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, .. --- Volume 60, Number 33 assmusieeemiervimass...S.20V,..12Willk.. ,'Mal1.10.‘111111.111.1.111.111111111111111 T has been said that there is more suit that the God as described by the than one Deity revealed in the Bible. and loving Father, they say, came later early authors of the Old Testament as man progressed and became more Modernists and higher critics in differs from the latter conceptions of the -their reading of the Old Testament de- civilized, more tolerant himself, and not Almighty. so narrow and bigoted in his beliefs. scribe several gods, and blasphemously In support of this theory is cited the state that instead of God making man This conception of God, they say, was supposition that man's first conception finally transformed into the "God of in His own • image the reverse is true, of God was very primitive, and that God that man has made God in man's own love" belief manifested by New Testa- as described by early writers is a venge- ment writers. Dm a g e . By this they infer that as man ful, jealous God, requiring an eye for That several Deities, each one differ- ?assed through successive stages in his ah eye, and a tooth for a tooth, and inward, upward, evolutionary career, so ordering the wholesale destruction of ing in character outlook, and action are his conception of a Supreme Being revealed by a critical reading of the Old nations because they departed from Him. Testament, I will leave to theologians changed with these stages, with the re- The idea of a tolerant, all-wise, merciful, (Please turn to page 11) ((Registered at the G.P.O., Melbourne, for transmission by post as a newspaper.>> "The World's Last Chance" STATESMEN of today know the bit- ter rivalries and animosities that Current-Topics Neuitturdp' separate the nations of the world. They are aware of the divergent aims and ideals that tend to drive them still fur- ther apart. But they are conscious, too, the League of Nations, as he surveyed the attainments of science:— death on a terrestrial scale. This time that unless some working basis of agree- we roll the dice with destiny." ment is found there will be no hope for "Modern science has at last brought These solemn statements remind the ' the world. The opportunity before the us face to face with a decision which we world that if men cannot bring a just nations as this great war closes many can no longer evade. Thanks to our and lasting peace out of this chaos of regard as "the world's last chance." chemists and physicists, war as a method conflicting hopes and ambitions, it will So thought Mr. Anthony Eden, Brit- of settling disputes between nations has be for ever beyond his power to hold the ish Foreign Minister, in a speech at become so monstrous in its destruction world back from destruction. the San Francisco Conference when he that it is now a vast canopy of death If the future held nothing but this cer- said:— spread over a blackened and smoking tainty of coming annihilation, it would "Either we must find some means of world. Science has resolved the indeed be dark and hopeless. But thei ordering our relations with justice and slaughter of the human race almost to a believer in the Word of God sees it fair dealing while allowing nations, great mathematical formula. What is now mated with the sure promises of God. and small, full opportunity to develop missing from the equation will be filled Jesus is eoming back to this earth to their free and independent life, or we in during the next few years in labora- gather His faithful people to their eter- shall soon head for another world con- tories around the world. All that science nal reward. His glorious return would flict, which this time must bring the needs is just a little more time. The be preceded, He said, by violence and utter destruction of civilization in its next war, if it comes, will be a matter of lawlessness on an unparalleled scale. All train. It is, therefore, no exaggeration switchboards and push buttons, releas- signs show that His corning is near. It to say that the work on which we are ing annihilation on a scale which will is our part to be ready to meet Him our- making a start here may be the world's make the destruction of the present war selves, and to herald far and near the last chance." seem amateurish. No nation will be news of His soon return, that others too So thought Mr. Cordell Hull, former exempt; all will be involved in epidemic may meet Him in peace. M. M. H. Secretary of State for the United States. calamity." In a message to the Conference he "Thus at last," he says, "we have Peace in the Heart said:— come to the end of the road, face to face THE agonized cry of a torn and "I regard this meeting of the United with our final chance. This time we bleeding world ip for peace. To Nations as one of the turning points in cannot postpone the issue; we cannot answer this cry statesmen and leaders history. The decisions made there will complacently sit back and say that the are exerting their utmost efforts to bring guide the destinies of the human race for matter of peace has to be left to the to this world a peace that will last, a generations to come. We of this slow processes of evolution. Man has peace that will not be shattered again in day and age are offered an opportunity suddenly become the architect of his a few short years. which, once lost, may never recur." own fate, the moulder of his own future, A cry no less urgent and desperate This same feeling of impending catas- and there is an imminence about that goes up from the hearts of individual trophe came to Mr. Raymond B. Fos- future from which he cannot wriggle men and women. They long for a rest dick, former under-secretary general of away. This time the stakes are life or that will hush the tumult of their lives, for a peace that will put an end to con- flict. It will take more than security and prosperity, than comforts and hitherto, • unheard of luxuries to bring an inne4 calm to the soul, for the things which destroy our peace are within rather than without. An unquiet conscience or a spirit of envy or hatred can drain the joy out of the life and rob it of its beauty. It is sin, in its protean forms, that robs us of peace; for it is sin that separ- ates us from God, our Creator and our Redeemer. Apart from Him, we are out of harmony with life, with the very universe. In Him life finds its true centre; in harmony with Him and with the unchanging laws of truth and right- eousness, life finds peace and stability. "Men cannot manufacture peace. Hu- man plans for the purification and up. • Commander N. J. Weir reads surrender terms tc U-boat Commander Oter Lt. Kock (white cap) This was the first U-boat to reach Britain follow ing Germany's unconditional surrender. Page Two August 13, 1945 SIGNS OF THE ifting of individuals or of society will averaged seven to nine feet tall, weighed Why it should have been necessary for 'ail of producing peace, because they do from thirty-six to forty-three stone, and the man to bite off a limb of a tree rather lot reach the heart. The only power had teeth six times the size of modern than cut it off is not said. The curious hat can create or perpetuate true peace man's and twice that of a gorilla. It is mixture of evolutionary terms with the the grace of Christ. When this is im- possible that an oversized Gigantopithe- objective facts of scientific observation is Planted in the heart, it will cast out the cus may have stood twelve feet tall and also most incongruous to straight-think- wil passions that cause strife and dis- weighed half a ton." ing men and women. "Body shrinking, ;ension. 'Instead of the thorn shall After declaring that this race of men head growing"—but then this probably :ome up the fir tree, and instead of the lived half a million years ago, the author accounts for the conceit of evolutionary nier shall come up the myrtle tree,' and correctly states that "the human race "scientists." ife's desert 'shall rejoice, and blossom as has been shrinking in size ever since. The more we discover of the past his- he rose.' " The farther back we go the bigger we tory of mankind the more we are con- To all whose spirits are burdened with find our ancestors. How big the biggest vinced of the truthfulness of the Bible L sense of frustration and unrest Christ man and what sized baby did his giant- narrative. Solomon had that conviction )ffers the gracious invitation: "Come ess mate present to him? in summing up his observations when he said, "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." Eccl. 7: 29. One of the latest inventions man has sought out is the evolutionary phil- osophy which would have him puddling around on all fours in primeval filth, or swinging by a tail from a tree in some mythical past age.