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QUESTION at the CROSS

HAT night, in the small hours, I "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY?" me say a little prayer? I'm sure it would heard a call outside my tent. help. You know Jesus, don't you ?" T "Chappie, are you there ?" It was I could see that the lad was going to Major P. calling, and I sensed at once talk. "No, chaplain," he replied, softly, that the news he had was not going to What Answer Is There "but—but, my mother does. And, sir, be good. "Look," he continued, "I am for the Broken Heart? would you write to mother for me? afraid I have lost the battle. He's a fine Tell her you talked with me, please." fellow, too. Record says, 'Protestant.' by W. H. BERGHERM "Oh, I should be happy to do that, Thought maybe you would like to go my son," I answered. "But, tell me, over and talk with him a bit. Better (Army Chaplain Throughout • what shall I say to her ? May I tell World War H) hurry, though." fal mother that you also know Christ ?" With that he was gone to snatch a "I wish you could, chaplain," he re- little rest. As I made for the hospital the hospital, as well as all the 600 men plied, "but, well, you see, I have been I found myself reflecting on those med- who made up its medical detachment, pretty bad." He closed his eyes again. ics we had in the 47th. Wonderful men, were busy. A hospital ship loaded with I held on, for I felt that the victory was I thought to myself. There was Major sick and wounded men from the battle going to come. He was slipping fast. P., himself, an earnest Christian if ever fronts of the north had arrived that The wound was an ugly one, but his I had met one. He had been a member morning and had unloaded its ailing mind was clear. I knew, too, he was of the medical staff of this general hos- and shell-shocked men upon us. We thinking, thinking hard. pital from the time it was first activated had been already filled to our normal "Listen, son," I whispered close, "just at the College of Medical Evangelists capacity. Now this was going to be tell Jesus you want to accept Him now in Los Angeles. And there were forty something. as your personal Saviour. That's all. and more others like him, always min- I soon found my soldier and could He's waiting, but you must let. Him in. istering in a personal way to these sol- see at once that the lad was dying. The Won't you ?" diers, and never unmindful of the soul. physician had done his best; now we Then I heard wonderful words. They It was a pleasure to work with men of would have to see what the Master were his last. As he spoke them, it this type, I thought. That would be Physician would do. "Son," I whispered, seemed that the effulgence of heaven saying it mildly. Facts were that there "the major tells me that you have been was filling that end of the ward, and I was not a chaplain in all that base but a brave soldier in this battle you are knew that the Great Physician had who would have given much to have having to fight alone." His eyes looked come. I am sure the angels struck a had similar men on the staff of his hos- straight at me. They were almost star- higher chord in heaven that day as they pital or company organization. ing at me. They were terribly in beheld that beautiful scene. He smiled We were busy in those days. All the earnest. faintly as he looked up and then whis- 150 officers and nurses connected with "Look, soldier, would you like to have pered softly, "I will, sir," and he was Page Two SIGNS of the TIMES gone. I recall kneeling there, stunned were willing to partake of the same cup. Three times He cried out to His Father and filled with awe, for I had wit- He foresaw all this when He created asking that, if possible, the cup be re- nessed a miracle. The Great Physician man. He was "the Lamb slain from the moved from Him. But the angels had been with us and had snatched a foundation of the world." Revelation strengthened Him so that He could en- parand from the burning. The Saviour 13 :8. dure the suffering. Not a whit of its had come. Then I awoke from that "As the children are partakers of pain was removed. dream with a start. It was the thought flesh and blood, He also Himself like- "Though He were a Son, yet learned of the lad's mother. Perhaps at that very wise took part of the same; that through He obedience by the things which He moment back in the States somewhere death He might destroy him that had suffered; and being made perfect [com- she was praying for this boy. But the the power of death, that is, the devil; plete], He became the author of eternal boy for whom she was praying was and deliver them who through fear of salvation unto all them that obey Him. dead, in New Guinea. death were all their lifetime subject to Hebrews 5:8, 9. Christ became a com- Later a letter came to me in that New bondage. . . . Wherefore in all things plete Saviour in that He learned some- liVuinea hospital from the bereaved it behooved Him to be made like unto thing—we say it reverently—from His Ifnother. She wrote: "He was all I had His brethren. . . . For in that He Him- suffering. Is this not true with us? left in the world. I had prayed so much self hath suffered being tempted, He is Before me is a letter which has re- that he might return to me. Truly I able to succor them that are tempted." cently come from a brokenhearted father in the Middle West. He writes: am at a loss to understand why he could Hebrews 2:14-18. not have been spared to share his Chris- "When the war began, we all prayed tian faith with me in my advancing Notice the thought: Christ had to be for God to have our son deferred. We years. That would have been so won- made like His brethren. He who made needed him at home. But God didn't derful." man for Himself had to suffer the lot say he would or wouldn't. Didn't say Why? why? But, dear mother, you of those He created, even unto death. anything, and we had just as well prayed Love drove Him to do that. But He did to a post as far as an answer was con- F r e not the first to ask this question of distress and grief. Many years ago the more. He had to suffer more than any cerned, for he was taken. Then we Son of God Himself asked it as He was of His creatures, for He must taste the prayed he might be spared and brought dying on the cross. Suspended between suffering of death for every man. His back to us safely. But the poor boy was heaven and earth, He who was Heaven's extent of suffering therefore was as killed. We wonder if God cares. Any- most-beloved Son cried: "My God, My much greater than mine as was the bur- way God is a long way off, beyond the God, why ?" Why this darkness ? Why den of the sins He bore. See His poor, stars; and the nearest fixed planet is this sorrow? Why am I forsaken and crucified body as it hangs upon the cross forty-five light years away, or twenty- 'lone? Is there no answer? against the sky line of those Judean hills. seven trillion miles. That's pretty far Behold His agony in the garden as He away for God to be of much help to us Yes, for him who has faith; but to prayed alone with an agony none could here." the natural heart, to the heart beset with comprehend, while the bloody sweat Yes, heaven is far away, my good its own interests, and who is seeking dripped from His forehead. Says the friend; but perhaps you have overlooked his own way out, it is more difficult. To prophet : "His visage was so marred one fact. Jesus is the ladder let down the seeker for Bible truth it is simple, more than any man, and His form more for us. He is a complete Saviour. Upon for the answer is one word, Christ. than the sons of men." Isaiah 52:14. Him there is not a missing round as Christ answers all His own questions we climb upward. It is a ladder the iind answers all of ours. most feeble can climb upon and be PF In the beginning, God created a carried to glory. It fits every need. world to be without sin or death. He Are you poor, without a home of made Adam and Eve perfect, noble. your own ? The Son of man had no- But—and here is where it all begins where to lay His head. Have you —sin entered, and rebellion against been wrongfully used ? He was de- God followed. Man turned to the spised and rejected. Do you suffer devices of his own heart and to other hunger? Our Saviour fasted forty gods. What was God to do ? He did days and nights. Are you often what any right-thinking man would tempted ? In every respect He was have done under the same circum- tempted as we are, yet without sin- tances. He did the fitting, honorable ning. Has man disappointed you? thing. Sin had brought suffering into "He came unto His own, and His God's perfect world. No real man own received Him not." John ia 1. would ask another to go through any- Have your dearest friends let you thing he himself would not be will- down ? He was betrayed in the house ing to do under like circumstances. of His friends. Are you suffering a It is not the fitting thing to do. So deep sorrow none other understands? likewise with God. Paul says in He- He was "a man of sorrows, and ac- "[rews 2:1o: quainted with grief." Isaiah 53 :3. He "It became Him, for whom are all has trod the path before us and pre- things, and by whom are all things, pared and softened the way. in bringing many sons unto glory, to So, dear father, or mother, who- make the Captain of their salvation ever you be that mourn, fear not nor perfect through sufferings." It was be discouraged. Let the tempests of fitting. Always remember that our life blow, let the storms rage. The o d does the becoming thing in His ladder will hold. elation to man. He would not con- When Jesus fed the five thousand tinue to bring men into poverty, suf- with a few loaves and fishes, He took fering, and death unless He Himself (Continued on page 14)

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"I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would, imme- diately cry out." H. M. S. Richards, The Voice of Prophecy, heard each week on the Luke 19:40. international broadcasts. A por- tion of one day's mail from friends who enjoy The Voice of Prophecy.

COFFERS ridicule vine Lord into every land like a militant Quartz crystals, used in radio trans- the advent slogan, "The Gospel to all army with streaming banners. mitters, control the frequency of the the World in This Generation;" unbe- Many Christians have enlisted as sol- carrier waves as they fly through the lievers laugh at our Lord's command, diers in the army of Prince Immanuel; open heavens to millions of receiving "Go ye into all the world, and preach yet their swords are dull, and upon their sets. And again quartz crystals are used the gospel to every creature." Mark 16: lips are no shouts of victory and praise to rectify the signal and make it audible 15. Skeptics doubt the fulfillment of the to their great Leader. Daily they are to the human ear. In some loud speakers promise, "This gospel of the kingdom refreshed as the windows of heaven are mica is used in the vibrating disc and shall be preached in all the world for a opened upon them in blessing, and yet the radio sermon or gospel song is made witness unto all nations; and then shall they have won no battles for the Lord. audible for human reception. The the end come." Matthew 24:14. Yet de- If these unfaithful soldiers do not arise stones are talking for Jesus! The twen- spite the doubter's cry, "Impossible; it and proclaim the message from heaven, tieth-century miracle of radio transmis- can't be done," God's purpose for this the very stones will cry out and the gos- sion takes up the cry of the gospel and world of sin will yet be accomplished. pel will be preached in spite of their un- supplements the voices of those faithfld Notwithstanding open hostility to the faithfulness. Christians' who are individually pro- gospel, the barriers of sealed boundary Yes, the very stones will cry out. Luke claiming Christ to the world. lines and closed doors, the message of 19:4o. God will raise up mechanical The Voice of Prophecy radio broad- salvation through faith in Jesus Christ voices more obedient than His sluggish cast alone reaches five million judgment- will yet reach every listening ear and soldiers. The printing press and the bound souls every Sunday, lifting up its convert every honest heart: Glorious are radio will be harnessed for service; radio voice like a trumpet and announc- the prophecies describing the resurrec- books and magazines and radio mes- ing the gospel of Christ and the goo tion of a sleeping church to a militant sages in sermon and song will discover news that "Jesus is coming again." Fiv, World-wide evangelism! "Who is she," to willing hearts their spiritual poverty hundred forty stations release this pro- and the riches of the gospel of our Lord. questions the wise man, "that looketh gram throughout the Western Hemi- forth as the morning, fair as the moon, Already the Christian press is accom- clear as the sun, and terrible as an army plishing miracles for Christ. And now sphere, and listeners may be numbered with banners ?" Song of Solomon 6:1o. gospel broadcasting is pressing the tri- by thousands in China, Africa, the Phil- An awakened twentieth-century church, umphs of the cross of Jesus to the very ippines, and the islands of the sea. Even reflecting the light of heaven, as pure forefront of the conflict. the radio waves have been converted to and transparent as the sunlight, will Yes, in radio broadcasting the very Christ and trained to ignore bord carry its testimony concerning her di- stones cry out! lines, disregard custom regulations, entail "Signs of the Times," January 14, 1947. Vol. 74, No. 2. $1.75 a year in the United States. Printed and published weekly (50 issues a year) by the Pacific Press Publishing Association at Mountain View, California, U. S. A. Entered as second-class matter September 15, 1904, at the post, office at Mountain View, California, under Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, and authorized September 18, 1918. e r r. TTC et; 4.7.1. 'rT1111"V foreign lands without visas or passports, and penetrate the forbidden zones of war and prejudice. What a powerful weapon for Christ! With this means, a plenteous harvest 'is being reaped by a few laborers. It is the prayer of gospel radio broadcasters that "the Lord of the harvest . . . will Bacterial Warfare Drivers and Drink send forth laborers into His harvest" and A poison so deadly that one ounce could From 30 to 48 per cent of drivers involved help them reap the golden sheaves. The kill every person in the United States and in accidents had been drinking, states the Voice of Prophecy radio ministers and Canada was announced by Dr. Gerald Wendt, Anti-Saloon League of America, writing in Alcohol Statistics Letters. "Chemical test sur- the King's Heralds radio quartet num- editorial director of Science Illustrated, to the General Electric Science Forum. Major Gen- veys of drivers involved in a cross section of ber but seven men, yet through radio eral Alden H. Waitt, chief of the Chemical accident experience have shown from 13 to their voices can be heard by millions. Corps, in commenting on the poison, added 31 per cent of the drivers with sufficient body Think of what would happen if, besides that it is a bacteria toxin, "perhaps the most fluid alcohol concentrations to indicate def- the great work of the press and the highly toxic substance known," but as yet initely that their ability was impaired suf- "isolated only in very minute quantities." ficiently to prohibit driving. In the border- radio, missionary - minded Christians, line classification, where other evidence would with their Bibles under their arms and Atomic Bomb and Defense be necessary to determine whether the driver's ability was impaired, these surveys have the love of Christ in their hearts, would "There is no defense against atomic bombs," go forth compelled by the Spirit to shown from 12 to 19 per cent more drivers. W. A. Higinbothom, chairman of the Ad- Total lad been drinking' percentages in the gather souls for the kingdom out of ministrative Committee of the Federation of surveys thus run from 30 to 48 per cent." The their neighborhoods. What a glorious American Scientists, declares. Writing in the conclusion was reached that "drinking drivers fruitage would be seen! New York Times Magazine, he points out are three or four times as likely to be in- that, while at peak efficiency "80 to 90 per volved in accident," and that drivers whose Why cannot such a great work be cent of the V-1's aimed at the London area blood contained .15 per cent or more alco- started now? If workers for Christ feel were shot down, . . . not a single V-2 was hol "have an accident rate 55 times that of unprepared to explain the Bible, the shot down in the war." "When one realizes nondrinkers." the meaning of 'harnessing the basic powers people may be invited to tune into The of the universe,' " he continues, "it seems World Armies Voice of Prophecy radio program, a dangerous and childish to keep talking about Russia, after demobilizing 17,000,000, has complete time schedule of which can science producing an answer to the atomic an army of 3,000,000, says the Armored Cav- bomb." In summing up he warns, "There alry Journal. Estimates on other world powers be found on page i I of this issue of the are as follows: China, 2,700,000; Britain, 1,- Signs of the Times. will be no defense in the future, not until man is perfect. We must seek world control 500,000; United States, 1,100,000; Yugoslavia, Letters from scores of thousands of of atomic energy because it offers humanity 800,000; Spain, 300,000; France, 150,000; people declare enthusiastically that The its only measure of safety." Brazil, 100,000. Voice of Prophecy has helped them to S. L. M. 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PIERCE Christ Is Very GOD

HE 'modernists impute only di- that He was very God while here on vinity to Christ, but not Deity. The Evidence of His Deity earth, even as He is very God today, is TThey say that He was a good man, virtually to charge Him with gross de- a supergood man, but He had goodness ception. No one who believes the Di- in the same sense that good men today by vine Record will do this. possess it. On the contrary, the Bible FRANCIS McLELLAN WILCOX represents Christ as very God, as Deity The Trinity itself; He partook of the very nature and We recognize the divine Trinity,— essence of the Eternal Father. The "Center and soul of every the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Father is represented as addressing the sphere, —each possessing a distinct and separate Son as God: "Unto the Son He saith, Yet to each loving heart, personality, but one in nature and in Thy throne, 0 God, is for ever and how near!" purpose, so welded together in this in- ever : a scepter of righteousness is the —0. W.W Holmes. finite union that the apostle James scepter of Thy kingdom." Hebrews i :8. speaks of them as "one God." James 2: The One here speaking and address- Christ asked His disciples,'"Whom say 19. This divine unity is similiar to the ing the Son as God is clearly indicated unity existing between Christ and the in the preceding verses. It is the same ye that I am ?" Peter responded, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living believer, and between the different be- One who declares in verse 5: "Thou art lievers in their fellowship in Christ My Son, this day have I begotten Thee." God." "And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar- Jesus. This is well expressed in the "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall prayer of Christ to His Father just be- be to Me a Son." If the Father Himself jona : for flesh and blood hath not re- vealed it unto thee, but My Father fore the eventful night of His betrayal called Christ God, surely this designa- in Gethsemane: tion belongs to Him by right. which is in heaven." Matthew 16:15-17. In His teaching the Master declared: "Neither pray I for these alone, but We are justified in applying to the for them also which shall believe on Me Son the titles possessed by the Father. "All men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father." "For as the through their word; that they all may This is done in various references. A be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and notable example is found in Isaiah: Father hath life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have life in Him- I in Thee, that they also may be one in "Unto us a child is born, unto us a Us: that the world may believe that Son is given: and the government shall self." John 5:23, 26. In His prayer to the Father recorded in the seventeenth Thou hast sent Me." John 17:20, 21. be upon His shoulder: and His name There has been through the centuries shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, chapter of John, verse 21, He speaks freely of His oneness with the Father. some unfortunate and speculative teach- The mighty God, The everlasting ing regarding the divine Trinity, and Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the Christ was condemned by the San- these philosophies have created great hedrin on the charge of blasphemy be- increase of His government and peace divisions in the Christian church. Early cause He claimed to be the Son of God. there shall be no end, upon the throne in the third century Sabellius taught: of David, and upon His kingdom, to The high priest said to Him: "I adjure "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Thee by the living God, that Thou tell order it, and to establish it." Isaiah Ghost were identical,, but with three us whether Thou be the Christ, the Son 9 :6, 7. names." A little later in the same cen- of God. Jesus saith unto him, Thou Surely all must agree that this scrip- tury Arius "denied that the Son was of hast said." Matthew 26:63, 64. Compare ture has application to the Son rather the same substance with the Father, Mark 14:62. than to the Father. and reduced Him to the rank of a crea- Not only did the Father address His It is inconceivable that Christ would ture, though pre-existent before the Son as God, but Christ, when on earth, have falsified as to His true relation- world." also claimed this relationship. When ship with the heavenly Father. To deny (Continued on page 11) Page Six SIGNS of the TIMES . . HAM POLITICS

by W. A. SPICER

EEING a copy of the British ranks to do something to curb the prep- Who's Who for 1945 the other arations among the nations for war. day, I looked to see if the name of She says: Miss Pankhurst was still listed. Sure "Suffragists, in the days of their cam- enough, this biographical paragraph paign, had not a doubt that the votes was there: of women could and would bring about "Dame Christabel Pankhurst. . . . As the pacification and harmonizing of the one of founders and leaders of the world. Alas! it is not so simple as all KEYSTONE Women's Social and Political Union that. . . . In this world crisis, women worked for women's enfranchisement; are quite as unable as men are even to declared suffrage truce upon outbreak propound a saving policy, let alone carry of war in 1914 [the first World War] it into effect. . . . in order to co-operate in the national "Shall we forget that the conflict is TO PENN war effort; is now active in heralding not between flesh and blood alone? The the personal, visible, and powerful Sec- supernatural factor must not be ignored. ond Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ Satanic intervention in the affairs of multitudes. Thousands of men and as foreshown by the present signs of the humankind, satanic disturbance of women who had looked hopefully to times." world conditions, is a fact. . . . political and social reform—all good and Miss Pankhurst was a real leader in "The evil being so largely , superna- worthy endeavor as a matter of worldly the women's movement. One Sunday tural as to its cause, how can the human policy—have come to see that the one in those prewar times, I saw her han- effort of the woman voter overcome it ? hope for humanity is in the gospel of dling somewhat hostile crowds (mostly . . . The supernatural alone can chal- Christ, with its urge to men to seek the men) in a great women's political speak- lenge the supernatural, only the divine only power of reformation in the living ing rally in Hyde Park, London's his- can conquer the satanic. Saviour. And in that gospel is the sure toric open-air forum for religious and "So the new and ideal order cannot promise of an ending of the reign of political causes. I then thought: What be, until the return of the divine King evil and sin in this world, to be brought a worker she would be if filled with the to establish God's kingdom upon the about by the second coming of the Lord same enthusiasm for religious truth. earth. . . . Under His rule 'the work of Jesus in power and glory. And, sure enough, she threw herself righteousness shall be peace; and the We honor all who are striving for re- wholly into religious work soon after effect of righteousness quietness and as- form in this world, and as citizens here that war. She had led the women's surance forever.' " — Christabel Pank- we must co-operate in every good cause. movement into national war service, hurst, Some Modern Problems in the But beyond this, supreme above all, is and the government had conferred upon Light of Prophecy, 1924 ed., pp. 46-48. the fact that the spread of the gospel of her the title "Dame," "a title correspond- The biographical note in Who's Who the coming kingdom is to bring the end ing to Knight, conferred on women for does not tell in what association Miss of sin. When that gospel has been services rendered to the Empire." Pankhurst is working; but the stressing preached as a witness unto all nations, Not long after, I read in an English of the "personal, visible, and powerful" our Lord has said : "Then shall the end paper that the former leader in the second advent indicates that her teach- come." Verse 14. women's cause had forsaken the politi- ing is not the prevalent and harmful cal field altogether. She told in a news- idea of a secret coming. Christ in fore- paper interview how she had hoped that, telling the signs of His second coming Sunshine and Shadow with women having the right of suf- warned specifically against that teaching. WE all love the sunshine, but the frage, things would be done better. But "If they shall say," is His word to us Arabs have a proverb that "all sunshine she had found that even women's votes in these last days—"if they shall say unto makes a desert;" and it is a matter of were not changing the order of this old you, . . • Behold, He- is in the secret common observation that the graces of world much. chambers; believe it not. For as the Christian living are more often apparent Then she had caught in the Scriptures lightning cometh out of the east, and in the cases of those who have passed the idea that the only hope for the shineth even unto the west; so shall also through great tribulation. God desires world was in Christ's second coming. the coming of the Son of man be." to get as rich crops as possible from the The burden to preach the near coming Matthew 24:26, 27. soil of our natures. There are certain of the Lord became her lifework. Evi- The experience of this lady, who had plants of the Christian life, such as dently she is still preaching that mes- given her life to political reform and meekness, gentleness, kindness, humil- sage. then caught the idea of the coming of ity, which cannot come to perfection if In one of her books Miss Pankhurst our Saviour as the true hope of the the sun of prosperity always shines.— tells of the longing in the suffragist world, is illustrative of the experience of F. B. Meyer.

For JANUARY 14, 1947 Page Seven Great Prophecies, for Our

A Light that "Shineth in a Dark Place"

by ARTHUR S. MAXWELL

HEN Woodrow Wilson landed voice of authority speaking with sanity in Europe in December, 1918, and confidence amid the madness of WRomain Rolland addressed the our times, rightly interpreting current President in these moving words : "You events and giving sure guidance for the alone, Monsieur le President, among all future? of ' those whose dreadful duty it now is to guide the policy of the nations, you The Futility of Human Speculation Surely not to the "typewriter strate- alone enjoy world-wide moral authority. For I dipt into the future, far as You inspire universal confidence. An- gists," as President Roosevelt once de- human eye could see, swer the appeal of these passionate scribed those modern prognosticators of Saw the vision of the world, and hopes! Take the hands which are the press who have assumed the direc- all the wonder that would be; stretched forth, help them to clasp one tion of our thoughts. One has but to Saw the heavens fill with com- another. . . . The world hungers for a look through a pile of old newspapers merce, argosies of magic sails, voice which will overleap the frontiers and magazines to be impressed anew Pilots of the purple twilight, drop- of nations and classes."—Quoted by with the inability of even the best news ping down with costly bales; Pierre van Paassen, That Day Alone, commentators to read correctly the signs Heard the heavens fill with shout- ing, and there rain'd a ghastly page 413. of the times. Over and over again in dew Rolland was right about the world such a search one comes across predic- hunger for a voice of leadership. Many tions of developments in national and From the nations' airy navies years have passed since then, but the international affairs which have been grappling in the central blue. yearning for a prophetic voice has in- completely contradicted by the course Today we see the heavens "fill with creased rather than diminished. of events. commerce," as giant cargo planes, laden "Wanted, a prophet!" cried the editor We were told, for instance, that the "with costly bales," speed from conti- of the Economist, quoting the prayer of Maginot Line was impregnable; that nent to continent, and we have become Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind": Singapore could never be taken; that all too familiar with the terrors of mod- the Philippines could be defended. Air- ern aerial warfare as "the nations' airy Be through my lips to un- planes would never sink battleships. navies" have grappled "in the central awakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! The United States would defeat Japan blue." Tennyson surely drew a remark- in six months. And so on, ad infinitum. ably accurate picture of these features of In similar vein the editors of Fortune, Some well-informed and farseeing our modern world. having described some of the distressing individuals, it is true, have occasionally conditions of our time, expressed their made forecasts which have actually One Source of Certainty conviction that "the way out is the come to pass. Sir Isaac Newton, for in- By reasoning from cause to effect, sound of a voice, not our voice, but a stance, in the early part of the eighteenth others have from time to time correctly voice coming from something not our- century, believed that the day would calculated certain trends in business and selves, in the existence of which we can- come when people would travel more finance; and men will no doubt con- not disbelieve." than fifty miles an hour. That was a tinue to gamble on their estimates and This almost universal desire is remi- great prophecy in his day, and time has opinions as long as time lasts; but ac- niscent of Lanier's famous lines: proved it to be correct. In 1842 Lord curate forecasts have been the exception Tennyson, with rare foresight, long be- rather than the rule. Man's guesses con- A pilot! God, a pilot! fore anyone had flown a heavier-than- cerning things to come have almost in- For the helm is left awry. air machine, penned these oft-quoted variably proved his incompetence in this But where shall man turn to find a lines in his poem, "Locksley Hall": field. Page Eight SIGNS of the TIMES o OUR DAY

these prophecies did not invent them; they were merely the vehicles for the ex- pression of the divine mind. Through their lips the voice of God became the voice of prophecy. They were literally "carried away by the Holy Spirit," and thus were able to record God's ideals, God's counsel, and, most remarkable of all, God's knowledge of the future which He revealed to men. How many prophecies are there of this sort? There are scores of them, covering a wide range of subjects. Some deal with matters of local significance, now almost forgotten in the dusty ar- chives of the distant past; others, with breath-taking boldness, trace the story of the nations down the ages from the days of the prophets to our own time and beyond. They map the course of empires; they name the next world ruler; they warn of dangers ahead; they chart the future for a thousand years to come. The Purpose of Prophecy These great prophecies are indeed a light shining "in a dark place," dispers- ing the enveloping gloom of evil days, r: The world's largest land-based bomber, the B-36, in flight. The plane is 163 feet long and has a wing lifting the burden of perplexity and of 230 feet. Prophecy speaks of the marvelous development of inventions in the last days. Daniel 12:4. worry from the minds of men, and an-, : General assembly of the United Nations in session in New York. Prophecy speaks of the efforts of men to bind the nations under one government. swering the deeper questions of their troubled hearts. True, they faithfully foretell troublous times, but they also What is needed today is a completely within the pages of the word of God. describe how the promised help will dependable source of information and The prophecies of Job and Moses, of come to suffering humanity, how we guidance that will call to us continually Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel; of Ho- shall emerge from our seemingly in- and authoritatively: "This is the way, sea and Joel, of Zechariah and Malachi. soluble problems, and how a lasting and walk ye in it." Does such a source exist? Included also must be the apostolic completely satisfactory new order will As if in answer to man's earnest in- prophecies in the New Testament. finally be established. They explain the quiry, the words of the apostle Peter But did not all these men write what origin of evil and how its ultimate elim- come echoing down the years, saying: was in their own minds ? May it not be ination from the universe will be "We have also a more sure word of that their predictions are as fallible as achieved. They probe the mystery of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye those of others ? No, says the apostle death and give assurance of life beyond take heed, as unto a light that shineth Peter, "for the prophecy came not in the tomb in a world without pain or in a dark place, until the day dawn, and old time by the will of man : but holy tears. the daystar arise in your hearts." 2 Peter men of God spake as they were moved Perhaps it would be well to add that 1:19. by the Holy Ghost." 2 Peter 1:21. these prophecies were not recorded to A more sure word! That is what we James Moffatt renders this verse thus: tell which nation, or group of nations, need in a time like this. A word that "Prophecy never came by human im- would be victorious in the many wars is more sure than sight, more sure than pulse, it was when carried away by the that have cursed mankind and soaked hearing; as certain indeed as the omnis- Holy Spirit that the holy men of God the earth with blood; , nor how the var- cience of God Himself can make it. spoke." ious tyrants and dictators would be over- What is this "word of prophecy" to That is why Bible prophecy is reliable. thrown. They were designed to deal which the apostle refers with such un- It does not consist of human specula- not so much with details—although at bounded confidence? It is all that body tions. It is not a compilation of the vain times they do mention details with great of prophetical writing to be found imaginations of men. Those who wrote (Continued on page 15) for JANUARY 14, 1947 Pace Nine The Seven Seals of Prophecy-2

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The Apostolic Church Rides c4 I SAW, and behold a white horse: Forth in Zeal and Purity and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer." Revelation 6:2. This crown by TAYLOR G. BUNCH is called "a victor's wreath" in another translation. The word "crown" as used here comes from the Greek word mean- ing "victory" rather than "royalty," as their riders is the same great Conqueror character."—History of Rome Under used elsewhere. The picture is that of of the apostolic period. He is pictured the Romans, vol. 6, ch. 54. a conquering hero riding a victorious crowned with "many crowns," indicat- H. G. Wells wrote: "Much of the his- horse and leading a triumphant move- ing victories in many battles and the tory of the Christians in the first two ment to certain success. The bow and conquest of many nations or kingdoms. centuries of the Christian Era is very arrows, like the two-edged sword, are The two apocalyptic pictures repre- obscure. They spread far and wide also symbolic of the weapons that de- sent the first and last campaigns of the throughout the world. . . . Everywhere stroy the rejectors of the gospel. The church militant under divine leader- they seemed to have carried much of same weapon that convicts to save will ship, and end with the return of Christ the spirit of Jesus; and though every- eventually strike to slay. as King of kings and Lord of lords. The where they aroused bitter enmity and The psalmist said: "God judgeth the gospel that had such a glorious begin- active counterpropaganda, the very righteous, and God is angry with the ning will end in even greater triumph. charges made against them witness to wicked every day. If he turn not, He The final outpouring of the Holy Spirit the general goodness of their lives." will whet His sword; He hath bent His will be more abundant than that of The Outline of History, vol.' 1, p. 59o. bow, and made it ready. He hath also Pentecost in both power and results. This also is the picture of primitive prepared for him the instruments of The rider of the white horse of the first Christianity given in the New Testa- death; He ordaineth His arrows against seal carries the bow of grace with which ment, and it is the secret of its phenom- the persecutors." Psalm 7:11-13. With He sends to the heart the darts of love, enal success. the same weapon with which Christ while the rider of the white horse in convicts of sin, He will eventually chapter 19 carries a sharp two-edged ,A Conquering Power "smite the nations." Revelation 19:15, sword with which He smites the na- "Conquering" is indicative of a con- 21. All who refuse to yield to the prick- tions. Going forth "conquering" repre--. tinuous and increasing success in a ings of the Spirit's sword now, will be sents the success of the apostolic period, movement that would spread more and slain by the same weapon when Christ "and to conquer" indicates the future more over the earth. The achievements returns. and final triumph after the great apos- of the gospel were unparalleled in the While the breaking of the first seal tasy pictured by the succeeding symbolic exploits of divine grace as the Spirit- pictures in a special sense the gospel in horses and horsemen. The reformation, filled disciples marched forward under the beginnings of its triumphs, it must though long delayed, will finally end in the bloodstained banner of Prince Im- also include the final charge of the complete triumph, in permanent victory. manuel against the virtually insur- church militant against the forces of evil The color of the first horse fitly rep- mountable obstacles of entrenched' and as described in Revelation 19:11-16. Be- resents the unsullied purity of the fortified heathenism. ginning in apostolic days and symbol- apostolic church as the disciples of The zeal and enthusiasm that brought ized by a single horse and horseman Christ began the spiritual conquest of success to the early church is testified going forth "conquering, and to con- the world. Charles Merivale speaks of to by many historians. "The preachers of quer," the triumphant close of the gos- the early Christians as "a sect so unob- Christianity went forth from Judea for pel message of salvation is symbolized trusive as well as innocent" that they the moral conquest of the empire and by many horses and horsemen. The presented "to surrounding paganism the world. Much as we admire the leader of this whole troop of horses and the first and purest of zeal beautified by enthusiasm of the Jewish patriots, . . . Page Ten SIGNS of the TIMES still more freely may 'we sympathize very largely in fact."—Philip Myers, confined to the Roman Empire, and. with the inspiration of these soldiers of General History, rev. ed., 1906, p. 282. . . . the new religion, within a century Christendom, who left father and At the end of the first century, Pliny, after the death of its divine Author, had mother, home and country, and all the the governor of Pontus and Bithynia, already visited every part of the globe." associations on which they had fed from wrote to the Emperor Traj an lamenting As to the church membership, the infancy, for the glory of God and the the magnitude of the "evil of Chris- same author says that the Christian love of a spiritual Redeemer."—History tianity." He declared that the pagan congregation of the city of Rome num- of Rome Under the Romans, vol. 6, p. temples were almost deserted, that the bered 50,000, while that of Antioch 46°- sacred sacrificial victims scarcely found numbered ioo,000, or one fifth of the "Animated by an unparalleled mis- any purchasers, and that the "supersti- population. He estimated the Christian sionary spirit, His [Christ's] followers tion" had not only infected the cities population of the empire at 5,000,000, traversed the length and breadth of the but had spread throughout the country. not counting those outside its limits. empire, preaching everywhere the 'glad Edward Gibbon wrote,, toward the Another well-known writer says of tidings.' . . . In less than three cen- end of chapter 15 of The Histoi-y of the this phenomenal growth of Christianity turies the pagan empire had become Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: during the early rain of spiritual power: Christian not only in name but also "The progress of Christianity was not (Continued on page 13)

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1HE apostle John, writer of actment so that the true require- the book of the Revelation, ments of God could not escape r 11 saw in vision a people in the attention. last days who had triumphed over While Christ appealed to the the temptations and trials of life, word of God as the source of His and were ready to meet the Lord faith, He was the Word of God in when He comes in glory. He was living form. Although as God, shown the special characteristics Christ was in truth "the Word of of this people. Of them he wrote: God," for "He spake, and it was "Here is the patience of the done; He commanded, and it saints: here are they that keep the stood fast" (Psalm 33:9), yet as commandments of God, and the a man His thoughts, His actions, faith of Jesus." Revelation 14:12. His words, His plans were so The words "the faith of Jesus" closely identified with the word have great significance. Here are that He too could be called the a people who do as Jesus did, who Word made flesh. believe as Jesus did. They are From the beginning of His walking as He walked. They have ministry, as a messenger of the made the belief of Christ supreme Lord, Christ revealed how closely in their lives. Thus they are ready He looked to the Scriptures for to meet Him, for they are_ like KEYSTONE guidance. When the devil came Him in life and character. tempting Him,- He successively These words remind us of the text in answered the arguments of the evil one Jude, verse 3, where the church was ex- by quoting the Scriptures. And even, horted to "earnestly contend for the CHRIST though the devil tried to confuse Him faith which was once delivered unto the by quoting Scripture himself, yet Christ saints." "The faith," there mentioned, is continued to answer him with texts the same as "the faith of Jesus." It rep- and the from the word of God. resents that body of divine teaching and Because some men are able to bring doctrine by which Christ ordered His forth from the Bible words to substan- life. It is the system of truth concerning HOLY tiate false ideas, that is no reason why the redemption of man that is found we should discard the Bible as a source alone in the Scriptures. It is found in book of divine wisdom. We need to the inspired words of patriarchs and SCRIPTURES understand the teachings of the word prophets, and later enlarged upon by of God so thoroughly that we can Christ and His disciples. by FREDERICK LEE readily counter false teachings with true. The only unity among Christians that That is what Christ did. is worth anything is "the unity of the When Christ in His Sermon on the faith, and df the knowledge of the Son forth to preach salvation to men, His Mount enunciated the principles of the of God," spoken of by the apostle Paul. mind was stored with the truths of kingdom of heaven which He came to Ephesians 4:13. Only as we make Christ God's word. Note how often he ap- establish, He enlarged upon seven or supreme in our lives, and adhere im- pealed to the Bible record to answer eight texts of Scripture. On one oc- plicitly to "the faith of Jesus," can we His opponents and enunciate principles, casion He plainly told the Sadducees: advance that unity for which Christ as well as to convince His hearers of "Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures." prayed. Thus we should most earnestly His own authority. Christ used the Old Matthew 22:29. When a young lawyer seek to learn what "the faith of Jesus" Testament as we use the whole Bible. stood up, tempting Him, saying, "Mas- includes. Are the Scriptures the source He appealed to its testimony on any ter, what shall I do to inherit eternal of that faith? and all occasions. He used it as the last life ?" He said to him, "What is writ- When Christians today turn to the court of appeal in matters of religious ten in the law? how readest thou?" Bible to find some word of comfort, or belief and ethical action. Under the in- Luke 10:25, 26. When Christ cleansed to learn about religious truth, they are spiration of God He enlightened men the temple He quoted two texts as His doing no more than Christ did. His regarding the teachings of the word. authority for so doing. "My house shall faith was founded on the Holy Scrip- He made it plain so that even babes be called of all nation the house of tures, even as ours should be. As He could understand it. He brushed aside prayer;" "ye have made it a den of came to manhood and was ready to go the rubbish of tradition and human en- thieves." Mark 11:17; Isaiah 56:7; Jere-

Page Twelve SIGNS of the TIMES miah 7:11. When the chief priests, These historical declarations throw scribes, and elders questioned His au- light on the statements of the apostle thority for the things that He was doing, Paul that in his day the gospel "was He related the parable of the vineyard, free Bible Correspondence Course preached to every creature which is un- which is first used in the Old Testament, Readers of the "Signs of the Times" who der heaven," and that "the grace of God in Isaiah 5. When they revealed their are especially interested in Bible study will that bringeth salvation hath appeared be glad to know that a free Bible corres- skepticism at His conclusion, He pondence course is now available to them. to all men." Colossians :23; Titus 2:IL clinched His words by quoting Psalm There are no fees and no postage charges, Surely there is no room to, question 118:22: "The stone which the builders and the only textbook is the word of God. the application of the first seal to the For full particulars,'write rejected, the same is become the head heralding of the gospel under the power of the corner.". Luke 20 :17. cilte Editon of the Holy Spirit in the apostolic On numerous occasions Christ quoted SIGNS OF THE TIMES period, as Christianity started out for the words of prophets to point out some Mountain View, California the moral and spiritual conquest of this fulfillment of prophecy. He tried to rebel world. But this work was hin- forewarn His disciples of the trial that dered and finally brought to a virtual was coming to them, by referring to would have believed Me:, for he wrote standstill by the "falling away" which the words of certain prophets. We read of Me. But if ye believe not his writings, ended in the great apostasy of the Mid- that after His resurrection, when His how shall ye believe My words ?" Verses dle Ages, pictured in the three succeed- disciples were discouraged and disap- 46, 47. The words of Moses, which were ing seals. pointed, He greatly encouraged their the foundation for Old Testament reve- hearts by giving them a Bible study on lation, and the words of Jesus, which the coming of the Messiah and His tri- were the basis for New Testament reve- Christ Is Very God umph. Of this we read: "Beginning at lation, are complementary in their reve- (Continued from page 6) Moses and all the prophets, He ex- lation of the truth of God. Thus do the pounded unto them in all the Scriptures words of Christ witness of His use of As may be expected when one seeks the things concerning Himself." Luke the Scriptures. The acceptance of the to penetrate the mystery of divinity, it 24:27. In verse 44 we read that He took Bible as the divinely inspired word of only entails much idle speculation re- His words from "the law of Moses," God is a fundamental part of "the faith garding the incarnation of Christ and "the prophets," and "the psalms." And of Jesus." the precise relationship of the three per- we read further : "Then opened He their sons of the Godhead, which the Bible understanding, that they might under- has not clearly revealed, and makes all stand the Scriptures." Verse 45. How Conquering theorizing and speculation profitless. clearly He depended upon the words of (Continued from page 11) We cannot understand the process by Scripture for His own comfort and to "The whole population of the Roman which Christ left the courts of glory, aid in comforting others. Empire which then represented the civi- laid aside His divinity, and was born Thus we are given to understand the lized world was nominally Christian. into the world as a man. We cannot wide use which Christ made of the . . . It may be fairly asserted that about understand in what way He "was in all Scriptures. He definitely referred to the end of the third century the name points tempted like as we are, yet with- texts or incidents from twenty-one of Christ was known, revered, and per- out sin." Hebrews 4:15. We cannot books of the Old Testament. On nu- secuted in every province and every understand the personality of the Holy merous occasions He used the words "It city of the empire. In the absence of Spirit, although this is clearly predicated is written" and referred to the "Scrip- statistics the number of Christians must of Him in the Scriptures. There are tures." Altogether in eighty-six different be purely a matter of conjecture. In all some truths revealed in the word of God instances He either quoted or referred probability it amounted at the close of which we must accept by faith; we can- to a text or referred to an incident the third and the beginning of the not reason them out or explain them; drawn from the Old Testament. He fourth century to nearly one tenth or they are infinite mysteries. However, was steeped in the language of the Bible. one twelfth of the subjects of Rome; there is enough plainly and clearly re- From the words of God He drew the that is, about ten million souls."—Philip vealed in detail upon which we may faith that kept Him steadfast, and it Schaff, History of the Christian Church, rest our hope with full assurance, and should be our wholehearted desire to vol. 2, pp. 20-22. which, if reduced to practice in our emulate His example. The Bible is not a fetish which men arbitrarily and superstitiously worship. It is not a collection of writings which men have brought together and invested COMING NEXT WEEK with mystical power. The Old Testa- ment was looked upon by Christ Him- in addition to the regular features: self as the substance of divine revela- tion, and His words and life, as re- corded by the apostles, are an enlarged edition of that revelation. THE SACRED CANON OF SCRIPTURE Francis McLellan Wilcox Indeed, it was Christ Himself who CLOTHES — NOT GOLD J. A. P. Green declared: "Search the Scriptures; for in THE RED HORSEMAN RIDES Taylor G. Bunch them ye think ye have eternal life: and PROOF POSITIVE OF BIBLE INSPIRATION Arthur S. Maxwell they are they which testify of Me." John THE CLAIMS OF CHRIST Frederick Lee 5 :39. Furthermore, He forever bound THE BOOK YOU ARE WRITING N P Neilsen the Old and New Testaments together IS MAN IMMORTAL ? W H. Bergherm as the source of divine revelation in the THE LORD WILL PROVIDE Fern Blair Doss words: "Had ye believed Moses, ye

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The Question at the Cross forty years; Plato for fifty; Aristotle Was He a mere village carpenter, or in (Continued, from page 3) had a long life and filled libraries with truth the Christ of humanity ? As we the bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave his learning. Jesus seems to outlive time ask Him, with His judges and persecu- it unto the waiting people. Note the and founds an eternal kingdom. tors of old, ,"Art Thou the Christ, the steps. He took, blessed, broke, and gave. He was no moralist, and yet He stands anointed of God ?" He answers clearly The more the bread was broken in His supreme in the moral sphere. It is He and simply, from the depth of His con- hands, the more it multiplied. To in- who creates the world's highest moral sciousness, "I am." And as He questions crease it, He had to break it. In the standard. us like Simon Peter, "Whom say ye that same way Christ takes men and blesses He was no writer, yet He is more I am ?" are we not constrained to reply them. 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"Be Still, and Know"

CC E still, and know that I am The Rich Reward of its close much more will have been God." Psalm 46:1o. This accomplished than if God had been sounds much like a com- Spending Time With God forgotten. mand. "Be still!" How often, as It is in the stillness of the quiet children, we have heard these words hour that we deepen our acquaint- from our parents. It may be we by M. L. RICE ance with God. It is here that the talked too much, or made too much greatest resources of power are noise. Perhaps our seniors wanted opened to us. Great men have long to talk or rest, so we were asked to recognized this. When Martin Lu- "be still." ther had a hard day's work ahead of In this text, however, the Lord is to you such as perhaps you have never known. him, he spent more time than usual not talking to children, but to men in quietude with God. He knew the Christ has set us a worthy example and women. He asks them to call a source of spiritual power. halt to everything, to find some quiet in this respect. He found it not only secluded spot, and for a time "be beneficial, but necessary, to spend The supreme need of every life is still." He has a great purpose in ask- some time in solitude with His to know God. To know Him is life, ing this—that they make the greatest Father. After toiling all day, He eternal life. Every soul should ea- discovery in all the world—to know would retire from the multitudes to gerly grasp every opportunity that he Him whom to know is life eternal. the mountains, where He could be can to become better acquainted with It is next to impossible in this noisy, alone. There in the stillness of the Him. Nothing else is of equal im- deafening, disturbing world, to find night He prayed. Those who would portance. "What shall it profit a man, a stopping place. Everything seems meet with God will find Him in the if he shall gain the whole world, and on the move. But in the midst of quiet hour when all the world is lose his own soul ?" Mark 8:36. the confusion and bustle of modern shut out and the cares of life have If any man be willing; he shall life, Jesus says, "Be still!" been laid aside. know. God is ready and anxious to You may find it hard to spend a No one needs to go to some far-off reveal Himself. He wants you to few minutes being still and thinking monastery to enjoy this period of know Him. Will you "be still" long of God. But it is the best investment peace. You may have it in your enough to get acquainted ? Try of your time you can make. If you home. The early morning, before spending half an hour each day alone will sit down in some quiet place and the wheels of life's duties begin to with God in some quiet place. If you simply rest, meditate, and pray for turn, is the best time. Half an hour will, you have an experience coming half an hour, the quietness will bring spent this way is not lost. Instead, to you that only those who have tried a physical and spiritual refreshment the whole day will go better, and at it can appreciate.