SHULER Not Only Back to a Saviour Who Home Again His Banished.'

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HE Redeemer's gift ; waiting for the com- second appearing of our Lord Jesus Ting has been, Christ." i Corinthians through all ages, the : 7. To the Philippians pole star of the Christian Paul wrote : "Our conver- church. During all the sation is in heaven ; from past centuries, the good and whence also we look for the holy have looked forward Saviour, the Lord Jesus with great anticipation to this Christ." Philippians 3: 20. Peter glorious event. "To God's pil- describes the early Christians as grim people, so long left to so- "looking for and hastening the journ in 'the region and shadow coming of the day of God.' 2 of death,' a precious, joy-inspiring Peter 3: 12, margin. hope is given in the promise of h3 JOHN L. It is evident from these texts His appearing, who is 'the resur- that the early Christians looked rection and the life,' to 'bring SHULER not only back to a Saviour who home again His banished.' . . . had died for them, but forward to From the day when the first pair a Saviour who was to come, to turned their sorrowing steps from consummate the great plan of re- Eden, the children of faith have waited for the com- demption. These scriptures also make plain that the ing of the Promised One to break the destroyer's second coming of the Saviour occupied a most im- power and bring them again to the lost Paradise." portant place in the gospel which the apostles Paul has expressed it in these words': "Looking preached, and which these Christians received. for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing If the early Christians laid such great stress on the of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." second coming of Christ, surely it would be a great Titus 2 : 13. mistake for the church now to lose sight of this im- The apostles taught the members of the early portant truth. "If the Lord committed to His dis- church to wait for the second advent. All the New ciples the promise of His personal return, and if it Testament churches are described as living in ex- occupied so large a place in the lives of the early pectancy of His return. The conversion of the Christians, surely it is unfair to banish it from the Thessalonians is described as a turning "to God from church to-day. It is unfair to the world, for this truth idols to serve the living and true God ; and to wait for is part of the gospel which should be delivered to the His Son from heaven." i Thessalonians 1 : 9, to. world. It is unfair to the church, for it deprives The Corinthians were said to "come behind in no the people of Christ of one of the most powerful mo-

V 0 L . 49, NO. 32 AUGUST 15. 1922 tives for spiritual life and service. It is unfair to Christ coming. This expectation is to enter into the heart of Himself, for it obscures the reality of His personal pres- every believer, and no one is warranted in overlooking or ence within the heavenly veil, and substitutes for it the making light of it. His coming, His appearing, the revela- thin air of a mere spiritual influence." tion of Him, the revelation of His glory, the coming of The purest type of the church has always looked and His day, and so forth, are pressed on us continually. In a yearned for the coming of the Lord. It is not strange that true waiting for the day of Christ, is gathered up the right this is true, for a constant looking for Jesus is a powerful regard for what He did and bore when He came first, and incentive to holiness. "Every man that hath this hope in also a right regard for Him as He is now, the pledge and him purifieth himself, even as He is pure." I John 3 : 3. the sustainer of our life: the one and the other are to If we were continually looking for the coming of Jesus, pass onward to the hope of His appearing." we would be as careful to keep our lives clean as we would Just before Paul was beheaded for his faith, he sent this be to keep our homes clean if we were expecting company. message to Timothy : "I am now ready to be offered, and Massillon says, "In the days of primitive Christianity, the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good it would have been deemed a kind of apostasy not to sigh fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith : for the return of the Lord." As we think of the bright, henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteous- expectant attitude of all the New Testament churches in ness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give regard to the matter of our Lord's return, we are reminded at that day : and not to me only, but unto all them also that that "probably there is no feature in which the average love His appearing." 2 Timothy 4:6-8. In this text the Christianity of to-day varies more from that of the early apostle makes it plain that every true Christian will be a Christians. than in the faint impressions and the faint in- lover of Christ's appearing; and to all such, a crown of fluence, experienced by most modern Christians in connec- righteousness will be given at His coming. tion with the expectation of the If we really love a person, we Lord's return." love to be with him. We long to be in his presence. In I Thes- DO WE LOVE HIM? salonians 2: 19, we are told that The Christian's attitude toward we shall be in the presence of the this subject should be that of Lord Jesus at His coming. He is "looking for that blessed hope," coming to receive His people to waiting for the revelation of Jesus Himself, that where He is, thefe Christ from heaven, watching for they may be also. ( John 14: 3.) the Lord's return. Such must be All who love the Lord will long our attitude, if we are to be saved for that day when we are to at His coming. In Hebrews 9: 28. meet Him in the air and be for- we are told that "unto them that ever with Him. (1 Thessalonians look for Him shall He appear the 4: 16, 17.) second time without sin unto sal- ECENTLY a woman wrote to R NOTHING MORE DELIGHTFUL tion." His coming will bring us regarding the "Signs." eternal salvation to those only who Among other things, she said: "I It is impossible to think of any- are looking for Him. Why is like to read John Lewis Shuler's thing more delightful than the this ?—Because those who are articles." To her and to the many prospect of the promised return of waiting and looking for His ap- others who we know feel as does our blessed Saviour. When Jesus pearing will be prepared for it. she in this matter, we make this comes again, then we shall see The New Testament type of ex- announcement: Him face to face, and we shall perience for the Christian, is to In early issues of the "Signs" go up to the beautiful mansions have the heart so aglow with a you will find a number of most above, to enter into the full en- personal love for Jesus that we interesting articles from Mr. Shu- joyment of the promise, "So shall will be constantly watching, look- ler's pen. In one article he will answer the question, "Does the we ever be with the Lord." There ing, waiting, working, longing, Doctrine of the Advent Paralyze will be no tears then, for there will and praying for the Master's re- or Energize?" In another, he will be no sorrow ; no death then, for turn. As one great minister says : explain "How the Jew Proves the there will be no more curse ; no sin "No conversation is complete, no Bible True." And in still another, then, for we shall see Him as He spiritual blessing is of the highest he will tell us "Who Is the Great- is. "The ransomed of the Lord order, unless it .leads to this, that est Man in the World." shall return, and come to Zion we learn to wait for the return In making this announcement, with songs and everlasting joy of our Lord. We must not think the "Signs" is but living up to its upon their heads : they shall obtain to find our portion, even our full policy of keeping its subscribers joy and gladness, and sorrow and spiritual portion, in this world. informed as to what is coming. sighing shall flee away." Isaiah The best of all promises is the You are therefore making a safe 35 : 1o. Then God will "wipe promise, 'Surely I come quickly.' investment when you sign up for away all tears from their eyes ; The church's brightest prospect is the "Signs." Read the particulars and there shall be no more death, the return of her Lord, when the on page 15. neither sorrow, nor crying, neither church militant will give place to shall there be any more paina the church triumphant, the spir- Then will come the time of rOfflr itual kingdom to the visible and union, when the whole company personal reign of Christ. Our of God's elect will stand together faith must be sadly defective if we cast no longing glances before the Lord , never again to shed a tear over the grave upward, if we are never looking forward to our Lord's of a loved one. Then will come the time when all our return. trials and troubles will be forever ended, and we shall find "The expectation of the coming of Christ out of the ourselves at the right hand of His throne, to enjoy the world of supreme truth and purity, where God is known pleasures of heaven forevermore. and served aright, to fulfill all His promises,—this is the No wonder, then, that the people of God are waiting church's and the believer's great hope. It is set before us with anxious hearts for His coming; and are ready to in the New Testament as a motive to every duty, as giving say, "Lord, how long?" and to ask, "What hope 15 there of weight to every warning, as determining the attitude and His quick return ?" when we think of the supreme joy that character of all Christian life. In particular, we cannot His coming will bring to His saints ; how it will fufill every deal aright with any of the earthly things committed to us. longing of their hearts. Then how can any true Christian unless we deal with them in the light of Christ's expected refuse to love His appearing? (Continued on page 10) PAGE TWO SIGNS of the TIMES Your NI* 1771eS Solved EGINNING with this issue, the question page exegesis. We believe that this plan will bring into B is to be a permanent feature of the "Signs." this page a greater variety of experiences and a The majority of the questions will be answered by fuller knowledge of the Scriptures than if the college Bible teachers, by evangelists, and by active editors should attempt to solve all your problems. ministers. The editors may answer a question now Next week the question will be, "If the advent of and then; but for the most part, you will have Christ and the setting up of His kingdom is to the benefit of men who have specialized in Bible be visible, how do you explain Luke 17: 20, 21?"

Q L'ESTION : "When there are so many churches, from Me" if it does not do the "will," keep the doctrines of how can one tell which is the true one ?" the Bible. Works are commendable and laudable, but in 0 this case, works without faith are dead. ANSWER: But says one, "How about the miracles that certain A pertinent question, surely, and one that has perplexed healers are performing to-day? Are they not signs of the many people. With Christendom broken up into so many true church ?"—Not necessarily, friend. In the quotation creeds and sects, one is excusable for wondering which one just given, did not Christ say that those who are rejected is the true faith or whether any of them is. This might will say to Him, "Have we not prophesied in Thy name ? be a depressing, discouraging situation, if it did not dis- and in Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy name Nothing, therefore, can be tinctly and indisputably prove that one of them must be done many wonderful works?" the true persuasion. Does this seem impossible and per- plainer than that miracles of any kind, healing or otherwise, haps illogical ? A simple illustration will make things clear. are no proof of the true church. The real test, we repeat, Here are a 'number of counterfeit dollar bills. Now, the is whether they are in harmony with the Scriptures, whether very existence of these bills proves one fact, and that is, they are doing the Father's will as found in the Word. that there is one true dollar bill. If there were no true bill, Miracle workers and healers may perform wonders but there would be no object in having the counterfeits. All lead people away from the Bible, and thus be promoters of these counterfeits, then, are strong witnesses to the ex- evil. "If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer istence of the true bill. of dreams, ansl giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto Apply this illustration to the churches. The very presence of so many of them in the world 4 'unanswerable evi-. thee saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast dence that one of them must be the title church and the not known, and let us serve them ; thou shalt not hearken others counterfeits. More than that, the more counterfeits unto the word of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams : you have, the greater number of proofs for the true. It is for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye so in money. It is so in churcheS2 And we all readily ad- love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all mit that there must be a true church. your soul. Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and But the reader will naturally ask how he is going to de- fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His termine which church is the true church, how he is going voice, and ye `shall serve Him, and cleave unto Him." to detect the spurious from the genuine. Going back to Deuteronomy 13 : 1-4. We have no quarrel with any healer our money illustration: How can we tell the true bill ?—By or miracle man. - We would not presume to judge. But applying the currency test. Likewise we can ascertain the we would urge caution and a weighing of these operations true church by applying the spiritual test. ' This is the on the scales of Scripture. "For there shall arise false Bible test. Let us read it : "To the law and to the testi- christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and mony: if they speak not according to this word, it is be- wonders ; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." Matthew 24 : 24. Foreseeing the cause there is no light in them." Isaiah 8: 20. Christ had very times in 'which we live, Christ in these words gives us this in mind when He said : "Search the Scriptures ; for in them ye think ye have eternal life : and they are they which warning. testify of Me." John 5 : 39. In closing, we repeat the test of the true church : "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according APPLY THE RULE to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Let the reader apply the teachings of God's Word to the Isaiah 8 : 20. WILLIAM G. WIRTH. Christian churches of to-day, and he will see how quickly the spurious will show up. Let him apply the law, the Ten Commandments, to the various Christian persuasions, in "IF I should die 'fore I wake," said Danny, kneeling at harmony with Isaiah's test, and the true will soon be ap- • his grandmother's knee; "if I should die 'fore I wake—" parent. Paul's words are full of meaning : "All scripture is "I pray," prompted the gentle voice. "Go on, Danny.", given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine. "Wait a minute," interposed the small boy, scrambling to for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteous- his feet and hurrying away downstairs. In a brief space ness : that the man of God may be perfect, throughly fur- he was back again, and, dropping down in his place, took up linished unto all good works." 2 Timothy 3 : 16. It matters his petition where he had left off. But when the little not how much a church may do, how effective its organiza- white-gowned form was safely tucked in bed, the grand- tion and socially salutary its endeavors, its test as the true mother questioned, with loving rebuke, concerning the in- church depends not upon these things but upon its doc- terruption. trines, its beliefs, its adherence to God's Word as carrying "But I did think what I was saying, grandmother ; that's out God's will as revealed in that Word. Christ penetrated why I had to stop. You see, I'd upset Ted's menagerie and to the heart of the matter when He said : "Not every one stood all his wooden soldiers on their heads just to see how that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king- he'd tear around in the mornin'. 'If I should die 'fore I dom of heaven ; but he that' doeth the will of My Father wake,' why—I 'didn't want him to find 'em that way, so I which is in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day. Lord, had to go down and fix 'em right. There's a lot of things Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy that seem funny if you're goin' to keep on livin', but you name have cast out devils? and in Thy name done many don't want 'em that way if you sh6uld die 'fore you wake." wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them. "That was right, dear ; it was right," commented the I never knew you : depart from Me, ye that work iniquity." voice with its tender quaver. "A good many of our Matthew 7 : 21-23. In spite of the many "wonderful prayers would not be hurt by stopping in the middle of works" a church may do, it will surely hear the "Depart them to undo a wrong."—Western Watchman. for AUGUST 1 5 , 1 9 2 2 PAGE THREE McCollum, the medical scientist, says: "The greatest thing that can be done to raise the standard of health in this country is to change the type of diet in most homes bp decreasing the consumption of meat and increasing the consumption of milk and green vegetables." cl If you think that MEAT is a first-class food; that it is a necessary food; that beef extract gives you strength; that meat is not directly conducive to certain diseases—Read This Article.

Why Eat SECOND-HAND

OME people have S the idea that vegetarianism is a semi- FOOD? fanatical idea born of a narrow religion and a one-sided science. Such is not the truth, as you will readily see by read- EDWARD H. RISLEY, M. D. ing this article.

T is admitted that meat has some valuable points as food. adopted in the nutrition of man." The lacto-vegetarian It is superior to many vegetable foods in the quality diet is a vegetarian diet with milk and its products added. I of protein, or albuminous material, it contains, for it Practical experience has also taught that one can do hard has all the amino acids, or "building stones," which the physical labor and endure it just as well, if not better, upon body needs for the construction of its muscle and other a non-flesh program. Fisher's experiments have amply nitrogenous tissues. The building of tissue is, however, proved this from the laboratory standpoint, and thousands only a part of the work of the living organism. The ques- of individuals have found it true in their everyday ex- tion at once arises : Is the good it can accomplish for the perience. body overbalanced by the possibilities for damage in MEAT IS A DEFICIENT FOOD other lines ? Meat averages about 18 per cent protein, 16 per cent fat, The source of food is the soil. The animal eats the per cent ash, and 65 per cent water. These figures were vegetable products and builds them into tissue which in obtained by averaging some 13 kinds of meat. On this turn is eaten, digested, and rebuilt basis the fuel value or calorific yield by man into the structure of his body. is about i,000 per pound. Very lean Some of our very best research meat yields less than this and fat foods are substitutes for meat; but meat much more. On the other if the Biblical record of the original hand, flesh foods are deficient in diet is considered, the reverse is the lime, iron, and vitamines. If one truth of the matter. People always could eat the bones along with the desire to have new furniture, new flesh, he would get sufficient lime. clothes, new automobiles, but when This is actually what is done by the it comes to the care of the body, they carnivorous animal. The tissues of 'are content with the use of second- the animal's body contain a consider- hand building materials. able amount of iron, but it is largely MEAT NOT ESSENTIAL TO PROPER in the blood which is in great part NOURISHMENT drained off in the slaughtering prom., Many think that it is not possible cess. Even if the iron of the blood properly to maintain the body with- could be taken in as food, it would out meat, but such is not the case. not give the result that iron found Some of our very best research in vegetable foods does, for it is ap- workers tell us that flesh foods are parently not assimilated to the ex- not essential. The following state- tent that the vegetable iron products ment by McCollum, one of our fore- are. Some of the organs of the ani- most nutritional experts, illustrates mal's body are fairly rich in vitam- this : "We could entirely dispense ines, but the muscle tissue, which with meats without suffering any ill is the part chiefly used as food, is effects whatever." The same author The Public Health Service says that "every states in another place : "Lacto- animal used for food has in its intestines vegetarianism is, when the diet is either protozoa, roundworms, flukes, or tapeworms." Pork is especially dangerous properly planned, the most highly because of the frequency with which it is satisfactory plan which can be infected with trichina. PAGE FOUR SIGNS of the TIMES deficient in these very important constituents. It is true extent beyond that which would occur in •the normal tissue, that these deficiencies could be made up to a certain de- since death does not occur in all the cells instantaneously, gree by combination with other foods which are rich in while elimination ceases as soon as the circulation stops. such substances, but the usual combinations taken by the These waste products are valueless as food, and at the same average meat eater are of such character that the deficiency time are more or less poisonous, since they are the result of is maintained. It is also to be observed that meat is de- breakdown on the part of the tissues. They cannot yield void of carbohydrate, a substance which makes up about energy to the body; in fact, a dog fed upon them will die 65 per cent of the fuel value of the ordinary well more quickly than if he were given no food. These ex- balanced diet. Since meat is quite largely protein, and fur- tractive materials, as they are sometimes called, act as ther, since only about io per cent of the fuel value of the stimulants to the body, however, and that is the reason why daily ration is needed in the form of protein, it follows they are so frequently used in the form of beef tea. Lie- that the possibilities for using it in the well balanced ra- big's idea in regard to these products is well stated in the fol- tion are very limited. Most other foods contain some lowing quotation, "Beef extract does not give us strength, protein, and in some instances a fairly large amount and but it makes us aware of our strength." The use of meat • that of good quality, hence the need for meat is not ap- or meat extract must necessarily require some additional parent. The following quotation from Fitch's "Dietetics" work on the part of the eliminative organs in handling these is of interest : "It is possible to subsist on vegetables alone, whereas it would be a hardship to live for any lengthy period on an exclusive meat diet." MEAT AN ACID YIELDING FOOD Food, as it is burned up in the body, yields acid or alkali, depending upon the nature of the product in- voLved. The chief acid yielding products are meat, eggs, and cereals. Those producing alkali are the vege- I tables and most fruits, and there is a third class, nuts, starch, sugars, and fats, that are practically neutral. The best conditions for health require that the acid production be limited by proper food combinations. The use of an excess of meat makes limitation of acid production difficult if not impossible. There is considerable evidence that an excess of acid production in the tissues is a factor in the causation of such maladies as Bright's disease. It must be borne in mind that the blood is always alkaline and that the acid produced must be elimi- From an economic standpoint, the large use of meat is very unfavorable, especially to the poor, since the expenditure is greater than for other foods, nated by way of the kidneys. If elimination does not and the tendency is toward less substantial health. keep up with production, the salts of the blood are used in the attempt to control the situation, and eventually a condition called acidosis is produced, which is often very practically useless products. Roger indicates their harm- serious in its results. fulness in the statement, "A person in health may use ex- It should be stated, however, that food is not the only tracts of meat in small quantities, but it is necessary to pro- cause of acid production in the organism, for in certain hibit meat extracts for invalids." Legendre says that beef diseases the tissue activities are so modified that acids are tea is "a veritable solution of poisons," while Gautier says formed in large amounts. This is particularly true in that the extractives of meat produce effects "comparable to diabetes. In this connection it might be well to give a word those of caffeine and theine of tea and coffee." of explanation in regard to the fact that fruit is an alkali BACTERIA IN MEAT producer. Fruit has acids and acid salts when eaten, but when finally used in the tissues, the acid part is burned up Meat and meat products are very likely to harbor bac- and alkali is given to the blood through the formation of teria, most of which are not disease producing but many alkali carbonates. are capable of producing decomposition of the product with, in some cases, the formation of definitely poisonous AMOUNT OF MEAT EATEN compounds. The following statement from Weinzirl in the The consumption of flesh foods is very large in this "American Journal of Public Health" in regard to a bac- country. Sherman gives the average yearly per capita terial standard for meat is to the point: "The standard of quantity as about 180 pounds. All agree that this is far in i,000,000 bacteria per gram advocated by some as a limit excess of the needs, granting that such products are es- is apparently too low, since it would condemn nearly all sential to- good nutrition. McCollum states as follows in samples of hamburger, when showing no taint or other regard to this point, "The greatest thing that can be done evidence of putrefaction. . . . A bacterial standard of o,- to raise the standard of health in this country is to change 000,o0o per gram is the limit proposed, on the basis of. the type of diet in most homes by decreasing the consump- which so per cent of the market samples of hamburger tion of meat and increasing the consumption of milk and would still be condemned." Comparison of these figures • green vegetables." The large use of meat is evidently not with milk will give a better idea of what they really mean. conducive to long life, according to Tibbles, who says, "It Certified milk is allowed io,000 bacteria per c. c. ( which is has long been stated that no loilg-lived person is a large equivalent to a gram), while milk with a count of t,000,000 consumer of meat." bacteria per c. c. is considered of inferior grade and in From the economic standpoint, this large use of meat many places must be Pasteurized before it is sold. When is very unfavorable, especially to the poor, since the ex- one realizes that the bacteria of milk are in most cases less penditure is greater than for other foods and the tendency harmful than those of meat, the figures become more im- is toward less substantial health. pressive. Cold storage of meats, although not permitting The animal body is constantly being broken down dur- the free growth of bacteria, does not destroy them, and ing life and the resulting substances are eliminated when the product is removed from storage, the as waste by means of the eliminative organs, chief growth of organisms is more rapid than before the of which are the kidneys. At the time of slaughter cooling process. the animal from which the meat is obtained has an It is common knowledge that meat spoils very average amount of this material in its tissues. As easily and that the decomposed product is very of- elimination ceases these remain in the various parts fensive. The spoiling process is due to putrefactive of the organism, and undoubtedly accumulate to an bacteria which may in some (Continued on page IS) for AUGUST 15, 1922 PAGE FIVE SIG,=1:enx ar,r ES SAME RICA'S PROPHETIC WEEKLY

Edited by Asa Oscar Tait and Alonzo L. Baker

09.

ARE YOU A BARBARIAN? man hearts with all their adverse natural traits and whims into that most beautiful thing, marital com- A MOST excellent definition, or rather a series of definitions, for the word barbarian has been given panionship. And after all, the very object of Chris- by the famous historian Ferrero in a recent article. tianity is to reconcile man and God, and then man Perhaps you have thought yourself highly civilized and man, because they are reconciled to one common and far removed from your uncouth forbears. But Father. Christianity and divorce are as far apart as the wait, listen to these words from the historian: "We are barbarians when we regard mass, weight, and poles, and no man or woman who truly names the name of Christ and who is united in marriage with a numbers as the measure of merit and excellence; . . . genuine Christian, will ever think of divorce, much • a dress or piece of furniture because it is expensive ; a people and a man because they are rich and power- less apply for it. ful. We are barbarians when we eat, drink, and In this connection we are reminded of a sentence smoke to excess. We are barbarians when we dis- from one of Mrs. E. G. White's works : "A well- sipate wealth solely to show that we possess it and to ordered Christian household is a powerful argument dazzle our neighbors. . . . in favor of the reality of the Christian religion,—an argument that the infidel cannot gainsay." "We are barbarians when we hold that our me- chanical inventions and our chemical discoveries can expiate all our failings, our errors, our follies. We are barbarians when we hold that steam, electricity, The "Toledo Blade" makes this observation: "Prohi- bition comes about as near causing the unrest in this X rays, wireless telegraphy, radium, the crucibles of country as booze comes to causing the unrest in Eu- the chemist, the initiative of commerce, the audaci- rope." Which is the truth. And it may be added in passing, that those malcontents who are raucously ties of industries, the marvels of agriculture, can_ declaring that prohibition is the cause of our unrest would define rest as "the happy state of utter uncon- compass the second salvation of the human race, re-, sciousness due to a complete filling of the space deem the world anew as it was redeemed by the blood between the soft palate and the pylorus with Old of Christ and the words of the apostles ; when we Scotch." hold that these can uproot all evil passions and in- augurate the reign of peace and wisdom." Only those are truly civilized who realize that the DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO material accomplishments of men can avail nothing in WHAT do you think of a government that asks you the struggle for moral perfection and spiritual ad- to do something that it will not do itself, or rather, vancement, who realize that they must look for help as it is in this case, asks you not to do something from a source outside, a source above. F. D. N. that it feels at perfect liberty to do? To be more specific : On January 16, 1919, thirty- six states of the Union had ratified the Eighteenth We hear much from the supporters of the theory of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. world progress that all our inventions, as the air- I of this amendment reads : "After one year plane and the automobile, are proof positive that we Section are on the highroad to perfection. If they really be- from the ratification of this article, the manufacture, lieve this, why do they not plan an air route to heaven, and high-powered bus-line service along the strait and sale, or the transportation of intoxicating liquors narrow way? within, the importation thereof into, or the exporta- tion thereof from, the United States and all territory Aubject to the jurisdiction thereof, for beverage pur- THE FOE OF DIVORCE poses, is hereby prohibited." At the time this law went into effect it was univer- - RUSSELL H. CONWELL, the veteran Philadelphia sally understood that it prohibited all vessels of pastor and lecturer, in his book, "Effective Prayer," United States registry from carrying intoxicating says that "religious life and home life are twin sisters. liquors for beverage purposes. And, of course, no Out of the 7,200 who united with Grace church and one thought that the government itself would break its missions in the thirty years mentioned, all but its own law. But lo, and behold ! One morning; a twenty-nine have been married. Of the more than servant of the people, Albert D. Lasker, Chairman of 5,000 marriages occurring in these years, the records the United States Shipping Board, called up another fail to show one divorce, and so far as can be as- servant of the people, Attorney-General Harry certained, only two estrangements have occurred. Daugherty, on the telephone. We regret that we do There is always the possibility that all the facts are not have a verbatim of the conversation, but it ran not known, but a total of four unhappy people out something like this : of io,000 makes something of a record. "Harry, this fleet of boats that I am operating is "A true Christian life on the part of individuals, losing money, and losing money fast. Tourists going and a Christian atmosphere in the home, are the great- to Europe and the Orient won't ride on my boats be- est foes of divorce." cause they can't get drunk. Now, Harry, I want you The statistics that Dr. Conwell gives are a hand- to tell me that it is all right for me to sell booze on my some tribute to the power of Christ to' weld two hu- boats just so I keep things locked up tight inside the

PAGE SIX SIGNS of the TIMES three-mile territorial limit. What do you say, Harry ?" ter is men who have in them the mind "which was "A little irregular, Al, but seein's how it's you, also in Christ Jesus," and who possess "a clean heart" and seein's how the government needs the money, and and a "right spirit." Philippians 2: 5; Psalm 51 : to. the Republican party positively must make ends meet When you are tempted to think that all the won- somehow, I'll give you permission to sell booze right derful external improvements that characterize our and left, but be sure you pass the three-mile limit be- age must in some way make men better, remember fore you start the corkscrews." the ancient scripture, "Man looketh on the outward "All right, Harry, thanks ; take a ride on one of appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." my boats some day, and I'll see that you get enough Samuel 16 : 7. F. D. N. for once." And so the Shipping Board vessels have been and are engaged in the liquor trade. The government, A visitor from Australia, observing the benefits of pro- which spends thousands upon thousands of dollars hibition, was puzzled at the reports cabled to the newspapers of his own country. He called on the news in running down and prosecuting violators of the agency, and asked why so many items derogatory to Eighteenth Amendment on land, brazenly trafficks in prohibition were sent overseas. The reply was: The violation of any law is news; if you killed your wife, liquor on the high seas. that would be news, but the fact that you live in peace and harmony with your wife is not news." _And so the What if the Shipping Board vessels were losing enemies of prohibition have the newspapers on their money? They lost $5o,00o,000 last year in spite of side. _But remember that just because one man in a town is making moonshine by the light of the moon, their booze trade. And anyway, lose or gain, if the that is no sign but that the rest of the townsfolk are spirit or the letter of the law is against it, Lasker and abed, sober, and fast asleep. Daugherty, if a drop of law-abiding blood flowed in their veins, would not have permitted such a palpable infraction of the law. THE BIBLE A NEWSPAPER FEATURE We need a few men in office these days, who, like Henry Clay, would declare, "Sir, I would rather be AN interesting experiment is being performed by right than be President !" the editor of a daily paper, the Topeka Daily State Journal. As one of the features in the Saturday edition each week, he is running the bOoks of the New Testament as a serial. He is using a modern In Lloyd George's latest speech, he said: "Europe is translation, the Weymouth, so that the Bible terms a field of dry stubble; and if some one drops a match, the conflagration will be on." The "Signs" received a will not be ambiguous. In no other way does the letter from one of its readers the other day asking us to discontinue his subscription because we said that story read differently from that found in the dust- world conditions pointed forward to another war. The covered King James Version that lies on some out- subscriber alleged that we were in league with the armament manufacturers, and he would have no more of-the-way shelf in your home. of us. We wonder what he will say of Lloyd George when he reads his speech. All the ostriches and all What the editor's motive was in beginning pub- the sand dunes are not in the Sahara! lishing the Bible thus, we do not know. Doubtless being himself of a religious turn of mind and desir- ous of introducing a feature that might interest a small minority who had the same turn of mind as DO CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN? himself, he began printing the story contained in the IT is a peculiar fact that many people when asked Gospels. why they believe as they do that the world is really But what was his surprise when he found that this better to-day than in the times of our barbarian an- new feature was meeting with almost universal ap- cestors, will answer, "Look at all the marvelous in- proval by his subscribers? They found it different, ventions, and discoveries, and improvements in the yet not sensational, filled with human interest, but not ways of living over what our ancestors had." of the common morbid type. So they wrote in and The fallacy in such an argument lies in the fact telephoned in from all over the city asking him to that spiritual and material things are confused. Men continue the series, and this he is doing. And the become intrinsically better, when their thoughts be- interest, on the part of his readers, is increasing. come more elevated, their desires more purified, their Doubtless if these same subscribers had been re- ambitions more 'sanctified. Better clothes and more quired to take down their Bibles and read a chapter, expensive homes do not make better men, though we they would have thought it irksome, because they often think so. How Much less do the modern material would be approaching it with a preconceived idea, advancements, in the form of automobiles and air- born of an ignorance of the Scriptures, that the Good planes, make us any purer in life and action ! In fact Book is full of dry sayings hard to be understood. these modern inventions are oftentimes but so many But when the Bible was served up to them in a news- tools in the hands of evil men to make the world a paper, they were taken with guile. Probably before still more dangerous place in which to live: Not long they realized it, they were reading a Bible story, and ago the papers began telling us of how the airplane, by then their interest had become sufficiently aroused latest of our marvelous carriers of human freight, to cause them to continue. And they watch for the is being used for smuggling liquor across the border. installments each week. It is needless to mention the countless ways in which But you need not wait until your daily paper starts every other of our modern inventions has been turned such a serial. Take down the Book of books from to evil purposes. the shelf and read one of the charming stories of Of themselves material things are neither good nor Christ and His parables. You will find in it a fascina- bad. A knife may be used to prepare food or to take tion that you have not found in any other book ; and a man's life. The mind directing is responsible for if you continue with your reading, you will find in it the mighty difference in the use to which the knife is a satisfaction for those spiritual longings, which can- put. The strong emotions of the heart can direct an not be satisfied by the pleasures of the world. As invention for good or for evil. With evil hearts and you study it day by day, you will see more and more minds in control, the very wonders of our modern in it. Its deep passages will become simple and un- age serve only the more rapidly to ruin the race. derstandable, and your religious questions will an- What we need to-day in order to make the world bet- swer themselves. F. D. N.

for AUGUST 1 5 , I 9 2 2 PAGE SEVEN OD puts some things together, and He puts other things apart. "What . . . God' bath joined together, let not man put asunder," is a divine dictum ; so also its opposite, What God `What G G hath put asunder, let not man join together, is of equal force and is just as true. The world is full of the false and evil and the painful to-day, just because men have insisted on separating God's unions and uniting God's separations. As illustrative examples, three instances may be cited wherein men have perennially tried to put to- PUT A gether what God has eternally separated. First, good and evil must forever be kept apart. This seems to be self-evident, since the two are exact opposites in every way. And yet the world's popular philosophy through all the ages,—from the devil in Eden down through Plato, Zoroaster, Descartes, and Shailer Mathews ; from ancient dualism to modern new theology,—has sought to unite them in one. A TREE WITH GOOD AND EVIL MIXED It was not a tree of the knowledge of evil that God placed in the Garden of Eden to test man. It was a "tree of the knowledge of good and evil;" that is, good and evil mixed, united. Good and evil do not mix any more than do oil and water ; but the knowledge of both may be in the same person. The devil had already generated in his own mind and character this sorry mixture, and with it he tempted Eve and Adam. Evil alone would have been no temptation to a pure soul like Eve. But there was enough truth mixed with the lies that Satan told, to deceive our first parents into thinking that his offer was all good. "Thou shalt not surely die," had a semblance of truth in it. They did not die immediately, though they began to do so. Yet what he said was the most diabolical of lies, for in acting on his assurance, they ushered in the reign of death on the world, with all its accompanying pain, sorrow, and remorse. Evil in its bald form deceives few people even now. It is its mixture with good that dupes the unwary. All the way down the ages through the Hebrew economy, the Lord sought to impress Israel with the danger of confusing good and evil. Everyday rules of life were to teach it. .-est. ROBER They were not to sew wool and linen into the same garment, nor to wear any garment "of divers sorts." Cattle must But lean them together, and they will stand. So good and not "gender with a diverse kind," and "mingled seed" must evil were thought to be essential principles which, by their not be sown. (Leviticus 19: 19; Deuteronomy 22: II.) very diversity, upheld all truth. It is like putting "new wine in old bottles." It may be seen plainly that the chief force of these commands lay NOT BEYOND DUALISM in the moral lesson to be derived from them. One would think that our age had got beyond dualism, There grew up in the heathen religions with which God's but it has not. Christianity saved the world from the de- ancient people were sur- lusion of it for centuries; but in our day many of the rounded, a system of good keenest students of the schools are turning back to it. and evil united in a peculiar way. It was called dualism. That which they believe is not called dualism by them ; Men very likely reasoned but it has all the earmarks of the ancient cult. Sin is only a relative term, they say. Evil is but a stage in progress to- -thus : The Supreme Being cannot at the same time be ward good. Sin is indeed a fall, but a fall upward. It is loving and omnipotent, and simply man stubbing his toe on the way uphill. In other still let suffering and death words, every time a man is tempted and defeated by the exist. If He is loving, He devil (though all the devil there is to the "modernist" is would abolish them ; and if man's own degenerate nature, the ooze and slime of the He is all-powerful, He could Protozoan Age pulling him down), he is administered a do so. Then, because they kick by the devil, but it is a "kick upstairs." could not reconcile in God's Good and evil are positively united in modern "new a character the attributes of theology." It teaches that evil is good in one sense,—that justice and mercy, they in- it is simply undeveloped good. Good is evil in one sense, vented a belief wherein both when compared to the "higher good,"—whatever that is. good and evil were the This one test is alone enough to prove that this latest pillars of morality. Accord- modern conception of the Christian religion,—also called ing to this theory, by virtue liberalism,—is riding for a fall. Any moral standard which of good and evil being op- unites good and evil is in the end untenable. posites, the very energy that This pernicious putting together of two standards that was generated by the opposi- are naturally poles apart is also showing in other practices tion upheld them both. Both of many of the churches of our time. We cite one instance seemed necessary for the among many,—the use of fermented wine in the Sacra- progress of the world. It ment. The Word plainly teaches that God uses fermen- might be illustrated by try- tation and its, products as symbols of sin. The bread that ing to stand two cards each was used at the institution of the Lord's Supper was un- up on end alone. They fall. leavened,—unfermented. Most assuredly the wine was

PAGE EIGHT SIGNS of the TIMES Spiritism is to strike a killing blow at the lie that originated it; namely, life in death. Hath IN THE WAKE OF THIS DOCTRINE D A host of doctrines strange to the Bible trail after the belief that death is life. Pretended communication with the dead for the purpose of fortune telling is one of them. But there is no question about branding all witchcraft and clairvoyancy as hoaxes, if the "dead know not anything," JNDER as the Bible says. Also the matter of eternal torment is all cleared up in the light of the truth about life and death. For the Bible teaches that the wicked are to suffer eternal death. But if they suffered eternal torment, that would be eternal life. There is no torment without consciousness and feeling. The fate of the wicked is not eternal dying, but everlasting death. Life is a continuing thing; but death is an instantaneous thing, and its consequences only are lasting. In the very nature of the case eternal death is a ceasing to exist, with no return of existence forever; while eternal torment is everlasting progress toward and never arriving at, death,—which is not death at all, but life. This confusion as to what life and death reallyare and their relation to each other, runs like rotten warp through the fabric of a majority of religious systems of to-day, both Christian and non-Christian. It manifests itself in habits of life. The varied names—both legitimate and slangy—that are applied to the intoxicating and stimulating element in liquor suggest life and power. Yet alcohol kills and sows the seed of death. Again, thousands wear themselves out with the cares of daily routine, and then take time off to seek recreation—re-creation, a renewing of life—but their method of finding fresh vigor is such that they break every law of health and are not revived at all. Judging by the many who miss the joys of living, the paths thereto are sadly crisscross and ill posted. And the reason for much of the confusion may be found in the indiscrimi- nate commingling of the ideas of life and death, which are as far removed from each other as the zenith and nadir of limitless space. THURBER CHURCH AND STATE Third, God has separated church and state, priests and kings, religion and politics. As surely as they are united, pure grape juice. Can it be that the churchmen who say either with the church ruling the state or the state ruling that it is "against the principles" of -their church to use un- the church, disaster is certain to follow sooner or later. fermented wine at the Sacrament—can it be that to them However, this separation is only for time, and not for the alchohol in it is a symbol of the life of Christ? We can eternity. hardly believe that they would make such a claim. Yet in The divine ideal of human government is a theocracy,— every Sacramental service where ardent spirits are used God the only head of all the people. In such a system there is a symbol, a mingling of the evil and the good, a church and state are more than united,—they are one. The practice that is an abomination in the sight of God. church is the state and the The law of God—the Ten Commandments—defines state is the church. There good and evil. Evil is under it, and good is above it. are no distinct organizations Evil is the breaking of it, good is the keeping of it. They t and sets of offices and officers are absolutely opposed to each other. There is not even 1 for civil and religious func- a compromise between them. They are as different as light tions. A single group of and darkness, black and white, with no twilight zone. leaders rule in both spiritual They differ as a free man and a slave. and secular affairs. And Second, life and death do not belong together, nor are this is made possible because, they to be confused one with the other in God's scheme of and only when righteous- things. The only reason they are ever coupled is to ex- ness reigns supreme. If sin press their exactly opposite nature. Life belongs with had not entered this world, • righteousness and death with sin ; and as God parts these, God unquestionably would so does He part those. have made the government The liar who first thought of making any one believe of earth a perpetual theoc- that life is anything like death was "that old serpent." racy. The government of When our foreparents accepted as truth his sophistry that the universe, outside of this they would not surely die, there was started then and there planet, is such a paternal, the whole system of history's spiritism, necromancy, and God-ruled monarchy. And witchcraft. Ages have labored under the delusion that when Eden is restored here when a man is dead he is not dead, but alive. Whole reli- on earth, the ideal govern- gious systems are based on the falsehood that death is the ment of heaven will be re- beginning of a new life. Any man who counts among his stored with it. beliefs that there is consciousness after death might just as From the time Adam well follow his premise to its logical conclusion and become sinned, however, men gradu- a Spiritist in the fullest sense, with all the paraphernalia of ally took the government of seances, mediums, dark rooms, and ouija boards. And the the world into their own only successful way to fight the evils and superstitions of hands, manifestly as stew- for AUGUST 15, 1922 PAGE NINE ards under the invisible and unacknowledged rule of the THE POLE STAR devil. But men could not bear rule in spiritual things, for (Continued from page 2) God removed His spirit from them. Besides, only a mind It is high time for the church to-day to be falling in love reader can legislate for and judge the spirit of man,— -the soon-coming Saviour. What since thoughts are the spring of all action and God alone with the message of would we think of a wife whose husband had been away can read the human mind. Therefore, civil affairs, which deal only with the overt acts of man, have been the sole for several years, if we heard her say, "I love my husband, province of human rulers. Every attempt in history to but I hope he will not come back in my day" ? How long coerce the consciences of men, as one may do their bodies, would it take her to convince her friends that she had not has resulted in injustice, persecution of the innocent, mar- the least degree of love for her husband? Likewise, people tyrdom of good men, and final downfall to every govern- have little confidence in the Christian who says, "I love my ment that has tried it. Master, but I hope He will not return in my day." Richard Baxter expressed a right view of this matter, ONE EXAMPLE OF THEOCRATIC GOVERNMENT when he said : "Would it not rejoice your hearts if you The only attempt at theocratic government that ever were sure to live to see the coming of the Lord, and to see reached ally degree of success was that of ancient Israel. His glorious appearing and retinue? If you were not to S From Abraham to Samuel, the Israelitish nation was ruled die, but to be caught up thus to meet the Lord, and to be by God, in so far as it would allow changed immediately into an im- Him to rule. It would seem that mortal, incorruptible, glorious Heaven was at one stroke mak- state, would you be averse to this? ing a mighty effort both to teach Would it not be the greatest joy men by example what an ideal that you could desire? For my government is, and to prove to the own part, I must confess to you world for all time that such a that death, as death, appeareth to government cannot succeed as me as an enemy, and my nature long as men are sinful. And doth abhor and fear it. But the after long centuries, when Christ thoughts of the coming of the came, He decreed an age-long Lord are most sweet and joyful separation in the memorable com- to me ; so that if I were but sure mand, "Render therefore unto that I would live to see it. and that Caesar the things which are the trumpet should sound, and the Caesar's ; and unto God the things dead should rise, and the Lord ap- that are God's." JWITHOUT doubt, the ques- pear before the period of my age, Pagan Rome united state and tion, "What is the right day to keep, Sabbath or Sunday?" is it would be the joyfulest tidings to church with the state dominant, one that is discussed to-day more me in the world. 0 that I might and it waked up to find itself in than at any previous time. There see His kingdom come !"—"Prac- iron opposition to the greatest are militant reformers who arc so tical Works," Richard Baxter (23 'force for good that had ever en- sure that Sunday is the right day vols.), Vol. XVII, "A Treatise of tered the world,—Christianity. and that it has behind it the com- Death," pages 555, 556. Edition So old Rome fell with its gods, mand of God that they want to 183o. and great was the fall thereof. In enforce the observance of the day . The promise of the second ad- turn, papal Rome united church under penalty of law. What if it vent of our Lord first shone out as and state,—but with the church should turn out that there is no foundation in Scripture for Sun: a bright star of hope amid the sub- dominant, —and millions of day keeping 'and that God has lime prophecies of the holy men of martyrs fell before its persecuting never commanded its observance? God. That promise was con- power. Therefore, there is no That would clear up one difficulty; firmed by Jesus to His disciples more awful doom pronounced by but another, equally perplexing, just before His departure from Almighty God upon anything would arise: What day, then, is this world and was reconfirmed by earthly than that sounded by the binding, and has that day behind angels immediately after His as- prophet of the Apocalypse when it the fiat of Heaven? cension. This promise was kept he heralds the fiery fate of Baby- A full explanation of this whole bright in the experience of the lon and her daughters, symbols of problem will be given in a series early Christians by the frequent the papal system whose great sin of articles by Tyler E. Bowen, reference to it by the apostles in is the sentence of death they decree which will appear in early issues their teachings and writings. on those who maintain their right of the "Signs." You will want to That precious promise has to worship God according to the • read the whole series in order to brought hope and comfort to the dictates of their own free hearts. understand every phase of this question. That means that you hearts of God's people down' Yet religious zealots at this day will want the "Signs" to come to • through the ages. To-day, amid and in this country are ignoring your home regularly. For your a sky overcast with clouds of sor- the lessons of history, hurling de- convenience we call your attention row and suffering, trouble and fiance in the face of God, and are to an item on page 15. perplexity, this, the sweetest of all essaying to follow in the bloody promises, stands out as a bright footsteps of the blunderers of the morning star of hope, kindling in • past. "Keep church and state for- our hearts the promise of that per- ever separate," spoke Grant. Let fect day, that golden morn, when his words echo and reecho from He, our blessed Saviour, our mountain to mountain and from sea to sea over our beloved glorious Redeemer, shall come to banish death and tears. country ; and let other lands and peoples take up the strain. "When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, Some day soon God shall unite in Himself the rulership of and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." both. But their union now will not help to hasten that day, Luke 21 : 28. only as it may hasten the wreck of human hopes and the sooner bring divine intervention in the things of earth. Let not man join together what God hath put asunder. WHILE Christ is dwelling in the heart, it is impossible to conceal the light of His presence, or for that light to grow dim. On the contrary, it will, grow brighter and RELIGION is never fashionable. The way of peace is not brighter as day by day the mists of selfishness and sin the broad way superintended by the world of fashion, but that envelop the soul are dispelled by the bright beams of the narrow way watched by the Redeemer.—D. L. Moody. the Sun of Righteousness. E. G. W.

PAGE TEN SIGNS of the TIMES PASTOR RUSSELL'S VAGARIES 20 STEMPLE WHITE .57s, • N his book "Christian Science," page 247, 'N I remedial, ceremonial law of Moses, which Mark Twain says of the mother of Chris- 4E, shadowy types perished by limitation at the I tian Science : "She is easily the most cross, but in Volume 6 of "Studies in the --1;" baffling and bewildering writer in the literary Scriptures," chapter 1, entitled "The New trade." Having read books and sermons Creation," Pastor Russell asserts that those from the pen of the late Pastor Russell, to- days of creation week were each seven thou- gether with personal correspondence, I con- sand years long. If such wild assertion were sider the father of millennial dawn to be a true, then Adam, created on the sixth day, close second for the unenviable distinction of never. saw the dawn of the seventh. being "the most baffling and bewildering writer in the literary trade." WHY NOT TAKE THE SIMPLE MEANING? • In Volume 1, page 89, "Studies in the In the exact center of the law of the Most Scriptures," the late Pastor Russell wrote : High, and beginning with the word "remem- "When He_ [Jesus] said, If I go I will come ber" is the fourth commandment. "The again. ( John 14:3), He certainly referred to a second seventh day is the Sabbath,"—not seventh week, seventh personal coming." (Italics his.) Yet to-day, all over the month, seventh year, seventh thousand years, but seventh world, the second personal coming of Christ is openly day. And in such simple words that a child can under- denied by every millennial dawn lecturer who lights his stand, the Lord tells us that "in six days the Lord made taper from Pastor Russell's later repudiations, and it is heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is." Please also taught that the Lord has already returned. What note. The revolution of the earth around the sun gives us would you think of the mentality and veracity of any the year. The revolution of the moon around the earth lecturer traveling and daily announcing that President gives us the month. The rotation of the earth gives us Harding had already come into all the cities of the land, the day. But nothing in nature gives us the week. The when in fact the Chief Executive had all the time been in original seven days of creation week, and that alone, give Washington ? us the weekly cycle. The original Sabbath day of the Boldly rejecting John I : 9, which says, "That was the Creator marks off the week, and will eternally continue to true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the do so in the earth renewed. (Isaiah 66:22, 23.) world," and Romans 12: 3, which says, "God hath dealt to In 1911, the writer of this article sent to Brooklyn for every man the measure of faith," the father of millennial Volume 6 of "Studies in the Scriptures" to learn the posi- dawn devises a "second probation" fable. Then later, in tion of Pastor Russell on the Sabbath question. Inclosing a vain endeavor to make Biblical millennial events fit the a synopsis of the Sabbath question from Genesis to Revela- "cunningly devised fable," Revelation 20:5 is deliber- tion, together with a brief study of the attempted change of ately expunged. The text reads, "But the rest of the dead the "times" and "laws" of God long foretold in Daniel's lived not again until the thousand years were finished. prophecy and openly admitted to-day by the Roman Catho- This is the first resurrection." By eliminating this verse, lic Church, I kindly pressed him for Biblical proof for Sun- they invite the penalty of Revelation 22: 19, which says. day observance, but the only answer I could get was to "And if any man shall take away from the words of the read his book, Volume 6. I read it, book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out At the same time, March, 1911, I received a letter from of the book of life, and out of the holy city, anti from the the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society in which were things which are written in this book." the following words: "You are mistaken in supposing that Pastor Russell teaches keening Sunday for the Sabbath. A CHANGING POSITION • He does not teach that Chrictians should keep either Sun- After properly teaching that there is no ever-burning day or Saturday for the Sabbath, but believes that the hell, it is later denied that the ungodly will be destroyed Christian Sabbath is described in the fourth chanter of by fire, in the face of such plain statements as those of Hebrews, 'We who have believed do enter into Sabbath.' " Jesus in the parable of the wheat and the tares (Matthew 13: 36 : 43), not to mention a host of other scriptures such CONTRADICTIONS AS TO THE SABBATH as Malachi 4: I, 2 Peter 3: 10-13, and Revelation 20: 9. In the very book which the Watch Tower Bible & Tract After repudiating the divinity of Christ by teaching that Society sent me, the author of millennial dawn does most Jesus was merely a perfect man, Pastor Russell later de- strongly "urge" that "the New Creation everywhere" should nies the real, personal, visible resurrection of Jesus, though keep Sunday, though "without any corm-Rand from the the Bible assures us that the personally resurrected Jesus Lord or any of the apostles." On pages 386, 387 he says : said to the disciples, "It is I Myself : handle Me, and see." "We advise that within all reasonable bounds the Lord's Luke 24 : 39-43. And though the future resurrected saints consecrated people, and so far as their influence extends, are to be changed "like unto His glorious body" (Philip- their families—not only the minor children, but the adult pians 3 : 21), yet according to millennial dawn teaching, the members also—should keep Sunday faithfully." Have the saints, after all, will be invisible "spirits." Watch Tower people ever read this book ? Again, on page Regarding the Sabbath day of the Creator, it is pitiful• 390 "Another potent consideration in regard to the keep- how they vainly endeavor to escape the force and binding ing of Sunday is—the laws of the powers that be. In obligations of the fourth commandment. They not only many states certain laws and regulations prevail respecting confuse the eternal law of Ten Commandments with the Sunday. . . . If, therefore, two' or three Sabbaths per week for AUGUST 1 5. 1 9 2 2 PAGE ELEVEN were commanded by civil law, the New Creation should the non-flesh diet is favorable in the treatment of these observe them, and consider the arrangement a blessing, as cases, it seems reasonable to think that such a program increasing their opportunities for spiritual development." would be valuable as a prophylactic measw-e. Several According to the above statement, Pastor Russell would serious diseases have frequently been classe,1 as "meat- have advised those three Hebrews to bow down to Nebu- eaters' " diseases. Among these might be mentioned can- chadnezzar's golden image, and consider the arrangement cer, chronic appendicitis, and gastric ulcer. These mala- a blessing. Religio-political clergymen are to-day en- dies, it is true, may occur in those who d, not use flesh as deavoring to set up another image on the earth, long fore- food, but they occur with so much greater frequency among told in Revelation 13: 11-18, and Sunday, the "mark" of those who consume large amounts of meat that the causa- papal apostasy, will be enforced by civil law, which will tive relation seems to be fairly well indicated. In Bright's bring persecution upon those who keep the true Sabbath of disease and other degenerative processes the high protein Jehovah, and who receive the "seal of God" in their fore- ration, which is usually most marked on a meat regime, is heads. In advance, millennial dawn advises the passing on apparently one of the important factors as a basic cause. of the counterfeit sabbath, thus obeying man in place of VEGETARIAN DIET IS THE IDEAL God. But the Lord looks at this thing far differently. In Revelation 14: 9-II, in the most stirring and solemn warn- Not only is the eating of meat fraught with danger but a ing to be found in the Bible, God protests against the wor- there is really no excuse for its use, except in a region ship of the beast, his image, and the reception of his mark. where other foods are not available or where other foods Let no one be deceived by any fanciful and private in- at hand are more likely to be damaging than flesh. The terpretation of the Word of God. The Lord means just following quotation from Professor Alonzo Taylor sums what He says, and has said just what He meant to say. up the matter in a very clear way : "Is a vegetarian diet Those words of Jesus for this very generation need ever physiologically correct, adapted to the best purposes of life, to be kept clearly in mind : "Take heed that no man deceive endurance, and longevity ? We receive a reply couched in you. For many shall come in My name, saying, I am no uncertain terms.—Yes, a properly selected and prepared Christ, and shall deceive many." Matthew 24 : 4, 5. vegetarian diet meets completely the highest requirements When the angels said, "This same Jesus, which is taken of the diet." up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as • ye have seen Him go into heaven" (Acts 1:11), they THE VICTORIOUS LIFE meant exactly what they said. When we are told that "the ALL possess hereditary and cultivated tendencies to Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with evil that must be overcome. One after another, as these the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God : tendencies are brought out of their hiding place, they must and the dead in Christ shall rise first" (1 Thessalonians be mastered and subdued. Joshua in fighting the enemies 4:16), and that "every eye shall see Him" (Revelation of God commanded, "Open the mouth of the cave, and : 7), the Lord means exactly what He says. bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave," When He says, "the seventh day is the Sabbath" (Exo- and then added, "put your feet upon the necks of these dus 20: To), He means the seventh day. The seventh day kings. . . . Thus shall the Lord do to all your enemies can be none other than the seventh day. The seventh day against whom ye fight. And afterward Joshua smote them. does not mean just any one day in seven, but the seventh and slew them." So must the kingly sins abiding in the day. When He says, "For in six days the Lord made human heart be brought out one by one until there is none heaven and earth," He does not mean six periods of time remaining and all the enemies of the Lord hiding within are embracing thousands or millions of years, but just six days. conquered. Since God's "word is truth" ( John 17: 17), let us fully ac- The life of Christ was a life of continuous victory over cept the Word of the Lord in childlike simplicity, and the flesh. "Not My will, but Thine, be done," was always not approach it with the preconceived opinions of a doubter. His prayer. His human nature shrank from the suffering that awaited Him in carrying out the great plan of redemption. Had He yielded to the human will, He would WHY EAT SECOND-HAND FOOD? never have drunk the bitter cup. He did His Father's will, (Continued from page 5) Although He possessed the human nature as well as the di- cases produce very poisonous chemical compounds vine, when Satan appeared with his manifold and various called ptomaines. Ptomaine poisoning is more common temptations, he found nothing in Him, that would respond from meat products than from any other type of food. to them. This is what it means to live a life of victory. PARASITES IN MEAT It is the privilege of every child of God to live the life Christ lived. Paul lived this life so fully that he could According to Professor Stiles, of the United States truthfully say, "I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." Public Health Service, "Every animal used for food has in It was his knowledge of human nature, that is, of himself, its intestines either protozoa, round worms, flukes, or tape- that led him to lose confidence in the flesh and to appro- worms." In most cases these parasites are not in the meat priate the divine nature. itself but there is always risk when the flesh is eaten without very thorough cooking. Pork is especially dangerous No book gives a better knowledge of human nature than because of the frequency with which it is infected with the book of God. Many books have been written extolling trichina. Even when thoroughly cooked and the parasites the virtues of men. Nothing is said in these books about all destroyed, it is doubtful as to whether such an infected men's frailties and failures. Not so with the Bible. It product could be a safe one to use as food. Often meat makes as clear the weaknesses and faults of men as it does • that seems well cooked is only partially heated in the central their virtues. The Bible alone does this. The study of the portion and as a result organisms in the poorly cooked Bible is a study of human nature ; it is a study of self. area are left ready to develop when the proper conditions It also reveals as no other book does the character of are presented to them. Many people enjoy their meats God. It makes known the high standard placed before man very rare, or underdone, thus giving ideal conditions for in Christ. It therefore never develops self-righteousness. It lays man in the dust. -living organisms to be passed on to the human body. Isaiah, that great man of God, exclaimed when he beheld RELATION OF MEAT TO CHRONIC DISEASES God's exalted character, "Woe is me ! for I am undone ; be- There is a large list of diseases in which practically every cause I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst one is agreed that, so far as treatment is concerned, the of a people of unclean lips : for mine eyes have seen the use of meat is contraindicated. The following diseases are King, the Lord of hosts." Not until he had this revelation usually classed in this list : Bright's disease, gouty and of himself and of God was he prepared to go forth with a rheumatic conditions, arteriosclerosis, liver diseases, apo- message of hope for others. Not until we lose all confi- plexy, chronic nervous diseases, chronic skin diseases, and dence in the flesh, shall we open our heart's door for Christ any disease where a condition of acidosis is present. If to enter. D. H. KRESS. PAGE TWELVE SIGNS of the TIMES I S LAM'S Today and To-morrow in RELIGION Mohammedanism has, perhaps more than any other religion, felt the effects of the war, and to-day it is a new Mohammedanism C-) that stands before c HE truth is that Islam is more the world. than a creed, it is a complete social system; it is a civilization with a philosophy, a culture, and • an art of its own; in its long struggle against the rival civilization of Christendom it has become an organic unit conscious of itself. . . . No Mohammedan believes that this civilization is dead or incapable of further development. . . . They believe that Islam, too, is about to have its renaissance."

bo) HORACE G. FRANKS

N practice the religion and politics of Islam are dove- Islamic movement, and the sultan of Turkey uses their tailed together; but for the purpose of this particular leaders as spies to work out his own ambitions."—"Islam,' I investigation, we shall separate the two, and deal with page 147. them, so far as possible, as separate entities. The position Perhaps just here we should point out the great extent has been well summarized by Lothrop Stoddard in his re- of Islam at the present time. It can well be termed a world- cent book, "The New World of Islam ;" and verily it is wide religion, because both in arithmetic and in geography a new world which Mohammedanism presents to us. it holds an empire of souls within its grasp. The horns We saw in a previous article that Islam's history may be of its crescent are no closer to-day than they were at the divided into three epochs, the last of which began in 1780. height of its career if we deal with the number of converts; This date is particularly interesting to Bible students, inas- that have embraced the faith of the son of the desert, and much as, in direct harmony with prophecy, "the time of it would seem that the only "prophecy" Mohammed ever the end" began in 1798. From this latter year modern made has been fulfilled : "So we have made you the center Christian missions may be said to date their birth, while in of the nations, that you should bear witness to men." A the decade that directly followed, the first two Bible well-known authority describes the mighty empire thus : societies were started and the gospel message took, as it "Islam in its present extent embraces three continent! were, a new lease of life. Now if Islam is a counterfeit and counts its believers from Sierra Leone in Africa tc and an antagonist of Christianity, we should expect that Canton in China, and from Tobolsk in Siberia to Singapore it, too, would receive a special impetus just about that time ; and- Java. In Russia Moslems spread their prayer carpet: or rather, because the adversary is known to be a student southward toward Mecca ; at Zanzibar they look north of Bible prophecy, we should expect him to begin his op- .ward to the Holy City ; in Khansu and Shensi millions o' erations before the time set for Christianity's awakening. Chinese Moslems pray toward the west ; and in the wide That is why the year 178o saw the increased activity in Sudan they look eastward toward the Beit Allah and the Mohammedan circles and why Black Stone—a vast Moslem 1798 witnessed the birth of mod- brotherhood." ern Christian missions. To give its exact strength in Islam's modern missionaries numbers is almost impossible, for • are the dervishes in Africa, the various estimates range from Oman Arabs as slavers, the dis- 175,000,000 to 300,000,000. The ciples of the university at Cairo, most accurate and latest total and the returning pilgrims from seems to us, however, to be about Mecca. The dervish orders are, 230,000,000, or about 15 per gent it is generally believed, the most of the world's population. powerful and most fanatical of all the present-day apostles of A STRANGE PERMANENCY Islam, although since the conclu- In numbers, however, Islam sion of the Great War, another is very little different from the factor has revealed itself, of time when it was at its zenith Dervishes at worship. The dervish orders which, however, we shall speak are, it is generally believed, the most power- centuries ago, although its ter- ful and the most fanatical of all the present- at length later. "The dervish day apostles of Islam. ritory has altered somewhat. orders," remarks Dr. Zwemer, Says Professor Margoliouth: A "are the tentacles of the Pan- "No Asiatic nor African prov for AUGUST I 5 , 1922 PAGE THIRTEEN 'iii' imprimorligFirr9!""Wiirl"-!'sPIT"”rimir rOMINI9 ince which has been conquered by Islam has ever thrown circumference. . . . It is a world [the Moslem world] it off, not even when it has come under Christian rule ; in Which is disappointed, disillusioned, distracted, sorrowing, Europe it has never secured a permanent foothold." This expectant, but also defiant. It is a world that is disap- phase also excites the surprise of the secular historian, for pointed and distracted because of divided counsels and un- in "Historians' History," Volume 8, a writer says: "It is fulfilled hopes." But, despite its distraction, it is a power- not the propagation but the Permanency of his religion that ful world, concerning which more will be said in the next deserves our wonder; the same pure [ ?] and perfect im- article of this series. The main point to notice, however, pression which he engraved at Mecca and Medina is pre- is that, regardless of its trouble, regardless of its mission- served after the revolutions of twelve centuries by the ary campaignings, "every Mohammedan land and every Indian, African, and the Turkish proselytes of the Koran." section of the Moslem world—China, India, Malaysia—is —Page L/3. calling for Christian workers as never before. God is The true facts are, however, that in the matter of Mo- leading us into a great evangelistic campaign for the con- hammedanism, Christianity has shirked its duty, for no quest of the Moslem world in our day." So writes. Dr. lands have been so neglected by Christian missions as those Zwemer with inspired enthusiasm, and we doubt not that in the grip of Islam. The need is there, but the gospel his words will prove prophetic. And that the Christian has, in the main, not been there—a master stroke of message is the only remedy for Islam's train of ills, is S strategy on the part of the great adversary. Moreover, recognized by such impartial writers as Lothrop Stoddard, there are some people who, forgetting that Mohammedan- who says in his "Rising Tide of Color :" "Certainly all ism is a missionary religion, look upon Islam as a spent white men, whether professing Christians or not, should force, an exploded shell ; but current happenings show welcome the success of missionary efforts in Africa. The that as a religious power it is a factor yet to be reckoned degrading fetishism and demonology which sum up the with. Unfortunately it must be admitted that Islam is native pagan cults cannot stand, and all Negroes will some still extending its borders. Take China, for instance. day be either Christians or Moslems. In so far as he is Theological historians admit that both Islam's entry into Christianized, the Negro's savage instincts will be re- the Celestial Empire and its remarkable methods of prog- strained and he will be disposed to acquiesce in white tute- ress are equally as perplexing and inexplicable ; yet it is lage. In so far as he is Islamized, the Negro's warlike true that important groups of Moslems (numbering about propensities will be inflamed, and he will be used as the io,000,000) are to be found scattered over the twenty-two tool of Arab Pan-rslamism seeking to drive the white man provinces of China and even in Mongolia and Tibet. Yet, from Africa and make the continent its very own."— says the author of "A Primer on Islam," it is sadly true Page 96. that "no class or section of the vast population of China UNPARALLELED OPPORTUNITIES has been so neglected in the proclamation of the gospel as To sum up, it is a happy fact that the Christian church is the Mohammedans. . . . Yet nowhere in the world are offered unparalleled opportunities in Moslem lands. God the. Mohammedans more friendly and more accessible than has put His hand to the fight, and if we will but be faithful they are in China." But Islam also is conducting a cam- to Him, Satan must be defeated. Let us notice, for in- paign to win and to keep China for Mohammed by the total stance, the advantages that Christianity has over the exclusion and elimination of Christianity. Moslem religion in the realm of missionary work. In the LOOK AT AFRICA first place, Jehovah has turned a curse into a blessing and made Islam, unwittingly and unwillingly, the handmaid of Or look at Africa. The Moslem march across that great the gospel. Arabic is the holy language in which the continent is fast becoming a menace, and Africa is Koran was written. The Koran enjoins that all true rapidly falling under the shadow of the prophet's banner. Moslems be able to read the sacred book ; hence, all Mo- Nigeria is two thirds Moslem ; the Sudan has practically hammedans aspire to read the Arabic language, whatever been entirely conquered ; the Swahilis of British East be their own native tongue. Thus the Bible, translated Africa are rapidly turning to the religion of the Arab; into one language, Arabic, is a mighty force in the whole while down in Nyasaland the number of converts to Islam Moslem world. has multiplied from a total of- five figures to one of six. But, God has not stopped there. The Bible to-day is And just as Africa will soon need another Livingstone printed, in whole or in part, in every one of the many lan- to take the light to a superdark land, just so will the Fijian guages spoken by Moslem devotees, and is now being dis- islands soon need to be reevangelized, if Moslem activity is tributed by faithful missionaries in all these darkened not stemmed. In India the position is that Islam is on the lands. But where there is to-day one of God's lighthouses. warpath, as the recent Moplah forced conversions of there should be a hundred, and a Christian church should Hindus plainly testify,—a story written in blood and tears. be planted at the front door of every Moslem mosque. In the Philippines we find Islam the crux of the situation. Furthermore, more than one half the Moslem world is Says Bishop Oldham of the power of Mohammedariism now under Christian rule or protection, which means a there : "The center of our missionary work in Asia is to be free speech, a free press, and liberty to accept the true found in the Philippines. If we fail to Christianize the. gospel. Thirteen years ago Dr. Zwemer pointed out that Philippines, we fail to Christianize all Asia. But if we "the keys to every gateway in the Moslem world are in the succeed in the Philippines, we succeed in all Asia." political grasp of Christian powers, with the exception of A MOSLEM RENAISSANCE Mecca and Constantinople. But the Great War has wiped out even those exceptions, so that to-day we stand In religion (as well as in politics) there has undoubtedly on the very threshold of the pathway that will lead to been a great change. As Sir Theodore Morrison said in Islam's spiritual defeat. the July, 1919, issue of the Nineteenth Century: "The truth is that Islam is more than a creed, it is a GOD NOT DEFEATED BY ISLAM complete social system ; it is a civilization with a philosophy, The task may appear hard; but as one has said, Diffi- a culture, and an art of its own ; in its long struggle against culties for the Christian were only made to be overcome. the rival civilization of Christendom it has become an or- God has not been defeated by Islam. Indeed, He demon- ganic unit conscious of itself. . . . No Mohammedan be- strated His power very early in the history of this counter- lieves that this civilization is dead or incapable of further feit gospel ; for barely had Islamism been born when, says development. . . . They believe that Islam, too, is about Ibn Ishak, the earliest biographer of Mohammed, "Ubai- to have its renaissance." dullah bin Jahsh . . . migrated with the Moslems to Abys- As we have before said, we are faced to-day with a new sinia, . . . and when he arrived there he became a Chris- world of Islam. To quote Dr. Zwemer again: tian, and abandoned Islam, so that he perished there a "There is no part of the world which has felt the effect Christian." Milman further points out that while Islam of the war more deeply upon its institutions, its govern- was capturing Christian dominions in Asia and Africa, "in mental ideals, and its hopes than the Moslem world. 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kingdoms."—"Latin Christianity," Volume Two, page 224. Nevertheless we must not allow optimism and hope to blind us to the true facts. Islam is a living thing; it is a dangerous force; it is a mighty power; not merely a tame religious system or a concoction of domes, minarets, and veiled women. And to take the true gospel to the multi- tudes who have been led astray is to be no easy task. Chris- tianity must bestir itself ; the missionaries of God mtist Suppose you had a case of influenza, or make preparation for the fight, that it may be a speedy and measles, or pneumonia, or whooping cough, or decisive victory for the cross. typhoid fever, or any of the common diseases From many a lone Christian in Moslem lands there or ailments to cope with, would you know just comes the wail so pathetically translated into song by the what to give your patient to eat? Would poet who was visiting Khartum : you know how to prepare it? Could your doc- "They set me looking o'er the desert drear, tor tell you? And yet, is anything more im- Where broodeth darkness as the deepest night; portant, especially during the period of con- From many a mosque there comes the call to prayer ; valescence? • I hear no voice that calls on Christ for light; But still I wait For the messenger of Christ who cometh late." Very definite instruction is given in that new supercookbook, "The Science of Food and (In our next article we shall outline Islam's present and future relationship with world politics.) Cookery." The nineteen pages set apart for this purpose give you lists of foods for each specific disease, suggest appetizing ways of "THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS" preparing them, and even provide a list of six- TRUTH telling and covenant keeping are the essential teen articles to be avoided in all cases. bonds which preserve human society. Because one nation regarded as "a scrap of paper" its solemn treaty with another nation, the world was deluged with blood and is to- There are 587 reasons why you day beggared, distracted, and torn. When one lightly es- teems his own word of promise, he will not long see any should have "THE SCIENCE OF FOOD value in the word of another—not even in the promises•of AND COOKERY" in your kitchen. God. But to every one who honors and fulfills his own promises—"though he to his loss has sworn"—the promises of God are all yea and amen. To such a one God's words Nearly five hundred thoroughly tested, are more precious than silver or gold.—Christian States- mouth-watering vegetarian recipes, by a chef man. of long and successful experience, who is regarded as a leader in the art.

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Above: The American helicopter as perfected by Emile Berliner and his son, has risen vertically into the air more than ten feet, has then gone forward in horizontal flight, stopped, and descended again vertically. This performance is epochal in the annals of aeronautics, and is comparable to the Wright brothers' first flight in 1908. Right: The funeral procession with the caisson bearing the body of Sir Henry Wilson Field Marshal of Great Britain, who was the victim of assassins of Irish sympathies. Sir Henry's white horse, riderless, may be seen following the cortege. Below: The opium habit has become such a menace to the peoples of the world, that the League of Nations has appointed a large committee to make an exhaustive study of the opium question. •

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