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WORLD EVENTS IN \THE LI,OHT 'OF :PRC)FHEsCY

Vol. 47, No. 17 WARBURTON, • VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, APRIL 23, 1932 Price

Sport & General Photo An impressive service for the victims of the recent submarine disaster being held on board H.M.S. Adamant over the spot where the M2 was located. It is a blessed thought that Christ's glorious return will put an end to death and all sorrow. eAre YOU Preparink, for CHRIST'S GLORIOUS RETURN? Report of an address delivered by Evangelist R. Allan Anderson, in Holloway Hall, London.

E are standing upon the This is a fascinating thought, but pare. And yet how little do we hear threshold of eternity. The it is weighty with solemn majesty and from the pulpits of the land about W day of God's vengeance is impressive influence. The shortness the coming of the King! Someone hastening on apace. Soon amid the of life, the solemnity of death, the asks why this is so. Let D. L. rocking earth and the convulsions of fear of hell, or the hope of glory, Moody, the great evangelist of the nature the King of kings will appear sometimes stagger feeble mentality. last century, reply. in all His glory. Are you preparing But greater than all these stands the for His glorious return? fact of the matchless Christ, the MR. MOODY SAID: Nothing can equal the fact that glorious Christ, the Holy One of Is- "I WAS in the church fifteen years Christ is coming back again. "This rael, the Eternal Son of God. before I heard a sermon on the sec- same Jesus, which is taken up from He who is greater than all the ond advent of Christ. There is you into heaven, shall so come in like great ones of earth, stands forth on hardly any church that does not manner as ye have seen Him go into a pinnacle of eternal glory in the make a great deal of baptism; but in heaven." Acts 1: II. Turning to heavens, the rightful heir to the all of Paul's epistles I believe bap- His accusers in that ugly mock throne of the universe. He is coming tism is only spoken of thirteen times, trial, Jesus said, "Ye shall see the again to set up the kingdom of God. while he speaks of the return of our Son of man sitting on the right hand Therefore, "Prepare to meet thy Lord fifty times, and yet the church of power, and coming in the clouds of God." It is more particularly to the has very little to say about it. Now heaven." Matt. 26: 64. church that the call comes to pre- I can see the reason for this. The [Registered at the G.P.O., Melbourne, for transmission, by post as a newspaper.] 2 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 25, 1932

devil does not want us to see this ing to Timothy, Paul says that the truth; for nothing would wake up the Lord Jesus Christ "shall judge the church so much. The moment a man quick and the dead at His appearing takes hold of the truth that Jesus and His kingdom." 2 Tim. 4: 1. Christ is coming back again to re- Now He does not say the "dead" ceive His followers to Himself, this only, but also the "quick" or living. world loses its hold upon him." These are dealt with "at His appear- There is only one message through- ing," which the apostle says is out the whole of the Bible. From synonymous with "His kingdom." Genesis to Revelation it is God's That "appearing" will not be in any plan to bring men back home to way secret, nor does it come at death, Paradise. "Come unto Me," He gas gootsteps for in Titus 2: 13, Paul says that we must be "looking for that blessed pleads, "and I will give you rest." R. HARE Again, He makes the statement, "I hope, and the glorious appearing of will come again, and receive you unto I AM listening for the footsteps the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Myself, that where I am, there ye That once echoed by the sea, Christ." This is still future, for O'er the hills of old Judea, John says, "Every eye shall see Him." may be also." This was His whole And the sands of Galilee, purpose in coming to this earth on Down the templed aisle of splendour, Rev. 1: 7. the first occasion. Belief in His first Helpful, sweet, and free. UNTIL THE HARVEST advent and the eternal salvation Sorrow heard those footsteps gladly, You will remember about that brought to mankind by the death of And grief dried its many tears; certain man who sowed good seed in Jesus Christ must ever be followed Pain and sicknesses all departed, And the heart forgot its fears, his field, expecting to reap an abun- by a preparation to meet Him at His dant and good harvest. But with second coming. To be with Him When those hallowed footsteps echoed Down the passing years. venomous hate there came another, where He is, in that "better coun- an enemy, who maliciously sowed the try," where there is neither sin, nor Not arrayed in robes of splendour, field with tares, and then disap- suffering, nor sorrow, is the real hope Fashioned in life's grand design, Not adorned with gold or jewels, peared. Finally the harvest began to of the Christian. Gathered from earth's deepest mine— ripen, and to the surprise of both WILL IT BE A SECRET COMING? Just a simple, lowly Stranger, farmer and servants, there appeared But—the Man divine. TURNING to our Lord's own words the tares also. Anxious to rid the on this subject we read: "Wherefore Still those hallowed footsteps echo field of the pest, the latter sought to In the story of life's day, root them out. But the wise farmer, if they shall say unto you, Behold, And the holy whisper lingers He is in the desert; go not forth: Be- Ever, always—"Watch and pray"— foreseeing the possible destruction of hold, He is in the secret chambers; Falling sweet as dews of evening the wheat also, bade them "let both believe it not." Surely no words are From the far away. grow together until the harvest." stronger than these, and yet there are I am listening, Holy Spirit, Matt. 13: 24-30, 36-42. In the time some Christians who are looking for Love divinest let me see, of the harvest the reapers received return of our Lord. Follow- I would hear the hallowed whispers, further instruction, viz., "Gather ye a secret From the slopes of Calvary. ing the verse just quoted, Jesus fur- first the tares, and bind them in bun- Here again those sandal-echoes, dles to burn them: but gather the thur declares, "For as the lightning By the shore of Galilee. cometh out of the east and shineth wheat into my barn." even unto the west; so shall also the +..++1+++++++++++++++44.14•1••••14+++ Here was a familiar illustration by coming of the Son of man be." No, which our Lord sought to teach the there is nothing secret about light- disciples the lesson of the great har- tion! The fault does not lie with vest at the end of the world. Press- ning and its power. Leaping from God. For ever He is pleading, cloud to earth with terrific force, it ing close, after the multitude had "Come unto Me . . . and I will give departed, they said, "Declare unto is a fit emblem of the unlimited might you rest." Oh, the wonder of that of the coming King. Just as light- us the parable of the sower." An- redeeming love! His soul was swering their request, He told them ning seems to discriminate in the ob- poured out in death on man's behalf, jects it strikes, so the majestic King He was the Sower; that "the field is and He loves every sinner with an un- the world; the good seed are the chil- of kings will separate class from class dying love, a love that made Him as an Eastern shepherd divides the dren of the kingdom; but the tares give up His own life not only for His are the children of the wicked one; sheep from the goats. It will be too friends, but for His enemies. Base late then to decide. Opportunities the enemy that sowed them is the ingratitude, wilful disobedience, and devil; the harvest is the end of the for redemption and translation into sin blind the eyes of mankind to the that kingdom of the redeemed world; and the reapers are the an- Saviour's love. Speaking of His an- gels." Matt. 13: 37-39. abound today, and men are spurning cient people He says, "The ox know- them. One day those very men will eth his owner, and the ass his mas- There is nothing mysterious in this be pleading for entrance to the mar- ter's crib: but Israel doth not know, parable. There is no feature left riage supper of the Lamb, but the My people doth not consider." Isa. unexplained by our Lord Himself. door will be shut, and the last soul 1: 3. Sad, sad picture of man's base We need not start to conjecture why gathered home. But someone asks, ingratitude. Remember, procrastina- He chose the term "harvest" to mean Will there not be tion is truly the thief of time, but it the end of the world, nor whether the tares were not mixed with the good A SECOND CHANCE? is also the thief of eternity. Do not come up in the judgment and say, seed and sowed by one sower. There THAT can better be answered by "Lord, give me another chance." You are too many doing that today, and the Apostle Paul. "Behold," he says, have that other chance now, and you making God the originator of evil. "Now is the accepted time; behold cannot afford to wait for some more They believe in preaching smooth now is the day of salvation." 2 Cor. convenient time to decide. Some things to tickle popular fancies, and 6: 2. Every sin of humanity was ask, fain would show us another way into paid for upon Calvary. Every man the fold except through the door of who sincerely desires to, may go free. DOES CHRIST COME AT DEATH? Christ's atoning blood. Well did "Whosoever will, may come." But LET us see what we can discover Peter prophesy of them: "There shall how few accept this wonderful salva- in the Bible on this question. Writ- be false teachers among you, who April 25, 1932 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 3 privily shall bring in damnable here- sies, even denying the Lord that bought them." 2 Peter 2: I. It is no wonder Paul admonished Timothy to "preach the Word. For," he said, "the time will come when they [many nOlre Christian communities] will not en- dure sound doctrine," but rather will they demand "teachers, having itch- ing ears," whose minds are filled with "fables" instead of the truth of the atonement and the second coming of COMMeliT Christ. ONE TAKEN, ANOTHER LEFT THE testimony of Jesus is certain. "As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire," He says, "so shall it be in the end of this 'world." They Stepped Away from the Sabbath Matt. 13: 4o. Note that the first act in the reaping of the world's harvest THE RESULT THAT FOLLOWED is not the gathering of the wheat, but rather the tares. Some would have ROM a tract entitled, "Jesus "Thereupbn the Council condemned us believe that the righteous are all Christ the Final Sanction for Protestantism and the Reformation, declar- IF ing at the same time that the tradition of taken away from this earth, and then the Sabbath," published by the the church was of equal authority with the wicked are given another chance. American Tract Society, and written the Scripture. Thus the failure of the But let us examine the text closely. by the Rev. Loyal F. Hurley, we Protestant Reformers to keep the Sabbath "The Son of man shall send forth His take the following interesting state- of the Bible, which Bible they claimed as angels, and they shall gather out of their sole authority in religion—this fail- ments:— ure brought about the permanent division His kingdom all things that offend, "One wonders if we are soon to see an- between Catholics and Protestants, making and then which do iniquity." Verse other step taken in regard to the question necessary the lapse of many years yet to 41. Again, in verse 49, "So shall it of the Sabbath. The steps away from the come before those who profess faith in be at the end of the world: the angels Sabbath can be traced with more or less Christ will 'all be one.' shall come forth, and sever the accuracy in various parts of the world. "However, many interpret the interest Though the Sabbath [the seventh day] was that is manifested in the recent 'Unity Con- wicked from among the just." kept around Constantinople until the Speaking more plainly in the twen- ferences' as evidence that another religious fourth century or later, and continued to crisis is approaching—at least among Prot- ty-fourth chapter of Matthew, Jesus be observed in Scotland until the time of estants—and that any possible unity of says, "Two women shall be grinding Queen Margaret in the eleventh century, Protestant Christians must ultimately be at the mill; the one shall be taken, yet in the vicinity of Rome it seems to founded on the teachings of the Bible have been discarded in the general move- and the other left." Verse 41. Now— alone. In any such approach to the prob- ment that came to a climax in the work of lem of Christian unity, those who keep the WHO IS TAKEN? Marcion. By A.D. 150, he had organised Sabbath of the Bible hold an enviable and numerous churches that accepted his teach- THIS is a very important question, unique position. Shall we be ready for ings. These teachings included the idea such a possibility ? Robert E. Speer re- and it must be decided on the testi- that the Jehovah of the Jews was a differ- cently wrote, 'The next great step of the mony of Scripture alone. If the ent God from the Father of Jesus (Je- church should be backward, to regrasp the righteous are taken away and the hovah being the God of Creation, while the things that abide.' The church stepped Father of Jesus was 'the good God of re- wicked left here, we might have rea- away from the Sabbath in the days of her demption') ; that Christianity should have early life. Her failure to step back to the son to believe that the latter will have its own distinctly Christian Scripture ; and Sabbath at the time of the Reformation led another chance. Reading back in the because, as he thought, the Jewish Scrip- to the permanent division between Protes- context, we find Jesus stating that tures were contradicted by Christianity, tants and Catholics. Many earnest Chris- that the Jewish Scriptures and everything tians hope and pray that the Protestant the days preceding His coming will else that was Jewish, should be discarded be as those of Noah were. He says, church will soon take the great step back by the Christian church. It is in this same to the Sabbath. And Sabbath-keepers must verses 38, 39: "For as in the days period that we find Sunday taking the be ready to help the church take that that were before the Flood they were place of the Sabbath in the vicinity of step." eating and drinking, . . . and knew Rome. Slowly the change was made in place after place until the Sabbath was not until the Flood came, and took The divine admonition to us well-nigh lost sight of. through the prophet Jeremiah is: them all away; so shall also the com- "The significance of this movement was ing of the Son of man be." Who not made clear until the Roman Church "Ask for the old paths, where is the were taken away? Not the righteous, called the Council of Trent to discuss the good way, and walk therein, and ye for they were saved. It was the problems growing out of the Reformation. shall find rest for your souls." Jer. At first the Council seemed likely to set 6: 16. What did the people re- wicked who were taken. Then it is aside tradition entirely and declare in fa- quite clear that when Jesus said some vour of the doctrines of the Reformers. spond? "We will not walk therein." would be taken and others left, He The pope's legate wrote as much to the (Same verse.) Then he set watch- meant the wicked, those who, like pope. But the archbishop of Reggio men to watch over them and to sound turned the Council against the Reforma- the trumpet when there was danger, the antediluvians, refused salvation, tion by the argument that the Protestants would be taken in death. This bears themselves did not follow their own doc- and asked them to hearken to the out what He says in the parable that trines. While they claimed to stand upon sound of the trumpet. How did they the tares are gathered first. the written Word alone, 'They not only answer? "We will not hearken." reject the observance of the Sabbath as Verse 17. Then He says that: "Be- WICKED TAKEN IN THE SNARE enjoined in the written Word, but they cause they have not hearkened unto have adopted, and do practise, the observ- MucH further proof of this is ance of Sunday, for which they have only My words, nor to My law, but re- found in many parts of both Old and the tradition of the church. Consequently, jected it," He would not accept either New Testaments. Let us observe a the claim of 'Scripture alone as the stand- their offerings or their sacrifices, but few. In Isaiah 24: 17, 18, we read, ard' fails, and the doctrine of 'Scripture would "lay stumbling-blocks before "Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are and tradition as essential' is fully estab- lished, the Protestants themselves being this people, and the fathers and the (Continued on page 1.2) judges.' sons together shall fall upon them; 4 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 25, 193 2 solar holiday of all pagan times" for the Sabbath which Go Himself or- dained, blessed, sanctified, and com- manded. Now he is working to wreck the marriage institution also: and we must not be surprised if, to a large extent, he succeeds in that un- dertaking; for the divine warning and forecast reads:— "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false ac- cusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleas- ures more than lovers of God; hav- ing a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." 2 Tim. 3: 1-5. That is a perfect delineation of the conditions of our day. Who are more Sport & General Photo truly truce-breakers than they who In Russia proper and throughout Siberia, the Bolsheviks have done much toward abol- . ishing the observance of religious ceremonies; but across the border, in Manchuria, a take the marriage vows and break colony of Russians in the town of Harbin have maintained the ceremonies of the Rus- them again and again for trivial sian Orthodox Church to this day. The photo gives a view of the carrying out of the causes or for mere fancy or a whim? ceremony of "blessing the waters." Who are without natural affection more than they who having loved and the neighbour and his friend shall Divorce Mills Grind On vowed perpetual fidelity and undying perish." Verses 19-21. God was in love, kill their love and snap their this matter speaking to the "nations" NEWSPAPER cutting has fingers at their promises? Who have as well as to His "congregation." See come into our hands taken a form of godliness and deny its verse 18. A terrible decision it is from the Liverpool Post, of power more than they who, in the for men or churches or nations to December 29, last, which is a rather presence of God and of men, go make, that they will not walk in the striking comment on a divinely-given through a religious Ceremony in a way laid down for them by the Al- warning in the New Testament. The church, binding themselves before mighty, but will walk in a way which cutting was entitled "Good Friends God to each other, and then laugh at He declares leads to stumbling and. All the Same," and reads:— the power of that divinely appointed perishing. It is not that way that "That divorce may part husbands and ceremony to hold them? men win heaven. The Psalmist wives, but need not affect friendships and It is not necessary to draw out the would "walk at liberty" because he social 'intercourse, was proved at a studio details of this scripture further to sought God's precepts. Ps. 119: 45. party given by a gifted peeress the other night. It is, indeed, becoming increasingly show its applications to these condi- And the same inspired writer could dowdy to bear malice when matrimonial also say: "Every one of Thy right- tions. It covers them and many relations have to be dissolved; and at a other forms of evil as well. But the eous judgments endureth for ever." party given by another peeress some time Verse i6o. "Judgments," and "pre- ago to celebrate her third divorce, her sec- point we must not miss—these were cepts," and "testimonies," used in ond husband, who had also married again, to be the characteristics of the "last this psalm, refer to the command-, was one of the most welcome guests. Last days," the "perilous times" just be- week's guests at the studio included the fore the coming of our Lord. Know- ments of God, as that whole wonder- first wife of the host; and a well-known peer, who was there with his third wife, ing, even by these regrettable symp- ful psalm is an exaltation of and a toms, that we are living in the days commentary on the eternal law of was amiably interested in the presence of his second wife and her third husband. It when the coming of the Son of man God. And its declarations are in would be awkward in these days if it were .is near at hand, "what manner of perfect harmony with this inspired otherwise." persons ought ye to be in all holy declaration: "All His commandments What a ridiculous caricature on conversation and godliness, looking are sure. They stand fast for ever what God intended married life for and hasting unto the coming of and ever, and are done in truth and should be is this present-day situa- the day of God?" 2 Peter 3: II, 12. uprightness." Ps. 1: 7, 8. tion in matrimonial things! It could S. They stepped away from His ways not have been much worse at the and His ordinances then, and He time of the Flood in Noah's day. brought judgment upon them. They They, too, were "marrying and giv- The Curse of the Cup have stepped away from Him and ing in marriage," doubtless going to HE deceitful character of His requirements in our day; and as just such matrimonial excesses as those mentioned above. Along with strong drink is emphasised in God is the "same yesterday, and to- that, their hearts were fully set in the life of every individual day, and for ever," we may expect them to do evil. Just so is it today. who has allowed himself to partake Him to deal the same with us as What God intended for a blessing has of it; but the trouble is that when with them if we, too, rebel and re- been turned today by unconsecrated men have found out its deceitful na- fuse and go our own way. "To the hands and hearts into a mockery. ture, they are so clutched in its grip law and to the testimony: if they Marriage and the Sabbath were that they generally do not desire to speak not according to this Word, it both institutions of God, established break away, and it goes on leading is because there is no light in them." in Eden. Satan has substituted what them with a strong arm straight to Isa. 8: 20. S. one historian denominates the "wild perdition. April 25, 1932 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 5 Dr. L. MacLean Watt, (officially never seen the other side of the mat- to keep their thinking straight. known as the "Minister of Glas- ter or has deliberately shut his eyes Physically, Finland is to the rest of gow"), who is now in Australia, and to what he has seen. It has wrecked Europe what a state of the United. is carrying on a ministry in Scots' more homes than war has ever States is to the rest of the Union. In Church, Melbourne, has spoken very wrecked; it has slain more men, wo- area and population the two states of emphatically upon the curse of men, and innocent little children than Arkansas and Louisiana are the strong drink. Having been for were ever slain by famine, flood, and practical equivalent of Finland. twelve years chairman of the Case pestilence; it has never touched any- But suppose that these two south- Committee in Edinburgh of the So- thing beautiful without debasing and ern states could produce but a small ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to destroying it; it has turned love into proportion of their needed food Children, he was in a good position hate, prosperity into adversity, hap- supply; suppose that it were neces- to know something of the effects of piness and joy into sorrow and grief sary to exchange sugar for other ne- alcohol in the homes of the people, and mourning; it has built no hospi- cessities with the merchants of Mis- and the suffering caused to children tals, but it has done more than its souri (a foreign principality), and through its use. He says: "I became share of filling the hospitals and the that Anheuser Busch Brewing Com- convinced that 99i. per cent of all asylums and homes for the destitute pany had sufficient influence with the cases of child-neglect and cruelty with the product of its traffic. legislature of Missouri to shut out were traceable to alcohol." Warning Dr. Watt spoke of sitting, at a cer- their sugar unless they would absorb temperance speakers against the use tain function, by the side of a publi- a given amount of beer annually; of extravagant language, Dr. Watt can, who declared to him, "I wish I and suppose that these two states declared that, when you know the had never been a publican ; it is a wished to sell oil and gasoline in Il- facts, the simple, unchallangeable dying industry." So may it be. For linois, and the distillers of Peoria facts concerning the impact of liquor in its death, there is prospect of life were able to control the legislature, upon mankind, then such facts for many who would otherwise die and shut out the oil and gasoline simply told, constitute an all-suf- before their time, ruined in soul as unless these states would take an an- ficient and terrible indictment of al- well as body. Mankind has never nual amount of whisky; and suppose cohol. Quoting his statement fur- suffered from a greater curse. It that, in addition to this commercial ther: "I have seen it invade the mag- carries gold in its mouth; but its kiss pressure, citizens of surrounding isterial bench and even the pulpit, is the kiss of woe and misery and states would smuggle liquor into bringing sorrow and ruin with it, and death. s. these two dry states; and suppose providing every mean soul with an that the beer and whisky makers argument. One man had asserted should form a strong commercial or- that, "nothing in the world had ever ganisation for the express purpose of contributed so much to the happiness Why Finland Dropped breaking down the dry law, and sup- and humour of man as alcohol." But Prohibition pose that there were no federal laws Dr. Watt asked: "Did that man ever She Had a Hard Road to Travel' (as there are in the United States) follow the humourist to the gutter? to protect these states from these Did he ever follow him to his home? W. G. Calderwood, Our American Correspondent. depredations—these suppositions are Did he ever interview the alleged hu- INLAND voted wet. There a fair pictiire of the situation which mourist's wife, and ascertain her view can be no comfort in this fact has existed for years in Finland. of the situation?" F for the Prohibitionists of The International Wine Office form- The man who thinks that intoxi- America. But there are some sig- ally resolved in July, 1927, to prose- cating liquor is adding to the happi- nificant facts which have not been cute a vigorous campaign against ness of humanity and to the jollity mentioned in the news of the event, Prohibition in the United States and and humour of the people, has either which will help wets and drys alike (Concluded on page 12)

Sport & General Photo One of the most powerful and influential forces in Spain has been the Jesuit order. After the setting up of the republic, this order was dissolved by the government and property valued at £5,000,000 was confiscated. The photo shows Spanish Jesuits preparing to cross the frontier, carrying food, etc., with them. SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 25, 1932 Far East and World Peace

WANT to call your attention to Report of an address by Pastor F. D. The tremendous competition in arms what is the great paradox of the Nichol, of Washington, D.C., on the and in preparation for war during very present moment. Because Disarmament Conference peace time grew apace, and came to the Chinese-Japanese situation has so its terrible climax in 1914 in the filled the pages of our newspapers, we still another, until in 193o the deci- World War. are hardly aware that another great sion was made to call this great gen- Wheh the war ended, and states- event is taking place in the world. eral conference on disarmament. We men sensed, at least in part, how Over in Geneva, right now, there may therefore say that there is tak- nearly the whole world had come to are gathered together representatives ing place right today the sequel to complete collapse, they drew up the from more than sixty nations, from the great World War. That is how compact known as the League of Na- virtually every land and clime and significant and how important is this tions, and -declared in substance: every race and kindred and people, to disarmament meeting over in Geneva. "We will have no more of war, and discuss plans for disarmament. Here Friends, it is even more important to ensure that, we will bind ourselves is the great paradox of the hour—a than that, as I think I can reveal to by this compact, and make doubly situation in the Far East, in Asia, you by an unusual article that has just certain by disarming." But as I have looming larger all the while, and cre- appeared in the Saturday Evening just mentioned, all the preparatory ating the greatest concern for the world; and at the same time a meet- ing over in Europe of the represen- tatives of all the nations of the world to study disarmament! The opening of this Disarmament Conference had to be delayed an hour or more, so that certain leading men could have a very special meeting together to consider the serious situation in the Far East. Furthermore, the contrast is made still sharper when attention is called to the fact that the Chinese delega- tion at the Disarmament Conference sought very earnestly to have a ra- dio receiving outfit installed there that they might hear the sounds of fighting at Shanghai. I think this paradox of peace and war is without parallel in modern history, or in the whole history of the Christian era. Never before have we had such an ominous situation in the Far East, a part of the world where we never thought there would be a great con- flagration. And never before have Sport & General Photo we had a Disarmament Conference Sandbags and barricades in a street of Shanghai, China. The trouble in the Far East has of the dimensions of this present one. caused perplexity and distress to statesmen the world over, and has added greatly to the difficulties connected with the endeavours to bring about world disarmament. THIS ARMS CONFERENCE A CLIMAX Post from the pen of Guglielmo disarmament meetings, have failed to THIS Disarmament Conference is Ferrero, an eminent statesman and settle the problem, the climax to a whole series of prepa- authority on world affairs. In th;s ratory meetings that have been go- article he calls attenthn to the back- THE INCREASE OF ARMAMENTS ing on ever since the League of ground of this arms conference. He NOT only have they failed to cur- Nations was formed. The alleged sets forth the history of the trend of tail armies and navies; on the con- chief objective of the League of Na- the nations of Europe toward the trary, armies and navies have grown tions is the creating of a mutual building of great armaments. We live apace, until today the annual expen- compact between the nations, so as so much in the present that we are diture for military preparation is to make unnecessary any more war, quite likely to forget conditions of approximately £800,000,000. In 1914 and, of course, unnecessary any more two or three generations ago. He re- the annual amount was only £500,- great armaments. Pursuant to this, minds us of them, that we may see the 000,000. Today more men are under the League set out, immediately at contrast. He explains that up until arms than ever before; today more the close of the World War, to dis- 187o, the time of the Franco-Prussian skill, scientific and otherwise, is be- arm the defeated nations. It declared War, the nations of Europe had never ing organised for war than ever also that the victor nations should kept great standing armies in peace before; today there is more friction disarm themselves. A preparatory times. But after 1870 there entered among the nations, more mutual dis- meeting was called to study plans for in a new factor, the factor of large trust and fear, than ever before. On this disarming. But the preparatory standing armies in Europe, the reason the eve of the World War, there was meeting did not succeed very well. being that one nation became in- a certain measure of friction, distrust, Then another session was held; and creasingly afraid of another nation. and a certain number of lost prov-

• April 25, 193 2 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 7 inces. These were sufficient to pre- Is there intelligence enough in the and its institutions. The tempo of cipitate that war. Today we have world to find some path out of this civilisation slowed as the creeping innumerable causes of war, that have jungle of machinery and untamed paralysis if the Great Fear extended. grown out of this last terrible conflict. forces? . . . Distraught by many Governments felt the terrific pressure When you add all these factors to- counsels, swamped by the parapher- of depression. Fifteen of them were gether—the uniqueness of the com- nalia of living, weighed down by forced off the gold standard. Ten of petition in arms in our day compared mountains of facts, will we in the end them were not able to meet their ex- with all former times, and that since refuse all guidance and perish in the ternal debts. Many of them went the war we have not succeeded in jungle our own machines have down in the currents and cross-cur- reducing arms, but have increased created? rents of world-wide economic dis- them; the fact that the distrust and "These are gloomy questions, and aster." the jealousies and the fears have I do not pretend to answer them. This is the situation that con- greatly increased; the fact that over In proposing them I am thinking fronts us as 1932 opens, a situation in the Far East there was a conflict rather of our attitude of mind as we more pronounced than at any time in raging which had in it the poten- face the new year. It is an attitude the past, a situation without parallel tialities of a world war—I think you of dejection and foreboding."—New in the history of modern times. Even will see that we live in a strange York Times Magazine, December 27, on the eve of the great World War, world at the present hour. We live 1931. right within a few weeks of it, we in a world that is so far from any Think of it, friends, this poor old did not have statesmen speaking solution of its problems that men world of ours, that we have tried to forth with the feeling and with the may well fear and be troubled in patch up for so many centuries, and fear that they speak forth in one their souls. Talk about getting into now here in the so-called glorious united voice today. They seem now a better world! Don't tell me that, twentieth century, we find ourselves to sense that the situation is beyond when the world today has more men in this situation! In fact, we find them, that the very rivalries, the very under arms and is spending more that the very inventions of our day jealousies, and the very hatreds that money with the sole objective of de- have served only to give more edge have arisen from the last war have struction. Don't tell me that, when and more meaning and more deadli- gone entirely beyond their power to we have today over the world such ness to all the plans for war, until we settle, that indeed there seems no mutual distrust and fear between the can talk about plans for war on a human way whatever of solving nations that not one of them is will- wholesale scale that was never them. There they meet in Geneva, ing to accept the proposition of any dreamed of in the past. The plans representatives of more than sixty other. for war are so terrible that we can nations, striving to solve the world actually speak of the blotting out of problem after twelve years, admit- NATIONAL LEADERS whole cities, of the suicide of civili- ting they don't see the way out, sens- PESSIMISTIC sation itself ! ing that the situation seems hope- I MIGHT read to you from a sym- If facts like these are not of suffi- less, and at the same time listening posium in the New York Times the cient moment to stir every serious- to the echoes of the struggle in the declarations of the spokesmen of the minded person, then I doubt whether Far East. great nations of Europe relative to it would be possible to gather to- this Disarmament Conference, in gether any facts that would. I don't which every one of them declares think there was anyone a few years 'Ihe Proving, of a Father that he views this Conference with no ago who ever thought we would come great hopes. Each one explains that to the time when we would talk about "Abraham stretched forth his the distrust between nations and the the suicide of civilisation. But that hand, and took the knife to slay his fear one of another is such that there is what men talk about today, the son." Read Gen. 22: 1-13. is no nation willing to risk reducing most eminent of men, the greatest of ONE of the most pathetic and its strength at this very present hour. the world's statesmen. And this meaningful stories in the Bible is These statesmen also refer to the Far grave danger threatens largely be- that of the readiness of Abraham to Eastern question as an added reason cause of the mutual distrust, the mu- sacrifice his dear son Isaac, the child why they hesitate to disarm. All tual fears, of the nations. around, the outlook is very forebod- of his old age, at the summons of the ing. The well-known writer, Ray- FEAR GRIPS THE WORLD Almighty who had given him the mond B. Fosdick, pertinently ob- FRANK SIMONDS, writing in the boy. The chapter starts with the serves:— Review of Reviews, well says:— statement that the event to be re- "We have come to the end of a "Nerves in Europe are terribly lated was the proving of Abraham. calamitous year. A paralysis which frayed. Traditional rivalries and The proving of any one of us is we do .not seem to be able to diagnose quarrels have been gravely accentu- our demonstrated willingness to yield has overtaken our machine civilisa- ated in recent months. Trivial ges- up, at God's command, any of the tion. . . . tures and careless words can start a blessings God has bestowed upon us. new storm. It may be money. It may be health. "The year 1931 has seen this It may be position, or home, or— creeping paralysis fasten itself with "The most that can be said now hardest of all—our dear ones. God a surer hold on the industry of the of the coming year is that we are gave them. God has a right to them. world. . . . Revolution and social dis- looking out upon a European sea still We prove ourselves God's loyal chil- order have affected nearly half the presenting the prospect of vast waves. dren when we willingly hand them people in the world. The anxiety The gale of 1931 has produced con- back to Him.—Amos R. Wells. that marked the passing of 193o has ditions which have yet shown no deepened. Today the future seems clear sign of abatement."—January, far more uncertain than it did twelve 1932. "WE should pray for Pentecost, months ago. . . . Let me couple with this an extract but the mantle of the Spirit cannot "This is the kind of nightmare that from a New Year's editorial in the clothe us from on high until our haunts our sleep as 1931 draws to Philadelphia Public Ledger:— filthy rags of sin have been removed its unhappy close. Has our indus- "The catastrophes of 1931 were by a Redeemer's hand. The need of trial civilisation grown so complex mainly the results of fear. The penitence in the church today is that no human brains can control it? world . . . lost confidence in itself fully as great as its lack of power." 8 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 25, 1932

degree of advancement that we make in our knowledge of Christ—knowl- edge of His matchless character and His matchless love and of all the wonderful things that pertain to His person and His work. And of course this knowledge will be no mere the- oretical knowledge, but an experi- mental knowledge — a knowledge Editor: C. M. SNOW - Associate Editor: A. M. FRASER based on a vital experience in things Editorial Contributor: - A. W. ANDERSON divine. Please address all communications other than those of a business nature to A number of means have been the Editor by name. provided whereby we may grow in this all-essential knowledge. In the Bible there has been preserved for us a record of our Saviour's beautiful life on earth and many of the won- CHRISTIAN GROWTH derful words that He spoke for our guidance and edification. And all S in the physical life growth is Peter comes this definite admnoition: through the Bible there are revela- essential to normal develop- "Grow in grace, and in the knowl- tions of our Lord's attributes and of ment and the attainment of edge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus what He desires to be to us and to do maturity, so in the spiritual life also Christ." 2 Peter 3: 18. for us. All these things should be there must be a steady, permanent Grace means, as Dr. Maclaren well studied and meditated on by us daily growth. expresses it, "first, the undeserved under the guidance of the Spirit of "The parent who is delighted with love and favour which God in Jesus God. And in prayer there has been the innocent helplessness of his child, Christ bears to us sinful and in- provided a wonderful means of com- and rejoices in its efforts at speech, ferior creatures; and then it means munion with out Lord. This mystic becomes seriously alarmed if this the consequence of that love and fa- fellowship with Christ, which seems lisping, tottering, help-requiring state vour in the manifold spiritual endow- so unreal to the unconverted, can de- threatens to become permanent." ments which in us become 'graces,' velop into such an intimate relation- But how much more seriously beauties, and excellences of Christian ship with Him that we may almost alarmed should we be at cessation of character." feel that we are conversing with Him growth in the spiritual life! If only Christians, then, ought to be grow- face to face, and that His bodily pres- it appeared as monstrous and unna- ing daily more and more conscious ence is with us. Then, too. in the tural to have our spiritual as our of God's love and favour, His good- everyday experiences of life we may natural growth checked, how differ- ness, mercy, and loving-kindness. learn some of the most valuable les- ent would be the experience of many They ought, too, to be continually sons that can be provided for increas- who profess to be Christians! increasing in likeness to Him, with ing our knowledge of Jesus Christ From time to time we see those their capacity to receive and employ and His loving dealings with us in who, although perhaps twenty or to His glory the gifts of His grace preparing us for a part with Him thirty or forty years of age, have but always enlarging. throughout the eternal ages. child bodies. They are physical This growth in character building Before we draw this article to a dwarfs, and sometimes they are prac- is referred to by the Apostle Peter in close we wish to emphasise the tically helpless. Then there are the first chapter of his second epistle. thought that if we are to enjoy a those who have adult bodies, but After declaring that God's "divine healthy spiritual growth, we must their minds are no more developed power hath granted unto us all things employ daily the means that God has than the mind of a child of three or that pertain unto life and godliness," provided for such growth. Dr. R. A. four. And sometimes we meet men and that also "He that granted unto Torry has related an incident that and women who are dwarfs both us His precious and exceeding great well illustrates this thought. He tells physically and mentally. These ap- promises; that through these ye may us that in one of his early pastorates palling examples of checked growth become partakers of the divine na- he asked one of his parishioners how shock and distress us, yet their state ture, having escaped from the corrup- she was getting along in her Chris- is not so serious as that of those who tion that is in the world by lust," the tian life. She replied: "Very poorly. are stunted spiritually. apostle continues:— My life is a disgrace to me and to the In this connection the following "Yea, and for this very cause add- church; it is a disgrace to Jesus words of Dr. Alexander Maclaren are ing on your part all diligence, in your Christ. I don't understand why it to the point:— faith supply virtue; and in your vir- is." "Do you study your Bible every "Our churches are full of monsters, tue knowledge; and in your knowl- day?" Dr. Torry asked her. "Oh, no; specimens of arrested growth, dwarfs, edge temperance; and in your tem- but I study it occasionally, when I who have scarcely grown since they perance patience; and in your have time," she replied. A little baby were babes, infants all their. lives. I patience godliness; and in your god- was lying near by, and Dr. Torry come to you with a very plain ques- liness love of the brethren; and in said: "Suppose you should feed that tion: Have you any more of Christ's your love of the brethren love. For baby once in two hours today and beauty in your characters, any more if these things are yours and abound, once in six hours tomorrow, then let of His grace in your hearts, any more they make you to be not idle nor un- it go without eating at all for three of His truth in your minds, than you fruitful unto the knowledge of our or four days because you were busy, had a year ago, ten years ago, or at Lord Jesus Christ." 2 Peter z : 5-8, and then go back and feed it every that far-off period when some of you R.V. See also verses 3, 4. two hours the next day, and keep up grey-haired men first professed to be But this growth in grace is insepa- that process; do you think the child Christians?" rable from growth in "the knowledge would grow?" "No," replied the wo- The need of spiritual growth is em- of our Lord and Saviour Jesus man, "I think the child would die phasised in a number of passages of Christ." Indeed our Christian growth under that treatment." "And yet," Scripture. Through the Apostle will be largely in proportion to the (Concluded on page 12) April 2 5, 1932 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 9 THE HANGED LIFE Reflections of Earth Seen in Eternity) By CAlfred C. Ball

T is difficult to imagine a man too many, to make an attempt at lopped off, the sap which used to who would not give his all if he eradicating one sin at a time. Mark supply that part of the tree does not I could "close with the offer" of 5: 9. Dealing with individual sins cease, but flows into the remaining becoming a better man. Robert leaves the rest of the nature un- branches. In the same way, by eradi- Browning has very aptly said, "I say touched, and one channel being ef- cating some sins from the life, the that man was made to grow, not fected there is a certain overflow natural sinful nature of man is un- stop." This growth - ambition of elsewhere, so that the last state of affected and the flow of evil still in- man is wholly in accordance With the the man is worse than the first. fluences the character. will of God, for Paul under inspira- Again, combat with single sins does In short, religion does not consist tion was impelled to say: "For whom not affect the root and spring of the in negatives, and perfection of char- He did foreknow, He also did pre- disease. For instance, when the acter is never produced with a prun- destinate to be conformed to the im- centre branch of a tall tree has been ing-knife. Out of the earnestness of age of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren." Rom. 8: 29. Then as it is God's will that growth and development should take place in the spiritual as well as in the physical nature of man, let us inquire into God's process for producing better lives and inspiring spiritual growth. After the visit of some great evan- gelist to a certain centre, we hear many expressions of appreciation of his effort; and as a result of his work some have resolved to live better lives. Resolutions are made today and forgotten tomorrow. They are kept in the times of earnestness, and broken when the depression of every- day life weighs down upon the soul. In plain words, there is no salvation in will power or spasms of earnest- ness. A short time ago the Japanese freighter Cape Town Maru, lost her propeller in mid ocean. Now if the captain had ordered the whole of his able - bodied crew to apply their strength against the mainmast, ex- pecting that the ship would be im- pelled forward by such exertion, he would have been a very disappointed man. Without the assistance of a tug, the Cape Town Maru was help- less, and the man who depends upon resolution for his sanctification is like a stranded ship in mid ocean. Can a drowning man lift himself out of the water by pulling at the hair of his own head? Neither can one striving for salvation change his profligate ways by resolution; and the Lord Jesus taught this same truth when He said: "Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?" Matt. 6: 2 7. Another experimenter says, "I see the folly of a wild struggle in the dark, so I concentrate my attention on one sin at a time." But life is He who at Creation called our world into existence is the One who brings about too short, and our besetments are the "new creation" in the life of every converted soul. I0 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 25, 1932 a man's heart he may endeavour to into the same image from character whose company we are always at our copy what he considers as virtues, to character, even as by the spirit of best. Their presence elevates and one by one, and thus in time hope to the Lord." purifies and sanctifies our souls. produce a perfect character; but The character of God is a mirror Now if this is so with men, what this method of development is dan- which reflects the high principles of bounds can be set to the influence of gerous because it is mechanical. It heaven; and men, looking into the Christ? Think of the disciples that is easy to tell an engraving from a character of God, see perfection re- the Lord chose, raw, unspiritual, photo, an artificial flower from a real flected; and by its attractive win- uninspiring; but by the powerful one; so it is just as easy to detect ning power, "are changed into the reflecting influence of the Lord's copied virtue from original growth in same image." Likewise all men are character, these men were gradually grace. It is also well understood that mirrors. Whether men like it or not, brought into captivity to the life of a worldly person can be very humble the influences of life do not pass off Christ, until at last John, one of and a wicked man can be a strong the soul's mirror; the past is not only those very disciples, was inspired to advocate of temperance, so that fine focused there, it is there. These say, "Whosoever abideth in Him virtues are spoiled by mean com- things, these pictures, these influ- sinneth not; whosoever sinneth hath panions. Character is unity, all vir- ences, are our makers; so if we see not seen Him, neither known Him." tues must advance together. the good, the noble, the pure, in As the rays of the spring sun burst What shall we do then; is there no other words, if we think of Jesus, the buds and bring forth the new simple formula by which we can feel with Jesus, and see Jesus in leaves, so the influence of Christ on produce, measure, and regulate de- every act of our life, from mind, the nature changes the soul and velopment of character? One writer memory, and soul, we will have the causes the life to bloom into fuller has truthfully said, "If we cannot ex- privilege of reflecting the character companionship with the divine. By press the law of these forces in simple of Jesus which is a transcript of the this process Paul began a new life words, then is Christianity not the character of God. (Gal. 2: 20), and men today are in- world's religion, but the world's con- vited to participate in the same It is certain that we become like undrum." But God has a way, and experience. John 15: 7. Jesus makes He has made that way clear in His those we .habitually admire. Man to the one who imbibes the principles Word. In 2 Cor. 3: 18 we read: and wife when united become one; of God's character this blessed prom- "But we all, with open face behold- by continual association they imbibe ise: "To him that overcometh will I ing as in a glass the glory of the the same ambitions; and with long grant to sit with Me in My throne, Lord, are changed into the same im- years of companionship they are even as I also overcame, and am set age from glory to glory, even as by changed into each other's image. down with My Father in His throne." the Spirit of the Lord." And again There are some men, some women, in Rev. 3: 21. in Rom. 12: 2: "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Certainties or Speculations ? We notice in these texts that the R. A. SALTON change and transformation are not affected by resolution nor eradication HORTLY before the death of where Faraday found them—in the nor addition, but simply by passively Michael Faraday, that great Word of God, the Bible. It was submitting to God's will and per- scientist was asked what his written that all might "know the cer- mitting His life and power and per- "speculations were now"; to which tainty of those things" which concern fection to become the dominating fac- he replied, "Speculations? I have our welfare here and our eternal fu- tor in our experience. The Lord none. I am resting on certainties." ture. Luke I: 4. The greatest cer- told Nicodemus that, "Except a man Unlike many of the speculative tainty in the universe is God Himself, be born again, he cannot see the scientists of today, Faraday was a the Creator of all things and the Sov- kingdom of heaven." John 3: 3. believer in the Bible and the God of ereign of all the worlds. Men may But we all know that it is quite im- the Bible. It was the divine cer- deny His existence, but such a denial possible for a man to be born by his tainties of that Book upon which he is no proof. own will or power, so it is just as rested. Speculations will "get a man It is not within the power of man impossible for a man to change or nowhere worth while," as we say, but to prove there is no God. God has transform himself. Growth takes rather will they land him in eternal revealed Himself to man and proved place independent of our will. It perdition, to the loss of his soul. It is His own existence by the Incarna- is something outside the thermom- certainties that man needs; these tion of the Son of God, who lived in eter that produces a change within. alone will save. Speculative science, the likeness of our sinful flesh (Rom. So with the spiritual and moral speculative philosophy, speculative 8: 3), just as real a' Being as any transformation, but in spiritual religion — these are all inefficient. we have ever seen. Jesus Christ was growth the man must be susceptible, Man has been trying for centuries to and is a certainty — no speculation or a party to the change. right up the world by these things, whatsoever. He is no mythical per- The glory of God is His character, but he cannot. He has developed a son, no figment of the imagination, and in man seeking after God there is complex, complicated system that no illusion of some idealistic dreamer nothing so radiant, so beautiful, so has evolved the weightiest problems —Jesus Christ is a historical per- divine as the character which that for him to face that he has ever son, His life a historical fact — the seeking develops, because his charac- known; and the greatest brains are greatest fact of history. Jesus Christ ter is thus becoming like God's. baffled in attempts to solve them. is a reality, Emmanuel, "God with Paraphrasing the text, reading "char- Man is so paradoxical in his nature us," "God manifest in the flesh," the acter" in the place of "glory," the that those things which are certain- "Word made flesh." He in His per- meaning of Paul's statement stands ties he treats as speculations; and son, through His incarnation, is the out clearly. Thus: "But we all, with what are really only speculations he proof of the certainty of God, the open face beholding as in a glass the looks upon as certainties. unanswerable argument for His ex- character of the Lord, are changed The place to find certainties is istence. April 25, 1932 SIGNS OF THE TIMES II Everyone who truly believes in a speculation. The fall of man is a if we so desire; and His failure to Jesus Christ as a living, personal certainty; they are blind who would specify the seventh, eighth, ninth, Saviour, proves in his own experience deny the existence of sin, crime, dis- and tenth commandments leaves us the certainty of God and of His Son, tress, and all that has come with the free to commit adultery, to steal, to for the Holy Spirit operates upon the Fall. bear false witness, and to covet our hearts of all who surrender to Christ, neighbour's life companion. But, thank God,.redemption is also and makes God real to the soul( No; in summarising the two tables This cannot be understood and a certainty, as millions have proved to their own rejoicing. The media- of the law of God, Jesus did not abol- known by those who do not experi- ish either of them or any of the sev- ence it, therefore they may think the tion of Christ in heaven is a cer- tainty to all who, in sincerity, sup- eral commandments of which those relation of such experiences belongs to two tables are made up. But when plicate Him for overcoming grace. speculation and not to certainties. accused by the Jews of being in op- They may try to explain it by science, Christ is soon to come again; and position to the law of God, He de- by philosophy, by psychology, or by when He does, all the speculations of clared: "Think not that I am come some other theoretical system devel- man will vanish into nothingness in to destroy the law, or the prophets: oped by the human mind; but to the presence of the greatest certainty I am not come to destroy, but to ful- those who do have such spiritual this world has ever known; and only fil. For verily I say unto you, Till experiences as are taught in the those will live for ever who have heaven and earth pass, one jot or one Bible, these things are divine cer- rested upon these divine certainties, tittle shall in no wise pass fro& the tainties. God is a certainty; Jesus as found in the infallible Word of the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever Christ is a certainty; the Holy Spirit living God. Then, for our own eter- therefore shall break one of these is a certainty; from these, the three nal salvation, let us rest, not upon least commandments, and shall teach persons of the Godhead, all other di- the speculations of this wicked age, men so, he shall be called the least in vine certainties have proceeded. which are about to vanish, but upon the kingdom of heaven: but whoso- The world upon which we live is a those eternal verities which mean, to ever shall do and teach them, the certainty—certainly hone would deny all who believe, the blessed certainty same shall be called great in the king- this. But its creation is also a cer- of a life that will endure for the dom of heaven." Matt. 5: 17-19. tainty, and the doctrine of evolution ceaseless ages of the future. It will make a tremendous difference to us whether .we are called "least" itt../4•1.0111.111.04Mr04MIINNNEINHIMINFm..041. 41M004M001=10014 041 or "great" in the kingdom of heaven. To refuse to obey any of God's great Ten Words, and so be called "least" QUESTION CORNER in the kingdom of heaven will be to have no part therein. See Isa. I: 19. State your question plainly, so that we may know just wherein you desire help. Always give name and address THE FEAST OF DEDICATION even though you do not desire your name to appear. We are requested by F. H. M., of ••••)4moinwo.mpoinswoimpi.E. Auckland, to explain concerning the feast mentioned in John Io: 22 and "NONE OTHER COMMANDMENT not break a single one of those last its significance. GREATER" six commandments; for these six all deal with our relation toward our The text reads: "And it was at Mrs. C. H., of Blenheim, N.Z., Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, wishes to know whether the words of fellow-men. The scribe knew that Jesus had summarised man's rela- and it was winter." This was not a our Saviour in Mark 12: 30, 31, make feast appointed by the Lord for unnecessary the fourth command- tions toward God and toward his fel- low-men in that declaration; for he observance by His people. This was ment and the keeping of the Sabbath a feast instituted in the time of the which..it specifies. said: "Well, Master, Thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and Maccabees. You will find reference A certain scribe asked the Master there is none other but He: and to to it in I Mac. 4: 36 (the Apoc- which was "the first commandment love Him with all the heart, and with rypha), which reads: "Then said of all." The Saviour replied:— all the understanding, and with all Judas [Maccabeus] and his brethren, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: "The first of all commandments is, the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, let us go up to cleanse and dedicate Hear, 0 Israel; the Lord our God is the sanctuary." When they went up one Lord: and thou shalt love the is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." to the temple to begin this work of Lord thy God with all thy heart, and restoration and cleansing, they found with all thy soul, and with all thy This learned questioner did not ac- it in a most dilapidated condition. mind, and with all thy strength: this cuse Jesus of teaching the abolition They cleansed the sanctuary from all is the first commandment. And the of the Ten-Commandment law; he the defilement from which it had suf- second is like, namely this, Thou did not declare that Jesus was against fered at the hands of Antiochus Epi- shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. the divine law, but that He had an- phanes. Antiochus, hearing that the There is none other commandment swered well in putting the two tables Jews had made great rejoicings over greater than these." of the law into two precepts—love to a rumour to the effect that he was Any obedient Christian ought to God and love to man. dead, hastened to Jerusalem, stormed see that in these words our Saviour Now if the fact that the Saviour the city, slaying 40,000 of the in- summarised the whole Ten Corn- did not specify the Sabbath com- habitants in three days, and making mandments. The first four deal with mandment makes it unnecessary for slaves of another 40,000, sold them love to God, and the last six with love us to keep the Sabbath which He as slaves to neighbouring nations. to man, our neighbour. He who kept, then His failure to specify the Then he sacrificed a great sow on the truly loves his God will not break a fifth commandment of the divine law altar of burnt offerings, made broth single one of those first four com- leaves us free to dishonour our par- of some of her flesh, and sprinkled it mands which our Saviour summar- ents or treat them in a cruel manner. over the temple, to make its defile- ised under love to God; and he who Likewise His omission of the sixth ment as complete as possible. For loves his neighbour as himself will commandment leaves us free to kill some three years, because of this de- 12 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 25, 1932 filement, the temple services were fact of the latter-day existence of which is always organised for lawless- abandoned. Judas Maccabeus and millionaires, the staggering heights ness, largely dominating the politics his brethren not only cleansed the to which their fortunes have grown, of all of them, it is to Finland's ever- temple of its defilement, but repaired the rapidity with which they have lasting credit and glory that she put the ruins of it. been gathered, and their unexpected up a heroic fight for her ideals Following this cleansing, and to decline, must speak with a decided against such overwhelming odds, for celebrate and memorialise it, a feast voice in the prophetic declaration, thirteen brave years. was appointed, called the feast of "The corning of the Lord draweth dedication. A similar feast is that nigh." known as the feast of Purim, insti- This prophecy of latter-day condi- Christian Growth tuted in the days of Esther and Mor- tions harmonises perfectly with con- decai to celebrate and keep in mem- ditions as we find them in the world (Concluded from page 8) ory the deliverance of the Jews from today. The evidence they offer must, said Dr. Torry, "that is just the way the wicked plot of Haman for their therefore, stand unquestioned. "Pa- you are treating your soul." destruction. These feasts were not tience" is the divine admonition among the feasts appointed by God, whispered to God's people at this Just as regular nourishment is and had no special significance in the time. The waiting time cannot be needed for healthy physical growth, typical system instituted through long, for "the coming of the Lord so, too, is it needed for spiritual Mose?. draweth nigh." growth. The prayer, "Give us this It is a sad commentary on the day our daily bread," applies to more genius of our day that the only great than the food for our physical needs. The World's Money Crisis capitalists that appear to be doing We need to be like the noble men and well are the brewers and tobacco- women of Berea, who "searched the R. HARE manufacturers. Surely the dream of Scriptures daily" in their desire to HE world's latter-day rich men world betterment is being pushed know the truth concerning Christ. find special mention in the further and further away: These See Acts 17: 11. The Psalmist says T Book of God. See James 5: sad legacies of selfishness hold with a that "those that be planted in the 1-8, and Hab. 2: 1-13. These pre- power that man of himself cannot house of the Lord shall flourish in the dictions carry little in the way of resist. courts of our God." Ps. 92: 13. We laudation or comfort: Misery and From the external evidence around need to be planted in the house of the heaped-up treasures form a strange us today, it would seem that we have Lord, to abide continually in the combination in the inspired picture. passed the time of the world's finan- presence of God, if we are to "grow It is only since 1840 that the world cial crisis and the time of the million- in grace, and in the knowledge of our has begun to talk of millionaires as aire's sorrow has come. To the child Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." F. world realities. Since that time the of God even this dark cloud has a sources of wealth—gold mines, inven- silver lining. tions,. financial combinations, and Are You Preparing for war-supplies — have greatly multi- Christ's Glorious Return ? plied, and many have grown rich Why Finland Dropped quickly. Today we talk of million- (Continued from page 3) aires as matters of ordinary life. Prohibition upon thee, 0 inhabitant of the earth. But a few years ago the world (Concluded from page 5) appeared to reach its millionaire And it shall come to pass, that he Finland. But before that, the Inter- that fleeth from the noise of the fear crisis. This latter-day creation ap- national League Against Prohibition pears now to be on the diminution- shall fall into the pit; and he that in a press dispatch under date of Oc- cometh up out of the midst of the plan. Fallen fortunes more than tober 28, 1922, boasted, "We have pit shall be taken in the snare." The keep pace with the world's depres- roo,000,000 people behind us, and sion.' It is stated that one hundred original word here translated "taken" millions of dollars which we will really means "overtaken in a calam- millionaires have ceased to be mil- spend in a merciless fight to destroy ity." While the word translated lionaires within the last three years. Prohibition in the United States and "left" means to "escape as a bird It is claimed there were four hundred other countries." and ninety persons who were worth from the snare." Many translations They evidently began with Can- use these words. Those who are ii,000,000 or more; but in the pres- ada, for the Wine Export Commis- ent depression the number has taken in the snare are most certainly sion, one of the component organisa- the wicked, for in verse 5 we read: dropped to three hundred and eighty- tions of the International League five. "The earth also is defiled under the Against Prohibition, laid "claim to a inhabitants thereof; because they This unexpected decline may have preponderant share in the success" of have transgressed the laws, changed something to do with the prophetic the elections which defeated Prohibi- the ordinance, broken the everlasting warning that has come to them and tion in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, covenant"; and verse 6: "Therefore may form a part of the occasion of Canada. the inhabitants of the earth are their "weeping." Many have been These present some of Finland's burned, and few men left." reckless in expenditure, and extrava- problems. Her not-too-neighbourly gant in their search after pleasure. sister nations in Europe gave little WHO ARE LEFT? Scent at £25 per drop, is said to have Finland a rocky road to travel. With THERE are only two classes when been used by the wife of one million- Russia on the east, Norway on the Jesus comes, the righteous who serve aire, while another millionaire spent north, Sweden on the west, and with Him, and the wicked who reject Him. £2,000 in- decorating the church Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, These He speaks of as "wheat and where his daughter was married. and Germany, all on the Baltic Sea tares," "sheep and goats." "Chil- One lady in England is said to have and closer on the average to Finland dren of the kingdom and children of paid iboo for the coffin and burial than Mexico is to Louisiana, and the wicked one." Even as it was in of her pet dog! with France, Spain, and Portugal, all the days of Noah, the wicked being But to the child of God there is wine-producing nations, just around taken and the righteous left, so shall a meaning in all this beyond the mere the corner, with an open sea-road to it be when next the earth is consumed rise and decline of worldly riches. The Finland, and with the liquor traffic, in destruction. In giving special in- April 25, 1932 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 13 struction to the church just before prepare a place for you. . . . I will eth, that shall he also reap." Gal. 6: He ascended to His Father— come again and receive you unto My- 7. Now is the time to prepare for JESUS SAID, self." His glorious return. It is no use Again turning to the ninety - first seeking entrance when the door is "TAKE heed to yourselves, lest at psalm we read: "Thou shalt not be shut. Now is the sowing time. "He any time your hearts be overcharged afraid for the terror by night; nor for that soweth to his flesh shall of the with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and the arrow that flieth by day; nor flesh reap corruption; but he that the cares of this life, and so that day for the pestilence that walketh in soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit come upon you unawares. reap life everlasting." Gal. 6: 8. shall it come on darkness; nor for the destruction that "For as a snare wasteth at noonday. Prepared, or unprepared, you must all them that dwell on the face of the "A thousand shall fall at thy side, face the judgment - bar of Christ. whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and ten thousand at thy right hand; Will you take the hyssop while there and pray always, that ye may be but it shall not come nigh thee. Only is yet time, and, dipping it into the accounted worthy to escape all these with thine eyes shalt thou behold and life-blood of the Saviour, apply it to things that shall come to pass, and see the reward of the wicked. . . . your heart, letting Him purge your to stand before the Son of man." There shall no evil befall thee, nei- life? or will you be weighed in the Luke 2 I : 34-36. ther shall any plague come nigh thy balances and found wanting? Now THE RIGHTEOUS ARE LEFT dwelling." Verses 5-1o. is the accepted time. FROM the passages just read it is Is it worth while to follow on to quite clear that Jesus taught that the know the Lord? Ask a Christian on children of the kingdom would be his death-bed if he would now change I AM profitably engaged in read- left when the besom of destruction places with an infidel, "having no ing the Bible. Take all of this Book hope, and without God in the world." had swept away those who persist in upon reason that you can and the following the ways of the world. "Finding, following, struggling, keeping, Here is definite instruction for Chris- Is He sure to bless? balance by faith, and you will live Saints, apostles, prophets, martyrs and die a better man. . . . In regard to tians to pray at all times that they Answer, 'Yes.' " may be accounted worthy to escape the Great Book, I have only to say the terrifying snares, the overwhelm- "Be not deceived; God is not that it is the best Book which God ing destruction, that shall come upon mocked: for whatsoever a man sow- has given to man.—Abraham Lincoln. all them that dwell upon the face of the whole earth. Like Israel in Egypt, the righteous will be sustained AUTUMN IS HERE during the fearful plagues of God's wrath to the end. But unlike that experience, it will not be any local Quickly the longer evenings mostly spent at home will upheaval that will pour destruction follow ! upon destruction. It will come upon WHAT GIVES MORE REAL ENJOYMENT AND PROFIT- all them that dwell upon the face of ABLE PLEASURE when the colder evenings come than to be the whole earth. seated in a cosy chair by the fireside reading a good book ? WHO SHALL BE ABLE TO STAND ? Naturally you will be thinking soon of what you will read "HE that dwelleth in the secret this season. You will want to improve your leisure mo- place of the Most High shall abide ments with something worth while— under the shadow of the Almighty. something that will benefit you in . . . Surely He shall deliver thee from every way. the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence." Ps. 91: 1-3. As an aid to the selection of good Here is hope. Are you afraid of the books to read and study, we have future? 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the ten talents alike, if the work of each has been ioo per cent. May the life of each of us be as eloquent a sermon, as easily read and FOR understood, and as direct an uplift to others, as was the life sermon of YOUlle Hornsby's dustman. One of Nature's Wonders PCOPLE The Needle-and-Thread Tree MAGINE the luxury of such a tree, and the delights of going out to your needle - and - thread orchard, and picking a needle threaded and all ready for business! The One-Hundred-per-cent Odd as it may seem to us, there is out on the Mexican plains just such a Dustman forest growth. The tree partakes of the nature of gigantic asparagus, and ELLA S. PAAP has large, thick, fleshy leaves, remind- N life it is not so much the kind his work, that I sought opportunity ing one of the cactus—the one popu- of work you do that counts, as to speak with him. As we conversed, larly known as the "prickly pear." the perfection with which you do a new thought occupied my mind. The "needles" of the needle - and- that work. Previous to this it had never occurred thread tree are set along the edges of When the Master left to go into to me to regard the work of a gar- the thick leaves. that far country, He gave to every bage man as an exalted one, but that In order to get one equipped for man his work, and each one was old man, instead of falling in rank sewing, it is only necessary to push given a work for the Master which because of the class of work he was the thorn, or "needle," gently back- was proportional to his strength and doing, raised the work by the grade ward into its fleshy sheath, thus to ability. of perfection with which he per- loosen it from the tough outside cov- It is not necessary, or even pos- formed this daily task. He was a ering of the leaf, and then pull it sible, that all do the same kind of I oo-per-cent dustman. from the socket. A hundred fine work. Indeed, the variety in the The dust-cart was a model of fibres adhere to the thorn, like spider kinds of work the Master has to be neatness; the can used for collecting webs. By twisting the "needle" dur- done is equalled only by the diversity was polished as if it carried dainties ing the drawing operations, this fibre in the types of individuals He has to the king's table. The horse that can be drawn out to almost an in- created and called to do His work. dew the cart was groomed, and the definite length. The action of the One standard, however, is given to all harness was shined as if for show atmosphere toughens these minute alike. Perfection is required. "Be ye parade. The horse's eyes and legs threads to such a degree as to make a therefore perfect, even as your Father were protected from the discomfort thread twisted from it, not larger which is in heaven is perfect." of flies, and a silvery little bell sus- than common No. 4o, capable of sus- The great God is perfect; the pended from the harness strap an- taining a weight of five pounds, about tiniest thread of a spider's web is nounced in pleasing tone the coming three times the tensile strength of perfect; each grain of sand, each of the dustman. The old man was common "six-cord" thread. The sci- flake of snow, is 100 per cent, and in spotlessly and neatly clothed; and entific name of this forest wonder is a 100-per-cent manner performs its although his hair and beard were Tensyana Macudina.—Selected. part, be it great or small, in God's white, his step was youthful and elas- great economy. tic. I noticed that each person he Many of us classify men in ranks met was given a cheery greeting. No Promises according to the profession they may time was lost in gossipping, but a follow in life, by the trade or kind refreshing breeze of "good will to OME on down to the lolly-shop of work at which they earn their men" followed in the wake of the old with me, Mary, and have a daily bread. How much better, and dustman. soda. My treat," called Edith infinitely more to the point, if we I have listened to many sermons as the girls were leaving the school- should rank ourselves according to from which I have received strength room. the manner in which we do the work for daily living, but to none more elo- "Thank you, Edith, but I must that is ours. Better, far better, be a quently preached and to none which go right home. I promised my little 100-per-cent chimney-sweep than a gave me a more direct uplift than brother Davie that I'd hurry home 50-per-cent king. Perfection is ab- that of the cheerful, quiet dustman. to play with him. He's so lonesome solute, and knows no declension. He was a living, acting sermon, in- now that school has begun again and Once, while travelling in New spiring in me the strongest desire I I'm away all day." South Wales, I stayed for a few had ever felt to reach that 100-per- "Oh, let him wait," said Edith, weeks in the town of Hornsby. Em- cent mark in my own life. carelessly, "and come on." ployed there, by the municipal coun- If today's duty is humbler than "But I couldn't!" Mary exclaimed, cil of that town, was an old man of yesterday's dream, what matter? earnestly. "I promised him." perhaps seventy years. His work The -opportunity of doing it in a Is:Do- "What's a promise matter to a was the emptying of the garbage and per-cent manner remains unaltered, little boy like that? Don't be so dust cans from the various houses. as also the assurance that at the end fussy. He doesn't know what time So impressed was I with the appear- of the way the Master will say, "Well school's out." ance of the old man, his outfit, and done, thou good and faithful serv- "Why, Edith, you can't mean the manner in which he was doing ant," to the holder of the four and (Concluded on page 16) April 25, 1932 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 15

I? No one would listen to a little girl like me." "I'm not so sure," said mother. "You seem to have forgotten that it is nearly Christmas time and people will listen to children then, you CHILDR€Ilt know; that is, if they sing nicely and reverently." "Do you mean that I should go out and sing carols at people's CORI/CR- houses?" "Well, not by yourself exactly. But I've got an idea. Here's Richard with his violin, and Bessie, she can sing, too. I believe that the three of you might do wonderfully well. At any rate we could think about it." "I know," said Barbara, on the (BARBARA'S TALENT verge of tears, "but I—surely—can A new light entered Barbara's A. S. Maxwell —earn it — somehow. Er — er — I eyes. Hope stirred anew within her must keep my — er — promise now little heart. That ten shillings she 1%/11 OTHER!" gasped Barbara, I've made it." had promised seemed nearer than it rushing into the dining- Barbara began to cry. had since she had reached home. room and flopping down in "Never mind, dear," said mother, All next day they talked over an arm-chair, "I've got to earn "we'll find some way out, surely. mother's idea and in the evening the some money." But you have taken on a difficult three children had a practice to- "My dear!" exclaimed mother. task and no mistake." gether with mother at the piano. "Whatever is the matter with the • "I did so want to help," said Bar-, They soon found that they could get child now!" bara. along very well with several simple "Yes, I must," went on Barbara. "I know, I'm sure you did," said hymns and this made them full of "It's most important, and I have to mother, putting her arm round Bar- eagerness to see what they could do earn a lot very quickly." bara's neck. "Let's think it over a outside. Mother began to look serious. while and see what can be done." Two evenings later they started "Whatever for?" she asked. That evening, as the family gath- out. And what a happy time they "Well," said Barbara very excit- ered round the fire for prayers, did have! Barbara sang as she had edly, "Mr. Walters, the new super- mother read to them the parable of never sung at home. She felt she intendent, told us in Sabbath school the talents. As the story proceeded was using her one talent for Jesus. this morning that if we didn't give Barbara's face grew more and more People opened their windows to lis- fifty- pounds for missions within the serious. She could see the man with ten to the clear, musical little voice next fortnight, Mr. James would the ten talents trading with them and that rang out on the still evening air. have to come back from India right earning ten talents more to give to Richard's violin was a wonderful away." the king. Then she saw the man help, and Bessie helped a lot as well. "Why, we've only just sent him with the five talents earning another She knocked at the doors and told out," said mother. five talents. And then the saw the the story of how they were all try- "I know; that's just the trouble," man with one talent burying it in the ing to gather money so that their said Barbara. "Mr. Walters said earth and having nothing—nothing missionary should not have to be that everybody thought there would —to give to the Lord at His return. brought back from India. No one be enough money to keep him there. She became very serious. could resist her sweet little smile. At But there isn't. Something's gone "What's troubling you, dear?" every house she received something. wrong, he said, and the mission asked mother, as she closed the Book. One lady gave threepence, another board is very hard up. So there, if "Oh, I feel just like the man with sixpence, and one happy old gentle- we don't raise fifty pounds in a fort- one talent who didn't earn anything man brought a shilling out of his night, well, Mr. James comes home." at all. Only there's just this differ- trouser's pocket. "That sounds very serious," said ence, that I don't have one talent mother. "But, Barbara dear, we When at last they all reached anyway." home they were so excited and happy can't raise fifty pounds in a fort- "Well, Barbara, I didn't think you night." that mother scarcely knew what to would take it so much to heart. And do with them. After counting up "Oh, no," said Barbara, "not we you have talents, many of them." by ourselves. Each class has agreed their money they found they had to raise five pounds. Each one in "No, I haven't. I haven't any at collected three shillings and nine- the clasks has promised to raise ten all. I'm just no good and I'll never pence halfpenny. shillings." be able to earn that money." "Why!" exclaimed Barbara, "we "Have you promised ten shil- "Oh Barbara, don't be so despond- shall only have to go out three or lings?" gasped mother. ent. You certainly have one talent four more times to get more than I "Why, of course," said Barbara. anyway, and perhaps God will help promised." "I couldn't do anything else, could I? you to use that to His glory." "It's wonderful," said mother. "I And that's why I've got to earn some "I'm sure I haven't," said Bar- prayed that God would bless you money. How can I do it, mother bara. tonight, and I am sure He has. That dear?" "You have forgotten your voice," one talent came in useful, didn't it, "Well," said mother, "it's all very said mother. "You know how beau- Barbara?" well for you to promise ten shillings tifully you can sing when you want Barbara blushed a little. like that, but I haven't got it to give to. Perhaps, who knows, you may "Anyway," she said, "I am glad I you, dear, even if you help me ever be able to keep your promise by sing- shall be able to keep my promise and such a lot. You know daddy has not ing for Jesus." have something to give Him after been earning very much lately." "Me?" said Barbara. "How could all." 16 SIGNS OF THE TIMES April 25, 1932

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