VV 4,-1d AMERICA'S PROPHETIC WEEKLY

VOLUME 48 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, MARCH 29, 1921 NUMBER 13 •

President Wilson and his Cabinet, as they met in session for the last time. This is the first posed picture of the President since his illness. Left to right: President Wilson. Back row: Secretary of the Treasury Houston; Attorney-General Palmer ; Secretary of the Navy Daniels; Secretary of Agriculture Meredith; Secretary of Labor Wil- son. Front row: Secre- tary of State Colby; Sec- retary of War Baker; Postmaster-General Bur- leson; Secretary of In- terior Payne; Secretary of Commerce Alexander. Edmonston from International Spiritism's Starless Midnight

HERE was a day in the de- The only common grownd between the with its fundamentals. The ex- velopment of the phenome- plicit testimony of the Scriptures is non known to the world as sunny day of Christianity and the dark to the effect that in death man is "S piri ti s m" when this cult of psychic research is a "No Man's totally unconscious. Thus we read: movement made no pre- Land" of absolute diversity. "Put not your trust in princes, nor tense of possessing a reli- in the son of man, in whom there gious character. In fact, is no help. His breath goeth forth, during its early years it openly By CARLYLE B. HAYNES he returneth to his earth; in that disavowed and repudiated the fun- very day his thoughts perish." damental teachings of Christianity. Psalm 146:3, 4. This verse de- More recently, however, Spiritism has taken on another ap- clares that there is no consciousness, no intelligence, in death. pearance, and it desires now to be accepted as a religious as In death the ability to think and reason comes to an end. well as a scientific movement. Some of its leading spokesmen, That death is an absolute cessation of conscious existence is during the last year or two, have gone so far as to claim that taught by the Bible in the following passage: "The living know Spiritism constitutes a restoration of original and primitive that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither Christianity, even having the audacity to declare that Jesus have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is for- Christ Himself performed His miracles by virtue of His being gotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is a spirit medium. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has declared that now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in Spiritism constitutes a new revelation of religious faith and anything that is done under the sun." Ecclesiastes 9: 5, 6. practice. In the Bible death is given a name which stands for uncon- McClure's Magazine for December, 1920, contains an article sciousness. It is called a "sleep." "Consider and hear me. 0 by Sir Oliver Lodge, entitled "Religion and Psychic Research." Lord my God: lighten my eyes, lest I seep the sleep of death." In beginning this article, Sir Oliver informs us that he has Psalm 13: 3. From this it is plain that death is a period of un- often been asked since he began his investigations into Spirit- consciousness, a sleep, from which all are to be awakened by a ism whether these investigations have led him away from or resurrection. toward the Christian religion. He replies to this question with The teaching of Christ on this point is in harmony with that • considerable emphasis that Spiritism has brought him back "to of David, as is plain from the following passage: "These things the essentials, the main teachings of the Gospels." said He: and after that He saith unto them, Our friend Laz- In discussing some of these "essentials" which he accepts as arus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. "the main teachings of the Gospels," Sir Oliver declares that Then said His disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. How- some of the doctrines which ecclesiastics hold have been proved beit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that He had to be erroneous by the revelations of Spiritism, and "will have spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them to be discarded." He further declares that one of these doc- plainly, Lazarus is dead." John 11: 11-14. trines which will have to be discarded is "the long sleep in the With these statements agree many other passages in the grave," and he says, in commenting on this, that "we never en- Scripture, among which these may be considered as examples: ter the grave. Nothing is put there but our discarded remains." "After that, He was seen of five hundred brethren at once; of We believe that Sir Oliver Lodge states the truth when he whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are declares that the acceptance of the teachings and revelations of fallen asleep." 1 Corinthians 15: 6. Spiritism lead one to this conclusion. We affirm, however, that, "I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning far from correcting certain erroneous doctrines and leading one them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which to the essentials of Christianity, Spiritism is in direct conflict have no hope." 1 Thessalonians 4: 13. 2 The Signs of the Times for March 29, 1921 "Many of them that sleep in the dust of know, but which may be found after- "Among these objectionable features I the earth shall awake, some to everlast- wards to be true. They can assume dis- denounce the following: the vicarious ing life, and some to shame and everlast- guises innumerable, impersonate any atonement, the doctrine of eternal pun- ing contempt." Daniel 12: 2. character, and call to their assistance at ishment, the literal resurrection of the "He kneeled down, and cried with a loud any time a vast multitude of other beings body, the virgin birth of Jesus, the in- voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their like themselves. fallibility of the Bible, and the doctrine charge. And when he had said this, he These wicked spirits have, through all of salvation by faith only. fell asleep." Acts 7: 60. the ages of the past, unsettled the minds "Some of these doctrines are merely "David, after he had served his own of multitudes of people, and have led foolish, but some of them, like the blood generation by the will of God, fell on many into madness, insanity, and ruin. atonement theory, are absolutely vicious sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and Scientists, such as Sir Oliver Lodge, are and lead to wicked and immoral liv- saw corruption." Acts 13: 36. perplexed and baffled by the phenomena ing. . . . "Why dost Thou not pardon my trans- which these wicked spirits present, and "No: the Spiritualist religion is as dif- gression, and take away mine iniquity? are led to conclude, as he does, that these ferent from the so-called Christian 4-e- for now shall I sleep in the dust; and phenomena are produced by the spirits ligion as a sunny day is from a starless Thou shalt seek me in the morning, but of the dead, rather than by the spirits midnkht. I shall not be." Job 7: 21. of the devil who pretend to be the spirits "One is based on a book and teaclalag PSYCHIC INQUIRY THE ENEMY, NOT of the dead. That is, these scientists are two thousand years old—the othe s THE HANDMAID led to believe exactly what these wicked based on teaching that is received from These passages constitute a direct con- spirits desire them to believe. the world of spirits in our own day and time." tradiction to the statements of Sir Oliver SPIRITISTS RECOGNIZE UNBRIDGEABLE We think that the writer in the Pro- Lodge. Further, these passages are the GULF teachings of Christianity. Sir Oliver gressive Thinker sees more clearly than Spiritism is not, and never can be, the Lodge's conclusions directly contradict does Sir Oliver Lodge. He recognizes, at them. Therefore, to accept the teachings "handmaid to the Christian religion," as any rate, that there is a great gulf be- Sir Oliver Lodge asserts, for the plain- of Spiritism means to be led directly tween Christianity and Spiritism *which est teachings of the Bible stand in direct away from the teachings of Christianity, can never be bridged. The two systems opposition to the teachings of Spiritism, rather than toward these teachings. are opposites. It is true, as he says, that Sir Oliver Lodge to the contrary, not- Christianity and Spiritism have nothing there is as much difference between withstanding. This may be seen by some whatsoever in common; one is the exact Christianity and Spiritism as between a quotations from a leading Spiritist paper opposite of the other. The passages sunny day and a starless midnight, only of Chicago, the Progressive Thinker, in which have been quoted teach that at Christianity is the sunny day, and Spir- its issue of August 28, 1920. In this itism is the starless midnight. It is true death man lies down to sleep and in the paper we read: resurrection is awakened; that there is again, as he declares, that Christianity between death and the resurrection a "Spiritualism is a religion, but it is a is based on a book which sets forth Christ period of unconscious sleep. Also, that religion free from the absurd and super- as the Saviour of the world. This book the process of dying is not death; the stitious features that mar the system is a comprehensive statement of the life known as Christianity. loss of purity is not death; the loss of joy of Christ, and its teachings are thou- is not death; the loss of heaven is not sands of years old. These teachings death. That is, it is none of these things were given by inspiration of God, and which is meant in the Scriptures when contain truth that is infallibly correct. death is spoken of. Nothing but the loss Spiritism, as this writer also says, "is of life constitutes death. based on teaching that is received from Sir Oliver Lodge is led to conclude that the world of spirits," and these spirits "psychic inquiry is proving itself a hand- are spirits of devils, roaming through maid to the Christian religion." This the world for the one and only purpose we utterly deny. We have no doubt that of deceiving and ensnaring men. Spiritism would like to be considered as • a handmaid of the Christian religion; ho and whence are these pre- THOUSANDS of men and women fear to but the Bible leads us to believe, and wternatural beings that per- take the final step of accepting Jesus as makes it very clear, that there never can plex and baffle scientists, their substitute, because they are afraid be any union between genuine Christi- that produce all the varied and that they will not be able to live up to the astounding phenomena of Spirit- anity and Spiritism. This is true simply ism, that "have lived for thou- Christian standard. They realize that because one is of God, and the other is sands of years, and are acquainted they are weak, and forget to trust in God of the devil. with all the secrets of men"? who is all powerful. In other words, they PRETERNATURAL AND DIABOLICAL "They possess great intelligence, do not have faith in Jesus. Indeed, they VERSATILITY and can work equally as well in actually accuse Him of being as weak as The phenomenon of Spiritism is pro- the darkness as in the light. They themselves. He has said, "Come unto are able to take on the appearance Me." He wants all men to be saved, but duced not at all, as the system claims, of our loved ones who are dead. by the departed spirits of those who once He knows that we are weak and He ex- They can come into a room like pects us to lean wholly upon Him. lived in this world, but by the spirits the viewless air, and are able to In Jude 24 we are commended to the which were cast out of heaven with Luci- work through visible and bodily care of Him that is able to keep us from fer, and which are known in the Scrip- forms, as well as to control living tures as demons, or devils. They are beings. They can change their falling, and to present us faultless before fallen angels who retain many of the location with the rapidity of the presence of His glory with exceeding powers which they once had while in the thought. They have the advan- joy. courts of heaven. They have lived for tage of the wisdom and experience Let us obey His call, "Come unto Me." thousands of years, and are acquainted of the ages, for they have lived Then He will keep us from falling and with all the secrets of men. They possess during many centuries. They can will eventually grant us a home with. great intelligence, and can work equally recall facts which are past Iona Him. as well in the darkness as in the light. ago, which no living man coutd W. E. BELLEAU. They are able to take on the appearance possibly know, but which may be found afterwards to be true. of our loved ones who are dead. They They can assume disguises in- THE Sabbath was a sign between God can come into a room like the viewless numerable, impersonate any char- and the children of Israel, because they air, and are able to work through visible acter, and call to their assistance alone were the worshipers of the Creator. and bodily forms, as well as to control at any time a vast multitude of All other nations had turned from Him living beings. They can change their other beings like themselves." to "the gods that have not made the location with the rapidity of thought. Who are the intelligences that heavens and the earth." For this reason They have the advantage of the wisdom "have through all the ages of the the memorial of the Creator was com- and experience of the ages, for they have past, unsettled the minds of mul- mitted to the Hebrews. The Sabbath lived during many centuries. They can titudes of people, and have led thus became a golden,, link uniting the recall facts which are past long ago, many into madness, insanity, and ruin?" Creator and His worshipers. which no living man could possibly A. N. ANDERSON. "TT WAS made morning papers, to fit," is often on presses that can said when two produce 300,000 parts of a ma- copies in an hour. chine are assem- Why wasn't this bled with a snug done before our connection. Of day? There is a course they were. reason. No one would The Author of question that the the Bible has so piston which arranged His works with air- Word that its au- tight precision in thenticity can be a cylinder was clearly seen, and made to order, evidence is given even to a meas- that the Author urement including a thousandth part The of the Bible is the Author of life. The of an inch. angel who served the prophet told him AkWe are inclined to think that the Efficiency of the Age to seal the book till the time of the glitilway engine with its well-made end, so that when the time of the end parts which work so accurately as it should come, the seal would be broken, wheels its way across the country PLANNED the pages opened, and the contents from city to city, with its train of understood. This would give the be- portable palaces carrying a cargo of liever the intellectual and spiritual human lives, was made to fit the age by GOD equipment necessary to meet the most in which it is giving service. This drastic opposition which scoffers might and hundreds of other inventions, Who was the present. The knowledge gained from which have been a miraculous gift to prophecy fulfilled carries with it the the people of this age, fit according to fool, Sir Isaac assurance that God is the author of well-determined specifications. And Newton or Vol- the prophecy. the specifications were heaven born; they were conceived in the mind of taire? AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY ONE the Infinite One and sent by His mes- "Knowledge shall be increased." senger to the prophet Daniel, who re- This means more than a knowledge of corded them. They read thus: "Shut By FRANK DUDLEY material conveniences and commercial up the words, and seal the book, even productions; it includes a knowledge to the time of the end: many shall of the coming kingdom. What a re- run to and fro, and knowledge shall sponsibility that imposes! Christ said: be increased." Daniel 12: 4. This "This gospel of the kingdom shall be age, without controversy, fits the pro- preached in all the world for a witness phetic mold. unto all nations; and then shall the end come." Matthew 24: 14. The IT IS SAFE TO BELIEVE PROPHECY Lord may have accepted an honest Sir Isaac Newton, declaring his heart with an erroneous doctrine in faith in the accuracy of this text, days past, but now that knowledge said: "I should not wonder if some has come, it is required of all to day men will travel at the rate of believe according to the knowledge fifty miles per hour." One half cen- given. John said, "I saw another tury later, Voltaire, referring to New- angel fly in the midst of heaven, hav- ton, said: "The study of prophecy ing the everlasting gospel to preach had led the prince of philosophers to unto them that dwell on the earth, make a fool of himself." If Voltaire and to every nation, and kindred, and should come to life to-day, he could see tongue, and people, saying with a loud men traveling more than a hundred voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him; miles an hour on the earth and two hun- for the hour of His judgment is come: dred miles an hour in the air. No, Sir and worship Him that made heaven, and Isaac Newton did not made a fool of earth, and the sea, and the fountains of himself when he expressed his faith in isted prior to 1798?—Scarcely anything. waters." Revelation 14: 6, 7. Here is the text, but his greatest dreams of fu- knowledge of God's judgment which must ture possibilities were wholly inadequate There was not a balloon, a gaslight, a cast-iron plow, or even a steel pen. The be blazoned to all the world. This is too to enable him to comprehend the full solemn a matter to permit of any misun- meaning of Daniel's utterance. We who first steamboat was invented in 1807. And what a crude affair it was! To- derstanding, for it prepares a people for are on the sunny side of the age, who be- the final test at the end of the world. So day, boats, much like a modern hotel, ply hold the wonders of the twentieth century, great is the knowledge and so powerful the waters of the seas, transporting pas- can see what God had in mind when He its effect, that it can be said of those who said through His prophet, "Knowledge sengers in a few days from continent to receive it: "In their mouth was found shall be increased." This part of the continent. Facilities we employ in com- no guile: for they are without fault be- text began to be fulfilled more than a mon, everyday use were unknown a few fore the throne of God." Verse 5. "Here century ago; we know, therefore, that decades ago. Before 1825 there were no is the patience of the saints: here are we are in "the time of the end," for it is railway cars. The first ones resembled they that keep the commandments of then that knowledge is to be increased. an antiquated canopy carriage, and when God, and the faith of Jesus." Verse 12. This statement causes us to dig deeper they ran on schedule time, they made This is the knowledge of real value which into the mine of truth and to bring to only six miles an hour. How different Daniel had in mind when he said, light what else may be in the mind of to-day! Before 1798 grain was cut with "Knowledge shall be increased." The the writer for the people who are living a sickle or a cradle, and was threshed knowledge of material progress is sec- when the prophecy is being so strikingly with a flail or by treading. Before this ondary to it. fulfilled. time, clothing was made almost entirely INVENTIONS AID IN GIVING MESSAGE THE TIME %THE END BEGAN IN 1798 by hand. The sewing machine, Gatling From the days of Abraham to the days The beginning of the time of the end, gun, typewriter, telephone, phonograph, of our great-grandfathers there was according to the calculations of the electric railway, X-ray, and scores of scarcely a thing introduced from the prophet Daniel, must have been about other things have come into existence realm of mechanical science. Why now? the year 1798; for until that time he since the time designated as "the time of Is the mentality of men greater to-day reckons that the persecutions of the the end." By submarine cable and wire- than in days of yore?—Not so: God has papacy would continue. The papal su- less telegraphy, news of the evening be- directed the mental faculties in different premacy was broken in 1798. In the fore, from the other side of the earth, is channels, and He has had a purpose in way of scientific production, what ex- flashed to our cities, and is printed in the so doing. (Continued on page 14) 4 The Signs of the Times for March 29, 1921 plain and defend Sunday which came out of "tradition and the practice of the church." On the other hand, we cannot help but feel sorry for our Protestant friends. Taking the Bible as the rule of TAMPERING their faith and practice, how can they explain and defend Sunday which has no Scriptural foundation for its support? with THE TWO DAYS CAREFULLY DISTINGUISHED All agree that the seventh day is the IMMUTABLE Sabbath of the Old Testament. Coming to the New Testament, the Gospels show us Christ and His disciples keeping the seventh day as the Sabbath. The book LAW of Acts sets forth Paul and the apostoljak church observing the same day. Whet ever the New Testament writers speak "Tradition and the prac- of the seventh day and the first day, most tice of the church" make carefully do they distinguish between a daring substitution, the these two days; always calling the for- mer the Sabbath, while they refer to the greatest substitution of latter simply as "the first day of the history. week," thus classing it among the ordi- nary days of the week. Not to mention others, let us look at By WILLIAM G. WIRTH the passage to which Dr. Hunter alludes, Luke 23: 56: "They returned, and pre- pared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the com- mandment." "The Sabbath day accord- ing to the commandment" is the seventh day; and to show that this is the day Luke had in mind, he adds immediately : "Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them." Luke 24: 1. Bear in mind that this was written at least thirty years after Christ's resurrection, which he best that can be said of tradition is shows that Luke knew nothing of the that it wears a halo, but in many in- observance of the first day in honor of stances it is a halo of false sanctity the resurrection. No; Dr. Hunter is resulting from long ages of unenlightened right, "we are driven to tradition and devotion. A cumulation of precedent, un- the practice of the church to justify the der ecclesiastic patronage and benediction, existing usage" of Sunday. accounts for many popular usages. And this is all there is to Sunday as a rest day. THE SUPREME PARADOX The verdict of prophecy furnishes a strik- But when it comes to a plain command ing confirmation of the traditional origin of God, are we safe in holding to "tradi- of an institution that for ages has tion and the practice of the church"? usurped the place of the true Sabbath. Recently I was reading in the library of any Not a merely formal observance of a large Catholic college, and I picked up day, but a grateful appieciation of the sacred Sabbath, most refreshing, most up- a book entitled: "Exposition of Christian lifting, most delightful of all days, and Doctrine," by a seminary professor. It made ours by the Author and Sustainer was a translation of a textbook used in of our lives, is the natural result of true the European Catholic schools, for use in love and reverence to our Creator. Catholic schools in the United States. Not only was its study recommended by students, but also by the Catholic clergy. In the chapter on "The Commandments of God," the Sabbath commandment was "1 TO POINT of the popular religion tians were accustomed to meet for wor- given in full: "Remember that thou keep of Protestants is more prominent ship on the first day of the week (Acts holy the Sabbath day. Six days shalt than the strictness with which they ob- xx. 7; 1 Cor. xvi. 2), but there is nothing thou labor, and shalt do all thy works. serve the weekly rest on Sunday, and in these passages to impose a perpetual But on the seventh day is the Sabbath of the duty is constantly rested upon that obligation, or to show that this observ- the Lord thy God. Thou shalt do no commandment of the Decalogue which ance is of divine institution. Again we work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy forbids work on the Sabbath. The belief are driven to tradition and the practice daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy • is widespread among ignorant Protes- of the church to justify the existing maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the tants that the Sunday is the Sabbath, usage." stranger that is within thy gates. For whereas nothing is more certain than These words by Dr. Sylvester J. in six days the Lord made heaven and that Sunday is observed as the day of Hunter, S. J., in the chapter on "Scrip- earth, and the sea, and all things that the resurrection of our Lord, which took ture and Tradition," in his authoritative are in them, and rested on the seventh place on the day following the Sabbath work on Catholic doctrine, "Outlines of day: therefore the Lord blessed the sev- (Luke xxiii. 56). The Jews have pre- Dogmatic Theology," volume I, page 152, enth day, and sanctified it." served the true reckoning, and they rest published by Benziger Brothers, "printers After having given the Ten Com- on the Saturday. Such Protestants as to the Holy Apostolic See," are true, and mandments, there was this question and know better than to fall into this con- hence, incontrovertible. We cannot help answer: fusion, feel the need of discovering a but respect our Catholic friends for their "Is it necessary to keep the command- Scriptural basis for their practice of consistent position here. Taking "tradi- ments of God? observing Sunday, but they find nothing tion and the practice of the church" as "Yes; for in violating one of them vol- better than some indications that Chris- their norm of faith, they can easily ex- untarily, and in grave matter, we com- The Signs of the Times for March 29, 1921 5 mit a mortal sin, and, consequently, incur Harking back to early church history, ognize to-day as the French, the Spanish, the penalty of eternal damnation." just about the time the Roman Empire the English, and other peoples, do we This is good, sound Christian doctrine, was breaking up and being divided find that there was also coming up an and we heartily commend our Catholic among the Germanic tribes that came ecclesiastical power which was to put brethren for teaching this Biblical prin- through the eastern and central Euro- itself in a dominant and commanding po- ciple of obedience to God's law to the pean forests, whose descendants we rec- (Continued on page 7) students of their schools. If other schools in our land were teaching the youth this wholesome respect and reverence for the Decalogue, we dare say there would be less lawlessness and iniquity abroad than CONSCRIPTED or ENLISTED we now see. Even now, perhaps, there has come into the mind of the Catholic reader of SERVICE? these lines the query: Why, if the church says we should keep the commandments of God, and names, as does also the Bible, /kw seventh day as the Sabbath,—why By GEORGE A. SNYDER mire we told to keep the first day, or Sun- day, on the ground of "tradition and the practice of the church"? How can this be explained? The only answer that can be made to this direct question is: We do not know; it is a mystery. But the Bible helps to make this mystery plain, and tells how it came about. ATTEMPTED MUTILATION PREDICTED In the seventh chapter of. Daniel, we are given the history of the world in its essential features from Daniel's day to the end of time, in the symbolic form of four great beasts,—a lion, a bear, a leop- ard, and a dreadful nondescript beast,— representing, as agreed by Catholic com- mentators, the successive empires of ANY instances might be cited, from dered in obedience to civil mandates pre- Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. M the Bible, in which those who scribing compulsory religious formulas. It is with the fourth beast, Rome, that claimed to be God's servants represented JESUS' ATTITUDE TOWARD "BLUE LAW" we are particularly interested. "Thus Him as being tyrannical and arbitrary. ADVOCATES he said, The fourth beast shall be a A careful study of such instances will Jesus sometimes stated in very plain fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall show that God did not sanction these terms the nature of the condemnation be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall things. He simply permitted them be- which the "blue law" advocates of His devour the whole earth, and shall tread cause His professed people had such false day were piling up against themselves it down, and break it in pieces. And as conceptions of His real character that by the tyrannical condemnation of those for the ten horns, out of this kingdom they became incapable of cooperating whom they esteemed to be great sinners. shall ten kings arise: and another shall with the divine purpose of love, and were In the sight of God the much-despised arise after them; and he shall be diverse left to their own machinations. publicans occupied a higher plane than from the former, and he shall put down From Nehemiah 9: 13, 14 and Ezekiel the Pharisees who so ardently sought to three kings. And he shall speak words 20: 24-26 we learn that because Israel condemn all who did not conform to their against the Most High, and shall wear rejected and violated God's law of love, ideas of holy (?) melancholia. out the saints of the Most High: and he He gave them "statutes that were not "God so loved the world" that even as shall think to change the times and the good," and allowed them to corrupt them- Moses lifted up the serpent so that all law; and they shall be given into his selves, hoping that they might become so must see it unless they closed their eyes, hand until a time and times and half a weary and disgusted with their own de- so the Son of man was, and still should time." Daniel 7: 23-25, A. R. V. vices that they would return to His be- be, lifted up so high that those who re- The ten horns on this beast represent nign and merciful plan. pudiate His great remedial sacrifice, the ten kingdoms into which Rome was The record shows, however, that they stand self-condemned by their own re- divided, and which make up the nations continued to rebel; and when Christ bellious course. of Europe to-day. Nothing would be came to demonstrate that God is love, Those who persist in closing their eyes more profitable or more strengthening and not in any sense a tyrant, they had against the only thing that can save to one's faith than to go into the marvel- so incapacitated themselves for any them, must, in the very nature of things, ous details of this prophecy to see how proper conception of the God of love, perish because, by their own course of accurately they have been fulfilled in that they crucified the One who came action, they cut themselves off from the history; but the short compass of our to illustrate the true nature of God. source of life. God would not need to article compels us to deal with only the condemn them to death even if He de- SIN BRINGS CONDEMNATION large features. sired to do so; they stand already self- The horn that arises from the ten is "God sent not His Son into the world condemned. "He that believeth not is the one that especially attracts us, for to condemn the world; but that the world condemned already. . . . And this is the by its character it is plainly a religious through Him might be saved." John condemnation, that light is come into the power. Arising "after them," that is, 3: 17. God does not arbitrarily condemn world, and men loved darkness rather • after the ten, it was to be "diverse" from any one. Condemnation and death come than light." John 3: 18, 19. them. The ten horns were political as the natural result of repudiating The disposition to force, or compel, Bowers, as the European nations are to- God's great Love-Offering for the world. men to discharge their duty to God, or day. Hence, this "diverse" one must not Condemnation comes not from God, but to condemn them for not doing so, did be political but ecclesiastical. And what from a course of action by which men not originate with God, and received no follows shows this to be strikingly true. condemn themselves. sanction from the Saviour. The work of "He shall speak words against the Most No, God is not a tyrant; although many Christ's followers is to seek by every High, and shall wear out the saints of who claim to be His representatives to- possible avenue of love to win and lead the Most High: and shall think to change day are seeking for legislation against men to Christ. If they refuse to be led, the times and the law; and they shall be all who dare to differ from their "blue" any effort to drive them, even if success- given into his hand until a time and ideas of religion. Being a God of love, ful, will result in a forced service which times and half a time." The religious our Father in heaven desires only the God cannot accept because He is not a element so permeates this power that it service of love, and cannot accept any tyrant but a God of love who seeks only can be nothing but religious. service, however solemn, which is ren- voluntary service. 6 The Signs of the Times for March 29, 1921 vine service, and a worldly sanctuary," which while they "stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances," yet were "the ex- Why Hark Back to the Go- ample and shadow of heavenly things," designed to show a materially minded people that "we have such an High Between of a Bygone Age? Priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens," "Jesus the Son of God." (See A priest is a relic of an age two Hebrews 9 : 1-14; 8 : 1-5; 4: 14.) thousand years in the past. To- The priesthood of "the patterns of things in the heavens" (Hebrews 9: 23) day there is a better way for the was confined to the family of Aaron. Christian to approach his God "Thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, than through the mediation of and they shall wait on their priest's of- fice: and the stranger that cometh nigh a fellow man. shall be put to death." Numbers 3: 10 Until the time came that "another priest should arise after the order of Melchise- dec, and not be called after the order of By WALTER H. BRADLEY Aaron," "the priesthood being changed." No other family could have the office of priest: thus it was called the Aaronic priesthood. But God did not design that His people should be forever under this typical form of worship. When the wor- BEL, he also brought of the first- sis 14 that while the faithful' still acted ship type passed away, the priesthood “A lings of his flock and of the fat as their own priests and "builded altars" would pass away too. "The blood of thereof. And the Lord had respect unto and "preached the name of the Lord," bulls and of goats" was only "a figure yet there was "Melchizedek . . . the Abel and to his offering." Genesis 4: 4. for the time then present,"—"carnal or- In the brief revelation here given of the priest of the Most High God," and that dinances, imposed on them until the time first recorded religious service by the even the faithful Abraham recognized of reformation," "added because of trans- him as the established priest upon the human family, is disclosed the principle gressions, till the Seed should Dome." underlying all true worship. There, in earth, by giving "him tithes of all," giv- That this referred to the first advent of this brief incident, was the sinner, con- ing him temporal wealth to carry on the Jesus, to die for the reformation of the scious of his sin and repentant. There work of God. In view of the very world, is plain: "He saith not, And to was the lamb which, by the faith of the meager information that the Scriptures seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to contain regarding Melchizedek, one can- sinner, represented the "Lamb of God, thy Seed, which is Christ." (See He- which taketh away the sin of the world." not wax dogmatic. Still it is said of brews 9: 9-12; Galatians 3: 19, 16.) There was the death of the victim which Christ, and incidentally it should apply to When "the blood of bulls and of goats" prefigured the sacrifice on Calvary, when the priesthood in general, that for one to had no longer any meaning, then Aaron's "the Lamb of God" should die for the be "a merciful and a faithful high priest seed would have no priesthood, for they sins of all who in faith looked to Him. in things pertaining to God," he must "in would have no sacrifice to offer. "Every There was the approbation of the God all things" "be made like unto his breth- high priest is ordained to offer gifts and who had been offended, and who was by ren," so that he may "be touched with sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity this act of faith, "in Christ, reconciling the feeling of our infirmities," for "in that this man have somewhat also to the world unto Himself." that he himself hath suffered being offer." Hebrews 8: 3. So when the One thing, however, that should be es- tempted, he is able to succor them that dying Lamb on Calvary bowed His head, pecially noticed in this transaction is the are tempted." Hebrews 2: 17; 4: 15; and cried, "It is finished," and the "veil significant fact that, in the intercourse 2: 18. It would appear, then, that in of the temple [the veil that none but between . God and the sinner, there was harmony with the very principle of Aaron could pass behind] was rent in no priest save the man himself. Abel priesthood, Melchizedek was some holy twain from the top to the bottom" (thus and Cain made their own offering. being, chosen and ordained by God to be disclosing Aaron's hitherto sacred work Christ talked with Abel and Cain with- the voice of Christ in the world; to pre- to the gaze of the common multitude), out any go-between. There was no third sent to men in a way purely spiritual, at that moment the Aaronic temple and party present to act as a divinely consti- the glorious and blessed fact that Christ the Aaronic priesthood ceased to exist tuted hierarch. The sinner felt his need, was to act as their Saviour and High so far as God was concerned. There and he came to God directly, by his offer- Priest before the Father's throne in the was no more any sacrifice, for "He had temple in heaven. ing showing his faith in a Saviour to offered one sacrifice for sins forever." come. This is plainly shown in the cse SPECIAL CONCESSIONS TO A NATION Hebrews 10: 12. of Noah. During the Flood, ". . . every OF MATERIALISTS BLASPHEMOUS DENIAL OF THE man: all in whose nostrils was the breath In their course of rebellion, however, INCARNATION of life, of all that was in the dry land, men became more and more grossly ma- This leaves the awful blasphemy ap- died." Genesis 7: 21, 22. There could terial. Spiritual truths had become en- parent on the part of any one who should have been, then, no living representative tirely beyond their comprehension. The claim the Aaronic priesthood to-day. It of any priesthood, Aaronic, Melchizedek, priesthood of Melchizedek, spiritually would be tantamount to saying that the or otherwise, upon the earth; yet we find representative of the priesthood of Seed, Christ, had not come the first time, Noah, as his own priest, "builded an Christ, was too pure and holy for men that He had not died for our sins, and altar unto the Lord." Genesis 8: 20. He so carnal to see the Father's plan. As that Jesus of Nazareth was not the was not ordained by any one save God, God called the Israelites, freshly deliv- Christ; for these things and this priest- and his priesthood came simply as a ered from Egyptian bondage, up to the hood were to last only until result of his being a sinner in need of His coming. borders of the holy mount, each man as If they still exist anywhere, then He Christ. his own priest to talk with Him, they cannot have come. God forbid! This is BECAUSE MEN FAILED plainly showed that the existing priestly what Paul told the Galatians when they As men began to depart again from plan was too holy for them. Fleeing sought to perpetuate Aaron's work: "If the way of the Lord after the Flood, and from His presence, they besought Moses, ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you to fail to act as their own priests, God "Speak thou with us, and we will hear: nothing." Galatians 5: 2. saw that He must have some one upon but let not God speak with us, lest we However, when the Aaronic priesthood the earth whose sole work it was to call die." Exodus 20: 19. God wanted them did forever cease, and Christ, who was to the attention of men the fact that to be "a kingdom of priests" (Exodus the Lamb of whom the lambs of Aaron's they must have Christ or die. The voice 19: 6), but they were too hard of heart. service were types, had died for our sins; of God must be heard in the earth calling In mercy God now changed the priest- when He had risen and ascended into men to repentance. So we find in Gene- hood, and instituted "ordinances of di- heaven ; then the very thing that Aaron's The Signs of the Times for March 29, 1921 7 priesthood had been designed to teach church. When men become hard of near with a true heart in full assurance had come to pass. "We have a great heart and material of mind, as were the of faith, having our hearts sprinkled High Priest, that is passed into the Israelites, then they want some one to from an evil conscience, and our bodies heavens, Jesus the Son of God." He- talk with God for them. And to gain washed with pure water. Let us hold brews 4: 14. The spiritual work that such as followers, those who want au- fast the profession of our faith without Melchizedek had shown forth, was now thority are not afraid, even under the wavering." Hebrews 10: 19-23. "Look- in full course. In very truth, God had very name of Christians, to deny that ing unto Jesus the author and finisher of kept His oath, "Thou art a priest for- Christ has come, by claiming the Aaronic our faith." Hebrews 12: 2. ever after the order of Melchisedec." priesthood, or to claim the Melchizedek Hebrews 7: 21. "The priesthood being priesthood, thus asserting by having changed" "after the similitude of Mel- temples on earth that Christ is now dead. Tainpering with Immutable chisedec there ariseth another priest" They go so far as to claim that the Law (not priests as of many but priest as of temple in heaven is closed and farther (Continued from page 5) one), "after the power of an endless life." still, until they tacitly declare that His sition? Do we not find a power that was "This man, because He continueth ever, blood is unholy and useless, by pretend- to court the world for prosperity and hath an unchangeable priesthood ["which ing to offer sacrifices for sin, no matter wealth and influence, while claiming to passeth not from one to another," mar- of what character. Thus they are able g.." Hebrews 7: 12, 15, 16, 24. to lord it over their deluded followers. be from heaven? a power that instead of holding to the Word of Truth was to Jesus our Priest after the order of Of such beware! succumb to the philosophic speculations Melchizedek is ministering His shed Come to Jesus alone yourself as priest. blood for us in heaven. His priesthood Beseech Him, as your High Priest, to of paganism? a power that instead of cannot pass to any other, as He has an offer His blood for you in the temple of protecting the humble and faithful be- endless life; therefore there cannot be heaven. He will forgive your sins. lievers in God was to persecute them for a Melchizedek priest other than the Son "Now where remission of these is, there not conforming to the popularly accepted of God, Christ Jesus. If I were to claim is no more offering for sins. Having Christian faith? The story is only too that I had the Melchizedek priesthood, I therefore, brethren, boldness to enter well known to even the most limited stu- should be claiming that Jesus is dead, into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by dent of history. Paul knew it was com- and that I am the Son of God myself ! a new and a living way, which He hath ing in his day when he solemnly told the Heaven forbid such Satanic presumption! consecrated for us, through the veil, that Ephesian elders: "Take heed . . . for I Hour by hour Christ, the great High is to say, hIis flesh; and having an High know this, that after my departing shall Priest after the order of Melchizedek, Priest over the house of God; let us draw grievous wolves enter in among you, not ministers for us in the temple in heaven. sparing the flock. Also of your own No more can there be a temple of God selves shall men arise, speaking perverse on earth; for while the earth had a things, to draw away disciples after temple, the one in heaven was not to be them." Acts 20: 28-30. Is it not this entered. (Hebrews 9:8.) To maintain apostate Christianity which he has in a temple on earth is to deny that the one mind when, in writing to the Thessa- in heaven is open. No more can there lonians, he forewarns: "For that day be a priest on earth after the order of shall not come, except there come a fall- Aaron, for so to claim is to deny that ing away first, and that man of sin be the Saviour came, for Aaron's priesthood revealed, the son of perdition; who op- was be last until He came. No more can poseth and exalteth himself above all there be on earth a priest after the order that is called God, or that is worshiped; of Melchizedek, for there can be but one; so that he as God sitteth in the temple and to lay claim to that office, is to claim of God, showing himself that he is God. that He is dead. No more can there be . . . For the mystery of iniquity doth any offering for sin; for Christ having already work: . . . and then shall that died, "there is no more offering for sin." Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall To offer any literal sacrifice is to deny consume with the spirit of His mouth, the efficacy of His blood. and shall destroy with the brightness of EVERY TRUE BELIEVER NOW A PRIEST His coming." 2 Thessalonians 2: 3-8. "He shall think to change the times Once more, as in the garden of Eden and the law;" evidently, no earthly law in the days of Abel, God, through the of men, which may be changed by any Holy Spirit, deals with men directly; and dominant power. The one here referred not through any order of priests. 1 Co- rientals carry the idea of a go- to as thinking to change, being an eccle- rinthians 12: 7, 11. As in those days of between much farther than we siastical power, it naturally follows that Abraham, while our Melchizedek Priest O do. Real estate deals, mar- the law referred to must be religious; of the Most High God ministers in riages, and other transactions are and inasmuch as this power was to op- heaven, every believer is a priest, the largely done through intermediaries. pose God, the law violated must be believers as a whole "a holy priesthood." Christianity, too, has its mediation, God's law. 1 Peter 2: 5, 9; Revelation 1: 5. As the but only through Christ, who was priest Abraham "preached the name of the active agent in the original THE CONFESSIONS OF A USURPER the Lord," so is every priest-Christian to creation and the one great Media- tor in upholding the universe and We shall not need to think long as to "preach the gospel to every creature," in saving the individual. The phase what is this change in the law of God, whoever and wherever he may be. of this mediation that now occu- the Ten Commandments. tie sole, out- For the sake of gospel order among pies His immediate attention is standing change is in the time of keeping the priest-Christians, we read that "God that of High Priest in the sanctuary the Sabbath. The commandment says it ,....hath set some in the church, first above. All earthly priests and go- is the seventh day. Dr. Hunter says "tra- up apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly betweens are now decidedly out of dition and the practice of the church" teachers, after that miracles, then gifts order; they are two thousand years have made it the first day. As we have of healings, helps, governments, diversi- behind ,the times. All attempts to seen before, the change was not made in ties of tongues." (1 Corinthians 12: 28), establish such a mediatirn are, upon New Testament times; neither was it but nowhere do we read that God has the authority of Scripture, gross made in the first few centuries coming set priests in the church. There were violations of sacred principle, and right after the apostles' day. The emi- bishops, or elders, and deacons, but they materialism becomes an accomplice nent French Catholic historian, Du- were priests only as every other believer of blasphemy when it causes men, chesne, perhaps the greatest authority was a priest. conscious of their sins, to shrink now on the early Christian centuries, We are told, however, of those who from directly, penitently, and boldly says in his "Origines du Culte Chretien would love "to have the preeminence," supplicating the throne of God with (Beginnings of Christianity)," page 46: only the great High Priest as medi- who would seek "to draw away disciples ator. But God is merciful, and the "The idea of transferring to Sunday the after themselves," and it is from this one invitation is still extended to come sacredness of the seventh day with all its principle alone that any one would seek near with a true and contrite heart. exigencies, is an idea strange to primi- to foist a priesthood upon Christ's tive Christianity." 8 The Signs of the Times for March 29, 1921

But the change was made from the Sabbath to Sunday. How was it done? When was it done? Catholic sources The furnish the true answer. "Question: Which is the Sabbath day? "Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day. TRIUMPHS "Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? "Answer: We observe Sunday,instead of of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A. D. 336), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."—"The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine," Rev. Peter Geier- JESUS mann, C. SS. R., page 50, 2nd edition, 1910. (This work received the "apostolic blessing" of Pope Pius X, Jan. 25, 1910.) "It was the Catholic Church which, by By • the authority of Jesus Christ, has trans- ferred this rest to the Sunday in remem- WILLIAM P. brance of the resurrection of our Lord. PEARCE Thus the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic] church."—"Plain Talk Paul says that "sin shall not have About the Protestantism of To-day," dominion" over His people, but His Mgr. Segur, page 213. Imprimatur, people, to be in harmony with the Joannes Josephus, Episcopus, Boston. will of Christ, can have, should "Question: Have you any other way of have, and must have dominion proving that the church has power to over sin. institute festivals of precept? WE MAY ALSO OVERCOME EVIL Had she not such power, she "Answer: Jesus triumphed over Satan— could not have done that in which all not an influence, but a person; a modern religionists agree with her,—she supernatural person known as "the could not have substituted the observance great dragon;" "that old serpent, of Sunday the first day of the week, for called the devil." Revelation 12: 9. the observance of Saturday the seventh He was the one to retreat from the day, a change for which there is no wilderness battle field. (Matthew Scriptural authority."—"A Doctrinal 4: 11.) He lost his grip on a woman Catechism," Rev. Stephen Keenan; ap- he had shackled with an infirmity proved by the Most Reverend John eighteen years, when Jesus freed Hughes, D. D., Archbishop of New York, her. (Luke 13: 11-16.) His dia- page 174. ESUS suffered many seeming defeats. bolical works are doomed. Jesus came to CHRIST OR TRADITION J To the onlooker He achieved few vic- "destroy" them (1 John 3: 8), is destroy- The Jews of Christ's day believed tories, although He had a marvelous ing them, and by and by He will take the themselves to be the favored people of maturity of mind, a balance of faculties, "prince of this world," and cast him "into God, the true church; and yet we find the and a divine perception such as no other the lake of fire." Revelation 20: 10. Then Saviour uttering these words of condem- man inherited or acquired. Yet His vic- shall come the wind-up of his infamous nation against them: "Ye hypocrites, tories were many. machinations, for with the root gone, the well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, He triumphed over temptation. Only fruit goes. Blessed thought, He who This people draweth nigh unto Me with three specific temptations are recorded: empowered the disciples to "cast out their mouth, and honoreth Me with their the materialistic—an appeal to His ap- devils" empowers us to "overcome the lips; but their heart is far from Me. petite; the ostentatious—an appeal to wicked one!" 1 John 2: 13. But in vain they do worship Me, teach- vanity,—sensational in the extreme to Jesus triumphed over nature—not na- ing for doctrines the commandments of "take a leap in the dark" that angel ture in her beauty, for that led Him near men." Matthew 15: 7-9. It was because hands might bear Him up; and the ap- God. His was an outdoor life, and His these who thoug'it they were God's own peal of world power. But Paul lays em- manner of speech breathed the fragrance people were observing "for doctrines the phasis upon a blessed "all," when he of flowers and the song of birds, while commandments of men," because they said: "In all points tempted like as we the "musical, streaming, odorous south were depending on "tradition and the are, yet without sin." Hebrews 4: 15. winds turned all the trees into wind practice of the church," that their wor- Jesus triumphed over sin. Sin is one harps." He loved beautiful Palestine. ship was "vain" in the sight of heaven ; of the biggest existent realities,—the No man has mastered nature. He has hence their rejection. "most common of all evils, the most spe- made it servant. Niagara's waters make We of to-day need to give heed to the cious of all evils, the most offensive of the machinery of industry hum like Sam- lesson of two thousand years ago. We all evils, the most fatal of all evils." It son "grinding at the wheel." Franklin must rise higher than human command- has been sole monarch of the universal catches the lightning and bottles it for ments, tradition, and church practice; we realm in every age to every race. Many illuminating, heating, and propelling pur- must pierce the very heavens themselves, men have triumphed over sins, but only poses. Marconi throws out messages, and and receive the holy and immutable law one man—"the Man Christ Jesus" tri- ether waves carry them to their destina- • of God written with His own finger on umphed over sin. Late in His life, He tion. But when Jesus upbraids a fig tree, the tables of hearts full of love and obe- said: "If I had not come, . . . they had it withers. A squall comes, and Gen- dience toward Him. Of Christ it is said: not had sin." John 15: 22. Not that He nesaret is churned into a white fury, but "Lo, I come: in the volume of the book forced them to sin, but by His presence He hushes both wind and wave. He it is written of Me, I delight to do Thy anct teaching, they had learned what a walks on the sea as if it were a hardwood will, 0 My God: yea, Thy law is within sad reality sin was in their lives. How floor. Honest was the exclamation, My heart." Psalm 40: 7, 8. beautifully He combated and mastered "What manner of man is this, that even Are we followers of the blessed Jesus? it in His physical, mental, and moral the winds and the sea obey Him!" Mat- Do we love Him whole-heartedly, and nature! And when sin lashed and drove thew 8: 27. are we loyal to Him? Then let us too Him to the world's biggest battle ground JESUS THE MIGHTY HEALER keep His Father's commandments. Let for "a fight to the finish," He seemed to Jesus triumphed over disease. He also us, like Him, refuse to walk in the ways yield—did yield—to its death-dealing in- triumphed over the fundamental cause of of men, and resolve to walk in the ways fluence. But He came back to life and disease—sin. He cured bodies, and He of Heaven. made captive His captor. Because of this (Continued on page 12) EDITORIAL

How to Solve Our Great Problems This message of love, then, as John affirms, was that which the disciples heard from the beginning from the lips of Christ, OUR world is filled with hatred. The very air that we breathe and they also saw it beautifully manifested in every act of His seems surcharged with the spirit of war and revolution. Wars life. are in progress or in prospect in many parts of the world, there- John 3: 16 is recognized as one of the greatest texts of the fore is it not clear that the greatest need of this hour is the Bible, because it tells of the measure of God's love for sinful dissemination of the principles of love and kindness? IR other man. First John 3: 16 should also be placed beside it as another words, we need to know individually that we may each one have one of the great texts of the Bible, because it so clearly tells for our personal experience and as a living principle in our own us how we may know that we have passed into the experiences lives, what is called for in the following words of the Master: of a Christian. The text says: "Hereby know we love, because "All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law lives for the brethren." Aind the prophets." Matthew 7: 12. We do not truly reach the place where we actually know IIP This great passage of Scripture has been much discussed. love until we are also enjoying the experience of being ready There have been many who have affirmed that it was an ideal and willing to give our lives for our brethren; or, as expressed that could not be reached. Some have even gone so far as to in the 14th verse, "we know that we have passed out of death caricature this scripture by saying that "the way to succeed into life, because we love the brethren." in this world is to think of what the other man would do to you, The natural heart cannot attain unto these exalted experi- and then do that to him and get there first." ences of loving our fellow men. We do not have power in our- It is quite true that the unregenerate, selfish heart follows selves to accomplish it; therefore our heavenly Father has made along those lines of self-centered greed, which develop wars, abundant provision so that we may receive this heavenly im- strifes, and revolutions. But nevertheless, the Master calls planting of love if we will but accept it. The plan by which it for us to do to the other man what we would like to have him is accomplished is very clearly set forth in Romans 5: 5, as fol- lows: "Hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us." The marginal rendering of this text in the Revised Version is quite expressive. It says the love of God has been "poured out" in our hearts. Do we sense the great fact expressed in this marvelous text? God's own love, the love that is in God's own heart, is shed abroad, or "poured out" in our hearts through the operation of the Holy Spirit. This receiving of heaven's love, the love that would cause us to do to our fellow men what we would that they should do to us, comes then as a divine miracle. It is poured into the heart by God's Spirit, and the individual who has these heaven-im- planted principles of love in his soul knows that a mighty mira- cle has been performed in his life. He knows that he has received a new nature. He knows that from that time forward he is working under new impulses. As expressed by the apos- tle Paul in his letter to the Corinthians, "the love of Christ constraineth us." 2 Corinthians 5: 14. And being thus con- strained by the love of Christ to do the loving deeds of Christ, we recognize also the truthfulness of this other verse in the International same chapter of 2 Corinthians, as follows: The women of the country have given to the pioneers of the Woman Suffrage "Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the Movement a memorial statue which has been placed in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington. The statue was carved in Italy of solid Carrara old things are passed away; behold, they are become new." marble. Speaker Billett of the House accepted the statue for the government. Verse 17. The marginal rendering of this text in the Revised Version do to us. This calls for the deepest and the purest and the di- is also quite expressive. It affirms that if any man is in Christ vinest principles of love. We cannot wantonly and wickedly Jesus, there is "a new creation." Therefore, under this new hurt or injure our fellow man if we have learned from God to creation, the old things of the flesh,—its hatreds, its emulations, love him. its strifes, its selfish purposes,—are all passed away, and the It is quite evident that all through the teaching and work of individual has become new. He is willing to suffer abuse, he the Master He prominently emphasized this principle of love, is willing to endure torture, he is willing to labor amid the for we read in the words of one of His most devoted followers: greatest hardships and privations, if only thereby he can bene- "This is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that fit his fellow men. He has learned, by the way of heaven, to we should love one another." I John 3:11. Christ's teaching love humanity, and loving humanity thus, as heaven does, his and exemplification of love so deeply impressed the apostle John whole life is devoted to working for their betterment and benefit. that he places it as the center of the message that they had And with this miracle through the operation of God's Spirit heard from the beginning. acting upon His Word in the life and heart of the individual, In impressing this message of love, we read in Christ's own there is no longer any doubt in regard to the authenticity of language, that "by this shall all men know that ye are My dis- the Bible or the truthfulness of its great utterances. We ciples, if ye have love one for another." John 13: 35. Often have a living experience in the operation of the living Word of professing Christians are found maligning, scandalizing, and God that enables us to know for ourselves the ground upon fighting one another, but Jesus says that it is by our love for which we stand. If we had more of this living experience of one another that the world is to know that we are His disciples. learning from Christ how to love humanity, we should have The measure of this love is expressed in the following words: less doubts and perplexity, both in regard to the Bible and to "This is My commandment, that ye love one another, even as our future existence. I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15: 12, 13. "COME unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I We are not merely commanded to love one another, but Jesus will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; Himself has given us the example, and says that we should love am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto one another even as He has loved us, and this love is to reach for I your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light." even to the extent that we stand ready at all times to lay down Matthew 11: 28-30. our lives for the brethren. 10 The Signs of the Times for March 29, 1921

"Of all the influences that have uncon- sciously joined forces in opening up Africa," says the Rev. B. G. O'Rourke, AFRICA (1° "missions to the heathen are at once the vanguard and the rearguard. Where the missionary has been the others have soon THE LAND OF followed; and where the others have led the way, if he does not follow, the future FASCINATION will be as dark as the past." EFFECT OF GREEDY EXPLORATION "Africa is a large country, chiefly composed of sand and elephants, At the beginning of the nineteenth cen- the center of which was uninhab- tury, as we have seen, little was known ited until that wicked man Stanley about Africa beyond the edges of the filled it up with towns and villages." coast line. All the earlier efforts to open the vast region of the interior "were, as a whole," says Donald Frasier, "a piti- By able record of failure. First came t Portuguese adventurers, who set fort ELMER E. ANDROSS with such lofty purpose only to lower and lose it in the lust of conquest and greed ERHAPS no country on earth pos- tongues. Although two thirds of the con- of gain. England's pioneers did not bet- ter affairs, and the Dutch States in South sesses greater attractions for the stu- tinent lies within the tropics, its climate P Africa were founded for the most part dent, the hunter, the trader, the traveler, is modified by its 'elevation above sea in cruelty. Yet at the outset, each na- or the missionary, than Africa. For all level. From the coast to the interior all tion was prompted by aims far from types of men it holds an abiding fas- around the continent, there is an upward slope, ending in a vast table-land of from ignoble, motives in many instances cination. aspiring and generous. Despite this, "Professor Drummond tells us that 1,000 to 4,000 or more feet in elevation. alas, the leaven of corruption crept in there are three distinct Africas. There Four great rivers drain the interior, the and spread with dreadful rapidity. Even is North Africa, where men go for Nile, the Niger, the Congo, and the Zam- those whose direct purpose was to bring health, society, and military service; besi. All but the Niger find their source the elevating influence of Christianity South Africa, where men go for money; within a very small radius, in or near into the new land fell victims to the low and Central Africa, where they go for the great lakes of Central Africa. moral standards which prevailed. adventure and sport. The first, he goes Though Africa is indeed a wonderful on to tell us, is the old Africa of Augus- country, wonderful in its size, in its in- "What was the effect on Africa? Such tine and Carthage, with a civilization habitants, in its history, it is most won- intercourse did her no good. Her re- dating back before the foremost nations derful in its possibilities. In 1845, Sir sources were not developed but wasted, of to-day were born. But the light of R. Murchison, president of the Royal for the three articles that attracted cap- Egypt in those days was an earthly, not Geographical Society, said: "Our knowl- tains and colonists were gold, ivory, and a heavenly, light. The second is the edge of Africa advances slowly, and is slaves. No attempt was made to plant or modern Africa of the diamond and gold confined almost exclusively to the coast." cultivate, and Europe left the land poorer mines, the historical wars, and the stock than she found it, and herself stained exchange. The third is known chiefly and debilitated by her traffic. It goes through the travels of Livingstone and hard with a land which provides wealth Stanley, and the labors of missionaries which is discovered and not produced. like Mackay and Hannington."— CONTACT WITH CIVILIZATION HAS O'Rourke, "African Missions," page 11. WORSENED THEM One has described Africa as a "vast ill- "The greed for wealth soon swamped formed triangle." A modern schoolboy all better feelings of responsibility to- wrote, "Africa is a large country chiefly ward the natives. Where gold failed, composed of sand and elephants, the slaving was started, and in east and west center of which was uninhabited until legitimate commerce died. As a result that wicked man Stanley filled it up with of this unprincipled trading and exploi- towns and villages." This expresses the view regarding this vast continent that, tation, the coast tribes were, at the end of their three or four centuries of com- up to a century ago, was quite generally held. But, in God's providence, a great merce with Europe, in a more degraded change has come, and to-day a keen in- condition physically and morally than terest in Africa is manifested, and a the untoucheditribes of the interior. fairly accurate knowledge of the country "Thus Europe for hundreds of years is common. knocked in vain at the door of Africa, penetrated her coast line, exploited her THE SECOND LARGEST CONTINENT peoples and resources, and left chaos. Africa has a population variously esti- The first three centuries of Europe's mated at from 160,000,000 to 200,000,000. contact with Africa close in utter night. While this seems enormous, considering Lamps have been lit, but they have all the area of the continent, it is small. gone out. Fierce and destructive enemies Africa is second in size to Asia alone, and are prowling in the dark, to the terror covers eleven and one-half million square and destruction of the people. The slave miles in territory. India, with an area traffic is eating up its scores of thousands one eighth the size of Africa, has a popu- of victims. Gin, guns, and gunpowder are lation of 321,000,000. And yet the popu- A WITCH DOCTOR being poured into the continent. Eager lation of Africa is immense. It is much colonies are pressing into the ancestral easier to speak of millions than to appre- As late as 1851, another president, Cap- lands of the people, driving out the ciate the significance of the word. The tain Smith, said: "All beyond the coast masters of the soil, or gathering them very fact that the people are scattered is still a blank on our maps." To-day, into slavery. And all the while the over so vast an area, much of which is however, our children are as familiar church, to whom God has given the Light almost inaccessible, greatly increases the with the history and geography of Africa of the World, is forgetting to male it difficulties of the task of reaching them as of Europe. Its interior parts have shine on this foul and fearsome night."— with the gospel. been traversed, its secrets made known. "The Future of Africa," pages 30-32. The races of Africa are innumerable. Boundless possibilities are opened in For many years the principal retard- It is said that there are eight hundred Africa, but it is with the possibilities of ing feature in the development of Africa forty-three languages and dialects spoken the people rather than of its products was that terrible stain upon her annals, by its peoples—truly a confusion of that we are concerned. (Continued on page 15) The Mighty Wonders of the Infinitesimal

CIENCE, with its microscopic eye, By HORACE G. FRANKS ate substances, which last so short a time S has penetrated the secrets of the dust that they barely have names. They des- and has revealed to an astonished genera- troy themselves by their own activity, tion the wonderful power of God,—who and consequently are very scarce. Ra- has placed a universe in a grain of sand dium is of moderate activity, its life- and packed infinity into an atom. time is of the order of a thousand years, The poet Blake has called upon his whereas the lifetime of some of the readers,— intermediate substances may be measured a world in a grain of sand, by weeks or even minutes."—Trueman And Maven in a flower ; Wood, Lecture before the Royal Society To grasp infinity in the palm of the hand, And eternity in an hour." of Arts, London, December 10, 1919. A few years ago the realization of PARALYZING DISPLAYS OF ATOMIC ENERGY such an aim was, even to the scientist. Radium truly is a striking example of a mpossibility, and the verse of the the stupendous energies that the Creator was looked upon as only a poetic has packed into an atom. Professor dream. To-day, however, we see more Rutherford has devoted his time of late than a mere world in a grain of sand; we years to the study of this strange ele- view a whole planetary system in a tiny ment, and were it not for his reputation speck of the dust we tread beneath our for honesty and soundness in matters heedless, hurrying feet. A world-re- nowned scientist has said: "Our knowl- of science, the figures he has published edge is a drop and our ignorance is an would strain the credulity of the average ocean." Yet the secrets which science mind to the breaking point. As it is, they daily reveals, the mysteries which it certainly enlarge the borders of the ordi- weekly unveils, set the mind of the Chris- nary multiplication table to present them- tian layman wondering and marveling selves. To illustrate: A speck of ra- at the many ways in which God conducts dium, so small as to be almost without His universe. In other words, science, weight or mass, will expel ten thousand by its own complicated methods and in its million particles a second, every particle own strange language, is writing a book traveling at the enormous speed of 12,000 which is reinforcing faith—a book on miles a second, and all of them capable whose many pages are portrayed astound- of passing through solid iron as easily as ing revelations of Jehovah and the scale they do through the surrounding air. It of His works, a book on the principles of will continue to do this, says the profes- nature from which we can learn many sor, for 2,500 years, which is the "life" spiritual lessons, a book which gives of an atom of radium. fresh credibility and greater authenticity But scientists do not stop here. Their to the inspired Word of God. computations, when they pass certain Science is now beginning to realize well-known figures, present paralyzing that there are in the physical realm un- magnitudes of energy, until they are known sources of power which are proba- themselves lost in the incomprehensible bly greater in variety and intensity than intricacies of remote energies through are the "known" sources. The latest ages approaching infinity. source of power to be recognized has been But there is something still more re- termed atomic energy. The phrase, "a markable about these wonders of radio- mighty atom," has been used so much activity recently revealed to the scien- during the past years that it has become The Creator has placed man between two tist. We must remember that these ele- hackneyed and trite, the subject of many majestic firmaments,—the mighty con- ments have not yet manifested to man stellations of whirling suns in the heav- a joke. Nevertheless, there is a might ens above and the infinitely small plan- their whole energy, for Professor Ruth- concealed in the atom, or at least in some etary systems in the very dust which erford and Sir Oliver Lodge have per- atoms, which, were it harnessed, would covers the circle of the earth. ceived only their waste energy,—the en- astound the world. Of course, neither ergy which these elements are getting scientist nor layman has ever seen an rid of. Says Sir Oliver: "When we is known as atomic energy. Sir Oliver atom; yet it has been demonstrated be- speak of their explosion, it is to be noted yond doubt and before the writer's own Lodge, in his scholarly yet simple way, that the explosion is not a shattering or eyes, that the atom is a complicated struc- has thus described the wonders of the bursting of the gun—it is merely the fir- ture consisting of electrons, a structure atom: ing of a shot; except that in the atomic compared with which a railway locomo- "The explosive or radio-active atom case the shot was part of the gun. The tive is a very simple contrivance. In has given the secret away. All atoms energy retained is far more than the en- other words, the Creator has placed man possess energy, but some cannot hold it ergy expended. And when its active between two majestic firmaments—lodged all. These are the radio-active elements, transformations have ceased and left it in him between mighty constellations of and they periodically fire off projectiles a stable state, like lead or gold or silver whirling suns in the heavens above and with more than volcanic violence. A ra- or copper or iron or any common element, infinitely small planetary systems in the dium atom firing off a particle, which we are not to suppose that because it is very dust which covers the circle of the turns out to be a positively charged atom quiescent therefore it has no store of in- *earth. of helium, is like a two-ton gun firing a ternal energy." In other words, we must hundred-pound shot. That is about the not trust to mere appearances. A lump HEAVY ARTILLERY OF THE MIGHTY actual proportion between the projectile ATOM of iron might look as harmless as a piece and the rest of the atom, which naturally of cordite, and it might be—probably is An atom, although ultramicroscopic, is recoils each time it fires. The recoil has —as fully fraught with danger. a most complicated piece of machinery. been observed. Before it has exhausted The eye of man has never actually viewed its ammunition, it fires off five such pro- GLEAMS OF OMNIPOTENCE the wonders of its architecture; yet the jectiles, and then settles down into a Yet the fact remains that in these new scientist knows, by the laws of physics, quieter existence as lead—or if not ex- revelations we see a gleam of Omnipo- that within the minute curve of the actly lead, something chemically indis- tence breaking out of the dust, for truly minute atom there whirl, in a majestic tinguishable from lead. A uranium atom only an all-powerful God could pack an splendor, an unfailing order, a constella- has already fired off four projectiles in eternity of physical energy into an atom tion of negative electrons around a cen- order to become radium. Radium is a of uranium or radium. These new discov-, tral positive nucleus, all of which are in a temporary halfway house between ura- eries of science seem to change the per- state of oscillation and vibration. This nium and lead: it is active, but not as spective of the physical universe, for they continual motion is responsible for what fiercely active as some of the intermedi- give us a new angle from which to view 12 The Signs of the Times for March 29, 1921 the Creator's infinite power both in the through earth's hardened clod, and, says The normal condition of life ordained mathematics of the stellar universe and in the Christ to His followers, "If ye have by God is health, the abnormal condition, the wonders of the infinitesimal as He faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye disease. When arraying himself against hangs a constellation of planets in an shall say unto this mountain, Remove God, Robert Ingersoll said: "If I had atom of even the commonest of elements. hence to yonder place; and it shall re- been making the world, I would have These observations are not parables; they move; and nothing shall be impossible made health contagious instead of dis- are realities. They are as real as the unto you." Matthew 17: 20. ease," to which a medical professor re- whirling children of the sky which, in the Jehovah has given to His children a plied: "Then he would have been com- midnight hour, have made us often shrink mighty work to do in this generation,— pelled to have made disease instead of to insect dimensions as we pondered over a task the magnitude of which might at health the normal condition of life." In their vastness. And yet these wonders of times cause us to shrink from attempt- that case, how dreadful living would the mighty atom teach us a lesson. ing it. But, awaiting each prayerful and have been! God is not greater in the atom than He consecrated Christian, there is a power far Jesus made life worth living by heal- is in the soul and in the life of His greater than that which Rutherford and ing "all manner of sickness and all man- earthly child. Paul tells us that the Lodge have discovered in the atom, an ner of disease." There was not a malady Christ, the Creator of things "that are energy of far greater possibilities than known or unknown to the medical fra- in earth, visible and invisible," is continu- the comparatively feeble pulse beats of ously "upholding all things by the word the uranium grain. The mind that can ternity of His day but at a wordr of His power." The soul of a Christian discover the wonders of atomic energy touch of His, fled away. Likewise, e is as invisible as the electrons which form and the brain that can unveil the secrets teaches us that if we will keep "in tune" the planetary system of the infinitesimal of the infinitesimal is surely greater in with the laws of health as prescribed by atom; yet the Book has told us that present worth and in potentiality, than Him, and not serve ungoverned appetite Christ's care is over all. The Creator, we the dust which the owner of that mind and passion, we, too, can triumph over now learn from science, carries on His treads beneath his feet. Therefore God the ailments which grip many. physical universe by agencies too minute expects great things of His children in JESUS THE VICTOR OVER DEATH for the human mind visibly to discern; this generation. He places upon a hum- yet those agencies, like their celestial ble people a mighty responsibility and a Jesus triumphed over death. Death is counterparts, fail not. mighty work; and then He reinforces man's greatest foe. Like the curculio which injects with its sting its eggs into Surely in this we must see a spiritual their faith, encourages their zeal, and the leaf, the undeveloped fruit, or nut, so reflex of physical facts! The Christian, strengthens their hands by sending them death has a sting—a sin-sting (1 Co- in his varied experience, has learned by wondrous lessons from the realm of the rinthians 15: 56), which proves fatal to what humble means God carries on His minute, and by teaching them divine par- every living thing. The world's sen- work in the spiritual realm. Truly, as He ables from the splendors of the dust. tence—never changed throughout tke ages foretold, He has chosen the foolish things In other words, He bids us go forward in by poets or sages—is, "Death passed of the world to confound the wise; the the name of the Lord, with a new confi- upon all men." Romans 5: 12. No one weak things of the world to astonish the dence in the principle which lies at the ever conquered it but Jesus, and He con- mighty; and "base things of the world, root of Christianity, the principle that quered it when He manifested His power and things which are despised, hath God "the things which are seen are tem- to take up His life after He laid it down. chosen, yea, and things which are not, to poral; but the things which are not When He comes again and corruption is bring to naught things that are." Even seen are eternal." transformed into incorruption, death is a rank materialist must admit that it is "All power is given unto Me in heaven to suffer its death pangs—it shall be correct logic to say that if Jehovah has "Go ye and in earth," said the Saviour. "swallowed up in victory." 1 Corin- hidden something of astounding great- therefore." thians 15: 54. ness in the tiny circle of an atom of dust, then truly He can stoop to hide a portion Jesus gloried in His triumph over the of His eternal Spirit in the soul of every world. Speaking to His disciples on the human being, that being which is of so shadowy threshold of His world exit He much greater importance and value and said: "In the world ye shall have tribu- intricacy than a speck of dirt carried lation: but be of good cheer; I have over- heedlessly about in the bosom of every come the world." John 16: 33. This puff of wind. seemed to be His crowning triumph, and should be ours. John says that "what- VAST SPIRITUAL DYNAMIC AVAILABLE soever is born of God overcometh the Moreover, a few minutes previous to world." 1 John 5: 4. May our experi- His ascension, Christ said to His faithful ence be that of Isaac Watts: disciples, "Ye shall receive power, . . . "Should earth against my soul engage. and ye shall be witnesses unto Me." The And fiery darts be hurled ; Then I can smile at Satan's rage, word used in the original for "power" And face a frowning world." is dunamis, and its true force is revealed when we remember that it is the Greek root from which we get our word "dyna- Africa the Land of Fascination mite." In other words, Christ promised (Continued from page 10) those who were to carry on His work a the slave trade. For this infamous traffic full measure of that wonderful power, in human beings the white race is re- that marvelous energy, of which He is sponsible. To this race has been com- the source,—that energy which is hurl- mitted chiefly the "glorious gospel of the ing itself out of the very dust at the speed blessed God,"—the hope of the world, the of 12,000 miles a second. When the hope of Africa. What, therefore, must Christian possesses a spiritual energy, an be our responsibility to Africa? Africa,— evangelizing zeal, an overcoming faith, so long left to grope in the darkest night, equal in power to the atomic energy re- and then for centuries preyed upon, as vealed to the wondering mind of the The Triumphs of Jesus vultures prey upon carcasses, till, left scientist, then will the promise of the (Continued from page 8) wounded, bleeding, and dying, it was ab- Christ be fulfilled, and the child of God was "the Cure of souls" as Dr. John solutely helpless and hopeless, unless the will be "strengthened with all might, ac- Watson used to say. He "took our in- cording to His glorious power." Colos- firmities, and bare our sicknesses." He pierced hands of our crucified and risen sians 1: 11. Paul possessed this "glorious was "a man of pains and acquainted with Saviour be extended in the person of His power," this spiritual atomic energy, for disease;" "but only our disease did He messengers. To such, to-day, the last he tells us, as he told the Philippians, "I bear Himself, and our pains He car- command of our ascending Redeemer and can do all things through Christ which ried. . . . Through His bruises was Lord comes with all the force and power strengtheneth me." Philippians 4: 13. healing granted us," as Lesser translates and authority that must attach to this This same overcoming power and physical Isaiah 53: 3-5. Likewise, He "bare our message in the last hour of human pro- "faith" is inherent in the grain of mustard sins in His own body on the tree." 1 bation, "Go ye into all the world, and seed as it silently pushes its frail spike Peter 2:24. preach the gospel to every creature." The Signs of the Times for April 5, 1921 13 TI RE experience of that class "Is that so?" asked George. hour was one of the most star- "Tell me about it." tling and disturbing Robert had Robert restated some of the ever known. The contrast between things he had already told Mr. this man's attitude toward the Blakely. Bible and that of the former "He said, also," continued Rob- teacher was as if one were plunged ert, "that the Bible protests against suddenly from most brilliant light its being used as an authority in into the deepest darlmess. Where matters of religion; so Mr. Newton formerly there had been a warm and I asked him to explain certain thrill of spiritual hope and aspira- texts in the light of his statement." tion, there was now a depressing "How did he explain them?" chill of unbelief and infidelity. asked Mr. Blakely. That evening Robert came into "He didn't explain them. In- the dining room a trifle early. stead, he wanted to know if we Mrs. Blakely was busy with her were trying to start an argument , and called a cheery good eve- or a discussion. I told him that Alt to him. Mr. Blakely looked I merely wished to see how these up from the paper he was reading texts could be made to agree with to ask, "How did the new Bible his proposition that the Bible did teacher make it to-day?" not pretend to be an authority, and "Bible teacher? There wasn't even protests against being used any." as such." "No? Why, isn't that strange? "What did he say to that?" in- Didn't the new man get in? What quired Mrs. Blakely. could have kept him?" "He made no explanation at all. "Oh, there was a new man in He ignored my remark." charge of the Bible class to-day, to "Quite a convenient way to get be sure; but I don't call him a out of it," commented George. Bible teacher." "But he did finally say that "How's that?" Paul's statements didn't count, be- "Why, he didn't teach the Bible; cause he was a product of the dis- and as he gave us quite a full and persion, and taught quite a differ- complete outline, besides a fair ent doctrine from that given by sample, of what he is going to do, Christ." I think we need scarcely expect any "Well, doesn't that beat any- Bible teaching in the future." thing!" was Mrs. Blakely's excla- "Well! You seem to put it pretty mation. strong. Is it really that bad?" "Why didn't you give him some- "You can judge for yourself. I thing from some of the other will give you a little of it." writers of the Bible?" Mr. Blakely "That's the idea! You've made asked. me curious." "I did; I quoted from Christ." "For one thing, he said the Bible `rhe story of a battle "Well, that ought to settle it," is a tyrant." with "liberal theologians" said George. "Indeed! That's strange talk." of the dug. "The only thing it settled was "And that it is only a servant, me; and he did the settling." but has thought itself a king." "How's that?" asked Mr. Blakely "Well, well! Is that possible?" PART TWENTY-TWO with surprise. "That while only a servant, it has "Oh, he said Christ was narrowed by usurped the throne of authority, and is the local beliefs of His time, and obsessed trying to rule with absolute and despotic "I should say so! Infidels have boasted with a pathetic delusion; that He was ig- sway." before along the same line, but when they norant of men, science, and history. He "What do you know about that! What stood in the open and everybody knew is ruled out of court as incompetent by a queer old book to behave in that way!" them as enemies of the Bible, their influ- the new theology. When, in the face of "But now, since he and a few others ence was limited, and their speech dis- all this, I told him that I didn't believe have got started, it is to be tumbled off counted. It is the traitors that do the a word of it, he rose to his feet, grew the throne, and taught to take its place damage. It was not the open, avowed white in the face, and asked me if I as a servant and a servant only." enemies of Christ that sold Him to His meant to call him a liar. Then he con- "Going to get a call down, and some- death; it was one who passed as His cluded by saying that until the board thing of a fall down, too? Well, this is friend, one belonging to His inner, pri- appointed me teacher of the class, I need quite interesting, I must say. I'd like to vate circle who betrayed Him, and that, never again attempt to teach it. So, I be there when all that goes on." too, with a kiss. So these later traitors,— suppose, in some sort of way, that satis- "He said, too, that this new movement I can call them nothing else,—seem to fies his mind. However, I can't see that which he represents, this higher criti- kiss the Bible. They talk of its moral he proved his point." cism, this new theology, is the real mas- and spiritual influence,—that's their "Well, I guess not!" exclaimed Mr. ter, and that the Bible is only a servant; kiss. But all the time they ridicule some Blakely. "And I think that beats the and that the master is going to teach the of its plainest statements, and aver that devil." *servant the place that belongs to it." it is full of inaccuracies, errors, and "Why, Mr. Blakely! what are you say- "Hum! Talks big, doesn't he?" falsehoods; also, that its writers were ing?" exclaimed his wife in astonishment. "Yes, quite big, I should say. But he deluded, ignorant fanatics, following il- "The idea of your talking like that!" is not the only one who does that. The lusions and abnormal fancies,—that's the representative men of this new theology traitorous betrayal." "Well, perhaps, I did put it a little too all talk the same. He was merely utter- "Yes, yes; you are right!" strong. Perhaps I should say that he ing the arguments of all." talks for all the world just like the devil. "How is that?" • UPPER was ready just then, and You know he—the devil, I mean—is and "Well, you see, I put in some spare S when George came in, they all sat always was the champion tl.sputer of the time to-day, reading up on this new the- down to the table. When grace had been Bible, and the perfect wrester of the ology, and finding out what its advocates said, the conversation was resumed. Scriptures, turning them ever from their think and say. They are truly a bold, "Bob has been telling me," Mr. Blakely real meaning to suit his purpose. What- boastful lot." remarked, "some of the things the new ever God says, the devil always disputes "You don't say so!" Well, the good old Bible teacher had to say to-bay. He it, and says just the opposite. And this Book will last a few days yet for all their doesn't seem to be afraid to say what man to-day has done just the same thing. talk, no matter who they are." he thinks." That satisfactory, mother?" 14 The Signs of the Times for March 29, 1921 Mrs. Blakely smiled faintly, but said "I told the teacher to-day just that, and error of the times. It's enough to nothing. and quoted some things that I remem- give a man the shivers; it surely is. "The idea that the Bible protests ber of history; but he said that what he What are we coming to?" against being used as an authority for had stated was practically correct. What "I suppose, I am coming to that sort the soul! I read in the Old Testament, can you do with a man like that?" of Bible teacher for a few weeks, at least in Ecclesiastes, 'Fear God, and keep His "Doesn't the Bible say that if one does till the semester ends. Then good-by to commandments: for this is the whole not speak in accordance with the Word, it. I don't care to get new theology in duty of man.' I read in Deuteronomy of there is no light in him?" asked Mr. a Bible class. It's too much of a misfit. the curses pronounced on those who dis- Blakely. It's bad enough getting a dose of it oc- obey, and the blessings on those who "Yes, in the eighth chapter of Isaiah. casionally in the magazines or news- obey. I recall Christ's words to Satan, And what about the Ten Commandments? papers, but a regular full meal of it `It is written, Man shall not live by bread Have they no authority, either? What every day is much too hard for my di- alone, but by every word that proceedeth about the 'Thou-shalt-not's' we find there? gestion !" out of the mouth of God.' It was the Are they defective and inaccurate also? (Continued next week) word of God given through Moses that, Have they become obsolete?" refused and disobeyed by the people of "I begin to think," said Mr. Blakely, God in the ancient days, shut them out "that these new-fangled theologians are The Efficiency of the Age of God's rest. And it will just as surely suffering with a sort of educational big- Planned by God • shut us out to-day, if we disobey. This head." (Continued from page 3) we can read plainly enough in the fourth "Or perhaps a religious bighead," These wonderful devices have removed chapter of Hebrews. There, also, we are amended Robert, "which seems borne out all barriers to communication, and have told that God's word is living, and pow- by this statement made by one of them. made the world one small neighborhood. erful, and sharper than any two-edged I copied it, so that I could give it cor- A human voice can be heard nearly a sword, cutting into joints and marrow, rectly. It shows the spirit that has quarter way around the globe. These dividing even soul and spirit, and dis- made them drunk with their own conceit. material improvements aid God's people cerning even the thoughts and intents of Listen to this: in giving the knowledge of Christ's com- the heart. And in another place we read " 'Since we have discovered that past ing to all the world. Missionaries could that the grass withers and the flower ages of religious thinking have been held not easily cross the seas to darkened fades, and that all humanity is like them by slavish subserviency to a past further lands, were it not for the great ocean 1in this respect, but the word of God does back, and by the supposition that God steamers; Bibles could not be printed in not fail or pass away, but abides forever. has not spoken since the first century of nearly seven hundred different languages Thus one might go on forever." the Christian era [when all the books of and dialects, if it were not for the mod- "I should say so!" affirmed Mrs. the New Testament were written], we ern printing press; workers could not be Blakely. have reacted from that slavish sub- hastened from place to place to do a "Why, his theory," continued Robert, serviency and supposition to the extreme quick work, if it were not for auto- "in support of his new theology or higher opposite supposition that God has never mobiles and railway trains. These and criticism, won't stand a minute, if it is spoken until now, and that the compel- many other inventions are instruments really referred to the Bible for proof. ling spiritual dictates of the age in which which God has ordained to assist in giv- The fact is, the critics won't accept any- we live [the higher critics' new theology] ing the message of a soon-coming Saviour thing the Bible says in contradiction of are the first and only voice of the liv- to all the world in a very short time. their beliefs, for they maintain that the ing God.' " This age fits the prophecy, and the Bible is defective, inaccurate, narrow, "Where in the world did you find prophecy fits this age. fanciful, and largely fictitious. How can that?" asked Mr. Blakely. you make headway with such people by "That is from an article entitled, `Creedal Statement and the Modern Too Late quoting the Bible to them?" AMONG the saddest words in the Bible "You have analyzed the proposition Spirit,' by the Rev. Samuel H. Bishop, New York City, in the American Journal are these: "The harvest is past, the sum- correctly," George agreed. "That's the of Theology, the Chicago University mer is ended, and we are not saved." situation to a T. But is the Bible the Quarterly, for July, 1909. Thus you Jeremiah 8: 20. only thing they are opposed to?—I don't see that it comes from a source of high We read of a time when the Master think so. The facts of science and of authority. It seems to be the real voice will thrust in His sickle to reap the rip- history they also ignore and dispute." of the new religion." ened harvest. The wheat will then be "Exactly!" exclaimed Robert. "Al- "Well, it's surely boastful enough!" gathered into the garner of heaven, the though the position of the child of faith was George's comment. "Let me see— tares will be gathered and burned. Now has always been one of respect and obe- how did that read? 'God has never is the preparation time; then it will be dience to God's Word, regarding it as an spoken until now, and this is the first too late. authority, this teacher to-day said that and only voice of the living God.' Is Too late! What melancholy words are the idea of regarding the Bible in this that the way it reads?" these! I see a husband rushing home in way was a comparatively new one, aris- "Yes, that's the short of it. To think response to tidings that his wife is dying. ing in the seventeenth and the first half of it! God never spoke in all the ages Ere he reaches the door, he sees the of the eighteenth century." past, not through Moses or Isaiah or hanging crape, and knows he has arrived "He said that?" George asked in sur- David or Christ or Paul, but He waited too late. I see a father hurrying home prise. all the centuries until He could find a to see an operation performed upon his "He said just that, and his company is higher critic, and through him alone He only child, but before he reaches the hos- quite large among his own kind who say speaks! According to this, since He pital, he is told that he has come too late. the same thing. It is one of their stock could find no higher critic, He was silent I see a ship on the rocks, being beaten arguments. But how near is he to the at creation, dumb at Sinai, speechless at to pieces by the angry waves. The life- truth? the cross; but when at last the higher savers are doing their best, but they are "He said that making the Bible an au- critic came and opened his mouth in ut- battling against terrible odds. Will they MP thority was the work of Protestantism terance, God at last was able to find a reach the stranded ship in time to rescue MP in the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- fit and chosen mouthpiece through whom those in peril? Alas, they are too late! turies. But Protestantism really began to speak, and the higher critic's words When they are almost to the vessel, it with the Reformation under Luther, and are the first and only voice of the liv- settles into the sea, and all are lost. that takes us back to the fifteenth and ing God!" I see the terror-stricken inhabitants of sixteenth centuries. And this Reforma- "I think that's audacious!" said Mrs. a burning building as they await deliver- tion was a re-forming of the religion of Blakely, emphatically. ance from the flames that are eating up the day, bringing it back to the apostolic "I think it's piffle!" said George. the structure. The firemen are doing their position, making the Word of God the "And. I think it's blasphemy!" said best; but before they can reach the im- sole authority. Luther taught this, and Robert, with concern. "Deep, black, ma- periled ones, the building collapses, and so did all the Reformers. They appealed lign blasphemy; that's what I think it is." they are too late. from the authority of the church to the "I think we're all correct," affirmed Yet, sad as all this is, how much sadder authority of the Book." Mr. Blakely. "We need to put our ex- are the words of the text! The harvest "Why didn't you tell him so to-day?" pressions together to say all we ought to time past! Salvation was offered; but asked Mr. Blakely. say and think about this last delusion those to whom it was offered brushed it The Signs of the Times for March 29, 1921 15 aside. They were waiting for a more F. Gush, 418 South 59th St., Tacoma, convenient time. They felt the drawing Washington. power of the Holy Spirit, and were "al- Mrs. E. Cunningham, 907 Prairie St., most persuaded" to believe, but they were Elkhart, Indiana. $011goPtienne$ not ready yet. The joys of the world Mrs. Bertha L. Goin, 756 7th Ave., N., seemed attractive. They would sow a St. Petersburg, Florida. Published weekly by the Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, California, a Corpo- few more wild oats, and teen repent. But Raymond Cyr, Maplewood Academy, ration of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. while they dallied, the sun of probation Maple Plain, Minnesota. Entered as second-class matter September 15,1904, set. They had wasted the precious hours Mrs. E. Ballard, 116 East Market St., at the Mountain View, California, post office, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for of probation, and now it is too late. Wabash, Indiana. mailing at special rate of postage, provided for in Reader, you have heard the call. You section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, and authorized September 18, 1918. have been drawn by the Holy Spirit. You March "Medical Evangelist" SUBSCRIPTION RATES have expected sometime to yield your Three months $ .50 heart to Christ. If you have been putting "The Decalogue of Eating," Lenore D. Six months .90 One year (50 numbers) 1.50 off the matter, yield now; for soon it will Campbell, M. D. With "Questions and Answers" 2.15 be to* late. "Interesting Items from Our Workers GEORGE B. THOMPSON. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS at Home and Abroad," Newton Expiration: The wrapper bears date of last is- Evans, M. D. sue due on your subscription. Unless renewed in "Measuring the Pattern," A. W. Tru- advance, the paper stops with expiration date. Use Your Papers Twice Change of address: Kindly give both old and man, M. D. new address. IF you enjoy reading any of the pe- "Help for the Asthmatic," Hershel We send no papers from this office to individuals, riodicals listed below and are benefited Butka, M. D. without pay in advance. When any one receives copies without ordering them, they are sent by thereby, why not pass them on to others "Home Remedies," Mary McReynolds, other parties, and we can give no information in who will see that your papers are handed M. D. regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of to those who also will be benefited by the SIGNS are not indebted to the office, and will The Medical Evangelist is published not be called upon to pay for them. Please read their perusal. bimonthly by the faculty of the College the papers you may receive, and hand them to your The following persons are desirous of friends to read. of Medical Evangelists. The subscrip- J. R. FERREN, Circulation Manager receiving quantities of clean copies of tion price is $1.00 a year or 20c a copy. the SIGNS weekly, Signs Magazine, Send your subscription to the Medical The Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital Watchman, Liberty, Life and Health, Evangelist, Loma Linda, California. and Present Truth, for missionary dis- is now receiving applications for the tribution. course beginning August 15, 1921. The Mrs. J. F. Woods, 322 South Detroit Nurses beautiful new hospital and maternity St., Warsaw, Indiana. THE Loma Linda and White Memorial ward just completed, as well as the new Mrs. C. Smith, 1384 Walnut St., Los Hospital Training School will begin a nurses' home, offer additional advantages Angeles, California. new course August 15, 1921. Write for to the student nurses. For information Lonnie B. Raines, Ridgeway, South information to Superintendent of Train- write to Training School, Glendale Sani- Carolina, Route 3. ing School, Loma Linda, California. tarium, Glendale, California.

'4411111111011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111E Good Stock Keeping Is Just Good Bookkeeping

The basis of good bookkeeping is accuracy, both in putting facts on paper and in analyzing results. By the same token, good stock keeping is nothing more or less than keeping results and using them as a guide in maintaining, replenishing, and checking stock. Burroughs Machines perform every detail of good bookkeeping and good stock keeping. They do it easily, because the figures are in plain type. They do it accurately, because there can't be mis- takes in addition or subtraction ; because the totals are automati- cally extended. They do it economically, because they are always on the job, simple to operate, free from errors that mean wasted hours, and have practically unlimited capacity for work. We can give you some valuable information about how other business men are getting automatic accuracy and labor saving into their accounting.

BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINE COMPANY DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

Adding—Bookkeeping—Calculating Machines

ii111111111[1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111i111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.111111111111M AN ADVOCATE OF A WHOLE-SOTJLED BE- CHAMPIONING THE PRINCIPLES OF THE LIEF IN THE BIBLE AS THE VERY WORD PROTESTANT REFORMATION, EMPHASIZ- OF GOD. ING FAITH IN CHRIST AS CREATOR AND REDEEMER, AND URGING A PREPARATION Edited by IN HEART AND LIFE FOR HIS IMMINENT A. 0. TAIT A. L. BAKER SECOND COMING. AMERICA'S RIWPH WEEKLY

• What the "Movies" Are rather than lovers of God." When we The Jew that represented the especially take together the sayings of Paul and of chosen people of God was in nowise to be Doing to Us Jesus and of all the prophets in re- distinguished from the Greek, represent- IT is widely charged by men in almost gard to the conditions that are to obtain ing the great gentile world. God loved all walks of life throughout the United in these days just before the second com- all humanity alike. States that "the abuse of the motion pic- ing of Christ, and when we see how lit- Very touching are the instructions ture screen is becoming a national ca- erally all these things are being fulfilled, given through Moses to the Jewish nation lamity." Religious leaders have planned we ought to have no doubt in regard to in regard to the way in which they should to introduce censorship bills in all of the where we are standing. We should leave treat the "sojourner," or the gentile forty-four State legislatures that meet nothing undone in preparing for the stranger, that might come among them during this year. supreme event. God was not the author of the exclusi It is stated on the best of authority, ness that was built up in the minds o that one fifth of our entire population, or many of the Jewish nation. twenty millions of our American people, It has ever been God's purpose to save attend a motion picture show every day, all men. "The same Lord is Lord of all," and one authority has affirmed that the and not only so, but He is also "rich unto "gigantic business of the 'movies' is daily all that call upon Him." And then the influencing the masses of our people to blessed truth is still further summed up an extent not even approached by all our in the words, "Whosoever shall call upon schools, our churches, and our ethical or- the name of the Lord shall be saved." ganizations combined." There is salvation in calling upon the The chief of police in Chicago has name of the Lord. He saves us from traced a large part of the juvenile crimes every calamity and from every despair, of that city to the corruptive motion pic- and fills our souls with confidence and joy. tures that are exhibited. When we are saved in God through the Lord Jesus Christ, we know it and re- A Catholic authority refers to "the joice in it; and not only do we know it, lurid scenes, the unwholesome sex ap- but we are anxious to impart the glorious peals, and the debasing animations of truth to every one that we can reach. crime and immorality to be found in so many of the widely exploited photoplays," and affirms that these things are doing a Miraculous Implanting of Love large part in debasing the morals of the rising generation. THE love that God through Christ is seeking to place in every heart is beau- It is very proper for those who have tifully set before us in these verses: the good of the people at heart to do all International "0 righteous Father, the world knew in their power to meet this issue by regu- Michael Hainisch, the new President of the Aus- Thee not, but I knew Thee; and these lative legislation. But no amount of leg- trian Republic. Hainisch has been an astute stu- dent of European politics for years, and is of the knew that Thou didst send Me; and I islation can overcome an evil that is so mild Socialist persuasion. He is regarded as the one man in Austria who may be able to save the made known unto them Thy name, and deeply rooted in the hearts of men and republic from a tragic debacle. women. What is needed is a heart work will make it known; that the love where- for each one affected. with Thou lovedst Me may be in them, Our Saviour forewarned us that the Twelve New Languages and I in them." John 17: 25, 26. The world through sin separated itself days immediately preceding His coming DURING the last nine months of 1920 from the divine Father. The Father's would be as debasing and vile from the the British and Foreign Bible Society love caused Him through Christ to reach sex standpoint as were Sodom and Go- brought out versions of the Scriptures in out and touch us. Through Christ the morrah, those wicked cities that existed twelve new languages and dialects, and Father's name is made known to us; then in the valley of the Jordan in the days of at the end of March, 1920, the historical the most blessed part of this experience Abraham and Lot. If there were not table of languages, kept by these societies, is conveyed to us in the words, "The love low standards among the people, if they enumerated five hundred twenty-eight wherewith Thou lovedst Me may be in were not indifferent to immorality, it different forms of speech in which that would be impossible to get one out of organization had published and circu- them, and I in them." One of the greatest miracles our heav- five of our men, women, and children to lated the Sacred Scriptures. enly Father can perform is to implant go each day in the week to attend the The British and Foreign Bible Society moving picture show. His own love in our hearts. This is a and our own American Bible Society are definite experience between God and the Filthy screens that make licentious sex two of the most important organizations individual; and this experience which is appeals or that depict brutality and outside of the church itself that this crime of the basest sort, are the most so real is one that no amount of caviling world has ever produced. Men's minds or skeptical reasoning can overthrow. popular. Indeed, it is said to be one of are staggered before the problems of the tricks of the moving picture frater- God does make Himself known through this time, but the Sacred Word is rapidly Jesus Christ. God can and does, through nity to get the newspapers and the clergy being pressed into every language so that Jesus Christ, implant His own love in the thoroughly to denounce some particular each person in all the world may have play because they know that it will then heart of the believer. This experience the consolation that the knowledge of the coming into the life fills the soul with an • draw all the larger crowds. gospel brings. Among the worthy objects indescribable confidence and joy, banish- There are thousands of men and to receive our aid, none stand higher than ing all nerve-racking fears and terrors women who are so intent on the money these organizations, which are devoting that infest those who refuse to have they are getting from this business that all their energies to the circulation of the they are utterly oblivious to the fact that Sacred Scriptures. these divine blessings that heaven so they are rapidly pushing society over the graciously offers. brink into the most hopeless disaster and ruin. Riches for All "IF' I speak with the tongues of men Paul in the first part of the third chap- SPEAKING of the riches of God toward and of angels, but have not love, I am ter of his second letter to Timothy affirms all classes of persons, the apostle says: become sounding brass, or a clanging that the last days will be made perilo':s "There is no distinction between Jew and cymbal." 1 Corinthians 13: 1. because men will be "lovers of self" and Greek: for the same Lord is Lord of all, "lovers of money." He also affirms that and is rich unto all that call upon Him: "LovE suffereth long, and is kind; love these same days will be made perilous for, Whosoever shall call upon the name envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is because men are "lovers of pleasure of the Lord shall be saved." not puffed up." 1 Corinthians 13: 4.