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• , WORLD 'EVENTS IN THE LIGHT 1OF PROPHECY VOL. 44, NO. 41 MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 14, 1929 TWOPENCE Jpwrc 04 Ueneral PILOW H. M. Queen Mary visiting the East Ham Memorial Hospital, London. The blessed hope that we shall live again has cheered the hearts of many as sickness or accidents have brought them face to face with death. SHALL WE LIVE AGAIN? (Ohe Glories pf the Blessed Hope OW often, as we sit beside H. S. STREETER live again?" In confidence he the bed of some dear one answers, "All the days of my H who is passing down into appointed time will I wait, till the valley of death, and as we my change come. Thou shalt stand before the open grave that Many have been the answers call, and I will answer Thee : is waiting to receive our de- proffered by our fellow mortals, Thou wilt have a desire to the parted dear one and friend, we but there is only one sure source work of Thine hands." Job 14: have asked the question, Shall of information, the inspired 14, 15. we see him again? Is that Scriptures of truth. Through sin, man cut himself yawning chasm the end of all The question we have asked, off from access to the tree of things? Shall we ever again "Shall we live again?" is very life, and the sentence of death listen to that voice which in- ancient. As Job passed through was passed upon him. But be- spired us with hope and cour- his trial of pain and misery, fore he heard the note of doom, age, or feel the clasp of the surrounded by his so-called com- there reached his ears the prom- brotherly hand? forters, life seemed a burden to ise of a Redeemer. The promise These and many other ques- him, and he longed to die. But was the assurance of life for all tions surge through our minds, having learned to trust God in who would acknowledge their and we long for the assurance the days of prosperity, he could own undone condition, and in that some day we may meet once trust Him also in adversity. His faith lay hold of the Saviour, more to continue the communion faith reached out after God, and and accept the merits of His that was so sweet to us here. he asks, "If a man die, shall he life. We cannot escape death: [Registered at the G.P.O., Melbourne, for transmission by post as a newspaper.] 2 SIGNS OF THE TIMES October 14, 1929 "The living know that they shall der that the Apostle Paul should university of God, and never be die." The falling leaf and the call it a blessed hope, and be weary in their research. fading flower proclaim our mor- willing to suffer death in order To contemplate such a glori- tality. The message of life that he might spread its glad ous life, puts fresh energy into through the Redeemer was pro- tidings to the ends of the earth? one's endeavours, and makes one claimed after the Fall, and the What an incentive to labour and long for that blessed day to confidence of holy men in this study is the knowledge that the dawn when once again we shall assurance progressed as the cen- work commenced here will be clasp the loved ones who have turies rolled away. carried forward in the here- been waiting in the land of dark- after ! ness. What a pleasure to meet THE BIBLE'S POSITIVE the faithful of all ages, from TESTIMONY THE ENEMY ASSAILS OUR HOPE righteous Abel to the last saint THIS blessed hope of life be- GLORIOUS as is the assurance gathered from among the be- yond the grave is endorsed by that we shall live again, it is, nighted heathen, and to hear writers throughout the Bible, as nevertheless, a teaching much from their lips the story of re- the following passages prove :— assailed by the enemy of truth. deeming love. Reader, that is "But God will redeem my soul He would teach men that they your privilege and mine. from the power of the grave : possess inherent immortality, for He shall receive me." Ps. whereas immortality is a gift NATURE SPEAKS ITS LESSON given us in Christ, and promised 49 : 15. HERE, too, on earth, we may "Thy dead men shall live, to- to those only who accept Him as read in nature the token of a gether with my dead body shall their life. 1 John 5: 12. new life. The opening blossom they arise. Awake and sing, ye Satan would ensnare man into in the springtime is the assur- that dwell in dust : for thy dew believing that he steps into the ance of a new life, and how is as the dew of herbs, and the life immortal at the time of often has the power of life, hid- earth shall cast out the dead." death. But life immortal for the den in the seed, overthrown the Isa. 26 : 19. followers of Christ is not be- unbelief of the infidel. A Ger- "Thus saith the Lord ; A voice stowed until the coming of man princess, lying on her was heard in Ramah, lamenta- Jesus. Paul declares with em- death-bed, gave instruction that tion, and bitter weeping; Rachel phasis : "Behold, I show you a her grave was to consist of huge weeping for her children refused mystery ; we shall not all sleep, slabs of stone, fastened securely to be comforted for her chil- but we shall all be changed, in a with iron bars, and on it were to dren, because they were not. moment, in the twinkling of an be the words, "This grave is Thus saith the Lord ; Refrain eye, at the last trump : for the never to be opened : it is sealed thy voice from weeping, and trumpet shall sound, and the for all eternity." She did not thine eyes from tears : for thy dead shall be raised incorrupt- believe in a resurrection. work shall be rewarded, saith ible, and we shall be changed." In some mysterious way a the Lord ; and they shall come 1 Cor. 15 : 51, 52. "For the Lord ltitle acorn found a lodgment in again from the land of the Himself shall descend from hea- that tomb, and germinated. Its enemy. And there is hope in ven with a shout, with the voice slender stem found an exit thine end, saith the Lord, that of the Archangel, and with the through an opening in the slabs ; thy children shall come again to trump of God : and the dead in and growing stronger year by their own border." Jer. 31: 15- Christ shall rise first." 1 Thess. 4 : 16. year, it burst asunder the iron 17. bands and raised the slabs. It "Thus saith the Lord God ; The resurrection to righteous- stands today, a monument of the Behold, 0 My people, I will open ness and the bestowal of immor- mighty power of God. Men may your graves, and cause you to tality being thus associated with deny the hereafter and the res- come up out of your graves, and the coming of Christ, it is evi- urrection ; but Jesus Christ en- bring you into the land of Is- dent that all who desire eternal tered the abode of death, and rael." Eze. 37 : 12. life will have accepted Christ as from that grave His Father "And many of them that sleep their Saviour and be looking called Him; and today He lives in the dust of the earth shall forward to His coming as the triumphant over death and the awake, some to everlasting life, climax of their hopes. It is to grave, and bids all to accept and some to shame and everlast- this that the apostle referred Him, the Way, the Truth, and ing contempt." Dan. 12 : 2. when he said, "Looking for that the Life. He is your Life, dear blessed hope, and the glorious reader, if you will accept Him. "I will ransom them from the appearing of the great God and power of the grave ; I will re- He will make life sweeter now, our Saviour Jesus Christ." Titus and prepare you for life ever- deem them from death : 0 death, 2 : 13. I will be thy plagues ; 0 grave, lasting. I will be thy destruction." Hosea LIGHTENING THE TERROR OF 13 : 14. THE TOMB "TRUE education does not ig- "I am the Resurrection, and To all those who thus live in nore the value of scientific the Life : he that believeth in Christ now, the grave is but an knowledge or literary acquire- Me, though he were dead, yet inn on the way to Jerusalem. ments; but above information it shall he live." John 11: 25. They will be satisfied when they values power ; above power, With such an array of evi- awake with His likeness. They goodness ; above intellectual ac- dence and much more that could will come forth with glorified quirements, character. T h e be quoted, can we doubt that bodies, clad in immortal youth, world does not so much need man will live once more? Have free from all traces of suffering men of great intellect as of noble we not full assurance that there and pain, and with clear minds, character. It needs men in waits for man a resurrection prepared to enter the school of whom ability is controlled by from the dead? Is it any won- eternity, to study in the vast steadfast principle." October 14, 1929 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 3 "Prohibition was conceived and achieved as a moral and social reform, and in those fields it has made its greatest con- .06,•., ‘ „-- tributions to the advancement of 4 110Te the race.