Our WondeTful Saviour. A Christmas Meditation By 1:',A1101, Blair . - Reaftes' Choice Missions and Miraclot . By K. S. Roundhill -

An Observer's Report The Fourth World Conference on Faith and Order By Harry W. Lowe By MARJORIE SPILLER NEAGLE Until she was twelve years old, Celia Thaxter, who later became one of America's leading nineteenth-century poet- esses, lived on New Hampshire's bleak and lonely White Island where her father kept the lighthouse. Landing a boat on this shoreless island of perpendicular rock was extremely difficult and hazardous. Two long timbers, only a few feet apart, slanted down from the boat- house to the low-water mark. The bow had to be accurately lodged between these timbers before the boat could be pulled up to safety. Because the lighthouse tower was so high (eighty-five feet atop a fifty-foot cliff), its beams, al- though they shone far out to sea, left the island and the boat slip in complete darkness. Sometimes. Celia wrote in her delightful Among the Isles of Shoals, her father, leaving his helper in charge, would sail away to visit one of the eight other islands that make up The Shoals, frequently not returning until after nightfall. On these occasions, as soon as it was dark, the child would carry a lighted lantern down to the water's edge and take her station between the timbers of the slip to await her father's return—quite content, she said, in knowing that her light was watched for and that the safety of the boat depended in a great measure upon it. "At last," she wrote, "I would hear the creaking of the mast and the rattling of the oarlocks as the boat ap- proached. I shouted, listening for the reply that came to me so blithely across the water." When her father had steered his craft safely into its haven, Celia would feel, as she always did in moments of accomplishment, that she was a "part of God's great uni- verse." It is not too difficult to draw a parallel between this child's small world and her weak instrument, and our own. Too often we who possess only a tiny light feel that it will be so nearly obliterated by a larger one that it will be of no importance. And, unfortunately, many of us fail to let that tiny light shine. Celia Thaxter's story could carry a pertinent message for all of us. *** • DECEMBER • This Time ••••• 1963 • • IF YOU want to listen to 72 Volume • some plain language on the subject of federal • aid for religious schools, don't miss C. Stanley No. 14 • Lowell's article "That Continuing Religious Is- • TNT • sue," on page 6. Mr. Lowell is editor of Church • and State, the monthly publication of Protes- A RELIGIOUS MAGAZINE dedicated to the strengthening of the mental, physi- • tants and Other Americans United for Separa- cal, and spiritual life of the individual reader. Basing its recommendations on the tion of Church and State, and is a recognized living truths of the entire Bible, THESE TIMES promotes evangelical Christianity, • the care of the needy at home and abroad, religious liberty, the systematic study of • authority in the field of religious liberty. God's Word, the exaltation of Jesus Christ, and the news of His literal soon coming. • Mr. Lowell contends that the issue is, in ef- • feet, one of public aid to Roman Catholic AR TICLES • schools, since that church operates more than • 90 percent of parochial institutions. Read the • The Roads We Choose _____ Godfrey T. Anderson 4 • article for an insight into the thinking of two "That Continuing Religious Issue" C. Stanley Lowell 6 • Catholic leaders, Msgr. Frederick G. Hochwalt, A Basic Quartet of Christian Faith Arnold V. Wallenkampf 8 • education representative of the National Catho- Phillips Brooks's Carol of Remembrance Vincent Edwards 11 • lic Welfare Conference, and Msgr. Francis T. How to Find God's Hidden Treasures Ellen G. White 12 • Hurley, representative of the Roman Catholic Our Wonderful Saviour J. Allen Blair 16 • bishops. The Rediscovery of Silence Kenneth J. Holland 17 • God and the Crowds Marjorie Lewis Lloyd 22 • ONE OF THE most quoted • They're Working for a United World Church Harry W. Lowe 24 writers to appear in THESE TIMES is Godfrey T. • Missions and Miracles K. S. Roundhill 26 Anderson, who offers more of his characteristic • The Need for Christian Writers James Joiner 28 • philosophy in "The Roads We Choose," page • 4. ("To be unwilling to choose a road and make • a decision may seem to be merely a negative REGULAR FEATURES • response to life. But it is more than that. It is a • positive vote for stagnation.") Dr. Anderson is This Time 3 "Apples of Gold" _ 29 • president of Loma Linda University, Seventh- Focusing 15 Events of These Times 30 • day Adventist medical school in Loma Linda, Youth Wants to Know 21 Editorials 34 • California, and finds writing a pleasant diver- • sion from his heavy administrative duties. He is Cover and Inside Front Cover: H. Armstrong Roberts • • also much in demand as a speaker.

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We would like to walk one road toward Jim Padgett, Artist our goal, and at the same time enjoy the delights of the other road as well. The late beloved poet Robert Frost put this dilemma of life in a few lines which he called "The Road Not Taken." He says: Ad Pe oaaist "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood denly one is off the road and bogged "To every man there openeth And looked down one as far as I could down past chance of progress, going A Way, and Ways, and a Way. To where it bent in the undergrowth; nowhere. The sensible way, however, And the High Soul climbs the High Then took the other." is to give serious thought to all that is Way, known of the diverging roads, then And the Low Soul gropes the Low, A few lines later he explains: make a choice based on the best judg- And in between, on the misty flats, "Oh, I kept the first for another day! ment one has. The rest drift to and fro. Yet knowing how way leads on to way, Having made a choice, we may then But to every man there openeth I doubted if I should ever come back. go forward with confidence and as- A High Way, and a Low. surance and without looking back. It And every man decideth "I shall be telling this with a sigh has been said that one of the marks of The way his soul shall go." Somewhere ages and ages hence: an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of in- Several thousand years ago a young Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— man in Egypt stood by sharply diverg- I took the one less traveled by, sufficient evidence. This ability is what ing roads. One led to the throne of And that has made all the difference." we need when we are forced to decide which of several roads will take us best Egypt, and this road he had been edu- There are different ways to select a to our chosen destination. cated and conditioned to take. The road when we come upon a fork which To be unwilling to choose a road other road led to companionship with sends us to right or left. One way is to and make a decision may seem to be slaves, to scorn, to the hardships of give a quick glance down both roads, merely a negative response to life. But leadership of a difficult and ungrateful then choose by whim. Another is to it is more than that. It is a positive vote horde. He knew the fine feel of luxury stand bemused, unable to decide, letting for stagnation, as we are told in these and the satisfactions of power and the the pros balance out the cons, and sud- familiar lines by John Oxenham: warm glow of homage given, but he 4- THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 196.3 chose the hard road instead. Had Mo- it pass, and the most destitute and de- reaching commitment of life, a decision, ses chosen the throne he would doubt- graded had somehow managed to pro- a choice of a road that is narrow and less now be lying in some ancient, dusty cure a little tatter of black to wear upon dangerous and little traveled. tomb, or perhaps as a shriveled mummy the coat sleeve or on the bonnet as a There are many diverging roads he would lie in a museum, a sight for badge of mourning. In his funeral pro- along our path of life where the deci- tourists. But on the road he chose was cession were bands of children from the sion we face is a matter of preference, the opportunity of giving mankind the orphanages he had established and sup- not of right or wrong. These are such beginning of its Scriptures, the procla- ported, and others from the refuges and decisions as which college to attend, mation of the Decalogue, and the lead- missions he founded. His influence in which career is best adapted to one's ing of his nation from bondage to the his day was as great as that of Dr. talents, which place one should live, promised land. After a brief interlude Albert Schweitzer today. Faced also and many others involving taste or in the grave, the Bible says, he was res- with a choice of roads, Dr. Schweitzer preference rather than moral issues. It urrected and given his eternal reward. turned from brilliant careers as concert is important that we learn to distinguish Of course this was very long ago, organist, theologian, teacher, and medi- which choices involve matters of pref- and it seems to us like a dim epic of cal doctor to devote more than fifty erence and which involve right and heroic proportions, far removed from years to serving the native people of wrong. One cannot censure a person our everyday life. But similar choices tropical Africa. who decides matters of taste and pref- are being made in these modern days. All of us face choices in life, roads erence on a low level because he has During the last century in England a which lead off this way and that, going not had the opportunity to know what young man of high birth and breeding, up or down, but always putting us to is best. However, we expect those who born to move in high circles and be a the test. We must accept responsibility have had educational and cultural op- dominating figure in social and govern- for making these decisions. When St. portunities to be guided by these in the mental circles, faced a divergence of Augustine was young, he found the choices they make, and we expect those roads. Like Moses millenniums before, world very attractive. Although his who are committed to the Christian life he left wealth and power and threw his Christian mother had done her best to to make moral decisions with judgment energies into helping the underprivi- guide him into right paths, he found the and courage and devotion. leged and distressed. Anthony Ashley world very enticing, and sin was a Frost expressed the importance of Cooper, the seventh earl of Shaftesbury, stronger temptation than he cared to choice-making in his metaphor of the succeeded in doing more for the poor, resist. Finally, to quiet the insistent road not taken. Shakespeare some cen- the orphans, and the working classes voice of conscience, he prayed, "Make turies earlier put the same thought in a different metaphor: By Godfrey T. Anderson "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries: And we must take the current when it We Dose serves, Or lose our ventures." in England than any man before or me pure, 0 Lord, but not yet." This has This is just another way of saying since. He worked for the abolition of been the cry of the uncommitted souls that choices, made at the proper time, the Corn Laws, which were oppressive of all ages who want miraculously to are vital to our future lives. When the of the poor; he worked for a shorter end up on the right road after pursuing time comes to make an important working day for factory employees, for elusive pleasures down the wrong one. choice, it is dangerous to hesitate or the improvement of conditions in mines Irvin S. Cobb once said, "In politics vacillate. Of those who dawdle alopig and collieries, and for the better treat- I'm a Democrat; in religion, an inno- the road of life Gian-Carlo Menotti has ment of the insane. He set up schools cent bystander." But there are no inno- said, "Hell begins on the day when God for the children of the indigent and for cent bystanders in religion. Christ told grants us a vision of all the gifts which orphans. He went into the slums of His followers, "He who is not for me is we have wasted, of all we might have London at night and gathered up thieves against me." If we do not commit our- done which we did not do. . . . For the and thugs and helped them leave lives selves to Christ, we are automatically weak and the lazy their torture shall be of crime and start anew. arrayed on the other side. Dr. Good- the more horrible in proportion to the He did all this in spite of severe op- speed has pointed out that the word greatness of the genius they have position from those in his own social Christian is of Latin derivation, mean- wasted." class. So severe was this that for a time ing literally "partisan of Christ," a So long as we live, there will be no he was forced out of Parliament. But member of His party. It brings to our progress along life's road without the he was never disheartened, and at his minds the partisans who were the free- inevitable facing of diverging roads and death he was the most universally be- dom fighters of the underground in Eu- the choosing of the one to travel. Our loved man in England. As his funeral rope during the last war. They were choices will make "all the difference," cortege wound through the streets of never neutral—they were committed to and we will find that the road "less London to Westminster Abbey, crowds a life of peril and activity. So the very traveled by" will lead at last to the stood bareheaded in the rain to watch word Christian implies a basic and far- heavenly home. *** THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 5 a.continuing reli- THERE IS gious issue in American politics. It showed up during Th the 1960 campaign of President John F. Kennedy which brought him to the White House. It was, however, potential long Continuing before this, and it is destined to persist far into the future. This issue revolves around the problem of public assistance for Roman Catholic parochial schools. Religious The issue is often politely called public aid to private schools, which is in itself a well-intentioned effort to obscure the Issue" painful religious issue underneath. But there is a religious issue here, and it can- not really be obscured any longer. The issue is, in effect, one of public aid to Catholic schools, since that church operates more than 90 percent of paro- chial institutions. Other groups such as the By C. STANLEY LOWELL Lutherans, the Seventh-day Adventists, and the Episcopalians who do have church elementary schools are not asking public support in any case. The real nexus of posals which did not include aid for the problem is that for millions of people the proposal to aid parochial schools Catholic schools. They said: with public funds is a proposal to tax them to pay for Catholic teaching. They "In the event that a federal aid pro- resent such a proposal; hence the religious issue in the school-aid battle and the gram is enacted which excludes chil- intense feelings regarding it. dren in private schools, these children President Kennedy has exhibited all his political sagacity in his handling of will be victims of discriminatory legisla- this explosive issue. He had the advantage of early, positive commitment. During tion. There will be no alternative but to his campaign he repeatedly opposed federal aid for religious schools. In his inter- oppose such discrimination." view with Fletcher Knebel in Look magazine, March 3, 1959, Mr. Kennedy said: The stand of the bishops had no per- "There can be no question of federal funds being used for support of parochial ceptible effect on President Kennedy. or private schools. It's unconstitutional under the First Amendment. . . . I'm op- He reiterated his own position and posed to the federal government's extending support to any church or its schools." stood on it. In the showdown the public Again, speaking to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 21, school aid program was defeated in the 1960, he said: "Federal assistance to parochial schools is a very legitimate issue House Rules Committee, where Catho- actually before the Congress. I am opposed to it. I believe it is unconstitutional. lic influence was reportedly strong. I voted against it on the Senate floor this year, when offered by Senator Morse." In the Eighty-eighth Congress the This position Mr. Kennedy as President has unfalteringly upheld. When federal- school aid issue is again on the agenda aid-to-education issues were under discussion and he was questioned about aid to and, along with it, the religious issue. church institutions, the President took exactly the same position he had stated The administration's proposals confined during his campaign. A legal brief prepared by attorneys in the Department of substantive aid at the elementary level Health, Education, and Welfare and also in the Justice Department fully sup- to public schools only. Even at the col- ported this position. The President did, however, see the problem of aid to church- lege level there was great caution be- related colleges in a somewhat different context. He has argued in regard to aid cause of the religious issue. The ad- to education at this level that the decisions of the courts have been less definitive ministration's omnibus aid bill omitted and that he believed some forms of aid might be provided. any program of grants for general con- The religious issue in federal school aid has persisted. President Kennedy made struction at church-related colleges. In- school aid a top priority item and strongly urged it upon the Eighty-seventh Con- stead, it clung to the special assistance gress. He made it clear, however, that such aid, at the elementary and secondary concept, providing grants only for con- levels, must be for public institutions only. With prospects of passage at an all- struction of libraries and buildings time high, the Roman Catholic bishops, under the leadership of the unofficial which could be related to "defense edu- United States primate, Francis Cardinal Spellman, brought the religious issue into cation." sharp focus. They informed the Eighty-seventh Congress and the American public Msgr. Frederick G. Hochwalt, edu- in an official statement that they would seek to defeat any aid-to-education pro- cation representative of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, promptly blasted the entire bill as "discrimina- tory." A conciliation meeting of repre- NOTE: Dr. Lowell wrote this article before the House, on August 14, passed a billion-dollar college construc- sentatives from the various agencies tion bill, which would make funds available to both was held in Washington on February 8 public and private colleges and universities.—En. with the idea of finding a way out of the impasse. This meeting was promptly scuttled by Msgr. Francis T. Hurley, 6 THESE TIMES. DECEMBER, 1963 the representative of the Roman Catho- sored by Rep. Edith Green (D.-Ore.) which would give church-related colleges lic bishops. He told the meeting that "the full package." Her bill, which enjoys considerable Republican support, would Catholic leaders intended to take an provide grants for construction at church-related colleges. The college could use all-out position from that point on. the funds for virtually any kind of building except a divinity school or a chapel. They would oppose any aid proposals Mrs. Green is anxious to mute the religious issue, but in practice this has proved which did not include Catholic schools impossible. Many educators feel that if federal grants for substantive support of as full partners. church colleges should be enacted into law, similar grants would follow for church Then Monsignor Hurley created fur- elementary schools. ther consternation by stating that his The religious issue will likely continue to be felt. There are great pressures on group was giving serious consideration the Roman Catholic school system. Many diocesan publications stress the relative to opposing the "impacted aid" pro- decline in the number of teachers from religious orders. Some parochial schools gram unless it, too, included aid for now number half or more lay teachers on their staff. The necessity of paying a Catholic schools. This is the aid pro- wage to teachers competitive with the public schools is proving a painful experi- gram for areas where defense or other ence in many a parish. Cardinal Ritter has announced that in his St. Louis diocese government operations have increased no more schools will be built for an indefinite period. They cannot be staffed with the demands on local school systems. teachers; hence there is no reason to build. This moratorium on building will re- sult in increasing numbers of Catholic children in pub- lic schools. Any prospect of substantial federal aid to the public system appears frightening to the hierarchy. Some have The proposal of federal aid said that it would even mean the end of the Catholic for private schools is really schools, that they would find it impossible to compete with a public system strengthened with federal aid. As a proposal to tax the public pressures continue to mount for federal aid to educa- tion—and they are bound to do so—the counterpres- to pay for Roman Catholic sures within the Catholic hierarchy will also mount. Groups like Citizens for Educational Freedom and the teaching. National Committee for Federal Aid to Private and Parochial Schools indicate that actionists are deter- mined to press their cause squarely into the political The Roman Catholic stand would arena. Numerous meetings on the subject of school aid, held in many dioceses, and appear to ensure the defeat of elemen- the constant dinning on the subject in the Catholic press, are an apparent effort tary school aid in the Eighty-eighth to convert Catholic laymen to the wisdom of the bishops' position and to enlist Congress. The emphasis may fall on their active support. college aid as it eventually did in the The logistics involved in the religious issue will not alter much in the 1964 Eighty-seventh Congress. Ready to presidential campaign. The Republican nominee, especially if he is a Protestant, seize the spotlight is a proposal spon- may be expected to take a more "moderate" view in regard to the issue of public aid to parochial schools. There would at least tend to be some studied hesitancy on the matter as there was in the Nixon-Lodge camp in 1960. With a Protestant as President the Catholic hierarchy might even do better on school aid! Who knows? ***

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THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 7 BASIC QUARTET OF CHRISTIAN FAITH

4 ARLY in my ministry I stood face to wages of sin is death; but the gift of face with a man on the verge of death. God is eternal life through Jesus Christ This man made no religious profession, our Lord." (Romans 6:23.) nor was he a member of any church. I told the dying man of his heavenly fi The only reason I had been called to Father, who in love for him had sent his bedside was that his family knew His only Son to this earth to die for that I was a preacher. Although I did his salvation. It was God's love for this not know him well, I recognized that man and every sinner in need of salva- he, as I, was a sinner and in need of tion that compelled Jesus to leave the forgiveness for sins. The main differ- celestial courts where He had been the ence between us was that he was only ruler of the heavenly hosts to come hours away from eternity, whereas I down to this earth to lead a life of probably still had life before me. And poverty, to be maligned, scourged, spat I knew then, as I know now, that "the upon, and finally cruelly crucified on

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THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 Calvary's cross by men whom He Him- tain of the Lord's host. They heard him self had created. I implored this man on call, "Son of God, come forth; Thy Fa- the brink of death to look to his loving, ther calls Thee." forgiving God and to claim the gift of He who had been dead came out, pardon for any and all sins through Je- and the soldiers heard Him say, "I am sus, who had paid the penalty for him the resurrection, and the life." Their by His death. I assured him that he eyes were riveted on Him whom they need Not die without hope, even though had crucified. As they saw Jesus risen, he %WS a sinner, because Jesus had they suddenly recognized that He was God is love verily come to this earth "to seek and not a base deceiver or a malicious trai- to save that which was lost." (Luke tor to the nation. Now they held to the 19 : ) conviction expressed by their centurion One Bible commentator, in speaking at His death, "Truly this was the Son about Jesus in the Garden of Geth- of God." Matthew 27:54. semane, states: "The fate of humanity Jesus, who was "God with us" (Mat- trenled in the balance. Christ might thew 1:23), had verily died for our even Now refuse to drink the cup ap- sins, but had risen again. Our hope of He was incarnated portioned to guilty man. It was not yet redemption rests on the death and res- too late. He might wipe the bloody urrection of Jesus Christ. Without the sweat from His brow, and leave man to resurrection of Jesus from the dead, the perish in his iniquity. . . . He sees that Christian church would never have the transgressors of the law, if left to been born. The apostles were down- themselves, must perish. He sees the hearted and defeated after Jesus had helplessness of man. He sees the power been crucified. They said wistfully, "We He died for us of sin." "He will save man at any cost trusted that it had been he which should to Dlihnself."—The Desire of Ages, pp. have redeemed Israel." Luke 24:21. 690, 693. It was His resurrection that filled In our dire need Jesus chose not to them with courage and invincible zeal leave you and me alone to die in our to go out and proclaim salvation through sins. Not being able to save both Him- His shed blood. Paul said, "If Christ be self and us, He chose to save us by not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet sacrificing His own life. Tauntingly but in your sins. Then they also which are He rose again correctly, the Jewish leaders said about fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If Him at His crucifixion: "He saved oth- in this life only we have hope in Christ, ers; himself he cannot save." Matthew we are of all men most miserable. But 27:42. Because of this we may confi- now is Christ risen from the dead." dently come to Him today, knowing He 1 Corinthians 15:17-20. Thank God, —against these will forgive us and blot out our sins. Jesus came forth from the grave. We God, through the Apostle John, vows, have a risen Saviour! truths the gates of "If we confess our sins, he is faithful A North India missionary was once and just to forgive us our sins, and to preaching in a bazaar when a Moham- cleanse us from all unrighteousness." medan gentleman came up to him and hell cannot prevail. 1 Joint 1:9. Oh, wondrous love that said, "You must admit that we have prompted Jesus to die for you and me! one thing you haven't. And it's better But although Jesus died, He rose than anything you have." from the dead! Roman soldiers were The missionary, treating him as a standing watch at Joseph's tomb. Their gentleman, smiled and replied, "I shall charge, Jesus, was secure within the be pleased to hear what it is." narrow sepulcher behind the seal of The Mohammedan said, "When we Rome. "And, behold, there was a great go to Mecca, we find at least a coffin; earthquake: for the angel of the Lord but when you Christians go to Jeru- descended from heaven, and came and salem, which is your Mecca, you find rolled back the stone from the door, nothing but an empty tomb." and sat upon it. His countenance was The missionary answered, "Yes, that like lightning, and his raiment white as is just the difference. Mohammed is By snow." Matthew 28:2, 3. dead. He is in his coffin." These guards had not been fearful; The great leaders of other religions Arnold dauntless, they had always executed are today sleeping below the dust. But their orders. But now they trembled be- no longer is Jesus sleeping in Joseph's V. fore the angel; "for fear of him the tomb; He is alive! He rose from the Wallenkampf keepers did shake." (Verse 4.) Fully dead; today He is in heaven interceding armed, they were utterly helpless. They for you and me, imparting His over- did not now look at man, but at a cap- coming power to us as we permit Him THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 9 to live out His life within us. And be- long as that number was made up, the This is the plan God has in mind cause He lives, we shall live too! The law was satisfied. The neighbor ac- with reference to you and me. The Apostle Paul exclaims triumphantly, cepted Lear as his substitute, and so by blood of Jesus atones for all the sins "Christ that died, yea rather, that is the acquiescence of the three parties we have committed up to this moment; risen again, who is even at the right concerned—the representative of the but from now on Jesus wants to protect hand of God, who also maketh interces- law, the condemned by the law, and the us from falling into sin by living out sion for us." Romans 8:34. satisfier of the law—the whole matter His life within us. And only a living "How do you know that Christ is was settled. Willie Lear fell before the Saviour can live out His life within us. risen?" someone asked an old fisher- firing squad. As the man for whom he "Now unto him that is able to keep you man whose faith in Jesus seemed very died looked upon the blood and beheld from falling, and to present you fault- simple and sure. that mangled body, the only thing he less before the presence of his glory "Do you see those cottages near that could think and say was: "He died for with exceeding joy, to the only wise high cliff?" he replied, pointing to the me! He died for me! I am free!" God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, shore. "Well, sometimes when I am Jesus, the satisfier of the law by dominion and power, both now and far out at sea, I know that the sun is means of substitution, died for you and ever. Amen." Jude 24, 25. risen by the reflection in those windows. for me. He took your place, He took The Apostle John says, "My little How do I know that Christ is risen? my place, by dying in our stead. By ac- children, these things write I unto you, Because I see His light reflected from cepting Him as dying for us, we shall go that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we the faces of some of my fellows every free! In Romans 5:10 the Apostle Paul have an advocate with the Father, Jesus day, and because the light of glory says that we are "reconciled to God by Christ the righteous." 1 John 2:1. It is shines into my own life. And I hope the death of his Son." The blood of not God's plan that we should repeat that I am reflecting that light to others." Jesus takes care of every confessed sin the same sins over and over again. He Here are four cardinal points of that you and I have committed. desires to help us overcome our sins. Christianity: God is love; in His love But God has something more glori- But in case we should accidentally He came to this earth and took upon ous in mind for you and me as His chil- stumble into sin, then Jesus will plead Himself human flesh in the incarnation; dren. He desires to keep us from sin- His blood anew for our forgiveness for the very God, Emmanuel, died for you ning. This is where we need a risen sin. As we give our lives with our wills, and me; and this Jesus rose again from Saviour. We read again in Romans 5: plans, and ambitions to Jesus and per- the dead. Against this four-leaf plant of 10: "For if, when we were enemies, we mit Him who rose from the dead to live Christian faith the gates of hell cannot were reconciled to God by the death of out His life within us, the fruits of this prevail! What do these fundamentals of his Son, much more, being reconciled, Christian faith will be discernible in our the gospel mean to you and me who we shall be saved by his life." It is great lives. are sinners? to be forgiven for the sins we have com- It has been written, "He who would From the Civil War comes the story mitted, but it is even greater to be pre- confess Christ must have Christ abiding of eighteen-year-old Willie Lear of served from falling into sin. This is in him. He cannot communicate that Palmyra, Missouri. In 1862 Union God's plan; He purposes to keep us which he has not received. The disciples forces occupied and had control of this from sinning. "Knowing this, that our might speak fluently on doctrines, they area. Outrages were committed on both old man is crucified with him, that the might repeat the words of Christ Him- sides. Union soldiers were being shot body of sin might be destroyed, that self; but unless they possessed Christ- from ambush, and sometimes foully henceforth we should not serve sin." like meekness and love, they were not treated. To avenge and stamp out these Romans 6:6. confessing Him. A spirit contrary to activities the Federal commander ar- As Jesus rose from the dead by the the spirit of Christ would deny Him, rested and imprisoned a large number power of His Father, so are we to rise whatever the profession. Men may deny of the citizens, charging them with be- spiritually from the dead. The life that Christ by evil speaking, by foolish talk- ing "guerillas." By court-martial all we live from this moment on, He wants ing, by words that are untruthful or un- were sentenced to be shot, including us to live in accordance with His will kind. They may deny Him by shun- Willie Lear. through His imparted power. This was ning life's burdens, by the pursuit of After the condemnation the general Paul's experience as indicated in Gala- sinful pleasure. They may deny Him by decided to select ten men for immediate tians 2:20: "I am crucified with Christ: conforming to the world, by uncourte- execution and reserve the remainder for nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ ous behavior, by the love of their own future punishment if the outrages in the liveth in me: and the life which I now opinions, by justifying self, by cherish- neighborhood continued. These ten live in the flesh I live by the faith of the ing doubt, borrowing trouble, and were drawn by lot. Willie Lear was not Son of God, who loved me, and gave dwelling in darkness. In all these ways in this number; but a poor neighbor himself for me." they declare that Christ is not in them. with a large family was selected for im- Most of us drive cars. On these cars And `whosoever shall deny Me before mediate execution. His death would we carry some insurance, but the in- men,' He says, 'him will I also deny be- leave his family in a helpless condition. surance does not protect us from acci- fore My Father which is in heaven.' " Willie noted his neighbor's agony dents. It only pays the expenses, or part —The Desire of Ages, p. 357. and was deeply moved. He stepped up of them, after an accident has befallen True Christianity does not consist "in to the commanding officer and offered us. If an insurance policy were available systems, creeds, or rites, but in the per- to take his neighbor's place. The officer that could guarantee that I would not formance of loving deeds, in bringing had no objection since the order was have any accidents, I would be willing the greatest good to others, in genuine that ten men should be shot, and as to pay a higher premium to obtain it. goodness." *** 10 THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 By Vincent Edwards Phillips Brooks's

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HEN Phillips Brooks wrote this He did not have much time left to familiar carol shortly before drill his girls and boys, but he must WChristmas, 1868, the journey that he have done a thorough job. When the had made to the Holy Land only three children sang "0 Little Town of Bethle- years before was still a vivid memory. hem" at that Christmas Day service He had hardly started to travel through nearly one hundred years ago, the carol Palestine before there came to him an ''\401-1,(Willimmiedsoms was an immediate "hit" with the intimate sense of the presence of the crowded church. There were no radios Christ. then to broadcast the program, nor was To his relatives back in America, the "0 little town of Bethlehem, anything known about making record- young Philadelphia rector wrote: "The How still we see thee lie! ings. However, the words-and-music whole country, every hill and valley, Above thy deep and dreamless sleep combination made such a happy im- seemed marked with His footprints. . . . pression on all listeners that that part The silent stars go by; The Hill of the Beatitudes; another of the service was long remembered. hill where they say Christ fed the multi- Yet in thy dark streets shineth Today, almost a century afterward, tude. Another ridge climbed, and there The everlasting light; thousands upon thousands of persons was 'the sea of Galilee, which is the sea The hopes and fears of all the years are familiar with Phillips Brooks's stan- of Tiberias.' There it lay in the after- Are met in thee tonight." zas. In English-speaking lands through- noon twilight, blue among the purple out the world "0 Little Town of Bethle- hills. There were the walks He walked, hem" is always sung in the churches at the shore where He taught, the moun- Christmastime. When choirs make their tains where He prayed." inspired; nobody can write such lovely annual rounds, singing to shut-ins, they Perhaps the climax of his tour was verses on the spur of the moment with- seldom fail to include the beloved carol, coming to Bethlehem in the evening out some sort of spiritual stirring from since nowadays it is such a universal when it lay bathed in moonlight. Phil- within. No other explanation is pos- favorite. lips Brooks never forgot that spectacle, sible. If the author were alive today, how nor how he looked up at the stars that But once the lines were down on pa- overjoyed he would be by this dis- stood out so brightly in the night sky. per, Phillips Brooks realized his handi- covery! As a matter of fact, few men When he returned to his work at the cap. He had no music to match his were ever in such an exultant mood at Church of the Holy Trinity, his visit to words! It was only natural that, under Christmas as the big, jolly parson. The the scene of Jesus' Nativity must have the circumstances, he should turn to season of gift-giving and carol-singing risen to his mind again and again. How the handiest of musicians—his organist fairly enraptured him, realizing as he the friendly, bighearted parson wished and choirmaster, Lewis Redner. did the deep religious significance of it he might share that blessed remem- Mr. Redner was no ordinary person all. That he should have succeeded in brance with his parishioners! in the field of music. He had composed making a lasting contribution to all the Phillips Brooks did not do anything pieces for special occasions, and he festivity and rejoicing would have af- about it until three years after his jour- must have been fairly adept at the busi- forded him the highest possible satis- ney. The children of his church were ness. In this case, he achieved im- faction. There can be no doubt but scheduled to sing at the Christmas serv- mortality along with his rector. The that "0 Little Town of Bethlehem" will ice, and suddenly the rector decided he story goes that after Phillips Brooks long remain Phillips Brooks's most en- could help out with a "special carol." had shown him the words, he went to during monument. In the year's joyous The night he had spent at Bethlehem bed and then woke up in the middle interlude, that carol, by some miracu- became more vivid than ever—all its of the night with the beautiful tune "St. lous alchemy, seems to bring people of magic silence and celestial beauty came Louis" ringing in his mind. He got up all races and colors and creeds into one alive again as the parson took his pen in a hurry and put the notes down on common bond of love and understand- in hand. Of course, he must have been paper. ing. *** THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 11 (1•-1 ,asicievit tivvies it was customary for men to hide their treasures in the earth. Thefts and rob- beries were frequent. And whenever there was a change in the ruling power, By ELLEN G. WHITE those who had large possessions were liable to be put under heavy tribute. Moreover the country was in constant danger of invasion by marauding ar- mies. As a consequence, the rich en-

_.. 66 6. 1,6. • • •• • . deavored to preserve their wealth by .. . A., concealing it, and the earth was looked upon as a safe hiding place. But often the place of concealment was forgotten; death might claim the owner, imprison- in order to gain the treasures of truth. all these symbols pointed. They had the ment or exile might separate him from In the parable the field containing word of God in their hands; but the his treasure, and the wealth he had the treasure represents the Holy Scrip- traditions which had been handed down taken such pains to preserve was left tures. And the gospel is the treasure. from generation to generation, and the for the fortunate finder. In Christ's day The earth itself is not so interlaced with human interpretation of the Scriptures, it was not uncommon to discover in golden veins and filled with precious hid from them the truth as it is in Jesus. neglected land old coins and ornaments things as is the word of God. The spiritual import of the sacred writ- of gold and silver. ings was lost. The treasure house of all A man hires land to cultivate, and How Hidden knowledge was open to them, but they as the oxen plow the soil, buried trea- The treasures of the gospel are said knew it not. sure is unearthed. As the man discovers to be hidden. By those who are wise in God does not conceal His truth from this treasure, he sees that a fortune is their own estimation, who are puffed men. By their own course of action within his reach. Restoring the gold to up by the teaching of vain philosophy, they make it obscure to themselves. its hiding place, he returns to his home the beauty and power and mystery of Christ gave the Jewish people abundant and sells all that he has, in order to pur- the plan of redemption are not per- evidence that He was the Messiah; but chase the field containing the treasure. ceived. Many have eyes, but they see His teaching called for a decided change His family and his neighbors think that not; they have ears, but they hear not; in their lives. They saw that if they re- he is acting like a madman. Looking on they have intellect, but they discern not ceived Christ, they must give up their the field, they see no value in the neg- the hidden treasure. cherished maxims and traditions, their lected soil. But the man knows what A man might pass over the place selfish, ungodly practices. It required he is doing; and when he has a title to where treasure had been concealed. In a sacrifice to receive changeless, eternal the field, he searches every part of it to dire necessity he might sit down to rest truth. Therefore they would not admit find the treasure that he has secured. at the foot of a tree, not knowing of the most conclusive evidence that God This parable illustrates the value of the riches hidden at its roots. So it was could give to establish faith in Christ. the heavenly treasure, and the effort with the Jews. As a golden treasure, They professed to believe the Old Tes- that should be made to secure it. The truth had been intrusted to the Hebrew tament Scriptures, yet they refused to finder of the treasure in the field was people. The Jewish economy, bearing accept the testimony contained t4terein ready to part with all that he had, ready the signature of Heaven, had been in- concerning Christ's life and character. to put forth untiring labor, in order to stituted by Christ Himself. In types and They were afraid of being convinced secure the hidden riches. So the finder symbols the great truths of redemption lest they should be converted and be of heavenly treasure will count no la- were veiled. Yet when Christ came, the compelled to give up their preconceived bor too great and no sacrifice too dear, Jews did not recognize Him to whom opinions. The treasure of the gorge', 12 THESE TIMES, DECEMBER 1963 It cannot be valued with the geld of Ophir, "The kingdom of heaven With the precious onyx, or the sapphire. is like unto treasure hid The gold and the crystal cannot equal it; And the exchange of it shall not be in a field; the which for jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral when a man hath found, or of pearls, For the price of wisdom is above he hideth, and for joy rubies." Job 28:14-18. thereof goeth and selleth This is the treasure that is found in the Scriptures. The Bible is God's great all that he hath, and lesson book, His great educator. The foundation of all true science is con- buyeth that field." tained in the Bible. Every branch of knowledge may be found by searching the word of God. And above all else it contains the science of all sciences, the science of salvation. The Bible is the mine of the unsearchable riches of Christ. The true higher education is gained by studying and obeying the word of God. But when God's word is laid aside

..111""/X;717.-; for books that do not lead to God and . , the kingdom of heaven, the education Jim Padgett, Artist acquired is a perversion of the name. There are wonderful truths in nature. the Way, the Truth, and the Life, was them which believe not, lest the light of The earth, the sea, and the sky are full among them, but they rejected the the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the of truth. They are our teachers. Nature greatest gift that Heaven could bestow. image of God, should shine unto them." utters her voice in lessons of heavenly "Among the chief rulers also many 2 Corinthians 4:3, 4. wisdom and eternal truth. But fallen believed on him," we read; "but be- man will not understand. Sin has ob- cause of the Pharisees they did not con- Value of the Treasure scured his vision, and he cannot of him- fess him, lest they should be put out of The Saviour saw that men were ab- self interpret nature without placing it the synagogue." John 12:42. They sorbed in getting gain, and were losing above God. Correct lessons cannot im- were convinced; they believed Jesus to sight of eternal realities. He undertook press the minds of those who reject the be the Son of God; but it was not in to correct this evil. He sought to break word of God. The teaching of nature is harmony with their ambitious desires to the infatuating spell that was paralyzing by them so perverted that it turns the confess Him. They had not the faith the soul. Lifting up His voice He cried, mind away from the Creator. that would have secured for them the "What is a man profited, if he shall By many, man's wisdom is thought heavenly treasure. They were seeking gain the whole world, and lose his own to be higher than the wisdom of the di- worldly treasure. soul? or what shall a man give in ex- vine Teacher, and God's lesson book is And today men are eagerly seeking change for his soul?" Matthew 16:26. looked upon as old-fashioned, stale, for earthly treasure. Their minds are He presents before fallen humanity the and uninteresting. But by those who filled with selfish, ambitious thoughts. nobler world they have lost sight of, have been vivified by the Holy Spirit it For the sake of gaining worldly riches, that they may behold eternal realities. is not so regarded. They see the price- honor, or power, they place the max- He takes them to the threshold of the less treasure, and would sell all to buy ims, traditions, and requirements of Infinite, flushed with the indescribable the field that contains it. Instead of men above the requirements of God. glory of God, and shows them the trea- books containing the suppositions of From them the treasures of His word sure there. reputedly great authors, they choose are hidden. The value of this treasure is above the word of Him who is the greatest "The natural man receiveth not the gold or silver. The riches of earth's author and the greatest teacher the things of the Spirit of God; for they are mines cannot compare with it. world has ever known, who gave His foolishness unto him; neither can he life for us, that through Him we might know them, because they are spiritually "The depth saith, It is not in me; have everlasting life. discerned." 1 Corinthians 2:14. And the sea saith, It is not with me. "If our gospel be hid, it is hid to It cannot be gotten for gold, Results of Neglecting the Treasure them that are lost; in whom the god of Neither shall silver be weighed for Satan works on human minds, lead- this world bath blinded the minds of the price thereof. ing them to think that there is wonder- THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 13 ful knowledge to be gained apart from cance than appears on the surface. All tient, persevering effort. If men attain God. By deceptive reasoning he led the sayings of Christ have a value be- success in business, they must have a Adam and Eve to doubt God's word, yond their unpretending appearance. will to do and a faith to look for results. and to supply its place with a theory Minds that are quickened by the Holy And we cannot expect to gain spiritual that led to disobedience. And his soph- Spirit will discern the value of these knowledge without earnest toil. Those istry is doing today what it did in Eden. sayings. They will discern the precious who desire to find the treasures of truth Teachers who mingle the sentiments gems of truth, though these may be must dig for them as the miner digs for of infidel authors with the education buried treasures. the treasure hidden in the earth. No they are giving, plant in the minds of Human theories and speculations half-hearted, indifferent work will avail. youth thoughts that will lead to distrust will never lead to an understanding of It is essential for old and young, not of God and transgression of His law. God's word. Those who suppose that only to read God's word, but to study Little do they know what they are do- they understand philosophy think that it with wholehearted earnestness, pray- ing. Little do they realize what will be their explanations are necessary to un- ing and searching for truth as for hid- the result of their work. lock the treasures of knowledge and to den treasure. Those who do this will be A student may go through all the prevent heresies from coming into the rewarded, for Christ will quicken the grades of the schools and colleges of church. But it is these explanations that understanding. today. He may devote all his powers to have brought in false theories and here- Our salvation depends on a knowl- acquiring knowledge. But unless he has sies. Men have made desperate efforts edge of the truth contained in the Scrip- a knowledge of God, unless he obeys to explain what they thought to be intri- tures. It is God's will that we should the laws that govern his being, he will cate scriptures; but too often their ef- possess this. Search, 0 search the pre- destroy himself. By wrong habits he forts have only darkened that which cious Bible with hungry hearts. Explore loses his power of self-appreciation. He they tried to make clear. God's word as the miner explores the loses self-control. He cannot reason The priests and Pharisees thought earth to find veins of gold. Never give correctly about matters that concern they were doing great things as teach- up the search until you have ascertained him most closely. He is reckless and ir- ers, by putting their own interpretation your relation to God and His will in re- rational in his treatment of mind and upon the word of God; but Christ said gard to you. Christ declared, "Whatso- body. By wrong habits he makes of of them, "Ye know not the Scriptures, ever ye shall ask in my name, that will himself a wreck. Happiness he cannot neither the power of God." Mark 12: I do, that the Father may be glorified have; for his neglect to cultivate pure, 24. He charged them with the guilt of in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in healthful principles places him under "teaching for doctrines the command- my name, I will do it." John 14:13, 14. the control of habits that ruin his peace. ments of men." (Mark 7:7.) Though Men of piety and talent catch views His years of taxing study are lost; for they were the teachers of the oracles of of eternal realities, but often they fail of he has destroyed himself. He has mis- God, though they were supposed to un- understanding, because the things that used his physical and mental powers, derstand His word, they were not do- are seen eclipse the glory of the un- and the temple of the body is in ruins. ers of the word. Satan had blinded their seen. He who would seek successfully He is ruined for this life and for the life eyes that they should not see its true for the hidden treasure must rise to to come. By acquiring earthly knowl- import. higher pursuits than the things of this edge he thought to gain a treasure; but This is the work of many in our day. world. His affections and all his capa- by laying his Bible aside, he sacrificed a Many churches are guilty of this sin. bilities must be consecrated to the treasure worth everything else. There is danger, great danger, that the search. supposed wise men of today will repeat Disobedience has closed the door to Search for the Treasure the experience of the Jewish teachers. a vast amount of knowledge that might The word of God is to be our study. They falsely interpret the divine ora- have been gained from the Scriptures. We are to educate our children in the cles, and souls are brought into per- Understanding means obedience to truths found therein. It is an inexhaust- plexity and shrouded in darkness be- God's commandments. The Scriptures ible treasure; but men fail to find this cause of their misconception of divine are not to be adapted to meet the preju- treasure, because they do not search truth. dice and jealousy of men. They can be until it is within their possession. Very The Scriptures need not be read by understood only by those who are hum- many are content with a supposition in the dim light of tradition or human bly seeking for a knowledge of the truth regard to the truth. They are content speculation. As well might we try to that they may obey it. with a surface work, taking for granted give light to the sun with a torch as to Do you ask, What shall I do to be that they have all that is essential. They explain the Scriptures by human tradi- saved? You must lay your preconceived take the sayings of others for truth, be- tion or imagination. God's holy word opinions, your hereditary and culti- ing too indolent to put themselves to needs not the torchlight glimmer of vated ideas, at the door of investigation. diligent, earnest labor, represented in earth to make its glories distinguish- If you search the Scriptures to vindicate the word as digging for hidden treasure. able. It is light in itself—the glory of your own opinions, you will never But man's inventions are not only un- God revealed, and beside it every other reach the truth. Search in order to learn reliable, they are dangerous; for they light is dim. what the Lord says. If conviction comes place man where God should be. They But there must be earnest study and as you search, if you see that your cher- place the sayings of men where a "Thus close investigation. Sharp, clear per- ished opinions are not in harmony with saith the Lord" should be. ceptions of truth will never be the re- the truth, do not misinterpret the truth Christ is the truth. His words are ward of indolence. No earthly blessing in order to suit your own belief, but truth, and they have a deeper signifi- can be obtained without earnest, pa- accept the light given. Open mind and 14 THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 heart that you may behold wondrous truth in His word. If men would be obe- God and of Jesus Christ whom He has things out of God's word. dient, they would understand the plan sent, transforms man into the image of Faith in Christ as the world's Re- of God's government. The heavenly God. It gives to man the mastery of deemer calls for an acknowledgment of world would open its chambers of grace himself, bringing every impulse and the enlightened intellect controlled by and glory for exploration. Human be- passion of the lower nature under the a heart that can discern and appreciate ings would be altogether different from control of the higher powers of the the heavenly treasure. This faith is in- what they now are; for by exploring the mind. It makes its possessor a son of separable from repentance and trans- mines of truth men would be ennobled. God and an heir of heaven. It brings formation of character. To have faith The mystery of redemption, the incar- him into communion with the mind of means to find and accept the gospel nation of Christ, His atoning sacrifice, the Infinite, and opens to him the rich treasure, with all the obligations which would not be as they are now, vague in treasures of the universe. it imposes. our minds. They would be not only bet- This is the knowledge which is ob- "Except a man be born again, he ter understood, but altogether more tained by searching the word of God. cannot see the kingdom of God." John highly appreciated. And this treasure may be found by 3:3. He may conjecture and imagine, In His prayer to the Father, Christ every soul who will give all to obtain it. but without the eye of faith he cannot gave to the world a lesson which should "If thou criest after knowledge, and see the treasure. Christ gave His life to be graven on mind and soul. "This is liftest up thy voice for understanding; secure for us this inestimable treasure; life eternal," He said, "that they might if thou seekest her as silver, and search- but without regeneration through faith know thee the only true God, and Jesus est for her as for hid treasures; then in His blood, there is no remission of Christ, whom thou hast sent." John shalt thou understand the fear of the sins, no treasure for any perishing soul. 17:3. This is true education. It imparts Lord, and find the knowledge of God." We need the enlightenment of the power. The experimental knowledge of Proverbs 2:3-5. *** Holy Spirit in order to discern the truths in God's word. The lovely things of the natural world are not seen until the sun, dispelling the darkness, floods them with its light. So the treasures in the word of God are not appreciated until they are revealed by the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness. The Holy Spirit, sent from heaven By WALTER RAYMOND BEACH by the benevolence of infinite love, takes the things of God and reveals them to every soul that has an implicit Total Commitment faith in Christ. By His power the vital truths upon which the salvation of the OCIETY as a whole is a seething, main strangely absent where daily sacri- soul depends are impressed upon the S shiftless, uncreative mass of people fice is concerned, are not worthy to be mind, and the way of life is made so who follow whoever shouts the loudest God's children. If we say we want to be plain that none need err therein. As we and promises the most. The recent up- saved, we must, above all else, know study the Scriptures, we should pray surge in religious interest is no excep- what we are saying. It means that we for the light of God's Holy Spirit to tion. People have found that being are willing to be hungry, cold, hated— shine upon the word, that we may see religious is nice, comfortable, and defi- even to die—for the love of God. God's and appreciate its treasures. nitely contributive to quietude of spirit love is demanding, as is all true love. If and body. But have they counted the we are going to love God at all, we must Reward of Searching cost of giving allegiance to God? In love Him with every fiber of our being, Let none think that there is no more their yearning for freedom from dis- and not be swayed by collective fever knowledge for them to gain. The depth turbance, have they probed deeply into or opportunism. of human intellect may be measured; their hearts to find just what it means to The process of salvation itself is sim- the works of human authors may be be God's child and just how much of ple—so simple that it rests in the words, mastered; but the highest, deepest, self they are willing to give to God? "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and broadest flight of the imagination can- Winston Churchill, at a crucial point thou shalt be saved." Acts 16:31. But not find out God. There is infinity be- in history, offered his followers blood, in total commitment and devotion the yond all that we can comprehend. We sweat, and tears. God is no less exact- contract leaves no loopholes. God have seen only the glimmering of divine ing. Yet, we forget or refuse to bring wants our all. Our love must be sure, glory and of the infinitude of knowledge into focus the words spoken by the constant, and enduring; it must equal in and wisdom; we have . . . been working Master: "If any man come to me, and earnestness life itself, reaffirming the on the surface of the mine, when rich hate not his father, and mother, and marriage vow of loyalty—in sickness golden ore is beneath the surface. . . . wife, and children, and brethren, and and in health, in poverty and in wealth, No one can search the Scriptures in sisters, yea, and his own life also, he "until death do us part." This is not the spirit of Christ without being re- cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:26. child's play; it is serious. warded. When man is willing to be in- Those of us who are on the spot when With love God makes up for our structed as a little child, when he sub- the loaves and fishes are handed out or lack; but in return He must have our mits wholly to God, he will find the when miracles are performed, but re- pledge of devotion. *** THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 15 By J. Allen Blair

Robert T. Ayres, Artist

EARLY two thousand years ago John 3:5. Pilate, who was no friend of into heaven? this same Jesus, which is a Baby was born in the city of Christ, said, "I find in him no fault at taken up from you into heaven, shall so Bethlehem. This Baby was the all." John 18:38. God said, "This is my come in like manner as ye have seen Son of God, Jesus Christ, who left the beloved Son, in whom I am well him go into heaven." Acts 1:11. glories of heaven to assume a body of pleased." Matthew 3:17. His is not only a message of present flesh. Christ was wonderful in His deeds. consolation, but one of future hope and Many years before, His birth had They said of Him, "Never man spake assurance. been prophesied by Isaiah: "For unto like this man." John 7:46. He healed Christ is wonderful in His present us a child is born, unto us a son is the sick. He gave sight to the blind. He ministry. The Lord Jesus is Prophet, given: and the government shall be raised the dead. In a distressed world Priest, and King. As Prophet He upon his shoulder: and his name shall He assures us, "These things I have teaches us; as Priest He prays for us; be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The spoken unto you, that in me ye might as King He will return to us. Christ is mighty God, The everlasting Father, have peace. In the world ye shall have not dead; He is very much alive in The Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6. Of tribulation: but be of good cheer; I heaven. He is the "mediator" interced- all the titles given Him, none seems as have overcome the world." John 16:33. ing on behalf of all who come to God complete as "his name shall be called Christ was wonderful in His death. by Him, providing eternal salvation for Wonderful." He died for the sins of the whole world. all who believe. Christ was wonderful in His pre- "Christ died for our sins according to Christ is wonderful in His promised existence. The Bible declares He ex- the scriptures." 1 Corinthians 15:3. return. "The Lord himself shall de- isted before Abraham, even before the Christ was wonderful in His resur- scend from heaven . . . and the dead in creation. We read, "All things were rection. His death would be meaning- Christ shall rise first: then we which made by him; and without him was not less without His resurrection. The Bible are alive and remain shall be caught up any thing made that was made." John declares, "He rose again the third day together with them in the clouds, to 1:3. He is the Jehovah of the Old Tes- according to the scriptures." 1 Corinthi- meet the Lord in the air: and so shall tament. ans 15:4. After His resurrection He we ever be with the Lord." 1 Thessa- Christ was wonderful in His birth. made numerous appearances. He was lonians 4:16, 17. He came into the world to give His life "declared to be the Son of God with Christ is wonderful to know as Sav- for our sins. "When the fulness of the power . . . by the resurrection from the iour and Lord. Each day He becomes time was come, God sent forth his Son, dead." Romans 1:4. more precious. Commit your life more made of a woman, made under the law, Christ was wonderful in His ascen- completely to Him, and rest in His to redeem them that were under the sion. Christ took His followers to the perfect will. He will sustain you in your law, that we might receive the adoption Mount of Olives before returning to His hours of trial. *** of sons." Galatians 4:4, 5. Father in heaven. They were soon Christ was wonderful in His life. The comforted by the angelic visitors. "Ye (Reprints of this article may be obtained from the American Tract Society, Oradell, Bible declares, "In him is no sin." 1 men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up New Jersey.) 11111111ff 1111111 f f 1%f kikfAfthikrkilfk 1111111 III flikfkikik 16 THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 "Hope for These limes",-6

gaze and glory and give oneself again to God—what more could a man ask? Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excite- ment of knowing God on earth. I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Perhaps in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to ex- plore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, smell His garments, and smile into my Lover's eyes—ah, then, A. Devaney not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself." you and I know that our first consid- This is the joy unspeakable that the eration as human beings created in Apostle Peter refers to in 1 Peter 1:8: E STILL, and know that I am the image of God is to enjoy Him. "Whom having not seen, ye love; in God." Psalm 46:10. Jung, the well-known psychiatrist, once whom, though now ye see him not, yet This Bible text tells us that wrote: "Among all my patients in the believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeak- to ay, as well as in days of old, the second half of life—that is to say, over able and full of glory." Is this your ex- secret of knowing and enjoying God thirty-five—there has not been one perience? If not, perhaps you have not lies in a silent, quiet approach to Him, whose problem in the last resort was not been silent enough before God. wherein the still, small voice of God can that of finding a religious outlook in Unquestionably our greatest need is be heard. The trouble is that if there is life." a new sense of God as God! But where anything we moderns fear, it is silence. All of us, whether we admit it openly is the cry of ancient Job, "Oh that I Yet if there is anything we need, it is or not, long for a satisfying relationship knew where I might find him"? Job 23: silence—silence enough to let God with our Maker. Have you ever read 3. Where is our intense desire for Him, speak to us and direct our lives. James Elliot's expression of joy in with our souls on the stretch, our hearts Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish theo- God's presence? James Elliot was the burning with a passion for Him! The logian, has said, "The present state of missionary who in 1956 was killed way to develop that fervency is the way the world and the whole of life is dis- while attempting to bring the gospel to of secret prayer. eased. If I were a doctor and were asked the Auca Indians in South America. In Yet never has there been a time in for my advice, I should reply: Create his diary in 1951 he wrote as follows: history so unfavorable to silence before silence. Men today fear silence as they "I walked out to the hill just now. God. Ellen G. White writes: "An in- fear solitude, because both give them a It is exalting, delicious. To stand em- tensity such as never before was seen glimpse of the terror of life's nothing- braced by the shadows of a friendly tree is taking possession of the world. In ness." with the wind tugging at your coattail amusement, in moneymaking, in the In our most thoughtful moments and the heavens hailing your heart—to contest for power, in the very struggle for existence, there is a terrible force lence is the rest of the mind, and the that engrosses body and mind and soul. nourishment of the spirit. In the midst of this maddening rush, "Picture Washington at Valley Forge, God is speaking. He bids us come apart kneeling to pray in the snow. Here the and commune with Him. 'Be still, and father of our country was utilizing the know that I am God.' privilege of divine communication, "Many, even in their seasons of de- alone with God. And Lincoln at the votion, fail of receiving the blessing of White House, silently praying. How real communion with God. They are in many more such seekers of silence too great haste. With hurried steps they could be named? They have all sought press through the circle of Christ's lov- to find resurrection for their hearts and ing presence, pausing perhaps a mo- souls, their minds and strength. ment within the sacred precincts, but "As we grow in grace and love not waiting for counsel. They have no through the years, we should under- time to remain with the divine Teacher. stand better the value of silence. The With their burdens they return to their seed grows quietly, the tree needs no work."—Education, p. 260. trumpet to proclaim its fruition, to us Really now, do you ever wait in your the stars shine noiselessly in the cata- prayers for counsel from God? You clysm of creation. Far from being may be doing something utterly dis- empty, silence may contain strength, pleasing to Him. But do you wait long creativity, vision, and freedom. enough for Him to tell you? We are so "We need them all. In fact, we could busy talking to God that sometimes He well measure our growth by our mo- has no chance to speak to us. Indeed ments of stillness, our quiet and mean- we often try to cover up our own fail- ingful pauses, those moments of inner ures by an increasing amount of talk— awareness in which we hear most thinking that we can divert God from clearly the persuasions of God." our true state! You ask, But how do I really go "Wait for the Lord, and keep his about finding God in the stillness of my way," is David's advice. For many of home? Do I just sit still? What is in- us waiting is not easy. We want to have volved? I want to give you the benefit the answer, see the solution, right now of the greatest prayer discovery of my —and if God does not give it in our life. Thirty minutes a day is all it takes. way and when we demand it, we soon And there are just three simple steps: notice our frustration mounting. Bible study, prayer, and meditation. On this matter of quietness, someone This is a three-part communication, for has said, "Few women and fewer men in Bible study God speaks to you, in have enough character to be idle." prayer you speak to God, and in silent Lydia Lion Roberts has written: meditation you commune with each "Our days are shot through with other. Simple, isn't it? But this is real haste. The man of the hour is the man communication. We are living in the out of breath. The quick lunch, the di- age of electronics in communication. gested article, the swift flight—all these And the future possibilities are fabu- are characteristic of the lives we live. lous. Scientists say the day may come "Busy with daily activities and en- when every individual may be given a compassed by sounds, we pour things telephone number at birth, and indi- into mind and heart, never stopping to vidual-to-individual communication can think through this accumulation. No be made anywhere in the world! But wonder our lives become full of clamor, we are talking about divine communica- chatter, and confusion. tion, which is much more fabulous. "We need a space of silence, the Bible study—what about it? How healing touch of quiet, a deep immer- do we study the Bible? Just read, pon- sion into inner peace, wherein we may der, and apply the principles to your inquire, 'Is it well with thy soul?' life. There is nothing mysterious about "Queen Juliana of the Netherlands it. We hear much about speed reading has said, 'Everyone should try to fmd today. A Vanderbilt University student a spot to be alone, in order to have a says he reads 500 books a year. I recall proper opportunity to concentrate and that Lincoln in his lifetime concentrated to think.' Jesus often sought to be on reading four books well, and one alone, often reflected on the words of was the Bible. If we are to know and Psalm 23: 'He makes me lie down in enjoy God, we must be expert in the green pastures. He leads me beside still Holy Book. (Joshua 1:8.) Psalm 119: waters; he restores my soul.' True si- 15 reads: "I will meditate in thy precepts." So read the Bible twenty still, and see the salvation of the Lord." minutes. 2 Chronicles 20:17. And the enemy The next step in our devotional plan was routed. is prayer. Here you talk to God. Prayer And what an example of quietness is the opening of the heart to God as to before God was Moses! This great man a friend. Pour out your heart to Him of God did not merely think of God; in adoration, thanksgiving, repentance, he saw Him! God was the constant vi- intercession, and petition. These are the sion before him; he never lost sight of five parts of good prayer. Remember His face. This man spent forty years in that God delights to listen to you and the silence of Midian. By faith he saw give you the desires of your heart. Jesus as his Saviour, and he believed Lastly, after you have prayed—and that the Saviour's merits would be im- here is the secret of it all—linger in puted to him. To Moses faith was no God's presence; don't jump up, but guesswork; it was a reality. This is the enter into the experience of meditation, kind of faith we need, faith that will when you become aware of the presence endure the test. Oh, how often we yield of the eternal God. Here is how you do to temptation because we do not keep it: Begin by saying, "Lord, Thou hast our eyes on Jesus in the quiet time. said, 'Be still, and know that I am I think of the prophet Elijah fleeing God.' " Be absolutely still before Him, from the wicked Queen Jezebel. Elijah for a minute or two. Then talk slowly to had just experienced one of the greatest Him. Open up your heart. Give Him a spiritual triumphs of all time, but as chance to reply. Let Him search your is often the case, there came a letdown heart and point out any sin or give you afterward. But even in his hour of direction for the day. Say, "Search me, weakness and timidity, Elijah fled, not God; try me, know my thoughts. See if to the world, but to the desert place there be any wicked way in me." Take where he could find God. And he found time—much time—at this point. Him, not in the earthquake, not in the When communing with God, shut fire, but in the still, small voice. out everything else. Visualize Him on Did the Apostle Paul appreciate si- His throne, bending over to hear what lence? Paul, whose life was filled to you have to say. In your meditation overflowing with action? No sooner your mind may wander from time to was he called than he went to the si- time. Bring it back immediately. You lence of the desert. He reduces months, have entered here the most blessed rela- even years, into one sentence: "I went tionship of all—one which will grow in to Arabia." How long did he stay beauty into the outreaches of eternity there? To what part of Arabia did he as you draw ever near to the inmost go? Scholars have sought the answer heart of God. to these questions through the centuries. Here is the crowning act of prayer, But the important thing is that Paul of the devotional life. For here you and found God there. And he says to us God speak to each other. You will find today, "Aspire to live quietly." that meditation is the better part of We little realize how many times our prayer, for in prayer you talk to God, Lord went away from the crowd to pray but in meditation you commune with in secret. We recall that when Jesus Him, and you talk about things you do learned of the beheading of John the not even mention in your regular prayer Baptist, the Scriptures say, "He de- life. Close your season of meditation parted thence by ship into a desert place on a note of thanksgiving. apart." Matthew 14:13. Jesus wanted a There it is—a simple program, but silent place of communion with God. I can testify that it works. And I take Here is a poem for consideration: no credit for discovering anything new. The Quiet Room The Bible is filled with accounts of those who found power in silence; we And so I find it well to come need but to rediscover it. Here are a For deeper rest to this still room, few examples: For here the habits of the soul Whenever we try to fight the battle Feel less the outer world's control; of life in our own strength, we need but And from the silence multiplied think of old King Jehoshaphat of Judah. By these still forms on either side When he was preparing for battle with The world that time and sense have Moab, he was told by the prophet known Jahaziel: "Ye shall not need to fight Falls off and leaves us God alone. in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye —JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

H. Hofmann, Artist A SUMMARY The Rediscovery of Silence 6. Was King Jehoshaphat instructed to fight in his own strength? 2 Chronicles 20:17. 1. What is the secret of knowing God? Psalm 46:10. 7. Did Jesus look for a silent place to commune with His 2. What was Job's intense desire? Job 23:3. Father? Matthew 14:13. 3. Which psalm pictures the peace of green pastures and 8. Is it important to be careful in our heart's desires? still waters? Psalm 23. Proverbs 4:23. 4. If we are to know God, what must we be expert in? 9. What is Jesus' promise to those who are weary? Mat- Joshua 1:8. thew 11:28, 29. 5. What should be our meditation? Psalm 119:15. 10. Is His "yoke" a burdensome thing? Verse 30.

It is in the secret moments with God our busy, hurried, and harried world Christ in the soul is worth everything. that life finds its greatest meaning. We that we might be in touch with the `Then are they glad,' because they are of the atomic age dare not face the Infinite. privileged to rest in the arms of ever- present or the future without those mo- But here, for you and me personally, lasting love. ments when we discern God's direction is the most blessed part of all com- "It is your privilege to trust in the for our life. God wants to commune munion. This is the dessert—the sweet- love of Jesus for salvation, in the fullest, with you—heart to heart. Give Him est part! What you and I want above all surest, noblest manner; to say, He the time. Solomon, whose heart for else in this old world is confirmation: loves me, He receives me; I will trust many years was led astray through You want to know for sure that God Him, for He gave His life for me. Noth- surfeiting and self-indulgence, wrote loves you, that all is well between you ing so dispels doubt as coming in con- from experience when he passed on the and God. You long for confirmation of tact with the character of Christ. He solemn counsel: "Keep thy heart with this dramatic fact. In the silent mo- declares, 'Him that cometh to Me I will all diligence; for out of it are the issues ments with God, that is His choicest in no wise cast out'; that is, there is no of life." Proverbs 4:23. We need this message to you. Oh, it is true the Bible possibility of My casting him out, for daily vital contact with God, because assures us of the Father's love, thank I have pledged My word to receive him. we are not wise enough to match wits God, but in communion He reassures Take Christ at His word, and let your with Satan, who contests our every us. He confirms it. lips declare that you have gained the move toward the kingdom. One Christian writer puts it this way: victory." I believe the greatest lesson we can "The Lord has given me a message You were meant for communion with learn about prayer is that we get little for you, and not for you only, but also God. It is your heritage. Begin now to out of our prayers because we put so for other faithful souls who are troubled enjoy Him more fully. little into them. Jesus prayed, and His by doubts and fears regarding their "Be still, and know that I am God." sweat was like drops of blood. Silent acceptance by the Lord Jesus Christ. *** prayer is not weak prayer. It is strong. His word to you is, 'Fear not: for I Jesus prayed "stretchedoutedly," with have redeemed thee, I have called thee His soul on the stretch toward God. All by thy name; thou art Mine.' You de- Reprints the great men of prayer talked to God sire to please the Lord, and you can do of this article (Number H-6) with intense earnestness. this by believing His promises. He is are available. In conclusion, I have saved the best waiting to take you into a harbor of part for the last. You have heard the gracious experience, and He bids you, Prices, postpaid to one address: simple program—God's program—of `Be still, and know that I am God.' Single copies, 5 cents; 10 copies, 25 devoting at least thirty minutes a day You have had a time of unrest; but Je- cents; 100 copies, $2.00. Special prices to Bible study, prayer, meditation. We sus says to you, 'Come unto Me, . . . for larger quantities. Address: Reprint have seen how necessary these are in and I will give you rest.' The joy of Editor, Box 59, Nashville 2, Tennessee.

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QUESTION: For ten years now I've looking for it. What does a person like upon the kind of love that we receive, been married to a man that I don't be- that do? Is it wrong to want to love and but it does depend upon the kind of lieve I love or ever have loved. I met to be loved? Am I capable of loving love that we give. Now that you are him while he was in service. We dated anyone? Sometimes I wonder. married, you should not harbor the a few times, and then he was sent to an- ANSWER: You can have true love for thought that your marriage was a mis- other place. We wrote to each other for all. The kingdom of heaven is built on take or allow your mind to wander to about three years. During all this time love. Satan, the archenemy of God, is other men. Satan's wedge that he uses I was dating other boys. When he came trying to undermine the very founda- back, I married him three days later tion of the kingdom of love. He is en- without knowing anything much about Do you have problems, burdens, deavoring to take away love and substi- and perplexities that seem over- him. I never knew the true meaning of tute infatuation or hatred, and he has love. It seemed that I was seeking love whelming? If you drop us a line, well-nigh succeeded; but thanks be to we shall be glad to join you in and took the first thing that came along God, our Saviour is stronger than the in hopes that I would find it. praying to our heavenly Father. devil. He has overcome him on every Address all correspondence: Prayer After we were married, I found out point, and when we accept Christ as Circle, Box 59, Nashville 2, Ten- my husband drank a lot. I couldn't trust our Saviour, then we will have love in nessee. him, for he drank and came home with our hearts. lipstick on him. After our third child You can love your three lovely chil- was born, my husband settled down, dren. Your love for them gives you a to split human beings apart is to cause and he doesn't run around as he once greater concept of God's love for you. husbands and wives to see the faults in I firmly believe one reason He has per- their companion and to magnify the mitted us to have children is that we good qualities in others. Now that you Your Questions Invited might comprehend His affection for us. are married, make your marriage a Archa Dart is an experienced He has taught us to call Him Father, success. counselor of youth. His advice "Our Father which art in heaven." You I am glad to see that now since the has helped many young people; would give every ounce of strength, ev- third child has arrived he is settling perhaps he can help you. Write ery penny you possess, for the safety down, and let us hope and pray that he to him c/o THESE TIMES, Box 59, and welfare of your children—so it is will become a genuine Christian. From Nashville 2, Tennessee. Your with God, our Father. He is willing to your letter I judge that he loves his chil- name and address will not be used. empty heaven in order to make our dren and wants to see them happy, and lives happy. Your children love you in he also loves you as a wife, but he has return, but you receive the greater bene- formed the habit of not controlling him- did. But I have met a young man who fit from the kind of love that you give self in his desires. Your Christian ex- smiles and speaks to me every time I them. ample and cheerfulness will do more to see him. I have formed an infatuation The same is true concerning your win him to the God of heaven than any for him. 1 seem to be the type to fall for husband. Titus 2:4 admonishes women kind of argument that could be pre- anyone that smiles at me. I guess since to love their husbands as well as their sented. Make your religion attractive I have never known real love I am still children. Our salvation does not depend "by its pleasantness." *** THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 21 By Marjorie Lewis Lloyd

OD and the crowds. The hurrying, pell-mell, unpredictable crowds. Happy. Cheering. Angry. Sad. Demanding freedom for themselves, but sometimes denying it to others. Thoughtless, careless, forgetful crowds. Following each other, not knowing why or where. Wanting to make Christ King. And then turning to crucify Him. What does God think of the crowds? And, perhaps more important, what do they think of Him? Never in our history have we been more conscious of the temper and the will of the crowds. We have seen them turn in moments from a passive assembly to a violent mob. We have been sympathetic toward them, and angered by them. Never have we talked more of the rights of the minority, or of majority rule. A recent Supreme Court decision ruled against reciting the Lord's Prayer in the public schools. This was done to protect the rights of minorities. Yet one ob- server asked, "What of the rights of the thousands of children whose parents de- sire Bible reading and prayer in the schools?" We have no wish here to take sides, or in any way to focus upon particular is- sues now in the public light. There are crowds that demonstrate in the streets. There are crowds that do not. We only say that never has this whole matter of minorities and majorities, their rights and their rule, been more in our minds. We would like to ask, What about the crowds? What about the majorities? Is majority rule safe? Has it been through the centuries? Will it be tomorrow? We ask this because issues more important than any that now make the head- lines, issues that touch the souls of men, are at stake. It could be that the destiny of millions may soon depend upon their relation, individually and collectively, to public opinion, majority opinion. Looking back into history, we find that there is nothing sacred, and nothing safe, about majority opinion. To have followed the public mood in Christ's day would have been to reject the Saviour of the world. "Have any of the rulers . . . believed on him?" That was the question that influenced many a mind. The majority, it seems, has seldom been right. The majority, except for eight souls, rejected truth in the days of Noah, and perished in the catastrophe that pub- lic opinion—even educated, scientific opinion—said could never happen. Truth in Elijah's day was so unpopular that he complained to God that he alone was left. Even the seven thousand loyal hearts of whom he was reminded were a pitifully small minority. The sword and the fagot and the stake, through the ages, have been in the hands of the multitudes. The crowds have been the persecutors. The martyrs have been the few. The will of those strong in numbers has been forced upon the consciences of men. And they have called it majority rule. Evidently the majority is usually wrong, for Jesus said, "Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat." And He added, "Narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." The wrong ways are the broad ways. The right ways are narrow. Were life's roads not rightly constructed? Or is it that the Creator well knew the minds of men? The wide way is the attractive way. It is the brightly lighted way. It is the popu- lar way. But said the wise man, "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." If we had followed the crowd in Christ's day, we would have rejected Him. And if we follow the crowd today, we will reject Him.

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What does God think of the crowds, Munkacsy, Artist even though erring, even though so often wrong? Come with me back to that fateful day when the eloquent and learned Alean- See Him as He sends a message of der stood before the emperor, charging that in the errors of Martin Luther there warning to wicked Nineveh. See Him was enough to warrant the burning of a hundred thousand heretics. He concluded turning aside the threatened destruc- his speech with these words: tion, even against the protests of His "What are all these Lutherans? A crew of insolent pedagogues, corrupt priests, own evangelist, when the city repented. dissolute monks, ignorant lawyers, and degraded nobles, with the common people See Him sending a prophet-statesman whom they have misled and perverted. How far superior to them is the Catholic to ancient, corrupt Babylon, to witness party in number, ability, and power! A unanimous decree from this illustrious in its highest courts, to win it if He assembly will enlighten the simple, warn the imprudent, decide the waverers, and could. God loved the people there. give strength to the weak." The term Babylon, in the Book of Does such reasoning sound familiar? Who are these people, few in number, Revelation, is used to describe the yet claiming to have the truth? Are they not deceived? How much greater are our fallen, wayward church today, the numbers, our influence, our power. church that has played the harlot. But Again and again the tragic sequence of history has been the same. Numbers, God is reluctant to reject her. The influence, power, public opinion. And then force. Influence the minds of men if yearning cry of His heart is, "Come out you can. But if not, force them. This is the tragic line of reasoning that sent of her, my people." Babylon has fallen. multitudes to the stake. But multitudes of His people are still Strangely enough, significantly enough, it is only error that is willing to accept within. God will do anything to save forced obedience. God never does! them. Anything to call them out of the Never has mass public opinion been more uncannily swayed than today. Instant burning. communication makes it possible to change the minds of millions, subtly but God's last call to the human race is surely, almost overnight. found in the Book of Revelation. Read We find an illustration of such power to mold public thinking, whether or not it in chapter 14, verses 6 to 12. It it was deliberate, in an experience through which we passed recently. A Roman begins: pontiff hovered at the door of death for days. Every half hour, day and night, we "And I saw another angel fly in the learned of his condition. The good deeds of his life, the nobility of his goals, were midst of heaven, having the everlasting recounted again and again. The world so identified itself with this dying man that gospel to preach unto them that dwell when he died, his enemies wept with his friends. And for days any man who had on the earth, and to every nation, and dared to take public issue with any aim or principle or doctrine held by the pontiff kindred, and tongue, and people, say- or by his organization would have been condemned immediately as a bigot. ing with a loud voice, Fear God, and Is it any wonder that honest, sober, thoughtful newsmen tremble at the power give glory to him; for the hour of his they find within their hands? judgment is come: and worship him Could it be that God's message for this hour may not come to us christened and that made heaven, and earth, and the blessed by public opinion? Could it be that He who once passed by the rulers to sea, and the fountains of waters." choose humble fishermen will again speak through the few? Could the majority I ask you, Who will be the instru- be wrong? It could be. ments to give this last message to men? God has often had to turn aside from the mainstream. He has often had to Will it come through the mainstream of bypass the regular channels. He may have to again. God's message for today is popular religion? Will it come to us a judgment-hour message. And judgment has never been popular. through the great, wide channel of Yes, if we had followed the crowd in Christ's day, we would have rejected Him. nominal, professing Christianity? Or And if we follow the crowd today, we will reject Him. For Christ and truth can- will it come as a message that cuts not be separated. across popular inclination? Will it, like Could it be that God is speaking to sincere, professing Christians, swept along Noah's warning, be preached by the with the crowd, not sensing how close they stand to the burning, when He says, few—and be heeded by the few? "Come out of her, my people"? Not long ago a great religious leader Come out of your casual, unthinking, nominal profession of Christianity. Come said something like this: "When God out of your slavery to conformity. Dare to be different. Settle your confidence not has a message for men, He will not in the shifting sand of popular thought, not in the will of the majority, not in the send it through some small group." I creeds of ecclesiastical councils or the pronouncements of science, but in the Word wonder, in the light of history and of the living God. Scripture, how he could be so sure! Come out of the crowd. And live! *** THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 23 An Observer's Report of the Fourth World Conference on Faith and Order, Montreal, Canada, July 12-26, 1963. They're Working for c

By HARRY W. LOWE FOR FIFTY YEARS groups of dedi- cated men have been working behind the scenes to solve the problems that fact that the various study groups which too much for some men who could not stand in the way of Christian unity periodically reported to the plenary ses- forget the Reformation stand on the Bi- throughout the world. Periodically they sions of the conference dealt with such ble only. hold large world conferences which subjects as Christ and the Church; Tra- There was quite frank expression of focus public attention on the impor- dition, Traditions, and Holy Scripture; opinion on the part of certain delegates tance of their work. Five hundred dele- Worship. These subjects were in turn as to the fears of many evangelical gates, observers, and visitors assembled broken down for more specific study bodies that have remained outside the in Montreal for the Fourth World Con- to cover such subjects as the Sacra- ecumenical movement. "They fear that ference on Faith and Order, which ments of Baptism and the Eucharist, In- they might eventually be assimilated in stands in succession to similar gather- spiration, Revelation, the Ministry, Or- a world church," it was stated. This kind ings in Lausanne (1927), Edinburgh dination of Women and Laymen, Forms of apprehension is one of the major ob- (1937), and Lund (1953). of Worship and Church Government, stacles in establishing contacts between It was a colorful assembly of clerics and a host of other questions too nu- such groups and the World Council of and theologians from all over the world, merous to mention here. Churches. Dr. Lien-Hwa Chow of the including Russian and Eastern Ortho- Taiwan Baptist Convention stated spe- Theological Terminology and dox, Anglican, Episcopalian, and many cifically, "People are scared of being Denominationalism shades of Protestantism from various assimilated in a big group and losing parts of the earth. There were, this time, The delegates were reminded early their own identity." He added, "Many five official observers and several visi- in the conference that "in every part evangelicals fear that they would be tors from the Roman Catholic Church, of the world the whole texture and pat- dominated by stronger groups if they and the unique occasion of the whole tern of human living is changing, often joined the World Council of Churches." gathering was an address in the audi- with bewildering speed," and "the tradi- Other delegates stated quite frankly torium of the Roman Catholic Univer- tional language of liturgy and Scripture that they felt the day of denomination- sity of Montreal, by the Cardinal Arch- is an alien language and an alien alism and sectarianism was finished, bishop of Montreal, Paule-Emile Leger. thought-form to most of our contem- and the obvious implication was that The Faith and Order movement is poraries." One delegate called attention only the big church could fill the bill in really the theological department of the to the fact that our young people today the needs of the world today. World Council of Churches, and it has do not understand the language of some Protestant-Roman Catholic a multitude of theological problems forms of Christian worship. He said Relationship constantly under study, inasmuch as that it was like a foreign language to these form a major part of the problem the young people to hear the words The Roman question is always a ma- of church union. Anglican Bishop Oli- "Sanctus! Sanctus! Sanctus!" Where- jor item in these gatherings, and on the ver Tomkins of Bristol, England, was upon another delegate facetiously com- evening of July 22 it was thrown into elected chairman of the conference, and mented that what they really did not the public arena in a courageous speech in his opening address called attention understand was "Holy! Holy! Holy!" by Dr. Hans Heinrich Harms, first pas- to "the impetus toward Christian unity All this may be largely true, but as tor of St. Michaels Lutheran Church, all over the world," which has grown was pointed out by another speaker, Hamburg, Germany, and chairman of in a miraculous manner in recent years. while our terminology must be under- the German Missionary Council. Dr. He called attention also to the remark- standable to the average man, it cannot Harms was a forthright speaker, and he able fact that ecumenical dialogue has possibly be put into the language of il- pointed out that whereas forty-five commenced between Protestants and literacy, and therefore we must educate years ago the denominations were de- the Roman Catholic Church, and much our people anew to the meaning of fending themselves against each other, more was said on this subject as the Holy Scripture. The question of the in- even though they were "most of them conference proceeded. "We realize very spiration of Holy Scripture and the not even on shouting terms," today the well," said the bishop, "that inherent in importance of tradition called forth situation was different and there was a the present Roman Catholic position some lively discussions. It is apparent certain atmosphere of togetherness. He are certain dogmatic affirmations on that many theologians today, particu- warned that this might lead us to wish- which there will be no compromise. larly of the liberal school, largely repre- ful thinking, and he pointed out that But it is now true that the Roman Cath- sented in this conference, would be a little history would show that so far olic Church engages in a living dialogue prepared to accord the prior place to as the Roman Catholic question was with the rest of us in a way which is tradition, on the ground that the sub- concerned, the most we could say was quite unprecedented." stance of Holy Scripture, as well as the that the atmosphere was becoming less Some idea of the wide-ranging agenda means of its transmission, is in the tru- frigid. for the conference can be seen in the est sense tradition. This, however, was He pointed out that in 1919 an 24 THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 INITKD WORLD CHURCH

American delegation tried to pave the most six months, when he sent another, dialogue sterile on one capital point." way for Roman Catholic participation whereupon the invitation was somewhat That point involved a modification of in the First World Conference on Faith coldly declined. But a miracle was tak- the canon law of the Roman Church on and Order, by visiting the pope, whose ing place in Roman Catholic circles, marriage. Mehl concluded, "As long as reception was "irresistibly benevolent," said Dr. Harms, because theological the Roman Church regards any mar- but a paper was handed to them as they and private interest continued to de- riage celebrated in Reformation left expressing the official attitude of velop along the lines of ecumenicity. churches as null and void, it will be dif- Roman nonparticipation, and it was Numerous Roman Catholic visitors, an ficult for those churches to have a real "irresistibly frigid." It pointed out that official speaker at a general session, ecumenical dialogue with Rome. . . . the attitude of the Roman Church was and especially the address by the Car- When the Catholic Church stops ex- well known to everybody, that no par- dinal Archbishop of Montreal, are evi- communicating those of its members ticipation could take place, and that the dence of the changing Roman attitude. who accept the blessing of a Protestant pope "earnestly desires and prays that, On Sunday, July 21, the auditorium church when contracting a mixed mar- if the congress is practicable, those who of the Roman Catholic University of riage, not only will the whole atmos- take part in it may, by the grace of God, Montreal was packed with some 5,000 phere be transformed, but one of the see the light and become reunited to people when Cardinal Paule-Emile conditions for an ecumenical dialogue the visible Head of the Church, by Leger, archbishop of Montreal, ad- will be realized." whom they will be received with open dressed the conference on the subject Significant Admissions arms." A British commentator pointed "We Are One in Christ." It was cordial out that "the reciprocity was all on in tone, short in length, and of course In a recent remarkable book, The one side." quite noncommittal in content. It could Council and Reunion, Hans Kung, one But, said Dr. Harms, Roman Catho- not have been otherwise at this stage. of the best-known and foremost Ro- lic theologians continued to develop a When Dr. Harms had concluded his man Catholic theologians, has made private interest in ecumenicity to the address a few days earlier, he had some strong statements about the need extent that the Papacy on July 8, 1927, stated definitely that while he was for Roman Catholic concessions in any published a decree forbidding Roman heartily hoping that there would be Ro- ecumenical dialogue. When a young Catholics to attend the Lausanne Con- man Catholic participation in ecumeni- Roman Catholic wrote to him in be- ference. In fact, Pope Pius XI issued cal conversation, we should point out wilderment about her friendship with a an encyclical letter, Mortalium Animos, very clearly that Protestants could not Protestant, he replied, "Remember that in 1928, in which he pointed out that compromise on certain fundamental is- not only Protestants, but we Catholics, any collaboration with Protestants sues, and that it would be necessary for are responsible for the schism, and that would be expected by the latter to be certain fundamental things on the Ro- we have things to put right as well." "on equal terms, as equals with an man side to be studied anew, such as The significant meeting closed with equal." The pope pointed out that the papal infallibility, intermarriage, prose- both the chairman, Bishop Oliver S. way for Protestants was "to submit lytization, etc. Tomkins, and Dr. W. A. Visser t' themselves to its [the Roman Catholic] Hooft, general secretary, World Coun- teaching and government." The Vexed Question of cil of Churches, expressing notes of Even the late Pope John XXIII in Mixed Marriages optimism and caution. The movement his first encyclical of June 29, 1959, There has been very deep feeling for a world church is beset with com- Ad Petri Cathedram, refers expressedly over the cruel and sorrowful conse- plex problems, but it is gaining more to Mortalium Animos, so we must not quences of mixed marriages between and more momentum. Openings can overlook the fact that even the benevo- Roman Catholics and non-Roman be seen by these dedicated men "which lence of the late pope was only a change Catholics. The Church of Scotland re- only faith could discern yesterday." in atmosphere, and not in the Roman cently issued a very strongly worded The far-flung agenda covered too much Catholic dogmatic approach. When protest against the Catholic attitude. ground to be compassed in one formal Archbishop Soederblom commented on Other churches have joined in a similar statement, but its study commissions the papal attitude of no compromise in protest. Professor Roger Mehl, Re- are always working toward a prede- ecumenical dialogue, he called it "child- formed Church of Alsace and Lorraine, termined, even if not too clearly de- ish" to hope for anything successful. in his impressive address July 12 on fined, end. The late Anglican Archbishop Wil- "The Point of the Ecumenical Situa- If Revelation 13 portrays a powerful liam Temple, in 1936, invited the Ro- tion," stated that when the late Pope religio-political world organization, the man Catholic archbishop of St. An- John XXIII sent back to the Vatican Roman-Protestant dialogue and the in- drews and Edinburgh, Scotland, to Council II "the theological schema on terdenominational mergers promoted participate in the Second World Con- Scripture and tradition for further by Faith and Order and World Council ference on Faith and Order in 1937. study, the reason was that the text pro- of Churches will evidently play a part His letter remained unanswered for al- posed would have made the ecumenical of vital importance. *** THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 25 READER'S CHOICE: This challenging message first appeared in the April, 1962, issue of His Magazine and was suggested by Don Larsen of Detroit, Michigan. 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RANKLY, the disciples were embarrassed. The thoughtless, self-seeking crowd had followed them out into the hills. Many were anxious for healing. Some were just novelty seekers, no doubt, but the Fawkward part was that they all were too far from home to return before nightfall. Then to make matters worse—or impossible—Jesus turned to the disciples saying: "You give them something to eat." (Mark 6:37.) Their reaction? "Send them away, that they buy themselves bread." (Why should we provide for this mob? We haven't enough for ourselves, to say noth- ing of anyone else.) And this is a perfectly natural reaction. Yet Jesus deliberately challenged them to the impossible. The contrast between His attitude toward the crowd and His disciples' attitude is significant. He looked upon the crowd with compassion and thought of how He could meet their need. The disciples looked at the crowd and be- gan to feel the pangs of their own appetite. This natural response on the part of disciples has been repeated down through history. William Carey, with maps on the wall of his cobbler's shop, was able with the mind of Charles Zingaro, Artist Christ to look out at the world of need. Later he was able to challenge his denominational leaders to action and was told to sit down—God was able to evangelize the heathen without his aid. In other words, "Send them away." Dead orthodoxy always panics at being involved. But Jesus refused to meet the world's needs without His eaae:eyw a.red disciples' aid. So He challenged them to the impossible. "You give them something to eat." The Lord's attitude seems to be that first we feed the multitude; afterward, more than enough will be left for our own needs. Yet when we look at present-day missionary possible in his natural strength and beyond the subtle strategy and the scarcity of missionaries among millions energy of autosuggestion. But as he attempted to obey, with sharp needs, I suspect that we are of the same stuff power was given. The hand was made as whole as the other. as the disciples. "Send them away. Our resources are inade- The servants at the Cana wedding were commanded to quate. We must first of all build up the local church. We fill the pots with water. These obedient servants were the must put our best men into key positions at home. The need first to see the water blush at the touch of Omnipotence. If of distant people will somehow be met." we are doing what our Lord tells us to do, the last thing We see from the Biblical narrative that Andrew tried to we have to worry about is lack of resources. be helpful; he made an almost despairing remark about a We can also learn from the Lord's methods. Take first boy's lunch with its loaves and fish: "But what are these of all the economy of His power. He would do nothing that among so many?" (John 6:9.) They were soon to prove the disciples could do for themselves or for others. Others that the Lord has His cupboards in very strange places, rolled away the stone at the mouth of Lazarus' grave, but as F. B. Meyer has pointed out. Water gushes out of solid He alone could call the dead to life. In the story of the five rock, manna falls from the open heavens, ravens bring pro- thousand He used the boy's lunch, but it was passed through teins to a tired prophet in the desert, Egypt provides for the disciples. We might say that Jesus deliberately confined Israel in the famine, and honey is found in the carcass of a Himself to His disciples. lion. And the disciples wouldn't soon forget that the food Many have asked what would have happened if they had multiplied as it was given out. only partially obeyed, going only to the first few rows of the In other words, miracles happen in the path of obedi- hungry multitude. It is more to the point today to ask what ence. One writer offers the suggestion that because the would have happened if eleven disciples had gone to the disciples shared their lunches the crowd was encouraged to first few rows and one solitary disciple had tried to feed the do likewise, providing enough for all. Such attempts to ex- rest. The well-fed churches at home these days can afford plain away miracles are almost more difficult to believe to be choosy. They can prefer the ministrations of this disci- than the miracles themselves. There is no lack of the mi- ple or that one or a great number of others. But large num- raculous, no lack of resources in the path of obedience. bers in untouched fields don't even know that Bread from The Bible contains other examples. A man was com- heaven exists, never mind how it tastes, nor would they manded to stretch forth his withered hand, something im- quibble over the manner in which it was served to them. 26 THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 The needs of mission lands call for all-out dedication of every resource by Christian people. Then our Lord's miracles will occur again.

Japan today is one example (not necessarily the worst) A pastor of wide missionary vision, when called to a new of a neglected multitude. Sixty percent of Japan's towns church, immediately told the elders and other church offi- and villages are still without a Christian church or resident cers that he would do his utmost to encourage all evangeli- Christian worker. Twenty-three million live in areas not cal missionary societies as well as their own particular de- reached by any church or Bible class, after one hundred nominational society. The officers demurred, saying that years of Protestant endeavor. According to statistics, for they had found it difficult to meet their own missionary every Christian born in Japan (or born again, I should pledges without spreading their resources further afield. say), 500 unbelievers are added to the population. Japan The pastor asked them to experiment for one year, and if is becoming progressively non-Christian. And it is not for at the end of the year the total church giving had not im- lack of Christian workers in the home lands. Workers seem proved, he would concede to their methods. At the end of to prefer the headaches of dilettante Christendom to the the first year the figures for their denominational missionary heartaches they should share with distant millions unac- work were well over double those of the previous year, and quainted with Christ. at the same time many other interdenominational societies There was wisdom in our Lord's economy of energy, had been helped as well. Lawrence Love has pinpointed it too. The synoptic Gospels record that the Lord had the thus: "The Lord blesses His own program, and that pro- crowd sit down in companies on the grass. This would gram is world evangelization." Without that vision the local avoid confusion. Wouldn't it also mean that each person congregation limits its quota. would be fed in the shortest possible time? Is the Lord less This principle also applies to other fields of stewardship. concerned today for systematic, careful outlay of energy For instance, how much time do we give each day to prayer and materials? Someone has suggested that everyone has for missionaries abroad? a right to hear the gospel once, before any one person has The wife of a busy pastor wrote this to us: "Since the holiday I have become sure that I should spend more time in prayer for the mission field and less for local needs. Somehow the local needs seem to be met while we concen- trate on the main task. I had been overwhelmed by so many needs in the immediate neighborhood, but when I stopped wrestling and started concentrating on Japan (and other countries) there were answers in abundance." Henry Martyn said that the Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of mis- By K. S. ROUNDHILL sions, and the nearer we get to Christ the more intensely missionary we become. The clue to the Lord's motives in all this comes out the right to hear it twice. This is an oversimplification, but clearly in John 6:6. "This he [Jesus] said to prove him: consistent with the economy of His energy. for he himself knew what he would do." I wonder just what Something also can be said about the economy of ma- response the Lord longed for. Without doubt, He desired terial. The disciples were commanded to gather up the them to have compassion. Keen expectancy of His con- fragments that remained so that nothing would be lost. Did tinuing ability to do the impossible would have brought it mean a whole basket for each hard-worked disciple? We Him joy. Even their obvious willingness to participate in can see, at least, that the Lord is an enemy of waste. He anything that He planned, would have brought Him satis- is always prodigal in His giving, yet He never squanders faction. And Andrew came nearest to this, it is true. But materials. even the imagination of his faith didn't appear to rise above The grief of missionaries on furlough is understandable. the measure of a boy's bag lunch. . . . Again and again they come across the outlay of huge sums In the face of a shrinking free world and possible cata- on ornate church buildings and other projects but find clysm around the next grim corner, an entrenched church deafness to the Lord's command, "You give them some- naturally digs further in. Young men are increasingly at- thing to eat." tracted by that will-o'-the-wisp called security, all the while Then, the Lord's mathematics. The disciples' reaction speaking volubly of the opportunities at home. Of course, to the situation was, "What are these among so many?" none of us would be so stonehearted as to say, "Lord, send But Jesus' attitude was, "You give them something to eat." them away. Let them get what comfort they can from Bud- The spiritual order therefore is that we first give and then it dhism and Shinto and what have you." No, but is it less shall be given. The liberal soul is made fat. We give and culpable to ignore the multitude, as if it didn't exist? The then our capacity for giving increases. The widow of Zare- complexity of our day and the apparent brevity of time phath first had to give to the prophet at his request; only left to us, call not for heartless panic or indifference, but for then did she find that the empty cruse mysteriously kept all-out dedication of every resource. When every crumb of on filling with oil. Our reaction is first of all to make our bread, every piece of fish, and every disciple is involved, own business secure and then to give to those in need from our Lord's miracles will occur again. *** our excess. But the Lord does not draw up His budget Reprinted by permission from His, student magazine of Inter- like that. Varsity Christian Fellowship. THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 27 Dr. Wirt went on. "We need articles the hands of men who feel the truth to motivate youth to service, to mission burning upon the altar of their hearts, service. We believe in the need for mis- and who have an intelligent zeal for sions." And the one hundred or so God, balanced with sound judgment. writers and potential writers agreed The pen, dipped in the fountain of pure with the editor of one of the most truth, can send the beams of light to widely circulated religious magazines of dark corners of the earth, which will our time. (Decision publishes one and reflect its rays back, adding new power, a half million copies in its several edi- and giving increased light to be scat- tions.) tered everywhere." Dr. Robert Ferm, co-editor of Deci- Now back to Minneapolis. Almost sion, laid the philosophical framework everything today, including writing, for the session, stressing the authority smacks of the superficial, Dr. Ferm de- of the Scriptures for the Christian clared on the opening day of the confer- writer. "True Christian writing must ence. This superficial writing is de- be Biblical in point of view," he stated, signed to sell immediately, to be read "and all statements must be able to be on the streetcar. But it is not what really documented." He emphasized that "the shapes thinking. There must be depth reader of all Christian literature has in writing if it is to change people's the right to expect the writer is honest." thinking. Good Christian writing does not go While writing must be thorough and against sound scientific principles. "Je- have depth, it must also be plain. As sus never violated human reason or George Edstrom, office manager of the good common sense." Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Several guest instructors participated quoted from the prophet Habakkuk: in the session, calling attention to the "And the Lord answered and said, desperate need for top-quality Christian Write the vision and make it plain." writers and giving tips on how to be- Habakkuk 2:2. The reason, of course, come those writers. Included among the is "that he may run that readeth." We guest instructors were Mrs. Margaret J. must write so that we inspire others to Anderson, author and past president of move, to act. evealed at Minnesota Christian Writers' Guild; The way to deal with a problem, Dr. Willmar Thorkelson, religion editor, Wirt brought out, is through the eyes Swot oi The Minneapolis Star; Mel Larson, edi- of a person who has solved it. This tor, The Evangelical Beacon; Donald principle has been used repeatedly with tian Miting Hustad, organist of the Billy Graham success in the Reader's Digest and other illy gtakam Team; Lance Zavitz, director, Billy magazines. Don't view with alarm, the Graham Crusade News Bureau; Joyce principle continues; rather, view with dquatteu Manning, editor of the British paper hope. The Christian. Evangelistic writing goes direct, the Mrs. Anderson made a strong point Decision editor continued, as if the MINNEAPOLIS was hot and humid. that gospel writing must be served fresh salvation of the world depended on that In the chapel at the Billy Graham head- without old clichés. In getting proper piece—for someone's salvation may be quarters, the air conditioning was most attention, the author should often use decided by it! refreshing—and functional, for it the "Hey! You" approach. When he The impact of the conference was helped minds work that might otherwise has the reader's attention, he says, summed up in the story of a gardener in be fogged out by the sticky weather. "See!" After showing his material, he Italy. A visitor noticed the beautifully And during the last week of June, draws his conclusions. "So . . ." kept grounds of the estate and asked if 1963, there was no time for fogged Decision copy editor Lois Weigand the owner lived on the estate. "No," minds! talked about "the manuscript the editor was the answer. "Does he come often "We believe the time is short," Dr. wants to see." It must have an interest- to see it?" "Seldom; only four times in Sherwood Wirt was saying. Dr. Wirt, ing title; an interesting opening para- the twenty-eight years I have worked editor of Decision Magazine, was dean graph; good style; something to say; here," the gardener replied. "How long of this first School of Christian Writing freshness, originality, and distinctive- has it been since he last came?" "Twelve sponsored by the Billy Graham Evange- ness; insight into human nature; pro- years." "But you keep the place so listic Association. And the school be- gression in development; and fresh beautiful, so spotless, as if you were came the first of its kind—aimed pri- truth in conclusion. expecting the owner tomorrow." The marily and directly at the advancement Articles filling those qualifications, answer of the gardener rang clear: of evangelistic writing, writing designed set in the evangelistic framework, are "Today, sir, today." to draw souls to Jesus Christ while there needed today as never before. Sensing Likewise, there must arise a genera- is yet time. the great power of the pen and the tion of Christian writers that will pre- great need around the world, Ellen G. pare people for the Master's return—to By JAMES JOINER White wrote: "The pen is a power in be ready "today, sir, today." *** 28 THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." Proverbs 25:11.

HE GIVETH MORE He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater, He sendeth more strength when the labors increase; To added affliction He addeth His mercy, To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace.

When we have exhausted our store of endurance, When our strength has failed ere the day is half done, The Costas When we reach the end of our hoarded resources, Our Father's full giving is only begun.

FOR ME His love has no limit, His grace has no measure, For me He left His home on high; His power no boundary known unto men; For me to earth He came to die; For out of His infinite riches in Jesus For me He in a manger lay; He giveth and giveth and giveth again. For me to Egypt fled away; For me He dwelt with fishermen; —Annie Johnson Flint. For me He slept in cave and glen; From Donald F. Haynes. For me abuse He meekly bore; For me a crown of thorns He wore; The harder we work the luckier we get. For me He braved Gethsemane; For me He hung upon a tree; —Selected. For me His final feast was made; From A. G. Dunn. For me by Judas was betrayed; For me by Peter was denied; For me by Pilate crucified; "I have no faith in men," you say. For me His precious blood was shed; My eye! CREDO For me He slept among the dead; I saw you board a plane with ten For me He rose with might at last; And ride across the sky. Not what, but Whom, I do believe, For me above the skies He passed; That, in my darkest hour of need, For me He sits at God's right hand; "I have no faith in God," you wail. Hath comfort that no mortal creed For me He'll come at God's command. No faith in God, indeed! To mortal man may give;— —Author Unknown. Why did you dig into the sod, Not what, but Whom! From Carol Clark. For Christ is more than all the creeds, And scatter flower seed? And His full life of gentle deeds —Mildred E. Luton. Shall all the creeds outlive. From Mrs. Katherine Robbins. Not what I do believe, but Whom! Who walks beside me in the gloom? GOD HEARS PRAYER Who shares the burden wearisome? If radio's slim fingers can pluck a melody Who all the dim way doth illume, From night—and toss it over a continent or sea; And bids me look beyond the tomb If the petalled white notes of a violin The larger life to live?— Are blown across the mountains or the city's din; Not what I do believe, If songs, like crimson roses, are culled from thin blue air— But Whom! Why should mortals wonder if God hears prayer? Not what, but Whom! —Ethel Romig Fuller. —John Oxenham. From M. Fraser. From C. L. Chadwick.

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THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 29 The literature, stage, music, and art of the age reflect the chaos of thought, ideals, and morals. We are reaping the whirlwind of social destruction, which, if not checked, could bring our society to annihilation as it did the great em- pire of ancient Rome.

A CHILDHOOD HAZARD Three thousand children, mostly in Nevada and Utah, have probably re- ceived "hazardous doses of fallout ra- diation from nuclear testing in the last twelve years," according to the report studied recently by a Joint Congres- sional Atomic Energy Subcommittee. Dr. Eric Reiss, associate professor of medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine, presented the re- port on behalf of the St. Louis Citizens Committee for Nuclear Information. In an interview by a New York Times re- porter, Dr. Reiss predicted that chil- dren drinking milk contaminated with radioactive iodine are in danger of hav- ing thyroid disorder. The scientist, ac- cording to the newspaper, "predicted that this would result in ten to twelve cases of thyroid cancer in exposed children." The report criticized the Atomic Energy Commission for its "inadequate procedures, which failed to look for NEW CRIME RECORD One of the most alarming trends is the amount of radioactive materials, the sharp increase in crimes by youth Four major crimes a minute! This is particularly radioactive iodine entering under eighteen years of age. Nine per- the food supply." the 1962 record of lawlessness for the cent more juveniles were arrested in United States, according to J. Edgar 1962 than in the previous year. These COMBATING ILLITERACY Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau youngsters are involved in 18 percent Rapid progress toward literacy is be- of Investigation. Crime in America of the crime of our large cities. ing made in a hundred nations around broke all records last year by increasing America is not alone in the upsurge the globe. Better schools are educating four times as rapidly as the population of lawlessness. According to The New children, and evening classes are guid- explosion. For the first time serious of- York Times, crime in London is mount- ing adults. Television has been brought fenses passed the 2,000,000 mark. ing at the rate of 9 percent over 1961. into use in Africa, and in Kenya alone These crimes include murders, forcible Officials are disturbed over gangsterism a program of sixty-four lessons is rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, and the increased use of firearms. beamed to the population. burglaries, larcenies of at least fifty dol- Sociological studies can be made to A report from UNESCO to the lars, and automobile thefts. seek the answers for modern lawless- United Nations states that "about half An increase of 13 percent in crime ness. We would suggest three major the countries reporting stated that they was recorded in 1962 over the average reasons which are being confirmed have special literacy programs for spe- for the previous three years. Mr. more and more with the trends of soci- cial groups—soldiers, prisoners, immi- Hoover declares that "police effective- ety. First, the deterioration of homelife, grants, or refugees." ness remains high despite mounting with little loyalty for home or nation be- The United States also bears a blight crime workloads and heavier demands ing taught to the child by the parents. of illiteracy, for the U.S. Commissioner for a wide variety of increasingly com- Second, a distorted philosophy of edu- of Education, Francis J. Keppel, is plex police services." cation which encourages permissiveness quoted by the Christian Science Moni- Who is to blame for mounting crimi- without discipline or responsibility. tor as saying: "The presence of 8,000,- nality? The FBI director emphasizes Third, the collapse of moral standards 000 adults who have completed less that a "community's crime rate is pri- through a lack of religious commitment than five years of schooling and are marily the product of its inhabitants— or any genuine spiritual values. functionally illiterate is a national the victims as well as the perpetrators Since World War II Western civiliza- shame." of crime. Positive action to reduce crime tion has sown a bumper crop of rebel- One of the world leaders in the pro- must begin with the individual citizen." lion against God and human authority. gram to abolish illiteracy is Dr. Frank 30 THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963

C. Laubach, designer of a course trans- lated into more than three hundred lan- guages and dialects. The course is so simple that as soon as a person has learned to read he can teach another person. Dr. Laubach's slogan is: "Each CURRENT one teach one." As persons learn to read, they need books. Here is where the Christian churches and the Bible Societies fill a AND need by supplying Gospels and other simple portions of the Scriptures for be- ginning readers. Centuries ago the He- brew poet declared of divine truth, QUOTABLE "The entrance of thy words giveth light." Psalm 119:130. This is the light that illumines the mind and brings an imperishable hope to the human heart. BILLY GRAHAM DEFEATING DISEASE Medical research, encouraged and aided financially by the federal govern- Billy Graham at the Coliseum in Los Angeles: "Man has ment, is gaining many victories in the lost the trust concept of God. We have limited God. He is war against disease. The National merely the extension of our own desires and imaginations and very Health Education Committee recently little more. We have made Him a pygmy God, a miniature deity issued the booklet Does Medical Re- fashioned in our own image. We need to come back to the Biblical search Pay Off? which summarizes some concept of God that He is a God of holiness, righteousness, and of the remarkable gains. In the decade judgment. But He is also a God of love." ending in 1961, the death rate from whooping cough dropped 100 percent, J. Howard Pew: "When a people come to look upon their govern- from poliomyelitis 90 percent, from ment or their church as the source of all their rights, there will surely dysentery 86 percent, from acute ne- come a time when they will look upon that same government or phritis 62 percent, and from hyperten- church as the source of all their wrongs." sive heart disease 38 percent. Such declines in the death rate are Charles A. Stuck: "Sometimes distance is not measured in miles. It often is measured in the distance of the person from God." the result of medical research with the attendant production of drugs and vac- Tagore, quoted by Samuel B. Gould, "September Undergraduate": cines to combat disease. Mental ill- "We cannot afford to fritter away our solitude.... We cannot truly nesses have been alleviated in a dra- live for one another if we never claim freedom to live alone, if our matic way. In 1955 there were 558,900 social duties consist in helping one another forget that we have patients in public mental hospitals. souls. To exhaust ourselves completely in mere efforts to give com- Since the introduction of tranquilizing pany to each other is to cheat the world of our best, the best which drugs the number has dropped so that is the product of the amplitude of our inner atmosphere of leisure." near the end of 1962 only 512,900 pa- tients were in the same institutions. Sydney J. Harris, Chicago "Daily News": "Worries cannot be willed With all the scientific gains, man re- away by consciously refusing to acknowledge them—they must be mains the victim of death. Heart dis- pulled up by the roots and examined in the light, not pushed down eases killed 940,440 Americans in deeper into the unconscious, where they only do darker mischief by 1961, and almost 12,000,000 more disguising themselves in some bizarre manner." suffer from diseases of the heart and cir- Charles L. Allen, in "The Lord's Prayer" (Fleming H. Revell Com- culatory system. According to the Na- pany): "A wrong spirit toward another person may or may not hurt tional Health Survey, almost 600,000,- him, but it is certain to destroy my own soul. Booker T. Washington 000 workdays were lost in the year understood it when he said, 'I will not permit any man to narrow from July, 1957, through June, 1958. and degrade my soul by making me hate him.'" On the basis of minimum wages these days represented a loss of six billion Raymond F. Cottrell: "Every true prayer presupposes sincerity of dollars in income. purpose and a heart that is right with God and one's fel- Dr. Howard A. Rusk states in The lowmen. It should carry with it faith and a happy submis- New York Times that the $690,000,- sion to all of God's will, including willingness on our part 000 spent this year by the federal gov- for God to work things out in the way He sees best." ernment in medical research is small 99 compared with amounts spent by Amer- icans to jeopardize their health. In

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1961 the nation squandered more than is his duty—whether a shopworker, a $11,000,000,000 for alcoholic bever- businessman, or a governor—to uphold ages, and some $7,000,000,000 for and obey the laws of the nation. tobacco. From these figures we may logically deduce that many Americans WELFARE PROGRAM care little to protect their health; and Cecil A. Williams, a Seventh-day when the government does all it can to Adventist missionary, was honored by combat disease, careless citizens do all the Republic of Korea at its eighteenth they can by intemperate habits to de- anniversary of liberation in Seoul on stroy their health. August 15. Pastor Williams was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit CONCILIATORY ROME Medal by Acting President Pak Chung The attitude of the Vatican toward Hee for his leadership in the church's the Communist nations of Eastern Eu- welfare program. rope is becoming more friendly, accord- This program consists largely of the ing to Eric Bourne, in the Christian distribution of food donated by the Science Monitor. In Hungary, for ex- United States government, and clothing ample, negotiations are so far advanced (1,000 bales in 1962) collected by the that "Communist authorities are be- Adventist churches in America. The lieved to have agreed on the issues of program gave regular assistance to religious instruction and training of 100,000 people in 1962. This was in- priests—presumably along the lines creased in 1963 to include 300,000 observed in Poland—and on appoint- orphans, sick children, refugees, lep- ments to presently vacant bishoprics," ers, flood victims, and those involved Robert L. Sheldo in land reclamation projects. GRATEFUL KOREANS: Pastor Cecil A. Wil- says the correspondent. liams received the Order of Cultural Merit However, the situation in Czecho- Fourteen Public Health nurses, all Medal for his leadership in the welfare work slovakia "has a long way to go," in Mr. graduates of the church's school of of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ko- Bourne's analysis, "before it approaches nursing at the Seoul Sanitarium and rea. The ceremony took place August 15. the improved situation in Hungary." Hospital, are located throughout South Through these lands, where there Korea. They supervise a very success- are many Roman Catholics, the Vati- ful phase of this program. They teach for security and a craze for pleasure. can representatives are working silently expectant mothers how to prepare and James Reston sends his own observa- and shrewdly to gain better relations use powdered milk. They not only tions of Europe to The New York for the church without making a major check their patients healthwise but also Times in these pungent sentences: compromise with Communistic philoso- personally assist in preparing the food. "Morally, it is even wilder than we phy. The outcome of the maneuvers They teach them how to use the bulgur [Americans] were in the Jazz Age. should be watched with interest during wheat, cornmeal, and flour that they Spiritually, it is adrift from the past." coming months. have received. The young men and women, says This is another example of the Reston, "don't believe in anything." DEFIERS OF THE LAW church's accepting the Lord's challenge, A member of the British Parliament, Justice Arthur J. Goldberg of the Su- "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one Aidan Crawley, writes in the London preme Court recently called on the na- of the least of these, . . . ye have done it Times of what he observed on the Con- tion's lawyers and judges to support the unto me." Matthew 25:40. tinent: "The dynamic has gone out of Court's decisions as long as they remain Europe. The vision . . . of the world's the law. He said: "The judicial process CHANGING EUROPE most talented peoples joining together assumes peace. It rests upon unreserved Radical transformations are taking to rekindle the flame of Western civili- acceptance of and compliance with the place in Europe, according to Arthur zation . . . is dying." decisions of the Court of last resort. Koestler, who wrote recently in the Living in the most momentous period Democratic government cannot endure English journal Encounter: "The new of history, the masses of civilized men if the law is defied by those in or out of Europe is not Huxley's brave new world think little of the dangers of nuclear authority. . . . It is too late in our his- or Orwell's 1984. Ideologies are on the destruction. They care not a whit for tory to deny that the Constitution, as wane, poverty is on the way out. The honest, constructive government. God interpreted by the Supreme Court, is new structure which is taking shape is is not the center of their thinking. Like the supreme law of the land." the society of managers, technocrats, animals, they desire only creature com- Let every citizen who loves America official planning, chromium, motels, forts with little intellectual or spiritual remember that this nation is no stronger and motorways." challenge, no moral standards, no love than its Constitution, its laws, and its It would seem that Europe is follow- for their fellow men, and seldom a citizens who honor and uphold them! ing the path of America in the past thought for their eternal destiny! What Unless a law is in direct conflict with thirty years. Spiritual values are sub- a fulfillment of Paul's prophecy of the the religious beliefs of an individual, it merged in materialism. There is a lust last days in 2 Timothy 3:1-5! 32 THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 4,e e••••••••••••0 • •

PROBING THE UNIVERSE falls short by being too cold and me- Satellites, improved and with su- thodical in the treating of the patient. perior instruments aboard, will soon Dr. Edward H. Rynearson, of the be launched in an attempt to probe Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, set PLEASE SEND the secrets of the universe. They will forth his views at the convention. He be complex, automated space labora- stated that more than 50 percent of the "THESE TIMES" tories, designed to explore the space patients in any waiting room are there between the planets, to obtain new- because of the vicissitudes of life. No GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS TO: dimension views of the stars and galax- longer able to face the issues of ex- ies, and to gather data concerning the istence, they become ill. Dr. Rynearson NAME believes religion can help the individu- sun. ADDRESS According to Jerry E. Bishop, in the als who have been injured by the blows Wall Street Journal, approximately ten of our complex civilization. CITY STATE scientific satellites launched by the Commenting on these findings, the NAME United States are circling the earth, editor of the Lubbock (Texas) Ava- sending back data about the sun, cos- lanche-Journal writes: "The science of ADDRESS medicine deals primarily with the heal- mic rays, the atmosphere, and space CITY STATE ___ radiation. ing of the body; but it takes more than medicine to heal the wounds which af- One of the first of the new "orbiting NAME - observatories" to be fired into space flict his soul. And it is here that spiritu- ADDRESS was a 440-pound satellite. It has ality comes into the picture. For a man studied the giant flares of energy that without faith—without trust in a Being CITY STATE spout out from the surface of the sun. higher than himself—is sick, no matter Three more satellites for solar observa- how healthy he may be, physically." NAME tion are scheduled for launching in the The Apostle John linked a prosper- ADDRESS ing, healthy person with a prospering near future. CITY STATE Satellites that will gather data con- religious experience. (3 John 2.) The prophet Isaiah linked a zealous reli- cerning the stars are of special interest NAME to astronomers, since they have been gious life which was outgiving in serv- frustrated in their study by the earth's ice to others with physical well-being. ADDRESS atmosphere, which acts as a filter to He said that when a man was right with CITY STATE block the light from the stars. his brother man and with God, "then The fantastic discoveries, as they shall thy light break forth as the morn- NAME ing, and thine health shall spring forth continue to be made in the universe, ADDRESS only confirm the laws of an omnipotent speedily." Isaiah 58:8. The age-old un- Creator and further reveal His power derstanding of the relation of a sound CITY STATE and majesty. religious faith to good health is right- fully being acknowledged by modern Additional gift names and addresses may be listed on a separate sheet of paper and SPIRITUAL THERAPY medicine. enclosed with this order. Realizing that physical health is many LEADER IN LANGUAGES times dependent upon spiritual well- being, the American Medical Associa- Once again the Bible is the most- tion recently set up a Department of translated book in the world, according Gift Subscriptions $2.75 Religion and Medicine, whose purpose to the annual bibliography of UNESCO. is to bring clergymen and physicians In 1961 the Scriptures, or portions of closer together in the art of healing. them, were translated into 246 lan- Add $.40 for each foreign subscription. Many physicians realize that medicine guages. The Communist writings of Lenin are again in second place-185 MY NAME IS languages. This is largely the result of CHRISTMAS SUGGESTION strenuous efforts by Soviet publishers. ADDRESS Why not send These Times sub- As the Word of God is translated CITY scriptions to those special friends of into new and remote languages, it will STATE yours—the filling station attendant, bring hope and peace to tens of thou- neighbor John Brown, or Uncle sands who have never read in their own MY CHRISTMAS GIFT CARD Harry. We'll send Christmas gift language the messages of Jesus Christ. SHOULD READ: cards for you, if you wish. The Scriptures will be their food, which Do it today. Your friends will be Jeremiah said he ate, and he adds, "Thy Just complete the order above, mail it with your check or money order, and we'll do eternally grateful you did. See the word was unto me the joy and rejoicing the rest. Send to THESE TIMES, Box 59, special offer on this page. of mine heart." Jeremiah 15:16. *** Nashville, Tennessee 37202.

THESE TIMES, DECEMBER, 1963 33 They will turn faster usually under the prodding of an aroused public, typically caused by an aroused press. But radio, television, newspapers, and most magazines do not editorialize or give play to the story plainly and ARE MIRACLES simply because we depend so heavily on the cigarette OUTDATED? manufacturers for advertising-144 million dollars last year. This is a thoroughly pragmatic consideration, but PERHAPS the greatest weakness of modern Chris- also an irresponsible, cowardly use of newsprint and the tianity is its failure to rely completely upon God. An airwaves. age that lives by its own scientific accomplishments finds This particular station continues to deal with the sub- it hard to recognize the supernatural and omnipotent ject and does not broadcast or accept cigarette advertis- Lord, who makes possible all human progress. ing for only one reason—children, the youngsters who Writing on the topic, Dr. L. Nelson Bell clearly re- through the glamor of association with radio, television, bukes the unbelief of this age. Dr. Bell says: and sports heroes take up smoking long before they can "Unbelief is seen in our treating prayer as a mere reason, much less know about the risks. It is a risk un- `pious exercise' rather than as a God-given privilege complicated to those who have seen the adult heroes in whereby the very battlements of heaven are stormed and the unglamorous business of coughing their cancerous captured for God's glory and man's immediate and insides out. eternal benefit. Yet a million and a half American school children "Unbelief runs rampant as man ignores or rejects the now smoking will do the same one day, according to clear promises of God. Not for naught has God filled his the American Public Health Association. This is a Word with specific promises and principles having to do calculated decision to make by grown people. No one with the contingencies and problems of life. By our neg- under twenty-one is capable of making judgments as lect of these we make God a liar and lose immeasurable binding as the one to begin smoking. This is plainly and comfort and blessing. simply a matter of the law being laid down by parents "Unbelief is highlighted as we forget that the super- and schools. natural God can and does act today in supernatural So far as radio, television, and the press are con- ways. What man considers 'miracle' is merely God act- cerned, it's a question of how to handle the news and ing naturally, either within or beyond the capabilities of advertising of cigarettes, of having principle and poli- our understanding. Nowhere do we fail more than in our cies. If we can't once in a while put a principle before refusal to recognize the power of God, even though we a buck in this business, then, if you'll pardon, we are cannot comprehend the scope of that power." not worthy of the power we possess. Citing Biblical examples both of faith and lack of —Arthur W. Arundel, president, radio station faith, Dr. Bell gives the classic example of trust in God: WAVA, Washington, D.C., in Activities. "Abraham stood the test in a marvelous way. He was confronted with a situation and a promise impossible A PERSONAL REMINDER from a human standpoint. Faith in the faithfulness of God made him the 'father of the faithful.' When tested CHRISTMASTIME has arrived again. And despite about Isaac he acted with faith and obedience, 'account- the troubled international situation, the crises at home ing that God was able.' How puny is our faith today! and abroad, and the ever-present complex of personal How far removed from an understanding of the God problems, there steals imperceptibly into our hearts with whom we have to do!" anew the glow that is the magic of Christmas, the in- Let us, like the father of the afflicted child, cry out to definable spirit of excitement and goodness that makes us our Saviour, "Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." kinder, more sympathetic, more generous, more human. Mark 9:24. J. J. Perhaps our best gift to you this season is a personal reminder that this glow need not vanish December 26. YOUTHFUL POISON Someone has said, "There is nothing so much 'over' as Christmas." There has been a buildup of electrification T CONTINUES an amazing phenomenon of our times —then comes the climax, and the elation departs for that for all that has now been learned about the terrible another year. No—Christmas really should teach us that dangers of cigarette smoking, so little is being published the Christian's joy is ever an expectant one. Like the and broadcast about it. child's anticipation on Christmas morning, the Christian For while medical authorities have found that ciga- awaits daily the treasures his God has packaged for rettes are a major cause of cancer, neither the public him. Life with Christ is that thrilling. media nor government has given more than passing Don't let the Christmas glow depart from you. It need mention of the fact. And while the Federal Drug Ad- not; in fact it is meant to be experienced forever. ministration permits no more than two parts in a million K. J. H. of nicotine, which causes bad heart reactions, in food, it tolerates 6,000 times as much in cigarettes. In the case of government, action is slow only be- cause the wheels of government forever turn slowly.

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1963 Index THESE TIMES

INDEX BY ARTICLE HEADINGS

Month Month Adventure Along the Trans-Canada Highway June Conciliatory Rome Dec. America's Need: A New Protestant Awakening Mar. Consolidating Churches "Apples of Gold" Sept. Jan.-Dec. Constant Menace, A Sept. Are We Really Grateful? Abbott, Winston 0. Aug. Cost of the UN Are You Bored With Life? July Graham, Billy Sept. Crime Cures Mar. Are You Hooked? Hetzell, M. Carol - - Mar. Curb Cigarettes "Arise, Shine" Feb. Von Tungeln, Annie Danger Signals in Smoke Aug. Laurie June Deep-seated Hates Nov. Basic Quartet of Christian Faith, A Wallenkampf, Arnold V. Dec. Defeating Disease Battle of Life, The Dec. van Dyke, Henry Jan. Defiers of the Law Dec. Be Careful, Everyone! (Poem) __— Hammond, Weldon Denominations in Congress May Taylor May Disease Carriers July Beyond These Troubled Times (Poem) Dessain, W. A. June Dishonest Americans Oct. Cappy's Masterpiece Lehman, Louis Paul Mar. Doctor Prescribes, A Apr. Case of the Miserable Christian, The Finney, R. E., Jr. Apr. "Doomsday" Missiles Charles Darwin's Other Voyage July Wirt, Sherwood E. May Dropouts of High School Aug. Christ—The Hope of the World Lee, Leonard C. July Easier Learning and Living Aug. Cross Was Mine, The (Poem) Reid, Eda A. May Electronic Fantasy Apr. Crucified (Poem) Lloyd, Marjorie Lewis Oct. Ethics Counselors Day the President Sang, The Mar. Coffey, Cecil Nov. Fear of Freedom July Dear Editor: Jan., Mar., May, July, Nov. Flying "Tin Goose" Nov. Destination—Mission Field Hetzell, M. Carol Jan. Freedom for Colombia Apr. Did God Create Suffering? Fagal, William A. May Gospel by Radio June Divine Role, The (Poem) Albaugh, Dorothy Mar. High Cost of Alcoholics Nov. Does God Approve the Use of Civil Power Higher Aim in Education July to Enforce His Will? Hegstad, Roland R. July Homegrown Religion Oct. Does It Really Matter? Fagal, William A. June Honest Smoke? Mar. Door, The Ashworth, Donna Nov. Hunger in the Headlines Oct. Dynamic Life, The Wallenkampf, Arnold V. Mar. Justice Speaks Out, A Apr. EDITORIALS Lack of Food Jan. Leader in Languages Dec. Are Miracles Outdated? Dec. Life Beyond Our Earth Nov. Best Seller Scoffs Sept. Lust for Money Court Rules, The Oct. Oct. Man Loses Himself Oct. General's Letter Was Lacking, The Apr. Millionaires Multiply Nov. In the Process Sept. "Mindreading" Machines Jan. It's Your Turn May Moon Craze, The Aug. Lord's Day and the Sabbath, The June Morality Challenged June Montreal and Revelation Nov. Nation's Loss, A May Morals in High Places Aug. New Crime Record Dec. One Day at a Time June New Horrors of War Feb. Open Letter to Seagrams, An May New Light on Alcoholism Mar. Personal Reminder, A Dec. News Without Thought July Rome and the Bible Apr. Nuclear-Age Children Aug. Sabbath: Burden or Joy? Mar. Overcivilization Kills July Science and Religion Jan. Peace a Fable Sept. Sex Scandals, The Oct. "Perilous Times" Mar. Teen-agers Write Own Code Oct. Pledged Word, The ____ Feb. There Is a Place to Hide Mar. Poor Credit Rating — Feb. There Is No God? Sept. Poor Get Poorer, The Aug. Victor Hugo, Sydney J. Harris, and the Prophets July Probing the Universe Dec. "We Are Never Alone!" _ Feb. Proving Venus June What Is CROP? Jan. Racial Discrimination May Where Do We Go From Here? Thoughts on Space Aug. Radiation and Death Jan. Youthful Poison Dec. Restless Rovers June EVENTS OF THESE TIMES Sinister Sunday Laws Feb. Slipping Morals Oct. Age Goal-100 Years Sept. Smoke Headlines Nov. Aid to College Youth June Spain's Persecution May Are Parents Parents? June Spiritual Therapy Dec. Are People Persons? May Stand for Freedom, A Sept. Australia Rebuilds Wall June Tax Money for Mission Schools Jan. Bats, Radar, and Conscience Jan. Those Crowded Highways Nov. Be Still, Be Quiet! July Tired World, A _ Jan. Betrayal of Youth Feb. Tomorrow's Wonderland Sept. Bibles for Spain Aug. "Vision" in Television Sept. Book Sales Soar Apr. Watering Down Religion Oct. Boredom and Delinquency July Welfare Program Dec. Catholics Warn Jews Jan. Welfare Wrongs Apr. Challenge to Democracy May What Have We Said? Feb. Changing Environment May World's End Feb. Changing Europe Dec. Childhood Hazard, A Dec. FOCUSING Beach, Walter Raymond Choosing Ministers June Chronic Illness Mar. American Dream, The Oct. Church Union for England June Believe Your Beliefs May City Disease Apr. Decay Feb. Collapse of Unity May For Whom the Bell Tolls June Combating Illiteracy Dec. Life's Portrait Aug. PAGE ONE

Month Month Look of the Soul, The July Scoffer, The (Poem) Esteb, Adlai Albert May Prayer Nov. Search for Security, The Cleveland, E. E. Oct. Spring Cleaning Apr. She Dared to Stand for Freedom Savacool, Harry Jan. Total Commitment Dec. So Near the Brink Gentry, Robert V. _ May-Aug. Value of a Good Reputation, The Jan. Social Diseases—The Teen-age Menace McQuillan, Florence L. Aug. Who Will Guide Me? Mar. Space Flight (Poem) Hammond, Weldon Get in the Swim Fox, J. DeWitt, M.D. Sept. Taylor Jan. God and the Crowds Lloyd, Marjorie Lewis Dec. Spring Tonics Fox, J. DeWitt, M.D. . . Apr. God's Family Hetzell, M. Carol June Supreme Court and the Bible, The Hegstad, Roland R. Sept. God's Truth and Man's Dilemma Anderson, Godfrey T. . Apr. Take Your Youngsters to the Farm Doward, Jan ______Aug. He Lives! Wallenkampf, Arnold V. Apr. Ten Commandments, The Tippett, H. M. Jan.-Apr. Heaven at Home Shryock, Harold, M.D. May Testimony of a Scientist, The Chen, Philip S. Sept. Hero of Valley Forge (Poem) -- Joiner, James Feb. "That Continuing Religious Issue" Lowell, C. Stanley Dec. How God and Man Work Together White, Ellen G. Oct. There Fell a Hush Edwards, Vincent Oct. How to Develop Your Faith in God Pease, Norval Sept. These Have I Loved Meyer, Mildred E. May How to Find God's Hidden Treasures White, Ellen G. Dec. They're Working for a United World Church Lowe, Harry W. _ . Dec. How to Obtain the Pearl of Great Price White, Ellen G. June To the Last Dot! Hill, Cecelia Stanley July How to Obtain Victory Over Sin MacGuire, Meade Nov. "Tu Es Petrus" Walther, Daniel Sept. How to Postpone Your Heart Attack! Scharffenberg, J. A., M.D. Feb. Turn Us Again, 0 Lord ( Poem) Krum, Nathaniel Aug. How to Use the Bible to the Best Advantage Neufeld, Don Nov. Twelve Good Ways to Beat the Heat Aug. Hypnosis in the Living Room Fox, J. DeWitt, M.D. Feb. Unleash Your Faith Detamore, F. W. Aug. I Believe (Poem) Hammond, Weldon Very Important Person in My Life, A Hammill, Richard July Taylor Feb. Waiting for the Resurrection Fagal, William A. Feb. I Believe Rockefeller, John D., Jr. Oct. We Ought to Obey God Fagal, William A. Jan. Introduction to Camping, An July What Is the Gospel? Esteb, Adlai Albert Sept. Invitation (Poem) _ __ Sauls, Richard Lynn May What It Means to Be a Christian White, Ellen G. Feb. Is God Being Kicked Out of our Schools? Hegstad, Roland R. Aug. What Must I Do to Be Saved? Johnston, Bruce Aug. Is There a Conflict Between Natural Science Why an Ecumenical Council? Nussbaum, Jean Apr. and Revelation? Marsh, Frank L. Jan., Feb. Why I Tithe Fagal, William A. Apr. Joy of the Believer, The (Poem) Allen, Edna Jane Apr. Why I'm Not Going to Quit Hempfling, Robert J. June "Land of the Morning Calm" Hetzell, M. Carol Sept. Will God Punish Sinners? Fagal, William A. Mar. Little-Known Truth in a Well-Known Text, A Pierson, Robert H. Oct. Word for the World, The Hoffmann, Oswald C. J. Apr. Mission on New York's Skid Row, The Sandstrom, Harry G. May Years of Silence, The Oct. Missions and Miracles Roundhill, K. S. Dec. Your Body: A Temple of God Anderson, Godfrey T. ... July Most Important Person in My Life, The Gomes, G. M. June Your Tired Feeling Fox, J. DeWitt, M.D. Nov. Iversen, J. 0. Mar. Moore, Mary Hunter May YOUTH WANTS TO KNOW Dart, Archa 0. Nash, G. R. Jan. Shires, Reginald N....__ Aug. A's or Activities? Mar. Wilson, Dorothy Clarke Feb. Are Grownups Right? June Mr. Bass and the Grain of Mustard Seed Coffey, Cecil Apr. Bad Reputations _____ July Music of Silence, The Roper, William L. . Mar. Being Ordered Around Jan. Natural Concord of Faith and Learning, The Anderson, Godfrey T. . ._ June Boys Give Her Rings Jan. Need for Christian Writers, The Joiner, James ____ Dec. Budget Your Time May Needy American, The Beaven, Winton . Feb. Dating Several Fellows Jan. Old Scarecrow Moon, Robert Mar. Father's Whippings July On the Dedication of a Library Beach, Walter Raymond Sept. Friends Who Steal ______.. . Apr. Our Wonderful Saviour Blair, J. Allen Dec. Husband Is Jealous Oct. Out of His Love Ford, Herbert Oct. I Have Wanderlust __ Oct. Paid in Full Cleveland, Philip Jerome Sept. In Love With a Wayward Fellow Feb. Parents Don't Want These Girls—But God Is She in Love? June Does! The Sandstrom, Harry G. _ Nov. Kid Brother Talks June Path That Leads to Heaven, The Lowe, Harry W. Nov. Lots of Money Apr. Phillips Brooks's Carol of Remembrance Edwards, Vincent Dec. Making Marriage a Success Dec. Prayer for a Bride and Groom Evans, Louis H. June Mother Drinks Apr. Prayer God Loves to Answer, The Littlefield, Mary Wynn .. June My Parents Are Divorced Mar. Pride and Humility Hurst, Mont Oct. Obscene Pictures May Productive Trifles Von Tungeln, Annie Reckless Driver July Laurie May Remedy for Cursing July Radio Station Faith Built, The Oliphant, Bill June Retarded Friend Feb. Rays From a Small Light Neagle, Marjorie Spiller Dec. Should They Kiss? Nov. Recent Excavations in the Holy Land Horn, Siegfried H., Oct., Nov. Showing the Knees June Recharge Your Battery Fox, J. DeWitt, M.D. June Straight "A" Student July Rediscovery of Silence, The Holland, Kenneth J. Dec. Tall Girl's Problem Mar. Reflection (Poem) Hammond, Weldon Telling Dirty Stories June Taylor Nov. Twin Sisters Nov. Roads We Choose, The Anderson, Godfrey T. Dec. Wants to Marry Apr.

INDEX BY AUTHORS Month Month Month Abbott, Winston 0. Chen, Philip S. Esteb, Adlai Albert Are We Really Grateful? Aug. Testimony of a Scientist, The Sept. Scoffer, The (Poem) May Albaugh, Dorothy Cleveland, E. E. What Is the Gospel? Sept. Divine Role, The (Poem) Mar. Search for Security, The Oct. Evans, Louis H. Allen, Edna Jane Cleveland, Philip Jerome Prayer for a Bride and Groom ____ June Joy of the Believer, The (Poem) Apr. Paid in Full . Sept. Fagal, William A. Anderson, Godfrey T. Coffey, Cecil Did God Create Suffering? May God's Truth and Man's Dilemma Apr. Day the President Sang, The Nov. Does It Really Matter? June Natural Concord of Faith and Learning, Mr. Bass and the Grain of Mustard Seed . Apr. Waiting for the Resurrection Feb. The June We Ought to Obey God Jan. Dart, Archa 0. Apr. Roads We Choose, The Dec. Youth Wants to Know Jan.-July, Oct.-Dec. Why I Tithe Your Body: A Temple of God July Will God Punish Sinners? Mar. Dessain, W. A. Finney, R. E., Jr. Ashworth, Donna Beyond These Troubled Times (Poem) .... June Door, The Nov. Case of the Miserable Christians, The Apr. Beach, Walter Raymond Detamore, F. W. Ford, Herbert Focusing Jan.-Aug., Oct.-Dec. Unleash Your Faith Aug. Out of His Love Oct. On the Dedication of a Library Sept. Doward, Jan Fox, J. DeWitt, M.D. Beaven, Winton Take Your Youngsters to the Farm Aug. Get in the Swim Sept. Needy American, The Feb. Edwards, Vincent Hypnosis in the Living Room Feb. Blair, J. Allen Phillips Brooks's Carol of Remembrance Dec. Recharge Your Battery June Our Wonderful Saviour . Dec. There Fell a Hush Oct. Spring Tonics Apr. PAGE TWO

Month Month Month Your Tired Feeling Nov. Krum, Nathaniel Reid, Eda A. Gentry, Robert V. Turn Us Again, 0 Lord (Poem) Aug. Cross Was Mine, The (Poem) May So Near the Brink May-Aug. Lee, Leonard C. Rockefeller, John D., Jr. Gomes, G. M. Christ-The Hope of the World July I Believe Oct. Most Important Person in My Life, The June Lehman, Louis Paul Roper, William L. Graham, Billy Cappy's Masterpiece Mar. Music of Silence, The Mar. Are You Bored With Life? Sept. Littlefield, Mary Wynn Roundhill, K. S. Hammill, Richard Prayer God Loves to Answer, The June Missions and Miracles Dec. Very Important Person in My Life, A July Lloyd, Marjorie Lewis Sandstrom, Harry G. Hammond, Weldon Taylor Crucified (Poem) Oct. Mission on New York's Skid Row, The May Be Careful, Everyone! (Poem) May God and the Crowds Dec. Parents Don't Want These Girls-But God I Believe (Poem) Feb. Lowe, Harry W. Does! The Nov. Reflection (Poem) Nov. Path That Leads to Heaven, The Nov. Sauls, Richard Lynn Space Flight (Poem) Jan. They're Working for a United World Invitation (Poem) May Hegstad, Roland R. Church Dec. Savacool, Harry Does God Approve the Use of Civil Power Lowell, C. Stanley She Dared to Stand for Freedom Jan. to Enforce His Will? July "That Continuing Religious Issue" Dec. Scharffenberg, J. A., M.D. Is God Being Kicked Out of Our Schools? Aug. MacGuire, Meade How to Postpone Your Heart Attack! Feb. Supreme Court and the Bible, The Sept. How to Obtain Victory Over Sin Nov. Shires, Reginald N. Hempfling, Robert J. Marsh, Frank L. Most Important Person in My Life, The Aug. Why I'm Not Going to Quit June Is There a Conflict Between Natural Shryock, Harold, M.D. Hetzell, M. Carol Science and Revelation? Jan., Feb. Heaven at Home May Are You Hooked? Mar. McQuillan, Florence L. Tippett, H. M. Destination-Mission Field Jan. Social Diseases-The Teen-age Menace Aug. Ten Commandments, The Jan.-Apr. God's Family June Meyer, Mildred E. van Dyke, Henry "Land of the Morning Calm" Sept. These Have I Loved May Battle of Life, The Jan. Hill, Cecelia Stanley Moon, Robert Von Tungeln, Annie Laurie To the Last Dot! . July Old Scarecrow Mar. "Arise, Shine" June Hoffmann, Oswald C. J. Moore, Mary Hunter Productive Trifles May Word for the World, The Apr. Most Important Person in My Life, The May Wallenkampf, Arnold V. Holland, Kenneth J. Nash, G. R. Basic Quartet of Christian Faith, A Dec. Rediscovery of Silence, The Dec. Most Important Person in My Life, The Jan. Dynamic Life, The Mar. Neufeld, Don He Lives! Apr. Horn, Siegfried H. How to Use the Bible to the Best Recent Excavations in the Holy Land, Oct., Nov. Walther, Daniel Advantage Nov. "Tu Es Petrus" Sept. Hurst, Mont Nussbaum, Jean White, Ellen G. Pride and Humility Oct. Why an Ecumenical Council? Apr. How God and Man Work Together Oct. Iversen, J. 0. Oliphant, Bill How to Find God's Hidden Treasures Dec. Most Important Person in My Life, The Mar. Radio Station Faith Built, The June How to Obtain the Pearl of Great Price June Joiner, James Pease, Norval What It Means to Be a Christian Feb. Hero of Valley Forge (Poem) Feb. How to Develop Your Faith in God Sept. Wilson, Dorothy Clarke Need for Christian Writers, The Dec. Pierson, Robert H. Most Important Person in My Life, The Feb. Johnston, Bruce Little-known Truth in a Well-Known Wirt, Sherwood E. What Must I Do to Be Saved? Aug. Text, A Oct. Charles Darwin's Other Voyage May

INDEX BY SUBJECTS

Month and Page Month and Page Month and Page Americans abroad Feb.:8 Heart attacks Feb.:4 Sabbath Jan •17 Andrews University library Sept.:8 Heaven, path to Nov.:4 Sabbathkeeping Mar.:34 Archaeology Oct.: 12; Nov.: 10 Hidden treasure Dec.: 12 Salvation Aug.: 17 Archibald, R. T. June: 22 Hiding place Mar.: 34 Salvation Army's home for girls Nov.:22 Bass Memorial Academy Apr.: 10 History between Old and New Testaments Oct.:22 Science, natural, and the Bible ____ Jan.:4; Feb.:10 Bible, how to use Nov.:17 Holy Land, excavations in Israel Nov.: 10 Science proves God Sept.:22 Bible reading Apr.:9 Holy Land, excavations in Jordan Oct.: 12 Scudder, Dr. Ida Feb.:22 Bible reading in schools Sept.:10 Home, Christian May:14 Security, search for Oct.: 17 Bible study Dec.: 12 Hutchinson, Anne Jan.:8 Seed sowing Oct.: 26 Blind, literature for July: 12 Important person June:22; July:22; Aug.:22 Separation of church and state Aug.: 7 Boredom Sept.: 7 "It Is Written" May:6; June: 13; July:25; Aug.:25 Silence Dec.: 17 Bowery Mission May: 10 Keller, Helen Mar.: 10 Sin, victory over Nov.: 14 Camping July: 28 Kennedy, President, war experience Nov.: 8 Sinners, punishment of Mar.: 17 Catholicism Mar.: 24 Korea, S.D.A. welfare service in Sept.:14 Smoking, Five Day Plan Mar •7 Christ Dec.:16 Life's choice Dec.:4 Social diseases Aug.: 10 Christ, resurrection Apr.:22 Marriage June:2 Spicer, W. A. May: 22 Christ, second coming July:17 Miracles Dec.: 26 Spring tonics Apr.:28 Christian life Feb.:28; Mar •4; Dec.:4, 8 Missionaries Jan.:10 Suffering May: 17 Christian Record July :12 Missions Dec.: 26 Sunday laws July:8 Christian writers Dec.:28 New birth Feb.: 28 Swimming Sept.: 24 Christians, miserable Apr.:6 "0 Little Town of Bethlehem" Dec.: 11 Temperance Mar.:29 Colthurst, Robert Aug.:22 Obedience required by God June:17 Ten Commandments an.: 14; Feb.: 14; Mar.:14; Darwin, Charles May: 26 Parables of Christ Feb.: 28 Apr.: 14 Delinquency Nov.: 22 Tithing Apr.: 17 Drinking Mar.: 29 Pearl of great price June : 28 Trans-Canada Highway June: 26 Ecumenical Council Apr.: 25 Prayer June:6 Trifles May:4 Evil, how to overcome Jan.:24 Prayer in public schools Aug.: 7 Truth of God Apr.: 5 Faith June:4, 10; Aug.:4; Sept.:17 Protestant awakening needed Mar.: 24 TV viewing by children Feb.:26 False witness Mar.:14 Public schools, religion in Aug.:7 United World Church Dec.: 24 Federal aid for private schools Dec.:6 Punishment of the wicked Oct.:4 Vatican Council II Sept.:26 Dec.:22 God and crowds Religious liberty Jan •8; July:8; Aug.:7; Weidner, John, underground leader Oct •6 Gospel of Christ Sept.:4 Gratefulness Aug.: 21 Sept.:10; Dec.:6 White, James, Library dedication Sept.:8 Health ____ Feb.:4; June: 24; July: 4; Aug.: 10, 28; Resurrection Feb.:17; Apr.:22 Wilson, N. C. Jan.:22 Sept.:24; Nov.:27 Richards, H. M. S. ______Mif722 World Council of Churches Dec.: 24

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