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APRIL SHOWERS The PARADE of Empires

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:U.O;Cent S the United States were driven to the necessity of asserting their indepen- Our Constitution---a dence, every effort which power could exercise or ingenuity devise, was brought into requisition to prevent the GLORIOUS organization of a republican govern- UR Federal Constitution was ment."—House Committee Report, 25th erected upon the strongest foundation Session. on which any political structure of HERITAGE As our forefathers fought against humanity can be built—the eternal tyranny, even the forces of nature co- rock of the divine principles of truth, ■ operated with them. Time and again justice, liberty, and equality. The did it seem as if the little Revolutionary power and influence of this document By armies were doomed to defeat and can be explained only in the light of destruction, when a great storm arose this fact. Claude E. and they escaped. General Washing- "The world has seen empires and HOLMES ton gave God the credit for His evident dynasties without number based upon intervention at Long Island, Trenton, arbitrary power. But, for the most Germantown, Yorktown, and in the part, it has seen them perish. They discovery of Arnold's perfidy. After have illuminated the page of history, tion of the morality of government. It the surrender of Cornwallis he wrote: but with the light of the comet and the `renders unto Cmsar (the political "The hand of Providence has been so meteor, not of the stars. The civiliza- state) the things which are Cstir's,' conspicuous in all this that he must be tion they have brought forth has been but in safeguarding the fundamental worse than an infidel that lacks faith." as transient as themselves. Neither moral rights of the people, it `renders In view of these facts, it is not government nor civilization contained unto God the things that are God's."' strange that the first official utterances any element of permanence until they —Beck. of our first president and first Congress came to be founded upon the princi- When God's clock struck the hour, were a great responsive dialogue re- ple of civil and religious liberty,"— announcing that the time had arrived hearsing the providence of God which Phelps. for the earth to be lightened with the attended the forming of this nation and glory of civil and religious liberty, the establishing of its institutions of there was not a nation prepared for liberty. With thankful heart Washing- The seed from which the Constitu- this tremendous task. It was necessary ton sent this message to Congress: "No tion sprang was planted nineteen hun- for the Creator to open up a new conti- people can be bound to acknowledge dred years ago upon the hills of Judea. nent on virgin soil, and to ea 1 archi- and adore the Invisible Hand which It fell from the hands of the Divine tects of liberty from the various (Continued on page 17) Sower, Jesus Christ. "Render there- nations, to erect the Lighthouse of fore unto Cesar the things which are Freedom. It was not without a struggle that ■ The monument at Lexington, Mass., Ctesar's," He said; "and unto God the where the Minute Men on April 19, 1775, things that are God's." Matthew the work was carried on even in this met the British, and the first battle of the 22:21. faraway land. "When the people of T?evolution was fought. Christ did not speak these words to the Roman governor and the Jewish Sanhedrin, instructing those authori- ties to decide for the people what they should render to Caesar and to God, but He spoke them to the people them- selves. The power to determine these important matters resides with all, not a favored few. History is one long harrowing recital of the tyranny of despotism. Designing rulers have sought ruthlessly to domi- nate their fellows. Millions of lives have been sacrificed to monarchical Molochs because men and women claimed the right to exercise the divine gift of choice in religion and state. Not till this nation arose, founded on "a new order of the ages"—the in- herent right of the people to rule them- selves—was the divine ideal of civil government realized. Entered as second-class matter, January 19, 1909, at the post office at Nashville, Tenn., under act "The Constitution is something more of March 3, 1879, by the Southern Publishing Association (Seventh-day Adventist), 2119 24th Ave. N. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Sec. 1103, Act of than a written formula of government October 3, 1917, authorized July 11, 1918,. Published monthly (except October, when semi- —it is a great spirit. It is a high and monthly). Price 10 cents a copy, $1.00 a year. noble assertion, and, indeed, vindica- ■ Page TWO The WATCHMAN MAGAZINE —=-0 Revolutionists led by vet- erans of the Chaco War, because of dissatisfaction with the peace treaty -;-/) negotiated by the government of Presi- FLASHES dent Eusebio Ayala and indorsed by the Congress of Paraguay, overthrew the government of that nation and forced the president to take refuge upon a gunboat, while the secretary of 1- war was taken prisoner. The terms of the objectionable treaty were suggested by the delegates of American Repub- lics in session at Buenos Aires after Paraguayan troops under General Jose Felix Estigarribea were victorious in the Chaco. It is significant that laudable efforts for a just peace among warring nations have such local re- percussions. Immediate payment of the soldiers' bonus increases the total cost to the United States of the World War • to date to $45,200,000,000. But of course this does not include what must be paid out in the future for pensions and the care of the disabled, nor does S The grave of Captain Myles Standish, not it include the billions loaned to our far from Plymouth and Duxbury, Mass. A jury at Easton, Penn- allies, which they refuse to pay. And Though not of their faith, his military genius sylvania, stood eleven to one for con- made possible the protection of the Pilgrims viction of a man for receiving stolen yet some will still argue that war brings who influenced so definitely the content of our prosperity. American Constitution. goods and failure to keep proper records. One man held out for acquit- The Anti-Saloon League is tal. To determine upon a unanimous authority for the statement that from --=-0 Tuberculosis filled 75,000 verdict they resorted to the toss of a repeal to the close of 1935 the con- graves in the United States last year. coin. The eleven lost and the de- sumers had spent $5,225,000,000 for Fully half a million persons are at this fendant was acquitted. Hearing of the liquor, while during the same period moment actively sick with it—enough manner in which a decision was the government had spent over $7,000,- to populate a city the size of Washing- reached, Judge R. C. Stewart fined the 000,000 for relief and recovery pro- ton, Minneapolis, or New Orleans. twelve members $10.00 and costs each. grams. A little figuring will show how While cancer, pneumonia, and heart much could have been saved in Amer- --to The freeing of Isadore (Kid disease destroy life mostly in the older ica had it used the money worse than Cann) Blumenfeld, former bootlegger, groups, tuberculosis strikes hardest at of the charge of first-degree murder wasted upon liquor for the relief of the those in the prime of life, numbering needy, who numbered 20,000,000, Jan- in the slaying of Walter Liggett, cru- its victims in a group aged fifteen to uary 1, 1936, according to relief com- sading Minneapolis newspaper pub- forty-five years. Let public sentiment missioner Harry L. Hopkins. lisher, by a district court jury after he support the endeavors of the National was positively indentified by the widow —=0 In the year 1900 less than Tuberculosis Association, which is do- of the slain man and another eyewit- sixteen million children were enrolled ing so much to rid our nation of this ness of the machine-gun murder, leads in the public schools of the United menace to our public health. to serious question as to whether or States. In 1935 there were approxi- Dr. George Sperti, widely not our jury system is not threatened mately twenty-seven millions. What known for his work in irradiation of with a breakdown because of fear of a responsibility we place upon the foods, offers for use "vitamin-D soap" bandit threats of reprisal. shoulders of the pedagogues of this as a method of absorbing through the —=--0 The number of languages in nation! skin the health-giving qualities that which the Bible or some part of it has --=-0 Paul H. Douglas, professor cause doctors to prescribe spinach. He been published now totals 972, accord- of economics in the University of says he has discovered that vitamins ing to the announcement issued by the Chicago, has just returned from a three A and D, which are prevalent in spin- American Bible Society. Four nation- and one-half months stay in Italy. He ach and many other foods, may be alities are co-operating in the publica- says: "Grown people beg food in the absorbed as readily through the skin, tion of the New Testament and Psalms city streets; and any time you give a if not more so, than through food, and for use in Panape, the largest of the beggar anything, the doors of nearby that he has effectively treated rats Caroline Islands. It is being translated houses open and the people pour out suffering from rickets with applica- by Germans, printed in England, fi- like swallows to get a share. They will tions of his vitamin soap to the skin, nanced by Americans, and distributed fight over a crust or a hard-boiled egg. but that he has not yet learned the by Japanese, making possible the real- There is really suffering and hunger biological or chemical action that takes ization of Psalm 119: 130: "The en- there," Mr. Douglas concludes. place. trance of Thy words giveth light."

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■ The sun of Macedonian political su- premacy sank to rise no more when the By Roman general fEmilius Paulus de- Robert Leo feated the Greeks in the decisive battle of Pydna in 168 s. c. "The arms of the ODOM republic, sometines vanquished in bat- tle, always victorious in war, advanced with rapid steps to the Euphrates, the known to the king Nebuchadnezzar Danube, the Rhine, and the ocean; and what shall be in the latter days." the images of gold, or silver, or brass, Verse 28, A. R. V. that might serve to represent the na- He said that the king had seen in a tions or their kings, were successively dream a great and splendid image broken by the iron monarchy of Rome," stand before him, its head of gold, the says Gibbon, in "The Decline and Fall breast and arms of silver, the belly and of the Roman Empire," chap. 38, thighs of brass, the legs of iron, and the "General Observations," Vol. 3, p. 634, feet and toes of a mixture of iron and of Milman's edition, 1875. The king's dream of empires. pottery. A stone "cut out without The prophet declared to the king: hands" fell from heaven and struck the "And whereas thou sawest the feet S image on its feet, grinding the whole and toes, part of potter's clay, and part thing to pieces, to dust, so that the of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom." wind blew it away into oblivion. But Verse 41, A. R. V. The division of the THE pall of death the stone itself, according to the Roman empire was completed by A.D. hung over the circles of learning in Aramaic, became a mountainous rock 476. "The downfall of the Roman Babylon, for nearly a day, more than a "and filled the whole earth." Verses imperial government in the West was, score of centuries ago. The pretentious 31-35. further, an event of immense signi- claims of the Chaldean soothsayers and As he explained the matter, Daniel ficance in the political world for the diviners had met a decisive test,— and said to the king: "Thou art this head reason that it rendered possible the failed. It was simply this: King Nebu- of gold." Verse 38. "Babylon, the growth in Western Europe of several chadnezzar had dreamed a dream and glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the nations or states in place of the single forgotten it. Because it had deprived Chaldees' excellency" (Isaiah 13: 19) empire."—Myers' "Ancient History," him of his sleep, he demanded that the was mistress of the world from 606 B. c. p. 547, revised edition. wise men tell him the dream and its until that memorable night of Bel- meaning. He knew that it was im- shazzar's feast in the year 538 B. C. portant. "After thee," continued the prophet, Speaking' of the European nations, All the inducements that power and "shall arise another kingdom inferior the prophecy says: "And whereas thou wealth could array before them, and all to thee." Verse 39. The Medes and sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, the fear and dread that imperial wrath Persians held the scepter of world they shall mingle themselves with the could wield upon them, could not elicit dominion until Alexander the Great seed of men; but they shall not cleave from Chaldea's wisest that secret, It defeated the Persian hosts at Arbela in one to another, even as iron doth not was not in them, and this they ad- 331 B. c. While Persia may have ex- mingle with clay." Verse 42, A. R. V. mitted: "There is none other that can celled Babylon in her cruelty, she never The efforts of Charlemagne, Charles V, show it before the king, except the equalled her in splendor and learning. Louis XIV, Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh." But the prophet added: "And an- II of Germany, and others, have failed Daniel 2 : 11. Whereupon, the monarch, other third kingdom of brass, which to weld the nations of Europe into a discovering that their work hitherto shall bear rule over all the earth." single empire. had been of a deceptive nature, decreed Verse 39. The brass was a fitting The prediction that "they shall their doom. symbol of those Macedonian "helmets mingle themselves with the seed of The gloom lifted, however, as the of bronze" worn by Greek soldiers, men" is also worthy of note. Most of Hebrew prophet of Jehovah, was ush- which Xenophon has described. the crowned heads of Europe were ered into the king's presence the follow- "And the fourth kingdom shall be linked together by the bonds of blood ing morning. Daniel said to the mon- strong as iron, . . . and as iron that and matrimony when the World War arch: "There is a God in heaven that crusheth all these, shall it break in broke out in 1914. But the ancient revealeth secrets, and He bath made pieces and crush." Verse 40, A. R. V. (Continued on page 16)

B.C. B.C. B.C. B.C. A.D. Second Advent 606 838 331 168 t 476 of Christ God's Babylon I Media and Persia I Greece Rome I Nations of Europe I Everlasting Kingdom The Outline of World History Given 2,500 Years Ago in Daniel 2.

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4 ■ A modern electric power generator at Great Falls, Tennessee, which supplies power for Nashville and other cities.

points of obedience will not equal ten points in requirements. James wrote under inspiration: "Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." James 2: 10. Observing a day is not keeping the Sabbath. Observing the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, is not observing the fourth command- ment, which clearly says: "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Jesus, our Saviour and Criterion, "as His custom was, . . . went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read." (Luke 4: 16.) That Sabbath day wds the same day that His disciples observed after His crucifixion, for "they returned, and DOES IT MAKE ANY prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." (Luke 23: 56.) DIFFERENCE? Here we find Christian disciples, in- cluding the mother of the Lord, ob- serving the Sabbath, after the New By MITCHELL R. GARRETT Testament covenant had been ratified by the blood of our Lord upon the cross the day before. If there were to be a change of the Sabbath,it does seem that TART generator number The God of heaven, who is the maker Jesus would have told His own mother seven!" was the order from the chief of all electrical and scientific laws, has of such a change before His death. operator of a giant hydroelectric power given a perfect law (Psalm 19: 7) to The Scripture is as silent as the tomb house, one dark rainy night. Extra the inhabitants of this world, by which on any change before or after the cruci- power was needed to light the cities and they are to be governed, and by which fixion. "Jesus Christ the same yes- towns of a large State. This order to its offenders are to be judged (James terday, and today, and forever." the operator meant that he was to turn 2: 10-12). Some there are today who (Hebrews 13: 8.) the water on the turbine and speed it have the audacity to ask with reference Since this law was "written with up to 514 revolutions a minute, which to the fourth commandment in this the finger of God" (Exodus 31: 18),— would synchronize with other running decalogue: "Does it make any dif- the fourth command of which says: generators in the same power house, ference which day I keep as the Sab- "The seventh day is the Sabbath of before throwing in the electric switch. bath, just so I keep one?" God, the the Lord thy God," — and a loving This would place it in series with the Chief Operator, has plainly said: Saviour observed it (Luke 4110, other generators. It was highly im- "The seventh day is the Sabbath of "leaving us an example, that ye should portant that this order be minutely the Lord thy God." Exodus 20: 11. follow His steps" (1 Peter 2:21), can and accurately executed with the In an electric power house it makes a we as Christians say: "It does not highest degree of electrical synchron- great deal of difference which switch make any difference which day we ism, or serious would be the results. we throw. In an attempt to obey God observe as the Sabbath"? My associate operator, to whom this it makes all the difference in the world order was given, was known as having which day we keep as the Sabbath. a streak of carelessness in his work and The operator was to throw in switch Lot's wife said in effect, "It does not often said, "It is all right to guess as number seven and not just any switch. make any difference." Jesus said of long as you make the right guess." God has commanded the observance of her, "Remember Lot's wife." Luke This time he made the wrong guess. the seventh day and not just any day. 17: 32. Saul almost obeyed the Lord, He threw the wrong switch. Instantly, It was the seventh day that He blessed according to the record in 1 Samuel we heard a low rumble, and saw smoke and sanctified, and not a day. (Genesis 15, but the Lord showed him that he and flames belch from this great 2: 1-3.) It was the day and not the had disobeyed, and that he must lose generator. The entire unit was in institution that was the recipient of his kingdom. Paul says of these rec- flames, and most of a large State was in the blessing and sanctification. We ords: "Now all these things happened darkness, all because a careless em- are to "remember the Sabbath day, unto them for ensamples: and are ployee said in effect: "It does not to keep it holy," and that day is the written for our admonition, upon make any difference." seventh day. (Exodus 20: 8.) Nine (Continued on page 19) APRIL, 1936 Page FIVE ■ HANDS ACROSS THE PACIFIC---

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■ An intricate pattern woven by 360 search- down through the mid-Pacific—we lights of a battle fleet of the United States may say that Asia is west of us, not navy. N OUR voyage from America east. Modern methods pf swift com- to India we have come the nearest we munication and transpdrtation have have ever experienced to separating made its Pacific shores more than ever guage interests very much in common, ourselves from this mundane sphere, the Near West rather than the Far must be taken into very serious account and then turning around and looking East. And California is always eager in every balance of international re- back at it. And it seems to me that to turn the gaze of the " down-east- lationships. Once started on a given it is possible to get a better perspective erner " westward to get this view. Let course, the Chinese carry weight. And, from this vantage point of detach- us look at Asia, at least for the purpose even when inert, China may upset the ment than is granted one who must of this article, with the unobstructed equilibrium of the world completely depend almost entirely on close-ups eye, anyway not through the tinted by exposing a potential market, to for his views of the international bifocals of Europe and the Near East. capture which certain over-industrial- drama. At this writing we have visited the ized nations are ready to fight one I have endeavored, mentally as well western part of the United States, another to the finish. as corporeally, to break away from the Hawaii, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Too many observers think of China activities of the world behind and and the Philippines; and so have gone as a disintegrated, loose-knit mass ahead, in the past and in the future; the rounds of territories, peoples, and of humanity, easily manipulated, com- then to achieve an exquisite oblivion interests, large and small, which sur- placent withal, and most intent on for a space, in which bias and pre- round the North Pacific, except Si- saving "face." But, to those who know conceived opinions are cast off or let beria and Canada, and the interests of China close up, she presents a na- slip by the board; and finally to begin the latter are partly bound up with tional entity which is bound to assert viewing the international scene with those of Great Britain, whose farthing itself powerfully, albeit quite dif- eyes from which every last beam and empire we touched at Hong Kong and ferently, from what the Occidental mote have been plucked. will touch again at Singapore. Having expects. China is the world's greatest We in America have been accustomed traveled around the world twenty odd absorbent. She takes in everyone who to thinking of Asia as east of us; for our years ago, and again making the round knocks at her door— and takes care of ancient beginnings were in Asia, "west- now, we have been made fully aware of him. ward the course of empire takes its some amazing, even startling, develop- We honor the Chinese for their way," our civilization came through ments in the meantime. dogged determination. We shopped Europe, and our national traditions with a merchant in Hong Kong have hitherto centered on the Atlantic ito named Hang On. Appropriate! The seaboard. We have thought of the guide who showed us through the wide Atlantic Ocean and the racial What, then, do we see, and want you ancient royal palace in Kyoto, Japan, and national entities, much older than to see,.from this middle kingdom of the spoke of Chinese culture being brought ours, of Europe and Africa from which mind? to Japan. We understand that Jap- we sprang as being between us and the We see China. The dragon republic anese statesmen disavow any desire largest of continents and oldest of is mentioned first because her popula- to conquer China; and they say that civilizations which is Asia. Hence we tion is the largest, her civilization is China is large enough to absorb any hardly sense the close proximity of the oldest, and her economic situation would-be conqueror. If you will ac- Japan and China to our shores. Of the most solidly compact and self- cept the observation of a passing course this is particularly true of contained. China has tremendous traveler, devoid of any prejudice one Americans whose roots are east of the momentum. And therefore any move way or the other, then know that Rockies. which China makes together and as a Japan is not unwilling to become part Ignoring that necessarily arbitrary whole is bound to be momentous. One of the dragon which symbolizes China and wholly imaginary fence—the In- fifth of the world's people, with racial, and Chinese culture and traditions, ternational Date Line that zig-zags religious, cultural, and written-lan- but is set on being the head. ■ Page SIX The WATCHMAN MAGAZINE way the "man that walks like a bear" is going to jump. Unknown quantity, or MAILED FISTS? but quantity just the same. So Japan matches soldier for soldier, gun for gun, tank for tank, and plane for plane West to be reasonable and logical, as on the Manchuria-Siberian border— By east is from west. We are trying to and waits. Robert Bruce fathom the mental processes of this We see Great Britain. Long settled Near West; and we are awed in the at strategic points—like Hong Kong THURBER trying. and Singapore—in the Orient, the Former editor of this magazine, pres- We see Soviet Russia. The future of British lion jealously guards its trade ent editor of The Oriental Watchman, this mighty power in Europe and Asia routes and treaty ports. A manu- a num- Poona, India, and author of is counted by the older powers as an ber of books. facturing and trading nation of long unknown mystery. Russia is trying standing, dependent upon overseas out something new, unheard of in selling to maintain her peoples, she history. It is communism in practice. cannot surrender any vantage ground And nobody knows, not even the in Asia, bought with blood and toil, We see Japan. And we were led to Soviets themselves, how it will stand and still hold her self-respect. Aus- make the statement in the last sentence the crucial test ahead, when its tralia, Canada, and many an island of of the preceding paragraph because we socialistically educated youth of today the Pacific, look to the mother country perceive the role that Japan has as- grasp the reins of rulership. The French for assertion of rights and protection sumed to play in the affairs of East Revolution produced a Napoleon; and of interests. Trade is their lifeblood; Asia. Speaking before the Japanese who knows but that the Russian Revo- and an "open door" to huge consum- Imperial Diet, Koki Hirota, the For- lution may produce a similar im- ing populations seems essential to eign Minister, referred to "Japan's perialist? With Russia's broad expanse their very existence. role as the stabilizing force of East of Siberia washed on its eastern shore We see the Philippines. Recently Asia." And again in these words, by the waters of the North Pacific, it launched on a trial ten years of self- "Japan, the only cornerstone of the means something serious to the powers government, this infant republic is not peace of East Asia, bears the entire that rim this ocean not to know whicl very sure of itself, and less sure of the burden of responsibilities." The Jap- dis-interest of its immediate neighbors. anese are conscientious in believing There are decidedly divided opinions in that they are the ones to bear the ■ Japanese lads, clothed in the armor of the islands as to the advisability and weight of leadership and protection of feudal days, marching with military reci- (Continued on page 19) the Orient, that circumstances have sion—to what? thrust it upon them, and that they cannot with honor throw it off. The Chinese resent this, which seems to them an unwarranted assumption, as any parent nation would. Hence the bloody clashes in Manchuria, Shanghai, and North China. As we see it, the policy of Japan in Asia, and particularly in China, is based upon a plan to save China from herself (communism, banditry, division), and from exploitation by Occidental nations in matters of trade and extraterritoriality. And she ex- pects to reap as a reward for her trouble the lion's share of China's trade. And this she believes to be her right, since she is highly industrialized in order to take care of her people who are increasing a million a year on tight little islands largely untillable, and since she is China's nearest neighbor and closely related racially.

How China and Japan will compose their divergent claims remains to be seen. We are persuaded, however, that they will compose them, and in ways seen only from the Oriental view- point. And that viewpoint, and the policies which grow out of it, are as far removed from what seems to the Page SEVEN NI APRIL, 1936 THE • NEWS • INTERPRETED

I m Not Mean kingdom is not of this world: if My chukuo, demanding that the Outer kingdom were of this world, then Mongolian Peoples' Republic immedi- "T'm not mean," protested a shy farm would My servants fight." John 18 : 36. ately evacuate what she terms Man- A girl of Oklahoma, facing trial as It is well to recall that when Christ clittkuoan territory. Present indications the accused slayer of her share-crop drove the money changers out of the suggest that the shaking of her mailed father after he refused to permit her to temple, He included those priests who fist will be followed by the shaking of keep a "date." And yet the state con- were engaged in monetary specula- her finger, especially since the United tended that this eighteen-year-old girl tions. States seems to be strengthening her took a shotgun from a closet before position by a proposed league of Ameri- dawn, went into a bedroom in the can republics. three-room farm house and shot her The Nations Re-Arm What will be the outcome of it all? fifty-three-year-old father dead. In A forecast based on other than the another State, an eighteen-year-old IVDER the terms of a close alliance Word of God is hazardous. One thing youth went to the electric chair, pro- U between France and Britain, their is certain: we are living in the days of testing that he did "not get a break," combined fleets are keeping watch on the anger of nations (Revelation 11: though he had admitted assisting in the Mediterranean. Italy has greatly 18), when the limit of man's extremity killing two unoffending men. Were increased her armed forces and looks will be reached in seeking a solution for these isolated incidents, it would not menacingly at her enemies. Britain the world's perplexities (Luke 21: be so bad; but such cases are occurring sets aside $1,500,000,000 for her cur- 25, 26), when the heathen nations are with alarming frequency. rent rearmament program. awakening (Joel 3:9-12), and Arma- And despite the fact that Americans Congress votes a military budget of geddon is approaching (Revelation often coddle their criminals, the violent $543,341,000, while our delegates at 16 : 12-16), Only a threat of world death of Richard Loeb in an Illinois the London Naval Congress insist that disaster would have led the representa- penitentiary suggests the truth of the we be permitted to construct battle- tives of the leading powers to make Bible maxim: "Whoso sheddeth man's ships of 35,000 tons burden to enable their attendance at the funeral of King blood, by man shall his blood be shed." us to effectively patrol the Pacific George V an occasion to seek some plan Genesis 9: 6. with our distant national possessions. for world security. Speaking of the Also a member of the navy's high attitude of the British government, a Shall the Church Keep command asks Congress not to tie dispatch informs us, "Not pausing its hands, but to vote blanket approval even until after the burial, the defense Out of Politics? of 563 new aeroplanes and 54 new committee of the cabinet met at 10 URING the presidential campaign auxiliary vessels with a speed com- Downing Street to push budget esti- D of 1928, much criticism was parable to that of combat ships. mates into shape. . . Great Britain leveled at the Methodist Church be- Japan, out of the London Confer- admittedly is facing the greatest crisis cause one of its bishops actively op- ence, pursues her independent course, posed the Democratic nominee. Now but puts a ban on the publication of a Congressman who admits that he news from her Mongolian front, while her army command sends a sharp • Cheering vociferously for the Townsend indulged such criticism says that he Plan. The activities of this organization are blushes with shame to confess that one ultimatum to Sovietized Mongolia to be probed by a Congressional commission through her "puppet state" Man- to determine whether funds collected are being of his own clerics is doing the same dispensed according to law. thing—alluding to the activities of Father Coughlin. Congressman John J. O'Connor so vehemently resented the reported attack of the radio priest upon his official record that he threat- ened that, should Father Coughlin come to Washington, he would kick the radio priest from the capitol to the White House. Congressman Boland, also representing the same church as does the priest, is reported to have said: "Has not this silver-brick artist the understanding to see the incon- sistency of his position as he stands before the altar with one hand on the gospel and the other engaged in count- ing the speculative silver he has acquired?" To clerics, of whatever persuasion, who are inclined to enter politics, we would suggest the re-read- ing of the words of Jesus: "My MI Page EIGHT The WATCHMAN MAGAZINE • • THE • NEWS • INTERPRETED

since the World War, and no other civil governments to enforce only laws refuses, unless disinterested neutrals European government is in a much embodying principles derived from the shall sit in on the council. better position. Political discussion last six commands of the Decalogue, As we go to press, the Japanese among the assembled notables was while refraining from meddling with army is giving a reluctant consent to held to be inevitable despite the sad the first four, which represent man's such a plan, though denying the occasion bringing them together." obligations to his Maker. neutrals the right to vote. Japan knows that it is perfectly possible for Russian planes to leave their base in Eastern Siberia early in the morning, bomb every city of consequence along the coast of her main island, and return to their hangars the same day. She knows that should the Soviet pursue the course which she herself followed at the time of the Russo- Japanese War, it would give her no warning, but would strike before a formal declaration of war, and her splendid cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo, with their teeming millions, might be wiped out. The location of seven of her proudest cities on the sea- coast renders them entirely vulnerable to an air attack, and the world looks on with more than ordinary interest. III The budget recently passed by Congress provides for the building of 563 new govern- ment planes, since many of these here shown The Restive Kings of are obsolete and of little use in case of war. the East What Will Germany HEN the Japanese delegation Do? W "walked out" of the London ait opposition growing against Spain Frees Political Naval Conference, Occidental nations W its plans for the control of the Prisoners were fearful of international complica- church, the German government never- NE.'of the results of the turbu-' tions. The delegation's proposal to theless persists in its course to su- O lent Spanish elections in which leave behind "observers" at the Con- pervise all religious activities. Re- thirteen persons lost their lives has ference was received in frigid silence pressive measures continue against the 1.4 been the freeing of 30,000 political by those who were striving for a solu- Jews and bring their repercussions prisoners, who have been incarcerated tion to the world's military problems, abroad as evidenced by the slaying of since the revolt of October, 1934. The nor has a Japanese suggestion to estab- a powerful friend of Chancellor Hitler Leftists, a coalition of Republicans and lish a fleet base in some southern part in Switzerland by a Czechoslovakian Socialists, have been returned to power, of her island empire, with a cruising Jewish youth. While denying any de- and with the resignation of Premier range reaching to the Philippines and sire to fortify the demilitarized Rhine- Manuel Portela Valladares, who was Singapore, brought the desired acqui- land, Germany has startled the world considered to favor the return of the escence on the part of Europe and by her blunt announcement that she former royal house and the re-estab- America. holds the colonies lost during the World lishment of the Catholic Church, Now comes the news of a serious War are still her own, and will insist Manuel Azana, a Republican, who clash between the Japanese-officered that these mandated colonies be re- formed the first government after the army of Manchukuo and the Soviet- turned to her. Rumors persist of her flight of King Alfonso, was asked by trained forces of Outer Mongolia. secret offensive and defensive alliance President Alcala Zamora to form a Three Mongolian bombing planes at- with Japan; and now comes a new new cabinet, tempted to bomb a Japanese-Man- charge that she has a secret alliance There is much general rejoicing chukuoan column. The Mongolians with Italy, Poland, and Austria. While throughout Spain over the results of claim that the Japanese were over the authoritative sources deny this, the the election; and if the will of the major- boundary in Mongolia. The Japanese currency of the rumor bespeaks the ity is to be recognized, church and demand a delimitation of the boundary nervousness of Europe which, led by state will be kept separate, following line, but such an attempt on the part Great Britain, has effected alliances the injunction of our Lord: "Render of Mongolia means the recognition of of such dimensions as to present therefore unto Cmsar the things which Manchukuo. Meanwhile Russia is combinations of strength comparable are Caesar's; and unto God the things calling back its consular staffs from with those of the Entente and the that are God's." Matthew 22: 21. A Manchukuo, and Japan insists upon a Alliance at the outbreak of the World nice regard for this counsel will lead parley to clear up the incident. Russia War. APRIL, 1 9 3 6 Page NINES let him read the Lord's cartoons of the nations of the world in the books of Daniel and Revelation, where they are pictured always as cruel, ravenous, predatory beasts of prey, lower than INTELLIGENT the rattlesnake. True, there have always been human beings who with fiendish ferocity lived bloody lives of terrorism. But never HUMANITY, before in the history of the world has red-handed violence been so youthful. As Judge Marcus Kavanagh of Chi- Has It Risen to Rattlesnake Level? cago, after thirty years on the bench, puts it: "Our most desperate criminals ■ are tragically young." The famed G-men of the Federal Government made a survey of all per- By sons arrested for serious crimes in 1934. HEN two joc- Earle Albert There were more criminals nineteen und, dapper, young college men, Loeb years old than of any other age. But and Leopold, casually murdered an- ROWELL eighteen and seventeen and sixteen other boy for a "thrill," the nation, Author of "The Bible in the Critic's crowded close. There were more burg- the whole world, were shocked, horri- Den," "Prophecy Speaks," and "Bat- lars eighteen years old than of any fied. We were further astounded by tling the Wolves of Society." other age, and sixteen was the peak•age the information that of these two for automobile thieves. cutthroats still in their teens one knew What has happened to drive our some fifteen languages and the other youths into lives of crime? Is it because was a brilliant naturalist. Both were so much time? And who can blame us they have no opportunity to go to sons of multimillionaires, and had all if we wondered how many scores of school?—Hardly, for a larger propor- for which heart could wish. billions of years it would take for the tion of our youth are in school today We hoped there would be no other human race to reach the high level of than ever before in the history of the youths like these, that they were the the despised rattlesnake, which never republic. terrible exceptions that unaccountably harms unless bothered, and even then It is increasingly the educated youths appear every thousand years or so. But issues a warning before it attacks! who commit the crimes. We are seeing, we hoped in vain. Since the fatal day If the reader thinks we have drawn or should see, that it takes more than when Loeb and Leopold destroyed too dark a picture of the human race, education to keep the young people of their companion for a frolic, there has been a constantly rising tide of the bloody billows of crime. Then came the stunning news that Colonel Lindbergh's blue-eyed, curly- haired little baby had been kidnaped and killed. It was months before we could believe this fiendish thing pos- sible. That Colonel Lindbergh, the most loved young man in the world, the tousle-headed, smiling friend- of every- one, "Lucky Lindy," should have this ghastly reward was just too repulsively terrible for belief. What irony in the nickname! (i) But it was true—horribly true. Some of us went about hanging our heads, ashamed that we belonged to the hu- man race. If this was civilization, if this was the result of liberty, of edu- cation, of wealth, of leisure, what would further "progress" along the same lines bring? If, as our university professors tell us, we have been about two billions of years reaching our present level, need we be blamed if we questioned whether the result justified the expenditure of ■ Page TEN The WATCHMAN MAGAZINE today in balance. Unfortunately, in school, and especially in the movies, ■ Games-of- they learn to discount religion and chance ma- 7, chines being morality and to mock at higher stand- destroyed by the ards. The youth of today must of neces- government in New York. sity be the product of what they are When govern- taught. ment can no More and more the high schools and longer protect humanity universities have not only ignored re- against itself, ligion and morality, but attack religion civilization will as a moth-eaten superstition, and teach disappear. that there is no moral standard, morals being only relative. Evolution is the basis of all instruction, colors every- thing. Evolution is the heartless, god- less doctrine that might makes right, that only the strong should, or will, survive. The genius of Christianity, which is to help the weak, the afflicted, the widow, the orphan, to use strength to is emasculated, sugar-coated skepti- man, —are used to murder in cold blood save rather than to destroy the weak— cism. The decreasing church attend- untold millions in wars more cruel and this is the exact opposite of evolution, ance is no figment of the imagination, ruthless than any indulged in by can- of present-day instruction. born of pessimism. The yearbooks nibal Indians. We have forgotten the show it. The church is in retreat; the bloodthirsty horrors of the French retreat is becoming a rout. Revolution carried on under the ironi- Christianity is pictured by Jesus in It is no wonder that the present cal banner of Liberty, Equality, and the story of the true shepherd who, generation, shorn of faith, hope, and Fraternity, in the more terrible and instead of running from the attacking charity by their professors, should larger cruelties of the recent World lion and abandoning his sheep to the plunge into an endless round of pleas- War. ravaging beast, so that he might thus ure, no matter what the cost. They Our idleness we use for worse pur- survive, fights for his helpless charges falsely reason that the world owes them poses than did even Sodom. Not only and even dies for them. According to a living, they did not ask to come into do we use leisure to invent new ways evolution, the helpless sheep ought to it; why not eat, drink, and be merry, of sinning, but we spend it thinking up die; to save them is to delay evolu- for tomorrow they die, and there is no new ways of killing our neighbor na- tionary processes. after life, no judgment day, no Judge. tions. With the cries of the wounded Or take the story of the Good They are only part of an endless evolu- and dying of the World War still in S Samaritan and of the Prodigal Son. tionary process in which there is no our ears, and the horrifying vision of The sick man and the sinful youth were wrong or sin, and only the strong who their mangled bodies still before our saved. According to evolutionary teach- takes what he wants, survives. eyes, we are even now arming for a ing this was a mistake. Every instinct Whenever the human race has ac- bigger and better world war that will and teaching of evolution in our schools cumulated an abundance of material make the 1914-1918 affair seem like a of higher learning is utterly opposed to stores, instead of using them for the Sunday school picnic by contrast. Christianity. relief of the needy, it has always reck- Those who read their Bibles in these Just as Jesus' stories of the Good lessly squandered them in voluptuous trying times find therein not only' Shepherd, the Good Samaritan, the revelry. The sin of Sodom, according solace, peace to the weary and heavy- Prodigal Son, and Mary Magdalen to Ezekiel 16:49, was "pride, fullness laden, but a solution of the mysteries make hearts tender, so the philosophy of bread, and abundance of idleness." before us. They find, it is true, that of evolution in our schools, the teaching Greece fell for the same reason, and so this life is but a brief interlude between that the weak must succumb to give did Rome. two eternities, but they also learn that place to the strong, makes the tender- this interlude of sin, sorrow, and suffer- hearted cruel, selfish, blind to the suf- ing will be forever abolished by the fering of others. Pity, sympathy, love, But today instead of learning the soon-coming Saviour, and that those evolution teaches, are but forms of lessons taught by these horrible ex- who look for Him will spend the eter- weakness and must be sternly re- periences, we are doing worse than our nity of the future with Him. (John 14: pressed. forefathers. We have gathered unto 1-3; Revelation 21:4.) Each year sees fewer and fewer of ourselves a largess of things material One who has this hope in his heart our youth in church. They cannot come beyond the wildest dreams of a Solo- will not waste his energies and hours in under the softening influence of Jesus' mon. the "pleasures of sin for a season" words and life, for they hear less and Science builds huge, fast ships, casts (Hebrews 11: 25), nor in seeking some less of them. What religion they do get powerful guns; and the greed and new way to kill his neighbors or to hatred of man turn the ships from cheat them, but will purify himself in argosies of commerce into horrible preparation to meet the King of the ■ Celebrating the first anniversary of the engines of destruction to butcher mil- universe (1 John 3: 3). What a glori- return of the Saar to Germany. lions of strangers. And powder, gases, ous destiny! Yet it is freely offered us electricity, radio, fire,—servants of and is ours merely for the taking. APRIL, 1936 Page ELEVEN ■ An IMMUTABLE

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OD'S law was known only William H. orally before being given at Sinai. We BRANSON find abundant evidence that men in that early time had a knowledge of the law of God, and all who were true to the government of heaven kept it faith- fully. We have the testimony of God concerning Abraham: "Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, MI Two French scientists, Dr. V audremeer, kept within the sanctuary. The record and Mlle. C. Brun, are seen in their labora- My commandments, My statutes, and concerning how and by whom this law tory, where they have succeeded in isolating My laws." Genesis 26:5. We find also the virus of leprosy. A disease perhaps more that when Joseph in the house of was written is as follows: obstinate than others, yet it yields to scien- "He gave unto Moses, when He had tific treatment; but the bacillus of sin yields Potiphar, was tempted to violate the alone to the cleansing blood of the Son of God. seventh commandment, he said, "How made an end of communing with him can I do this great wickedness, and sin upon Mount Sinai, the two tables of against God?" Thus we find that man the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." Exodus 31: 18, right between Sinai and the cross, no had a knowledge of sin before Sinai. is it right this side of the cross. Before This presupposes a knowledge of God's A. It. V. There is no finger of man here. This law was not, therefore, as many the creation of this world, it was not law, for "sin is not imputed when there have supposed, "the law of Moses," right for the intelligent beings of is no law." (Romans 5:13.) Again: heaven to worship other gods. It was "Where no law is, there is no trans- nor the law of any man, but absolutely "the law of God." It was spoken by the violation of this command that gression." Romans 4: 15. And again: worked the downfall of a large number "I had not known sin, but by the law." His own lips, and engraved upon the tables with His own finger. of the angels of heaven when they chose Romans 7: 7. to follow and worship Lucifer instead When God was to give the law to the of God. In the eternity of the future world in written form, He would trust By the awful demonstration attend- it will still be wrong to worship any the sacred work to no human agent; no, ing the giving of the law, God desired to other god. This command, therefore, not even to Moses, His tried servant. impress upon His people its immuta- is eternal. Nor did the death of Christ But calling all Israel together at the bility and its exalted character. He in any way lessen its force. It was no base of Mount Sinai, He spoke His law would speak and write it Himself, more right the day after the crucifixion to them with His own lips. As the thereby reveal ng its importance. Solo- to worship other gods than it was words rolled through the earth, the mon, in speaking of such acts on the before. very foundations of the world seemed part of God, says: "I know that, what- And the same is true in regard to any to shake. Moses in describing the soever God doeth, it shall be forever: of the ten commandments comprising scene, said: "There were thunders and nothing can be put to it, nor anything this law. The death of Christ did not lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the taken from it: and God doeth it, that abolish the law. His death is an mount. . . . And Mount Sinai, the men should fear before Him." Ecclesi- evidence of the immutability of the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah astes 3: 14. We also have the testimony law; for it was the existence of the law descended upon it in fire; and the of David in regard to the unchanging and its violation on man's part, that smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of nature of this law: "The works of His made His death necessary. Man was a furnace, and the whole mount quaked hands are verity and judgment: all condemned by the law as being guilty greatly." Exodus 19: 16-18, A. R. V. His commandments are sure. They of sin. God had declared that the wages God was announcing to men the law of stand fast for ever and ever; and are of sin would be death, therefore, man the universe, the standard of the final done in truth and uprightness." Psalm was under the condemnation of death. judgment, and by this mighty demon- 111:7, 8. If the law could have been abolished, stration He would impress them with It is plain from the very nature of its man's guilt would not have been im- its great importance. requirements that this law is abso- puted (for "sin is not imputed when lutely unlimited in its application. To there is no law "), and Christ need not illustrate: The first commandment have died. But the law could not be After the law had thus been given says, "Thou shalt have no other gods abolished. God could not legalize sin; orally to the people, the Lord pro- before Me." It has never been right therefore, the only way by which man ceeded to write it on tables of stone, since man was created for him to wor- could ever be released from its con- and then delivered it to Moses with the ship other gods than his Creator; it demnation and consequent penalty was instruction that that original copy be was not right before Sinai, it was not (Continued on page 18)

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in all the world for a witness unto all "In Such an Hour as Ye Think Not" nations." Matthew 24: 14, first clause. , "The Lord said unto him, Go through > I"At four o'clock on the morning of Oct. 17, unto the other end of the earth." 1935, Premier Laval, in Paris, got Mussolini the midst of the city, through the midst on the phone and asked for the best Italian Jeremiah 25: 29-33. "The Lord Jesus of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the terms. Mussolini replied that if the British did shall be revealed from heaven with foreheads of the men that sigh and that not change the disposition of their fleet within His mighty angels, in flaming fire twenty-four hours, Italy would attack the cry for all the abominations that be seventeen British war vessels lying in Alexandria taking vengeance on them that know done in the midst thereof." Ezekiel Bay. At 3: 50 on the morning of October 18, not God, and that obey not the gospel ? Sir Eric Drummond, British ambassador to 9: 4. Italy, rushed up the steps of the Venezia Palace of our Lord Jesus Christ: . . . whom 5. When God's people throughout in Rome. It was . . twenty-three hours and the Lord shall consume with the spirit the earth are ready, what will occur? fifty minutes after the ultimatum. Later in the of His mouth, and shall destroy with day announcement came that the British would "Then shall the end come." Mat- trade the shift of a battleship or two for the shift the brightness of His coming." 2 Thes- thew 24: 14, last clause. "And to the of an Italian division from Libya.. . . In salonians 1:7-9; 2:8. others He said in mine hearing, Go ye the gray pre-dawn of that October morning war between Italy and Britain was averted by a 3. Why is it that although war after him through the city, and smite: mere ten minutes." —" Review of Reviews." seems almost a matter of minutes, it is let not your eye spare, neither have ye December, 1935.] so often put off and restrained? pity: slay utterly old and young, both 1. What is the condition of the na- Ans.—God restrains the wars to maids, and little children, and women: tions of the world just before Christ let His work go on. "I saw four but come not near any man upon whom returns? angels standing on the four corners of is the mark." Ezekiel 9: 5, 6. "And the nations were angry, and the earth, holding the four winds of the 6. Can we know just when this will Thy wrath is come, and the time of earth [symbolizing war; see Jeremiah be? h the dead, that they shouldest be 25: 32, quoted before]. . . . And I saw "But of that day and hour knoweth judged, and that Thou shouldest give another angel ascending from the east, no man, no, not the angels of heaven, reward unto Thy servants." Revela- having the seal of the living God: and but My Father only." Matthew 24: 36. tion 11: 18. "Nation shall rise against he cried with a loud voice to the four 7. What is the lesson to us of the nation, and kingdom against kingdom: angels, to whom it was given to hurt alarms of war of these days and of the and there shall be famines, and the earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not triumphs of the gospel? pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers the earth, neither the sea, nor the "When ye shall see all these things, places. All these are the beginning of trees, till we have sealed the servants know that He is near, even at the doors. sorrows." Matthew 24:7, 8. "Proclaim of our God in their foreheads." Revela- . . . Watch therefore: for ye know not ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare tion 7: 1-3. what hour your Lord doth come.. . war, wake up the mighty men, let all 4. What is this sealing work? Therefore be ye also ready: for in such the men of war draw near; let them Ans.—The preparation of God's an hour as ye think not the Son of come up: beat your plowshares into people for Christ's coming. "This man cometh." Matthew 24:33, 42, 44, ' swords, and your pruninghooks into gospel of the kingdom shall be preached margin. spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yoursehies to- gether round about: thither cause Thy SCRIPTURE PROBLEMS SOLVED • • mighty ones to come down, 0 Lord. This is a service department where questions on religion, ethics, Let the heathen be wakened, and come and Bible interpretation will be answered. up to the valley of Jehoshphat : for Send questions to the editor. there will I sit to judge all the heathen around about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you Difference in Versions thousand manuscripts and ancient down; for the press is full, the fats Please explain the difference between versions, they presented the results of overflow; for their wickedness is great. the King James, the Douay, and the years of painstaking endeavor in the Multitudes, multitudes in the valley work commonly known as the Au- Condensed Bible? I think I have as many of decision: for the day of the Lord is thorized Version, which was published near in the valley of decision." Joel as eight Bibles in my house, but never in 1611. 3: 9-14. knew that the Bible changed like every- The Douay Version, commonly ac- 2. What will be the final outcome of thing else. Can you tell me about this? cepted by the Roman Catholics, is all the warring elements of earth? H.E.E. based upon the Latin Vulgate, trans- "I will call for a sword upon all the The difference really consists in lated by Jerome. One of the main inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord versions of the Bible. The King James differences between it and the King of hosts. . . . For the Lord hath a Version, or that commonly used by James Version is the inclusion of the controversy with the nations, He will English-speaking peoples, is the work apocryphal books. plead with all flesh; He will give them of fifty-four men of learning and piety, The "Condensed Bible" is doubtless that are wicked to the sword, saith the appointed by King James, of Great the work of certain university pro- Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Britain, in 1603 A. D., to examine origi- fessors, who, by elimination and 7 Behold, evil shall go forth from nation nal manuscripts and translations, and expurgation of such portions of the to nation, and a great whirlwind shall give to the English Protestant Church Inspired Word as they thought neces- be raised up from the coasts of the a translation conforming in every sary, reduced the Bible to a hand- earth. And the slain of the Lord shall respect with the original manuscripts. book, thus disregarding the warning be at that day from one end of the earth Availing themselves of nearly one of Revelation 22: 19. APRIL, 1 9 3 6 Page THIRTEENS The MYSTERY of LIFE • By Wells Allen RUBLE, M. D. ■ Dr. Kassabian (left), of Los Angeles, and his as- sistant, Dr. Hethcock, who offered to "petrify" the body of King George V of is the greatest error ever foisted on the Great Britain, plate it with human race. In the beginning God bronze, and place it in a said: "In the day that thou eatest niche of Westminster Ab- bey. thereof thou shalt surely die." Genesis 2: 17. The evil one countered with this error: "Ye shall not surely die." Gen- esis 3: 4. He, the devil, has been enunciating that falsehood throughout the history of the world, and even today many eternal death for the transgressor, or Christians believe his statement in eternal life for the obedient. preference to that of God. In reference The first death is always "reversi- to the claim of spiritists that survival HE Boston Post, ble." The second death is visited upon Dec. 14, 1935, reported an address en- the disobedient only, and is always of the soul has been demonstrated, Dr. Carrel commented: "The impor- titled, "The Mystery of Death," "irreversible." "They shall be as tance of the facts on which such specu- delivered before the New York Acad- though they had not been" (Obadiah emy of Medicine, by Dr. Alexis 16), burned up root and branch (Mal- lations are based cannot be denied, but the interpretation of the experimental Carrel whose fame, in the popular achi 4: 1.) mind, rests chiefly on his having kept What is man's condition after the results seems to be incorrect." tissue from the heart of a chick living first, that is, "reversible," death? Dr. in a laboratory test tube for more than Carrel says, "A possibility, very re- Right, again. All seeming evidence twenty-four years. In this address there mote, is suspension of life." No, of life after death rests on trickery, were so many facts and intimations Doctor, not at all remote as to fact. of the evil one and that fully corroborate Inspiration that Suspension of life,—or may we say, or on the activities I cannot refrain from commenting on lapse of life,—is, together with death, his emissaries in an effort to bolster up his first recorded lie and thus to them from a spiritual viewpoint. All the most certain thing of all human delude and lead away God's creatures. of these facts, and many more, have experience, with but one exception; been a matter of divine revelation for and that is of the righteous living when No, there is no life after death as yet, save the few recorded cases of special many generations. Christ comes and establishes His Science has, throughout the history kingdom on earth and translates His resurrection. Our dead friends are of man, interested itself in an en- living followers into an immortal asleep. Christ said of Lazarus, "Our deavor to find the source of life and to existence. The righteous living at friend Lazarus sleepeth" (John 11: 11), after he had been dead four days and produce it spontaneously, but without see death. (Reve- that time shall never decomposition had begun (John 11: the least encouragement of success. lation 21: 4.) Revelation says that God "breathed 39). "I go, that I may awake him out into his nostrils the breath of life, and of sleep," added Christ, and He raised man became a living soul." (Genesis Suspension of life?—Yes, of all who him from the dead. Again, when 2:7.) There is no other way of pro- have ever died, after which there will Christ was called to the death chamber ducing life. be a resurrection. "And many of them of the daughter of the ruler of the Dr. Carrel is reported to have, in this that sleep in the dust of the earth synagogue, He said of her, "The address, defined two kinds of death— shall awake, some to everlasting life, damsel is not dead, but sleepeth." reversible and irreversible. This is and some to shame and everlasting Mark 5:39. Although the people right, for that is in accord with in- contempt." Daniel 12:2. sneered, Christ raised her to life. spiration. "Death passed upon all "Part of the human personality The "reversible" death, to God and men, for that all have sinned." Romans may escape death," Dr. Carrel is to all who accept His word, is the sleep , 5: 12. "It is appointed unto men once quoted to have said. To this we say, in which the unconscious ones await to die, but after this the judgment." "No; decidedly no." No sentient part the resurrection. Hebrews 9:27. At this judgment a of the human personality of those who "There is no scientific proof at the decision will be made as to a second, die escapes "reversible" death. Here present time of the survival after Page FOURTEEN The WATCHMAN MAGAZINE

death of the mind," says Dr. Carrel. over life and longevity, but two greater few seek for that spiritual preparation Absolutely true. factors influencing them are diet and which will make long life a reality! No sentient part of the person- mode of living. Animal experimenta- Eternal existence is the central theme ality of those who die escapes death; tion has conclusively proved that by and highest hope of the gospel of Jesus either "reversible," or "irreversible," feeding animals on as perfect a diet as Christ. death. This we know on the authority can be furnished, and giving them Oh, the ecstacy of the sure hope of an of the word of the living God. "For every consideration of physiologic eternal life untrammeled by trans- the living know that they shall die: living, they can be made to live much gression and its train of terror, fear, but the dead know not anything, . . . longer than the average, and that old age, pain, sorrow, suffering, and neither have they any more a portion they may be kept well and free from death! Inspiration gives us this as- forever in anything that is done under disease. Why not human beings also? surance. Millions today, and through- the sun." Ecclesiastes 9: 5, 6. "In out the history of the world, have death there is no remembrance of experienced through faith that boon Thee." Psalm 6:5. In answering the question, "Can even in this life, and will experience it Dr. Carrel also said that some day we progress further?" the doctor enu- in reality throughout the countless almost every individual may die only merates four possibilities. The first one ages of eternity. of old age. "Can we progress further?" consists of analyzing the conditions Numerous findings of science today, he asks. "Perhaps if we learn more responsible for the aging of tissues; astronomical, geological, physiological, about those mechanisms of life that second, "search for the physiological are corroborating the Inspired Record. bring about death. The problems can factors that determine longevity"; These scientific investigators are re- be attacked in different ways. The third, death could also be retarded by vealing truths that increase our faith first one consists of analyzing the a rejuvenation operation; that is, in Holy Writ, and to such we give great conditions responsible for the aging gland transplantation. Fourth possi- honor. tissues. A second manner of opposing bility: "There is a fourth, although It is to be hoped that further sci- death is the search for the physio- very remote, possibility of postponing entific study will bring closer together logical factors that determine lon- for a long period of time the death of a and prove to be of the same Author gevity." These he explained as he- few individuals." the essentials of true science and di- redity, diet, and mode of living. Here rests the greatest and highest vine revelation as recorded in the I. This is excellent logic and instruc- desire of the human heart even for Sacred Scriptures. They are in perfect tion. Heredity has a great influence this existence. How pathetic that so accord.

THE DOCTOR REPLIES TO HEALTH QUERIES • • Medical and hygienic information of value to the general reader is given here by Owen S. Parrett, M. D., Superintendent of the Washington Sanitarium and Hospital, Takoma Park, D. C. Inquirers may address the doctor, or the editor of this magazine. Natural Sweets Influenza fomentations may be used on the lungs Is it possible to overuse natural 10, What is a good treatment for influenza if there is a severe cough or evidence of sweets such as honey, glucose, or the or an acute cold? M. F. bronchitis. Several glasses of hot sweets found in sweet fruits? Y. The following program will usually lemonade may be taken; and it is It is possible to overuse any food, no result in shortening the course of such especially helpful, where there is a matter how excellent. In the case of a cold—and it might be of interest to sore throat, to use the juice of a half sweets, according to experiments on say that colds probably cause more lemon to each glass of water. Put a rats recently carried out at the loss both of time and earnings than hot water bottle to the feet and an Loma Linda Medical College, there does any other form of sickness in the extra blanket on the bed, so that one would seem to be a marked difference United States. At the onset of a cold, is kept free from chilly sensations and between the way the body handles one should immediately cut down on in a state of mild perspiration. This cane sugar and its treatment of all solid foods and resort to fruit juices, treatment may be repeated once or dextrose or glucose found in honey which may be sweetened with natural twice on each successive day; and and sweet fruits. I do not believe one sugar such as honey, or be used un- begin to use a more free diet only should overuse any kind of sweet, but sweetened. These should be taken in when the temperature is normal or a reasonable amount of honey used quite large quantities. And also it is the appetite becomes a bit keen. If daily and sweet fruits in any amount well to drink several glasses of water the throat is sore, a heating throat desired would not be followed by any during the day. A thorough cleansing compress is helpful, put on as follows: untoward results in adult or child, un- of the bowel by a mild laxative or, Wring a small damp cloth from cold less such a person is a diebetic or in a better still, by an enema, using plain water—preferably ice water—wrap it pre-diabetic condition, with abnor- water, is a good way to start treat- around the neck and cover with a mally low sugar tolerance. The use of .7) ment. Follow this by a short, hot tub heavy piece of dry flannel a little wider cane sugar—it might be mentioned— bath or hot leg bath, continued till than the first cloth, a wool sock an- results in decreased sugar tolerance, perspiration begins; then sponge with swering the purpose admirably. This whereas the natural sugars apparently slightly cool water, dry quickly, and is put on and left for eight to ten hours do not have this effect, even when used get into bed. During this treatment, and renewed if necessary. rather freely. APRIL, 1936 Page FIFTEEN • tt. "Nothing, nothing at all," I an- swered, "only Paul seemed to speak to me. He was saying, 'I have learned, Contentment, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.'" "Oh, ho!" said my friend. "So that's B it. A dish and a preachment. Thank you, thank you so much. I'll not for- By get it right away." And she didn't. Neither did I, for IT WAS on a shop- Martha E. even now, at times, down in my heart, I ping trip with a f iend, in one of the WARNER find myself changing Paul's words, "I world's largest stores, that I discovered have learned," to, "I am learning." it, the dish, I mean; and seen, as I I often wonder how the Lord can be so first saw it, away from the rest of the patient with such dumb pupils as we set, there was nothing about it to cause "You have heard me speak of Mrs. humans are. one to give it more than a passing Blank, the rich Mrs. Blank, she is glance. Yet because of its quaintness, called. She may dine, and she does, its rich shading of mulberry, its delicate from lace and gold and silver, on the Parade of Empires tracery of a flower in deeper red with choicest products of imported chefs; (Continued from page 4) graceful green leaves, it reminded me but if she suffers from indigestion, oracle of twenty-five centuries ago that of a set of dishes that belonged to my the pain in her stomach will be as "they shall not cleave one to an- great-grandmother, one cup of which acute as if it were in mine. other" still stands to prove that "the is now one of my cherished possessions. "Her living room may be filled with Scriptures cannot be broken." (John The salesgirl had the little dish in rich rugs, exquisite solid woods, pieces 10: 35.) her hand. She told me it was not for that famous museums envy; but if she As paradoxical as it may seem, the sale, but the complete set was displayed has a cold, she feels just as ill, and is no prophecy shows that there is yet to "over there," on shelves, behind glass less afraid of pneumonia than the rest come a world empire wherein there will doors. of us. be unity and brotherhood between man The minute I looked at it, I knew it "Even though her piano be of gold, and man in the truest sense of the word. was not for me, for the little dish I so her bathtub carved out of solid "And in the days of those kings shall much admired was priced at $12.50, marble, her bed be worth a quarter the God of heaven set up a kingdom and a tiny cream pitcher, $25.00. The of a million of dollars, if she cannot which shall never be destroyed, nor price tags on cups and saucers, plates, sleep, the expensive bed cannot shorten shall the sovereignty thereof be left bowls, and covered dishes, made me the dark hours. to another people; but it shall break in dizzy. "Her riches and luxury may give pieces and consume all these kingdoms, her pleasure, but if her girl goes wrong, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch or her boy gets into a scrape, she would as thou sawest that a stone was cut out No, the set was not for me, but I be no less wretched than the world of of the mountain without hands, and could look at it; and it was while I was mothers whose material looking that my friend ruminated. possessions cannot com- "Oh, what must it be like to have pare with hers. money enough to buy dishes like these, "Our heavenly Father and these," she said, pointing to a set gives faith, hope, and which glittered with gold. "Oh," she love alike to all, and it's continued, "to have money enough to the women who have furnish a house with lovely things, health, and a home, beautiful rugs, furniture, paintings, faith, and love, who are silver. It's not wrong to want beautiful the millionares, rich with things in one's home. It cannot be the things that money wrong to love beauty, for the Lord cannot buy; for within himself, put beauty in everything that themselves they have the He created. Think of the exquisite elements of contentment, shadings in the flowers, and the birds, and these are what stand and a butterfly's wings! Sometimes I for happiness. Can you wonder why it is some people have repeat," I asked, "Phi- so much money and others have so lippians 4: 11?" little. Don't you ever wish," she ab- " E—err—well, not off- ruptly asked, "that you were a mil- hand. But what in the lionaire?" world has a Bible verse Laughingly I replied, " Why not wish to do with these dishes?" for the moon? It is true that money she queried. can give pleasure, but it does not make or control happiness, and after all is ■ Wealth may not be hers, but said and done, does it make so much this child is nevertheless happy difference in one's life? without a new Raster hat. ■ Page SIXTEEN The WATCHMAN MAGAZINE that it brake in pieces the iron, the Universe, by whom empires rise and Looking into the future with opti- brass, the clay, the silver, and the fall. A review of the many signal mism, Washington replied: "For all gold." Verses 44, 45, A. R. V. instances of divine interposition in beyond I rely on the wisdom and pa- Note two points in particular: (1) favor of this country claims our most triotism of those with whom I am to that the stone "smote the image upon pious gratitude."—May 7, 1789. co-operate and a continuance of the its feet" (verse 34), and (2) that it was To this the President responded: "I blessings of Heaven on our beloved "cut out without hands." It is "in now feel myself inexpressibly happy in country."—May 8, 1789. the latter days" (verse 28), "in the a belief that Heaven, which has done It was in this setting of praise and days of those kings" represented by so much for our infant nation, will not thanksgiving that the Constitution was the feet and toes, that God shall set withdraw its providential influence be- presented to the people of this republic up His kingdom. That means that it fore our political felicity shall have and to the world. will be set up before European civiliza- been completed."—May 18, 1789. When the Declaration of Independ- tion shall pass away. In the same spirit did the House of ence broadcast to the world the doc- But that does not mean that Representatives answer the President's trine of liberty and equality for all European statesmen, or a League of message: "We feel with you the strong- men, monarchical rulers saw an un- Nations, or a pope of Rome shall be the est obligations to adore the Invisible welcome guest enter the family of agency by which the kingdom of God Hand which has led the American nations. With fear and foreboding shall be ushered in. Not only is it to be people through so many difficulties, to they saw this stripling strike down a "cut out without hands," but it will cherish a conscious responsibility for mighty Goliath and step forth as a de- smite and destroy these nations of the destiny of republican liberty, and fender of human rights. today. Those who shall become to seek the only sure means of pre- Though a thousand precedents up- citizens of Christ's kingdom will be serving and recommending the precious held the rule of kings and condemned prepared by the transformation of deposit in a system of legislation the idea that men could rule them- regeneration through the Spirit of founded on the principles of an honest selves by their own laws, here was a God (John 3: 1-8) and not by the so- policy and directed by the spirit of nation "breaking with antiquity" and called "reforms" of ecclesio-political diffusive patriotism." — May 6, 1789. challenging the world in defense of a programs and legislation becoming so popular today. "But when the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall A Home Maker in this; he is in the vast majority. And He sit on the throne of His glory." to tell him and the whole mob that it is Matthew 25:31. ANSWERS wicked to go to shows, without at the It will require more than mere assent same time providing a rational counter- and belief in God to prepare one for Parents' Questions program, adequate and satisfying, is that kingdom. Faith must be ac- like demanding of an opium addict that companied by its corresponding works. Perplexing questions on mar- he stop the use of his drug while giving (James 2: 3-26.) "Not every one that ried life, home management, him neither food nor treatment. saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall and child training will be an- The remedy, like all rational cures, is enter into the kingdom of heaven; swered by A. W. Spalding, simply the resumption or adoption of a but he that doeth the will of My specialist on the home and its normal physical, intellectual, and social Father which is in heaven." Mat- ideals. Queries may be sent to the editor. life. It is the empty mind or the dis- thew 7:21. eased mind which demands the arti- ficial stimulation of the theater. What is needed is a mind filled with natural Our Constitution--a Do you think there is anything wrong interests and activities. In the study of in going to shows once in awhile? nature there is an unlimited source of Glorious Heritage I have no space here to analyze the entertainment and delight; in poetry (Continued from page 2) product of the theater and measure and prose and in music and art there is • conducts the affairs of men more than its elements of good and bad. That the purest pleasure and greatest joy; those of the United States. Every has been done sufficiently by many of in mastery of manual arts there is the step by which they have advanced to its critics and its apologists. The keenest satisfaction, and in dispas- the character of an independent nation lives of the heroes and heroines of the sionate observation of the life of one's seems to have been distinguished by screen and stage, as portrayed in their community and the individual lives some token of providential agency." own autobiographies and in the daily of the persons composing it and in ap- —Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789. news, is sufficient comment. But I plying one's trained powers in ministry The Senate replied: "When we con- come to the heart of the young man's to their needs and their pleasure, there template the coincidence of circum- problem when I surmise that he is greater and truer drama than the stances and wonderful combination of wants to go to shows. What does this theater can ever portray. The person causes which gradually prepared the mean? In no spirit of scorn, but with whose mind is so trained and dis- people of this country for independ- a sincere desire to point him his way ciplined will have no yearning for the ence; when we contemplate the rise, out, I tell him that this means he has mummery of shows, because he has a progress, and termination of the late no adequate means of self-entertain- fuller, more satisfying life, and play- war, which gave them a name among ment. He is lonesome with himself. acting is insipid to him. If he is weak all the nations of the earth, we are with It takes a crowd and a show to anes- of will, if he just must "go to a show you unavoidably led to acknowledge thetize that hollow feeling in the once in awhile," he will land on the and adore the Great Arbiter of the cubicles of his brain. He is not alone rubbish heap. APRIL, 1936 Page SEVENTEEN ■ new faith. Oppressors saw a hand- this song of the "Star of the West": writing on the wall decreeing their "Westward the course of empire takes destruction unless this movement could its way. ti, catchmaan be stopped. The first four acts already passed, -magazine As the principles of liberty in this A fifth shall close the drama with the An Interpreter of the Times country began to crystallize into law, day— opposition began to gather force. As Time's noblest offspring is his last." Vol. XLV April, 1936 No. 4 God had a hand in the building up of —Bishop Berkeley. JAMES EARL SHULTZ, Editor this nation, so did the enemy of justice This last great nation of the west has H. IC. CHRISTMAN, Circulation Manager and liberty seek to tear down and indeed lifted up a standard for the destroy. A great spiritual battle began. whole world. 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The powers of evil Nashville, Tennessee ings of the critics, the sneers of the are still seeking to destroy our Con- scorners, the censure of wiseacres, and stitution and ruin this great Re- public. Though the words of this words in the Sermon on the Mount, a the prophecies of failure from the ashy discourse in which He enunciated the lips of cowards and traitors; but thanks document be inscribed upon plates of steel and deposited in the vaults of the principles of the kingdom of grace: be to an all-wise Providence, they were "Think not that I am come to destroy not deterred in their efforts."—Mahone. U. S. Treasury, unless the principles of honesty, justice, liberty, and temper- the law or the prophets: I came not to In the Federal Convention envy and destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say jealousy arose over personal and politi- ance are wrought into the lives of the citizens, the standard of the Constitu- unto you, Till heaven and earth pass cal ambitions and policies. Soon it was away, one jot or one tittle shall in no discovered that they were erecting a tion will eventually trail in the dust of wise pass away from the law, till all tower of Babel instead of a temple of the chariot of Despotism. things be accomplished." Matthew 5: liberty. Confusion reigned; they could Let us heed the counsel of our first 17, 18, A. R. V. Verse 17 is rendered not understand one another's language, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Jay: "The most effectual means in the Emphatic Diaglott as follows: and the work stopped. Then wise old "Think not that I have come to sub- Benjamin Franklin, sensing the cause of securing the continuance of our civil and religious liberties, is always to vert the law, or the prophets: I have of weakness, arose and said: come not to subvert, but to establish." "The longer I live, the more con- remember with reverence and gratitude the source from which they flow." Therefore, "this is the end of the vincing proofs I see of this truth—that matter; all bath been heard: Fear God, God governs in the affairs of men. And and keep His commandments; for this if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground is the whole duty of man." Ecclesiastes without His notice, is it probable that ,An Immutable Law 12: 13, A. R. V. an empire can rise without His aid?" But someone will say, "How can I At another time it was suggested (Continued from page 12) reach such an exalted standard? How ott that some "jokers" be incorporated in for Christ to die, and thus pay the can a sinner keep a holy law?" He can the proposed Constitution that it penalty in man's stead. do it through Christ. Though Christ might find better favor with the people. God, in speaking through David con- spoke truly when He declared: "With- Washington quickly arose, "his tall cerning Christ and His relation to the out Me ye can do nothing," yet Paul's figure drawn up to its full height, and law, said: "I also will make Him My declaration is equally true, when he exclaimed in tones unwontedly solemn firstborn, the highest of the kings of said: "I can do all things through with suppressed emotion: 'If, to please the earth. My loving kindness will I Christ which strengtheneth me." the people we offer what we ourselves keep for Him forevermore; and My disapprove, how can we afterward covenant shall stand fast with Him." defend our work? Let us raise a stan- Psalm 89: 27, 28, A. R. V. Now God's dard to which the wise and honest can covenant here referred to is undoubt- If we but permit Him, Christ Jesus repair; the event is in the hand of edly the ten commandments; for we will come into the life and do the God." read, "And He declared unto you His Father's will in and through us. He Did the prophet Isaiah, peering into covenant, which He commanded you comes and condemns sin in the flesh, the distant future, see this nation and to perform, even the ten command- and supplies the power which makes its Magna Charta of liberty when he ments; and He wrote them upon two it possible, "that the righteousness of wrote, 2,600 years ago: "So shall they tables of stone." Deuteronomy 4: 13, the law might be fulfilled in us." fear the name of the Lord from the A. R. V. God declares, therefore, that Romans 8: 4. Only let Him in, in the west," and "when the enemy shall come the ten commandments stand fast with fullness of His power, and the difficulty in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord Christ. He was not to come and abol- is passed. The beautiful fruits of shall lift up a standard against him"? ish them, nor in any way minimize righteousness will then appear in the Isaiah 59:19. their importance. life as naturally as the lilies bloom in Two hundred years ago, from the But did the Father's law stand fast the springtime, and this will destroy little State of Rhode Island, a poet sang with Christ? Notice carefully His all fear of the judgment. II Page EIGHTEEN The WATCHMAN MAGAZINE Does It Make Any nomists the blind staggers, there seems heathen" taking a prominent part. to be no normal way out. With mil- The search is continued, and the Difference? lions of the employable unemployed, Revelation (chapter 16: 12-16) reveals (Continued from page 5) and millions more subsisting on a the fact that the "kings of the East" whom the ends of the world are come." virtual dole, misnamed wages, the (undoubtedly Japan, China, and Rus- 1 Corinthians 10: 11. country has yet to find financial sia being at the forefront) will come We have quoted from God's word equilibrium. Four billion dollars are west, the other way around the world, relative to this subject; now listen to being spent to stabilize industry, with with a united purpose to conquer their the words of man regarding the Sab- little hope that it will accomplish its common enemies—the nations of the bath: "You may read the Bible from purpose. West and erstwhile dominators in Genesis to Revelation, and you will Surplus wealth in the hands of a few world trade and military prowess—and not find a single line authorizing the and surplus goods in factories, ware- all will meet to lay down the gauge of sanctification of Sunday. The Scrip- houses, and stores spell the immediate battle at Armageddon in Palestine. tures enforce the religious observance cause of the crisis. But back of this is And that battle, which even now is of Saturday, a day we never sanctify." the lack of markets for American conceiving in East Asia, will be the —Cardinal Gibbons, in "The Faith of manufactures and agricultural pro- battle which will end battles. For the Our Fathers," edition of 1893, page 111. ducts. Over-machined factory and God of battles will for the first time in "Sunday is a Catholic institution, and farm have at once put millions of men all history of wars let sin, and its its claims for observance can be de- out of work and produced far more fruitage death, take full toll—and war- fended only on Catholic principles. . . . than the American people can consume. riors will be no more. From beginning to end of Scripture The only visible solution is in vastly But out of that carnage will be saved there is not a single passage that increased exports. But countries which the faithful to Him who smites the warrants the transfer of weekly public ten years ago consumed large quantities nations with a rod of iron. For "the worship from the last day of the week of American goods are now self-con- Lord will be the hope of His people "; to the first."—Catholic Press (Sydney, tained and economically independent. and "happy is he that watcheth" when Australia), Aug. 25, 1900. Other markets have been captured by He comes as a thief. God or the church—which shall we foreign industrialized nations eager to obey? Jesus says: "But in vain they sell their own products and ease their BILHORN FOLDING do worship Me, teaching for doctrines home problems. ORGANS Noted for durability and the commandments of men." Matthew The teeming millions of eastern Asia long service because of so- penor materials, workman 15:9. present the most lucrative market for ship, volume, tone quality, foreign manufactured articles which strength and sturdiness. God is particular. He means what Write for circulars and He says. It does make a difference. the world knows at the present time. prices. BILHOUN BROS. Competition for their custom is the 306 S. Wabash Ave. keenest that trade history records. 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And now we witness from bility without first seeking the co- our imaginary watch-tower in the mid- operation of the United States, or at Pacific, a threatening ring of political least finding out where America stands as well as physical volcanoes. $DATENTS on the question. And the Government We feel ourselves lost amid the at Washington is fully aware that with welter of selfish and warring interests BEST QUALITY—LOW COST! so much power comes fearful re- that stir the nations. We grope for a Save money by getting our new sponsibility. guidebook, an authority. And it comes prices before you buy. Write the In common with all the great na- to hand in the Bible, the "light that nearest factory listed below. tions at this moment, the United shineth in a dark place," the future. States has its predicament. 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1. Britain fortifies Aden as a precaution against eventualities in Arthur Verney (right) are seen with the Chief Abbot of the North Africa. 2. King Edward VIII as he appeared shortly Tashi-Lhumpo Lamasery at Shigatse, Tibet. 5. Eleazar Lopez- before his father's death. 3. A Saar maiden proffering flowers to Contreras, new president of Venezuela, who has curbed commu- officers on the occasion of the celebration of the first anniversary nists and granted liberties to his people. 6. Dr. Stanley Living- of its return to the German fatherland. 4. The first two white ston demonstrating Cornell's new "cyclotron" which cost $5,000 men to be invited to enter Lhasa, holy city of Tibet. Suydam and can break up atoms and manufacture radium, before this Cutting (left) of the American Museum of Natural History, and produced only at $40,000 a gram.