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'Cite'' Secret-- I met God in the morning, When my day was at its best; And His Presence came like sunrise With a glory in my breast. All day long God's Presence lingered, All day long He stayed with me; And we sailed in perfect calmness O'er a very troubled sea. Other ships were blown and battered, Other ships were sore distressed, But the winds that seemed to drive them Brought to us both peace and rest. Then I thought of other mornings, With a keen remorse of mind, When I, too, had loosed the moorings, With God's Presence left behind. So I think I know the secret, Learned from many a troubled way; You must seek Him in the morning If you want Him through the day. —Ralph Cushman. OF THE TIMES A family magazine dedicated to promoting evangelical Christianity, upholding Jesus Christ as man's only Saviour and soon-returning King, and presenting the Bible as the inspired Word of God and our only rule of faith. EDITOR - Ross C. PIPER CIRCULATION MANAGER - J. C. H. Shirley ASSOCIATE EDITOR Marian M. Hay LAYOUT - - - - Howard G. Davis VOLUME 76, NUMBER 6 JUNE, 1961 IN THIS ISSUE Stating as we do, this magazine's policy of CONTENTS "presenting the Bible as the inspired Word of God and our only rule of faith," it is not to be EDITORIALS wondered at that we include so many articles Into the Unknown 2 which stress the uniqueness of this Book. Hugh The Eichmann Trial 3 J. Bo1st, on page 6, refers to the Bible as "The Crowd Consciousness 4 World's Wonder Book." You will appreciate Means Without Ends 4 his comments. A long way from his birthplace in Christ- church, New Zealand, missionary L. H. Barnard ARTICLES writes for us from the highlands of New Guinea Blind in One Eye Nicholas Rochemont 5 where he has been stationed for many years. The The World's Wonder Book Hugh J. Bolst 6 story he tells on page 8 is one which should Kinivie's Dream L. H. Barnard 8 quicken the pulse of all Christians. Thoroughbred Men 9 When Keith Moxon was in the United States, Ancient Pages from the American Book of Nature Keith Moxon II he wrote a number of magazine articles and books The Race for Space David Sibley 16 which found their inspiration from his native Aus- The Meaning of Death A. J. H. Smart 19 tralia. Now he has returned home, he writes for Is There a Hell to Shun? Ralph Tudor 22 us something he gleaned while overseas. See page Do You Value Your Bible? 24 Overweight and What to Do About It Dr. Harold Shryock 26 11 for his "Ancient Pages from the American Book This News Will Never Be Printed W. Austin Townend 28 of Nature." The Sabbatarian Robert H. Parr 30 What used to be regarded with something like an air of detached amusement, is now a topic for serious consideration. Taking time off from his REGULAR FEATURES busy duties as a church administrator, David Our Changing World 10 Sibley writes a thoughtful article on page 16 Lines that Linger 15 concerning this topic, "The Race for Space." Signs Counsel Corner William A. Fagal 20 For those who appreciate a factual presenta- For Juniors Who Love a Story 25 tion of a controversial subject, we would recom- Your Bible Questions Answered D. Ford 32 mend Pastor Ralph Tudor's discussion of the question, "Is There a Hell to Shun?" From the original Greek and Hebrew words, you might gain a different concept of what the Bible means by the term "eternal punishment." See page 22. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Single Copies .. 1/6 Also recommended reading is the fresh ap- One-year subscriptions, paid in Australia for mailing to ad- dresses in Australia. Mandated Territories, and Pacific proach given to an old subject by W. 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SIGNS OF THE TIMES June 1, 1961 Page One Of course it was not long before the propaganda drums began to be beaten. "Let the capitalistic coun- tries try to catch up," taunted Krushchev, while Pravda intoned, "The world will draw the inevitable conclusion Into the Unknown about the superiority of one system over the other." America, while offering her congratulations, could not "AS THE SECOND HALF of the twentieth cen- disguise her disappointment at not being the first na- tury began, the restless spirit of man faced its greatest tion into space. Even her more recent achievement in challenge. On earth, the last frontiers had been which Commander Alan Shepard rode in a space cap- crossed, the Everests scaled, the Antarctic wastes char- sule on a 280 mile ballistic flight, though in itself a ted, the deepest depths of the oceans plumbed. There major triumph for America, does not begin to compare remained but one direction for man to go in his un- with Russia's more sophisticated orbital flight. ending search for adventure and knowledge: Outward A whole spate of scientific and philosophical prob- into space, onward to the moon and the planets, be- lems have been posed by this, man's first step into the yond to alien worlds. Now historians have a date unknown reaches of the cosmos. For example, a to begin their chronicle of man's conquest of the warning was given at an international space symposium cosmos. On April 12, 1961, a 27-year-old Russian that some system would have to be devised to sterilize named Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin took mankind's first, space ships, or man might contaminate the moon and triumphant step into space." other planets. "Extreme caution is needed to ensure With these words Newsweek magazine reported the that life, if it exists, is not destroyed by contamination event which has been the central topic of conversation by earthly matter such as bacteria," one scientist wherever men gather. Together with television view- warned. He then went on to stress that some inter- ers in their hundreds of thousands, we viewed the planetary quarantine regulation would have to be American-produced CBS news feature which reviewed drawn up. the whole epic achievement, and watched the trium- We personally do not believe that such regulations phant scenes in Moscow's Red Square as Major Gagarin will be necessary, for it is not contamination by bac- was accorded a hero's reception. Not since the mob teria that is the chief problem to be overcome, but scenes which marked the successful solo crossing of the contamination by sin. This world at present is one Atlantic by Charles Lindbergh in 1927, has one man vast quarantine station in the midst of God's unfallen so captivated the public eye. Hugged and kissed by universe. Satan and his evil cohorts have been con- Krushchev, and toasted by him as the "new Columbus," fined to earth, and here the great drama of the ages is Gagarin was awarded the Soviet's highest honour, the being worked out. It was to this world that the Son of Order of Hero of the Soviet Union. God came to die, in order to provide the divine anti- The few details which have been released concern- dote for the contagion of sin. And it will not he until ing this 108-minute flight which took man higher (188 the last sinner who is willing to accept the cleansing miles) and faster (18,000 miles per hour) than any offered by Christ has done so, and sin is for ever other man has ever travelled before, have made most blotted out from the universe, that mortal man will be interesting reading. "The sun in outer space," the permitted by God to contact unfallen worlds. cosmonaut reported, "is ten times brighter." Above Thus, though men may dream of riding a giant him were the unwinking stars in their true red, white, spaceship in the wake of Gagarin's primitive craft, and yellow colours against the eternal black night of traversing the outer reaches of the cosmos, we believe the cosmos. Below him was his home planet, a glow- God will say to them as He does to the waves of the ing sphere girded by a "narrow belt of soft light-blue sea, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further." colours." In his whirl around the world, Gagarin sped Though man might have mentally dismissed God from from day into night, and into day again (as well as the universe which He created, it is God who will from Wednesday into Tuesday, then back to Wednes- have the last word. Our surest hope for space travel day again). "This change from blue to the dark is is to accept Christ now, and then await the invitation, very gradual and lovely," he said.