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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. How men can take these insults to their natural intelligence, lying down, is a mystery. Surely the only explanation can be discovered in the words of Paul: "The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light o the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." 2 Cor. 4: 4. Place beside this the statement of man's genesis: "So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them." Gen. 1: 27. Think then of the purpose of the re- demptive price paid by the Son of God and realize the glorious reality of being -40NA, NEW GUINEA. Chaplain R. M. Park leads his men in a prayer service before the battle. The soldier with the peace of God in his heart is the bravest man on the tfield of action. right with God now. You will thus understand, dear reader, that neither the into Me, all ye that labour and are "The final answers lie deep in the early history of the race nor Heaven's teavy laden, and I will give you rest." earth and caves of Java and southern ultimate plan for your life and mine is a Here and now we may have in our China . . ." and might we suggest— mere fairy-tale. This plan is a reality, .earts the "peace of God which passeth the first chapters of Genesis! True ob- dependent only upon our acceptance of nderstanding." It is offered freely to jective science (not the speculative vari- Christ in the fullness of His divine life. "My peace I give unto you. . . . ety), is always coming across evidence of R. P. B. Et not your heart be troubled, neither the above type which is the absolute re- "KM !.t it be afraid." verse of the evolutionary hypothesis. God gives His peace in the heart now, After a most entertaining description NO SALE ut His plan embraces more than this of what these men and women ate, how I'VE heard of a preacher who had on fe. To all who accept His peace now, it could have been possible for them to his desk a special notebook, labelled Le promises eternal life in a world for bite off a branch of a tree for the purpose "Complaints of members against other ;ter free from sin and suffering and of shaping a club with which to brain a members." When one of his people eath. sabre-toothed tiger, and other interest- called to tell him the faults of another This is God's peace plan, the 'only ing details, the author concludes in the he would say, "Well, here's my com- Ian that will work. M. M. H. following regretful strain, "As the body plaint book. I'll write down what you shrank the skull grew, indicating an ever say, and you can sign it. Then when I airy-Tale Giants bigger brain. Obviously, intelligence was have to take the matter up officially, I ;1. AN article in the New Zealand replacing mere size, and the happy con- shall know what I may expect you to &L. Woman's Weekly for December 7, clusion was drawn that man would con- testify to." )44, has the heading "Fairy-tale Giants tinue to become ever more intelligent. The sight of the open book and the eal, Says Science." Unfortunately this is not true. Modern ready pen had its effect. "Oh, no, I "Gigantopithecus [sounds scientific, man's brain has started [?] to shrink. could not sign anything like that!" And 12sn't it? ] whose early existence was His brain-case averages smaller than the no entry was made. cently reported by Dr. Franz Weiden- Cro-Magnon men who lived in Europe The preacher says he kept the book ich, co-discoverer of the giant with at the beginning of the Stone Age, and for forty years, opened it probably a i. R. von Koenigswald of the Geologi- had such huge brains that they have thousand times, and never wrote a line 1 Survey of the Netherlands Indies, been called Palwolithic Greeks.' " in it.—Selected.

CONS OF THE TIMES :: August 13, 1945 Page Three in a historical revelation are distin- guished from those who have allowed these great facts to fade from their re- skins or the limes membrance."—Quoted in The Moody Editor: Assistant Editors: Bible Institute Monthly, Nov., 1930. A. G. STEWART MARIAN M. HAY, R. PAVITT BROWN Two thousand five hundred year! later, God gave to Moses the Ten Com- mandments, containing these words: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and Who, ate rthe Atte YitateAtartb? do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Ex. A Reply to Canon T. C. HAMMOND'S Address Entitled, "Are Seventh-day 20: 8-10. Adventists the Real Defenders of the Protestant Faith?" As the New Testament, in speaking of Christ, says, "All things were made by Ll the June number of judgest doest the same things. . . . And Him; and without Him was not any- the Protestant magazine, The Watch- thinkest thou this, 0 man, that judgest thing made that was made," He must bq man, printed in Sydney, there is pub- them which do such things, and doest the the one who made the Sabbath; and s4 lished an address broadcast by Canon same, that thou shalt escape the judg- Mark says, "The Sabbath was made for Hammond, Principal of Moore College, ment of God?" Rom. 2: I, 3. man, and not man for the Sabbath: over Station 2CH, in the well-known Seeing our only offence, so far as the therefore the Son of man is Lord also of session, "The Case for Protestantism." Canon has been able to point out, is the the Sabbath." Mark 2: 28. The sev- In this address the Canon very unwisely keeping of the seventh day of the week enth day is therefore undoubtedly the endeavoured to cast a stigma upon the as a divinely instituted day of rest and Lord's day, or the Christian Sabbath. teachings of Seventh-day Adventists, and worship, we shall briefly review the Neither the Canon nor anyone else can inferred that by our allegiance to the Scriptures as our authority, and support gainsay the fact that a beneficent Cre- Word of God in observing the _day them by quotations from leading church ator, who created the world in six days, which He has enjoined upon mankind to authorities of other Protestant churches. rested on, blessed, and sanctified the keep holy, we are "supporting two grave One of the first great facts of history seventh day, and appointed it to be the errors which have done much to weaken is the creation of the world, and the day of rest for all people who should bg practical Protestantism." Sabbath is God's own established memo- born into the world, whether they Were this not so serious a charge, we rial of that event. As one noted ecclesi- Jew or Gentile. The Sabbath was made should pass it by with disdain as being astical authority writes:— for all mankind, two thousand years be- ludicrous. Knowing, however, that the fore there was a people recognized as Canon's high office commends his teach- Jews. Walter Besant in his book, "All ing to many sincere Christian people, Sorts and Conditions of Men," rightly and his taking the means of the radio speaks of those who observe te seventh to broadcast his false charges, our Chris- day of the week, commonly called Satur- tian conscience demands of us a stern day, as a holy day in this logical and yet sympathetic rebuke to such uncharit- forcible way:— able and erroneous accusations against "As for the position taken by these his fellow Christians. people, it is perfectly logical and in fact The inconsistency of these charges is impregnable. There is no answer .to it the more pronounced when we remember They say, 'Here is the fourth command- with what relentlessness and persistency ment. All the rest you continue to ob. the Canon has been attacking the Roman serve. Why not this? When was i. Catholics for their adherence to "church repealed? And by whom?' If you p traditions" rather than Divine revela- these to bishop or presbyter he has tion for the support of many of their reply, because the law has never beer tenets of faith. Now he turns his at- repealed."—Page 255. tack upon a section of his fellow Protes- Canon Hammond knows only too we] tants whose only fault is their allegiance that in both the Church of England any to a "Thus saith the Lord" instead of other Episcopal churches it is custom man-made traditions upon which the ary for the minister in conducting cer Canon has to depend for his contention tam services to recite the Ten Corn for his Christian Sunday theory. How mandments, and for the congregation i his Roman Catholic listeners must have response at the,, conclusion of each con leaned back in their armchairs saying: "He that observes the Sabbath aright mandment to say, "Lord have mere "0 consistency, thou art a jewel!" holds the history of that which it cele- upon us, and incline our hearts to kee We would that the Canon, who en- brates to be authentic. He therefore this law." deavours to wrest the teachings and believes in the creation of the first man, In his book, "Weighed and Wanting, practices of the great Apostle Paul to in the creation of a fair abode for man Dwight L. Moody, the renowned reviva support his contention for the observ- in the space of six days; in the primeval ist, says: "Now men may cavil as muc ance of the pagan Sunday festival, as a and absolute creation of the heavens and as they like about other parts of ti Christian Sabbath, would heed the words the earth, and as a necessary antecedent Bible, but I have never met an hon4 of that same apostle in his counsel to the to all this, in the Creator, who at the man that found fault with the Te Romans when he says, "Therefore thou close of His latest creative effort, rested Commandments. Infidels may mock ti art inexcusable, 0 man, whosoever thou on the seventh day. The Sabbath thus Lawgiver and reject Him who has d art that judgest: . . . for thou that becomes a sign by which the believers livered us from the curse of the law, b

Page Four August 13, 1945 :: SIGNS OF THE TIM.] they can't help admitting that the com- day, to keep it holy' is a command of the next Sabbath." Acts 13 : 14, 42. mandments are right. Renan said that perpetual obligation and can never be Another reference to his ministry they are for all nations and will remain superseded but by the final termination reads: "On the Sabbath we went out the commandments of God during all of time. As it is a type of that rest of the city by a riverside, where prayer ithe centuries."—Page rr. which remains for the people of God, of was wont to be made; . . . and spake "The people must be made to under- an eternity of bliss, it must continue in unto the women which resorted thither." stand that the Ten Commandments are full force till that eternity arrives; for Acts 16: 13. This you will notice was still binding, and that there is a penalty no type ever ceases till the antitype be not to Jews alone, for another reference attached to their violation."—Page so. come." plainly says, "He reasoned in the syna- This disobedience with its resultant Another eminent authority has said, gogue every Sabbath, and persuaded the punishment was clearly expressed by "The weekly Sabbath is a very early Jews and the Greeks." Acts 18: 4. Christ in the sermo\n on the mount, when institution. It was appointed and ob- There is absolutely no scriptural au- He said, "Think not that I am come to served the very first week of time. It is thority for the observance of Sunday. destroy the law, or the prophets: I am no part of the law of ceremonies, which Its only authority is human tradition, not come to destroy, but to fulfil [or "to law was occasioned by the entry of sin; and not inspired revelation. establish" — Emphatic Diaglott]. . . . for the Sabbath was established before As Canon Eyton (Church of England), Whosoever therefore shall break one of sin had entered, and would have been in his "Ten Commandments," distinctly asserts: "There is no word, no hint, in .000000000000000000c-30000000000000=>0<=t0O0G the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday. . . . Into the QUIET WORK rest of Sunday no divine law enters. . • . The observance of Ash Wednesday or THIS spirit of restful dependence is an inward rest, which in most cases Lent stands on exactly the same footing is brought out of great effort, great struggling. . . . It is a rest which enables as the observance of Sunday."—Pages us to work, not apart from God, but in harmony with God. And so there is no 62-65. waste of force as there is when we work in merely the natural way. . . . We If further proof be needed to attest have rushed from place to place, feeling that something must- be done, and that this fact, let us call up another noted we must go and do it ourselves, that very moment. And afterwards we found ecclesiastical authority, R. W. Dale, D.D., that if only we had knelt down and committed it to God, the work would have been far better done. We should have had God with us next day, or whenever of the Congregational Church. His tes- God's time had come, whereas on that day, when we ran about so quickly, we were timony is clear. He says: "It is quite Iworking by ourselves, and of course the finite cannot do as much as the Infinite; clear that, however rigidly or devoutly men cannot accomplish as much as God. Work done out of harmony with God we may spend Sunday, we are not keep- comes to nothing, but work done in a rightful spirit, drinking in of the love of God, ing the Sabbath. . . . The Sabbath was is eternal work. It is divine work, though done by human instrumentalifry, there- founded on a specific DIVINE com- fore it shall last when heaven and earth shall pass away.—Bishop Wilkinson. mand. We can plead no such command =•000000000<>000<=00000000000•=0(=>OGO=3000<=30.= for the observance of Sunday. . . . "THERE IS NOT A SINGLE SEN- these least commandments, and shall teach obligatory on Adam and his offspring if TENCE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT men so, he shall be called the least in the sin had not been known among them." to suggest that we incur any penalty by kingdom of heaven." Matt. 5: 17-19. —"Discourses on the Sabbath," Seth violating the supposed sanctity of Sun- It is very evident from a mere casual Williston, pages ri, 12. day." —"The Ten Commandments," reading of Canon Hammond's address This plainly stated fact exposes in a pages rots, 107. London: Hodder & that he has made an attempt to confuse very condemnatory way Canon Ham- Stoughton. the moral and the ceremonial laws when mond's wilful and repeated reference to One wonders how a man of Canon he quotes Paul's letter to the Colossians the Sabbath of Jehovah as "the Jewish Hammond's acumen can ignore the over- concerning ceremonial feasts and sab- Sabbath" in contrast to the "Christian whelming evidence of both sacred and laths, saying, "Let no man therefore Sunday," as he prefers to designate secular history that Sunday obgervance judge you in meat, or in drink, or in them. It only remains now to expose has no other foundation than human respect of an holyday, or of the new the unjust and unsuccessful attempt traditions. Therefore, anyone who ad- moon, or of the sabbath days." Chapter made by the Canon to charge the apos- vocates its observance as the Christian 2: i6. tles with the responsibility of disregard- rest-day must come under the same The Canon must know perfectly well ing the seventh-day Sabbath and recog- condemnation as the scribes and Phari- that there were at least seven annual nizing the first day of the week, when sees when Christ said: "Ye hypocrites, Sabbaths observed in the old dispensa- he says, "St. Paul swept aside the ob- well did Esaias prophesy of you, say- tion, or under the ceremonial system. servance alike of circumcision and the ing, This people draweth nigh unto Me These were, however, "beside the Sab- Jewish Sabbath." This is most unfair with their mouth, and honoureth Me Daths of the Lord." The ceremonial and unscriptural, for the apostle in writ- with their lips; but their heart is far sabbaths are no longer binding upon ing to the Corinthians distinctly says: from Me. But in vain they do worship Christians since they were typical, but "Circumcision is nothing, and uncircum- Me, teaching for doctrines the com- :he text cited above has no reference to cision is nothing, but the keeping of the mandments of men." Matt. Is: 7-9. the weekly seventh-day Sabbath of the commandments of God." i Cor. 7: 19. The Rev. Isaac Williams, B.D. lord, commanded by Him in the Ten The Apostle Paul both by precept and (Church of England), declares most L'ommandments. example revered the Sabbath of the emphatically that Sunday sacredness is , Dr. Adam Clarke in his commentary Decalogue, for we read in the Acts of certainly not scriptural when he says: ltys, "There is no intimation here that the Apostles, in speaking of Paul and "And where are we told in the Scrip- he Sabbath was done away or that its Barnabas that "they went into the tures that we are to keep the first moral use was superseded by the intro- synagogue on the Sabbath day," and day at all? We are commanded to luction of Christianity. I have shown further, "the Gentiles besought that keep the seventh, but we are nowhere elsewhere that 'Remember the Sabbath these words might be preached to them ' commanded to keep the first day. . . . G N S OF THE TIMES :: August 13, 1945 Page Five The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but the church has enjoined it.'' —"Plain Sermons on the. Catechism," Vol. I, page 334. London: Longmans & Co. Historically, we quote the Encyclo- pzedia Britannica, gth edition. article "Sunday," which reads: "The earliest recognition of the observance of Sunday as a legal duty is a constitution of Con- stantine in A.D. 321." Notwithstanding the unfair and un- truthful charge levelled. against Seventh- day Adventists by Canon Hammond. that we are "supporting two grave errors which have done much to weaken prac- tical Protestantism" (i.e., our adherence to the law of God and the observance of the day upon which He rested, which He blessed and sanctified), we most respect- fully contend that seeing the Protestant's rule of faith is "The Bible and the Bible A Challenge to Christians only," we, of all professing Protestants. strive to live in harmony with that fun- damental truth., Only recently the Bishop of Chiches- The Ethics of Gambling ter declared: "For years we have be- haved as though the world were made C. P. HUGHES by Almighty Man. There has been no Secretary Tasmanian Temperance Alliance acknowledgment of a law of God which we are all bound to obey." To that law, he asserts, the world must come THE glaring results of mitting it to chance. He is well trained, back. Concerning this rallying call the gambling have little or no defence to and equipped with a good machine, and British Weekly wrote in endorsement: offer. Yet there are many thousands of then goes out prepared to risk his life for "We would suggest once again that the people who indulge in small bets, take a worthy cause. revival for which the church and all the tickets in raffles, and engage in consulta- Life is certainly full of risks, and in churches ought immediately to plan and tions, who have no intention of becoming battling with them character is devel- proceed with is the revival of the Ten gamblers. To these, amongst whom are oped and won. Gambling, however, not Commandments." great numbers of young men and women, only puts risk in the place of control, One wonders if the author of such an these words are written. but it is the wrong kind of risk and is urge really comprehends what it would Gambling has been variously defined taken for selfish ends. involve. It must bring us back to a as: "An agreement between two parties Another common excuse these days is, recognition of the fourth commandment whereby the transfer of something of "It is for the sake of charity." Innum- which calls us to remember that "the sev- value from one to the other is dependent erable raffles, as well as other devices, enth day is the Sabbath of the Lord on an uncertain event, in such a way that are held in the sacred name of charity' thy God." By so doing we would no the gain of one party is balanced by the A common phrase adds insult to injury longer be considered inconsistent by the loss of the other." A much simpler defi- when people say, "We must do our little Roman Catholics as we are at present. nition says, "It is the determination of hit for the brave boys at the front.' as may be noted in such charges as this: the ownership of property by appeal to Here we have one of the most objection- chance." These of course cover a wide able of all excuses, for it conceals an un- "It was the Catholic Church which variety of gambling devices, including worthy business under a decent cloak by the authority of Jesus Christ has the racecourse. sweepStakes, lotteries, It would be much more charitable to give transferred this rest to the Sunday in raffles, consultations such as Tattersall's, outright to whatever the cause may be remembrance of the resurrection of our etc., and the tossing of a coin. and thereby save all the overhead ex• Lord. Thus the observance of Sunday One of the disturbing features about penses of gambling, which eat up mud by the Protestants is an homage they the gambling habit is the kind of excuses of the money given. I wonder why it i: pay, in spite of themselves, to the au- that are offered by many Christian peo- that of all those who say they gamble fo thority of the !Catholic 1 Church."— ple. Quite a common excuse is that the charity's sake, so few fail to leave the "Plain Talk About the Protestantism of whole of life is a gamble. To support prize uncollected. Why not say outright Today," by Mgr. Segur, page 213. Bos- this view a certain person recently cited "I go into this gamble because I hope ti ton: Thomas B. Noonan & Co., 1868. our airmen who have been so heroically get something out of it at another's ex When so-called Protestants, of whom defending us, saying they were gambling pense, and if I don't win. then charit Canon Hammond professes to be a cham- with their lives. No greater insult could will get some of my money." This 1 pion, can by precept and example refute be offered such a brave body of men as cuse savours of an old hypocrisy tha such a charge, then, but not till then. to attempt to condone gambling by lik- "the end justifies the means." If thi will they qualify as "real Protestants." ening it to their. sacrifice. The airman were right then a thief would be allowe A. G. S. does not gamble with his life by sub- to rob a bank, provided he gave th Page Six August 13. 1945 SIGNS OF THE TIME

money to a patriotic fund. You cannot portance, and places the emphasis upon as a trust. Submitting to this teaching make a clothes-horse beautiful by dress- luck alone. we dare not treat our money lightly, still ing it up in silks and laces, neither can less our neighbour's. The vocabulary of Gambling is wrong because of its as- you make a vice respectable, or turn it Jesus did not include the word "chance." into a virtue, by pointing out its occa- sociation with other 'vices. The story He spoke of God's care—how "the very sional good effect. If honest people want of the man who embezzles money to pay hairs" of a man's head were numbered, to help charities, let them give straight gambling debts is heard again and again, and that not even a sparrow falls with- out to them. as is also the story of him who takes his out His knowledge. own life to escape the results of gam- A further excuse is that the amount is bling. Finally it is wrong because it "Behind the dim unknown generally small, so that it really doesn't matter. Well, I am certain that if a • breaks a commandment. "Thou shalt Standeth God within the shadow thing is wrong and violates principles, not covet . . . anything that is thy neigh- Keeping watch above His pwn." the amount concerned does not matter. bour's." There would be no such thing If a roan steals a 6d. cake of soap from as gambling if people were not trying to 4r POSTSCRIPT a shop, he cannot offer the excuse that put their hands into other people's pock- By Rt. Rev. G. F. CRANSWICK, it was not stolen because it was worth ets. The basis of all gambling is the Bishop of Tasmania only 6d. desire to possess what belongs to our "I hope that Mr. Hughes' words will I heard a good 'lady give another ex- neighbour. It causes half the trouble in lead Christians to investigate more cuse for her gambling when she said, the world. Such other evils as adultery, deeply the moral dangers to the whole "It adds spice to sport." Yet think theft, lies, and murder are influenced by community of this uneconomic method where this principle leads. If it is per- this same desire. Anything that breaks of acquiring goods and financial gain. one of God's' commands is wrong, ' missible to do wrong in order to add "GEOFFREY TASMANIA." spice to life, then we shall condone the A more important law still is broken. conduct of the person who laughs at the The law of Christian love. "Thou shalt "M\ marriage vow and commits adultery. love thy neighbour as thyself." Anyone The game that is not worth playing who does this will not seek to deprive unless it can be "spiced" is suspect. his neighbour of anything which is his 51ie 112oftd of cod 'This.kind of person, if sincere, would be by right. The matter of whether he can prepared to play his shillings against afford to lose does not come into the *THE bright white light of truth which 'other people's buttons. question. There are many thousands of guides us surely through the dense black A final excuse may be mentioned. It homes- impoverished by this practice; fog of superstition. is that which says "A man can do what therefore, in so far as we engage in gam- •The hand that. leads us safely through he likes with his own." This saying is bling devices, we give our approval to 'the dark, cdi.ingA .s labyrinth of decep- only a half truth, for no one should do this destructive force which causes so tion to the open door of fact. • much poverty and suffering. One of the with his own anything that will hurt •The unquenchable flame of love which another. Almost every orator who makes lasting foundations of Christianity is that we are responsible for our brother, thaws the frozen heart and warms to a speech about the war tells us we are life the dead conscience. fighting- for Christian civilization and we are "our brother's keeper." This Christian freedom. If this be so, then °The ever-glowing fire of hope in the the Christian's viewpoint must be taken forge of faith which burns away the into account, and this is, "Ye are not dross of doubt and despair. your own, for ye are bought with a 'Thal :StIALT LOVE StiALT LOVE 1 THE LORDTHY GOD 1 TM NEIGHBOR, •The shining beacon that warns us of price." W1111 ALL TAY MART... AS THYSELF the dangerous hidden reefs , of pseudo- Those who use these very common ex- 'science and .the treacherous shoals of cuses make one doubt, not their moral- theological isms which wreck so many ity, so much as their mentality. Their human barks on the sea of life. 'thinking is all wrong. VIZ •The only genuine and permanent sign- There are only three things which nr post that points us in the right direction justify me in taking £I from another toward heaven, where eternal happiness man. Firstly, I must give him Li worth ••• abides. of goods. That is the law of exchange. ..0‘`t • °The divine road map on which our Secondly, I may have done Li worth of Lord has plainly traced the outlines and work for him. That is the law of labour. limits of the straight and narrow way on Thirdly, he may give it to me freely, be- which mortals must travel to reach ever- cause he desires to do me good. That is lasting life. the law of love. Under which of these three laws can gambling be placed? °The milk and honey, wine and manna, must be our standard, and also the con- on which the human soul depends for Let it now be stated why gambling is demnation of our gambling activity. spiritual sustenance; the perfect food wrong. and drink for all who hunger and thirst On these moral grounds the case First of all because it is unreasonable. after righteousness. Chance is the essential element in gam- against gambling is strong. Let it be realized that while nations can stand the *The divine law by which we are tried bling. Man's reason is not used, his will pinch of economic ills, they cannot with- and judged, sentenced or pardoned. Re- does not decide: further his conscience is wards for obedience and penalties for iolated, if as winner he accepts what stand the loss of moral fibre. When p moral fibre is gone, nothing worth while infractions are clearly described by the really does not belong to him. Money Author of this law. honestly earned represents thought, skill, is left. service, and personality. Gambling sets On Christian grounds, the Master we °How wondrously beautiful, 0 God, is all these to, one side as things of no im- serve would have us regard our property Thy Holy Word ! —Anpa Modine Moran. SIGNS OF THE TIMES • :: August 13. 1945 Page Seven 4 pludatii, Biologist

• GEORGE McCREADY PRICE Reviewing DR. F. L. MARSH'S Notable Book, "EVOLUTION, CREATION, and SCIENCE"*

FEW Bible believers can *Review and Herald Publishing have any conception of the intellectual Assn., Takoma Park, Washing- ton, D.C., U.S.A. 13s. 6d. intolerance and ostracism which await anyone around the large educational centres who dares to come out publicly against the now almost universally ac- cepted doctrine of man's animal origin. This dogma of evolution has become a "sacred cow," which can be treated with scribing what happens when a pack disrespect only at the risk of losing all of wolves is chasing some quarry standing in educational circles. As one and one of their number happens of the high priests of this modern cult to stumble and fall. The others describes the situation, no one nowadays immediately stop and fall upon believes in the doctrine of special crea- him, tearing him limb from limb; tion except "the ignorant, the dogmatic, then on they go again as before. and the prejudiced." Another eminent The entire pack is acting much like a to take a whole country by storm, only university man declares: "Among the single organism. Their minds (if we to be as quickly and universally aban- present generation no informed person may speak of a wolf as having a mind) doned, we have an example of the action entertains any doubt of the validity of are all standardized ; and the irregular of the crowd mind, or of mob psy- the evolution theory, in the sense that action of the one that falls is so disturb- chology. evolution has occurred." ing to this. standard of uniform be- The history of the stages by which the Accordingly, no matter what your haviour that they destroy the one that, evolution theory attained to its present education may have been, you must not until this irregularity, had been one of position of dominance furnishes many presume to question the validity of this their number. examples of standardized thinking; and modern scientific dogma unless you are Most well-informed persons know that the intolerant way in which the modern prepared to find yourself rated as not human beings often act like a unit, or leaders of the doctrine treat all question- "informed," and are willing to be classed like the pack of wolves just mentioned. ing or opposition offers abundant evi- with "the ignorant, the dogmatic, and Some years ago I read a number of dence that scientifically educated men, the prejudiced." scholarly books about the "crowd," or are only human, all too human, and likel I have in mind a new book entitled, the behaviour and characteristics of other ordinary mortals are too often "Evolution, Creation, and Science," by "crowds," the crowd in a scientific sense under the sway of mob psychology. This Frank L. Marsh, Ph. D., professor of being any body of human beings who is exemplified by the way in which the biology, Union College, Lincoln, Ne- feel a sense of unity, a sense of solidar- dominant clique always treat one of their braska. The author had eleven years of ity. A mob at a lynching is a typical number who has the temerity to step advanced studies at three leading uni- example, for in such a case the combined aside, who announces that he can no versities; but because he cannot believe individuals act in a way far different longer agree with the crowd, and that he the theory of organic evolution, and from the way any single one of them has ceased to keep time in the lock step protests against the further teaching of would behave alone. Most examples of of the fashionable intellectual parade. this unproved dogma to the children persecution to the death, as seen down The ones in places of authority often and'youth of the nation, he is experienc- the centuries, were conducted under the indicate that, if they could, they would ing the usual scorn and ostracism which hysteria of mob psychology. tear this unstandardized individual limb is the sure fate of anyone with the temer- But people who are far apart geo- from limb, in the same fashion the ity to come out publicly against the ac- graphically may still be so unified in wolves do with the one of their number cepted dogmas. All of which illustrates mind or feelings as to constitute a true who falls out by the way. the behaviour of the modern standard- "crowd" in the scientific sense, whenever No doubt Dr. Marsh will experience ized crowd toward one who attempts to their feelings are excited and they have the consequences of braving the standi do some independent thinking regarding a greater sense of united interests than ardized thinking which has so long doml the fundamentals. any feelings of individuality. The crowd mated the educational institutions of all Before I give anything further about is not swayed by its reason, but by its the civilized world. For he goes much this protesting biologist and his book, I feelings. And when a new fashion or further than other rebels against evolu- can best illustrate the situation by de- method of action or of thinking seems tion. Professor Leo Berg of the Uni-

Page Eight August 13, 1945 :: SIGNS OF THE TIMES versity of Leningrad, Russia, published a to judge of this matter about the fossil complex forms," and he then proceeds remarkable book, called "Nomogenesis," horses, which have long been the special (page 223):— in the year 1926, in which he showed the pets of the evolutionists. He first shows "Here it is admitted that palaeontology utter incredibility of such a vast and how these various fossils of horselike furnishes the only real proof for evolu- omplex array of plants and animals ever animals have been gathered together tion, and as shown in the pedigree of having sprung from one or even a few from widely scattered areas and then the horse, this proof can be produced primary forms; instead he declared, on artificially arranged in a supposed his- only by assuming the truth of evolution, page 406: "Organisms have developed torical sequence, though "the only rea- and then pulling together successively from tens of thousands of primary son for arranging them in the above more specialized forms from various forms." order . . . is the assumption that evo- parts of the world in order to prove the Then Austin H. Clark of the Smith- lution has occurred." (Id., page 222.) theory. This circular reasoning of the sonian Institution, Washington, pub- Accordingly, since an evolutionary se- evolutionary geologist is too much for lished "The New Evolution" in 1930, in quence has been assumed in the arrange- the special creationist. He lets go of which he dealt on the great gaps be- ment of these fossil horses, what a crime the idea and falls back upon the sensible tween all the major groups of animals, against logic it is to appeal to this parade Biblical explanation which states that gaps which are almost as clear and dis- of their fossils as proof of evolution! I all these animals lived upon the earth at tinct also between the classes, the orders, quote again from Marsh:— the same time." nd the families. He wrote:— "Since they [the fossil horses] had In the field of genetics, with its an- I "No matter how far back we go in the been pulled together from Oregon, cient problem of the origin of "species," fossil record of previous animal life upon Idaho, Wyoming, and from various Marsh makes good use of such recent earth, we find no trace of any animal counties in Nebraska, it is every bit as books as those by Richard B. Gold- forms which are intermediate between sensible to conclude that they were all schmidt (1940), of the University of the various major groups or phyla."— living on the earth at the same time."— California; Theodosius Dobzhansky "The New Evolution," page 18g. Ibid., page 222. (1941, §econd edition) of Columbia Others might be added to the names And I am glad to be able to announce University; and Ernst Mayr (1942) of of Berg and Clark who have criticized that Dr. Marsh has had the courage actu- the American Museum of Natural His- some of the details of the theory of ally to take this latter position, namely, tory, New York City. The outstanding evolution, but who have nevertheless re- that the fdssils represent contemporary progress in this field recently has been mained believers in some form of the plants and animals which were destroyed the emergence of the concept of "poly- en e r al theory. The reason they have by some sudden and universal world typic species," or "large species" (called pot been able to break away entirely catastrophe, which of course is the scien- also "rassenkreise," etc.), which it is now has been that they retained the current tific complement of what is described in realized are separated from each other geological theory of a world untold mil- the Bible as the Deluge. This is the by "bridgeless gaps," and never inter- lions of years old, with living forms ap- line of argument which I have been breed with one another. Marsh believes pearing in a series from the little and contending for during well on toward these polytypic species are approxi- less organized up to the larger and more half a century; and it is encouraging to mately identical with the "kinds" of the complexly organized, a sequence which see this new book which takes this solid original creation, which the Bible so geologists and palaeontologists affirm they scientific ground in dealing with the plainly speaks of as the original breeding have determined with exactness, and by fundamental reasoning about whether units among plants and animals; and in means of which they declare they are there has been a real creation, or whether this also I believe Marsh is on solid able to date reliably the rocks found in organic evolution is to be accepted and ground both scientifically and religiously. any part of the world from the fossils believed. For a belief in a universal Within these original "kinds," or what they contain. Deluge, as the Bible describes, makes modern biologists are now calling "poly- But Dr. Frank L. Marsh, in the book childish nonsense of every scheme of typic species," there has, of course, been mentioned above, "Evolution, Creation, evolution. endless splitting and dividing, which and Science," has seen the weakness of I wish I had the space to quote from the followers of Darwin have been ex- Lhe geological argument for evolution; the chapters on embryology, on genetics, ploiting to their own advantage for r the geologists first assume the suc- on geographical distribution, and on nearly a century. But if Marsh is right, :ession of the fossils for the world as a hybridization, for all these and many the agelong question about the "origin Nhole, and give them a differential dat- other subjects are discussed in this book. of species" has at long last been solved; ng according to their grade of organiza- But I can give only some further quota- for the record of their origin is found in :ion, and then they turn around and date_ tions concerning the fossils, in which Dr. the first chapter of Genesis. :he strata according to the kinds of fos- Marsh points out the ridiculous circular I commend this book most heartily to sils they contain. I quote some state- reasoning which is always employed by my readers who may themselves be in- nents to show Marsh's line of argument evolutionists in this department of the terested in these problems, or who may •egarding the fossils:— general subject. have friends attending some of the col- "As remarked above, there is no spot Marsh quotes from Schuchert and leges or universities where evolution is in earth to which one can go and see Dunbar's recent textbook of geology, still being taught as the "proved" results nore than a few thousand vertical feet that "fossils provide the only historical, of science. Those who can afford it 4 stratified rocks. And in no one of documentary evidence that life has might well buy this book by the dozen hese places can the evolutionary story evolved from simpler to more and more and circulate it among their friends. f any animal or plant be seen."—"Evo- 4tion, Creation, and Science," page 221. As he lives in Nebraska, which is al- Lost the centre of the region from which re celebrated fossil horses and near orses have been collected and arranged i an artificial and misleading sequence I most of the great museums of the -orld, Marsh is naturally well qualified IGNS OF THE TIMES :: August 13, 1945 Page Nine

Just in Time The Thrilling Story of Deliverance from the Los Banos Internment Camp Upwards of fifty Seventh-day Ad- ventist missionary families were in the A. G. ROGERS, wife, and son, Los Banos internment camp. In the left England in 1941, en route group, besides A. G. Rogers, whosel to Palestine as Seventh - day Adventist missionaries. Their story appears above, were James Lee and' ship docked in Manila as war his wife, formerly Marguerite Siglinger, was declared. Together with many other missionaries, they Fresno, California, with their two small were interned, and suffered much from undernourishment. boys, Elfred Milton, and David James. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rogers lost These young people were graduated 3i stone in weight. from the Pacific Union College, St. Helena, California, in 1937, and entered and more hospitable shore. Here the mission service in Korea about a year sick, infirm, and aged were conveyed in later. He was a teacher in the West Visayan Adventist training school in IN conjunction with para- trucks and ambulances to temporary troop-carrying C-47's, amphibious tank evacuation quarters where, for the first the Philippines when they were taken units joined forces with guerilla bands time in many months, adequate food and prisoner by the Japanese. They des- and at a given signal the battle for Los expert medical aid were available. cribe their rescue as follows:— Banos, and the rescue of thousands of In subsequent interviews with news- "Yesterday morning at seven sharp,` starving people, began. paper correspondents and radio com- nine planes flew near the camp and Churning the placid waters of Laguna mentators, the internees expressed pro- dropped 135 paratroopers. At that signal Bay into raging foam, amphibious tanks found admiration and deep gratitude guerillas began shooting at the Japanese surged ashore, tore along the beaches, for the timely operation which, after so guards around our camp at Los Banos, and, belching forth deadly fire, over- long a time, had once again conferred where we had been since April 7, 1944. came all opposition and eliminated every upon them their former status of free Bullets were whizzing all around for a obstacle in an operation astonishing in men and women. We were reminded of while. In fifteen or twenty minutes the its rapidity of movement and singularly- the famous epigram: "Never was so paratroopers and guerillas were all successful in the achievement of its much owed by so many to so few." through our camp with all the Japanese humanitarian aim. Perfect timing, the Thus came to an end a period of three guards dead. The American boys (para- vital element of surprise, together with long, weary years of internment. Cut troopers) told us to pack immediately superb co-ordination, reflected the skill off from the outside world, ignorant of few of our most important things, as wf/ of those to whom had been committed the ebb and flow of contemporary events, were to leave in amphibious tanks which the planning of this hazardous under- separated from loved ones and home, it had come across the lake and were al- taking. was indeed a trying experience. Older ready rolling into the camp. General MacArthur, in paying tribute men and women toward the end pre- "We hurriedly packed and were soon to those who took part in the operation, sented a grim spectacle. Starved, ema- off. None of us was injured in the least. fittingly said: "God was certainly with ciated, they were animated skeletons. Marguerite and the boys were down in us today." In the extremity of their dilemma some an air raid shelter, or' hole (for it had sought to retrieve means of subsistence It was during the pandemonium which no top), during the fight between the from the garbage cans scattered through- Jap guards and the guerillas. Some, then broke loose, as shot and shell whis- out the camp. Others resorted to slugs, tled and shrieked overhead, as guerillas including Marguerite and the boys, rode domestic animals, and rats in a last to the lake and across it on the 'alli- poured down the mountain-side and endeavour to assuage the cruel pangs of planes roared low but reassuringly over- gator' amphibious tanks. Many of us— hunger. Happily before this became the men and those without children—walked head, that U.S. Paratrooper McGrath of rule rather than the exception, manna St. Louis, Missouri, attached to the to the lake shore and then were taken came from heaven and mercifully ended across on the 'alligators.' We are now Eleventh Airborne Division, alighted the grim nightmare of an existence one and came toward us. In a gesture re- yearns to forget. peated by others many times throughout For some, this long-awaited emanci- the day, McGrath at once proffered us pation came too late. Sad to say, during his Army rations. How grateful we the last week of internment, more people were, for we had but a handful of rice succumbed to the rigours imposed upon left! them than at any other time in the his- In the midst of the inferno of blazing tory of the camp. Throughout their buildings, dense columns of smoke, and imprisonment people had steadfastly set the rattle of the crossfire of the belli- their faces against physical and mental gerents, the hundreds of internees, cling- capitulation. However, in many cases, being well fed for the first time in twc ing to their pitifully few belongings, the length of the trial proved too long. and a half years. It is too wonderful tc stumbled out to freedom. With cool- For three seeming centuries, compre- realize as yet. headed military efficiency on the part of hended in three short years, they had, "We were using the last of our food the paratroopers, they were assisted into with magnificent courage and determina- In fact, the last two days' issues of foot waiting tanks which, without a precious tion fought a good fight and almost fin- were in the form of cpalay,' or unhuske( moment to lose, plunged into the lake. ished the course, only to miss the victory rice, and we had no mill to husk Proceeding northward, under the con- by a few short days. These sad events, Many had died of beriberi already any stant protection of silvery wings out- however, served but to emphasize the many more were due to die any tirr4 stretched against a tropical sky, the wonder and the joy of our own deliver- Our camp was caught between ti amphibious convoy made its way past ance. Again and again the words fell Japanese armies, one of which to th enemy artillery positionS, and continued from our lips: "Be all the glory to Thy north of us was being driven soutli. bravely on until it landed us eventually name divine: the swords were ours, but ward, and they would have had t without a single casualty upon a safer the arm, 0 Lord, was Thine." (Concluded on page 12)

Pare Ten August 13, 1945 :: SIGNS OF THE TIME barbaric and cruel Deity. But like Exodus 32 speaks of drinking, dancing, most things there was a reason for these nakedness, and defilement as part of the pronouncements that at first sight appear ceremony of worshipping the golden calf. cruel and ruthless, and this reason must Again, unable to curse the nation, the be considered before judgment is pro- renegade prophet Balaam was respon- nounced. sible for Israel's sin at Peor (Num. 31: Recent discoveries in the field of 16), and again the same scenes were archaeological investigation and research enacted with the daughters of Moab. have thrown much light on the customs It would appear that these practices and habits of these Canaanite races. It were intimately connected with the wor- has lately been shown that their worship ship of heathen gods, and that Israel and religious systems involved many was in grave danger of defilement by bestial and degrading sexual practices. contact with these peoples. Their priests set the lead in these prac- God bore long with these nations. The tices, and fiendishly elaborate ceremonies Amorites were spared for four hundred were'held in which young virgins in the years till their cup of iniquity was full. hands of high priests played a prominent Then when they refused to turn from part, and unrestrained lustful licence on their evil ways and were certain to cause the part of the devotees followed these Israel's downfall by their close prox- public ceremonies. All this was done as a imity, then and only then went forth religious cult, and as a climax the people the fiat for their utter destruction. That abandoned themselves to an orgy of is no argument for a revengeful and drinking, dancing, nakedness, and sin. cruelly jealous God. Such cults with [Records have been discovered indicat- their practices resulted in cruelty and ing that resultant social disease infected suffering with the degradation of the men, women, children, and .even their Continued from page 1 devotees, and were best stamped out. domestic animals without exception.] Thus a just and merciful God had to Moral Standards and Their The temples, groves, and shrines con- order their destruction when these peo- Significance nected with their worship (specifically ples would not reform. • mentioned in the verses cited above from J. WINSTON KENT, M.B., B.S. Deuteronomy) were the centres where The revelation of Jehovah as a 'wise, to refute. Suffice it to say at this stage, these scenes took place. all-seeing, merciful, and loving—but at that to me the entire Bible, as a reve- the same time just—God, refutes these lation of the Eternal God, reveals no Besides their depravity and abandon- modernistic arguments. When His laws contradiction in the characteristics of ment, many cruel practices were included are flouted, His mercy and long-suffering the Almighty, nor does He undergo any in these cults. The placing of infants in presumed upon and taken as an evidence such metamorphosis. His love, His the arms of a metal monster god, inside of weakness, destruction follows always. mercy, His justice, and His judgments which was a fire so that the baby was This is a constant revelation of the are the same right through from Genesis grilled alive, and other fire practices are Almighty right through the Bible. Evi- to Revelation. examples. The picture is not particu- dences are: the antediluvian world, larly pleasant or nice. Neither is sin. I shall not consider that side of the Sodom and Gomorrah, the Canaanites, question further here, but should like to Drunkenness and wholesale licence the captivity of Israel, and finally the examine a specific argument put forth with revolting scenes of nakedness and destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 7o. by modernist theologians and higher debauchery were the common custom in The final destruction of sin and sinners critics. Their contention is that God as these nations, and all was done in the is the last stage, and yet to come. There described early in the Old Testament is name of religion as a sacred cult. are no separate and distinct Jehovahs, cruel, revengeful, and jealous God, and In his recent book, Prorok, the ex- neither does the New Testament differ lEhey cite the pronouncements ordering plorer and archaeologist, describes similar from the Old. Christ Himself foretold the utter extermination of the Canaan- cults with identical practices existing at the final end of the wicked—those who ites as proof of their argument. Their the present time in inaccessible parts of reject His love and mercy. Sin and idea is that the people of that age were Africa. He describes these different sinners will be destroyed, and Paul in cruel and barbaric, and likewise the cults, all conducted along similar lines Heb. 1o: 28-31 speaks of its being a Deity they describe has these same to the scenes described above, and in- fearful thing to fall into the hands of characteristics. The verses they quote fers that these have existed from ancient the living God after ignoring His de- are found in Deut. 7: 1-5, where the times. In the light of these findings crees and flouting His law. Canaanite nations are listed, with the giving evidence that these practices were God never condones licence and low :njunction, "Thou shalt smite them, and common in heathen races in ancient moral standards. Nations have been itterly destroy them . . . nor show times, the reason for the utter destruc- destroyed because of a lowering of their nercy unto them." Again in I Sam. 15: tion of the Canaanite peoples becomes levels of morality. Examples that have 1-3, Saul is ordered to exterminate the quite evident. Degraded and bestially occurred are the antediluvian world, and kmalekites, and specifically told to "slay sinful and hopelessly diseased nations Sodom and Gomorrah, as well as the )oth man and woman, infant and suck- alongside of the Israelites were unthink- Canaanite nations instanced before. ing," and their animals. able. These were peoples on whom terrible No doubt these verses are very strong, During their journeyings to Canaan judgment was carried out because of 'd may even appear cruel. The utter instances occurred where the close prox- their sins, and prominent among these :x termination of these races—men, imity of these cults wrought ruin and sins were depravity and licence in sex women, youngsters, and infants—these havoc to Israel. Under the influence relationships, and abandoned moral ritics say, is surely ample proof of a of the Egyptian members of the congre- standards. It is an accepted fact that 'arbaric and cruel race with an equally gation the children of Israel sinned. nations destroy themselves following on

I G N S OF THE TIMES :: August 13,1945 Page Eleven the wreck of the sanctity of the home drunkenness, revelry, and too often the nately, these characteristics were con- and the marriage tie, and the consequent abandonment of restraint and decency. fined to the few. But at the present sapping of the will and moral fibre of The misery, degradation, and shame that time they are far from being merely the people. Proud allusions in classical follow in the wake of these so-called national and confined to the few. They Latin writings refer to the sanctity of good times is colossal, where improper are international, the general rule, and' these institutions—home and marriage; association inflames lust, and alcohol, the largely accepted order. Horace in one of his odes describes as removing the cortical control as an in- Marriage is becoming a mockery, to the ideal of womanhood, "the matron hibiting factor, allows passion to have be entered lightly and terminated equally who bears sons that resemble the fea- full sway. The evidence is about us for as lightly; its sacredness is lost, and its tures of her husband." Crude and primi- all thinking men and women to con- vows are meaningless and no check to tive in expression maybe, but lofty and template. desire; home has lost its significance to strong in sentiment. These standards And what is the significance of all a large extent. It is staggering to realize deteriorated considerably as Rome grew this? If history repeats itself and is any that approximately forty per cent of wealthy and allegedly more civilized, guide to the future, it means the decay first-born children are conceived out of and with the overthrow of the home and overthrow of our civilizatiori. To wedlock. It is generally known that and marriage with widespread licence, the thinking, reasoning Christian, it criminal abortion is widespread and uni- the decadent and corrupt Empire was means the end of the world. Christ versally rife. overthrown by the more primitive and virile barbarians. We can but bewail that these condi-1 tions should exist. We should also re- This cycle has ever been the same. joice and be glad at the promise of our The sanctity of the home and marriage, Saviour's coming to bring this present a high conception of chastity and fidelity world to an end, to destroy sin and to vows, with a rigorous punishment of sinners together with sin's originator; breaches, have always led to a strong, and with the earth made new, to usher virile nation with nobility of purpose in the new and heavenly order. In this and a steadfast moral fibre. The reverse new earth sin with its attendant suffer- leads to decadence and ruin, and is ing, vice, and debasing practices will associated with luxury, idleness, vain never rear its ugly head. To all, the pleasures, and all that is vicious. Rack- warning being shouted by existing con- eteering, unscrupulous dealings both in ditions is contained in the words of th€ private and political spheres, vice and Master found in Matt. 24: 33, and re- debauchery, with lewdness predominat- peated in Luke 21 : 31: "So likewise ye, ing in art and literature, and music that when ye shall see all these things, know panders to the lust of the primitive that it. [i.e., His coming] is near, even degrading native dances—all these com- at the doors." plete the picture. Greece and Rome are ancient examples. France is a modern counterpart of how these things bring nations down. Pierre van Paassen in EVIDENCE IS ABUNDANT THAT Rescued! one of his books describes a French THE HOUR OF THIS 20TH - CEN- (Concluded from page 10) cabinet minister as declaring that he TURY CIVILIZATION'S DOOM IS preferred to consider the charms of his ABOUT TO STRIKE retreat right through our camp. Our mistress rather than consider the poli- forces feared that we would be in dire tical implications in the mid-European danger; so they planned this rescue and States. France in our own day went specifically foretold that these conditions pulled us out from between the two down, not because of defeat in battle would exist just prior to His second com- Japanese armies. They were given five only, but because of her corrupt and ing, and with it the end of the world. hours to get us out, and made it. Thg rotten moral fibre. He instances as a parallel to the days whole rescue was well planned and peril preceding this event the antediluvian fectly carried out. Not an internee or Such conditions exist in our world and world of Noah's day, and the conditions soldier was killed. our nation today. On every hand we that existed before that civilization per- hear warnings, exhortations, and reproofs ished in the Flood. In that period moral "We thank and praise an all-merciful by thinking men, both in the church and conditions are specifically detailed as Providence who answered our prayers outside of it. In the February 26 issue being debased and degrading. Similarly, and delivered us from starvation and the dangers of warfare." of this paper, a writer spoke of the "dis- the Master mentions Sodom and Gomor- integration of decency," the wholesale rah and their equally abandoned moral Messengers from Heaven prevalence of drunkenness, debauchery, standards before those cities were de- Among the many other thrilling des and vice, with flourishing black markets, stroyed by fire. The same debauchery, political and private shadiness, and a criptions of this dramatic rescue is thi: vice, corruption, degradation, and sin statement from Mrs. R. A. Le Sage o universal attitude to "scorn good man- were a feature of those days, just as they Michigan: "These wonderful America' ners, hold moral scruples in contempt, are a distressing feature of our own age soldiers seemed like 'emissaries fron view good taste with contempt, and sneer and generation, and Christ draws the heaven,' and I guess they were. I at serious-mindedness." parallel between conditions then and just MacArthur hadn't made that force( Just look at the cheap and vicious prior to His advent. The conditions march in tanks, etc., that brought ther literature flooding our bookstalls, with its described in Matthew 24 and Luke 2I here, we should probably all have bed degrading portrayal of womanhood, and are further elaborated by St. Paul in gone before they arrived. Thanks its filthy, suggestive jests. Consider the 2 Timothy 3. God, to General MacArthur, and t modern dance halls and, unhappily, the In every age there always have been every one of these wonderful youn general nature of parties with their the profligate and the ungodly. Fortu- men."

Page Twelve August 13, 1945 :: SIGNS OF THE TIME You will find it hard to say 'How do ~y the you do?' the first time, but the second time it will be easier, and after a little it will be as easy for you as sliding down family fireside the stair rail." • ta -11 "I won't like it as well," said Jack, "but I'll try." "Spoken like a man," said mummy as she kissed him and tucked him into his a .eittee stow little bed. Then she opened the win- dows wide and smilingly went down- MARTHA E. WARNER stairs. Now, it so happened that the first night after this talk, when daddy came THIS is a story about a waiting to tuck him in, she put the be- home and found a caller in the living- boy—not so very old and not so very ginning of her plan into operation. room with mummy, he was carrying in To be exact, he was halfway "My, my!" she said to Jack (for that his hand a package. Without stopping !betweenPbetween three and four—the age to be was the little boy's name), "how you to lay it down, he walked into the room, adorable. Only this boy wasn't—not have stretched up this year. I didn't shook hands with the woman, talked a always. realize there were two men in this house, few minutes, spoke about the weather, Usually, the "not always" times were you and daddy." and then excused himself. And Jack, on the days when mummy had ladies at Now the thought of being called a who all this time had been standing in the house, teaching them to knit. Old man made Jack's eyes shine, and he the doorway, also disappeared. ladies, the boy called them—not be- stood very tall as he announced, "I'm Mummy's heart went down, down. cause of their age, but because of the going to be a man just like daddy." inane questions they would ask: What is The plan wasn't going to work. What your name? How old are you? Where Then followed a bit of talk about could she do? What should she do? did you get your big brown eyes? daddy—about the things he did and But wait a minute. Jack was coming the things he did not do. He didn't back. He really was, and in his hand Then one day one of them called him drink or swear or say bad words. He Honey Bunch. And another asked him was one of his toys. (Daddy had carried worked hard, but he didn't get cross a package.) Crossing the room to the to kiss her, and when he wouldn't, about it. He was kind and always mummy sent him out of the room in lady, he held out his hand and stammer- cheerful, even when he was doing things ingly said, "How do you do?" disgrace. As he went through the door, he did not particularly want to do. they laughed, and he heard one say, He was never too busy to help people, The woman started to laugh, but one "Some day he'll be a breaker of girls' and always daddy spoke to mummy's look from mummy made her realize that hearts." Old ladies! Girls! How he ladies. And, of course, if Jack was going an important bit of drama was being detested them! They were—yes, they to be a man like daddy, he surely would enacted; so she gravely shook hands were pests. So he avoided them as much speak to them too. with him and replied, "Quite well, as possible, and when it wasn't possible, thank you." At that Jack was panic stricken. "No, he was anything but adorable, I can Then Jack said it was a warm day, no," he protested, "I couldn't do that. assure you. and the woman agreed, and asked him I don't want to speak to any old ladies. whether he enjoyed the warm weather. Now, all this troubled mummy, and I don't know what to say to them. You Jack nodded and made for the door, but she didn't know what to do, for she had scolded and scolded when I asked one talked and talked; but it was like pour- how old she was." halfway there he stopped and said, ing water on a duck's back so far as "Scuse me; I must put my engine ,forming the manners of her son was "I know I did, and mummy is sorry; away," and out of the room he bolted. oncerned. But she must do something. but for some reason or other men do not Then mummy's heart came up and cShe couldn't have him growing up to be speak to ladies about their age. There rude and disagreeable, and that was are so many other things you could talk up, for she knew the plan was working. what was happening. about. I'll tell you what. You just At bedtime, she said to Jack, "Mummy watch daddy and see what he does and was proud of her two men tonight. Both She thought about it and thought says the next time he comes and finds a came in and visited a minute with my about it, yes, and even prayed about it. lady here. That might help you." friend." Then one day, in a flash, a plan came to her which she decided to try. To be Jack gave a long sigh as he bravely And that was the beginning of Jack's sure, it involved talking, but a different winked back the tears, and solemnly re- refofmation, and is the end of my story kind of talking, if you understand what marked, "Men have to do some awfully about a boy, which is really about a I mean. So that night when the boy was hard things, don't they?" mother, with a little dash of something getting ready for bed, and mummy was And mummy answered, "Yes, they do. added for a daddy to think about.

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waste your time asking Jean, she won't do it: ask somebody else." And that is how it always ended. All the other girls would stand up and do Stories frit'. Children their parts, and everyone would say,, "Wasn't that a nice talk? Wasn't that poem beautifully delivered? That story, wasn't it wonderfully told? Didn't Helen render that solo touchingly? But poor Jean, isn't it a pity that she can't do anything?" S,etildh lean And just then a baby would cry and a poor harassed mother would try and soothe it, and you know how hard that OU'RE selfish, that's what you but you don't feel that way for a whole is when baby doesn't want to be soothed. are, Jean; you always want the week until it makes you go off your food I do, anyway; when I take a baby it is y and feel quite bilious, I am sure. But baby," retorted Betty. just determined that it won't be soothed. "All right, you can have her," re- you see that's the way it was with Jean, Well, it wouldn't be long before Jean turned Jean, and in a moment Baby Ann and everybody would say, "Oh, don't had that baby, and in less than no time' was cosily reposing in Betty's arms. ask Jean, she won't do it," whenever at all that baby would be just as good as there was anything to be said in young 'Everything went well for a while. Ann good can be! people's meeting or in the Sabbath Going home along the noisy main was all smiles, and cooed away as all school, or in the club. "Oh, no, don't little babies do sometimes. But oh, street, over the bridge, across the salt- dear, in such a little while the smiles pan if the tide is out, under the mango turned to tears, and cooing changed to trees, and along the back street, gaily loud crying, as all little babies do at and happily they wend their way as the other times. sun sinks towards the western hills. "Oh, keep quiet, Ann! What are you Does someone look tired, perhaps her making all the awful noise for, I'd like case is a little heavy? Who is the one to know?" said Betty, trying to quieten to notice? Of course, you've guessed. Baby Ann. But Baby Ann; like all little Why, it is Jean. Yes, it is always Jean; Baby Anns, just wouldn't be quietened, dear, helpful Jean. and that was that. Yes, Gordon read his piece perfectly; Arthur gave a most encouraging talk; "Oh, where's Jean?" exclaimed Betty, Bessie recited her piece better than she who like so many other people was fast ever did before; you could have heard a losing interest in Baby Ann now that pin drop while Doris told her story; and she wasn't quite so good. "Jean, Jean, Helen's solo was, well, was all you could oh, here you are, Jean; you can have have wished; but poor Jean, she just Baby Ann now," and Baby Ann changed gets all queer inside if she has to say hands again. From Minus to Plus anything; she's too nervous to attempt But somehow, I- amsure I don't know it. Poor Jean, she can't do anything. how, Jean just didn't seem to mind that But in many a home that evening PLUS sign is just a minus sign Baby Ann was crying, and crying, too, tired mothers who had almost forgotten with something added to it. as though her very life depended upon it. what they heard, remembered the young No, she just went on cuddling her, and Look in your arithmetic book and see if this isn't so. girl who took and carried the case, who talking to her like all good nurses do. soothed the tired baby, and guided the And that's the way it always was; every- There are Plus boys and girls, and toddlers' trembling footsteps; and asg body wanted Baby Ann when Baby Ann Minus boys and girls. The Minus folks many a mother fell asleep that night the4 was good, but oh, dear, oh, dear, nobody do less work than is expected of them. angels heard her murmured prayer,"God wanted Baby Ann when she was not so If a Minus girl dusts the living-room, bless the girl who helped the heavy bur- good—nobody, I mean, except Jean and, she doesn't lift up the books on the table dened."—R. C. W. of course, mother! and dust under them. If a Minus boy It was such a strange thing that no sweeps the front porch, he doesn't sweep matter how bad' Baby Ann was it was between the posts of the railing. never very long before she was quiet However, if a Plus girl dusts the liv- again when selfish Jean took charge. ing-room, she always finds something Who was selfish Jean? There, I am al- extra to do. She straightens the books ways forgetting something. Why, Jean on the bookcase shelves, and dusts be- was Baby Ann's elder sister, and not so neath the runner. very old, either. And so it came out, of When a Plus boy sweeps the porch, course, that Jean was always greatly in he not only does this much well, but he demand when baby sister was not very also sweeps the front path. good. Any Minus boy or girl can change to a New, it's a funny thing, but Jean Plus boy or girl by adding something to wasn't any good to give a talk in young what he or she is already expected to do. people's meeting or say a poem or read Try looking around when you have your the mission exercise in Sabbath school. next job to do, and see what you can She felt all gouffy inside—oh, you all add to your work that will promote you feel that, you say. Of course you do: to the plus class.—Dewdrops.

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OME DAYS life seems like a broken melody, when all beautiful whispers of our hearts are dumb, and the spirit grieves, and sighs like some fractured violin, lamenting over its lost art. "No material cause can bring such grief to the spirit—only a spiritual hurt can do that:— "When one we trust, betrays—when one we love forgets—or when we say `good-bye' to some one dear friend whom 'life' not 'death' has severed from us. Then the spirit mourns, the music in us dies away. The melody of our life is. broken. We are sad. "Death robs us of our friends, but it is better to be robbed of friends by `death' than 'life,' for death cannot carry a friend so far away from us, as life can and does. One of the saddest things in life is a broken friendship. 'One more sad way is the profane fashion in which many friendships are ended. If our friendships must end, let us bury them deeply, reverently, lovingly: they are entitled to this at least. 4 "A place that has once been holy is sacred ground: let us never dese- crate it, even though the spirit that sanctified it has departed. A friend- LIFE'S ship is a sacred thing, even a broken friendship; but a broken friendship leaves a broken melody in our lives, silences the beautiful whispers of our hearts, and leaves us sad. BROKEN MELODIES "Guard your friendships—you will be poorer without them. They will keep the melodies in your life." —SELECTED.

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