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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. ELDRIDGE Interesting and Educational * * * Published monthly (except December, when semimonthly) by Sirs: the SOUTHERN PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION. 2119 Twenty-Fourth The February edition of your wonderful magazine, THESE TIMES, con- Avenue. North, Nashville 8, Tennessee. Entered as second-class tains some very interesting and educational articles, and I would like an- matter January 19, 1909, at the post office in Nashville, Tennes- see, U. S. A.. under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Accept- other copy to have different neighbors here read. Most likely it will bring ance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section you further subscribers. 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, and authorized July 11, 1918. Douglas, Ga. J.H.S. * Rates: 25 cents a copy, and $3.00 a year, in the United States. Rates higher for other countries. * Change of Address: Please give both the old and the new Exceptionally Good address. Sirs: * Expiration: Unless renewed in advance, the magazine stops at I sent in my renewal to THESE TIMES beginning with the March issue. the expiration date shown on the wrapper. For the remaining $2.25 please send as many copies of the present February Member of Associated Church Press. issue as this amount will pay for. It will be an exceptionally good number to send to some of our Methodist friends. THESE TIMES grows better and * better as time passes. Rolla, Mo. Dr. B.E.C.S. Special Features Pageant of Prophecy 3 Wishes It Were a Weekly I Was an Alcoholic—Anonymous 4 Sirs: Escape From Death—Rose Slaybaugh 6 I received a magazine in December and looked for another in January, Does Your Being Considerate Spoil Your Wife?— but none came. So I am writing you to ask if someone subscribed for me. Harold Shryock„ D1.D. 8 If not, let me know immediately, so I can send the money and receive this Follow Me!—Inez Brasier . . .. 12 wonderful magazine. I do not want to miss the January issue because I Rainbows and Promises—Roy F. Cottrell 14 want to read about Harry Orchard and how he came to be a friend of the Doorway to the Church—M. L. Andreasen 16 Lord. I have never heard of him, but his story was touching. I like to read God, Our Refuge—Julia M. Moore 20 this magazine. It is very good. I wish it were a weekly publication. New Dolls for Ellie—Inez Brasier 23 Leon, Ky. Mrs. M.B.M. The Church of the Open Door—Leonard C. Lee 24 Inflation—Naomi Heschong 27 President of Her Sunday School Class Land of the Free—Arnold V. Wallenkampf 36 Sirs: I have just returned from the doctor's office, and while passing time in Regular Departments the reception room, found a magazine published by your company which proved to be one of the most interesting I've ever had the opportunity to Letters From Our Readers 2 scan. As president of my Sunday school class, I feel the information con- Events of These Times 10 tained in it would be exceedingly interesting to them. Not to mention the Interpreting These Times, by the Editor 18 pleasure I will derive in seeking the truths of the articles, my three children Happy Homes 22 should be benefited a hundredfold also. Let's Ask the Doctor 26 Science Insights Portsmouth, Va. Mrs. L.L.B. 31 God's Two Books 34 Please Explain 35 Poetry As Snowballs—Inez Clark Thorson 28 IN THIS ISSUE . . A Prayer—Joan Foster 29 Sometime—Marvin Bauer 30 tt Conipensation—Arnold Bengston 32 WAS AN ALCOHOLIC" Atomic Challenge—Grace Barker Wilson . 33 PAGE 4 The Cover ----" This charming photo by Josef l\luench features a young tlt)----,.? Navajo shepherdess as she tenderly cares for the lambs and kids of the flock in the colorful setting of our far western Subscribe for THESE TIMES today to be sure to desert country. get the important features carried in every issue.

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"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. Because of the hundreds of Bible texts dealing prophetically with our troubled days, THESE 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."

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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. I didn't know where they would take her, or what they would do to her. I didn't care what happened to me; I wanted my baby. I knew she was frightened and wanted me. That very instant marked the begin- ning of my cure of alcoholism. The shock, the complete realization of what alcohol can and will do if permitted to take hold of a human being, gripped me. This thing had happened to me. It couldn't happen to me, but it did. My husband went one way; they took my baby in another direction and me in another, up an elevator. Suddenly I found myself being locked behind jail doors, and though I didn't see my hus- band, I knew he was being locked in, too, and neither one of us was with our baby. It seemed that I could not bear it. COBB SHINN (ABOVE) HAROLD L. PHILIPS (BELOW As I stood there with my hands grasp- ing the bars, I looked out at the matron been acquired suddenly; it had been or are treated quickly and get well. With and pleaded for my baby. I begged her coming on for years. That is the insidious alcohol it's coiling all the time, maybe just to tell me where she had been way alcohol works on its victims. You years, without the victim's realizing it, taken. I felt as though my world had hear it said, "Just a few drinks now and until all at once with everything gone dropped from under me, and my whole then won't hurt anybody." That is a from you, everything that is fine, and life had ended. Every emotion, whether mistake—it does. On some human beings there is nothing left, you know you've good or bad, is much intensified when —like me—it's like a snake. But a snake, been struck. That's the way I was that one is under the influence of alcohol. after coiling, strikes quickly and inserts night. This addiction of mine hadn't just the poison, and you either die quickly The matron wouldn't tell me what 4 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 they had done with my child. I guess the fertile valleys near the city, nice and lastly, our house. Bill was sure he she thought I was too drunk to under- cars, and plenty of friends. This brought could make more money in a northern stand. I later knew she had been taken with it entertaining, going places, and I city in war work, so we went there. That to Juvenile Hall. enjoyed it all. was a mistake. We came back to our All that night other women prisoners But with it also came alcohol. Every- old city, and soon Bill had a good posi- were being brought in. Some were where we went, we were served drinks. tion. We found housing scarce, and we drunks, others were thieves, and a few At every party we gave, we served temporarily lived in a hotel. There is were murderers—screaming and cursing drinks. With every trip, with every ac- where we started drinking again—were —and I was among them. I was finger- quaintance, there would have to be a reported and arrested. printed as if I were a criminal, and the drink. At first I drank just to be sociable, The agony of my jittery and tortured next day a picture was made of me for because the others drank. As time went nerves while the alcohol left my system the record. Bill and I were charged with on, I learned to like it—then to expect is beyond description. Only those who contributing to the delinquency of a it—to look forward to it—to wait for Bill have experienced this sickness know minor—and our own little girl was the to bring home a bottle for a cocktail, a what it is like. The morbid desire for minor. highball. There would be beer on hot drink, and the remorseful, depressed, Through all this mixture of people, days, whisky both winter and summer, and lost feeling, with the mental facul- with their foul, vulgar language, I wine by the gallons. Then the next thing ties unbalanced—all these make sobering thought of Sheila's sweet brown eyes I knew, I found I couldn't do without it. up difficult to endure. Yet with God's and blond hair under a pink bonnet. I had to drink to be able to carry on. Bill help I was able to surmount my misery. Our baby had always been happy, her was almost as bad. We both reached the My baby's future was at stake, but with- little face continually in a smile. As I point where we would drink alone—we out the help of God I don't think I lay there on that dirty bunk blanket felt too bad to give parties or visit friends, could have ever overcome this sickness. with the alcohol dying out, jumping or to do anything but drink. For him The humiliation of being in jail al- every time I closed my eyes, I thought there were days off because he felt sick most overwhelmed me. As I began to I had lost my darling forever, and what and jittery. sober up and had plenty of time to think,

The True Story of How I Escaped Alcohol's Trap

for? Because of my desire for alcohol. I had waited a long time for my baby; I knew there was only one thing left for Then something happened to me, as if I was forty-two when she was born. me to do—turn to God. I had prayed something had taken hold of me; and Some who read this will know the many times to overcome my weakness, deep inside of me it seemed to whisper, anguish I felt that night when I thought but the prayers were seemingly not an- "I am stronger than you; let Me help I had lost my baby forever. Before, and swered. Now I realize God works in you." Then my determination was made. a year after she was born, I stopped mysterious ways. My prayers were an- As I said before, this terrible addiction drinking, but I still craved it. Gradually swered the day I was arrested. Through- of ours had been coming on for years, I started again. In less than a year I was out that night and all the rest of the days and we had lost everything as a result as bad as ever, and Bill was the same. and nights I spent in jail, I was in silent of it. Bill and I were very young when There were more days off from his work prayer for my child and that my addic- we married, and soon after we decided —then temporary suspensions from the tion might be ended. to move to the West to make our home. company. Finally one day after he had And so it was. That was seven years We settled in a large city on the west been drunk at work, he was told he was ago, and I've never wanted a drink since. coast. no longer needed. My child was given back to me, and is In a short time Bill had a fine position From then on we started losing every- now one of the most popular and bril- with a large corporation, and as the thing we had. His new salary couldn't liant girls in junior high. My husband years went by, we acquired many fine meet our obligations. The new car was has another fine position now and things: a spacious ranch home in one of sold, then the furniture piece by piece, doesn't drink. God made me find myself. THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 5 CAPE FRO

HEN Roy and I were married, Roy was everything I wanted in a hus- W band; he was good and kind and thoughtful. But I think I was just a little disappointed after the honeymoon, for when I asked, "Darling, don't you think we should start going to Sunday school and church now?" he smiled a little and answered, "Rose, you run along to Sun- day school the way you're used to doing; but, you know, Sunday school and church are for women and children. No real he-man goes to church." He was right at the height of his career. He was a wrestler. I suppose the world would call him a roughneck, but he was a good one, and I loved him. Roy and I were fortunate to have been Roy and Rose Slaybaugh born of Christian parents. His mother PREFACE and father were strict Methodists; mine, We have traveled many thousands of miles—all the way strict Baptists. I cannot remember the time that I was not taken to Sunday from Los Angeles, California, to Oshawa, Ontario; from school and church. I think I was born Bellingham, Washington, to Key West, Florida, and across a church member. Roy cannot say that, to Havana, Cuba—to tell of the wonderful way in which however, because after he reached the God has worked in our lives. We have been urged by thou- age when a boy is too old to spank and sands of people to put our story in written form, and now make go to Sunday school—Roy believed the time has come to do so. It is hoped that our humble he had all the religion he needed—he testimony will greatly glorify our heavenly Father and will thought he had finished his Christian build confidence and faith concerning His goodness and experience. But not I. I had always been power in the hearts of all who read it. Perhaps this testi- a worker in one department or another mony will help some who have become discouraged or in the church. When I was just a slip careless, and bring them back into the fold of the Good of a girl, I was a teacher of the little Shepherd. ones—first in the kindergarten, then in In this story we would like to tell you how we became the primary department. When I grew older, I was given a high school group. Christians after the death of our only child. We want to For many years I was the teacher of that tell you the struggles we had, of the opposition of friends class of boys and girls. and relatives and even the clergy. Anything we write is not I was not given the job because I was done maliciously against anyone personally or any group of a student of the Bible although I think people or any denomination. That is not our purpose in I knew about as much of the funda- telling our story. But we must tell it just as it happened, or mental teachings of the Bible as the it would not be our true experience. ordinary churchgoer. Many times I stood in the classroom and looked at the THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952

By ROSE II DEATH SLAYBAUGH

picture of Daniel in the lion's den and came, he asked me about her—who she school? No, I didn't send them; I went wondered, How did he ever get into that was and where she came from. I told with them. On Sunday there was usually place? Why was he in there? Did he him, "Oh, just another little guest." a late breakfast, and after breakfast, a ever get out of it? It never occurred to "Well," he said, "Rose, can't you scramble to the front porch for the me to read the story in the Bible. We be satisfied now? Three girls and a boy! "funny papers." Each little one would had never had a Sunday school lesson After all, I do have to make the living, seize a sheet and settle down on the about it. We never heard a sermon you know." living room floor because they had to preached about it. We should have had a dozen! We had hurry and exchange so they could read In a few years our home was blessed such fun together! And how proud we all the sheets before we had to leave. with a tiny baby boy. How we loved were of our Myrtle when she graduated Presently I would look at the clock. that precious little bundle of life, our from high school! She was such a "Now, darlings, we must hurry. It's own little son! We named him Jack. splendid young lady. The girls are all almost ten o'clock, and we mustn't be We didn't need anything more. We married now and have homes of their late for Sunday school." were so completely happy that we didn't own. In each little hand was placed a want anything else in the world. But Did I send these children to Sunday penny. The penny did not always reach this was not long true of our little one. its proper destination, for right down He was growing and beginning to ask on the corner was a grocery store where questions. He would often ask, "Mom penny candy was sold. The children and Daddy, can't I have a little brother just swarmed around that corner every and sister like Mildred across the way?" Sunday morning. Of course the grocery- Well, we had to find a little one that man told a few of us parents, and we needed a home. About this time I was put a stop to it. called to sing at the funeral of a young After the services were over, we would mother who had died suddenly, leaving hurry home. Then it was the children her husband and three little children— who were hurrying me. two girls and a boy. Oh, how I wanted "Oh, Mommy, Mommy, hurry! Look the blue-eyed baby girl! Later we got ac- what time it is. It's almost two o'clock, quainted with the father, and I asked and we mustn't be late for the show." him if we could have little Shirley. He This time in each little hand was did not want to give his children away, placed ten cents. Sometimes they would and he did not want to separate the beg, "Oh, if we could only have two girls. Lorraine was two years older, and dimes today. There are two shows, and a sweet child, so we arranged with him we'd like to see both of them. But if one to take both of the girls. is just awfully good, couldn't we stay Our family was growing rapidly—one and see it over again?" boy and two girls. We were all happy Why couldn't those darling children together, especially Jack. He loved these have two dimes? I thought the moving children as though they were his own picture theater was the finest place in sisters, and was always concerned about the world for children. I did not know them. They were his playmates. that we were sending them to the devil's Soon another little girl came into our Jack Slaybaugh, only child of Roy and playhouse. I know God has forgiven us Rose Slaybaugh, whose death greatly lives. She was older than the other chil- changed the quiet course of their lives. for that sin, as well as for many other dren. I sort of sneaked her in the back things of which we were ignorant. I door. When Roy came home the day she (Continued on page 13) THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 7 SiSIDERATE DOES YOUR BEING CON Spoil Your Wfe? A Noted Physician Speaks

MARRIED lady asked a friend for But marriage involves a more delicate pace with him in morale and in the en- employment. In response she re- relationship than that between school- joyment of living. A ceived the surprising answer, "I teacher and pupil. Successful marriage Too often a husband allows his mar- don't care to hire you, Susan, because requires the blending of two personalities riage to become commonplace. He al- I think your husband has spoiled you." in ways that build mutual confidence most assumes that having courted his What the employer meant was that he and trust. Neither the husband nor the wife, he has given her sufficient affection feared Susan's husband had humored wife should dominate the scene. But the and consideration to last through life. her until she had learned to expect husband's masculine traits fit him to be It is not that he is really unappreciative, special considerations. He feared that the guardian and protector of his wife's but rather that he expects his wife to she might put personal preferences more gentle personality. This he must take his appreciation for granted. ahead of the demands of her job. do both by serving as breadwinner and Human nature thrives on expressions This employer's attitude is typical of by maintaining such a tender personal of appreciation. And being very human, a commonly held misconception: that relationship to his wife that she keeps a wife has reason to expect her husband a husband should be rather stingy with to let her know, by words and evidences, the personal attentions he bestows on that his appreciation for her continues. his wife, lest she become "spoiled" and A husband who is sincerely apprecia- unwilling to face life's realities. This tive will be as considerate of his wife as line of thinking is primitive, however, he would be of -the hostess in a home and almost reminds one of the philoso- where he is the guest. He will keep his phy of some animal trainers: "The way appointments with her as carefully as to make an animal obey is to make him with a business associate. A good wife afraid of you." will be tolerant of her husband when he Scientific evidence has accumulated is detained. But he should not adopt the to prove that fear provides a poor incen- reasoning, "My wife will understand, tive for co-operation. A schoolboy may so why should I be too concerned?" Ac- seem to obey the rules because he fears tually it is more important for a husband the consequences of disobedience. But to keep faith with his wife than to be this obedience, prompted by fear, is not successful in a business transaction. The the kind of obedience that builds charac- values of cordial home life cannot be ter. The schoolboy who is afraid of his measured in dollars and cents. teacher will probably find occasion, Keeping appointments with one's sooner or later, to get even with the poor wife includes being punctual at meals. teacher even though it may be under the It includes reserving frequent evenings pretext of a Halloween prank or an for companionship with her. It includes "April Fool" joke. . showing her the courtesy of a telephone The best method for obtaining the call when circumstances force one to co-operation of a school child is to com- be late or to change his plans. mend him for whatever is commendable A teen-ager was heard to remark, "I in his conduct. Commendation raises his can tell whether a couple is married by evaluation of himself. It indicates to him watching them get into a car. If the man an appreciation and a confidence which holds the door for the lady, they are still he dares not betray. It promotes the sub- H. M. LAMBERT sweethearts. If he lets her go around and The happiness shared by every radiant bride climb in from her own side, it is a sign conscious reasoning, "My teacher is ex- can be continued throughout her married life pecting great things of me—I cannot let if her husband remembers that it is founded they are already married." Even though her down." on his courtesy and consideration for her. made by a teen-ager, this observation 8 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 By HAROLD SHRYOCK, M.D.

There is no more beautiful sight than that of man and wife who have stayed in love with each other through many years of married life. True happiness is theirs. H. M. LAMBERT comes very close to summarizing the eyes. It is in the notice that others take her husband's personal compliments. average American way. But why should of the appointments within the home. Her appearance, her hairdo, her new a man be less considerate of the woman Of all those whose opinions she prizes, dress—all these give adequate reason for who means more to him than all else her husband ranks first. a husband to express his approval. But just because she has become his wife? Imagine what a letdown it must be perhaps the greatest compliment, and A wife may know that her husband to a wife, after she has spent all day one which allows no suspicion of insin- still holds her in high esteem, but she cleaning house and otherwise making cerity, is for a husband to arrange for naturally craves evidences of his con- the home attractive, to have her husband his wife to accompany him for an eve- tinued regard. These are symbols, as it fail to notice the results of her effort. All ning, for a day, or even on a business were, that are just as meaningful as day, as she has worked, she has looked trip that he must make. whispering, "I am proud of you and am forward to his return and to his ex- Young Johnnie asked his mother one happy to be your husband." A consider- pressions of approval. Even though men day, "How did you know, when you ate husband can show his continued ap- are notoriously unobserving, the hus- married dad, that he would ever amount preciation by such little gestures as say- band who prizes his home will make in- to anything?" And Johnnie's mother re- ing "Thank you" and "Excuse me." He quiry as to how his wife has spent her plied, "Well, I didn't know for sure, is careful to walk next to the curb when time so that he may pay her due tribute but I had faith in your father and be- he and his wife are on the sidewalk, just for her efforts to provide a pleasant place lieved that he would do all right." as he used to when they were courting. for their companionship. And so it is with every wife: her sta- He still uses the same pet name that he A husband's praise for his wife should tion in life depends upon the degree of used when they were on their honey- be more specific than general. She ap- her husband's success. What a tribute, moon. preciates his noticing that the house has then, a husband owes to his wife, who A good wife takes pride in her home. been cleaned. But what she appreciates has been willing to take a chance on She enjoys having it look neat and at- most of all is some sincere compliment him and stake her own future on his! tractive. But her reward for this constant which is beamed for her personally. Al- The considerate husband recognizes this effort is not in what she sees with her though married, a woman still "falls" for (Continued on page 29) THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 9 * * *

BARGAIN DAY IN BABIES.—A chub- Today's B-36 carries a bomb load of The mothers said: "The gun, the gat, by seven months old baby boy was re- 86,000 pounds, has a crew of fifteen, a the rod, the six-shooter, is the prime cently deposited by his father in a New range of 10,000 miles, and a top speed motivator of most children's TV pro- Orleans parking lot as collateral on a of more than 400 miles an hour. grams. Life is . . . cheaper than a loan of one dollar. The father, intoxi- The new eight-jet XB-52 weighs 175 cigarette butt in a gutter. Not one cated, approached an attendant at the tons—so much that the first completed episode, not one character, not one emo- lot and begged for the loan of a dollar. ship broke the seven-inch-thick concrete tion did we see evoked that the children When it was given him, he shoved the runway in front of the Boeing factory might emulate to their gain. If we had baby into the attendant's arms and left. in Seattle. It is expected to approach or our way, we would make it compulsory By the time the stunned attendant came exceed the speed of sound. for every TV official to sit down and take to himself, the man had disappeared. four hours of the punishment we have The baby was turned over to the Meth- just taken, but every week!" odist Home Hospital, which, after ex- * * * amination, released the baby to the THREE MINUTES?—The Bulletin, a * * * department of public welfare. Subse- magazine published by atomic scientists, quently the mother of the baby was is well read by scientists in any part of SPACE PASSENGERS.—Possibly the located, and plans were initiated for the world where it can be obtained. So uniting the family. first flight into space ever made by living important is it that in 1951 the Ford animals was completed not long ago. Foundation subsidized it to the amount The passengers on the rocket flight were * * * of $25,000. The magazine prints no three white mice and five monkeys. classified material and has held up an Movie cameras recorded their reactions. article as long as three years for clear- ONLY 44 YEARS AGO.—"It must be The monkeys were put to sleep on mor- ance with the government. In spite of phine before the flight and seemed to able to carry two people having a com- this the editors and contributors think bined weight of 350 pounds, in addition weather it with no ill effects until the that the world is running out of time final stages of the journey, when four to sufficient fuel for a 125-mile flight, in which to work out the international and remain constantly in the air without out of the five parachutes that were to problems of the atom bomb. bring them gently to earth failed to open landing for at least one hour, returning When the Bulletin first appeared sev- to its starting place and landing without and the four were killed. The fifth eral years ago, the cover pictured a clock landed all right but died of heat prostra- any damage that would prevent it from with the hands at eight minutes to mid- immediately beginning another flight." tion in the desert. The mice survived the night. Now the hands have been moved ordeal and seemed not to mind. Thus read the procurement order, is- up to three minutes to twelve. sued forty-four years ago, January 2, 1908, for the first military airplanes to * * * be used by the United States govern- * * * ment. METHODISTS AND ALCOHOL.— Three planes were thought to be FOUR HOURS!—A group of San Fran- A motion requiring official board mem- enough in this initial order. They must, cisco mothers recently cooked supper bers of local Methodist churches to ab- warned instructions to manufacturers, be early and then settled down for four stain from drinking alcoholic liquors was able to fly at least forty miles an hour uninterrupted hours of viewing TV chil- "referred to a committee on temperance." in still weather or thirty-six miles an dren's shows. As reported to the FCC, This was said to be tantamount to killing hour in slightly turbulent air. Builders they saw thirteen murders and assorted the motion. were told that the plane must be able to killings, fourteen sluggings, six kidnap- be steered in all directions without ings, five holdups, three explosions, three The motion was presented to the difficulty and under perfect control, and instances of blackmail and extortion, Methodist general conference recently that it should be simple enough to permit three thefts, two armed robberies, two held in San Francisco. pilots to become proficient in its use in cases of arson, one lynching, one torture Chester Smith, who presented the a reasonable length of time. Incidentally scene, and one miscarriage. There were motion, declared, "You can't expect the pilot of 1908 took four hours to learn 104 gunshots during a half-hour serial, young people of the church to be total to fly; today's aviation cadet logs 265 and death was "shudderingly described" abstainers when members of the official hours in one year. fourteen times in twenty minutes. boards are not total abstainers." 10 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 Top: At Oak Ridge, Tennessee, less than a half pound of radio- Top: This new converging-beam radium therapy machine contains active cobalt is prepared for shipment to the Los Angeles Tumor the largest amount of radium for a machine of its type in the U.S., Institute in a container weighing about 3,000 pounds. This cobalt-60 fifty grams. Bottom: This experiment, conducted by suspending a is the largest radioactive source ever produced in the United States radioactive isotope on a post in the center of this field, demonstrated for treatment of cancer in humans. Bottom: This telegram sending that when radiation is spread over a protracted period, living organ- and receiving machine, called the Desk-Fax, can transmit the send- isms can tolerate a total exposure which would cause serious injury er's handwriting or a drawing to its destination within two minutes. if the exposures were concentrated into a short time, scientists said.

ALL PHOTOS BY UNITED PRESS Follow Me!

By INEZ BRASIER

should He desire to use them," Rufus told him. "The fish buyers from the Jerusalem markets will be here before the sun touches the tops of the cypress trees above Levi's palace," Jonathan said as he turned to the customhouse, his face dark with anger. Zebedee draped the wet nets across the rocks beside the landing. "My helper, remember the words of the Mas- ter. Levi is also to be loved." "He levies half the price of the catch. There is little left from all our work to be put aside for you, Zebedee, and less for us." Jonathan spat toward the custom- house. "Must he and his taxgatherers fatten themselves through our toil? Is it not enough when we pay honest tribute to Rome as the Master told us?" demanded Rufus. He drew his fisherman's coat about him as Levi glared. "You are angry, my helpers, and that is not according to the Scriptures. And the Master teaches forgiveness," Zebedee

WILLIAM HOLE ARTIST reminded them. He opened the purse hidden in the The Calling of Levi-Matthew folds of his girdle and counted out the shekel tax for the night's fishing. He dropped it into Levi's hand. "Greetings, EVI strode through his palm-shaded to pass his office before the sun went in the name of the Master!" court and into the quiet street as down. He could almost feel his purse He led the way past the customs L the sun tipped the hills of Moab getting heavier with the weight of the office, down the path to the street of across the Sea of Galilee. He looked up shekels and drachmas charged beyond fishermen. and down the shores for the fishing the fees demanded by Rome's tetrarch. Levi looked after Zebedee. "Strange! boats that might have anchored in the He stopped his thinking to listen. He never spoke of the tax. He used to darkness of early morning with their "What is Zebedee saying? I have to curse me. Now he talks of love for me. catch of fish. watch those fishermen or they will get His sons follow the Master, and he must "They have learned that no boat gets away with my shekels yet." He pulled hire others to man his boats. But there by without paying its fishing dues," he the bars from the door and turned to is no hope for me, for I am hated by all." muttered as he reached his custom- watch the men. He turned as camel bells rang through house at the head of the landing places. "Today the Master talks again by this the streets. He smiled as he saw the boats filled to shore." Old Zebedee's voice boomed "The caravan at last! They cannot the top with the small fish that are through the early morning as he spoke return to the desert with their salt and counted such delicacies in the Jerusalem to his fishing helpers, Rufus and Jona- spices. They cannot go on till I get the markets. He would do well this morn- than. last drachma. I shall—but that is not the ing. Then there were the caravans due "The boats will be cleaned and ready Master's way!" 12 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 The caravan chief looked down from "Hush! It is Levi who is speaking!" specialists, Dr. Sprowl and Dr. Joseph his seat on his white camel. "Ho, Jewish "My friends, I restore all that I have Lynch. I'll have a room ready for you robber for Rome, and for yourself, no unlawfully taken. The Master has called in the Sacred Heart Hospital." doubt! What do we pay for passing me. I am now Matthew. The Master We hurried Jack there the same after- through your miserable village that calls you to follow Him even as He noon. The doctors were waiting for us. reeks of fish? What! No more than called me. Eat and be blessed in His They soon diagnosed Jack's case and that?" name." came and told us the dreadful news that "That is all," laughed Levi. "That is "I shall go with the Master," Levi- Jack could not live. He had cerebral the Master's way, a just tax." Matthew told his wife the next morn- meningitis in its worst form. "Whose way? Well, never mind." ing. "I have talked with the servants. We couldn't understand what they The caravan chief rode on, chanting a All but one have loved the Master for were talking about. This wasn't happen- camel song. many months. I might have known, for ing to us—not to our Jack! He had Levi counted his shekels and drach- they are more trustworthy." never been sick a day in his life aside mas. He opened a great roll, his finger "They are more obedient and careful. from the little diseases of childhood— following the lines of figures to the end Go in peace, Levi. All is well here at measles and so on. where he slowly entered the taxes for home." Many nurses were placed on his case. the day. Shadows crossed the roll and Days became weeks and months as Among the nurses was a young man who he looked up. Levi-Matthew served with the Master in was given the duty of placing hot com- It was the Master! Crowded about Galilee and in Decapolis and in Judea presses on Jack's eyes and ears. His Him were Zebedee and his sons and with time and with drachmas. He served name was Waverd Lamb, and he was • many people. Hastily Levi rolled up his the church for nearly fifteen years after the same age as our son. Waverd Lamb accounts and hid his purse in the folds Jesus was crucified, spending his wealth was a real Christian. He was not only of his wide girdle. for the needs of the church in Jerusalem. taking care of Jack's medical and physi- The Master stepped onto the boat "You remember the last words of the cal needs, which was, of course, im- landing. A hush went over the crowd as Master: that we serve Him in all portant; but he did something much, He talked. Levi listened intently, for the world," he said to a friend. "Now much more important: he was helping the Master seemed to be talking to him the Pharisees and rulers persecute the Jack with his spiritual needs. He was a alone. church. I shall go to other countries to true witness for Christ. He was not Shadows grew long over the hills back tell His love for all. But first I shall ashamed of his religion, for he was shar- of Capernaum. Slowly the people re- write the story of the Master so that all ing his faith with Jack, telling him all turned to their homes for their evening may read it." about the wonderful plan of salvation meals. After this, Levi-Matthew traveled to and the love of Jesus. He told him that The Master stopped before Levi, who Ethiopia, to Parthia, Media, and Persia, Jesus was coming to earth soon again. was still standing in the doorway of the sometimes with caravans, sometimes He was praying with Jack. customhouse. alone. "The Master called me to love Waverd told us a few months ago, "Follow Me!" and serve Him," he told all who listened. when we had dinner with him in his "Master!" "He calls you through me to know and apartment in Los Angeles, how he used Levi fastened the door with trembling love Him also." to slip his Bible under the tray and cover fingers. "He called me! He called me, a it with a napkin in order to read it to taxgatherer, to follow Him. Oh, I will! Escape from Death Jack. At the time we didn't know that I will!" all this was going on in Jack's room. He hurried through the streets and (Continued from, page 7) During that week Roy said to me, across the great court of his home, where knew where they were, and that they "Rose, Jack is dying. Shouldn't someone birds splashed in the fountain and pray with him?" servants waited for him. He went on to were clean, warm, and entertained. I knew they would come right home after I answered, "Roy, I never really have the family room. been taught to pray. Couldn't you pray?" "The Master called me to follow the show. And what were mother and dad doing "Rose, after all, you should know how. Him!" he told his wife. You are the church member of • the "Levi! Then you love Him, too?" all afternoon? Were we at home reading family." "I do. I will make a feast." the precious truths in God's Word? Ah, We had been reared in Christian He clapped his hands for his steward. no, far from it! We either had friends homes, but neither Roy nor I had ever "Tomorrow, Eben, the Master and come in or we were guests in other His disciples eat with us. Send the friends' homes. All afternoon and away heard our mothers or fathers pray aside servants to invite all the publicans and into the evening we were playing cards. from offering the blessing at the table. taxgatherers and sinners and outcasts." That is the way we honored the Lord. Now had come the crucial time in our Levi looked down the length of his Life went on in this careless way until son's life. If ever he needed a Christian richly furnished banquet hall. Servants God took a hand in our affairs. By this mother and father, it was now, but how washed the feet of the Master and of time our son was tall and handsome and utterly we failed him! The only prayer His disciples and led them to the couch twenty years old. We were living in I taught our children, the only prayer at the head of the table. Other servants Moscow, Idaho. One day Jack com- that I had ever been taught, was the led the outcasts and sinners to the plained of a slight pain in his throat and childish prayer, "Now I lay me down to couches along the sides of the table. the back of his neck. I called the local sleep." Still, God never fails anyone. He "What does it mean?" they whispered. doctor. After examining Jack, he said, placed Waverd Lamb in that room with "When has a chief taxgatherer given a "This isn't anything for a local doctor. Jack during that week. feast for such as us?" Hurry him to Spokane. I'll call the (Continued on page 28) THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 13 ieedlliwilfrs Eternal as the Mountains Are the Promises of God

O ARREST our attention and charm God."—Patriarchs our senses, God has chosen some of and Prophets, pp. T the most striking and beautiful ob- 106, 107. jects of the physical world. Behold the Centuries later, bow in the cloud that spans the pathway and in confirmation of the retiring storm, and consider how of the rainbow cove- eloquently this arch of seven primary nant, God also pre- colors testifies of infinite love. It is also sents to each of His the reminder of an appalling tragedy and sons and daughters the token of a treasured promise. one of His most ma- Following the great Deluge in the jestic and precious days of Noah, God did not leave the promises: "For as I survivors in fear and dread of another have sworn that the catastrophe; instead He gave them a waters of Noah memorable promise: "I will establish My should no more go covenant with you; . . . neither shall over the earth; so there any more be a flood to destroy the have I sworn that I

earth. . . . I do set My bow in the would not be wroth CLYDE PROVONSHA. ARTIST cloud, and it shall be for a token of a with thee, nor re- covenant between Me and the earth. buke thee. For the mountains shall de- may forget, yet will I not forget thee. And it shall come to pass, when I bring part, and the hills be removed; but My Behold, I have graven thee upon the a cloud over the earth, that the bow kindness shall not depart from thee, palms of My hands." Isaiah 49:15, 16. shall be seen in the cloud; . . . and I neither shall the covenant of My peace will look upon it, that I may remember be removed." Isaiah 54:9, 10. "Every human tie may perish— the everlasting covenant between God In the words of another: "The rain- Friend to friend unfaithful prove; and every living creature." Genesis 9: bow of promise is an assurance to every Mothers cease their own to cherish, Heaven and earth at last remove; 11-16. humble, contrite, believing soul that his Concerning this illustrious promise, a life is one with Christ, and that Christ But no changes can attend Jehovah's gifted writer says: "It was God's purpose is one with God. The wrath of God will love." that as the children of aftergenerations not fall upon one soul that seeks refuge The bow appears only on the cloud. should ask the meaning of the glorious in Him." There must be a dark background upon arch which spans the heavens, their He who set His bow in the cloud de- which to paint the beauteous covenant parents should repeat the story of the clares that "the righteous shall be in of peace. When the landscape is bathed flood, and tell them that the Most High everlasting remembrance." He under- in sunshine, there is no need of the had bended the bow, and placed it in the stands our heartaches; He shares our glorious token; but when the storm clouds as an assurance that the waters sorrows and keeps a book of remem- clouds darken the heavens, and the should never again overflow the earth. brance before Him that He may never tempest brings floods and threatening Thus from generation to generation it forget. "Can a woman forget her sucking disaster, then the kindly Parent hangs would testify of divine love to man, and child, that she should not have compas- out His beacon of promise with its mes- would strengthen his confidence in sion on the son of her womb? Yea, they sage of hope written across the sky, say- 14 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 By ROY F. COTTRELL

ing, "Look upward, for the darkest night throne, in sight like unto an emerald." 14. Among the other Old Testament may be the prelude to a morning of Divine mercy and infinite justice prophets who looked with confidence to thanksgiving and joy." blend at the mercy seat. Says the psalm- that time of fulfilled hopes are such il- The rainbow is a child of the storm. ist, "Justice and judgment are the habita- lustrious characters as Abraham, Job, Through the teardrops of sorrow, we tion of Thy throne: mercy and truth David, Isaiah, and Daniel. In the New catch a clearer view of God's love. shall go before Thy face." "Mercy and Testament Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, truth are met together; righteousness James, Peter, Paul, and the Master Him- "Through gloom and shadow look we and peace have kissed each other." self testified confidently of that hour On beyond the years; Psalms 89:14; 85:10. As the beauteous when the inhabitants of earth shall "see The soul would have no rainbow rainbow spanning the heavens with its the Son of man coming in the clouds of Had the eyes no tears." arch of light is formed by the sunlight heaven with power and great glory." God's bow in the heavens is a token shining through the prism of the rain- Matthew 24:30. that never grows old or diminishes with drops, so the bow encircling the throne In the letters that Paul wrote to age. It is as beautiful today as when of Deity is an appropriate symbol of di- churches and individuals, he frequently Noah first beheld it gracing the moun- vine love blended with perfect justice. mentioned "that blessed hope, and the tains of Ararat. Just so, God's mercies glorious appearing of the great God and are new every morning and fresh every "Never fear, nor be discouraged, our Saviour Jesus Christ." "For the Lord evening. As the traveler climbs toward Tho' life's journey dark appear; Himself shall descend from heaven with Travel on, by faith upholden, an elevation, the rainbow appears more a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, complete; and ofttimes from the lofty `God is love!' oh, tho't of cheer! and with the trump of God: and the summit a perfect circle is seen. When thy path seems hid in shadow, dead in Christ shall rise first: then we Look with fearless eyes above; We recall the experience of two re- which are alive and remain shall be Spanning o'er thy deepest sorrow, markable men of Bible story—one in the caught up together with them in the Shines the rainbow of His love." Old Testament and one in the New; clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and -FLORA KIRKLAND. one was a captive in old Babylon, and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 1 the other was an exile on the rugged, Today the world is truly in the shad- Thessalonians 4:16, 17. lonely Isle of Patmos. They reached such ows. Scientists and statesmen are baffled "The Lord Himself, not Gabriel nor lofty heights of Christian living that and perplexed. The international out- seraphim, both were privileged to view love's rain- look, the political world, the financial Shall marshal all the mighty ransomed bow around the throne of God. Ezekiel and industrial world, the underworld of throng; said: "I saw as it were the appearance of crime, the social world, and the religious The Lord Himself shall come to bring fire, and it had brightness round about. world present a distressing picture of His people, As the appearance of the bow that is in anxiety, uncertainty, and chaos. But And bear us back to realms of light the cloud in the day of rain, so was the viewing all these ominous clouds through and song. appearance of the brightness round the prism of Bible prophecy, we behold about. This was the appearance of the God's rainbow of promise. Long ago "The Lord Himself, so precious to be- likeness of the glory of the Lord." Ezek- these, very conditions were foretold by lievers, iel 1:27, 28. holy prophets as sure and definite signs With voice of Archangel, and trumpet Centuries later John the Beloved, look- of Christ's second coming. loud, ing in vision upon the same celestial From earliest times men have looked Will surely come, and do us this great radiance, testified: "I was in the spirit: forward to that event with keen anticipa- honor, and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, tion. Enoch, the seventh from Adam, To bear us home in His bright chariot and one sat on the throne. . . . And prophesied, "Behold, the Lord cometh cloud." there was a rainbow round about the with ten thousands of His saints." Jude (Continued on page 28) THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 15 Doorway to the Church

By M. L. ANDREASEN

R. M. ELDRIDGE

1HE GREEK word used to describe of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ the symbolism a little, I would point out baptism is baptizo. Lexicons invaria- were baptized into His death? Therefore that the sinner recognizes that he has I bly give its meaning to be that of we are buried with Him by baptism forfeited his life, and that because of dipping, plunging, whelming (to make into death: that like as Christ was raised sin he is worthy of death. He goes down fully wet), or immersing. It is so used up from the dead by the glory of the into the water, saying by this act that in the New Testament Greek, as well Father, even so we also should walk in he has forfeited his right to life and is as in classical language. I do not know newness of life. For if we have been willing to lay it down. As evidence of of anyone that disputes this meaning of planted• together in the likeness of His this he gives himself willingly into the the word though some contend that this death, we shall be also in the likeness of hands of the officiating minister, who is not its only meaning, and that there His resurrection." Romans 6:3-5. lowers him into the grave. Were he not are instances where it cannot mean com- Note the expression "We are buried raised again, in a few moments life plete immersion. A discussion of this with Him by baptism into death." Hav- would be extinct. But he is raised again would take us far afield and would yield ing thus been "planted together in the "through the faith of the operation of little light. I would refer the interested likeness of His death, we shall be also in God, who hath raised Him from the reader to any one of the many learned the likeness of His resurrection." In dead." Colossians 2:12. He is raised works on the subject, but he would not Colossians Paul says that we are "buried with Christ to a new life. He is no longer find a single instance in the Bible where with Him in baptism, wherein also ye his own. He has given up the old life. baptizo has any meaning other than that are risen with Him through the faith of That is gone. It is dead and buried. He of dipping, immersing, or making fully the operation of God, who hath raised is living a new life, has a new name, and wet. In no instance do the words sprin- Him from the dead." Colossians 2:12. all the old things are past. kling, pouring, laving, or any other word These texts state that baptism is at When Christ died, "He died unto of like meaning occur in connection with once a death, a burial, and a resurrec- sin once: but in that He liveth, He water baptism. tion. It is the death of the old man of liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye We are, of course, particularly and sin and the birth of the new man in also yourselves to be dead indeed unto only interested in the use of the word Christ Jesus. As a man in death is laid sin." Romans 6:10, 11. We know that baptizo in the New Testament. A study to rest in the tomb, so the believer goes "if we have been planted together in of the symbolism of baptism will help us down into the watery grave and there the likeness of His death, we shall be in this. buries the old man with all that per- also in the likeness of His resurrection." Baptism, in the New Testament, is tains to him. What is raised is a new Romans 6:5. likened to a death and a resurrection. creature, a new being, a different being These statements are plain in their Paul says: "Know ye not, that so many from what was laid to rest. To change symbolism. They liken baptism to a 16 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 death and a resurrection. The old man be called christening, but it is not bap- fill all righteousness; He had to give us dies and is buried; the new man lives tism. In sprinkling there is no symbolism an example; and when John understood by the power of God. If this figure is whatever of the death and burial of the this, then "he suffered Him." To this considered, there will be no difficulty old man. There is no symbol whatever God gave His approval, and the Holy in understanding the meaning of bap- of the resurrection. It is totally unlike Spirit descended like a dove. tism. It is a burial of the old man of what the Bible calls for in baptism. Baptism is more than a Christian duty. sin. As in real death the person is buried In Titus 3:5 Paul says, "Not by works It is a blessed privilege. What experience face upward, so in baptism. As in death of righteousness which we have done, can be more glorious than that of know- a man is lowered into the grave once, but according to His mercy He saved ing that all sins are forgiven, that they so in baptism. This disposes of the argu- us, by the washing of regeneration, and have been cast into the depths of the ments of such as immerse the candidate renewing of the Holy Ghost." Young's sea, and that we have God's approval? three times or perform the rite by im- Literal Translation reads, "He saved us, And this experience may be ours. The mersing the candidate forward. There through the bathing of renovation, and soul who in faith has gone forward in is only one baptism and only one mode. the renewing of the Holy Spirit." The baptism, who has confessed and re- Burial is a figure of it. (Ephesians 4:5.) Emphasised Bible says, "He saved us— nounced his sins, who rests solely upon Symbolically baptism stands for the through means of the bathing of a new the merits of the Saviour, who has indi- washing away of sin. This is clearly birth and the molding anew of Holy cated by baptism that he is willing to taught in Ananias's statement to Saul: Spirit." With this agree Weymouth's go with His Lord wherever He may "Now why tarriest thou? Arise, and be Translation, An American Translation, lead, has the blessed assurance of Christ: baptized, and wash away thy sins." Acts and the Danish Translation, which has "He that believeth and is baptized shall 22:16. There is no virtue in water to "bath" instead of "washing." Dean Al- be saved." Mark 16:16. wash away sin. It is merely symbolic of ford says that the word used in Titus Let us now consider examples of bap- the cleansing power of the gospel, that could .never be translated "washing, . . . tisms as they were conducted in apostolic which the word cannot mean by any times and recorded in the New Testa- possibility." Lange, in his commentary, ment. As an object lesson or illustration agrees with this and says that the word makes a subject clearer and often ex-

Christ's Specified Way of Becoming a Christian

even as water serves to accomplish physi- has "reference to baptism, which might plains what mere words cannot do, so if cal cleansing, so does baptism serve to all the more be easily exhibited as a we can ascertain how baptism was ad- accomplish spiritual cleansing. It is laver, loutron, since it was originally per- ministered by the early church, we shall when faith is mixed with the word, formed by the entire submersion of the get a clearer view of what is required of mixed with works, that cleansing occurs. person baptized." us. If baptism is symbolic of cleansing Conversion is spoken of as a new I have already referred to Jesus' bap- from sin, it is evident that mere sprin- birth. When a little babe is brought into tism by John. Let us consider it a little kling is not an adequate symbol. In this world, about the first thing that more in detail. christening water is touched to the head. is done is to bathe the little one. This is Jesus "was baptized of John in But this cannot be a satisfying symbol. necessary that every uncleanness may be Jordan." Mark 1:9. If it should be stated The man is sinful, not the head merely. removed. It is not only the head that is that a man was drowned in a lake, the From the sole of the foot to the top of the washed, or the hands and feet only, but obvious meaning would be that it was head, the Bible says, man is defiled. An it is the whole body. Nothing else is in the lake the accident occurred, not adequate symbol must cover the man. satisfactory or adequate. near the lake, not on the shores of the If I were to be baptized by sprinkling, Transfer this experience to the new lake, but actually in the lake. No other I would prefer to have the sprinkling birth. A soul is born into the kingdom, meaning would be possible or permissi- administered over my heart, as that a new life has appeared. Comes the ble. The statement of Christ's baptism would be more symbolic than my head. command: "Why tarriest thou? Arise, says that He "was baptized of John in But this is not to be recommended. It and be baptized, and wash away thy Jordan." There can be only one true is the man that is to be baptized, not sins." Acts 22:16. Then comes the "bath meaning. Christ was baptized in Jordan, merely a part of him. That is why the of regeneration," "the bathing of the not near, not on the shores of, but in figure of a death and burial is used to new birth," the entire immersion of the Jordan. give the picture of the death and burial person. Did Christ actually go down into the of the old man and the consequent resur- John understood that Jesus did not water to be baptized? Note the reading: rection. There is no similarity whatever have any sin, and that therefore He did "Jesus, when He was baptized, went up between laving the head with water and not need to be baptized, for He had no straightway out of the water." Matthew the death and burial of a person. There sins to wash away. John felt that he 3:16. This is clear and understandable. cannot be any symbol of the resurrection needed to be baptized of Jesus, and not There can be no question concerning in bringing a child to the baptismal font that Jesus should be baptized by him. Christ's actions. He was baptized in and taking him away again. It is an But Jesus insisted. True, He had no sins Jordan, and after His baptism He im- utterly inconsistent procedure. It may of which to repent. But He had to ful- (Continuecl on page 29) THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 17

INTERPRETING IN THE LIGHT OF

* A Supreme Challenge ONE of the highlights of the thirty- third annual convention of the Associ- the associated Church press ated Church Press, which is composed of the Mud Shit. and Canada of over one hundred editors and associ- ates of the leading Protestant religious Male, thi, magazines of North America, was the presentation of awards to member pub- 11 M[MI lications for outstanding work in re- OF MEiBIT ligious journalism during 1951. On this page is a reproduction of the these times award won by THESE TIMES. Dr. Frank Mott of the School of Journalism of the in competition with other member putfication3 of University of Missouri, in judging the 54, -433ociated Church Pre for the year 19S1 magazines for general effectiveness, stated: "THESE TIMES has a first-class cover, good printing and layout. It has awarded Second Place or eminence in excellent journalistic feeling. It looks f gentrai .gcciitlentSS interesting, and is. Some really good teL11-,-, magazine man is at work here." Another PRESIDENT judge reported, "The Kodachrome covers used by THESE TIMES were of excellent .1 II. 33d SECRETARY quality." First place was won by World 54. o.„6 .1 25. C Outlook, a monthly publication of the 18,1952 JUDGE Methodist denomination. The editors of the Associated Church Typifying the lofty position of THESE TIMES Magazine in the ranks of Protestant Press meet in convention once a year to religious publications is this significant award, presented recently to the editor. discuss mutual problems and to hear outstanding religious and secular leaders. This year the group met in Washington, D.C., April 16 to 18, and heard ad- mental activities, not because we are the American and Canadian people. We dresses by Robert A. Lovett, secretary of indifferent to the woes of men, but be- feel that this award of merit, which is defense, Anna M. Rosenberg, assistant cause the remedy for the ills of mankind a recognition of ability to portray effec- secretary of defense, Frank C. Nash, does not lie in merely human and ex- tively in word and picture Christ's mes- assistant to the secretary of defense for ternal measures. To be efficient, the cure sage, constitutes a supreme challenge to international security affairs, Brig. Gen. must reach men individually and must continue the good fight of faith until A. Robert Ginsburgh, USAF, who does regenerate the heart. Therefore, through- He comes again. the briefing for President Truman and out our pages we have presented and other high governmental officials, David will continue to present true experiences * What Is Futility? Lawrence, editor of U.S. News, and Dr. of Christ's power to transform lives; John A. Mackay, president of Princeton fundamental, but often neglected truths "THE HORROR of these times." Theological Seminary. of the Bible; and the call to prepare for This phrase springs from an editorial In accepting this coveted award, we the imminent return of Christ. appearing in The Christian Century of pledge our readers that we will continue We are proud to belong to the Associ- May 14. In the editorial are listed some to devote these pages to lifting up Jesus ated Church Press, dedicated as it is to of the reasons why this is a horrible Christ as the Saviour of men. With Him the production of better Christian litera- time. The atomic bomb, the hydrogen as the focal point, we have woven into ture. Its membership now totaling 111 bomb, liquid fire, and bacteriological THESE TIMES the fundamental truths of papers, with a combined circulation in warfare are mentioned. We believe the His Holy Word. As Jesus did, we have excess of 5,500,000, is making a splendid writer of the editorial is correct in his kept aloof from politics and from govern- contribution to the spiritual welfare of opinion that one of the greatest horrors 18 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 E TIMES

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is that we are becoming accustomed to aimed at the same target. Both of the Rochester who believed in God and in such things. articles attack the belief in divine in- tomorrow too, and they founded in the Many no doubt have read with tervention in the affairs of men. city a university which is still a force for equanimity such reports of atomic The writer of the letter, L. L. Dun- good in that region and beyond. Which power as that written by Hugh Baillie nington, a minister, attacks the doctrine of the twain, think you, really did the of the United Press after the latest of the second coming of Christ in these will of the Father?" public atomic explosion. He wrote: words: "This is the old escape mech- The fact is, as can be borne out by the "Atom bombing as a mercy stroke . . . anism of Bible days reasserting itself in record, that belief in the second coming will kill troops quickly and in large modern times and destined to give the of Christ does not prompt people to close numbers and enable the capture of posi- world not hope but despair. Perhaps their eyes to realities or to the needs of tions with a minimum of loss and at such an escape from facing reality was the world around them. In the words of maximum speed, and thus shorten wars. necessary for the Hebrews, but is it C. S. Lewis: "If you read history, you . . . Thus a battle which might have necessary for us? . . . Little wonder will find that the Christians who did lasted for weeks is compressed into a few then that the Book of Daniel . . . gave most for the present world were just hours. The necessity of air raids and them an out—the promise of a cloud- those who thought most of the next. bombardment is eliminated. One bomb riding Messiah who would come on the The apostles themselves, who set on foot does it all." A cold analysis of this report clouds of heaven and set up an ever- the conversion of the Roman Empire, will bring home to the reader who is lasting kingdom without any help from the great men who built up the Middle thoughtful the degree to which we are mankind." Ages, the English evangelicals who abol- becoming calloused in our attitude to- The writer then goes to the New ished the slave trade, all left their mark ward the value of human life. Testament, whose writers he says were on earth, precisely because their minds In the above-mentioned editorial the "influenced" by the "ideology" of the were occupied with heaven. It is since use of napalm, or liquid fire, is cited as Old. Writing of Jesus' own statements Christians have largely ceased to think is a protest against it by the archbishop about His return, Dunnington says, of the other world that they have become of York. Also mentioned is the spraying "Those words are put into the mouth of so ineffective in this. Aim at heaven, and of crops in Malaya by the British with Jesus. . . . If Jesus is correctly quoted, you will get earth 'thrown in'; aim at plant-destroying hormones. This spray He was mistaken." The theme of the earth and you will get neither." (Italics kills growing crops and forest vegetation letter, summed up, is that if we believe ours.)—C. S. Lewis, Christian Behav- alike, and its purpose is to starve out in the second coming of Christ, we will iour, p. 55. Copyright 1943; used with native resistance and destroy hiding make no effort to better the world around permission of The Macmillan Company. places in the jungle. us; therefore we should abandon the Consider again the article, which was Summing up the editorial, the writer doctrine of the second coming as a written by Kenneth J. Foreman. It is says: "The fact that we so easily accept trivial "escape mechanism." amazing to find in so reputable a maga- such a justification [as military neces- The article, "The Challenge of the zine as The Christian Century the old sity] shows how deeply we are sunk in Futilitarians," is just as astonishing in ascension robe story, for it has been the horror of these times." its content, which is much the same as thoroughly discredited. There is not a This editorial comment is most in- the foregoing insofar as its conclusions word of truth in it, as any careful stu- teresting, especially in the light of two are concerned. We quote only one para- dent of history knows. The matter has other articles appearing in recent issues graph: "Back in 1844 one night on been thoroughly dealt with in The Mid- of The Christian Century. (It should Cobb's Hill in Rochester a considerable night Cry, by Francis D. Nichol (Re- be explained that The Christian Cen- number of people caught cold and some view and Herald Publishing Associa- tury frequently prints opinions not its contracted pneumonia (being dressed in tion). It seems incredible to find this own.) Both of the items have to do with white robes not suited to the New York myth cropping up again. the doctrine of the second coming of state climate) sitting out there all night Is it true that these people did not Christ. One is a letter in regard to the waiting for Christ to come as William believe in doing anything about tomor- 1954 meeting of the World Council of Miller promised He would. They did row because they believed in the second Churches, which will consider that sub- not believe in doing anything about coming of Christ? It is true that just ject. The other is a regular article, "The tomorrow except to dress up and wait for preceding the expected event in 1844 Challenge of the Futilitarians," which the skies to open. At about that same some of these people left their usual we suspect, but cannot prove, may be time there were some other people in (Continued on page 33) THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 19 ONTRASTS! Great tumults and moved. The same statement is found in surely "make glad" all places where its great peace, human rage and God's Psalm 93:1. Psalm 96:11 shows that it streams flow. Each believer is to be a C controlling power, troubled waters is speaking of the coming of Christ. His source of living water to those about and quiet streams, human fears quieted earth shall not be moved or be destroyed; him. (John 4:14.) The river in Psalm by the stillness of waiting on God and but man's earth—political and social con- 46 "shall make glad . . . the holy place followed by the confidence of His pres- ditions—will be more than moved. See of the tabernacles of the most High." ence—those make up the forty-sixth 2 Peter 3. We, by the indwelling Christ, are the Psalm. "The waters thereof roar and be tabernacles of the Most High. (2 Corin- "God is," the psalm begins. He is the troubled." The nations are in tumult, thians 6:16.) We are made glad by the I AM, the always-existing, all-knowing, with confused cries of ambition, rebel- streams of "the river of life." We drink all-powerful One. He is not the "will lion, rage, disappointment, and greed, them from the pages of His Holy Word, be"; but at any moment, in any crisis, till the very governments shake with which is to us both water and bread. at any call for help, He is our refuge. subversive efforts and revolutions. And when the "earthly house of this He is also our strength to reach the refuge when we are closely pursued by the enemy. To those who know their weakness, He gives the reassurance, "My strength is made perfect in [your] weakness." 2 Corinthians 12:9. When Peter, sinking, cried, "Lord, save me," the outstretched hand of love and power drew him back to safety. That same everlasting Strength, manifested in hu- man guise, prayed for Peter's conversion and commissioned him to strengthen his brethren. A woman fell the other day and in- jured herself. The friend she was walk- GOD, ing with clutched at her as she fell, clutched several times; but each time her fingertips came just short of touch- ing the falling one. Not so with God's help. He is a "very present help in trouble." His arm is not shortened; He is not absent when He is needed. "Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all." Psalm 34:19. What the*Lord does Our Refuge in answer to our prayers for help may not always meet our expectations and specifications, but faith knows that God "doeth all things well." "Therefore will not we fear," the psalm continues. "Fear hath torment." Assurance for You in a Psalm "But perfect love casteth out fear." John 4:18. Perfect love brings perfect obe- dience, which brings in turn perfect trust, even in the utmost of calamity. "Though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into By the midst of the sea." In prophetic symbolism mountains represent govern- JULIA M. MOORE ments. (Isaiah 2:2.) The earth repre- sents quiet, peaceful lands; the sea represents peoples and nations. (Revela- tion 17:15.) The sea in storm represents wars, commotions. Times of national un- rest are always times of distress to God's Earthly governments are now feeling tabernacle" is dissolved, we look with people, when they must look to Him for this "distress of nations." (Luke 21:25.) earnest expectation to "the house not refuge. During the World War I gov- In verse four a scene of peace appears made with hands, eternal in the ernments melted down into the tumults in contrast to the foregoing. First the heavens," and there we shall see the (( of peoples as the banks of a river stormy sea roared; then flows a river. It pure river of water of life," flowing crumble in a flood, and it has been worse is the river of the peace of obedience through the street of the New Jerusa- in the succeeding wars. "Though the (Isaiah 48:18), or "the river of Thy lem, the city of eternal peace, where earth be removed." But in Psalm 96:10 pleasures" (Psalm 36:8). The river of "God is in the midst of her." the Lord says the earth shall not be God's pure, life-giving pleasures will The cities and governments of earth 20 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 have no peace, for the destroyer of peace professedly Christian or openly pagan— gether against the Lord, desiring to rid is their ruler; and so there is shaking, "raged" with man's insensate rage. In the themselves of His rule, under which swelling, tumult, and great distress. But Bible many words are used to indicate their pride and selfishness chafe. But in this City of God, this "holy place of the anger, but the word "rage" is never used Psalm 2 as in Psalm 46 it is shown the tabernacles of the Most High," shall not in reference to the wrath of the Lord. Lord is still ruler over all, still "keeping be moved, for God is in the midst of her. Anger, indignation, and wrath are some watch above His own." Though the In the midst of the shaking of doctrines of the words so used, but never rage. It kingdoms are moved when the heathen and creeds, there is one sure foundation, indicates that man's anger, or rage, has rage, when the Lord utters His voice, "which is Jesus Christ," the Righteous qualities not found in the Lord's wrath. the very earth is melted. When God's One; and those who build upon that It may well be so; for man is finite, sin- voice was heard at Sinai, proclaiming foundation have the seal that "the Lord ful, strong to do evil, a degenerate being. His holy and unchangeable law, the knoweth them that are His." (2 Tim- So his anger partakes of his qualities earth shook. But in the midst of the rage othy 2:19), and so we shall not be and is unjust, unreasonable, cruel, vin- of man, the moving of the kingdoms by moved. dictive. When the heathen rage, the man's wars, and even the dissolution of the earth as described in 2 Peter 3:10-12, we can stay ourselves on the assurance that "the Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge." "Selah" is found at the close of verses three, seven, and eleven. The word seems to be a musical direction for the choirs of Levites who chanted the Psalms. Its meaning has been given as "interlude" or "meditation." These two meanings are not opposed. An interlude is a rest, a moment during which the majestic chant ceases, and in the silence the worshiper may meditate on the words still sounding in his soul. The rests in music are a vital part of the message of the composer, and the hearer who is getting the most from the music is influenced by the rests, as well as by the melody preceding and following. As verse three closes, the mind has been overwhelmed and stunned by the roar of waters and the shaking of moun- tains. A moment's pause emphasizes the peacefulness of the following verse, the gently flowing river. In Isaiah 33:21 we find again this peaceful river—"the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams." At the close of verse seven, after the choirs of priests and Levites have thundered those triumphant phrases, the word "Selah" calls us to a moment of perfect silence, in which to hear the still, small voice speaking peace to our souls. Then, still imagining the musical setting of this psalm, a solo voice arises: "Come, behold," and there follows a prophetic vision of what shall be in the "latter days." We see "the works of the As a peaceful stream of water, framed in beauty, brings rest and quiet to the troubled Lord, the desolations He hath made in soul, so the realization of the presence and power of God brings to troubled humanity the earth." This is "His work, His the peace that passeth understanding. Even the tumult of our times cannot disturb it. strange work," mentioned in Isaiah 28:21. It is a strange work for the Lord "God shall help her, and that right kingdoms are moved. Kingdoms rise and to make desolations, but we find in early." God's help is sure and comes at fall through the rage of the rulers, aided Isaiah 28:18-22 what seems to be a the time when needed. The margin by the prince of darkness, whose bond- foretelling of God's judgments upon reads, "When the morning appeareth." slaves they are. sinners and the result to the earth. At The coming of God's help is morning to And the rage of the heathen stops this very day, when the earth is en- us who may have wept all the night. not at breaking down earthly kingdoms, gulfed in war, the great men, the wise "The heathen"—the peoples that know for we read in Psalm 2:1, 2 that the men are frantically seeking for peace not God, whether barbaric or civilized, heathen in their rage take counsel to- (Continued on page 31) THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 21 vegetables in sealed cans permits a high degree of sterilization, with a product richer in vitamin content than is often obtained by the usual home-cooking method. An ample supply of canned foods is a HIPPY great convenience for the homemaker. Any mother who has been forced to feed her family for a considerable period of time on an unchanging menu can ap- preciate what a relief it is to have a bountiful supply of home-canned vege- tables and fruits stored for winter use. They tempt jaded appetites and main- tain the family in health. Canning stretches our period of enjoyment of our favorite foods over the entire year, not merely for a few weeks when they are in season. Commercial canning has become an Home Canning for Economy extensive and important industry in the past few years, but the recent war en- couraged or forced many homemakers into the interesting and profitable art of home canning. The freshness and tasti- methods, which preserve foods in a con- ness of home-canned foods secures for dition comparable to freshly cooked them premium prices on delicatessen products. The vitamin content, how- shelves and roadside stands. ever, is materially influenced by the Home canning has one decided ad- manner of preserving the foods. vantage over commercial canning as far HE TABLE of the average family Feeding tests have demonstrated that as quality is concerned. It is possible for in this country is supplied with a properly canned foods, even after the the home canner to get the fruit or T wide variety of foods. Without use of higher temperature and equally vegetables into the cans more quickly canned foods, however, the proper bal- long heating periods, have a higher after they are picked. This has a marked ance does not exist among those classes vitamin content than the housewife effect on the quality. of foods essential to the maintenance of gets with her stove and kettle. In other With food prices what they are, no abundant health. This is particularly words the proper methods of cooking one can afford to waste fruits and vege- true during the winter months. The tendency is toward too large a proportion of processed foods, such as white flour, corn starch, polished rice, and such products. Also we are likely to eat too much oily or fatty foods and sugars of various kinds in puddings, cakes, and pies. During the summer months the thrifty housewife looks ahead and stores as abundant and varied a food supply for her family as possible. Especially im- portant are fruits and vegetables to supply the mineral salts, organic acids, and other essentials which make up a properly balanced diet. Every up-to-date housewife knows the value of the various vitamins in a health- ful diet. These are best supplied by fresh foods, but, of course, these are not always available. Herein lies the chief advantage of canning. According to dietetic authorities, properly canned foods are as valuable as fresh foods in supplying those elements necessary to growth, health, and general well-being. Old-fashioned methods of drying, pickling, and brining foods for winter EWING GALLOWAY use are inferior to modern canning Home canning brings health and economy to the home. If done skillfully, it need not be tiring. 22 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 tables that are not needed for immediate use, and what garden enthusiast has not • • in the spring planted enough garden for several families the size of his own? Canned foods are valuable in time of emergency, for most of them are practi- cally ready to serve. Canned fruits make ileco Voeed daz Eeeee excellent desserts, served as they come from the can or combined in salads. Canned vegetables combined with fresh By INEZ BRASIER ones make delightful and tempting salads. There are only a few rules for home- canning success, but each one is im- ERRY hung up his jacket and cap and put his overshoes portant. An excellent slogan for the J on the paper by the kitchen door. Then he went into the living room. home canner is: "One hour from field "Grandmother! Ellie has scarlet fever, and she does not get well fast to can." It is, then, immediately ap- as the doctor says she should. Teacher told us she can't come to school for parent that too much should not be a long time." attempted at one time if a truly fine "I am so sorry," said grandmother. product is the goal. The quicker fresh "An' she can't play with her dolls 'cause they would have to be burned vegetables and fruits are put into the up when she is well." cans and sealed, the more effectively the Great-grandfather opened his eyes. "What's that? Can't play with her freshness and flavor will be retained. dolls? Why not, I say?" If fruits and vegetables are kept for So Jerry explained about the scarlet fever. Then he said, "She has a some days or hours after picking, the big doll family, too." Great-grandfather thumped the floor with his stout cane. "Are there quality will be seriously impaired. Many any shingles in the garage?" he asked. of the hard-to-kill bacteria are found in Jerry looked at great-grandfather. Whatever did shingles that you the soil and are likely to be on the put on a roof have to do with dolls? surface of fruits and vegetables. These Great-grandfather chuckled. "Bring twelve of the nicest ones you can bacteria grow rapidly when fruits and find. Bring two wide ones. The others do not have to be wide." vegetables are stored in baskets and Jerry soon came back with the shingles. He looked at great-grandfather boxes, where they tend to heat in the again. There he sat, with newspapers spread under his chair and all center. Successful canning demands that around it. P these bacteria be killed, and the fewer "Didn't you ever hear of shingle dolls?" asked great-grandfather. there are of them the greater the chances How Jerry laughed! "Please let me help you make them." for success. "Of course you are going to help. All the boys and girls are going to help. Tell them to come right away with their colors." Vegetables and fruits that are with- When Jerry came back from the telephone in the kitchen, great- ered, blemished, bruised, overripe, un- grandfather had a big, fat father doll and a big, fat mother doll carved duly soft, or partly moldly should never from the wide shingles. be considered for canning. Bacteria grow "Now you put clothes on them with your crayons," he said. "When rapidly in dying plant tissue, and in fact are those children coming?" most of the conditions mentioned in- "They are coming right away. They never heard of shingle dolls dicate an unusually large number of either." microorganisms of some kind already The children laughed and laughed as great-grandfather carved the ten present. doll children. In the soil, on all food, and in water, "Make one a baby like my little brother," begged Johnny. yes, even the air we breathe, there are The boys and girls sat on the newspapers around great-grandfather's chair. They drew clothes on the shingle children and colored them with present tiny living microorganisms their crayons. known as mold, yeast, and bacteria. "Won't Ellie be surprised!" cried Clara. Food spoilage is due to the action of "We'll take them to her right away," said Johnny. these organisms. It is the first business "Just shingles cut up funny," teased the boys. of the home canner to destroy these "They're dolls! They're nice ones, too," said all the girls. microorganisms. As a rule mold and "They are nice," agreed great-grandfather as he looked at the dolls in yeast are easily destroyed by heating for their gay crayon dresses. a short time. The natural acid in fruits, "You can do anything!" the boys and girls said. "Will you let us help together with the sugar used in canning, you every time you make something?" is not favorable for the development of "Bless me! I surely will. Now run along." bacteria although mold and yeast can Ellie was having a before-supper nap when the boys and girls in the third grade stopped at her home. The next morning they all went around develop readily. Bacteria are more diffi- ‘Al by her home on the way to school. cult to destroy than yeast and mold, and Sure enough! The shingle dolls all stood in the window, and Ellie sat because vegetables lack acid, they offer in a big chair behind them. She waved and waved. favorable conditions for bacteria to de- "Now she will get well fast 'cause she is happy," said Johnny's sister. velop. If these are not destroyed by "I know she will." proper processing, spoilage will result. Since microorganisms are present (Continued on page 30) ••Ae'' • "ce- • THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 23

HE SEVEN churches of Asia were heaven." This was not a door into bitter. But out of it came a new under- picked for the prophetic aptness of heaven, for Christ Himself is the door. standing of the types and shadows of the T their names, as well as for their char- This was the opening of the judgment, Jewish sanctuary service, which had acter. "Philadelphia" means "brotherly when first the dead and then the living been given as an object lesson to reveal love." The church in ancient Philadel- were to have their lives brought into the great plan of salvation and final re- phia must have been a loving church. review before God. The solemn message demption. Even this disappointment No fault is found with it in the message. of impending judgment and the min- had been foretold in prophecy. Likewise the period of which it is a istry of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary In the tenth chapter of Revelation prophetic type had a sweet Christian ex- was to be preached in all the world by the prophet himself represents God's perience. God's remnant church and was to people. He is given a little book and The period prefigured by the Sardis change the thinking of the religious told to eat it. "And I took the little book church reached to the great second ad- world. out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; vent movement; the church of the Open "I know thy works: behold, I have set and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: Door followed from there. After the ad- before thee an open door, and no man and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly vent awakening there was a period of can shut it: for thou hast a little was bitter. And he said unto me, Thou great religious revival. The prophecies strength, and has kept My word, and must prophesy again before many peo- of the soon coming of Jesus brought hast not denied My name." Revelation ples, and nations, and tongues, and hearts close together in love. The long- 3:8. kings." Revelation 10:10, 11. forgotten truth of the sacredness of the After the great disappointment of Here is brought to view the Book of Sabbath was brought to the front. 1844 a little group of advent believers Daniel, the great disappointment, and "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith He that is holy, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, He that openeth, By LEONARD C. LEE and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth." Revelation 3:7. Jesus represents Himself as the One with the key. It is within His power to clung to their faith. Neither scorn nor the great worldwide work of those who open and shut heaven. No one on earth ridicule could induce them to deny their believe and teach and look for the has such power. Many might claim such faith in the prophetic Word of God. second coming of Christ. prerogatives, but Jesus counters all their Christ had opened the door to a new "Behold, I will make them of the claims by His assertion that He is the understanding of the prophecies, and no synagogue of Satan, which say they are One who has the key of David. The man could shut it. The little strength Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I eternal throne of the kingdom was they had was used for the eternal glory will make them to come and worship promised to David and his descendants. of the Master. The time of the end had before thy feet, and to know that I have Christ is the Son of David and the right- come; the Book of Daniel was to be un- loved thee." Revelation 3:9. "Jew" is ful king of the earth. This period of the sealed. The ones to whom the unsealing used here in the meaning of God's church was also the scene of the cleans- was committed had proved faithful. chosen people. The Apostle Paul says, ing of the heavenly sanctuary, when the The Book of Daniel had at first been "For he is not a Jew, which is one out- second phase of Christ's priestly work misinterpreted. The cleansing of the wardly; . . . but he is a Jew, which is was taking place. A new door was sanctuary had been thought to be the one inwardly." Romans 2:28, 29. opened in heaven. second coming of Christ to this world in God had His true and chosen people Revelation 4:1 mentions the open final judgment. Many expected that in that stage of earth's history, as well as door in heaven: "After this I looked, climactic event in the fall of 1844. The in every age. The heavenly Watcher and, behold, a door was opened in disappointment of the believers was knows His own though they may be un-

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recognized by their fellow men. Elijah It Is Characterized thought he was the only one left on earth who was true to God in the days by Brotherly Love of Israel's terrible apostasy. But God assured him, "Yet I have left Me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every

24 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 mouth which hath not kissed him." 1 Kings 19:18. In the Philadelphian age, as in every age, there were many who claimed to be God's chosen people, but their works showed them to be in the camp of the enemy. The belief in the second coming of Christ was called heresy in the days following the disappointment of 1844. Thousands of earnest believers were rudely put out of churches that claimed to be Christian churches. But less than a century went by before every one of those churches accepted the Bible doc- trine of Christ's second coming although many still misunderstand its true im- port. Thus has been fulfilled the proph- ecy, "I will make them to come and wor- ship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee." "Because thou hast kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." Revelation 3:10. The rejection and perversion of the advent message was to set the stage for the trials which would try the whole earth, and for the lukewarmness of the church to follow. Faith and adherence to truth always brings help from Heaven. "Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown." Revelation 3:11. The Philadelphia church was draw- ing near to the great day of Jesus' com- ing. A crown of life was offered every soul who held fast. "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, which is

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new Jerusalem, which cometh down out there is a satisfaction in work well done. destiny, he is to be marked with the of heaven from My God: and I will Success builds success in the physical, name and address of the Father and the write upon him My new name." Revela- mental, and moral being. It is just as New Jerusalem. These are not the only tion 3:12. true in the realm of the spiritual. Jesus ones who will reach the heavenly king- Overcoming always has its rewards. promised to make the overcomer a pillar dom, for to every church in every age Even in the common and seemingly in- in God's eternal temple. But in order to is given an equivalent promise. But each consequential chores of daily work, assure the faithful believer of his final (Continued on page 33) THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 25 ET'S ASK THE

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The answers to health questions are supplied to the readers of THESE TIMES by Owen S. Parrett, M.D. Address your queries to him in care of this magazine.

Can an adequate amount of protein bacteria, will not harm us, since they are aging until, with the addition of be derived from a diet where no meat is not flesh eaters. When we eat meat, we chemicals in baking, it is little wonder used?—L.R.P. take in a big dose of pathogenic bacteria that America has to provide the best Yes. Meat has many disadvantages along with their best culture media, dentists in the world and the greatest and scarcely any advantages over a non- namely, meat and its juices. This causes number of them to attend to the results flesh diet. True, meat is an adequate the intestinal tract of a meat eater to of all this spoiling of our foods. protein and is digested somewhat more swarm with unfriendly bacteria, which Some silly health laws are enforced easily than some vegetable proteins such frequently generate toxins and pseudo- with a vengeance while this health- as beans or peas; but for the same reason ptomaines that are absorbed into the sys- destroying practice goes on almost un- it is more putrescible, or subject to tem even if the little bugs do not attack known and unnoticed. However, the rotting, while in the bowel tract. This the appendix, tonsils, or other organs. public is beginning to be aroused, and fact accounts for the frequent diarrheas The native people of Hunza, who eat already in many places one can buy that are common to meat eaters and very almost no meat, and who subsist mainly wheat from Deaf Smith County, Texas, seldom met with in nonflesh eaters. on unrefined cereals, fruits, vegetables, where it has been observed that the Scarcely a day goes by that I am not and a little goats' milk, are almost en- dentists find little tooth decay because called to treat this condition, and the tirely free of appendicitis, cancer, ulcers of the fact that this area abounds in vast majority have their beginning in a of the stomach or duodenum, gallstones, soil minerals which are transmitted to meat sandwich, a reheated chicken, or or kidney stones. That would be no the crops. a hamburger. I was called out of bed country for me to make a living in. Health stores where unprocessed foods this morning to attend such a case in and 100 per cent breads can be pur- Please tell me where I can get cereals a young woman who had eaten a meat chased are springing up in most large and flour that are not degerminated.— sandwich at a restaurant. This putres- centers, as well as in some smaller towns. P.V.W. cible factor of meat plus the overload of Middlings purchased from the feed waste chemicals which it contains tends This is often not so easy as might be stores with some wheat germ added, to hasten aging processes, increase the expected. Many people are buying small cooked for half an hour, together with tendency to contract many diseases, and mills that will grind enough flour and dates or raisins, make a most excellent shorten the life by many years if eaten cereals for their own use. The Lee cereal with high mineral and vitamin in medium or large amounts. It also Engineering Company of 2023 W. Wis- content. As soon as the public asks for makes one tire easily. Any person who consin Ave., Milwaukee 3, Wisconsin, such natural foods, those who deal in eats a big beefsteak once a day hasn't manufactures several sizes ranging in these things will of necessity meet the a chance in the world of winning an price from sixty dollars up, depending demands. endurance contest against one of ap- on size and capacity. These grind the My husband suffers from a sore proximately the same age and condition grain on a stone and do not wear out tongue and mouth, his tongue being who uses no meat in the diet. readily. Smaller and less-expensive mills very red most of the time. Please advise. Irving Fisher of Yale tried this out can be had at mail-order houses. Some —H.C.K. scientifically on a group of athletes not of these mills are very cheap and grind once but repeatedly, and gives the re- by hand; others use power. It is likely that he is suffering from a sults in his book How to Live, page 184, One can hardly imagine the differ- vitamin deficiency. I would advise him edition of 1938. The contrast was so ence between corn bread made from to get a bottle of nicotinamide tablets of great as to represent more than 100 per freshly ground whole corn and that fifty milligrams each, and take three cent in favor of the nonflesh-eating made from ordinary corn meal. Com- daily, or one before each meal. He prob- group, who were pitted against trained mercial corn meal is made by removing ably has a mild form of pellagra and track athletes though the nonflesh eaters the sprouting end, or germ, which is the should respond to the nicotinamide were only rookies. life of the corn, from the kernel, then therapy. After he gets the symptoms Another point that is of great interest removing a deep layer of the outside to cleared up, he should use only whole- is the fact that the forty or more germs the starchy middle portion. Then, as if grain cereals and should carefully avoid causing disease are naturally "meat this were not enough, 90 per cent of the all processed wheat, corn, rice, etc. He eaters," and that is the reason they "eat" oil is pressed out, leaving the corn meal might further protect himself against us, or infect us, as we ordinarily say. without either flavor or food value. Most recurrences of this condition by taking The buttermilk or sour milk germs, other cereals are treated equally badly a tablespoonful of brewers' yeast three along with other millions of varieties of or worse with bleaching, polishing, and times a day, either before or after meals. 26 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 been striving to reach a pot of gold at York. I had had an interview with the end of some nebulous rainbow, by these people and offered my services to bargaining, and I decided I was weary them. The agreement was made. I was of the game. to wash the dishes, do the marketing, I was in California at the time. Two and tidy the apartment. For this I 11 AS THE high cost of weeks later I took my small savings and would receive a private room and bath living gotten you down? Is your budget crossed the country to New York. I had and have my breakfast and dinner with bursting at the seams without adding evolved a plan and a hope that it would them. The duties were no more de- any of the extras that could make life work. manding than those I performed when colorful and fun for your family? Why One of my constant desires had been I was living by myself, so I was getting not take stock of your talents and offer to attend Columbia University, but I something for nothing. This was my your services free to someone who needs had never had the cash to finance the first conscious step on my new road of them? You will be amazed by the divi- years of study plus room and board in living. This part of the act was bargain- dends you will reap. our largest and most expensive city. I ing, but all that followed was not. My father gave me a great lesson in did not have the cash now, but I did Once the hours demanded by the living. He impressed me with the fact have my something for nothing idea. university for classes and study were es- that one receives "nothing for nothing, On a fine Saturday afternoon in Sep- tablished, I became better acquainted very little for a quarter." This adage tember, 1945, I arrived in New York with the people in my new home. They was repeated to me so often in my City, one lonely girl and five bulging were a happy trio. The air was per- young years that I grew to accept it as suitcases. The hotel and housing situa- meated with happiness, an atmosphere the law of the universe. Of course it is tions were critical, but through the help conducive to one's best efforts. One true, but he neglected to tell me that of a friend I was able to secure a hotel (Continued on page 32)

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H. M. LAMBERT one can receive something for nothing. room for the night. I bought an early I had to learn this by myself. Until the edition of the Sunday paper, scanned time I revised his nothing for nothing to the want ads, and on Monday moved something for nothing, I spent my time into an apartment with a merry middle- bargaining with life. I bargained for aged couple and their delightful seventy- the salary to be paid for any given job. five-year-old mother. I had the money I bargained for rentals and services of for my clothing and tuition and other an apartment. Fixed prices on food and expenses at the college, but I did not clothing, I accepted, but I had bar- have the money for the exorbitant gained for the money that paid for rentals that were prevailing in New them. Then one happy day, in a retro- spective mood, I made the shocking dis- covery that all the things that meant By most to me I had received for "nothing." The nothing was something I had given NAOMI away, and somehow the gift had brought wonderful things back to me. I had HESCHONG

THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 27 Escape from Death I said to him, "Yes, darling, we will." counterfeit or camouflage the glorious He said, "Thank you, Mom. Now I majesty of that event. When our Lord (Continued from page 13) must kiss you good-by." I reached down appears, no newspaper or radio broad- Almost a week had passed. It was and I kissed him. Roy reached down cast will announce His arrival; "for as Wednesday night. Waverd was in the and kissed him. But he reached his the lightning cometh out of the east, room a long time. Why didn't he come hands up and said, "Oh, Dad, I must and shineth even unto the west; so shall out? We knew Jack was slipping away kiss you on the face again." also the coming of the Son of man be. from us rapidly and had but a few hours He seemed to be worried about his . . . And then shall all the tribes of the left. Finally Waverd came out and held father, for his father never went to Sun- earth mourn, and they shall see the Son the door open for us to go back in. He day school and church with us. Then of man coming in the clouds of heaven could see that Roy and I had been cry- he closed his eyes and went to sleep, and with power and great glory." Matthew ing. Our hearts were just crushed and it was all over. He will sleep until the 24 : 27-30. broken. As he held the door open for Lifegiver calls him again. As the amazed disciples stood upon us, he said, "Folks, I wish you wouldn't feel so bad about Jack. Jack is going to be all right. I'll remember him again in my prayers tonight." I said, "Young man, what did you say?" "I'll remember him in my prayers to- night." "Why, young man, what kind of a As Snowballs church do you belong to?" "I'm a Seventh-day Adventist." Today's small frets will grow as snowballs grow All I could say was, "Oh." I had never seen a Seventh-day Adventist before. We And soon become both tall and wide, had heard about these people and what If we keep rolling them ahead of us strange, peculiar people they were. One Instead of sweeping them aside. time I was visiting with my mother, and one Saturday afternoon we were hurry- -INEZ CLARK THORSON. ing to get to a show on time. I took mother by the arm so we could walk a little faster. A queer-looking little old lady got right in our way. On her head she had an old black shawl that hung When our son died, life went out of the crest of Olivet looking intently up- to her knees. She wore high-top laced us also. What was there left for us to ward for the last glimpse of their de- shoes. She walked with a little limp. We live for? All our plans, all our hopes, parting Lord, suddenly two shining tried to pass her on one side, and she centered around our son. Why couldn't angels stood by their side to convey the stepped in our way. We tried to go by we lie down and die with him? But we comforting, cheering promise: "Ye men on the other side. She stepped in our had to go on living the best we could. of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into way again. You know, that does happen (To be continued next month) heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken once in a while on a busy street. Finally up from you into heaven, shall so come we did get past her, and I gave mother Rainbows and Promises in like manner as ye have seen Him go a little poke. I said, "She must be an old into heaven." Acts 1:11. (Continued from page 15) Seventh-day Adventist." Isn't it wicked, He ascended bodily and will return isn't it cruel, how the world misjudges Christ will appear the second time to "in like manner"; "for the Lord Himself people? But here was a young man who resurrect the righteous dead, to translate shall descend from heaven." He was knew how to pray, and who was praying the righteous living, to unite the family borne upward in a cloud; and of His for our darling. It did not make any of earth with the family of heaven, and return it is written, "Behold, He cometh difference to us what church he be- to destroy the impenitent. Nineteen hun- with clouds; and every eye shall• see longed to—even a Seventh-day Adventist dred years ago He ascended to heaven Him." Revelation 1:7. Angels formed church—for he knew how to pray. to prepare a place for His people; soon His cloudy escort to heaven; and when It was Thursday morning. Jack was He will return to consummate the pur- He returns in glory, "all the holy angels" asleep. All the pain was gone. The doc- pose of the ages. "And He shall send will be with Him. (Matthew 25:31.) tors came in and said, "Don't disturb His angels with a great sound of a Nineteen centuries ago He came as a him. He will waken during the day." trumpet, and they shall gather together babe in Bethlehem's manger; He will Toward evening he started moving His elect from the four winds, from one come again in sovereign majesty. Once around a little bit. He opened his eyes, end of heaven to the other." Matthew He came to die for sinners; soon He will and as he did so, he looked at a beautiful 24:31. appear "without sin" to bring eternal picture on the opposite wall. It was the Christ's second appearing will be per- life to all His people. boy Jesus. Jack looked for a while at it, sonal, visible, glorious, and premillen- These Scriptures reveal that Christ's and then he said, "Dear Jesus." Then he nial. False christs may arise—do arise; second coming will not occur secretly, looked up at us and said, "Oh, please, but no child of God need be deceived, silently, or in some remote area; for His please, turn to Christ." for even Satan himself will be unable to appearing will be a universal, age-termi- 28 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 nating, age-dawning event. Thank God Jesus was baptized by John in Jordan, Flood and baptism. The Flood destroyed for the unbroken rainbow covenant and but the particular place we do not know. all sin and sinners on the earth, but it for the countless promises of guidance, John was in the habit of seeking a place saved Noah and his family. So likewise deliverance, pardon, protection, and where there "was much water," and a "baptism doth also now save us." peace found in His Holy Word; but good place was near Salim. (John 3:23.) There was much water at the time of most of all we rejoice in His radiant as- It was doubtless near this place the bap- the Flood. "The waters prevailed ex- surance, "I will come again!" tism took place. Jordan was not a large ceedingly upon the earth; and all the stream and the water was shallow. Had high hills, that were under the whole "Sweet promise is giv'n to all who be- John baptized by sprinkling, there heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits up- lieve— would have been sufficient water any- ward did the waters prevail; and the Behold, I come quickly, Mine own to where. When he therefore sought out a mountains were covered." Genesis 7:19, receive; . . . place "because there was much water 20. "The like figure whereunto even Of promises all, it stands as the sum: there," the only reasonable conclusion baptism. . . ." 1 Peter 3:21. As the `Behold I come quickly, hold fast till is that he did so because he needed it Flood covered even the mountains, all I come." for baptism and not, as some commenta- the sinners were drowned, and sin was "And every man that bath this hope tors would have us believe, for drinking rooted out. Sprinkling would never have in him purifieth himself, even as He is purposes. Any other interpretation seems sufficed to destroy that evil generation. pure." 1 John 3:3. unnatural and forced. It took water, and much water, to do The Apostle Peter also mentions this. So likewise baptism. The candidate Does Your Being Considerate "much water." He comments on God's goes down into the baptismal waters. long-suffering "in the days of Noah, There the old man of sin is drowned and Spoil Your Wife? while the ark was a preparing, wherein buried, and a new creature ascends from (Continued from page 9) few, that is, eight souls were saved by the water to walk in newness of life. water. The like figure whereunto even The flood is a powerful and true picture confidence which his wife has mani- baptism doth also now save us." 1 Peter of the destruction of sin, and the like fested. He is therefore careful to give 3:20, 21. figure thereunto is baptism. Sprinkling her the full credit for his successes. He Here a parallel is drawn between the is an utterly inadequate ordinance. is careful to speak of "our business," and "our home," and "our car." Married life is co-operative. In a broad sense neither husband nor wife can succeed without the other. The husband's external con- tacts may make his success more obvious. He should be generous enough, how- ever, to find ways of acknowledging that her role in their combined efforts has been fully as important qis his own. Now that we have considered some .prayer of the ways in which a husband may express his appreciation of his wife, we For lovely spring return to the question, "Does your being considerate spoil your wife?" The an- And everything swer is emphatically NO! On the con- That makes it fly and flash and sing, trary the expressions of a husband's ap- preciation will give a wife that lift that For gentle showers makes of her an even more charming And sunset hours person. With full confidence that her husband recognizes her equal participa- BY And hills and valleys full of flowers, tion in life's venture, she is prepared to keep pace with him so that they can en- JOAN Father, we thank Thee! joy together the rewards of their en- deavors. "Husbands, love your wives, FOSTER and be not bitter against them." Colos- For scented nights sians 3:19. And starry lights Doorway to the Church That fill the sky with magic sights, (Continued from page 17) For gentle dawn mediately went up "out of the water." And rosy morn Christ was in the water. He was bap- tized there. Then He went up out of the And gay, long days so quickly gone, water. With this definite and clear record we are in no uncertainty as to Father, we thank Thee! how Christ was baptized. Whoever wants to follow Him in baptism will

know what to do. -.011.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 29 • Home Canning for Economy without a guidebook any more than you placed in the canner with water near can afford to cut into a bolt of beautiful the boiling point covering the jars at (Continued from page 23) fabric without a pattern. least one inch. This is the ideal way to everywhere, and the most hostile ones There are a number of accepted can fruits and tomatoes; as the color, are present in the soil, it is easy to un- methods of canning all of which may be texture, and flavor of the finished prod- derstand that thoroughly washing all perfectly satisfactory for certain foods. uct are better than obtained by other fruits and vegetables is of great im- The oldest is known as the open-kettle methods. portance. Never try to wash too many method. Only fruits, tomatoes, preserves, Still another processing method is at one time. Have sufficient water to and pickles can be successfully canned possible to those who have ovens with float the vegetables or fruit. After in this way. All other foods must be automatic heat controls. Jars must be thorough washing, lift the vegetables or processed (cooked) in the jar. The cold- placed in the oven far enough apart for fruit out of water rather than pour the pack method of canning consists of free circulation of air, and the tempera- water off. This allows all dirt and grit packing the cold product into the jar, . ture must not be allowed to go over to settle to the bottom of the water. adding syrup or water, and then cook- 250° F. Higher temperatures will cause Rinse them several times in the same ing. The hot-pack method calls for a the liquid to boil too hard and evaporate. manner. short precooking. The boiling-hot prod- Oven canning is a very efficient canning Fruits, especially, should be graded uct is then packed into jars and proc- method, and there is little mess and less for ripeness. Very ripe, soft fruits, al- essed immediately. The hot-pack meth- heat in the kitchen than by most other though delicious in flavor, do not look as od is more satisfactory for vegetables and methods. well when canned and should be given meats. Many homemakers feel that canning less cooking time than slightly under- Canned foods, however carefully is simply too much work, but like most ripe fruits. chosen or packed, will spoil if not other extra chores it must be planned The way in which products are placed properly processed for the required ahead, and not too much should be at- in the jars has a great deal to do with length of time. A processing time chart tempted at one time. their appetizing appearance. Careful is an absolute necessity. Pressure cook- The day before canning is the time to packing also conserves jar space and ing is the safest means of processing see that the storage shelves are all permits more fruits or vegetables with vegetables and meats and any nonacid scrubbed and freshly papered to receive less space taken up for liquid. food. the golden store you intend to put on As in all other cooking, recipes should The hot-water-bath method requires a them. All jars may be inspected for any be carefully followed. A canning book "canner" or washboiler or large, deep defects, and all jars and lids should be with dozens of fine, accurate recipes, kettle with a close-fitting cover. This thoroughly washed and ready. Make processing time charts, and detailed canner" must be fitted with a wire or sure knives are sharpened, and necessary description of canning processes may be lath rack to hold jars at least one half supplies such as sugar, jar lids, and Certo purchased at most grocery stores for only of an inch above the bottom of the are on hand. Clean newspapers can be a few cents. You cannot afford to can canner. In this method the jars are used to protect table tops from hot jars. Use your old tea towels when canning, as they may be stained with fruit juices. A card table or other low table for peel- ing operations allows you to be seated during the most tedious part of the canning operation. In canning, as in all cooking, don't he afraid of new ideas. Try canning Sometime varieties of fruits you are not familiar with, and be sure to mark them so you can judge their value when you open them during the winter. For instance Sometime when all our spiritual lessons have been learned you can get some real taste thrills by And sun and stars have forever set, adventuring among the various varieties The marvelous gift of love divine, which we in our blindness spurned; of plums and prunes. Try Satsuma The lovely friendships, which in thoughtless obstinacy we overturned; plums, French prunes, and green gage And the bitter disappointments, over which we have grieved, plums. Since prunes and plums are with lashes wet— usually among our cheaper fruits, why not put up plum juice? It is delicious Shall shine forth in our future radiance and nutritious and has plenty of eye As stars shine in God's wondrous canopy of blue. appeal. Our sorrows shall be transformed into gladness, and that Tomatoes offer many possibilities. which now seems to be punishment Tomato juice is a real favorite in most Shall prove to be Christ's perfect lessons, families, and homemade tomato soup His holy love—everlasting and true. and tomato sauce are great conveniences -MARVIN BAUER. on the pantry shelf. Baked fruits make wonderful desserts, especially with a generous topping of whipped cream. Whole-baked peaches and pears are easy to can in wide-mouth jars. Baked apples, stored away while apples are cheap, are 30 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 a real treat in late spring when apple prices are prohibitive. Canned fruit salad is easily made into tempting desserts or appetizers and is a real help on the emergency shelf. A slice of pineapple or orange or a few maraschino cherries in each jar of canned pears take them out of the ordinary category. Tinting pears a pretty green color with food coloring makes them especially attractive for winter salads. A few jars filled with cinnamon apples, cored and ready to fill with cream cheese for jiffy salads, are easy to prepare and may be a real help some time next winter when guests drop in, SI • • • ward end. The rotating blades that cut and there is no time for shopping. the grass are much like those on ordi- Canning more means better meals for CAMERA FILMS CANCER CELLS nary lawn mowers. Grass cut is driven better health at economical prices, and IN COLOR.—An amazing new micro- toward the rear to be held in a receptacle that is certainly the goal of most home- scope takes pictures of cancer cells in or discharged to the side. As a snow makers. rainbow colors that man's eyes have plow the same rotating blades gather in never seen before. The colors come the snow, and the snow can be held in Cod, Our Refuge from tiny amounts of chemicals in the the receptacle or discharged to the side. living cells. The colors may give tipoffs Adjustments are included so that grass (Continued from page 21) to chemical changes that come with will not be cut too close to the ground cancer, or permit earlier detection of and making postwar plans, only to meet and that snow can be gathered right cancer. Ordinary microscopes cannot see down to the surface of the sidewalk. with baffling disappointments so that these colors. indeed "the mighty man shall cry there • • • bitterly" (Zephaniah 1:14). The wars • • • SI SI MACHINE PLAYS TICKTACKTOE. go on. Then the Lord steps in and WATER-RESISTANT PAPER "maketh wars to cease unto the end of —This gadget, a hobby of E. M. McCor- PLATES.—These plates, which do not mick, an electronics engineer, has a tick- the earth." That is the greatest plan for get soggy or limp, are made by impreg- the greatest disarmament that could ever tacktoe board on a lighted panel built nating sulfite paper with a melamine into its face. When its human opponent be. Only the mighty God could do such resin blend and molding the paper into a strange work. wants to make a move, he presses a the desired shape by compression. Dis- button, and an X or zero lights up in the During the thousand years of earth's posable after use, the plates are grease- silent rest, the warriors are dead, and square designated. The machine thinks proof and heat resistant. They are made the move over for a little while and then the weapons are useless. Only Satan, the in dinner, compartmented, and pie sizes. real cause of all the wars, will be there makes its own move, lighting up an X to see the ruin he has made. (Revelation SI • • • or zero in another square. A lighted 20:1-3.) He then must heed the ex- panel on the side of the device bears the FLYING EVANGELIST—Youth for likeness of a face. When the machine is hortation, "Be still, and know that I am Christ International recently appointed God." We too must heed it daily, or we thinking, a light comes on above the Paul Hartford its first flying evangelist. face. It gloats over its victims, smiling shall be found on Satan's side. When Hartford, a pilot, will travel the Car- we are thus still, and know that He is in lights when it wins. When it ties ibbean in a two-seater Cessna. He will God, then we are glad to exalt His holy with an opponent, it maintains a poker drop tracts from the air and use a public- name. "The Lord alone shall be exalted face. When it loses, which is rarely, it address system on the ground and in in that day" (Isaiah 2:11), for He alone frowns darkly. flight. is worthy. "Wherefore God also hath SI. • • highly exalted Him, and given Him a SI • • • INSECT-KILLING FLOOR WAX— name which is above every name: that GRASS-SNOW MACHINE—John P. This new wax gives a brilliant finish to at the name of Jesus every knee should Heil of Melrose Park, Illinois, has been floors of linoleum, asphalt and rubber bow, . . . and every tongue should granted a patent for a machine that can tile, cement, and wood; and it kills confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the roaches, ants, waterbugs, silverfish, and glory of God the Father." Philippians be used to cut the lawn in summer and 2:9-11. "And every creature which is in remove snow from the sidewalks in other household insects that come in heaven, and on the earth, . . . and all winter. It is a four-wheel affair, powered contact with it. The insecticide Lindane, that are in them, heard I saying, Bless- by a gasoline engine but guided by used in it, is harmless to humans and ing, and honor, and glory, and power, hand, with the cutter device at the for- pets. be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever." Revelation 5:13. Here is no discordant note, no sorrow, pain, or crying; for God Himself shall THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 31 wipe away all tears. And we who have in their home was the most rewarding the giving. He enjoys working with his sinned and suffered and have overcome year of my life. hands and has fine ideas on interior by the blood of the Lamb join once more My stay was terminated by my mar- decoration. We plastered and painted, in the exultant claim of the closing riage. The wedding reception was held put new flooring down, draped unsightly verse of the forty-sixth Psalm: "The in their apartment, and they paid all walls, and screened off views that were Lord of hosts is with us; the God of the bills. My trousseau was furnished unpleasant to us. The cash outlay was Jacob is our refuge." Looking back at by them. Could I have bargained for remarkably small, and we enjoyed work- the opening verse, we find the same that? Yet these were only the tangible ing together on our first real home. Now, words, "God is our refuge." So we may receipts for the "nothing" I gave them. for a modest sum, we have an attractive consider the psalm a circle, which brings How can I evaluate the three staunch apartment large enough to house us and to our view "the Strength of Israel," or, friends I gained, or the days filled with two lively sons. (Our joy over this is as in the marginal reading of 1 Samuel laughter and wisdom that will be with doubled when we visit friends living in 15:29, "the Eternity, or Victory, of me as long as I live? I left that apart- cramped quarters and paying more rent Israel." Within that mighty fortress we ment loving all three of its occupants than we do.) In this case our something may dwell secure "though the earth be and holding a deep, new respect for was a large but moderate-priced apart- removed." my something for nothing plan. I had ment. Our nothing was the fun we had "In heavenly love abiding, no change expected to receive my room and board in "doing" it. my heart shall fear, for a few little services, but I discovered I was concerned about the care of And safe is such confiding, for nothing that something for nothing could bring my older child when I had to go to the changes here. big returns. hospital for the birth of my second. I The storm may roar without me, my wanted to leave him in the hands of a heart may low be laid, careful person, but nurses in New York But God is round about me, and shall I City come at seventy-five or eighty be dismayed?" dollars a week. After a long search we decided to "import" a child's nurse from May we so dwell. Amen. my home town. She was not with us Inflation long when I realized the twenty-five dollars a week we were paying her did (Continued from page 27) not compensate for her services. I afternoon I noticed the book shelves Compensation wanted to raise her salary, but I also were dusty. I dusted the books and wanted to keep our budget in balance. washed the shelves. When I had time, I decided to give her services instead. I cleaned the refrigerator. The mother Only the blind really see This was her first visit to New York, so had a beautiful head of white hair, and The glory as revealed by Thee; we planned a series of sight-seeing tours. I learned to love her and liked dressing We visited the famous shops on Fifth her hair each night before dinner. This Only the deaf truly hear Avenue; we toured a television studio little act made her so happy that dinner and watched the programs. During the took on an added sparkle. We always Thy voice as music to the ear; Christmas holidays we visited Rocke- had fresh flowers in the apartment, and Only the maimed gladly walk; feller Center and watched the skaters; soon I was doing an arrangement of we delighted our eyes and spirits with them each evening for the dinner table. Only the dumb happ'ly talk; the Christmas decorations. We rode on a double-decker bus up On Sundays when I did not have much Only sinners actually know studying to do, I would prepare lunch Riverside Drive and took a ride on the and carry it into the living room on in- The extent of Thy sacrifice. subway at rush hour. We visited the dividual trays. We all enjoyed eating Battery and took a look at the ocean and in front of the fireplace. The man in the -ARNOLD BENGSTON. the Statue of Liberty. These were not house designed and painted his own expensive tours; the thing that cost Christmas cards. I had had some train- most was the time I spent away from ing in art and found it a pleasant home. She was so grateful for the con- pastime to help him. The more I did for sideration I had shown her that she took these people, the more I wanted to do, on extra duties. She was perfect with and the more I loved them. I held no SS ESSEESESES the children, wise and kind. She began thought of being repaid for the extra to prepare our breakfasts and dinners. time and services I was giving, and I She would spend her rest hours tidying could not have dreamed of the payment When my husband completed his the apartment, and at times I found her I got. college work, we looked for another doing our ironing. One week when the I needed a typewriter for my college place to live. Apartments with any de- cleaning woman could not come, our work. I did not buy one; I used theirs. gree of space were very difficult to find. nurse scrubbed all the floors for me. My Their apartment became my home, even Our first child was on his way, and we husband and I grew very fond of the to entertaining my friends there. I wanted an apartment large enough to addition to our household, but at last shared all their parties and all their fun. take the screams of a new infant with we had to let her go home. Today the They took me to concerts and plays. enough room left over for serious work postman delivered a package from her. They altered my clothes, and when and study. We found an apartment the It contained a handsome tweed suit, nylon hose were scarce, they kept me size we wanted at a price we could beautifully tailored, for my older boy, supplied. Warmth and affection radiated afford, but its condition was deplorable. and two rompers for the baby. She sent from all three of them. The year I spent In this case it was my husband who did them "in appreciation of what you did 32 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 for me while I was with you." All we these dear people had never heard. Holland's article "What I Like About had done was try to repay her for what But the belief of many in the second the Seventh-day Adventists," in the July she was doing for us. But that is the coming of Christ did not die with the issue, you have the answer. way something for nothing works. You disappointment of the awaiting faithful Mr. Foreman tells of the establish- always get much more than you pay for in 1844. What has been the course of ment of a university at about the same and more than you could dream of those who lived on and believed on? time as the mythical ascension robe inci- bargaining for. William Miller did not found the Sev- dent; and, comparing the Millerites with What is your specialty? Do you enjoy enth-day Adventist Church, as some those who established the university, he painting? singing? baby sitting? sewing? have said, but Seventh-day Adventists asks, "Which of the twain, think you, Someone can use your services. Experi- are perfectly willing to trace the source really did the will of the Father?" of some of their understanding of proph- ment. Offer the thing that is fun for While universities were being built ecy to the Millerite movement and to you to do for someone—and watch the by some men for the glory of science and results. It will re-establish your faith in admit that out of the Millerite movement materialism, other men were building human nature, and your life will be- came some of the people who later had Christian colleges and universities. Out come richer. But don't expect any special a part in beginning the Seventh-day Ad- of the former has come much good—and thing in return—just let it happen. You ventist denomination. the atom bomb, bacteriological warfare, will find that you will be able to provide As their name indicates, Seventh-day and "these times of terror." Out of the many of the extras you would like your Adventists hold as one of their cardinal latter have come an army of men and family to have, for something for noth- points of doctrine belief in the second women who have quietly been going ing pays big dividends. Jesus said, "Give, coming of Christ. Has this made them about doing good; they have healed the and it shall be given unto you." "other worldly" to the extent of neglect- sick, clothed the naked, liberated cap- ing to help their fellow man here and tives, preached the gospel, and • have now? Are they all "escapists," unwilling The Church of the Open Door been willing to go to the ends of the to face the stresses of daily life success- earth and die if necessary. Of them Jesus (Continued from page 25) fully and courageously? said, "Ye are the salt of the earth." promise is in keeping with the experience The answer of any fair observer must through which a church must pass. be No. Go to almost any free country of The same Lord who said, "Inasmuch the world today, and you will find the as ye have done it unto one of the least There is no clear marking for the be the of these My brethren, ye have done it ginning or end of this period, but it is in the far-flung medical work, not a long period. From the name and the welfare stations, the printing presses, unto Me," Matthew 25:40, also said, "I the events recorded we conclude that and the educational institutions of the will come again." John 14:3. its beginning was at the time when the organization. If you read Kenneth J. At the end of which road lies futility? great awakening led thousands all over the world to look with joy for the coming of the Saviour. This wonderful hope brought a spirit of brotherly love such as had not been witnessed since apostolic times. It carried through the days of trial and disappointment to the ATOMIC CHALLENGE hostility and indifference that soon fol- lowed. The church has always blossomed I'm glad that I am living in a world into beauty in times of trial and suffer- That challenges the soul. Though great the chance ing. Perhaps it was the very prosperity of the church in the understanding of For havoc, ruin, rout around us hurled, the prophecies, as well as in material Still greater opportunities advance things, that caused the love to depart Each day to build a world for peace, and serve and pride to come in, which led into the Our fellow men less fortunate than some. Laodicean state of the church. No one, however, needs to have a poor ex- I'm glad that in America we nerve perience in the things of God. The chil- Ourselves to do the right as trials come dren of God had a wonderful experience To test our way of living. Freedom here at the time, the prophecy points out, of the church in Philadelphia; but indi- Can never tolerate sadistic means vidual Christians can have such an ex- Of government. Ours is the world frontier, perience—if they will—at all times. It is To hold for future times peaceful routines. an experience as well as an age. We are the chosen people of the land, What Is futility? And I am glad 'that I can lend a hand. -GRACE BARKER WILSON. (Continued from page 19) pursuits. (And this would only be natural.) It was the sensible thing to do under the circumstances and had noth- ing to do with "escapism," about which THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 33 How Long /s forever? (Continued from page 35) stances there is a fair difference of TW'" opinion whether the term means as long 7' CI as the ancient nation of Israel existed (it ended about 2,000 years ago) or as long III as God's redeemed will exist in the future, eternal life. Of the ninety-three times the word "everlasting" is used, I found a number that applied to dura- By tions shorter than the existence of God. Mary Hunter Moore Thus it is clear the "forever" and "everlasting" mean without ceasing, without end, as long as the purpose for which they are needed exists. For in- stance many times the words "forever" "Retrogressive Amnesia" and "everlasting" are used of the typical services in the Mosaic tabernacle and the priesthood of Aaron and his pos- By "God's Two Books" we usually The doctors use these words to describe terity. But everyone knows that that mean the Bible and the created world of a certain merciful effect of the shock of "forever" and "everlasting" ended at the plants and animals. But our own physi- a severe accident. The mind is not only cross; at that time their purpose ceased; cal bodies are part of this world of rendered unconscious for a longer or the priesthood of Christ superseded nature that forms God's other book, and shorter time by the force of the accident them. Both the priesthood of Aaron and in their structure and functioning are itself, but it forgets the preceding few the priesthood of Christ are described found many illustrations of spiritual moments so that it does not recall how as "forever" and "everlasting" in the laws. the accident came about. My friend Bible (Numbers 18:8 and many other Once before in this department I en- struck down by a careless driver has no places; Psalm 110:4 and elsewhere). deavored to show that the plan of salva- memory of crossing the highway or see- Both descriptions are absolutely true, tion is revealed in certain workings of ing the approaching speeder. My other yet the priesthood of Aaron long ago our bodies and in certain powers of friend who fell down the basement stairs ceased. But it did not cease until it had plants and animals. It is in this way: does not recall what caused the fall. It completely fulfilled its purpose. The Bible teaches us that God was not is a commonplace to hear the reply, "I The purpose of God is to punish caught unprepared when Adam and don't know," to the question: "Just how Satan and those who have chosen to Eve sinned. If He had been, there did you come to hurt yourself?" The follow Him. To execute this purpose would have been no need for a plan of answer is true; a backward-working for- He has prepared fire. (Matthew 25:41.) salvation for sinners would have been getfulness has blotted out the agony of This fire is "everlasting"; there is not the dead before it could have been thought sudden fear or the horrible crash or slightest danger that it will not last until out. But Jesus is "the Lamb slain from blow. it has accomplished its purpose. There the foundation of the world." Poten- This is a merciful provision of the is no danger that the wicked will quench tially He was ready to die in man's stead Creator. The effects of the accident on it and escape from it. (Isaiah 47:14.) before man needed such a Saviour. That the nervous system are lessened, and the That fire will reduce the wicked to is the reason Adam and Eve did not recovery of nerve tone is improved. smoke (Psalm 37:20) and ashes (Mal- perish the instant they sinned. Their What is the connection between this achi 4:3). In the process of burning Substitute was ready, prepared to give retrogressive amnesia and a Bible truth? up all the wicked of all ages plus Satan them another chance. It illustrates, "The former shall not be and his unnumbered hosts, there is This foreplanning of God is illus- remembered, nor come into mind." "torment" by the fire (Revelation 14:10, trated in the power of coagulation of Isaiah 65:17. "The former troubles are 11), and that torment lasts "forever"— the blood. Before there is any bleeding, forgotten." Verse 16. "Remember ye not until the wicked are consumed there is and ready though there never should be the former things, neither consider the no relief from that torment; it lasts "day any hemorrhage, is that wonderful things of old." Isaiah 43:18. "In those and night" until the last vestige of sin power that controls the loss of blood— days, and in that time, saith the Lord, has been removed from the earth. The God's provision for lifesaving before the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, fire that burns the wicked is upon the death strikes. In plants the power to and there shall be none; and the sins of surface of the earth (Revelation 20:9; heal an injury is there in the plant Judah, and they shall not be found." Proverbs 11:31); it will melt the very before the injury is made. Jeremiah 50:20. chemical elements of the rocks (2 Peter Not long ago I ran across the medical Our wounding by sin is not going to 3:10). This fire will burn as deep as "big words" at the head of this column, live in our memories in the new earth. death has penetrated into the crust of and I have found them true in my own To all eternity we shall know that we the earth (to the depths of the sea or experience and that of several friends have been through an experience that the deepest mine). "A fire is kindled in who have recently passed through sud- has cost our Saviour the prints of the Mine anger, and shall burn unto the den injuries. They illustrate a loving nails in His hands. But a blessed retro- lowest hell (Hebrew sheol, grave), and aspect of the plan of salvation. "Am- gressive amnesia will replace the inex- shall consume the earth with her in- nesia" means "loss of memory." Retro- pressible agonies of sin by the far more crease, and set on fire the foundations gressive" means "working backwards." exceeding and eternal weight of glory. of the mountains." Deuteronomy 32:22. 34 THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 Address your questions to Editor, THESE Thies, Box 59, Nashville 2, Tennessee.

How Long Is Forever?

Please explain Revelation 14:10, 11. nothing more to burn. "Behold, they have been only a few seconds. But the How do you harmonize these verses shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn Bible calls it "forever." (Jonah 2:6.) If with your idea that the wicked are en- them; they shall not deliver themselves this period is considered as being the tirely burned up? from the power of the flame: there shall time from his leaving the ship till he not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit was again upon land, his "forever" was In the first place it is not my idea that before it." Isaiah 47:14. still only three days long. the wicked are burned up. It is in the This interesting verse bears much In another instance "forever" meant Bible. "The day cometh, that shall burn meditating on: The wicked are called as long as the person concerned lived. as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and "stubble"—stubble does not last long in The ancient Israelites were prohibited all that do wickedly, shall be as stubble: fire. The wicked cannot save themselves from retaining bondservants more than and the day that cometh shall burn them from the fire—the fire is "unquench- seven years (Exodus 21:2; Deuteronomy up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall able." But there is not even a glowing 15:12), except at the wish and consent leave them neither root nor branch.. . . cinder left when it has done its work. of the servant. If he loved his master And ye shall tread down the wicked; for That one verse alone sums up har- and wished to remain, there was to be they shall be ashes under the soles of moniously the universal teaching of the a public ceremony at the end of the your feet in the day that I shall do this, Bible on the destiny of the wicked. seven years (Exodus 21:5, 6; Deuter- saith the Lord of hosts." Malachi 4:1, 3. But you will still wonder how the onomy 15:16, 17), and "he shall be thy This is but one of a number of such "forever and ever" fits in although that servant forever"—that is, as long as texts. Your problem, therefore, is not verse plainly shows it. The trouble is either the master or the servant lived. to ask me to harmonize a Bible text with that most people have never stopped to It was prophesied by Jeremiah that an idea of mine, but to harmonize two think deeply into the real usage and the apostate Israelites of his day had seemingly contradictory Bible texts. In meaning of the words "forever and angered God until He would "discon- other words, if Revelation 14:10, 11, ever." When asked to define the phrase, tinue" them from their inheritance, and and a number of similar texts, mean they think first of God and conclude they would serve their enemies (Babylo- what many people think they mean— that the one, only, and complete mean- nians) in a strange land because His that the wicked are immortal and spend ing of the term is "lasting as long as God anger would "burn forever." (Jeremiah eternal life ever burning but never burn- exists." That is truly one meaning; but 17:4.) But through the same prophet ing up—then the burden is on them to there are others. The Bible and we our- God told them that they would serve harmonize that interpretation with the selves frequently use the term in other the Babylonians seventy years (Jeremiah oft-repeated teaching of the Bible that Ways. The real meaning of "forever" is 25:11, 12); after which God gathered the wicked are burned up, consumed, endless in relation to whatever it is ap- them into their own land again, with "be as though they had not been." plied to. This definition harmonizes the loving promises. "Forever" in this case "Never shalt thou be any more." (See word in every possible use of it. When was seventy years. The force of the word Obadiah 16 and Ezekiel 28:19 for two it is used in relation to God, it means as is that during that period it was utterly of more such texts than there is space long as He exists. When it is used of impossible for the Israelites to release to enumerate.) something less than He, it means as long themselves; their captivity was endless I repeat that the contradiction be- as that exists. It often means as long as until it reached the termination God tween the Bible texts that say the wicked certain circumstances exist, or as long willed. will be burned up and those that say as an "age," or epoch of history, exists. By means of Strong's The Exhaustive they will burn forever and ever is only In one instance in the Bible it meant Concordance of the Bible, which lists seeming but not real. They are har- only a few seconds. When Jonah was every place in the Bible where any word monious parts of one great truth—the thrown overboard and sank down is found, I have examined the more than truth that the Righteous Judge burns through the waters, he could not have four hundred times the words "ever" and up the wicked with unquenchable fire lived more than a few moments unless "forever" occur in the Scriptures. I have that burns forever and ever until "all he was in some way removed from the found a hundred or so times where the the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly" waters. That is, the time between his duration meant is clearly less than "as are "consumed" "as though they had not leaving the hands of the sailors and his long as God exists." In many other in- been." Then that fire goes out, having being taken into the "great fish" could (Continued on page 34) THESE TIMES, AUGUST, 1952 35 LAND OF THE FREE By Arnold V. Wallenkampf

porary refuge, and on a farm in the ning Angela's joy was mingled with region that later became the American quiet sorrow, for behind her across the zone, she earned a scant living. There vast sea were her parents, her sisters and she met the prince of her dreams in the brothers, and other relatives. Before her form of a young American soldier who was a secure future at the side of a delivered her from the virtual night- husband who loved and cared for her. mare of flight from her native land and With all its sorrows, life was still won- WECONGRATU- its ensuing suffering. By plane she came derful for her. LATE you fellow citizens in reaching across the Atlantic and then went on by These and twenty-six others were wel- this important milestone in your quest train via Chicago to this midwestern comed to citizenship in a new country for freedom. To all of you, from what- city. Two weeks after her arrival she was that evening over two years ago. All were ever nations you might hail, we give a married to the midwestern attorney elated to be citizens of free America! warm and hearty welcome to our city whom she had met as her legendary All cherished feelings of thankfulness and country with its equal opportunities deliverer. and gratitude to be American citizens! for all, as well as its responsibilities of Angela, an Italian war bride, was also All were happy that their lots had been citizenship. May the happiness for there. When the war moved into her cast in pleasant places. More keenly than which your souls have yearned be yours native Italy, her nurse's training was even the native Americans who were in this land of your choice." terminated. The danger to life and limb present did they realize that freedom's So spoke the mayor of a city on the in the city where she pursued her train- sweet boon is fleeing from the earth, and open prairies of America—these wide ing was too grave. At her parents' en- that only a few nations still grant their prairies which are symbolic of the spirit- treaties she left it and returned to her citizens this greatest of all earthly bless- ual freedom that lightens the very shores more secluded country home. There she ings—freedom. of this great nation and beckons invit- saw the German armies both advance While attending this pleasant fellow- ingly to countless millions who, with and withdraw; she also saw the English ship dinner, my thoughts went beyond wistful eyes, peer even through iron come and go. From these two armies the festive moment. My eyes peered into curtains to the Land of the Free. the starving native population received the future to a still more glorious home- The occasion was a welcome dinner, little help. When the invincible Ameri- coming, when men and women will be sponsored by the women's division of cans arrived, however, they first of all welcomed to eternal citizenship in the the Chamber of Commerce, in honor of transformed an often water-drenched everlasting land of the saved. There recently naturalized citizens. The time lowland into a magnificent airfield after Jesus Himself will extend the welcome was February 22, 1950. On the anni- the American pattern. Then a life-giving to earth's weary pilgrims. They too will versary of the birthday of the founder of stream of acutely needed food supplies have come from a land of oppression— this nation, these new citizens were began to descend into the midst of the from earthly slavery under sin; they too fittingly welcomed to lay hold of the hungry natives. Among these kind and will have experienced stark want— opportunities afforded only in the warmhearted Americans Angela found hunger and thirst; they too will have United States of America. her friend. Under the azure blue Italian fled before hostile armies bent on their The twenty-eight men and women sky she married him. From a war-dev- utter destruction. But most glorious of who celebrated the attainment to Ameri- astated native country and a starving all, they too will experience a miraculous can citizenship came from many differ- Europe he brought her to the land of deliverance! All their agonies will for- ent countries. Among them was a young which untold millions of Europeans ever be past. They will truly be in the woman from Estonia. Before the Rus- dream—America! Land of the Free, secure beyond the sian armies rolled the iron curtain over At the welcome dinner Angela was reach of the most cruel and oppressive her native land and then went farther overjoyed to be an American citizen. of tormentors—sin. These pilgrims, wel- and farther west, she fled into western Behind her lay years of anxiety, depriva- comed by Jesus to the glories of heaven, Europe. In Germany she found tem- tion, and suffering. But even that eve- will be free for eternity in His kingdom.

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