WORLD EVENTS IN THE LIGHT OF PROPHECY

VOL. 41, NO. 9 Melbourne, Victoria. Australia, March 1, 1926 ONE PENNY

The Peace Treaty of Locarno Is the Peace of Europe Assured ? Does the Agreement at Locarno Ensure the World against Future War?

F. M. WILCOX URING the early days of October there would take place in London, December 1. The treaty gathered at Locarno, Switzerland, repre- consisted of eight documents, the terms of all of sentatives of several of the leading powers which must be accepted or rejected in toto by the of Europe, to consider the formation of a various countries involved. We quote from the New new treaty, which it was hoped would pre- York Times of December 2 as to the general terms vent future war and ensure continued peace of this treaty :— to the European states. There were represented at this conference Great Britain, France, Germany, GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE TREATY Italy, Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, and Poland. Octo- "THE treaty itself consists of four documents— ber 16 witnessed the final draft of the treaty, which a protocol, a security pact guaranteeing the integrity was signed by the delegates present, it being under- of Germany's present western frontiers, an arbitra- stood that the final adoption by the signatory powers tion convention between France and Germany, and

Kadt,1 &.Harbert News Photos KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND LISTENING TO WORLD'S LARGEST CARILLON OF BELLS A view of King George and Queen Mary in the foundry of Gillett and Johnston, Croydon, England, listening to the great carillon of bells built by that firm for the Park Avenue Baptist Church, New York. The complete set, numbering fifty-three bells, weighs one hundred tons, the bass bell weighing nine tons. [Registered at the G.P.O., Melbourne, for trawonission by post as a newspaper.] 2 SIGNS OF THE TIMES March 1, 1926 an arbitration convention between Belgium and Ger- said M. Briand, the French minister, after the pact many. There are four further treaties, two of arbi- had been signed. tration between Germany and Poland and Germany " 'This has been done,' he added. 'It is the most and Czecho-Slovakia, and two of mutual guarantee important step in the history of the modern world, between France and Poland and France and Czecho- and the future should be one of arbitration and Slovakia. . . . collaboration between the nations, where war and "All the contracting parties declare that they armament have no place.' will maintain inviolable the present frontiers be- "In a brief statement to the Associated Press, tween Germany and France and between Germany Austen Chamberlain said the conclusion of the and Belgium. Germany cannot legitimately make Locarno pact had settled the problem of security, war on France or Belgium, nor vice versa, except while the peace of Europe had been consolidated by under three clearly defined conditions. Disputes the adhesion of Great Britain and Italy. between Germany on the one hand, and France and " 'The treaties were the outcome of a sincere de- Belgium on the other, which can be settled by the sire on the part of the nations concerned for peace application of law, must go before a qualified arbi- and reconciliation. They banished war, and pro- tration tribunal, whose decision is binding. Dis- vided for the automatic ostracism of any eventual putes which cannot be so settled must be submitted aggression. To those thinking the pact did not go to a conciliation commission, whose recommenda- far enough we would answer that it led straight to tions are not binding. But if either party rejects disarmament by creating a new sense of security.' such recommendations, the decision as to what is to be taken rests with the Council of the League under ASSURANCE OF PROSPERITY Article 15 of the Covenant. Belgium, or vice versa, " 'THE Locarno Treaty,' declared Dr. Edouard in contravention of the treaty obligations, then Benes, the Czecho-Slovak foreign minister, 'has Great Britain and Italy, as guarantors, would under- solved the international problems of Europe. It is take to give military support to the attacked party. up to the nations to put their internal affairs on a The guarantors are entitled to decide for themselves solid basis ; and when this is accomplished, the whether such an attack has been made. The case prosperity of Western Europe is assured.' . . . must nevertheless be reported to the Council of " 'The Locarno Pact,' declared Count Alexander the League, and the guarantors, whether or not Skrzynski, the Polish premier and foreign minister, they have already taken action, must comply with `offers the European states an opportunity for peace the findings of the Council of the League. The and disarmament which they have never had before. treaty is to last until such time as the representa- I have no doubt that in conformity with the treaties tives of the powers meeting in the Council of the a new international feeling of peace and security League have decided that the League is strong will be brought about, which will make for dis- enough to ensure the protection of all parties without armament and prosperity.' "—Ibid. the further operation of the treaty." Dr. Stresemann, representing the German re- public, is quoted as follows :— FORMAL RATIFICATION IN LONDON, DECEMBER 1 "Nothing, he said, would serve greater purpose DECEMBER 1, according to agreement, representa- in the days of difficulty than the spirit of good will tives of the nations involved in the Locarno Peace which the treaty evoked. He looked to the future Treaty met in London to affix their formal signa- and the fruition of the work they had done with tures. It constituted a notable gathering. While great hope. not as colourful and ostentatious as the gathering "Premier Briand, of France, in a solemn voice which assembled at Versailles at the close of the declared that there was no person in the world who war, it was regarded as still more significant and was not interested in the proceedings of the day. as holding promise of much more practical results. " 'I can see across the table the German chan- The correspondent of the Associated Press declares : cellor,' he said, 'and I am sure I can tell him that I "Today there was none of the magnificence and have remained a good Frenchman just as he in glamour surrounding the Versailles signing. The coming here has remained a good German, but both ceremony, which lasted only an hour, was notable of us are Europeans.' "—Ibid. for its extreme simplicity. And this time the Ger- mans came of their own free will. They signed HAS THE MENACE OF WAR BEEN REMOVED? gladly, with smiling faces, in striking contrast to HAS the treaty of Locarno removed from Europe that other occasion .when the delegates of the Reich the menace of war? Have the dreams of the ideal- appended their signatures under compulsion, with ists, those who are looking and longing and working white faces registering a mixture of fear and anger. for world peace, been realised in this last treaty? Today's ceremony was carried out in a spirit of We wish it were indeed so. No achievement could optimism which was hailed as auguring well for be more noteworthy or praiseworthy than that of an era of peace throughout Europe."—Washington maintaining international comity and good will. Evening Star, December 1, 1925. With the earnest efforts of the statesmen of Europe The statesmen signing their names to the docu- in securing this objective we sympathise most ment were filled with a spirit of hope and optimism deeply. We are in hearty accord with the aims of for the future, as was indicated by their remarks the peace societies and leagues for peace which have on the occasion. The Associated Press news of endeavoured through the years to create a sentiment December 1 represented the several statesmen pres- looking toward the settlement of international ques- ent as expressing their view of the far-reaching tions by arbitration. And yet we feel constrained importance and practical results to be achieved to believe that ultimately these worthy ambitions are through the treaty, as follows : — doomed to disappointment. Treaties like that of Locarno may hold in check THE ESTIMATE OF LEADING STATESMEN the elements of war for a little time, and even though " 'THE peace of the world could not have been this may be accomplished only in small measure, the effected without some great demonstration of inter- effort is well worth making. But ultimately the national good will, such as this ceremony today,' fondest hopes in the realisation of this objective will March 1, 1926 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 3 be shattered. And this will follow as the inevitable PERILOUS DAYS AHEAD logic of the conditions existing in the world. Racial animosity, political intrigue, commercial rivalry, and AST week we noticed a certain noted writer's the resort to arms, are human elements having their epitome of the fears of the world. He placed wellspring in the human heart. L them under seven heads. There may have been others which he missed ; but that ought to be enough A SIGNIFICANT SIGN OF THE END to show the reading public that we are living in an NOT only will these present peace movements and age of fear and perplexity. That striking article peace treaties fail to remove the menace of war, closed with these paragraphs :— but this whole peace propaganda is a signifigcant These next years are likely to be critical in Australian sign of the last days—a sign that soon the kingdoms history. Over all the world men are skirting dangerous precipices. Nothing will prove sufficient but an increasing of this world are to become the kingdoms of our number of men and women who refuse to content themselves Lord Jesus Christ. Read the striking prophecy with the accepted standards of social and industrial life, found in Isaiah 2: 1-5, noting in the third verse who who see possibilities which our leaders have not seen, who it is that utters these words : "Many people shall dare to believe in them, experiment with them, work for them, and count it one of the tests of character and worthy come and say," Let us transform the implements of citizenship to be above the average and ahead of the times. war into implements of peace. Let us learn war no I close with this optimistic note:— more. Let us walk in the ways of the God of Jacob. I am confident that in the end right will triumph, and But while the nations themselves are saying this out of the welter and struggle of today a Christian civilisation very thing, the prophet declares of the Lord in verse will develop. I am convinced that Mind is the maker of the universe, Purpose is the heart of it, Providence in control 6, "Thou hast forsaken Thy people the house of of it, Victory ahead of it; that what is excellent as God Jacob," because they have turned to the service of lives is permanent. other gods, because they worship the works of their own hands. God calls upon true Israel to enter into Where he finds the chord for this note of material the rock, and hide themselves for fear of the Lord, optimism this writer does not state. Everything he and for the glory of His majesty as He is about has put into his article previously points to a dif- to appear. Read in this connection verses 6-22. ferent conclusion ; but he seems to dread the word These present actual conditions which will exist pessimism, fearing it might be applied to him. So in the earth at the very time that men shall fondly he sums up all the evidence in the case and declares hope for a period of peace. his decision contrary to the evidence. The years ahead of Australia and ahead of all the ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT SIGN OF THE END world are not only likely to be critical, but are certain CONVERSELY the preparations for war which are to be critical. Men are indeed skirting dangerous being made at the same time as the peace propa- precipices in all parts of the world, and many of ganda, constitute a further indication that we have them do not seem to realise the danger of the situa- reached the closing days of earth's history. Read tion and what is involved if one makes a serious the remarkable forecast in Joel 3: 9-16. And how mistake. If the youth who shot Prince Ferdinand literally is this prophecy being fulfilled before our in Serajevo in 1914 had understood what was in- very eyes ! The nations of earth are maintaining volved in his proposed act, he would not have done it. growing war establishments. Indeed, as we write That one mistake set the world on fire. Just who these words there is convened in the city of Wash- will make the next mistake none of us are given to ington a military court to investigate charges that know, but when there are so many in a position the national defence is weak and ineffective. The to do it and so many more incentives to its doing nations of earth are watching one another with than there were in 1914, it is difficult for the most jealous eyes, each determined that his neighbours optimistic to believe that the world will really shall obtain no advantage in air equipment or naval escape. armament. In a way we agree with the writer quoted; for in THE KINGDOM OF PEACE the end right will certainly triumph ; but that tri- umph will come after God has finished with this BUT, thank God, there will come a time when peace world in its present state. God has set His own shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. hand to it to see that right shall indeed triumph. Christ the Lord will wield the sceptre. But between this day and that triumph the Son of But His coming will not be ushered in through God will return to this earth for His faithful band, the door of politics. He will never be enthroned as the judgments of God will run their course through earth's King by legal enactment. He will come in this world, the consuming fires of divine wrath and His own right to take the throne and reign ; and cleansing will search every particle of this old world when He comes, all taint of sin and evil will be so long tenanted by sin and steeped in vice and removed, the heathen will be given to Him for an dishonour. God will take no half measures when inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth He rises up to finish with sin. for a possession, and He will break evil with the It is true enough that a real Christian civilisation rod of iron and dash the hosts of evil in pieces even will one day take the place of what we have here as a potter's vessel. Ps. 2: 8, 9. But while that and now; but it will come after the King of the day will be a day of destruction of sin and sinners, universe has put down all rule and authority but His it will be a day of glad deliverance to the people of own in this once forfeited home of man. It will God, to the children of faith. Well may we pray be when the highest hopes of the Christian have been with the inspired apostle, "Even so, come, Lord realised, in that day when the lame man shall leap Jesus." as an hart and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; when Eden's beauty is restored and the fears of war and of death are gone for ever. "GOD is the embodiment of benevolence, mercy, It is true indeed that this universe was not cre- and love ; His Spirit, ruling in the heart, will create ated by an unthinking force. Our Creator and Re- harmony, love, and unity ; therefore, those who are deemer are one and the same, and a great and truly in sympathy with God cannot be at variance glorious and divine purpose runs through all the with one another." work of His hands. There is a Providence—even 4 SIGNS OF THE TIMES March 1, 1926 God's providence—in control, and victory is assured, that this work is soon to close. This will mean the but it is victory in Christ and not outside of Him; closing up of the history of this old world of sin and and they who are accepted of God and hid in Him the ushering in of the eternal kingdom of righteous- will dwell for ever in His presence. Then will it ness. Reader, we beseech you to be diligent to make be true, as the writer above quoted declares, that your calling and election sure, so that when the "what is excellent as God lives is permanent." great day arrives you will be able to stand before They who are hid in Christ need not fear the the Son of God and welcome Him as your personal perilous days ahead. We know they are coming, but Saviour and Redeemer. F. the promise of God to His people is : "Fear thou not ; for I am with thee : be not dismayed ; for I am thy God : I will strengthen thee ; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My VISITING HOSPITAL EXPERT ON righteousness." Isa. 41: 10. And again we hear the PROHIBITION comforting voice of our God : "When thou passest HE reports that sometimes appear in the daily through the waters, I will be with thee ; and through newspapers concerning Prohibition in the the rivers, they shall not overflow thee." Isa. 43 : 2. T United States might lead one to believe that it is an utter failure, and that conditions in that coun- try are far worse than before the adoption of the A SYDNEY EDITOR ON THE WORK OF anti-liquor measure. We are glad, therefore, to be able to reproduce the following from a Melbourne SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS paper :— RATHER gratifying tribute has been paid to So many reports reach this and other countries from the work of Seventh-day Adventists by the various sources concerning Prohibition that it is a relief A editor of the Watchman, a Protestant weekly to hear the subject dispassionately discussed by one who has had ample opportunity for observing the working of the published in Sydney. In the issue of January 21, liquor laws in America and Canada. Dr. M. T. MacEachern, we find this paragraph under the caption, "Remark- of the American College of Surgeons, who is visiting the able Facts and Figures" :— state [of Victoria] at the request of the Government, smiles when he hears terrible tales about venturesome bootleggers, As becomes a Watchman editor, we have noted the romantic and otherwise. According to him the liquor laws remarkable rise and strength of the people called Seventh-day of America are well enforced by a competent body of men, Adventists. We believe they have been raised up of God to who do their work sensibly and thoroughly. Moreover, the proclaim a special message. They are doing it. God will people do not appear to have any burning desire to revert not leave Himself without witnesses, and He is telling the to the old order of things. They are, in fact, quite reconciled world, now, that the days of its duration are numbered, and to Prohibition. . . . are nearly complete. Here are figures which are really It was his opinion that America would remain "dry." surprising. Instead of liquor the people were buying luxuries, such as The Watchman editor then quotes some figures automobiles, so the money was circulating just the same relative to the work of Seventh-day Adventists which as if the saloons were open. appeared in the columns of this journal in its issue Of course, the Prohibition law is being broken, of January 11. but what law of any land is not broken daily, per- This editor believes that Seventh-day Adventists haps hourly, especially in the large cities ? The have been raised up of God to proclaim a special fact that the law is being broken is no argument message. Seventh-day Adventists themselves most against the value of the law or the object to be sincerely believe this to be so. Because of this con- attained by its enforcement. Murders will con- viction they are giving themselves, their sons and tinue to be committed every day throughout the their daughters, and their means for the proclama- world, but no one would be foolish enough to advo- tion of the message of a crucified, risen, and soon- cate the abolition of the law against murder. coming Saviour. While they accept the Bible from Many people fail to take into consideration the Genesis to Revelation as the inspired, authoritative fact that the Prohibition measure in the United Word of God they find their special message in Rev. States is opposed by very powerful financial liquor 14: 6-12. This is a message that is to go to every interests that do not scruple to employ almost any nation, kindred, tongue, and people on the earth. means in order that they may achieve their selfish, It announces that the hour of God's judgment is law-defying purposes. It should be remembered come, and calls upon all to worship the Creator, and also that a considerable percentage of the popula- utters a warning against the worship of a power tion of the United States is foreign born or of opposed to the principles of the kingdom of heaven. foreign descent. The presence of so many of this It brings to view the fact that those who are obedient class in the large cities, like New York and Chicago, to this message are those "that keep the command- makes the work of Prohibition law enforcement ments of God, and the faith of Jesus." Verse 12. more difficult than it is in those centres where the As the editor of the Watchman very truly re- people are mainly descended from the old British marks, "God will not leave Himself without wit- stock. But in spite of all opposition America will, nesses, and He is telling the world, now, that the we believe, to use the words of Dr. MacEachern, days of its duration are numbered, and are nearly "remain 'dry."' F. complete." While there are others, we are glad to say, besides Seventh-day Adventists, who believe in, and proclaim, the nearness of the Saviour's second "IT is the plain, simple, ordinary things of this advent, there is no other people nor religious body world which speak most effectively of God. Christ whose work is of any significance who even professes was never sensational. He did not use the exciting to be delivering the message and doing the work and fearful things in nature to rouse or intimidate called for by the scripture in Revelation that we have His hearers. Even when narrating the startling referred to. incidents which should mark the progress of the The work that Seventh-day Adventists are doing centuries toward the end of the world—His second is certainly the work of God, and as the Watchman coming and the final catastrophe—His speech was editor says, it is accomplishing the task it has been so phrased as to produce a calm and philosophic con- set. But the evidences are infinite and world-wide sideration rather than excitement and fear." March 1, 1926 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 5 On African Frontiers What the Light of the Gospel is Doing in the Dark Continent WILLIAM A. SPICER (President of the World Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, who has just returned from an extended journey in Africa.)

SEE FOR YOURSELF room, for the Johannesburg mines bring in workers OU perhaps think we missionaries are al- from all the tribes and tongues south of the equator, ways calling for more," said Missionary one would think. They come in by the thousands; Davy, at the Cape Town Conference. He and, after varying terms of employment, go back by was just down from Nyasaland. "But what the thousands to their villages. Here is a great can we do? We send a teacher out, and build missionary field. an out-school. The people begin to come. As we were seated, a quartette, three men and a They swarm in until there are from two hundred to woman, sang— four hundred. What can we do? Shall we keep "Christ has for sin atonement made, still about it? or shall we send to you for your money What a wonderful Saviour! We are redeemed ! the price is paid! and for your young people? What a wonderful Saviour!" "A new resident commissioner was appointed to our district. He was stiff and stern as I met him. It was sung in English, in compliment to the " `What is this about the chiefs and your mission? visitors. Then later, in Amaxosa, came a song— They say you are pressing them to do what they "He hideth my life in the depths of His love, do not want to do. That is not allowed.' And covers me there with His hand." " I said, 'why not look into it for yourself? Lazarus, well aged in the service, but vigorous I will supply you with mules and with interpreters. and enthusiastic, spoke words of welcome to the Why not go alone, and see for yourself ?' visitors, and charged us to bear the greetings of the " `I will take you up on that,' he replied. native church of Johannesburg to the believers over- "He went to the village where the head chief lived. seas. "We thank God," he said, "for the workers " want to see all your people,' the resident and the money and the truth which they have sent told the chief. to Africa." "The people gathered. Then again a vernacular song by all— " `Now,' said the resident, `your chief tells me the missionary is pressing you to do what you do not "Let the lower lights be burning! want to do. How many of you are Christians?' Send a gleam across the wave !" "Sixty-two raised their hands. Wonderful how these good old favourites stir " `You stand aside,' he said to these. Then to the hearts in all lands! others, `How many of you want to drink beer and Then, after the talks by the visitors, translated dance?' by an evangelist, a quartette, again in English, sang "Ten raised their hands. a hymn, new to me— " `You stand apart,' he told them. Then to the " We are pilgrims bound to the heavenly land, others, the non-Christians, who had not voted with Walking in the golden ways; the ten, 'How is it you do not want the beer and Walking in the blessedness of love untold, the dancing?' Travelling to a country that will never grow old." " 'We are not Christians,' the others said, `but This, at any rate, is a fairly accurate reproduc- we don't want the beer. We will follow the mission- tion of its chorus. Pilgrims they are, with us, to ary rather than follow the beer. We do not want that heavenly land, with joy in their hearts and the drinking and the dancing.' songs on their lips. Out of darkness they have come, " 'How is this?' the resident said to the chief. to walk in the path of light. `You are the one who is pressing the people—press- As the visitors were making their way out after ing them to drink beer.' the benediction, a good old mother, in clear English "Then he said to the people, 'Why is it, there are speech, started them all singing a farewell song— no court cases here?' "God be with you till we meet again." " `Please, Ilwana,' they said, `all of us used to drink beer and fight. Now we don't drink, and we do not quarrel.' "A GOOD MISSION" " `So that is it!' the resident said. 'You used to have many court cases. Then you drank and you WHEN Simon Kalilimbe reported on a recent quarrelled. Only ten of you drink now. The rest evangelistic tour in one circuit of villages, he don't drink and don't fight.' was enthusiastic. If only we had hundreds of these "The resident came back and said: 'Davy, I have teachers and evangelists out among the tribes! We must set ourselves at the task of training them. It more faith in God than I ever had before.' is our hope for Africa! This is Simon's report :— IN JOHANNESBURG NATIVE QUARTER "In February we went to preach in a new place. UST a glimpse of a Sabbath-afternoon meeting in The people were surprised. We told them why we J the native quarter of the Golden City. Various were there. After three days they became really tribes and tongues were represented in the crowded (Couci,uied on page In 6 SIGNS OF THE TIMES March 1, 1926 unto their cry." Ps. 34: 15. It must be so, else He would not have given for them the best gift Heaven had to bestow. It should be a comforting thought to the children of men, and would invariably be so were it not that sin is secretly treasured in the heart in so many cases. World Events in the Light of Prophecy But while God watches over and has His eyes upon the righteous, He is not inattentive to the Editor: C. M. SNOW - Associate Editor: A. M. FRASER doings of the wicked and the careless and thought- Editorial Contributor: - - - - - A. W. ANDERSON less. "Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the Please address all communications other than those of a business nature sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the to the Editor by name. face of the earth." Amos 9: 8. Yet His exceeding carefulness that none who are righteous and loyal to Him should be destroyed or lost, is seen in this : "I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel God's Eye Runs Through the Earth among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth." HERE is many a criminal practising his crimi- Verse 9. Wherever His people might wander, God's T nality today who would hesitate and turn from eye would follow them ; and so He tells us through his wicked ways did he but realise that every the prophet Hanani, as He told King Asa in the act of his is written down in imperishable books to days of his perplexity and heart wandering: "The testify against him when his case comes before the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the Judge of all the earth for final review. The infallible whole earth, to shew Himself strong in the behalf Word has explained this in plainest language :— of them whose heart is perfect toward Him." 2 "0 Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me. Chron. 16: 9. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, That message was from God, but it was un- Thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou corn- acceptable to King Asa, and he cast the faithful passest my path and my lying down, and art ac- messenger into prison. He did not want to remem- quainted with all my ways. For there is not a ber that every act of his life and all his unfaithful- word in my tongue, but, lo, 0 Lord, Thou knowest ness was recorded against him, and that he must it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, render account for his evil ways. King Asa was and laid Thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is like many individuals today who are ready to rebuke too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto the messenger of God for delivering the message of it. Whither shall_ I go from Thy Spirit? Or whither warning that would have saved their souls. The shall ilee 17.1. um My pi eoent-e?k If czo ,ciiil up ;iitA; ioonsn ostricn niaes its newt and trunks that because heaven, Thou art there : if I make my bed in hell, it cannot see, it cannot be seen. King Asa could behold, Thou art there. If I take the wings of the not avert the judgment by imprisoning the mes- morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the senger of God. We cannot escape the results of sea ; even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy an evil course by refusing to consider what the right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the dark- result will be. ness shall cover me ; even the night shall be light Some will foolishly ask, How can God see me about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from Thee ; and know what I do when millions of miles may but the night shineth as the day : the darkness and separate us? A few years ago it seemed impossible the light are both alike to Thee. . . . and in Thy that human ears could hear the speech or song of a book all my members were written, . . . when as human being through thousands of miles of space. yet there was none of them." Ps. 139: 1-16. But today concerts given in one continent are heard The God who knows all these things is not in in another, and by a flash of light pictures are sent ignorance of our doings in the darkness as well as from city to city; and man is finding out only a few in the day. The Wise man concludes his message of the wonderful secrets of this universe. God to the world in these words : "For God shall bring knows them all. A man in London may hear a man every work into judgment, with every secret thing, in New York praying. It must not be thought a whether it be good or whether it be evil." Eccl. thing incredible, therefore, that God in heaven can 12 : 14. and does hear us when we pray. The prophet Daniel was given a view of the Another may ask, How can God know what is throne of the great Judge, with the judgment in taking place in my mind? He may see what I do session. He says : "I beheld till the thrones were and hear what I speak ; but how can He know what cast down [or placed], and the Ancient of days did I think when I do not speak ? God has permitted sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair men to find out a few of the wonderful secrets of of His head like the pure wool : His throne was like the universe in order that it may not be so hard for the fiery flame, and His wheels as burning fire. A us to believe He can do what He says He is doing. fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him: The X-ray apparatus should give us a clue to this thousand thousands ministered unto Him, and ten mystery. Men can today look through the human thousand times ten thousand stood before Him : the body, see its structure, find diseased spots, locate judgment was set, and the books were opened." foreign bodies in the system, and note the working of Dan. 7 : 9, 10. the various organs. The negative produced in the This wonderful truth is emphasised by the writer X-ray photographic apparatus will show cancer of the letter to the Hebrews : "Neither is there any spots, tubercular spots, broken and dislocated bones, creature that is not manifest in His sight : but all bullets, pins, or anything of that nature. One child, things are naked and open unto the eyes of Him for instance, had swallowed a tiny toy bicycle. The with whom we have to do." Heb. 4: 13. He is X-ray picked it out lodged in the lower part of the anxious over His people, for they who are faithful throat, showing the frame and even the spokes of among them will shine for ever as jewels in His the wheels. Now, if man can scrutinise our bodies crown of rejoicing. So we read : "The eyes of the like that, is it impossible that the Maker of man Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open can scrutinise our minds?—Verily, it is not im- March 1, 1926 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 7 possible ; and so the prophet declares : "Thou under- Now God has provided a similar cleansing for standest my thought afar off." us. For the blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Again, the motion picture machine will record may be applied to our record of sin, if we will have our actions, and these may be reproduced years in it, and it will never enter the judgment to confuse the future. The phonograph will record our words, and condemn us. That record will be silent for and we may listen to them again when the years ever if we will let God blot out our transgressions have flown. If man can do this, is it impossible for in the blood of Christ and clothe us with the un- God who has made us and given us the power to do tarnished robe of His righteousness. God's call to these things—is it impossible that He should be able us is, "Turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways; for to do what His own creatures can do ?—Truly, it is why will ye die?" Jesus Christ has paid the penalty not impossible, and He has told us that He does do it. Himself for all our sins, and pleads with us to allow A young man, while still unconverted, joined with the cleansing to be made in our life's record. He a friend in singing a foolish song into an Edison did indeed bear our sins in His own body on the phonograph. 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mean that we can break the law?—No, indeed. Are the Law and the Gospel `Under the law,' as used in the Bible, means under the condemnation of the law. 'All have sinned, and Antagonistic? come short of the glory of God' (Rom. 3: 23) ; 'sin ROBERT B. THURBER is the transgression of the law' (1 John 3 : 4), and, o you mean to say that simply keeping the law `the soul that sinneth, it shall die.' Eze. 18: 20. will save us?" Therefore every man that ever lived is condemned by D "Keeping the law would save us if man had the law to die. But Christ, the lawmaker, came to always kept it, if we had kept it from childhood up, this earth and lived a sinless life—a lawful life— and could keep it from now on ; but we never have. and died in our stead; and if we, the lawbreakers, We are not saved by keeping the law, for 'by the believe in His saving power, His keeping of the law deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified.' is substituted for our breaking it. Thus all past Rom. 3: 20. But Christ kept the law for us, and we sins are wiped out. From then on, He gives us are saved by His grace — unmerited favour — ex- power over sin by His influence in our lives, or tended to us. Tor by grace are ye saved through better, by His Spirit in our hearts. Yet if we take faith.' Eph. 2: 8." ourselves out of His power for an interval and do "That's just it. Then why keep the law if Christ sin, we need not carry the sin; we may ask for for- kept it for us?" giveness, and our guilt is taken away. This great "But, my dear friend, you do not understand. truth is called the gospel, the good news of salvation Christ did not keep the law for us in the sense that through Christ." He kept it instead of us. Rather He keeps it with "Then the law and the gospel are not opposites us, or we keep it with Him. Faith in Christ does at all, are they?" not make void the law. Rom. 3 : 31. An illustration "No, one is the complement of the other. 'By the will help you see it. A man commits a crime and is law is the knowledge of sin.' Rom. 3: 20. Many sentenced to ten years in prison. At the end of five people act as if laws and law keeping were terrible years, because of good behaviour, the governor par- burdens. But they are burdens only to those who dons him. From that time on, he is under the break them. To law keepers they are a boon and a pardon, or grace, of the government, and enjoys a protection. The law is like the pillar of cloud at freedom he really does not deserve. Now is he free the Red Sea. When it came between the Israelites from keeping the law of the state because he is under and the Egyptians, it was light on the Israelite side grace?" and dark on the Egyptian side. The law is a joy "Ah, I see it now! He not only ought to keep to those who keep it and a curse to those who break the law, but he ought to be so thankful for freedom it. The same law is a 'savour of life unto life' to that he would keep it better than ever." some, and of 'death unto death' to others. If Jesus is in our hearts, we are glad to keep the law, for AN EXPRESSION MISUNDERSTOOD He is glad to keep it. He said, 'I delight to do Thy will, 0 My God : yea, Thy law is within My heart.' "THAT'S it. Many who read the Bible think that the expression 'under the law' means under obliga- Ps. 40: 8; Heb. 10: 7." tion to keep the law. So when they read in Rom. "Doesn't it say somewhere that Christ nailed the 6: 14, 'Sin shall not have dominion over you : for law to the cross?" ye are not under the law, but under grace,' they con- "It says in Col. 2: 14 that it was the 'hand- clude that keeping the law is not necessary. But writing of ordinances' that was nailed to the cross. they fail to read the next verse. You read it." These had nothing to do with the Ten Command- " 'What then? shall we sin, because we are not ments, but pertained to the ceremonies that pointed under the law, but under grace? God forbid.'" forward to Christ, and of course were no longer "In other words, Does not being under the law necessary when He came. Eph. 2: 15, 16." 8 SIGNS OF THE TIMES March 1, 1926 The Wonders of Our Century Why Is It that Our Century Is So Different from All Preceding Centuries? FRANK A. COFFIN UZZ, buzz, buzz," crackles the wireless. The be equipped with radio, and that through this means radio operator on the liner President Hard- hundreds of lives would be saved? ing snaps into action. He presses the The wonders of this age are truly marvellous. receivers closer to his ears to exclude the The powerful turbine engine, which drives the howling of the eighty-five-mile gale. "S 0 S" mighty leviathan through the heaving seas, is no comes the call from the Italian freighter less wonderful than the radio, and contributes fully Ignacio Florio, 161 miles to the north. Radioman as much to the comfort and safety of the sea-going George Kohle grabs the speaking tube. Up on the traveller. Yet it is only a few short years since bridge, Captain Paul C. Grening staggers to the Fulton invented the first steamship, a boat with side tube, listens, then shouts a word against the storm. paddles and a wheezy engine, which propelled the "Proceeding to your assistance," sputters the craft up the Hudson. radio. Following the development of the steam engine came the discovery of oil, and then, logically, the Florio: "Very bad sea and wind. No possible invention and perfection of the gas engine. And reparation steering. Please you going quickly." what remarkable changes this has brought, and all Harding: "Making all possible speed. Eight in a short span of time ! I well remember not more knots at present. Grening." than a score of years ago, looking at a newspaper

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Harding: "This is a mail steamer. Unable to cartoon that showed a street full of motor-driven assist you to port. Standing by to save life. Advise vehicles passing and repassing, while, in the fore- if no longer required. Grening." ground, sitting upon his haunches, was a poor, cast- Florio: "I require your service yet for to save off draft horse, weeping as though his heart would life. Please come, Master, come. We trust only in break. And I remember that I felt that the picture you, as cannot remain long time on ship and all was overdrawn, that even though the motor-car lifeboats are broken. S 0 S Master." might become popular, surely it never would take Harding: "Hold on till daylight. Doing all pos- the place of the useful horse. But so it has come sible to reach you." about. Thus the radio conversation continued while the THE HORSE TRAM GONE hurricane shrieked and the Harding wallowed MOST persons in middle life can, I suppose, re- through mountainous seas toward the twenty-eight member the old-fashioned horse trams, which jogged suffering sailors aboard the sinking Florio. And along at five or six miles an hour, upon tracks often- what courage came to them with the message in the times laid in cobblestone streets. They were re- early afternoon next day : "You are now in sight garded as a great convenience in those days ; but dead ahead"! today even electric cars are too slow for the motor- But the work of rescue was not yet finished. The riding public. And the end of discovery and inven- Florio, loaded with grain, was listing badly, and tion is not yet, for mankind has only begun to likely to sink at any moment. Then came a two- explore the possibilities of travel by air at a speed hour lull in the storm. The waves continued high, unheard of a short decade ago ; and of the secrets but the whitecaps disappeared. The Harding's big of the universe about him he has learned but a lifeboat was launched, and soon the Florio's crew, fraction. more dead than alive, were hoisted aboard the In the days of Darius Green and his flying ma- Harding, and once again was the saying proved true: chine, who could have been found who would believe "They that go down to the sea in ships, these see that a heavier-than-air apparatus could be made to the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the maintain itself in the atmosphere? Of course there deep." were baloons, in which men risked their lives, help- Who would have dreamed, when Franklin drew less in the wind. But who had ever heard of a the lightning from the clouds with a kite and a baloon that could be propelled and steered, or of a hemp string, or when Morse invented the telegraph, plane with buzz-saw propeller that would rise and or even when Marconi announced that he had learned soar like a bird? Yet today intrepid flyers transport how to send electric signals through space without air mail across continents on regular schedule, mak- wires, that some day all ocean-going vessels would ing the long trip from New York to San Francisco March 1, 1926 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 9 in only thirty-three hours. Coastwise service from Daniel the prophet, more than two thousand Boston to Florida and from Seattle to Los Angeles years ago, recording the words of an angel of God, is soon to be added. Aeroplanes or airships will declared that in the time of the end of this world, soon be travelling regularly from England to Aus- "many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be tralia. increased." With tremendous force do these pro- On the London-Paris aeroplane line each plane phetic words apply to this age in which we live, and carries twenty passengers, and meals are served solemnly mark it as indeed "the time of the end." en route. Some of the newer petrol birds are even Of our day Nahum spoke when he declared, "The equipped with berths like a sleeping-car. Though, chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day to some persons, it may seem impossible, yet it is a of His preparation." "The chariots shall rage in the fact that a piano was recently transported across streets, they shall jostle one against another in the the American continent through the air. Doubtless broad ways : they shall seem like torches, they shall it will not be long until perishable fruits will be run like the lightnings." Nahum 2: 3, 4. In the shipped regularly in this quicker way, avoiding the day of God's preparation, the time when He is pre- necessity for refrigeration, and delivering the fruit paring to come, when the climax of the ages is in better condition. We understand this is being almost reached, will these things be. Surely we live done now between Holland and London. not only in an age of wonders, but in the age of ages. Time and space would fail us to speak in detail God has purposed that the everlasting gospel of the new radio lighthouse at South Foreland, Eng- shall, before the end, be heard by all that dwell on land, invented by Marconi ; of the super-microscope the earth, "every nation, and kindred, and tongue, of Dr. William E. Gye and J. E. Barnard of London, and people," as He declares in Rev. 14 : 6-12 ; "for," by which the cancer germ has at last been isolated ; He says, "as the rain cometh down, and the snow of the improved talking machine by which the hu- from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth man voice and all kinds of music are accurately the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that recorded and reproduced ; or of the Hoe double- it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the

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octuple web perfecting printing press, which runs eater : so shall My word be that goeth forth out of at express-train speed and whisks great ribbons of My mouth : it shall not return unto Me void." Isa. paper from thirty-two immense rolls, prints, pastes, 55: 10, 11. folds, cuts, counts, and delivers one million eight- GOD REACHES OUT page papers an hour. Then, too, there are the electric light, the tele- As the radio reached out its Hertzian fingers to phone, the typewriter, the linotype, the sewing ma- save the lives of the crew on the ill-fated Florio, so, chine, the automatic oil furnace-heater, the gas through the thousands of marvellous inventions of stove, the tractor-drawn gang plough, the disk har- this last age of the world, is God reaching out to row, the seed drill, the modern cultivator, and the save men. Like the doomed ship Florio, the world marvellous combined harvester, which cuts, threshes, is sinking. The storm is upon us ; the waves run and sacks grain at one operation. In the realm of mountain-high. For four terrible years the World medicine, we find ether, chloroform, the X-ray, the War was raging. In that terrific struggle the world violet ray, the ray surgical knife, antiseptics, serums, almost foundered. But there has come a lull in the and antitoxins. storm. Providentially, the winds of strife have died down. It is the hand of God—to save life. With WHY THESE WONDERS? winged speed and the loud voice of intensity, the FOR all these and thousands of other labour- gospel message is sounding to the world. saving and wonder-working devices the world waited But these years of peace are only a lull in the six thousand years. Why ?—A word explains it all hurricane of strife. Armageddon is just ahead, and —the gospel ! God has given the gospel light, and then—the Lord's coming and a safe haven. Christ then, in lands thus lightened, has provided the means has promised to return to this earth in great glory, for the speedy diffusion of that light to all the with clouds of angels, with might, and power, and world, designing, that in one generation every na- splendour, "and every eye shall see Him." "The tion, kindred, tongue, and people shall hear the Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness ; but is long-suffering to us- message of the coming Christ. And "this genera- ward, not willing that any should perish, but that tion," declares the Saviour, "shall not pass, till all all should come to repentance. But the day of the these things be fulfilled." "These things," to which Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which He refers, include the shaking of the powers of the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and heaven, and the coming of the Lord in the clouds the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth with power and great glory, to gather to Himself also and the works that are therein shall be burned all who have accepted the gospel light, as we read up." 2 Peter 3: 9, 10. Happy are they who trust in Matthew 24. in the Lord now, and happy will they be then. 10 SIGNS OF THE TIMES March 1, 1926 THE FORGOTTEN CHRIST "Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?"

A. S. MAXWELL UCH as we all like to speak of our "Chris- The mother in the home may allow herself to be so tian" country, the fact remains that Christ burdened and driven with life's duties that she may Himself is being excluded more and more become a stranger to Him whom in her youth she from the thoughts of the people. To many loved. Even the minister of the gospel may become He is already a forgotten Christ. so saturated with higher criticism or ceremonialism Dean Inge told the nation recently that that his connection with the suffering, redeeming it was fast becoming paganised ; and James Douglas Christ of the Bible may be completely dissolved. stated bluntly in the Sunday Express not long ago So easy it is to forget Him! No Bible read that England was trying to get on without God. yesterday, no prayer today, an extra duty or added These shrewd observers of the times were not far pleasure tomorrow—speedily the drift begins and wrong in their estimate, and a study of the news- soon a yawning gulf intervenes between us and Him. papers—particularly the Sunday newspapers—or a But it is a costly thing to forget Christ. We may walk through London on a Saturday night is suf- gain the whole world by doing so, but lose our soul ficient to corroborate their. statements. in the end. It isn't worth it. The Christless life It is an easy thing to forget Christ. There are is a cemetery of buried possibilities. Our best but twenty-four hours in a day, and if these are powers of mind and spirit are stultified and in- crammed full of business and worldly interests— operative without Him. How much we lose in grace as is so often the case in these swiftly moving times and love and wisdom and daily strength by our for- —all thought for the things of the spirit is crowded getfulness ! How joyless our lives, how powerless out. We feel we have no time for God ; no time to our service, how ineffective our ministry! pray ; no time to read His Word. That which is And it is a perilous thing to forget Christ. A material appears so necessary. It appeals to us with man who has known Christ and then—through care- irresistible force and calls for immediate attention. lessness, perhaps, or cherished sin—allowed Him to So the things which are seen take precedence over depart out of His life, is courting eternal death. the things which are not seen, and Christ is forgotten. The forces of evil with which we have to contend Everybody is liable to forget Him. The student are too much for us without His aid and His control. of science may become so absorbed in his theories The heart of man is deceitful above all things, and of the origin and evolution of matter that his vision desperately wicked. By nature we are bent sin- of Him who made the world may be totally obscured. wards. There is a natural tendency with us to do

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"Home The father, and, in his absence, the mother, should conduct the worship, selecting a portion of Is the Scripture that is interesting and easily understood. Grandest The service should be short. When a long chapter is read and a long prayer offered, the service is made of All wearisome, and at its close a sense of relief is felt. God is dishonoured when the hour of worship is Institutions." made dry and irksome, when it is so tedious, so —Spurgeon. lacking in interest, that the children dread it. Fathers and mothers, make the hour of worship intensely interesting. There is no reason why this hour should not be the most pleasant and enjoyable Family Worship of the day. A little thought given to preparation for it will enable you to make it full of interest MRS. E. G. WHITE and profit. From time to time let the service be F ever there was a time when every house should varied. Questions may be asked on the portion of be a house of prayer, it is now. Infidelity and Scripture read, and a few earnest, timely remarks I scepticism prevail. Iniquity abounds. Corrup- may be made. A song of praise may be sung. The tion flows in the vital currents of the soul, and re- prayer offered should be short and pointed. In bellion against God breaks out in the life. Enslaved simple, earnest words let the one who leads in by sin, the moral powers are under the tyranny of prayer praise God for His goodness and ask Him for Satan. The soul is made the sport of his tempta- help. As circumstances permit, let the children join • dons ; and unless some mighty arm is stretched in the reading and the prayer. out to rescue him, man goes where the archrebel Eternity alone will reveal the good with which leads the way. such seasons of worship are fraught. And yet, in this time of fearful peril, some who The life of Abraham, the friend of God, was a profess to be Christians have no family worship. life of prayer. Wherever he pitched his tent, close They do not honour God in the home ; they do not beside it was built an altar, upon which was offered teach their children to love and fear Him. Many the morning and the evening sacrifice. When his have separated themselves so far from Him that tent was removed, the altar remained. And the they feel under condemnation in approaching Him. roving Canaanite, as he came to that altar, knew They cannot "come boldly unto the throne of grace," who had been there. When he had pitched his tent, "lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting." he repaired the altar, and worshipped the living God. Heb. 4 : 16; 1 Tim. 2 : 8. They have not a living con- So the homes of Christians should be lights in nection with God. Theirs is a form of godliness the world. From them, morning and evening, prayer without the power. should ascend to God as sweet incense. And as the The idea that prayer is not essential is one of morning dew, His mercies and blessings will descend Satan's most successful devices to ruin souls. Prayer upon the suppliants. is communion with God, the fountain of wisdom, the Fathers and mothers, each morning and evening source of strength and peace and happiness. Jesus gather your children around you, and in humble prayed to the Father "with strong crying and tears." supplication lift the heart to God for help. Your Paul exhorts believers to "pray without ceasing," dear ones are exposed to temptation. Daily annoy- in everything, by prayer and supplication, with ances beset the path of young and old. Those who thanksgiving, making known their requests to God. would live patient, loving, cheerful lives must pray. "Pray one for another," James says. "The effectual Only by receiving constant help from God can we fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." gain the victory over self. Heb. 5 : 7 ; 1 Thess. 5 : 17 ; James 5 : 16. Each morning consecrate yourselves and your By sincere, earnest prayer, parents should make children to God for that day. Make no calculation a hedge about their children. They should pray with for months or years these are not yours. One brief full faith that God will abide with them, and that day is given you. As if it were your last on earth, holy angels will guard them and their children from work during its hours for the Master. Lay all your Satan's cruel power. plans before God, to be carried out or given up, as In every family there should be a fixed time for His providence shall indicate. Accept His plans morning and evening worship. How appropriate it instead of your own, even though their acceptance is for parents to gather their children about them requires the abandonment of cherished projects. before the fast is broken, to thank the Heavenly Thus the life will be moulded more and more after Father for His protection during the night, and to the divine example; and "the peace of God, which ask Him for His help and guidance and watchcare passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts during the day ! How fitting, also, when evening and minds through Christ Jesus." Phil. 4: 7. comes, for parents and children to gather once more before Him, and thank Him far the blessings of the THE wife is the husband's treasury, and the hus- day that is past ! band should be the wife's armoury.—W. Seeker. 14 SIGNS OF THE TIMES March 1, 1926-

On African Frontiers (Concluded from page 3) interested, but it was two weeks before the message BE SURE TO began to bear visible fruit. Then the people began to give their hearts to seek God. The first day 58 joined the Bible class; the second day 213 joined. Far-away villages came, and asked, 'Why do you Get these books not come to us?' We were few and could not go then, but we promised to go in July. THEY SHOW THE WORTH OF THE GOOD OLD BIBLE, AND PROVE IT TRUE "In all, in this effort 320 received the gospel. We • had to stop after three weeks. All are holding on faithfully still, we hear." UCH has appeared in the press the Evangelist Malinka told how the light and dark- past year or two about the battle ness come into conflict in these villages :— = between fundamentalism and mod- "We held an effort in a village where we have ernism. It has been sad to see even a school. One chief appeared. ministers of the gospel turning their " 'Why are you troubling my people?' he asked. `You are teaching them strange customs. I used to backs on the truths of the Word of tell them to cook beer, and they did it. Now there = God, and substituting for them human the- is none obedient to me.' • ories and devisings. All interested in the subject should read the following interest- "He went to the resident and complained, but = the resident scolded him very much. 'This is a ing work :— good mission,' the resident said. 'Those who want to follow your customs may do so ; but those who THE BATTLE OF THE CHURCHES want to follow God may do so.' Modernism or Fundamentalism—WHICH ? "The chief wanted to close the door, but God By William George Wirth, Ph.D. • Professor of Biblical Interpretation and Exegesis, College opened it wider still. At the end of the preaching of Medical Evangelists. 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God has strewn the earth and the heavens with = beauty and gladness, and His blessing rests upon E. Signs Publishing Company the home circles that are bright with innocent (A.C.A. Ltd., Proprietors) hilarity, real love, and good cheer. A dark home Warburton, Victoria, Aust. makes bad boys and bad girls, in preparation for bad men and bad women.—Selected. 7-7111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111MMIllir: March 1, 1926 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 15 His comrades came running in, and they were soon busy playing. Harold still had the Quicksteps' ball in his pocket, and it was bulging invitingly. FOR CHILDREN George saw it. "Come on, fellows ; let's have a three-cornered catch," he suggested. "You can stand over there, Harold—and Bob, you stand over there." A Crack Shot Around and around the ball went, and while it EORGE ABBOTT was a crack shot. Every boy was cutting all those triangles in the air, Baby in the neighbourhood envied his marksman- Eleanor was left to herself. In fact, Geroge had G ship, and they had many a contest in which forgotten all about her. She had been gurgling and they tried to equal him. But even with the handi- cooing, and patting her little hands together, in caps he gave them, to make things more fair, he the sweetest of baby fashion. George half-heard usually came out the winner. His steady nerve her, but paid • no attention as long as the prattle and quick eye made him just the right one for pitcher continued. Suddenly he remembered her, and realised that he hadn't heard a sound for some time. on the Quicksteps' baseball team. The team never Perhaps she was asleep—he hoped so, anyway. liked to play a game without George, either, because Suddenly the thought came to him that the baby his absence so often meant defeat. was in his charge. There came a day when George had great cause "Wait a minute, fellows, till I see if the youngster to be thankful for his straight aim. It was a perfect is all right," he called, and, ball in hand, he started day for baseball—just the right one for the contest for the back of the yard where he had left the between the Quicksteps and the Fleetfoots — and baby. His breath came hard, and he became cold. George had been working himself into good con- Yes, the baby was there. Her tiny, dimpled arms dition to pitch the best game of his life. He had were outstretched toward some object on the ground. just gone for his glove, when the telephone bell She was sitting bolt upright, and perfectly still like gave three sharp, short rings. That was the Abbott's a little statue. George felt his knees tremble, and call, and George ran to answer. A strange voice his eyes burn in his head. asked for his mother. • A huge rattlesnake lay a few feet away from the "Yes," said Mrs. Abbott, over the telephone. baby. It was coiled up, and ready to spring. Its "What! He is very sick ! All right, I'll come right ugly head was raised like a banner, and it was away." moving ever so slightly. George knew that his baby Turning to George with an anxious air, Mrs. sister had been charmed into silence, and that if Abbott said, "My son, your father has been taken something were not done, the wretched snake would sick, and I must go into town and bring him home. bury its cruel fangs in the baby's flesh, and kill her. Please harness Jerry for me, and I'll be ready by But what was he to do? If he startled the snake, the time you have finished. Hurry now." it might make its deadly lunge! His thinking took George ran to the barn and hustled Jerry into only a second, of course, for whatever was to be his harness in record time. His mind was as busy done must be done quickly. Suddenly he realised as his hurrying fingers. He was so sorry father that he was gripping the baseball with all his was sick ; but oh, how he wanted to play that game strength. It gave him a thought. Could he do it. of baseball! The game of all games—and he Was his aim straight enough to hit that upraised wouldn't be there! But mother was worried, and head? It was so close to the baby that a mis- he mustn't show how disappointed he was, for it calculation would do his sister serious injury. Dare would make her feel bad. He led Jerry around to he try ? Yes, surely he must take the chance. the door where his mother was already waiting. Quietly he raised his arm in his best pitcher's Her parting word was just what he expected. style, and, gritting his teeth, he flung the ball with "George, I don't dare take Eleanor with me. I all his strength straight at the rattler's head. For couldn't manage a baby and your father at the same a second his heart stood still. He scarcely dared time, so I must leave her in your charge. Put her look—and when he did, he hardly believed his eyes. carriage down under the trees if you want to, but The snake's head had disappeared. be sure you stay near. Remember, now." And Running as fast as his shaking legs would carry mother was gone. him, George reached the baby. "Ah, goo !" she Eleanor was a good baby, as babies go, but called in welcome. George didn't feel like being a nursemaid to any "Oh, baby !" George almost sobbed, as he snatched baby, with a baseball game to play ! He fretted Eleanor out of harm's way. over his disappointment until he suddenly realised There lay the hideous snake, stunned for the that it wouldn't help matters a bit, so he got very moment. Looking around quickly for some weapon, busy, and baby slept soundly. George discovered his baseball bat lying near. With After lunch it was harder. Eleanor was now it, he began the work of finishing the dangerous wide awake, and restless. She wanted to stand up, rattler. to climb out of her carriage, and to do all sorts of By this time, the other boys had come to see baby tricks. Finally George spread a blanket on what had become of George, and with horror they the lawn, and, lifting the baby from the carriage, found their playmate in battle with the snake. One put her down there with her playthings. But she picked up a hoe, and the other a stout stick—and didn't want playthings, she wanted George. Trying they soon killed the deadly and unwelcome caller. hard to forget the game, he sat down beside her, "Say, fellows," exclaimed George, "that's the best and half-heartedly tried to amuse her. By and by game of ball I ever played in my life !"—Exchange. he heard some one calling. "Hey, George, the game's off. Charlie Gilbert has the mumps, and can't play either—so we had to postpone it. What are you doing?" "LISTLESSNESS, laziness, carelessness, shiftless- "Nothing," answered George, with a lead weight ness, and worthlessness are all members of the same gone from his heart. "Come on in." family—and a most disreputable family it is." 16 SIGNS OF THE TIMES March 1, 1926

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AROUND THE WORLD Radiant Health ST. ANDREWS UNIVERSITY, Scotland, has elected Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, rector of the university Through Nature's Remedies over John Galsworthy, English novelist. St. Andrews is the oldest of the Scotch universities, dating from 1411, and it is a signal honour to be chosen rector of it. NATURE is the great healer. She is God's THE Delaware State Board of Health has ordered that physician. It is her forces and power that persons having whooping cough be required to wear around restore and rebuild the body, giving the sleeve a bright yellow band supplied by the state, bearing strength and glowing health in the place the words, "Whooping Cough, State Board of Health." This device is said to have been used with success in the State of weakness and disease. The Warburton of Connecticut and the city of Newark, New Jersey. Sanitarium is situated in the country, where the patient can come close to the IT is officially stated that 306,000 widows and children heart of nature. The sweet fresh air, the are receiving pensions under the new British Widows and Orphans' Pensions Act, which came into operation on January trees and shrubs, the beautiful scenery, 1. The number of claims received was 163,000, and the and the golden sunlight all help to bring pensions awarded 103,000. The applications rejected or back to the sick the precious boon of withdrawn numbered 25,000, and applications still under investigation total 34,000. health. Then there are such natural and potent A GROTESQUE statue of King Akhenaten, father-in-law of remedies as change of diet, electrical Tutankhamen, was recently found near Luxor, Egypt. Akhenaten is known •in Egyptian history as the heretic treatments, hydropathic treatments, mas- Pharaoh. The statue is life-size, and was evidently intended sage, etc., which eliminate clogging morbid as a caricature of the monarch. Egyptologists are puzzled matter from the system and restore the to know how this statue came to be at Karnak, which is near organs to normal functioning. These Luxor, because the heretic king removed his capital from Thebes to Tel-el-Amarna some time before his death. After treatments are administered by a cour- the statue is placed in the museum at Cairo, the inscriptions teous and efficient staff. The great ma- on it will be deciphered; they may solve the mystery. jority of diseases yield to rational methods of treatment, or at least improvement can NEWS of a remarkable achievement in behalf of the propagation of the gospel has come from the Tibetan border. be made. According to the 1924 report of the China Inland Mission, the Rev. J. Huston Edgar, one of the mission's workers, during that year "distributed 102,000 tracts in Tibetan, 50,000 books in Tibetan, and another 21,500 books in Chinese, II 11 making a total of 173,500 copies. In the circulation of these arburtint tittitarittin he has spent 181 days away from home upon roads that are rough indeed; he has traversed nearly 1,000 English miles WARBURTON, VICTORIA on mountainous tracks, and has reached thirty times at least an altitude varying from 14,500 feet to 16,000 feet. Dangers Is especially equipped for the treatment of rheu- from robbers, from the fiercest of dogs and other vicious matic, digestive, and nervous disorders. No mental, beasts, have been an almost daily experience. He has or tuberculous, or other contagious cases admitted. bivouacked in the pouring rains among these precipitous hills, spent one night on a bog at an altitude of 14,000 feet FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS APPLY TO THE MANAGER in drenching rain, slept' for six nights in soaked bedding, and for eight days wore drenched clothing. Amid such scenes—and we cannot tell half this story—he found the lamas and people uniformly friendly, and testifies that love Published by Signs Publishing Company (A.C.A. Ltd., Prop.), Melbourne ; and the golden rule were universally understood." printed at Warburton, and registered as a newspaper in Victoria.