\\ • , I ' WORLD EVENTS IN THE LI:pHT 'OF :PROPHECY

VOL. 45, NO. 16 MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, APRIL 21, 1930 TWOPENCE

Sport & General Photo A view of the first meeting of the new Spanish cabinet which recently succeeded the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera. General Berenguer, the Premier, is seated at the head of the table. What Said the Christ of Himself?

DDED to the testimony of (1331 HAROLD J. MEYERS ham, failing, however, to follow what friends and enemies Abraham's life. The prevailing have said concerning sin of unbelief had eaten its Christ must be considered His to gain prestige in this world. way into their hearts. Jesus own testimony concerning Him- Upon what then can His won- was seeking to lead . them to a self. What are His claims? drous claims be accepted? There recognition of His authority. What value have they ? Has He must be some platform of con- They would recognise Jehovah a right to make such claims? A fidence, for thousands, yea, mil- as their God, but were unwilling score of such queries might lions, even today, would die for to admit that Christ was of cross the threshold of the hu- Him who have never seen His heavenly descent. Had they man mind. face. only been willing to live by the Should we look for mere out- First let us look candidly at words of life which came from ward show as a sign of His div- some of His claims. His lips, how different would inity we must be disappointed. have been their destiny. Here Prophets had declared He should HIS PRE-EXISTENCE was One who could go far back come to this world void of all IN speaking to the Jews, who into eternity beyond Abraham's ostentation. Listen to one such were always questioning His day, One who could claim God voice, seven centuries before He authority, He declared, "Verily, as His Father and demonstrate came : "He hath no form nor verily, I say unto you, Before while He tabernacled in human comeliness ; and when we shall see Abraham was, I am." John 8: flesh the right to His claim. Him, there is no beauty that we 58. The setting of this state- Had He not given them on this should desire Him." Isa. 53: 2. ment makes it peculiarly inter- very occasion an opportunity It is strange that this man esting. The Jewish people to prove His claim untrue? among men should not avail prided themselves in their lin- "Which of you," said He, "con- Himself of outward advantages eage from distinguished Abra- vinceth Me of sin?" They knew [Registered at the G.P.O., Melbourne, for transmission by post as a newspaper.] 2 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 21, 1930 too well that behind His claim seeking some ways and means of 'His life, spoke confidence to was a life without a flaw, a life of revoking the sentence of the every seeker of the way of life. with no trace of sin, yet blind Eternal—"The soul that sinneth, His great gift of sacrifice was prejudice led them to seek His it shall die." The wisest were the unquestioned proof that He life. devoting their intellect to solve alone could stand at the cross- THE WAY, THE TRUTH, the mystery of life and death. roads of human experience and THE LIFE With all the conditions of human declare that through Him "a woe, life still remained a treas- new and living way" was op- "JESUS saith unto him, I am ure sought after by all. Man- ened to God. The spotless na- the way, the truth, and, the life." kind would exchange its wealth ture of His life, the noble char- John 14: 6. For centuries men for the possibility of extending acter He possessed for ever had been groping in darkness, life. At the darkest hour when silenced doubt in many honest yet seeking the true way. For life itself had been cheapened hearts as to His being the four hundred years prior to under oppression and tyranny, TRUTH. When on trial, the Thomas's conversation with the tod-man was heard invit- judgment passed on Him was, Christ, not even the voice of ing men to partake of life in "I find in this man no fault at prophecy was heard pointing Him. all." He stands far above men as one free from even the hint of a lie. See Him pleading with Pilate for an ac- ceptance of truth. The governor had before him the embodiment of truth. His ques- tion, "What is truth?" needed no answer, for the TRUTH stood in his presence. The One who had demonstrated His power at the open tomb, who had commanded the lifeless to come forth, is surely the One who can say, "I am the resurrec- tion and the life." What Jesus said concerning Himself must ever be regarded as the most authoritative How foolish statements that can be made on the subject. And His life fully substantiated every would appear claim that He made. these claims were they not founded men to a knowledge of the right Did it ever suggest itself to on the demonstration of His life way. The sag had become very you, reader, that the people to and experience ! evident in things spiritual ; mor- whom Christ spoke nineteen cen- ally also, the world and the peo- turies ago could not gainsay THE CHRIST ple who could have known the His claims? What following do "THE woman saith unto Him, way, were in darkness. At such you think a man, however great I know that Messias cometh, a time as this we find One who he might be, would have at the which is called Christ: when He could startle men with the an- present moment, were he to is come, He will tell us all nouncement, "I AM THE WAY." step out into the arena of hu- things. Jesus saith unto her, I One scarcely needs a reminder man existence and call men's at- that speak unto thee am He." of the fact that while men had tention to the fact that he was John 4: 25-26. lost their way they had also lost THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE. Here we have the claim that their sense and appreciation of "Ah, no," you say, "many such He is the Christ, the Messiah, truth. Under the iron sway of have appeared in this world, the One anointed of God to be pagan Rome, truth had well only proving to be impostors, be- the Saviour of mankind. Many, nigh flickered out. Corruption cause they have no authority to such as this woman, have lived had eaten at the very core of hu- back such claims." Yes, that is in a state of expectancy to link man life till the prince and just why Christ's claims remain their lives with the Saviour. priest, peasant and pauper, unchallenged. Time alters not His claim; were existing on the husks of In His intercourse with men, years may roll by, but we are human falsehoods. Amid such they followed Him because He assured that Jesus Christ is "the conditions as these a voice could point them to the true same yesterday, today, and for was heard saying, "I AM THE way. Through Him, He as- ever." Those who, like the TRUTH." serted, access to God was pos- Samaritan woman, accepted Ever since sin and the reign sible; for without Him there is Him personally, are of the yes- of death had become part of hu- no way open to the Father. His terday. You and I are of to- man experience, men had been ministry, His love, the fragrance (Concluded on page 12)

April 21, 1930 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 3 ---- six chapters with a reserve in favour iii!ipris of the genuineness of the whole book if further discovery warrants. The documents of Genesis and Exodus, owing to the discovery of pure Ac- cadian and old Egyptian words lying alongside the old Hebrew, are today „...•01, immune from the higher critical con- . lib.1.4.7 41111ra...... 0,... 11. • . ail)) jectures (or rather fictions) of Well- I 1!,! 4 hausen, which the church accepts and which the facts no longer warrant. To . _ quote the verdict of one of the most ...... ,.. s.„...... eminent members of the Oriental il . ,.`!•*!.:.,ZI,Z...Z.,', ,.:, , Congress to me afterwards: Pr. ...,‘....i sk ' .. ,.. ‹.'..*::..,S.t,.st • , —,:---7-•••--....---...- A:•,W. •••::Z,..'. . ...::..:S‘7?,'::::::i:.',, Gore's New Commentary is rubbish ...-• ,..,:,.. y ..__ •I • _ _ „0----— .Z.'—"f'---.A from the point of view of archo- logical findings.' The church of today, if it wants a hearing, must get back to the facts of history and drop 'ex- perience' for truth." FACTS OF HISTORY AND We would that Mr. Clarke's clarion call to "get back to the FANCIES OF MODERNISM facts of history and drop 'ex- perience' for truth" might go RMNG to the editor of preached the fact of the resurrection sounding clear around the world. the London Spectator a as having taken place as a fact of evidence and observation. They quoted And we would that every one W few months ago, the the Old Testament invariably as who names the name of Christ Rev. A. H. T. Clarke drew atten- prophesying the facts which they had might see the utter folly of tion to what he termed "a very lived to witness. Our Lord testifies abandoning the sure foundation important leading article" in the to His Messiahship not as a matter of the Word of God for the shift- Record, the leading organ of the for His own experience but as a ing sands of human guesswork. Evangelical party in the Church prophesied fact: 'as it is written.' Only those who are anchored to of England. `How then should the Scriptures be fulfilled?' St. Paul bases the fact of "the impregnable rock of Holy Having quoted "with approval the resurrection on not only ocular Scripture" will be able to weather the weighty opinion of that care- evidence but as being 'according to the storms of the last days and ful observer," Professor C. C. J. the Scriptures.' But the church today arrive finally in the heavenly Webb of Oxford, that the higher no longer believes that Bible is true haven of eternal rest and bliss. criticism "probably involves a in Old or New Testament. All the F. greater and more momentous church parties agree to applaud the break with tradition than the New Commentary, and Dr. Gore's Reformation of the sixteenth New Commentary seems to give up all belief in the historic witness of cAlissionaries Praised century," and that "it has af- either Testament. The Old Testa- fected the whole of Christen- ment editor accepts as a 'basis' the VERY striking tribute to dom," the editor of the Record exploded fictions of Wellhausen's un- foreign mission work was then makes the following com- believing school, and the New Testa- A paid recently by Lord ment :— ment editor seems to give up all the Lytton, who has held many "There is undoubtedly a connection miracles of Christ except His res- posts in India, and was Viceroy between the loss of authority attach- urrection. Even the raising of Laz- and acting Governor-General in ing to the Bible and the falling off in arus is put down (apparently) to the 1925. Sir Henry T. Lunn, editor church attendance. The great mass mythic Hercules raising the mythic Alcestis placed (apparently) to the of the Review of the Churches, of the people have come to believe credit of the Christian account of sent the Church of England that the supernatural revelation in Newspaper the following inter- the Word of God has failed to meet Christ ! the demands of modern knowledge." "Now what are the facts? At the esting account of a conversation Oxford Orientalist Congress the As- that he had with Lord Lytton :— "Now what is the remedy ?" syrian and Egyptian school of dis- "During Lord Lytton's stay in the asks Mr. Clarke. Then he quotes coverers individually reprobated the Alps I asked him what was his con- the editor of the-Record as say- fancies of modernism and the higher sidered opinion of the work of the ing :— criticism as no longer confirmed by great army of Indian missionaries. "Christianity began in an experi- the facts of the case. Even J and E Without any hesitation he replied: 'I ence. . . . The experience came be- and P [supposed authors of the Pen- know it to be excellent. The two fore the Creed . . . The greatest tateuch] were strongly disputed; and great Church Missionary Societies, need of the church today is the ex- the fact of Noah's Flood (first dis- the Oxford Mission, the Scottish and perienced conviction that," etc. covered by Professor Langdon and American Missions, the Roman Cath- taking place about the year 3,500 olic, including the Jesuit Missions, Mr. Clarke's remarks, which B.c.) was an epoch-making discovery. the Wesleyan Methodist, the Baptist, then follow, we wish to pass on Professor Langdon—`loath' as he was and the Salvation Army are all doing to our readers, for we believe at first to admit it—now asserts with splendid work. These men work in a they are worthy of very careful the rest of the new school of explor- spirit and temper far removed from ers the 'historic accuracy' of the Old that of the mere official. The Indian consideration. We quote :— Testament. That is today undeniable chaplain has gone "East of Suez" be- "Now here we touch the bottom of in respect of Genesis 14 (which Dr. cause his career requires it. He is the whole controversy between the Gore's Commentary denies) and of there to fulfil faithfully the duties of world and the modern church. The the Book of Daniel, where the Macca- a state official. This he does for the apostles and the early church of the bean date (asserted by Dr. Gore) is years of his term of service. But it first four General Councils accepted now given up, even by the Interna- is an official task carefully performed, the truth of the Old and New Testa- tional Critical Commentary (B.v. with its reward in salary and other ment Scriptures not as 'experience' `Dania), on the score of 'Assyrian attendant social privileges. All the but as historic fact. The apostles discovery,' at any rate for the first missionaries whom I have known, 4 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 21, 1930 high explosives," there can be little doubt that it will be made far more effective in its wide- spread destructiveness than any form of warfare ever has been. The normal mind shrinks from contemplating the horrors of the wholesale slaughter that gas warfare will be responsible for in future wars. In spite of the noble efforts of men and women in almost every land to ensure permanent world peace, the nations are steadily preparing for war and are building up those resources that they consider will be most use- ful in the event of the outbreak of hostilities. It is becoming more and more evident that "it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." The human race is demonstrat- Sport & General Photo ing its absolute inability to solve SAFETY IN THE AIR the problem of peace. There is The latest design of the autogiro, or windmill aeroplane. The leading fea- one, and one only, who can tures of this machine enable it to be controlled with greater ease under ad- solve that problem, and that one verse conditions, to climb and descend almost vertically, and to land on a is the Prince of Peace, the one small space. All this helps to bring it within the region of privately-owned who said, "In Me ye . . . have aircraft. peace." John 16: 33. Only when the Lord Jesus from Anglicans to American Baptists and British Salvationists, throw them- Gas in Future Wars Christ establishes His everlast- selves into their work with the de- SHORT time ago Dr. Her- ing kingdom, banishing for ever votion of a life-long consecration to bert Levinstein, president from the universe of God every a high task. This atmosphere of sur- A of the Society of Chemical trace of sin and sinners, will render to a great purpose pervades Industry, in criticising the "il- this world know true peace. all their work. When one visits, as Therefore the cry of every sin- I have done, their mission colleges, lusory character" of treaties re- garding gas warfare, made this cere heart should be, "Come, mission schools, mission hospitals, Lord Jesus." F. mission orphanages, or mission tech- remark :— nical schools, one realises how com- "Dreadful as it is, gas is far more pletely different is the orientation of humane than high explosives, and life in these institutions from that of corresponding Government establish- caused less temporary and permanent An Eventful Year in ments. In the latter all work is done suffering in proportion to the mili- as part of an official duty, the regular tary results in war time." Prohibition routine that must be accomplished. He declared further that the W. G. CALDERWOOD, Our American In the missionary undertakings it is Correspondent impossible not to realise and to ap- Geneva Protocol has practically preciate the spirit of service to hu- authorised or permitted the use T is not too much to say that manity inspired by the Christian of smoke screens and perhaps the year 1929 was the most ideal that pervades the whole life and even tear gas and poison fumes. eventful in the history of work of the place. I may best sum He contended that the limitation National Prohibition. It ended up my feelings about the missionaries of naval armaments increases with ,the greatest congressional by repeating what I wrote home soon the importance of the chemical "explosion" in the annals of the after I arrived in India : "The red arm. Large stocks of gas cylin- 100-year fight in the United carpet which is spread for me at official functions would be more fit- ders would be immediately avail- States against John Barleycorn. tingly laid under the feet of the mis- able in all countries, where the When William Borah, mili- sionary men and women whom I am alkali industry existed, and could tant "dry" senatorial giant from meeting from time to time."' " be thrown out of aircraft. Idaho, let loose his forensic ar- Tanks, armoured cars, and other tillery against the Prohibition The work of the men and wo- vehicles would also be used. He administration, charging it with men who give up the comforts urged that the War Office should inefficiency and stigmatised its and privileges of life in the be in close contact with chemi- efforts as futile, the political homeland and go out to foreign cal research, for the improvisa- and congressional atmosphere fields—usually to a life of hard- tion of chemical war material roared with the breaking of a ship and self-sacrifice—is truly might be vital to our existence. storm that had been brewing a noble one. Let us give them Therefore it was satisfactory to for many months. our hearty support by fervent, know, he added, that the Brit- It is too early to prophesy sincere prayers and liberal of- ish chemical industry emerged ferings. F. what the results will be. But from the war stronger and with there will be results ! A consid- a greater capacity for produc- erable portion of the "dry" lead- "No man ever lost any time tion and research. ers have followed the policy of in the heavenly race by stopping Whether or not it is true that "easing along." This has not to help another." "gas is far more humane than stimulated enforcement agencies April 21, 1930 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 5 to high-speed efficiency. Those ture, not only of Washington enthusiasts say that there has in Congress who wish to see the but of surrounding areas. Ob- been more sound progress made decks cleared for action on other servance of law is much im- during the past twelve months issues lost patience, and off proved. than during the entire preceding went the lid, and the explosion In the field of enforcement nine years. There may be act- came. there have been marked, even if ual tests and figures to sustain But what of the year? In the not altogether satisfactory, that claim, but it seems hardly matter of law observance there gains. An exceptionally effec- probable. Nevertheless, after is a general agreement that tive offensive has been waged generous discounts for whatever there has been great improve- against the big rum rings. "The mistakes, delays, and failures ment, particularly among those king of them all," with ramifica- there may have been, the record social leaders who consider tions and distributing points is still bright with achievement, themselves privileged because of stretching from New York half- and January, 1930, smiles with their standing or wealth. Ac- way down the Atlantic coast, the promise that the best is yet cording to such writers as Mark was trapped and put out of busi- to be. Sullivan, David Lawrence, and, ness in a spectacular raid. In 0. 0. McIntyre who are recog- Chicago and the middle west, in- nised as authoritative social and cluding Detroit, "the big boot- cN'ature's Voice political observers, particularly legger has become almost ex- in Washington, New York, and tinct." "HAVE you listened to the the east, this change is marked Smuggling, unless on the Pa- rivulet's message? The thou- and general. It is credited cific coast, which is not a very sand gurgling, rippling stream- largely to the election of Presi- active front at best, has been lets helping to swell the great dent Hoover, and to his out- brought under much better con- streams, all admonish us to be spoken demand for law obser- trol. On the Detroit sector, happy and faithful in doing our vance. The campaign brought where the President ordered a part in the world's work, how- the issue to the forefront in the concentration of forces, the ever small it may be, knowing thinking of millions of citizens, clearings from Canada dropped the large work materialises and the overwhelming Hoover from 162,000 cases per month only through the combined ef- vote tended to create and crys- to 43,400—a decrease of almost forts of the many. This reflec- talise sentiment favourable to 75 per cent, and the lines are tion prevents discontent and un- the law. still being tightened. On the faithfulness on the part of the With the inaugural address, Atlantic shoreline smuggling humble worker, and pride and which dealt so strikingly with from both Canada and the Ba- self-gratulation on the part of Prohibition, came a still further hamas has been reduced to new the leaders." advance in observance amongst minimums. Those who remain the social "upper crust" through- in the business are mostly des- out the east. By direct presi- perate outlaws, with the charac- "TRUTH is not wholly truth dential edict official Washington teristics of the villainous pirates until it is expressed in a life. became "dry." This fixed atti- of a century ago. Energy is idle until it is trans- tude of the administration nat- The year has, without doubt, formed into work. Character is urally and necessarily reflected been the best of the ten since not character until evidenced in itself through the entire struc- the enactment of the law. Some conduct."

Sport & General Photo BRITAIN'S LATEST AIRCRAFT CARRIER H.M.S. "Glorious," which was formerly a cruiser and built during the World War, has been converted into an air- craft carrier. Judging from the statements of military experts and the attention that most of the nations are giv- ing to the efficiency of their air forces, aircraft will play a very important part in future wars. 6 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 21, 1930 in the great judgment day. God does not send it for the purpose of condemning; He does not de- light in condemnation. He says, "I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth," and then asks mankind to turn from their sins and live. He even pro- nounces a blessing upon them Editor: C. M. SNOW - Associate Editor: A. M. FRASER that hear. "Blessed is he that Editorial Contributor: - - A. W. ANDERSON readeth, and they that hear the Please address all communications other than those of a business nature to words of this prophecy, and keep the Editor by name. those things which are written therein : for the time is at hand." Rev. 1: 3. The hearing ear and the loyal heart are of greatest value in the sight of God. Lis- Up Toward the Home Eternal ten to His declaration concern- ing His Son on the mount of E had lost our home. We God from the minds of the transfiguration and His admoni- lost it through sin. The people. tion to us : "This is My beloved W deceiver had usurped At the same time that this Son, in whom I am well pleased ; our inheritance, and we were work is going on there, and is hear ye Him." Matt. 17: 5. dispossessed. But the eternal being planned for other lands as Father was not willing that it If we expect to be well pleas- well, and when the overwhelm- ing to our Father in heaven, we should remain thus. In the ing intolerance of the Roman must obey that admonition ; for counsels of eternity between organisation against all com- it is spoken to the world and not Father and Son a plan was de- munions but its own is actively to a few individuals alone. Said vised whereby, if man sinned, asserting itself, we are not to Jesus to His disciples shortly redemption would be possible forget that God has His own before His crucifixion : "This without at the same time dis- work going on in the world gospel of the kingdom shall be paraging the law of God or which is winning everywhere preached in all the world for a threatening the perpetuation of some who place allegiance and witness unto all nations; and sin in His universe. obedience to God above every then shall the end come." Matt. Ever since man sinned God consideration of a material or 24 : 14. It is a whole world that has ben calling him back to his selfish nature. God has called, is in rebellion against the gov- lost inheritance, calling him and they have heard and heeded, ernment of heaven and the char- back to a life of sinlessness, and definitely joined themselves acter of the Almighty, and not calling him to make straight with others who have likewise a mere tribe or nation. It is paths for his feet, presenting yielded themselves to God ; and a world that is under condemna- before him the plan of salvation, that small army of zealous ad- tion for sin and under sentence and calling upon man to accept herents to God's law and the of death, and not a small portion the Saviour, to flee from death principles of His kingdom, who of earth's inhabitants. So God to life, from mortality to im- are definitely standing for the is now dealing with a world, mortality. integrity of the entire Word of saving out of this world all who God, will constitute His active will yield allegiance to Him, and Now these are the great real- army of witnesses in the trying ities. They are not fancies, nor accept the provisions of His and testing times that are now grace. philosophic guesses, nor the before this world. hypotheses o f day-dreamers. We are admonished again to The battle of sin and rebellion His last warning message is be careful, even though we have against righteousness and loy- now going to all the world. God heard, heeded, and accepted God's alty that began in heaven and is not a "tribal god," as some messages, not to hold them too was transferred to this earth in are claiming today. He is the lightly. "Therefore we ought to the expulsion of Satan and his Creator of the heavens and the give the more earnest heed to fallen followers from heaven, is earth, and whatever work He the things which we have heard, a real battle and it is still on. has to be done in the earth now lest at any time we should let Satan is mustering his hosts of is for all the world, and not for them slip. For if the word evil at the present time in ev- a select few. Listen to His own spoken by angels was steadfast, ery nation under heaven. In declaration :— and every transgression and dis- Russia it is a frank and open "Hear, all ye people ; hearken, obedience received a just recom- warfare against God, the lead- 0 earth, and all that therein is : pense of reward ; how shall we ers in it being determined to and let the Lord God be witness escape if we neglect so great stamp all idea of God and re- against you, the Lord from His salvation ; which at the first be- ligion out of existence ; and when' holy temple." Micah 1: 2. It is gan to be spoken by the Lord, they have accomplished it for all the inhabitants of the world and was confirmed unto us by Russia, to do the same work for that He is calling to ; and the them that heard Him." Heb. 2: all the rest of the world. Such message which He sends is a 1-3. Our carefulness is not done persecutions as religion has not message of love, even though it when we have heard and heeded known since the days of the Ro- is a message of warning ; and to —it is steadfastness that counts. man emperors are now being all those who will not receive it Our Saviour tells us, "He that suffered by the members of and yield to its pleading and endureth to the end shall be various denominations in Rus- warning, it becomes a message saved." Matt. 10: 22. And He sia, the one idea being to banish that will witness against them has Himself set us the example. April 21, 1930 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 7 He endured even the cross and deeply we have sunk, His arm of mortality. And He is abundantly all that went before the cross, love can reach us and bring us able to do all that, if only we and all in the interests of those up into the glorious inheritance will hear and heed and accept in whose service He was giving which he has planned for His and obey and go. Then He can His own life. Let us note His faithful people. His business in fill us; then He can use us might- example, given in the Epistle to this world is to lift us up out of ily in His loving service; and the Hebrews :— the pit of destruction into which then He can take us with Him "Looking unto Jesus, the Au- we have fallen, and make us sit into the once forfeited inherit- thor and Finisher of our faith; in the heavenly places, in the ance redeemed from the curse who for the joy that was set presence of the Eternal, in the and into that life which shall before Him endured the cross, city of our God, in glorious im- have no end. S. despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." Heb. 12: 2. That is our great example in endurance and steadfastness— enduring unto the end of life, "HE IS OUR PEACE" and yielding life itself rather than yielding up principle. The By R. A. SALTON same thought is expressed by the Revelator in these words : "Be HE statesmen of the na- Strife will continue till the thou faithful unto death, and I tions are trying to pave Lord Himself comes and takes will give thee a crown of life." the way for peace, by mu- His people to heaven, where all Rev. 2 : 10. tual agreements in conferences, is peace ; till the author of war Then when we have heard, by signing pacts and so on ; and, and death is taken out of the heeded, accepted, yielded, given as the leaders of governments, way. Yet, in a world of turmoil Him our heart (Prov. 23: 26), they are duty-bound to endea- and commotion it is the blessed and put our dependence in His vour to find a way of solving in- privilege of all who believe in power to make it possible for us ternational problems other than God to be at peace with Him and to endure, the commission by the arbitrament of war. But with man, to have the peace of comes : "Go ye therefore, and they must not forget that the God ruling in the soul. teach all nations, baptising them only way to a real, lasting peace Faith is the means by which in the name of the Father, and is through the person of the Son we appropriate God's promise of the Son, and of the Holy of God, for "He is our peace." of peace, and make effective in Ghost : teaching them to observe Eph. 2: 14. It is when He con- personal experience the purpose all things whatsoever I have trols the minds of men, classes, of Christ's sacrifice upon the commanded you : and, lo, I am and nations, that there can be cross: "Therefore being justified with you alway, even unto the peace, for. we receive peace by by faith, we have peace with end of the world." Matt. 28: receiving Him. God through our Lord Jesus 19. If any are timid, and fear- Christ hath already broken Christ." Rom. 5: 1. ful that they may not be able to down the distinction between the Thrice blessed is he or she stand and to withstand, let such two great divisions of the hu- who is at peace with God and know that God has provided the man family, Jew and Gentile, man ! This peace will keep all necessary power. He declares : and made them one in Him, "so who possess and cherish it "Yea, he shall be holden up : for making peace." In Him alone, through the trials of this world God is able to make him stand." then, can the nations that make of war and strife ; will keep Rom. 14 : 4. up these two great divisions of them unharmed through the So God gives the message of mankind find true peace. He storms and tempests that will love and of warning ; He invites "came and preached peace" to beat upon it in these last days ; us to hear and heed and accept; them that were afar off, and to for, as the apostle who had He lifts us out of darkness and them that were nigh. Eph. 2: weathered many a gale says : the shadow of death into the 17. And the method by which "The peace of God, which pass- light of life ; He directs us along God hath reconciled man to Him- eth all understanding, shall keep the way ; He sets us the example self and made peace is "through your hearts and minds through which He desires us to follow in the blood of His cross." Col. 1: Christ Jesus." Phil. 4: 7. This the upward way that leads to 20. This is the only true way blessed peace is the gift of God life eternal and the inheritance by which man can be reconciled (John 14 : 27) ; and Christ shed incorruptible ; He gives us the to his fellow, and nation to na- His precious blood that all who strength which we lack to enable tion. If all would realise that will may obtain it. Then why us to stand. But He doeS not they are the purchase of the not accept the gift? leave us there. "My presence blood of Christ and would sur- shall go with thee." Ex. 33: 14. render to its merits, all enmity "Lo, I am with you alway, even would be banished and peace "A LADY, it is said, once asked unto the end of the world." would reign. Only when men James Simpson, the great Edin- Under such a leader who gather around the cross of burgh physician, the discoverer should be afraid to enlist? The Christ is there true unity, love, of chloroform, 'What is the weakest and most timid soul in and peace. most important discovery you the world need have no fear. No The world has been and is have ever made?' The doctor matter how great the darkness rent and torn with strife—class, looked at the questioner and re- that may surround, God can lift domestic, national—because men plied, 'Madam, the greatest dis- us up and enshroud us in the and nations do not take the rule covery I ever made was that light that shines from His glori- of the Prince of peace into their Christ is my Saviour.' He had ous throne. No matter how hearts and lives. no doubt." 8 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 21, 1930 (0-he Greatest Text ciJ clbr ARTHUR F. PARKER the Greatesci. Book

" For God so loved the world, that He save His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlastink, life." John 3 : 16

HE greatest text in the THAT INVITATION TAKES IN His person, the One equal with Word of God is John 3: THE RACE God. T 16, but the only way it can BEING a personal invitation It is through being in Him become the greatest to my in- it includes all, and, dear reader, alone that it can be said of the dividual life, is when I experi- that means you, providing you believers that they "should not ence in reality what the Apostle accept the condition, which• perish," during the eternal Paul experienced, as told in needs the greatest simplicity, ages. Being purchased, it is the these words : "I am crucified implicit belief. greatest deliverance for them; with Christ : nevertheless I live ; for He says of them, "I have lost yet not I, but Christ liveth in This is not merely a lip ex- none," and the "but" in John 3: me : and the life which I now pression, as spoken of in Matt. 16 allows for the greatest dif- live in the flesh I live by the 15: 8, but that which is shown ference. Now they are enabled faith of the Son of God, who by obedience in works of love to "have." This is the greatest loved me, and gave Himself for (James 1 : 18; Gal. 5 : 6), so certainty, for then ;they possess me." Gal. 2: 20. - long as the belief is "in Him," "everlasting life," the greatest John 3: 16 tells us that "God," the greatest person, who is the possession, seeing they live the greatest lover, "being rich brightness of His Father's through and in Him, in never in mercy," revealed to man the"glory, and the express image of ending blessedness through the greatest mystery, kingdom of His "while men were grace into the king- yet sinners," in that, dom of His glory. though not being SALVATION IS AN loved by man, yet INDIVIDUAL He in the greatest EXPERIENCE degree loved with an infinite love, and IN Gal. 2: 20, the manifested that love great apostle relates to the greatest num-, his own experience ; ber—"the world"— but every one who which is the whole claims John 3 : 16 created, fallen race. for himself must then count it as his This is so, seeing own experience, and that in the great- realise it as such ; est act (that He for the world is only gave, a n d spared saved as individuals not, but delivered),,, are saved — individ- He withheld nothing ually. Not one is from His purchased saved because of his possession. M a n relationship with the festing Himself in 'elect of God, whether His Son, He assured as a church 'worker, all mankind that the minister, deacon, or tie would never be layman, but because broken in that it was of his own personal "His only begotten relationship with Son" who was given. Christ as an individ- It was the greatest ual Saviour. Then it gift possible, yet it is by faith that we was the least that individually partake could be done in of the personal ex- order to pledge that perience with Christ. He would fulfil His This experience is Word, and never for- then revealed in the sake His own peo- character. ple. Through grace He gave them good HE DIED IN OUR hope of eternal com- God so loved the world that He was willing that His only be- PLACE gotten Son should even taste of the bitterness of death. And the fort, by the greatest Son Himself so loved that He too was willing to pass through Now since we have invitation—t h a t that dread experience. The death of Christ is a mighty demon- received it, the text "Whosoever will." stration of the love of Heaven for fallen humanity. says, we have been April 21, 1930 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 9 crucified with Christ ; not that in Him will show his belief in object of God's great gift for we have actually been on Cal- works as James declares they us all, and the reason why we vary's cross with Him ; but as will do. should accept it. We must leave Christ went on to the cross for The works here spoken of are ourselves in His hands. He is us, we accept His act for us, as not those of clamoring for rec- able to keep us, heart, mind, and our own. ognition and support by earthly body, and will bring us off more Perhaps an experience that has rulers and human laws, but sim- than conqueror, seeing it is no been recorded will help us to ply Christ working out, once longer flesh working, but Christ grasp the reality of it. A married more, His own works of right- working within. man was summoned to war, and eousness and obedience in us. This experience gives the be- a personal friend who was with- He had such a love for poor, liever that peace of God which out home ties, offered to take weak creatures like ourselves passeth all understanding, for the married man's place. He that He gave up His own life, he knows his hope is really said, "You have a family and that it may be lived again in our within. May God help us all duty at home. I have none, and unworthy bodies. This is the to gain such an experience. will go in your place." The married man finally con- sented, and the single man was "4.11.4 ,1.1....1•1...... 0.0.=.0.11■Mpo.M.NEIMPQM10.4=11004Wilwo••••••1.1.0411111...=EN.0..m...ImM.0.M...m , I MINM.MOIN.01=.1.1...... accepted as a substitute for him. The story goes on to say that the young man was killed, 64 Wh. at Jesus Means to Me " and later the married man was again called upon. When an- 44' 411•14.4.0.10.041=.0.10.0111•11.04,11.0.11110.11•1•040.4.U0.1110.41.10.411=w4 •••=1.0.1■111.4.mommilmo.• 10.44 swering this call he said, "A man has served and died for s there anyone can help us? HAT Jesus means to me me." The records being exam- . . . Yes there's One, only is what no one else pos- ined showed this living man to One ; The blessed, blessed W sibly can mean. No one be listed as dead. Jesus He's the One." Because could possibly love me so thor- He was dead so far as the He was touched with the feeling oughly. The fact is, He in- requirements of his country of our infirmities, "The best vested His all in me. He is were concerned, and could not friend to have is Jesus." above and beyond all nature's be called upon to fight, even I have proved Him for many grandeur. He is a person, and though he lived. Thus the life years, though I have often had in a very special way fits into that was lost was counted for to bow and weep at the feet of my personality. Love is the su- his, but only because he accepted Jesus for my short-comings and preme thing in personality. it. mistakes. The love of Jesus in There is no one who knows Christ was crucified for us; my heart has made life very all and from whom I have no so we now count ourselves dead, sweet. Jesus • is as sunshine, secrets. Yet He loves me crucified upon the cross. The breaking through the gloom, to through all. He is in a peculiar cross means death ; and those make the earth rejoice again sense my very own—the alto- of us who come to the cross are and flowers bloom. gether lovely One. counted as dying in His death ; Jesus is my Guide, my Coun- He speaks to me! How sweet, but while this is so, we know sellor, and my mighty Defender. how encouraging is. His infal- that we still have life within lible Word—that Word that ourselves. However, this life is I, like Peter, am constrained to say, To whom else can we go tells me of His fidelity, His love, not our old life, the old man of His covenant-keeping! It is sin ; for we are now on the other who is able to satisfy the heart's longing? He has the words of surely a resting-place for my side of the cross. The cross faith. separates us from our old na- eternal life. ture, and we are new creatures, Think of the wonderful love Multiplied forgivenesses we have a new life, that of the of Jesus in taking us so close to crowd memory's hall—the won- man who died for us. Himself ; for He says, "I am the derful continued answers to Vine, ye are the branches." prayers, the special application MAKING IT STILL MORE of Scripture that exactly fitted PERSONAL Jesus is life to me. Withered and barren would I be if sev- into my heart and life! His CHRIST dying on the cross for ered from the Vine. plans have always been so much us means that, since we have ac- better than mine—I sink my in- cepted it, His life is our life. So I thank Jesus for lifting me terests in His. it is no longer we, but Christ ; from the sinking sands of sin : and can truly say, "Hitherto "Oh Saviour, precious Saviour mine! but it is only by faith that we What will Thy presence be, have this life, and this faith is hath the Lord helped me," and can believe, "As thy days, so If such a life of joy can crown in the Son of God. Let us give Our walk on earth with Thee?" shall thy strength be." Now I heed to that little word "in," M. MCDOWELL. there being a great difference can sing :— between believing in, and believ- "I'm so glad I've learned to trust ing about. "The devils believe," Him, says the Apostle James (James Precious Jesus, Saviour, Friend; GOOD habits are not made on And I know that Thou art with me, 2 : 19), but it only makes them Will be with me to the end." birthdays., nor Christian char- tremble. It does not avail them acter at the New Year. The anything. They believe about Dear reader, I would say, workshop of character is every- Jesus, and express it with their taste and see that the Lord is day life. The uneventful and lips, but not believing in Him good. He will never disappoint commonplace hour is where the they do not show it in their those who trust in Him. battle is lost or won.—D. Bab- lives ; for the one who believes E. L. GUDGIN. cock. 10 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 21, 1930 Churches Drifting Romewards DEFINITE MOVES TOWARD REUNION By MAX GROLIMUND HERE is at the present time ment for reunion; but it was an positions." We ask ourselves a growing desire in prac- objective that had to be gradu- the question, Which is to be "the T tically all the leading de- ally prepared for, so that when one church"? Hear the church's nominations for unity, that is, a the time came, all the denomina- reply. In his address at Camber- union of the churches, an amal- tions would move towards it as well the Rev. Roscoe Wilson said): gamation of all beliefs into one, one." "Some people asserted that and this union it is claimed will As this was a combined meet- there could never be a reunion materially advance religious ing of different churches, we that would include the Roman prosperity and spirituality upon take it Mr. Wilson was repre- Catholics, the Anglicans, and the earth. Just where this de- senting the trend of thought in the Nonconformist churches; sired union is leading and what those churches towards reunion. but he did not believe that," and will be its outcome it is the pur- The Rev. Dr. Strong, minister said "that things that had ap- pose of this article to show. of the Australian Church, Rus- peared impossible had come to That there is too much rivalry sell Street, Melbourne, in an ad- pass." among the churches is a fact ac- dress in that church on Septem- DEFINITELY ROMEWARD knowledged by leading church- ber 15, 1929, is credited with STILL more definite than this men irrespective of their creed. saying : "The partition walls be- is a statement taken from a One minister has said, "The tween churches will fall, and speech delivered by the Rev. Mr. churches are acting for unity" ; affinities between the Christian Maynard of the Church of Eng- and speaking on the rivalry ex- religions and other religions will land, at a meeting of the Aus- isting among the churches, Dr. be discovered." tralian Church Union, held on Baker, Bishop of Bendigo, in an In the official Methodist or- the evening of July 8, 1929. He address before the Anglican gan, the Spectator, dated Sep- said : "A m o n g s t Anglicans, Synod is reported to have said : tember 4, 1929, appeared an ar- Presbyterians, and Nonconform- "A divided church could not con- ticle entitled "The United ists today there is a growing de- tend with advantage against Church in Canada," in which it sire for unity. . . . There are the grave and growing social states that four years ago a indications in the Roman Catho- and international problems of union took place in Canada be- lic Church of a change of spirit. today. We have reached a new tween the Congregational, the Before union could come, they era in these problems, and if Methodist, and a very large pro- must be prepared to give up the church was to be the power portion of the Presbyterian some of their cherished, though her Master wanted her to be in churches, and the general census unimportant, beliefs. Their job helping to solve these problems, of opinion is that the union has was perfectly clear and definite, she must break down all bar- more than justified itself. The and that was to Catholicise the riers, and her adherents must president of the British Wes- Church of England." march shoulder to shoulder." leyan Conference, Dr. Loft- This is a clear-cut, definite house, in speaking on church re- statement, and reveals most em- DEFINITE STEPS TOWARD THAT union, as reported by the Spec- phatically the attitude adopted GOAL tator, said : "As some of you I by the Anglican Church of today. ON this subject of church re- think are aware, I yield to no In many Church of England union the Bishop of Wangaratta, man in my longing for a united churches are to be seen prac- Dr. S. Hart, wrote in April last : church of Christ." tically all the forms and ritual "Our problem is to find room in We understand that the Free of the papal church. one church for all doctrinal Presbyterian Church and the Dr. W. E. Orchard, a leading positions, and for all modes of Presbyterian Church in Scot- and influential minister in Eng- expression compatible with de- land have lately reunited, and land, and one of its leading ora- votion to Jesus Christ and vital according to the Rev. Mr. May- tors, celebrates high mass in his union with Him." In an article nard, a Church of England min- London Congregational chutch, headed "Reunion of Churches," ister, there has recently been and proclaims it a rite of the appearing in the Melbourne Ar- formed in the Roman Catholic highest evangelical efficiency. gus, dated November 28, 1929, we Church a special society to con- He has introduced into his notice that the ministers of six sider means of reunion. church, we understand, the rit- churches of different denomina- ual of the Church of Rome— tions in Camberwell, Victoria, WIDESPREAD AND GENERAL candles on the altar, crucifix on conducted a combined service at FROM the foregoing state- the pulpit, etc. ; and in speaking which the sermon was delivered ments it can be readily seen that of reunion, according to the by the Rev. Roscoe Wilson of the the desire, for the union of the Melbourne Herald of December Church of England, his subject churches is widespread and gen- 7, 1929, he states, "The whole being, "Working towards the eral, but where is this move- might be governed by a constitu- Union of Churches." Near the ment leading? Quoting again tional and benevolent Papacy, close of that address he said : from Dr. Hart of Wangaratta, no longer using the one-time "A long time might elapse be- "Our problem is to find room in methods of excommunication fore there was any great move- one church for all doctrinal and persecution." April 21, 1930 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 11 The Rev. C. Irving Benson of Melbourne writing in the Herald of August 24, 1929, concerning a Presbyterian service he had There Is No Substitute for God attended in Edinburgh, con- LEON A. SMITH ducted by Dr. McLean, one time of Melbourne, said of that ser- T is the purpose of Chris- to hide from mankind; and for vice : "It was a Catholic service, tianity to reveal God to the this purpose he has employed all with creed and liturgical world. It is the purpose of his wiles to put something be- prayers"—and this in the Pres- the devil to conceal God from the fore the eyes of men in the place byterian Church! Other author- world. of God. He has appealed to the ities could be quoted along the The knowledge of God is es- desire of the natural heart for same lines. Enough has been sential to salvation. Without it, self-glorification, and has led said to reveal the drift Rome- men worship false gods, and be- men to worship and to serve the wards by Protestantism today. come superstitious, ignorant, creature more than the Creator. This union of the churches, ad- cruel, and debased. God has Rom. 1 : 25. vocated so generally, will have given a revelation of Himself to The God of the Bible is the one sure and certain result, mankind in two great books : Creator. In the teaching of to- amalgamation with the Church the book of nature, and the book day the Creator is put far into of Rome. It is plainly predicted of inspiration—the Bible. the background or relegated en- in Rev. 13: 4. And when this tirely into oblivion. The scien- takes place, despite the dreams ADAPTED TO HUMAN NEEDS tists, and religious teachers to a of many Protestants, union will BUT the greatest revelation large extent, ask us to believe take place on the grounds laid and the most perfect was found that the Bible narrative of the down by that austere and dic- in Jesus of Nazareth. For this Creation is a fable. tatorial denomination. The purpose, "the Word was made In the place of the God of the Rev. Mr. Maynard, in his ad- flesh, and dwelt among us, (and Bible we are offered the god of dress, said he thought he saw in- we beheld His glory, the glory the scientists. In the place of a dications of a change of spirit as of the only begotten of the God of whose person the Man in the Catholic Church. On the Father,) full of grace and Christ Jesus is the express im- contrary, her proud boast is that truth." John 1: 14. "He that age, whose glory is revealed in "she never changes," and her hath seen Me," Jesus said, "hath the face of Christ, whose life is motto is Semper eadem, Always seen the Father." John 14: 9. manifested in the followers of the same. As she was during Thus in the person of Jesus Christ, who saves from sin by the Dark Ages, so she is, today. Christ, who was (and is) the the gospel of Christ, who is so The same spirit of intolerance express image of the eternal close to us that He dwells in the for anything but her own beliefs Father and who became the Son human heart, we are asked to is still there, the same creed, the of man and went about among accept a god that has only such same doctrines, the same lust men, doing good and preaching a semblance of personality as is for power and dominance. the gospel, there is given a reve- expressed in the terms "cosmic Pleasing as this church-union lation of God that is not at all mind" and "activating principle doctrine may be to many individ- vague or ambiguous, but clear, of the universe." uals, we see that God's approval definite, and perfectly adapted We can love a person, but we does not rest upon it, for in to human needs. cannot love an "activating prin- speaking of the great modern By the provisions of the gos- ciple." We can have faith in a Babylon which represents the pel, the life of the Christian is Creator, but not in a "cosmic amalgamation of the churches in the life of Christ, which is the mind" as a means of salvation the last days, God says (Rev. life of God. After Christ as- from sin. 18 : 4) : "Come out of her, My cended to heaven, His successor A God, who answered the lep- people, that ye be not partakers on earth, the Holy Spirit, made er's appeal by saying, "I will ; be of her sins, and that ye receive the followers of Christ His habi- thou clean" ; who stretched out not of her plagues." tation, and their lives continued His hand to Peter when he was to be a revelation of God to sinking in the waves of Galilee ; God has a church in the last mankind. who called Lazarus from the days, a "remnant church," a God made a revelation of Him- tomb ; who gives peace in the small number characterised by self in awful majesty on Mount tempests of life, and a new heart keeping "the commandments of Sinai ; but that was not enough. by the exercise of His creative God, and the faith of Jesus." There He was God above us. In power, is perfectly suited to the Rev. 14: 12. This church is to Jesus of Nazareth He revealed needs of sinners. be persecuted for her faith. Himself as God among us. But NO HELP FOR SINNERS Rev. 12: 17. But to her the that was not enough. Through words of God apply : "Fear not, the office work of the Holy Spirit BUT there is no help for the little flock ; for it is your Fath- He manifests Himself as God sinner in a cosmic mind or in a er's good pleasure to give you within us. principle of life diffused through the kingdom." Luke 12: 32. the universe, whose only method Dear reader, let us remember SUBSTITUTES FOR GOD of working is a process of evo- the entreaty of Jesus: "Take SUCH is the provision made lution that requires aeons of heed that no man deceive you" ; by the gospel for all men to have time to produce any perceptible and with this admonition ring- a true and complete revelation change. ing in our ears, we will not be of God, and be brought into con- The world is more and more deceived by this great deception tact with His power -for salva- losing sight of the God of the of the last days, but will be tion from sin. Bible, the Creator, and substi- among those who shall stand be- All this revelation of God it tuting in His place the cosmic fore the throne of God. has been Satan's constant aim god of the scientists ; but while 12 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 21, 1930 this is going on, the Creator is not keeping silence. By the visi- tation of His judgments in dis- asters by land and by sea, He is thundering in the ears of men the fact of His existence and of their inability to save themselves WOMAliS by any wisdom and power of their own. GOD'S ANSWER AND He is doing more than this; for, in the greatest strong- R CALM holds of heathenism—the mis- sion fields of Asia, Africa, and South America—He is giving such a demonstration of the efficacy of His gospel to save fallen humanity, to lift men up from the depths and turn them eAppreciate Their Obedience from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God MARY S. STOVER as has not been witnessed in any land or at any time since the iss Ballard is a grade more. Whoever distrusts chil- days of the apostles. And as school teacher of some dren tempts them to 'go lengths,' the tide of modernism and athe- years' experience. A as the old saying is, whenever a ism rises in the earth, this dem- fairly wide acquaintance with chance comes. Your kiddies onstration of Christianity's God boys and girls made her soon are too loving and fine to rebel, and His salvation will become rate very highly the young niece but over-strictness with them stronger and more widespread. and nephew whose home she may endanger the sweet com- This is the Creator's answer was visiting for the first time radeship that means so much to the modernistic teaching, since they were babies. in family life. All children which would hide Him from the Elma and Raymond were not have a strong sense of justice, view and banish Him from the only bright, sturdy, and good- and they must know themselves thoughts of mankind ; and it is looking, but so well-mannered to be far more obedient than the one that cannot be refuted. and obliging that Miss Ballard rest. Doubtless they ought to felt her sister should be a very be; but why not praise them for happy mother. On the contrary, minding so well? Louise was a worried, fretful, "Frances Willard's mother What Said the Christ of nagging parent. The sharpness was noted for her habit of en- Himself? with which she called the chil- couraging each child, yet when (Concluded from page 2) dren from their play caused asked how she would do differ- the listening auntie to wonder ently if living her life over day and we, with all who have if their good behaviour might be again, she said : 'I should blame recognised His claim to that of just a cloak which they put on less and praise more.' Saviour, will constitute the for in her honour. ever. Are we not promised by "Another counsel from long Both the children came in as experience has impressed me so acceptance of Him as our Sav- promptly as little folks can be much that you can take this iour that we shall see Him as expected to tear themselves He is and dwell with .Him for sermonising for an attempt to away from an engrossing game, share advice, of which I myself eternity ? The Lord grant us but the frowning mother scolded the faith, the grace necessary, was greatly in need ! Louise, I instead of praised. Day after was just overwhelmed with to personally relate ourselves to day this sharpness was so com- shame when a favourite summer- His claim of saving power. mon that Miss Ballard finally school instructor urged us put a half-teasing, older-sisterly teachers to feel more apprecia- question. "Don't you demand tion for what he called juvenile "A WORLD without a Sabbath rather too much, Louise? See docility. This man pictured would be like a man without a how respectful and obedient himself as watching any school smile, like a summer without your youngsters are compared ground when the last bell rang flowers." with all their playmates." and the children, as he said, 'left "Disobedience among the the games they loved more than neighbour's children is my rea- they loved to eat' for studies of TRIALS, temptations, disap- son for holding Elma and Ray little natural interest to them. pointments—all these are helps to strict account, explained "Of course boys and girls instead of hindrances, if one their mother, soberly. "Most should answer the school bell uses them rightly. They not of the parents in this part of promptly ; it is right to expect only test the fibre of character, town are so easy-going that I as willing response to every but strengthen it. Every con- feel called upon to take a very summons from the home door- quered temptation represents a firm stand. If my children way. Yet it often takes much new fund of moral energy. Ev- should once get to acting like self-control and good nature for ery trial endured and weath- the rest, there's no telling where them to drop what seems so im- ered in the right spirit makes a it would end." portant to them. Children are soul nobler and stronger than it "I understand your reason, not unlike us. To understand was before.—James Buckham. but let's study the question their dismay we need to recall April 21, 1930 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 13 some time when we've been Slowly, patiently, and happily called away from a good visit the boys worked with the artist, Choice Recipes or from a piece of work we were who was teaching them lessons Beet and Potato Salad in a hurry to finish. I've found in character-building as well as the memory of such times a very in wood-carving. 2 cups diced cold boiled potato present help to patience with It was not long before both 1 cup diced boiled beet children who lagged a little ; it boys began to feel respect for 2 chopped hard-boiled eggs 2 teaspoons chopped onion makes me feel that those who the efforts in craftsmanship, Chopped parsley come on time deserve a word of represented in the hand-carved praise." furniture and beautiful wood- Mix, and blend with boiled The young mother had stopped work in their home. dressing or cream mayonnaise. sewing. "I've had hundreds of "How much hard work and Serve on a lettuce leaf. such interruptions," she said, skill it must have taken to make "yet have never considered how just one design on this chair," Baked Tomato trying they might be for chil- the older boy said to his father dren. Being at the door has of- one day, gazing at a familiar SELECT medium sized, solid ten served for an excuse to make piece of furniture with new eyes. tomatoes, peel them, and with Ray do some errand at that in- And a week or so later, "It must the point of a knife, cut out a stant whether urgent or not. have taken a long time to build little of the hard part of the Thank you, sister."—National this library table of mahogany. stem end. Lay them close to- Kindergarten Association, New How wonderfully it is carved !" gether in a baking pan, sprinkle York. "Just how did you do it?" the with salt and sugar, and put a delighted father asked the artist speck of vegetable butter in the next time they met. each cavity. Then bake until "I put the mischievous but in- done but not broken. Carving a Character genious hands to work," the ar- HELEN SEARLES MARSH tist explained. "The boys were Stewed Carrots, Italian Style taught to be responsible for DO not know what to do with their tools, and to design and 2 cups sliced young carrots my two boys," a wealthy create simple, useful things—a A teaspoon salt women declared. "They are glove-box for their mother, a 1 teaspoon flour very destructive, always scratch- 2 teaspoons vegetable butter book-rack for your study, and 11 cups water ing the woodwork and marring, tool-chests for themselves. Their yes, actually destroying the originality and skill in craft- Add the water and the salt furniture." work has increased, but the les- to the sliced carrots. and let "We are in despair over their son I really wanted them to get boil gently until they are done lack of appreciation of the beau- and which they certainly are and the liquid is reduced to half tiful in the home," added the learning is not confined to wood- a cup. Rub the butter and the father. carving or to its art in decora- flour together in a small sauce- Mr. and Mrs. Jordan had an tion. I mean SELF-DISCI- pan, add a little of the broth, unusually elegant home. The PLINE. They are learning it and stir smooth. Add the rest two boys, eight and ten, had because they are acquiring the of the broth, and boil up. Add been brought up in an artistic habit of appreciation and to see the cooked carrots, re-heat, and environment, but had been the need for it." serve. sadly restricted with regard to

freedom of movement and out- ...4111111.0041•1111.011•11.0.1.04,411111P.MWNIE.011=1.011M111.0.M.04M1.410M.i.00.41111.1.111..IMM ••• door activities. They were told 4 continually not to touch, or not to do this or that until they A SWEET LITTLE BOOK found indoor life, including games, books, and study, irk- that will be thoroughly appreciated by some. They were normal boys every Christian and by those anxious to and wanted real work and play. live the Christ-life, is A noted wood-carver heard the complaints of the parents, and was interested at once in the so-called unruly, mischievous, "Alone With God" and destructive boys. Dy MATILDA ERICKSON ANDROSS "They are rather too old to THE need of prayer in the life of the Christian and one's daily begin to form good habits now," dependence on communion with God through the daily study of His he said. "However, send them Word are emphasised in a very impressive manner in this book. to me. I think I know just what Its purpose is to help all to make the Infinite God and loving these youngsters need in the Saviour their source-supply. Its many well-written incidents make way of discipline." it a book that will be read with eagerness from cover to cover. He took them to his work- shop-studio. They were given Full-page illustrations, brightly coloured paper covers tools and were taught to sharpen and care for them. He showed Posted Free 1 /6 Per Copy them what could be done with these instruments in creating OBTAINABLE FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF THIS JOURNAL OR FROM something worth while and ar- TRACT SOCIETIES LISTED ON PAGE 16 tistic from a piece of oak or mahogany. •.•iiim.olmlq,o,...... m.o.imiN)4Mp.o.mioo.imo.o.dm.oiiwwoomr.o.im.00mwoaMsoemo4mwo4o.m.Dowwo4mrt,004mo.u.ms•o.:• 14 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 21, 1930 Big tears came into the dark eyes. Of course there wasn't. "Aw, cheer up." Tony spoke from his corner. "I'll get you some dirt if that's all you want for your onion." "Get it now?" Rosa questioned swiftly. "Teacher said right away to plant it. And 'tisn't an onion. It's a lovely flower sometime." Tony grinned. "All right! Mebbe you're right—we'll see ! Come on down cellar and we'll dig some dirt." Happily Rosa trotted after him, and together they found an old tomato tin in which to plant the little brown bulb. "Now, A Little Brown Bulb what are you going to do with it—eh?" asked Tony. "The LEETA M. CHERRY baby'll dig it up most likely when you go to school." m so," Miss Kendall went when we have our concert for "In the dark it stays, teacher on in her sweet voice, "all which we are practising." says, for six weeks, with water A the flowers and grasses The class of shabby little kin- every day," Rosa explained pa- sleep in the warm brown earth dergarteners relaxed with a long tiently. until the sunlight creeps down sigh of joy. To have a lovely "Better leave it in the cellar, to waken them in the spring- flower of their very own ! Why, then," advised Tony. "But you'll time, and old Mother Nature it seemed almost too good to be forget to water it like as not." whispers softly, 'Come, little true. For these little children Rosa didn't forget. Every children, it is time to waken lived deep in the heart of a great day, despite her fears of the now !' Then way down in the city where all the flowers they dark cellar, she carried water earth the little bulbs and roots knew grew in the windows of down to the little pot. Teacher begin to stir ; up, up, up they the florists' shops or else in had said there was a little flower come until their little green flower beds in the parks, where there, and teacher had never heads peep up at sunny skies little children must not ever failed her yet! and the warm winds kiss them touch them. And now teacher "Ain't you scared of mice and as they hurry past. And all the said they could take one of these things down there?" Tony teased while, down in their little brown queer little bulbs home, and by her. houses beneath the ground, each and by there would be a beauti- "W-e-11," Rosa answered, "I little plant is preparing its ful flower to bring back to gotta water my flower anyway. lovely colouring and its frag- school. It did seem queer how Often teacher asks about it, and rance, until presently it sends a flower like those of the florists' she says there's nothing in the them forth in a little bud which shops could come from those dark to hurt me, either." swells and swells until before ugly brown things, but of course "It's a good job you got some- very long a wonderful flower if teacher said so, it must be thing to make you believe that blooms among the green leaves. true. then," said her mother not quite Isn't it wonderful, children?" Little Rosa Blondini's dark so crossly as usual. She paused and held ,up a little eyes shone like stars as she One day the miracle happened. round brown bulb. rushed into her tumble-down Two stout little shoots of green "Just see this plain, ugly- little home that noon with the glimmered in the darkness as looking little thing ! Who could precious little bulb held close in Rosa bent over the pot. "Oh, ever imagine that it holds within her brown little fist. Shouting ma !" she shrilled up the stairs. it all the fragrance and beauty to make herself heard over the "My flower's come ! Come down of what may be a rosy hyacinth, baby's fretful cries, she called, and see it, ma. Oh, you oughts a blue one, or a sunny golden "Ma! look what the teacher see it, ma! Come quick !" yellow one? Yet all this loveli- gave me. It's a flower !" Something in the child's voice ness is there, hidden safely Her mother raised tired eyes touched the tired women vaguely, away, just waiting for a little from the stove and glanced at and rather to her own surprise care and attention to make it the little brown bulb in Rosa's Mrs. Blondini found herself go- bloom for us in all its beauty. hand. "Huh !" she grunted. "It's ing down to see what Rosa had. And now, to each little girl and an onion you got—that's all !" Together they bent over the pot. "Sure," said the mother, pok- boy I am going to give one of An onion ! Rosa's face fell. these little brown bulbs to take ing it with her finger, "it's going But no ! That couldn't be. to be a flower, maybe. It should home. I want you to plant it Teacher said it was a flower— have some light now. Put it carefully in a little pot, keep it a flower it must be ! "No," she over by the cellar window." in the dark for six weeks before cried. "You plant it in some Together they cleared away you bring it to the sunshine, and earth, and soon it grows a the rubbish and placed the then when it has grown into a flower." sturdy little green shoots where lovely flower we are going to "There's no earth around here the light could fall on them. bring all of them back to school this time of year," her mother Each day Rosa raced home and use them for decoration told her. from school, and each day the April 21, 1930 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 15 little plant greeted her more the window, the big black stove the primary teacher at lunch sturdily. At school the children radiated cheer and cleanliness, hour that day. "They never talked incessantly of their and the delicious aroma of a seem to take a bit of interest in plants, and as Rosa's had been well-cooked stew filled the room. what the children do at school. the first to show above the earth, Mother's sleek black hair lay That's why I gave them the hya- her joy knew no bounds. round her head in smooth, well- cinths to grow at home." "Teacher says to put my flower brushed coils ; gone were the "Which was a very foolish in the sunshine now—in the mussy boudoir cap and the thing to do, I'm afraid, my window," she announced one day soiled old wrapper. Mother dear !" said the older teacher on her return. Blondini was straight and slen- sceptically. "If you had grown So up from the cellar it came der in a clean house-dress and the bulbs here at school the chil- and found a place on the win- apron, and her eyes shone with dren could have watched them dow-ledge facing the street. a new light as they rested on just as well, and you would have How Tony laughed when he saw father. been sure of your flowers. You'll it. "Why," he said, "I'll be eat- "Ain't it grand, father ?" be lucky- if there are ten bulbs ing that for green onions some called Rosa, quite unmindful of brought back." night for my supper !" troublesome grammar. "It's just "0 Miss Norton," cried the "You're to leave Rosa's plant like school now—it's so nice !" younger teacher, "you've no idea alone, now—all of you !" It was "Well, wife," grinned father, how interested the children have father Blondini's voice from the giving mother a pat as he, been ! Why, little Rosa Blon- stove, and at the unusual tone passed, "I don't know whether dini—" mother Blondini looked at him this is where I live or not. You "My dear girl, you'll never wistfully. To her surprise he look so grand I hardly know succeed in rousing the Blondini grinned at her amiably and took you! I guess I'll have to scrub family to taking interest in any- the crowing baby from her arms. myself up clean now or I'll not thing; so don't set your heart It was really surprising how get any supper, eh?" on getting your plant from that plant grew—how strong Mother laughed like a girl as them." and richly green it became in he passed ! "Well, say, have you walked the warm sunshine. And then All the time the little plant past their house lately? You one wonderful day mother Blon- kept on growing and the close wouldn't know it! Do go home dini saw a bud swelling out green buds grew fatter and fat- that way tonight, just to please among the green leaves. "How ter. "You ought to cover up me. And be sure to come in to Rosa will,like that!" she thought, that old tomato tin with some- the concert tomorrow afternoon raising her dark eyes to see if thing," Tony said one day. "I'll —you'll be surprised !" called the child were coming down the get you a piece of green paper Evelyn Kendall as the older street. Then she saw some- to put around it like they do in teacher went back to her room. thing else. The window was the flower windows." That The concert was almost over dirty ! Terribly dirty ! Strange evening he and Rosa spent ever when the primary teacher op- she hadn't noticed it before. I so long fluting and pinning the ened the door and slipped in. All .must wash that window," she green crepe paper until it stood the front of the room was thought with new determina- out proudly about the little abloom with pots of fragrant tion, and straightway set to plant. hyacinths' in all stages of devel- work. Then one day the buds had opment and all sorts of pots. It swelled enough to show the seemed as if all the mothers of Rosa was jubilant over the colour peeping through. "It's the neighbourhood were there, tight little spear of close- going to be a rose !" announced listening in rapt attention to the sheathed buds. Tony must see father after close inspection. gay little songs and choruses of it, father Blondini must see it, "Just like your name, Rosa," the kindergarten, and right in even the baby was lifted up to smiled mother. the front row sat Mrs. Blondini, look. "And how nice the win- It was hard to be patient now, neat and pretty, with the baby dow looks, mother ! Just like no but at last one morning when on her lap. In the very centre glass at an, and the sun shines Rosa got up mother pointed of all, on a table quite by itself, through like diamonds. How silently to the window, and stood the glorious rose hyacinth good you were to wash it." And there it stood in all its beauty, that was Rosa Blondini's, and it she threw her arms about her surely the most wonderful hya- was plainly marked so that all mother's neck and kissed her. cinth anyone had ever seen ! could see, "First Prize." As the Sudden tears rose in mother's Its great flower spike was a concert closed each child pre- eyes, caresses had become scarce glowing rose among the green, sented her own hyacinth to her indeed in the Blondini house- and each little close-growing mother, a little gift of love, but hold of late years. She glanced flower was as perfect as a tiny not a face there shone with such about the littered and dirty lily bell. And the fragrance! honest pride as did those of room with new vision, as she The whole room was full of it. Rosa Blondini and her smiling moved about setting the dinner Rosa thought her joy was com- mother. in place. plete, and even Tony was speech- "My dear girl," warmly con- When all was quiet afterward less before such loveliness as he gratulated the once doubting and baby asleep in his crib, Mrs. had never seen before. primary teacher later on, "how Blondini attacked that room in For weeks the kindergarten ever did you get all those moth- real earnest. Down came the had been practising for their ers so interested? You have dingy curtains, and to such good concert, and now that the scored a veritable ' triumph. purpose did she work that when flowers were blooming, teacher Even Mrs. Blondini !" father came in at night he announced the great event for "Why I didn't do it at all !" stopped in the doorway from next Friday. laughed Miss Kendall happily. sheer astonishment. Clean white "I do so hope the mothers will "It was all the work of those curtains were looped back at come out this time," she said to little brown bulbs." 16 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 21, 1930

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Add to this the output of other Did it ever occur to you that, having carefully removed certain elements from THE first dictionary of the national Seventh-day Adventist publishing his food, his need compels man to sup- language of Ethiopia (Abyssinia) houses throughout the world and it ply his system with their chemical has been compiled by a missionary can readily be perceived that the vol- equivalent? named Baetman. This language is ume of literature containing the It has been well said that "the moun- known to linguists as Amharic and great last-day gospel message of re- tain of rejected food minerals is bal- the new dictionary, with the defini- form is truly tremendous. anced, and inadequately balanced, by a tions in French, consists of 1,700 lake of patent medicine." pages. THE following facts were given by Do you do things this way? Or do Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancellor of you eat wheat whole, wheat with all its EIGHTY-FIVE per cent of the French the British Exchequer, in his broad- priceless properties intact ? people are landowners, and they em- cast address to America recently :— ploy themselves, thereby also furn- "The war has been followed by GRANOSE BISCUITS ishing employment for the remaining greater efforts on the part of the re- 15 per cent of the population. That puted victors to strengthen their war are whole wheat is why France, alone among civilised forces and to employ every scientific The effects of refined flour and white nations, remains unafflicted by unem- device to make the next war more bread upon children and adults have ployment, says a newspaper. cruel and devastating. been carefully studied in contrast with "The war has left Great Britain the effects of whole wheat bread. The AN automatic word-writing ma- with a debt of over £6,000,000,000. results afford irrefutable evidence of the health-giving qualities of those parts chine, in which the standard type- We have to raise each year from of the grain lost in refining processes. writer keyboard is retained, has been taxation a sum of £350,000,000 for Whole grain food is essential food. invented by a Mr. Clyde C. Balston. the service of this debt without mak- Make sure you get it. Every flake of This machine has a special keyboard ing an appreciable impression on the Granose is a grain of wheat. Granose governing common words, word-end- amount of the debt. At the present Biscuits are a perfect substitute for ings, place-names, and phrases. The rate of repayment of the debt it will bread, and are ideal as the family break- ordinary standard typewriter key- take 140 years to liquidate it. fast food. board can be used for words seldom "Our taxpayers have to pay on our used, variously-spelled proper names, debt services £1,000,000 a day, £40,000 GRANOSE BISCUITS and other words or phrases infre- an hour, over £600 a minute. quently used in business correspond- "It takes the whole time labour of A SANITARIUM ence. According to Mr. Balston, the 2,000,000 workers, year in, year out, HEALTH FOOD mechanical writing speed of the ma- to produce the means to pay the an- In 12 oz. and 3 lb. caddies at leading chine is more than 1,000 words per nual cost of our debt services. grocers and at Sanitarium Health Food minute, and the operative writing "Add to this the £115,000,000 we Shops speed is over 300 words per minute, annually spend on the fighting ser- when writing single words. When vices, £56,000,000 we pay yearly for writing phrases, the number of words war pensions, and we get a total of 4IMMAIMAI • mow= • • • c per minute is greatly increased. This £520,000,000 a year, £1,000 a minute, Published by SIGNS PUBLISHING COMPANY machine is less than twice the size which the people of Great Britain (A.C.A. Ltd., Props.), Melbourne ; printed at Warburton, and registered as a newspaper of a common typewriter. have to provide for war purposes." in Victoria.