension. apostle Paul been present he would Bible. But, aside from these signs have replied "And if Christ be not of Christian worship there is no fur- Ministers Teaching Evolution risen, then is our preaching vain, and ther resemblance, for the sermons are & To find such a situation in the col- your faith is also vain . . . . and if sterile as far as arousing faith and con- 'lieges and universities to which they Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; fidence in God are concerned. When • were sending their children was bad ye are yet in your sins. Then they the preachers no longer think of the enough, but soon they were amazed also which are fallen asleep in Christ Deity as a personal being but merely to discover that the young ministers are perished. If in this life only we as an impersonal principle it cannot it coming out of the various seminaries have hope in Christ, we are of all men bring much comfort to the tried and were echoing similar views. But, how most miserable." 1 Cor. 15 :14, 17-19. tempted to think of appealing to an could it be otherwise when those young Hence modernism is wholly at var- unknown something. It has been the preachers had been under the tuition iance with the teachings of either purpose of God to reveal Himself as of unbelieving teachers during the per- Christ or His apostles. It is a source a kind heavenly Father, One Who is iod of their training? Not long since, of wonder to many how far the liberal touched with our infirmities and sor- , a prominent minister in a large western or modernistic wing of the Protestant rows. He sent His son into the world city in Canada asked his congregation church has swung away from the es- (Concluded on page 14)

MAY 1, 1933 5 E speak of the "common" cold W because it is so common. We may say "just a cold," as though a cold were a trivial matter. But "only a The Too Common.. cold" is too often the beginning of something that ends seriously. Colds should not be taken lightly, as they Suggesting Preventative Measures • may be followed by very serious com- plications. In children, colds may mean diph- and theria, measles, whooping cough, or scarlet fever, and for older persons, Simple Home Treatments pneumonia, influenza, or other ser- ious illness. Tuberculosis may be- come active after a neglected cold, the tissues becoming weakened and the "catch" from others and the kind :ient bowel elimination, which causes latent or smoldering disease aroused. which you take without coming in ,ystemic sluggishness,—anything that'll, While a cold may seem only a contact with anyone who has a cold. ends to debilitate the body or de- slight physical discomfort of a few Infection from another person's cold! crease its resistive powers, may be the days or possibly two or three weeks, is possible through his coughing or, iorerunner of a cold. it wears tremendously on the system, sneezing or by using, without wash- Changes in the circulation, such as and lowers the resistance to more ing, silver or a drinking glass which lriving the blood from certain parts dangerous diseases. A cold is usually has been used by the one with a cold. .1of the body to congest or stagnate in "cured" or "wears itself out," but it 'other parts, are closely associated with How You Catch It 11 leaves the patient the worse off for 'taking cold. Sudden changes of the attack. It can wear on a patient There seems to be much still to be 'weather; inadequate clothing that lets till he feels about as miserable with learned about colds. Modern medi- t the body chill; an unwise change to a cold as with any other ailment. cine is agreed that germs are the lighter clothing; exposure to a damp, causative factors, and that there may chilly atmosphere; sitting on the damp fI "Little" Cold be different kinds of germs involved. ground or in a draft; standing in The tendency to regard a cold They may be present in the nose and shirt sleeves while warm and per- lightly is one of the serious things throat any time, and become active haps sweating after vigorous exercise; about the matter. Colds are "catch- when the body resistance becomes getting the clothing or shoes wet and ing," easily transmissible from one lowered. not changing to dry soon enough, person to another. Great care should Predisposition to cold may result may so lower the tone of the body be taken not to spread a cold. The from various conditions. Overheated that the germs of cold find it easy to mother who may be suffering very rooms, which enervate the system; invade. slightly should guard against infect- coddling, which makes the system In an epidemic of colds the germs ing the child. A "little" cold to easily susceptible to temperature may be so numerous or virulent that mother may mean a serious cold to changes; poor ventilation, which some people who have not done any- baby. Even an older person may vitiates the air and deprives the body thing particularly to predispose them- have serious results from what seems of the tonic effects of fresh oxygen; selves may be overcome. 'With the a mild type of cold. overeating, which throws extra work much ccughing and sneezing and There are two types of cold recog- on the stem ; excessive fatigue of other means of spreading infection, nized by medical men, the kind you body or mind; irregular and insuffi- exposure is made easy. That is a good time for everybody to be very careful—those who have a cold not to give it to others, and those who do not have one not to get it. Prevention While there is no absolutely sure way of preventing a cold, there it, much that can be done toward keep- ing on the safe side. Keep away from people having colds, especially during a time of in- fluenza. Keep up the body resistance eating good nourishing food, getting your full amount of sleep, exercising out of doors in the sunshine every day, drinking six to eight glasses of water a day, keeping the bowels . regular. 6 CANADIAN WATCHMAN •Cold •

By L. A. HANSEN

• Some authorities claim that an acid-forming diet is conducive to colds; hence the foods that form alkaline ash would be indicated, such as dried beans, celery, oranges, better, is important if one catches a spray to use following the cleansing spinach, beets, bananas, carrots, let- cold. The first symptoms—chilly spray: • tuce, potatoes, almonds, dried peas, sensations, sneezing, dryness of the Camphor 10 grains raisins. Eat very few, if any, sweets. nose and throat, running nose, eyes Menthol 10 grains Among the acid-forming foods to burning, head stopped up, back and Oil eucalyptus 10 drops be avoided are meats, bouillon, cran- legs aching—should have prompt at- Light mineral oil 2 ounces • berries, plums, rhubarb. Also avoid tention. The longer the delay the A short hot foot or leg bath, or a tea and coffee. more difficult the cure. It is proper hot leg pack, with fomentations to Train the skin to stand tempera- care the first day or two that counts chest, abdomen, and spine, will be ef- ture changes by frequent bathing. in keeping a cold from hanging on for fective for quickening the circulation. The daily cool sponge bath is excel- weeks, and perhaps resulting in some- Follow with rest in bed. The treat- lent. thing much more serious. ment should be given with the least Wear suitable clothing, enough to Rest, preferably in bed, is advis- possible exposure. be comfortable. It is better to use able, especially if the temperature is The Leg Bath extra wraps for outdoors than to 100° or over. Weakness may be a • wear extra-heavy underwear. Wear sign of influenza. Have materials all ready—a pail thick-soled shoes in winter and rub- Induce perspiration by drinking two thirds full of water as hot as bers on rainy days. Cold weather plenty of hot water; it may be in the the hand can bear, a vessel of boiling calls for woolen stockings. fOrm of hot lemonade only slightly water, a pitcher of hot, weak, un- Breathe through the nose. The sweetened. One glass of water or sweetened lemonade, one or two nasal passages filter the air, while in fruit juice an hour is in order. blankets. mouth breathing the germs are taken Take a hot bath on going to bed. Turn back the bedclothes, and let directly into the throat. The bath is more effective if followed the patient undress and sit on the side If there is trouble in breathing, see by a quick cold wet-hand rub, dipping of the bed, wrapped in the blankets a doctor. Diseased tonsils and ade- the hand repeatedly in cold water and and with the feet in the pail of water, noids, if any, should have attention. rubbing the body. Dry well and arranging the blankets around the Washing the hands before eating keep warm. Do not go out of doors pail so that all cold air is excluded • should be a regular practice. or into the cold under four to six from the patient's skin. Sleep with open windows, summer hours after the hot bath. Better go The bath should be taken as hot and winter. Fresh air is one of the right to bed. Provide plenty of bed- as can be borne, more hot water being best health defenders. Some persons ding to keep warm. cautiously added as the skin can bear may not be able to stand open win- Take a laxative. Eat lightly of it. Give the lemonade during the dows, but all can have the sleeping alkaline foods. treatment, continuing until the per- IP rooms well ventilated. Overheated The "cold tablets" frequently ad- spiration is profuse. Avoid too heavy • rooms cause more colds than under- vertised may contain drugs that are sweating, as that would weaken the heated. A 68° temperature is prefer- bad for the heart and may be habit patient. able. Give a complete change of air forming. After perspiration is induced, let at least twice a day. In the use of nasal sprays, care the patient roll up in the blankets on Keep the feet dry. In case you get should be exercised not to spread the the bed, with the arms inside, and your feet wet, change to dry shoes infection. A cleansing spray may be cover with bedclothes. Draw the ♦ and stockings as soon as possible, made by adding a teaspoon each of blankets tightly around the neck and thoroughly drying the feet and rub- salt and soda to a quart of warm feet to exclude the air. bing them briskly with a rough water. The solution is best used with Avoid exposure to the cold air dur- towel. a short nozzle nasal spray. ing and after treatment. Apply a Early treatment, the earlier the The following makes a good oil (Concluded on page 15)

MAY 1, 1933

• This Mighty

A World

E face to-day the greatest 'W crisis in the history of man- kind. All the past pales before the more food than was ever extracted and privileges. Each nation, each group• stupendous issues of this mighty from earth's soil before, it witnesses of financiers, seeks first to safeguard hour. the tragic spectacle of multitudes its own interests. And so the world, Like a mammoth liner, torn from starving while wheat is burned for leaderless, plunges on in wretchedness its moorings and rudderless, the lack of purchasers. Though equipped and misery to its doom. with the finest machinery and able world tosses helplessly upon a raging Nationalism Gone Mad ocean of trouble and distress. Giant to supply in abundance the needs and waves of passion beat against it, comforts of every human being, it Accentuating the trade paralysis and while swift currents of terror and beholds countless thousands languish- intensifying the economic blizzard despair carry it ever nearer to the ing in enforced idleness, while mines that is blighting and devastating the gaunt, cruel rocks that loom through are deserted, factories are silent, life of the world is the growing spirit the darkness ahead. mills are closed, and ships lie rotting of nationalism. Particularly since the Though equipped with every mod- in every port. war every nation, great and small, ern invention, every comfort of civi- has become possessed of a new pride Amazing Paradox lization, every aid to material pleas- in itself. Even in new countries, ure, none of these lessens its peril. This appalling stagnation of trade, scarce born, a veritable riot of patriot- Strong men mount the bridge and with its consequent unemployment, ism has broken out. Everywhere seize the helm in vain. It no longer distress, and starvation, occurring in there has been a passionate revival of obeys them. The ship is out of con- the midst of the enlightened twentieth national histories, national languages, trol. At the mercy of winds and century, affords one of the most national flags, national ambitions. waves it drifts on towards destruc- amazing paradoxes of all time. Tariff barriers have been upreared to tion. Wealth and poverty have been known provide work for nationals by exclud- Never was mankind in such des- from history's dawn, but never on the ing foreign products. New armies perate straits. Though blessed with gigantic scale we behold to-day. and navies have been created ; and all the achievements of a veritable Never has the world known such ac- countries that cannot balance their golden age it faces staggering prob. cumulations of gold as now lie in the normal budgets have shouldered a lems that baffle its wisest sons. vaults of the national banks of some burden of armaments far beyond their of the Great Powers; and never was capacity to bear. . . . Human Wisdom Bankrupt there such widespread destitution. Men of noble desire, realizing the Possessing more wealth than ear- Yet no one seems able to bridge inevitable outcome of such folly, have lier ages ever conceived, it groans the gulf between them. The bank- convened conferences to remove, or under colossal loads of international ruptcy of human wisdom becomes at least to minimize, the threatening debt and sees millions crushed by daily more evident. No one is will- perils. They have sought to bind the pitiless poverty. Though producing ing to give way or to surrender rights nations more closely together and to

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'Hour A. S. MAXWELL

I Agony

• bridge the widening gulfs between them. But for the most part their efforts have been fruitless. . . . Grave and menacing as these con- siderations are, they become still more serious when it is realized that the very foundations upon which our elaborate social order has been erected are crumbling. Christianity, the mainstay of modern civilization, is threatened by many new and subtle perils. The safeguards it has thrown around the home and family life are being openly attacked. Licentious- ness is a growing evil. In every country the authority of law is being beasts, are stampeding through the catastrophe before the end of another challenged. Rioting, banditry, and earth defying the control of men. half-decade." all forms of crime are increasing at Gigantic, world-embracing move- In his widely published address an alarming rate. • ments are on foot, some for good, to the bankers of the City of London, In many lands revolution is a con- many for evil. Events of the first Mr. Montagu Norman said: stant menace. The prolonged de- magnitude follow one another with "The vast forces of the world, the pression, the prevailing poverty, the dazzling rapidity. Everything hap- herd instinct, the desperation of the increasing unemployment, are devel- pens on a huge, unprecedented scale. people who have neither work nor oping a determination among the The pace is terrific. . . . market, have brought about a series suffering millions that by some means From some of the greatest states- of events and a general tendency or other they will change the system men, philosophers, financiers, and re- which appear to me at the present that has broken their lives and blasted ligious leaders of our time are issuing time to be outside the control of any their brightest hopes. This stratum the most solemn admonitions con- man, of any Government, of any of society is trembling with unrest like cerning the perils that confront the country. the bosom of mother earth before world to-day. With one voice they "I believe that if every country some mighty quake. admit that we have reached a turn- and every Government could get to- Perilous indeed are the times in ing point in history. Without hesi- gether and act together things would which we live. Mighty forces have tation they declare that civilization is be different. But they do not seem to been unleashed and, like untamed in jeopardy and that the immediate be able to do so. The difficulties are future holds the most terrifying pos- so vast, the forces are so unlimited, sibilities for the whole human race... precedents are so lacking, that I ap- "We are at a turning point of proach the whole subject in ignor- fate," wrote Mr. J. L. Garvin in the ance and in humility. It is too great Observer of October 9, 1932. "The for me." moral situation is in some ways what it was half a decade before 1914. Sick with Doubt On present lines the peace of Europe "We are living," said Mr. H. G. is almost sure to perish in another Wells, in an address at the London

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School of Economics, reported in the versally admitted to be the most ser- plunging headlong into some fearful Daily Telegraph, "in a civilization ious the world has ever experienced, overwhelming catastrophe. which is very rapidly going to pieces. and the most difficult it has ever had What does it mean? What is There may be a dreadful fate in to adjust. . . . The distress of all na- going to happen? Like Eli of old we store for many young people here to- tions which is rapidly growing threat- ask, "What meaneth the noise of this night. You may be shot, or maimed ens to bring universal revolution. tumult ?" and smashed ; you may be scourged or The difficulties of adjustment are thus We may well ask, for the future starved before your lives run out. . . . not diminishing but increasing. The of every man, woman, and child upon Just as in the time of Noah, when situation needs therefore to be con- the globe is involved. Our own safety, • the flood came, we must build an sidered not as a depression but as a happiness, comfort, life itself, is bound Ark amid the waste of ruin that is disaster which necessitates and de- up with the answer. It is a subject around us." mands the combined efforts of states- which deserves our best thought. In- "The heart of the nations," wrote men and peoples of all countries to deed it demands immediate and ser- James Douglas in the Sunday Express, overcome. It is not the wreck of a ious attention. "is sick with fear. Statesmen with single nation that is involved—it is Voices from the Past their ears to the ground are terror- the wreck of a world. Universal stricken and perplexed." As one seeks to solve the mystery of The Prince of Wales, addressing a the present world crisis and under- great representative gathering of the stand its meaning, pondering mean- youth of the British race at the while the solemn warnings of some of Albert Hall, stated : "We have before In the June its greatest sons, voices from the dim, us to-day a world sick with fearful distant past call across the centuries, doubt, weary with repeated disap- WATCHMAN illuminating the present darkness and pointments, a world of troubled na- throwing welcome rays of light into • tions whose vital need is courageous the shrouded future. faith in each other. It is an era of Mr. Maxwell Cries one: "There shall be a time of potential plenty, when confidence will continue his discussion trouble, such as never was since there should be supreme, yet we see in al- was a nation even to that same time." most every land widespread distress of this interesting and "And at that time shall Michx1 stand and perplexity." up, the great Prince which standeth "We stand to-day, without doubt," timely subject. for the children of thy people." Dan. says Sir John Pratt, a former Lord 12:1. of the Treasury and Under-Secre- And another : "The Eternal ar- tary for Scotland, "at one of the great raigns the nations, He indicts all man- turning points of history, the end of bankruptcy accompanied by univer- kind, and puts the wicked to the our civilization or the sharing of the sal revolution will place in jeopardy sword. The Lord of hosts declares: gifts of that civilization among all not merely civilization but life itself." FROM RACE TO RACE CALAMITY EX- the families of mankind." —"The Way to Recovery," pages TENDS, A MIGHTY STORM IS STIRRING And Professor Cassel adds : "We 159, 160. FROM THE EARTH'S FAR ENDS." Jer. have no security that our society can 25:31, 32 (Moffatt). survive the financial and economic Where Are We Going? And yet another : "There shall be collapse which threatens the world. Warnings such as these cannot be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and Let us beware lest the days of our lightly dismissed. They are full of in the stars; and upon the earth dis- civilization are numbered." somber meaning. These authorities tress of nations, with perplexity; the realize that mankind is nearing the sea and the waves roaring; men's. The Wreck of a World precipice. From their wide exper- hearts failing them for fear, and for , "The present crisis," says the noted ience they see that there is scarcely a looking after those things which are economist, Sir George Paish, "is uni- hope left of saving the world from coming on the earth: for the powers

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of heaven shall be shaken. And then We can see where we are going. The men," he said, pointing down to the shall they see the Son of man coming in last steep, slippery descent stands out assembly, "are ready for anything. a cloud with power and great glory." as plain as pen can make it. And They have the noblest ideals. If only Luke 21 :25-27. above the precipice shine in glittering some dynamic person could electrify Amazing words! "A time of letters the warning words: "The com- the meeting and galvanize these men trouble such as never was!" Do we ing of the Lord draweth nigh." into action!" not see at least the beginnings of it He was right. That was what the The One Way Out surrounding us to-day? conference lacked. That is what "From race to race calamity ex- Can it be true? It seems incred- every such conference lacks. They all tends." What a picture of our ruined ible. fail for want of some great, masterful, and impoverished world! And yet, facing all the hopelessness, saving power. That is what the all the wretchedness, all the misery of "A mighty storm is stirring from world needs most of all to-day. our modern world, what better so- Is there any reason to suppose that the earth's far ends." How true it is! lution of its problems and tragedies such an inspired personality will arise? Can we not already hear the mutter- GP could there be? Dare we hope that the present chaos * ings of this coming conflict? Standing some time ago in the gal- will terminate in a divine visitation? "Distress of nations, with perplex- lery of the great hall in Geneva where Will this be the stupendous climax to ity." The words are on everybody's the Disarmament Conference wds this mighty hour? • lips„ Did not the Prince of \Vales taking place, we looked down upon • • • use them at the Albert Hall ? the great gathering of statesmen who Prophecy has indeed become his- had come from the very ends of the "The blossom cannot tell what tory, and light shines out of obscurity. earth to find some way of solving the becomes of its odor; and no man can Another piece of life's puzzle has most difficult of all international tell what becomes of his influence and found its place. Destiny's map has problems. As we were engrossed example, that roll away from him and • become yet more complete. The broad with the wonder of this stupendous go beyond his ken in their perilous highway is now completely marked. scene a man spoke to us. "These mission." MAY 1, 1933 11 The SABBATH of Creation .4 • WHEN, HOW and WHY was the SABBATH made? A. R. OGDEN

NE of the most widely and gen- when he says, "All scripture is given them.... And God saw everything O erally discussed topics in the by inspiration of God, and is profit- that He had made, and, behold, it was religious world at the present time is able for doctrine, for reproof, for very good. And the evening and the that of the Sabbath question. The at- correction, for instruction in right- morning were the sixth day." Gen. tention of people everywhere is being eousness: That the man of God may 1:26 - 31. What story, what record, called in one way or another to this be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto what description could be more fas- • important subject. It is no longer all good works." 2 Tim. 3:16, 17. cinating? A marvelous clear, brief, a matter of concern and interest in If, therefore, we shall be certain of forceful and emphatic record of the one part of the world alone, but peo- our findings and desire to know of a beginning of things as far as our ple of all lands are giving serious and certainty of the correctness of our world is concerned. careful study to the issues involved in conclusions it will be necessary that The First Sabbath the weekly day of rest. And that it we make the Bible our source of infor- is a subject of concern and deep im- mation. To the Book, therefore, we Now we come direct to the study portance we would not deny. Flow will resort as our court of appeal as of the Sabbath institution itself. We shall we arrive at an intelligent and our standard of authority. cannot do better than to quote the correct solution to the question? Shall words of the record. "Thus the heav- custom be the standard of evidence? Go Back to the Beginning ens and the earth were finished, and Shall the opinions of man be the guid- It is well in the consideration of all the host of them. And on the ing star in the search for truth? any subject to go to the very founda- seventh day God ended His work Shall the practice of the church as tion, so we begin our study by going which He had made; and He rested such be accepted as authority? To to the very beginning. "In the begin- on the seventh day from all His work allow any of these factors to deter- ning God created...." Certainly we which He had made. And God • mine the right or wrong of the issue cannot go back farther in our investi- blessed the seventh day, and sanctified would be unsafe. For the history gation than the "beginning." In the it: because that in it He had rested of the ages evidences that custom, first chapter of the book of Genesis, from all His work which God created popular opinion, the sayings of men — the book of beginnings, we have the and made." Gen. 2:1 - 3. A cor- even in the church itself—are not interesting and thrilling story of what rect knowledge and understanding of criterions by which we can be certain was accomplished upon each of the the Sabbath institution then will de- of the correctness of a vital issue. first six days of the creative week. pend on a close and careful study of Surely this record of creation is much the text itself. Let the reader note Prove All Things more interesting and conclusive than that the Sabbath institution rests, or The great apostle Paul gives us any of the theories advanced by our is based upon, certain uncontrovert- wise counsel when he says, "Prove all friends who advocate the evolutionary ible facts. First it is stated that God things; hold fast that which is good." ideas of the beginning of things. How ended on the seventh day all His work 1 Thess. 5:21. The sabbath ques- vague, how unsatisfying, how empty which He had made. That is, the tion is one of the "all things." So the these false conceptions of the exist- ending of the creation was resting. admonition to, "prove all things" ence of things as they now are. In a He ended His work which He had would certainly seem applicable in few short verses of this first short made, by resting "on the seventh day the consideration of this subject. It chapter of the Bible, the Book of God, from all His work which He had is certainly one of the all things. But we have a most wonderfully interest- made." Thus it is clear that the fin- again I ask the question, what shall ing story in the record of the doings ishing of the creation was resting. Or be the standard of evidence? To of the six days of this creative week, in other words the act of resting on the what court of appeal shall we resort which culminates in the crowning seventh day was the terminating or • so that when the evidence in the case work of the creation, the making of finishing of the work of creation. has been fully heard that we may be man. "And God said, Let us make After ending His work of creation certain that the conclusions reached man in Our image, after Our likeness: by resting, the record says, "And God are conclusive. In response to this and let them have dominion over the blessed the seventh day, and sanctified question there comes ringing in my fish of the sea, and over the fowl of it : because that in it He had rested ears the words penned by the prophet the air, and over the cattle, and over from all His work which God created of old, "To the law and to the testi- all the earth, and over every creeping and made." Verse 3. mony : if they speak not according to thing that creepeth upon the earth. The Sabbath of creation is there- this word, it is because there is no So God created man in His own fore set off by three distinct separate light in them." Isa. 8 :20. With this image, in the image of God created He acts. First God rested. He rested fully agree the words of Paul again him; male and female created He upon the seventh and upon no other 12 CANADIAN WATCHMAN day of the week. After resting, and have created the world on the first day self could not have done. It only because that He had rested upon that and have rested upon the self same goes to show how far man fails when day He blessed the seventh day. Thus first day from all of His work which he undertakes to tamper with the di- • the seventh day becomes from the very He created and made. Thus the only vine program. creation a blessed rest day. But God day of any length week that God In conclusion let us remember that did more. He not only rested upon might have used in the work of crea- the Sabbath of creation, the Sabbath and blessed the seventh day, but He tion that He Himself could not have of Eden, the Sabbath given to our sanctified it. Thus we have a sancti- "rested from all of His work," upon, first parents in Eden, before sin entered fied, blessed, rest day. And which would be the first day of the week. this world was the seventh day of day is it? The seventh day of the So the first day of the week is the only the week. Had sin never entered week. How definitely and extraor- day that it would have been impossible God's fair creation, had man never dinarily God set apart this day. It to have ever been made a Sabbath. transgressed against his Maker which comes to us as the oldest and only Strange that when man undertook to day then would naturally have ever commemorative memorial of this alter and change God's plan that he remained the Sabbath, the day of rest? world's history. On the very first sev- substituted the first day as the weekly Surely all will agree that the day • enth day of this world's history the rest day, a thing that the Lord Him- (Concluded on page 15) divine seal was set upon this creative memorial of rest. What is it to sanctify? Webster defines the word sanctify in the fol- lowing language. "To make sacred or holy ; set apart to holy use ; hal- A Half Hour low." Thus in the very beginning God set apart for a sacred and holy with the use the very first seventh day of earth's history. He had just created man on the previous day. How natural and proper that He should BIBLE set apart a day as memorial of His creative work and this He did in rest- • • • ing upon, blessing and sanctifying the seventh day. Thus it is as clear as language can make it that the Sab- THE SABBATH bath of creation is the seventh day of the week, and I wish to repeat by way 1. When was the Sabbath made? Gen. 2: 1 - 3. of emphasis that as long as the crea- tion exists, and it does still exist, that 2. Who made it? John 1: 1 - 3, 14; Eph. 3: 9; Col. the fact of the seventh day rest re- 1 : 13 - 17. mains. God rested upon, blessed and 3. How is the work of the Creator described? Gen. sanctified the seventh day. 1:31; 2:1 - 3. Could Any Other Day Be the 4. For whom was the Sabbath made? Mark 2: 27. Sabbath? 5. How does God regard the Sabbath? Ex. 20 : 8 - 11 ; It might be asked could God have Isa. 58 : 13, 14; Mark 2 : 28 ; Rev. 1 : 10. rested upon, blessed and sanctified any 6. Of what is the Sabbath a memorial? Ex. 20: 8 - 11 ; other day than the seventh day? Yes, Ps. 111 : 4. that would have been possible. Since 7. God, created all things by speaking By what miracle did God designate the Sabbath in them into existence, "For He spake, the weekly cycle? Ex. 16 : 4, 5, 14 - 30. This miracle was repeated every week for forty years, and it was done; He commanded, and definitely marking the Sabbath 2,080 times. it stood fast." Ps. 33: 9. He could have made a week of any length that 8. Did Christ and His disciples keep the Sabbath? Luke • 4: 16; Matt. 24:15 - 20. • He had desired. He might have taken a longer period than seven days, and 9. Did the disciples keep the Sabbath after the cruci- He might have used a less number of fixion? Luke 23 : 56; Acts 13 : 42 - 44; 16: 13; days. He could have done all that He 17:2; 18:4. • did on the first six days in five days and have rested upon the sixth day, 10. Did Christ change the Sabbath? Matt. 5: 17, 18. He could have likewise have accom- 11. Are Christians under obligation to keep the Sabbath ? plished, had He so desired, all that 1 John 2: 3 - 6; Isa. 56: 1, 2; 58: 13, 14. He did on any number of days and 12. Is the Sabbath ,of "Paradise lost" to be the Sabbath rested the next, making it the Sabbath. of "Paradise restored"? Isa. 66: 22, 23; Rev. 22: 14. • But one thing that God Himself could not have done and that is to Max 1, 1983 13 BLASTING AT THE ROCK Northampton, Massachusetts, unbur- "Read them some of the Bible • OF AGES dens his mind as follows : verses you read to me the other day," (Concluded from page 5) "So instead of man's being a sep- suggested Harry Knight. "Those arate creation of God, we now have words 'driven to darkness' have been • to reveal Himself to man. It is Satan's come to regard man as the highest form in my mind ever since." studied purpose to hide God from a of animal life. The philosophy of to- fallen race and plunge them into un- Ezekiel drew up a chair and joined day is not to save the soul of man in the circle around the stove in which belief and its consequent ruin. It is the world to come because we have tragic to think of professed Christian the fire crackled cheerily. given up much hope of that. We no ministers aiding in with such a dread- "First of all I might read the state- longer turn for guidance for the good ful scheme. ment in Isaiah 2 : 7 - 9, of the land life to the sacred Scriptures as we did being full of silver and gold, no end Blind Leading the Blind seventy-five years ago, but rather turn to wealth, and yet everybody bowing to men who are experts in the prob- Recently a group of candidates for down to worship before wealth as an lems of men and life. the ministry were asked if they be- idol. There is eight times as much gold "We admit we no longer know lieved in the divinity of Christ. Their above the surface of the earth to-day Ak what the purpose of the Creator of reply was that Christ was as divine as there was a hundred years ago. the universe was, if there be one, in as they were — no more and no less. There's enough for all; but we are actually bringing about the universe, Other questions revealed their agnos- told in the fifth chapter of James that the purpose of creating this particular ticism on the virgin birth, the resurrec- rich men would literally 'heap treas- earth; the why and wherefore of man; tion and the recorded miracles of ure together.' Rich and poor alike the ultimate destiny of man. All Jesus. Strange to say these young are worshiping the god of wealth these things at the present time and candidates were passed by the examin- and forgetting God and men in their forever will remain a complete mys- ing board and are now presiding over selfishness. The terrible condition of tery to man. . . . We can't imagine Christian churches ! Under such the earth is described in the twenty- why man was put in this planet. . . . leadership how can the general spread fourth chapter of Isaiah as caused by We don't know where we are going of unbelief be avoided? Jesus said, men having transgressed the law of from here.... We are absolutely in "When the Son of man cometh, shall God. And in the eighth chapter we the dark." He find faith on the earth ?" Luke read those words that Harry men- "In the dark." That is where man 18 :8. tioned. This eighth chapter is really lands when he turns from the guid- It is a sad fact that faith is rapidly a wonderful prophecy. In the ninth ance of the word of God and places dying out of the churches as doubts verse it describes the defeat of the • his trust in science, falsely so-called. and out-and-out infidelity are being German arms, the most highly organ- "If the foundations be destroyed, poured into the ears of the people from ized nation in the recent war; in the what can the righteous do ?" Ps. 11 :3. week to week. twelfth verse it mentions the League A concerted effort is now on to The Anglican church has a wonder- of Nations and the fact that it would blast away these foundations but let ful record of loyalty to the word of not be an effectual preventive of war ; us remember that the "foundation of God. Under its auspices the British the succeeding verses speak of those God standeth sure." 2 Tim. 2:19. and Foreign Bible Society has trans- who will not accept the law of God ; Happy is the man who builds upon it. lated the Scriptures into more than and the twenty-first and twenty- 800 languages and placed them in the A A A second verses say of them, 'They shall hands of hundreds of millions of peo- pass through it, hardly bestead and f ple. It is sad to record that at a recent EZEKIEL DANIELLS hungry : and it shall come to pass, Lambeth Conference of Anglican (Continued from page 4) that when they shall be hungry, they Bishops in London a pronouncement shall fret themselves, and curse their was made by Dr. Lang, Archbishop leaning on some person or power in- king and their God, and look upward. of Canterbury and Primate of all stead of growing up in the belief that And they shall look unto the earth ; a England, in favor of evolution. He he alone must meet and solve his prob- and behold trouble and darkness, said "We are aware of the extent to lems as they arise.' So-called edu- dimness of anguish ; and they shall be which the very thought of God seems cated grown people talk like that and driven to darkness.' I tell you that to be passing away from the minds then wonder why the younger gener- this depression, this crime wave, this and hearts of many, even in nominally ation believes them to the extent of war spirit, and every other terrible Ak Christian nations." "We are now doing just the things they want to do. thing to-day is brought about because ip able," he concludes, "with the aid of Those two young men in who men have forgotten God. • various departmental sciences to trace killed a little boy just for the thrill fifty-ninth chapter of Isaiah in outline and continuous progress of they got out of it, and thousands of "The creative development in which, at others, are the logical result of such says that 'truth is fallen in the street every stage, we find the Divine Pres- teaching." and equity cannot enter,' and reading • the margin, that a good man is ac- ence and power." Stripped of its The Outcome counted 'mad' in these days, and that sacrosanct verbiage this is a bold ac- is just about true." knowledgement of the teachings of "Well, what's it all coming to any- evolution and a denial of the Bible way ?" said Captain Jackson. "I It was characteristic of Tom Wilks version of direct creation. often think about how things are to- that when suddenly struck with an Dr. Harry E. Barnes, a noted lec- day and wonder what the outcome idea or a memory he would take his • turer and educator of Smith College, will be." feet from the bottom of the stove and

14 CANADIAN WATCHMAN 6 suddenly sit up straight in his chair, THE TOO COMMON COLD frequently causing no little amuse- (Concluded from page 7) s, mentto his fellow "club" members. cold compress to the head to prevent • At Farmer Daniells' last expression, faintness. Tom remembered that he himself had The next morning, if the bathroom referred to the foolishness of 'Zeke's is near, take a hot tub bath. Have a "trying to be so everlasting good," basin of cold water at hand. Follow- and the ensuing jerk with which he ing the bath, go quickly over the body sat up nearly caused him to over- raw! ran- with a cold wet-hand rub, with special balance. But Ezekiel went on as attention to the chest and throat. though he had not noticed the inter- Follow with a quick, brisk rub with ruption or the smiles which accom- a coarse towel. panied it. A hot sponge bath, followed by a cold hand bath and a vigorous towel Present Conditions Foretold rub, may be taken if it is not practic- io "Again, Christ Himself, speaking able to have the tub bath. Avoid ex- in the twenty-first chapter of Luke, posure to the air as much as possible. tells of famines, pestilences, fearful Rest Haven Sanitarium If a cold on the chest holds on more sights, and men actually expiring than a month, have a competent from fear of what is coming. The and Hospital physician give a thorough examin- world's greatest known famine oc- ation. It is important to be on guard curred recently in China, as did per- Sidney, B. C. against pulmonary tuberculosis or haps the greatest flood since Noah. some other complication. Earthquakes and disasters are every- The only institution of its kind in the • • • where. There is only one outcome to Dominion of Canada. Where the THE SABBATH OF all this, according to the Bible, and CREATION that is the second coming of Christ. original Battle Creek Sanitarium (Concluded from page 13) "The fifth chapter of James tells methods aro used. Qualified physi- us that when these things happen 'the divinely appointed, the day on which Judge standeth before the door.' At cians and competent nurses. God rested, blessed and sanctified His coming, it says in Isaiah, men will Located only 18 miles from Victoria, would have been the rest day for the cast their wealth to the moles and to by the seaside. Delightful winter human family through ceaseless ages the bats for fear of the Lord and for had sin not marred God's purpose and the glory of His majesty. And in climate. Booklet on request. plan. This being true the only logical the sixth chapter of Revelation that conclusion must be that the same sev- they will call for the mountains and enth day of the week as far as God's rocks to fall on them and hide them plan and purpose is concerned remains from the face of the avenging Judge." speaks of them (Revelation 14:12) as the Sabbath. The company was hushed to silence keeping 'the commandments of God, With this conclusion quite agree as Ezekiel went on in his solemn de- and the faith of Jesus.' There will the words of the preacher. "I know scription. "This old world of ours be some in this age of lawlessness who that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall ) is just about finished. Men are rush- will keep God's law; and, men, when be for ever : nothing can be put to it, ing on heedlessly toward the impend- the great Judge holds His final court nor anything taken from it: and God ing doom." I want to be found a law-abiding citi- doeth it, that men should fear before After a moment's silence a voice, zen of heaven." Him. That which hath been is now ; which Captain Jackson was surprirei Ezekiel Daniells closed his Bible, and that which is to be bath already to find was his own, asked the ques- put it in h's pocket, rose from his chair, been ; and God reouireth that which tion, "But isn't there going to be any- and left the store; leaving behind him is past." Eccl. 3:14, 15. God made one saved from this universal ruin?" more thought and less speech than the seventh day the Sabbath, and it "Yes," said Mr. Daniells, "and had been known among the "hot-stove shall be "forever." Man can add no- th:s is the main point to remember. club" for many a night. In the minds thing to it, neither can he take from it. The Bible tells of those who when of some of its members, at least, there The same day that God rested upon, 111, Christ comes will look up and say, was formed the silent desire that they blessed and sanctified, in the begin- `Lo, this is our God; we have waited too wanted to be citizens of that bet- ning, is now and ever shall be the for Him, and He will save us.' It ter land. Sabbath of the Lord.

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MAY 1, 1933 16 • If you plan to visit Vatican City after they are gone. Kind words, cannot make expenses the rest of us after the first of January 1934, be sure good deeds live on and on. What will suffer sooner or later, for, after to have in your possession a passport kind of seeds are we sowing? all, the farmer is the backbone of our such as you would need in visiting any country. • A long distance thermometer foreign country, or — you will not may now be installed in your apart- • What next? Scientists recently be admitted. ment, and when you complain to the carried on a fifteen-minute conver- • A well-known physician of To- janitor that it is as cold as Green- sation over a beam of light twenty- ronto says a person is now safer on land in your rooms, he will merely five miles long. Speech from a micro-W the operating table than walking on consult the thermometer in his office phone was changed into electrical the street. Last year there was only or wherever the new "electrotemp" impulses, which were carried on the one death for every 4,211 operations is located. And he may reply that it light waves, and an apparatus at the in the hospitals of . is 72 degrees in your apartment, and other end just reversed the process. that you must have a window open • Our national anthem has been re- or be sitting in a draft. • On his seventieth birthday, vised in form, in accordance with the David Lloyd George tells us some- personal wishes of His Majesty, the • Along Canada's fifty thousand thing of his feelings as he looks out King. Changes are made in the di- miles of coast line skirting the over our world. "What of the fu- rections for tempo and shading. So Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the ture? Well, I have seen the world 1 when you sing "God Save the King" Great Lakes, there must be main- in some difficulties in my time, but the next time, be careful. tained an extensive lighthouse serv- never in such a ditch as it is to-day. ice. In the navigation season over And, optimist though I am and must • Another speed record has been 1,200 establishments are maintained. he, I feel that the most serious fea- made by Sir Malcolm Campbell. It In these are 2,000 lights, 400 fog ture of the situation is the regularity hardly seems possible, but official time- signals, 600 gas and signal buoys, with which every hopeful forecast • keepers say he drove the "Bluebird" 9,000 unlighted buoys, 32 radio sta- up till now has been falsified in the over the course at Daytona Beach at tions, and 12 lightships. All this event. That is a warning which a speed of 272 miles an hour, or more equipment and thousands of employ- mankind cannot afford to ignore." • than four miles a minute. And yet ees, busy guiding mariners in a safe No one likes to paint dark pic- this man of speed says we are travel- course. Each one of us has been tures, and we wish we might believe ing too fast, and advises us to drive placed in the world as a lightbearer. and teach a millennium of peace, our automobiles at a slower pace. Are we keeping our lights burning? prosperity and good will. But from a study of the Scriptures, and the • Why aren't people as faithful in • Moscow boasts of having Eu- many evidences in our world, we attending church as they were ten rope's largest hotel. It has 1,000 cannot but believe that mankind is or twenty years ago? In his much- rooms, and will accommodate 1,500 helpless to remedy conditions, and quoted book, Walter Lippmann says, persons. In the building there is a that God must step in. Christ's sec- "Many reasons have been given to ex- theater with a seating capacity of ond coming is near. Be sure to read plain why people do not go to church 3,000. the message, on pages eight and nine, as they once did. Surely the most "This Mighty Hour." important reason is that they are not • We are told it costs one cent to so certain they are going to meet God make a razor blade which retails for • In the year 1921 the United as they once were. If they had that ten cents. It is said also that it costs States had 30,000 banks. Only certainty they would go." We won- fifty cents to raise one bushel of wheat about 19,000 of them are doing busi- der if Mr. Lippmann is not right. One which sells at thirty-five cents in cer- ness to-day. thing we are sure of — God is just tain sections. Some one asks how as willing to meet with His people. many bushels of wheat a farmer will • A new armor glass has appeared* have to raise to make sure his corpse in England. It is an improvement • • A rosebush, planted by Charle- will be properly shaved at the time of over the shatter-proof variety. It magne more than 1000 years ago, is his funeral. This may seem laugh- will bend, but will not break, even still growing in Hildesheim, -er able to those looking on, but not so under the weight of a three-ton • many. So the works of men live on to the farmer. And if the farmer truck.