AUGUST, 1952 . • . TWENTY-FIVE CENTS ESCAPE FROM DEATH THE SLAYBAUGH STORY FititsTIMES„ AUGUST, 1952 VOL. 61 No. 8 Established in 1891 as The Southern Agent. Name changed to The Southern Review in 1892, to The Southern Watchman in Helpful to Christians 1901, to The Watchman in 1905, to The Watchman Magazine in 1917, to Our Times in 1946. Incorporating: The Tennessee Sirs: River Watchman (1901), The Gospel Herald (1903 ) • I am enclosing a money order for which I would like a year's subscription * * * to your magazine, THESE TIMES. I saw and read your magazine for the first time while waiting in a doctor's office. It is interesting and helpful to Editor RODNEY E. FINNEY Christian readers. I am looking forward to a year of enjoyment and inspira- Circulation Manager - IEVIN H. ImuG tion through it. I will pass it on to my friends. Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. J.M. Art Director - - - ROBERT M. 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THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 "History is but the un- "We have also a more PAGEANT of sure word of proph- rolled scroll of proph- ecy."—Garfield. PROPHECY ecy."-2 Peter 1:19. THESE Because of the hundreds of Bible texts dealing prophetically with our troubled days, TIMES presents this new feature. It will bring in to sharp focus the true meaning of world events. GREAT PESTILENCES. Prophecy: "There shall be...pestilences...in divers places." Matthew 24:7. At a time when man boasts of his control of disease, we have seen the most terrible pestilences in world history, as predicted unfailingly by Bible prophecy. In the influenza scourge of 1918 and 1919 over 25,000,000 died of this disease. Seven million perished in east Russia because of famines and pestilences in 1922 and 1923. Another pestilence with which man has to contend is that of insects which ravage crops. There are 1,000,000 known species of insects; the insect population of one square mile of earth's surface is equal to the total human population of the entire world. In the U.S. alone their depredations, plus the cost of control, take an annual toll of $3,000,000,000. Despite natural enemies and the increasingly effective poisons devised by science billions of bugs con- tinue to ravage crops without any seeming decrease in number. In fact, present losses due to insects are about double those of 50 years ago. GREAT FAMINES. Prophecy: "There shall be famines...in divers places." Matthew 24:7. Following World War II we had the greatest famine ever known. It was world wide and affected at least half a billion people. The toll in lives has not yet been estimated, but it probably will reach 100,000,000. When wars break down transportation systems, destroy property, and drive millions from their homes, famines are bound to follow. The greater the wars, the more disastrous the famines. Christ knew all this. As He looked down to the future generations, He saw that the day would come when all the problems of life caused by man's own stupidity and stubbornness would become so acute and overwhelming that they would threaten the very existence of the human race. It was to be in such a time that He would re- turn to deliver those who believe on His Word. CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE. Prophecy: "When ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." Matthew 24:13. Christ stated that men would be aware of the end of the world. Although He revealed no definite time for the end, He made it plain that men would be able to know when that great event was near. The following quotations, made within the past 5 years, are conclusive evidence that men do know that the end is near. George H. Earle: "I don't believe there is a better than an even chance that 10 per cent of Americans will be alive 5 years from now." Stephen King-Hall: "This thread [on which the peace of the world hangs] will snap one day, perhaps in three, perhaps five, perhaps 10 years' time. From this, nothing we recognize would emerge." Leland Stowe: "There exists a universal time fuse. Its minute hand will tick perhaps for 3 years, perhaps for four, but not for more than 5 or 7." Dr. Harold C. Urey: "I am a frightened man. I think that we should not think of a longer time than about 5 years." Hampton Adams: "By 1957 or 1960 the church will have decided by its action or lack of action on unity whether it will effectively challenge the titanic forces of evil and destruction which are rising in Western society or will go down before them in defeat." THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 3 *0t4:, 00* THERE was a knock on our door. Bill, my husband, opened it; and a man and a woman, not in police uniform, walked in. The woman took my little girl, Sheila, by the hand, put on her little blue coat and pink straw bonnet that I had bought her for Easter, and said, "Come, get in the car with us; we are taking you somewhere." They could have been kidnapers for all we knew. Because we were helplessly drunk, we didn't resist or hesitate. We just got into the car with them, and I didn't realize until we stopped behind a jail that they were juvenile officers. My heart almost stopped beating when the woman took my little girl away as she held her arms out to me and cried for me. She was six and had never spent a night away from me in her life.