• , 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. But it has also achieved , .-0,„,„„„ results in the economic life of •:,,,,, . ,--., • ., 1( CtilT) the nation which even its most !,„ 4A i III ,; lb, e • • I Vire ardent advocates never dared to

vcI , r ! . 1:1.-t-: --..; prophesy. - - Or Comment "As a shoemaker hangs out a .. - -,'"•-•Z : '' .....$7 . shoe as the sign of what he ______.______.,_ makes, so Prohibition may hang ._..._ .,_...... ,....:,..„....„,...... ,..;.,, out the sign of the dollar." There can be no doubt that the liquor traffic is one of the greatest • foes to efficiency and economy. Prohibition is justify- (Prohibition and (Prosperity ing itself from the economic standpoint, to gay nothing of N interesting circular on the and four times as much as the the great good it has accom- economic effects of Pro- Warsaw worker. It was prob- plished in social and moral ways. A hibition in the United ably this line of investigation Surely it is time that Australia States was issued recently by that led the Bureau of Internal and New Zealand woke up to the Mr. W. G. Calderwood. For the Revenue to say, 'The highest fact that by retaining the liquor benefit of our readers we here- standard of living ever attained traffic in their midst they are with reproduce in full the facts in the history of the world was placing themselves under great presented by Mr. Calderwood :— reached last year by the Amer- disadvantages ! F. "The sustained prosperity of ican people.' the United States during the "There would naturally be a past decade is an unrivalled difference of opinion as to the chapter in the annals of the eco- measure of the influence of Pro- Mocking, the Church nomic achievements of the race. hibition in achieving these re- The national income last year is sults. The Manufacturers' Rec- N addressing the General As- reported to have been over ord, a leading trade paper, took I sembly of the Free Church $90,000,000,000. The average a poll among manufacturers and of Scotland recently, the per capita income of persons leaders in industry, which dem- new moderator, Professor J. R. employed has risen from $1,637 onstrated the fact that manu- Mackay, D.D., made reference in 1921 to nearly $2,500 per facturers and business men in to "doctrines which lie most year. This indicates an increase general look upon Prohibition as closely to the heart of the gospel of approximately $27,000,000,000 one of the chief factors in the —such as the virgin birth, the or 42 per cent since 1921. unparalleled prosperity of the sinless life, the vicarious death, "The Internal Revenue Bureau nation. the bodily resurrection, ascen- forestalls any claim that this "Practically all of the out- sion, and session of our Lord at great gain is because of the standing economists have ex- God's right hand, and His com- high prices of commodities and pressed opinions supporting this ing in bodily form in glory at that therefore it does not repre- view. Dr. Irving Fisher, Pro- the end of the world." "These sent a real gain in the comforts fessor of Economy in Yale, un- are truths," he declared, "that and luxuries of life by saying, doubtedly the foremost political ought to be emblazoned on the `This increase in income is not economist of the United States church's banner all the time." the result of increase in price if not the world, estimates that We are in hearty agreement level, for the actual price of con- Prohibition has added at least with Professor Mackay's pro- sumed goods was slightly less $6,000,000,000 per year to the nouncement. There is a great than in 1921 !' wealth of the people of this need at the present time of em- "A comparison of the pur- country. Roger Babson, the phasising the very doctrines to chasing power of week's or day's well-known business economist, which Professor Mackay re- wage of workers in different C. B. Forbes, another business ferred, for these are the doc- parts of the world is revealing. economist and an engineer, Pro- trines that are being attacked by Taking Philadelphia as the fessor Thomas N. Carver of an increasing number of oppon- American standard at 100 ; Harvard, Professor Feldman ents of the fundamental truths Ottawa, Canada, showed 86; and others representing the of the gospel. And, sad to say, Sydney, Australia, 78 ; Copen- highest economic authority, many of these opponents are hagen, 69 ; Dublin, 63 ; London, agree that Prohibition has in- found within t h e Christian 57 ; Amsterdam, 51; Stockholm, creased the productive capacity church itself, and are often men 50; Berlin, 35 ; Vienna and of the workman and thereby has occupying high positions in the Rome, 29 ; Warsaw, 24. Other- increased the wage which he leadership of the various de- wise stated, the American work- earns. Increased production and nominations and in the theologi- man could buy half more with wage level has increased his cal institutions. his wages than his brother in purchasing and saving power. Referring to the important Dublin or London, and twice as This economic improvement and doctrine of our Lord's coming in much as the earner in Stock- expansion forms a magic circle bodily form in glory at the end holm, practically three times as which benefits all classes and of the world, Professor Mackay much as the workman of Berlin, levels of society. said : "We are passing through 4 SIGNS OF THE TIMES October 14, 1929 a period in which the church is were not in keeping with Chris- at the altar are partakers with being mocked with the query : tian principles, and were detri- the altar? Even so hath the `Where is the promise of His mental to the spiritual life of Lord ordained that they which coming?' " Such a condition the people. preach the gospel should live of was clearly foretold by the Some of those present at the the gospel." 1 Cor. 9 : 13, 14. Apostle Peter, writing under the synod did not agree with Mr. God's plans are always the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Madgwick in this matter, and best; and those who cheerfully as being a characteristic of the one clergyman even declared and lovingly obey His directions last days. In his Second Epistle that he could see nothing wrong find that their faithfulness he writes :— with dancing, and had run yields them a rich reward. F. "In the last days mockers dances and card parties for his shall come with mockery, walk- church. He said he did not par- ing after their own lusts, and ticipate in these himself, but saying, Where is the promise of often thought that he thereby "An AppallznA Dansger His coming? for, from the day "missed a lot of innocent fun." that the fathers fell asleep, all Archdeacon N. G. Herring an annual diocesan festi- things continue as they were considered that there was a good Nval of the Church of Eng- from the beginning of the crea- deal to be said for both sides. land Dr. Cranswick, Bishop tion. For this they wilfully for- He moved the following amend- of Gippsland, Victoria, referred get, that there were heavens meat to Mr. Madgwick's mo- to the rising tide of materialism, from of old, and an earth corn- tion , or secularism. He said that by pacted out of water and amidst materialism he meant a civilisa- "That this synod deprecates all un- tion that thought itself sufficient water, by the word of God ; by worthy methods of raising money for which means the world that church purposes, and recommends without the need for a spiritual then was, being overflowed with strongly to all clergy, and church side of man and without any water, perished : but the hea- officers the Scriptural method of di- need for God. He declared that yens that now are, and the rect giving." there is confronting us today an earth, by the same word have appalling danger—civilisation is Bishop Baker, who presided so pleased with itself that there been stored up for fire, being at the synod, said that he con- is a danger that it may push the reserved against the day of sidered the best way of dealing spiritual side of life out alto- judgment and destruction of un- with the subject was to educate gether, forgetting God and leav- godly men." 2 Peter 3: 3-7, R.V. the spiritual life of the congre- ing Him out of consideration. There are numerous evidences gations, and the methods of rais- to prove that we are indeed liv- ing money which they depre- Referring to the possibility of ing in the last days ; so it is not cated would quickly fall off. war and its attendant horrors, surprising that, as Professor Dr. Cranswick declared that no Our sympathies are certainly Versailles conference or Kellogg Mackay says, "we are passing with Mr. Madgwick in his pro- pact, or anything of that nature, through a period in which the test against such methods of but only a new will to peace and church is being mocked with the raising money for church pur- a new spiritual atmosphere, can query : 'Where is the promise of poses. There can be no doubt guard against war. Today civ- His coming?' " But the fact that congregations need to be ilisation is in danger of losing that the prophecy is meeting educated away from such objec- its basis. The basis of a com- such definite fulfilment should tionable—indeed unchristian— mon life is the home, and the stir us up to greater faithful- ways of obtaining money for Christian principle of marriage ness and more zealous witness- sacred uses. Archdeacon Her- is the basis of the home itself. ing for the truth. F. ring's amendment recommended But today, continued Dr. Crans- "the Scriptural method of direct wick, one finds Christian people giving." This is decidedly the abandoning the Christian prin- best way. Says the inspired ciple of marriage at will. In Dances and Card Parties apostle : "Every man according Victoria alone there are not for Church Finance as he purposeth in his heart, so sufficient judges to cope with let him give; not grudgingly, or the divorce court cases. Here is T t h e annual Anglican of necessity : for God loveth a something, he declared, that the synod held a short time cheerful giver." 2 Cor. 9: 7. Christian churches must stand A ago at Bendigo, Victoria, While we are considering "the up against. He concluded by there was considerable discus- Scriptural method of direct giv- saying that these are some of sion on the question of conduct- ing," we take the opportunity the signs of dissolution that one ing dances, raffles, card parties, of commending to Christian sees on every side. and races for church purposes, people the Scriptural plan for The things to which Bishop as the result of a motion sub- the support of the gospel min- Cranswick has drawn our at- mitted by the Rev. W. M. Madg- istry, namely, the tithing sys- tention are being noticed by wick, which was as follows :— tem. This was the plan ap- many other thoughtful observ- "That this synod affirms that the pointed by the Lord Himself for ers. They are alarmed at the holding of card parties, dances, races, the support of those directly en- "wave of paganism" that is and raffles for church purposes is not gaged in sacred work during the sweeping over the civilised in keeping with Christian principles, days of ancient Israel, and it is world. These "signs of dissolu- and that moneys gained thereby the plan He would have us fol- tion" are also "signs of the should not be accepted by church offi- low under the New Testament times"—signs that this world's cers for buildings or for the prosecu- dispensation also. Says the history is drawing to its close tion of God's work in any of its de- Apostle Paul: "Do ye not know partments." and that soon it will be brought that they which minister about face to face with the Eternal Mr. Madgwick, we are told, holy things live of the things of Judge to answer for its viola- contended that those things the temple? and they which wait tions of His holy law. F. October 14, 1929 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 5 PALESTINE and the JEWS ECENT happenings in the Report of sermon preached by Pastor eyes fixed on the eternal prom- historic land of Palestine Andrew G. Stewart at the Wah- ises, Abraham left his country R as recorded in the columns roonk,a (N. S. W.) Sanitarium, Sun- and his father's house, a so- of the daily press, again raise day, September 8 journer in a strange land. the question in many minds as Everything around him was new to the outcome of the hope ex- and strange a n d, humanly pressed and attempt 'being made speaking, uncertain. But he de- to make this land again the na- blessed. So Abram departed, as cided to do his part and trust tional home of the Jewish race. the Lord had spoken unto him." God to do the rest. Oh that we In undertaking a candid con- Gen. 12 : 1-4. could see more manifestation of sideration of this subject which The Apostle Paul in writing such a faith among the pro- is at the present time receiving subsequently of this experience fessed children of God today. world-wide notice, it seems Wherever this ancient necessary to take a retro- traveller pitched his tent, spective view of the his- he erected his altar, "and tory of this ancient coun- there he called upon the try and its historic peo- name of God." ple, for the land of Pales- Pointing to the stars in tine and the Jewish people their unnumbered clus- will find few parallels in ters, Jehovah declared to all the wide realm of his- His servant, "So shall thy tory. The location of the seed be." Concerning his country, near the centre habitation the same voice of the Old World and on said, "To thee will I give the highway of traffic may it," and of the purpose account for some of the in all, He declares, "In attention given to it in thee shall all nations be secular history, but its blessed." pre - eminence in sacred history as the divinely- NUMEROUS POSTERITY selected domicile of God's OF the fulfilment of this chosen people for ever promise we need but makes its history unique briefly notice the comment and its future an interest- in the opening verses of ing question. the Book of Exodus : "And the children of Israel were THE FOUNDER OF THE fruitful a n d increased JEWISH NATION abundantly, a n d multi- plied and waxed exceeding As a part in God's uni- mighty, and the land was versal plan of salvation, filled With, them." This He chose a man to found remarkable increase on a nation, and gave him a the part of the Israelites country by divine decree, gave the king of Egypt for that nation's habit- particular concern, for, ancy. In the call of Abra- as it is recorded, "He said ham as the head of this unto his people, Behold nation, no arbitrary meas- the people of the children ures were used, but on the of Israel are more and other hand ample oppor- sport o& tionorm The head-dress and other ornaments of a court lady mightier than we ; come tunity for the expression found in the tombs at Ur, the city that Abraham on, let us deal wisely with of faith and obedience left at the bidding of God. From Abraham are them ; lest they multiply, was made. descended both the Jews and many of the largest and it come to pass, that, and most powerful of the Arabian -tribes. But today Of this divine "call" and much bitter feeling exists between these two peoples. when there falleth out any Abraham's response to it, war, they join also unto we read : "Now the Lord our enemies, a n d fight had said unto Abram, Get thee says, "By faith Abraham, when against us, and so get them up out of thy country, and from thy he was called to go out into a out of the land." Ex. 1: 9, 10. kindred, and from thy father's place which he should after re- When their time for deliver- house, unto a land that I will ceive for an inheritance, obeyed; ance from Egypt came, 3,000,- shew thee : and I will make of and he went out not knowing 000, it is carefully computed, thee a great nation, and I will whither he went." 'Heb. 11: 8. marched out that fateful night bless thee, and make thy name In the call to Abraham, three in obedience to Heaven's decree great : and thou shalt be a bless- definite things of importance to "Let My people go." It was ing : and I will bless them that were promised to this ancient a wonderful and glorious deliv- bless thee, and curse him that patriarch : (1) Numerous pos- erance, and a nation of free peo- curseth thee ; and in thee shall terity; (2) national status; (3) ple was, as it were, "born in a all families of the earth be the world's benefactor. So with day." 6 SIGNS OF THE TIMES October 14, 1929 NATIONAL STATUS must be realised. The time to house is left unto you desolate." FORTY years after the Exodus, which the prophetic finger had Matt. 23 : 23. when the flowing Jordan rolled long been pointed was "ful- Forty years after this pro- back its oncoming waters, con- filled," and Shiloh came. Those nouncement of doom was ut- trary to all natural law, to let that sat in darkness and in the tered by the Saviour, Jerusalem Israel pass over, the gateway to region of death had seen "a was destroyed, in A.D. 70. It the Promised Land stood ajar great light." The "man child" was taken, plundered, and burnt ; to allow these people to enter was born, and "His govern- and that "glorious" temple of upon a free possession, of tilled ment" had commenced. Signs, which they had boasted was fields, digged wells, planted miracles, and wonders were all deluged with blood and then vineyards, and vacant homes, in fulfilled, but "He came to His consumed. This was the end of harmony with the promise of own, and His own received Him the nation which said, "We will the Infinite. not." John 1: 11. not have this Man to rule over Cities and armies had gone Instead of recognising in the us," "we have no king but down before them, and now the child of Bethlehem the Son of Csar." fear of Israel and Israel's God God, as the long-predicted and took hold of the surrounding long-looked-for Messiah, they ISRAEL'S ONLY HOPE and surviving nations. After only saw in Him the son of AND while today the nations 350 years of chequered sojourn Joseph the carpenter ; and in- of earth would gladly recognise

Sport & General Photo A band of Arab tribesmen, typical of those who have shown such a hostile spirit toward Jewish settlers in Palestine. in the Land of Promise, Israel stead of recognising Him as the the ancient land of Palestine as became dissatisfied with their Saviour of the world, they a national home for the literal theocratic and tribal govern- plainly declared, "We will not descendants of Abraham, and ment. To be like other nations have this Man to rule over us." assist them in rebuilding Jeru- around them, they demanded a Their rebellion and their re- salem as a Jewish city, it can king. But in that request they jection of the Son of God, as the never become more than a tem- rejected the leadership of I-lea- "Seed of Abraham" through poral abode or material concern. ven and wrote their own na- whom all other blessings would The divine recognition is gone, tional downfall. come, had long been told in and the "house is left . . . Their subsequent history may prophecy and in parable, and desolate." be written under the title of "they were left without excuse." The disciples were sent, first "national failures" — first a di- to "the lost sheep of the house vided empire, and then the con- A DOOMED CITY of Israel" with the gospel invi- sequent overthrow of their city, CHRIST'S importunity on their tation. To them as to the Gen- with its people again in cap- behalf knew no limit, but it was tile world the "kingdom of God" tivity, is the unhappy sequence without avail. With a heart which cometh not with observa- to it all, and their beloved city full of sorrow and compassion tion was to be preached. Faith becomes but a happy memory. He wept over the "beloved city," in Jesus Christ alone as the Sa- saying, "0, Jerusalem, Jerusa- viour of mankind is the only THE WORLD'S BENEFACTOR lem, thou that killest the proph- means of salvation. IN spite of all the wickedness ets, and stonest them that are Paul in writing to the Gala- and misery consequent upon sent unto thee, how often would tians says, "Know ye therefore such a record, God's unfailing I have gathered thy children to- that they which are of faith, the promise that through the "seed gether, even as a hen gathereth same are the children of Abra- of Abraham" all the nations of her chickens under her wings, ham" ; "so then they which be the world should be blessed, and ye would not : behold your (Concluded on page 13) October 14, 1929 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 7 He gives, we are but inert lumps of clay. He has "given to all men life and .breath and all things" ; and yet many with their lives dishonour Him and with their breath curse Him and

WORLD £VENTS IN THE their fellow-men. It is both LIGHT OF :PROPNEty wicked and ungrateful to put such gifts to such unholy uses. Editor: C. M. SNOW - Associate Editor: A. M. FRASER And yet how great is God's pa- Editorial Contributor: - - A. W. ANDERSON tience with mankind! How Please address all communications other than those of a business nature to easy for Him to speak the word the Editor by name. and consign to death all who thus misuse His gifts of life and power and talents, who dis- honour Him in speech, prove disloyal in influence, and open Is There a "Blessed Hope"? enemies i n atheistic propa- panda! But His patience seems VERY newly opened grave dead. If not, then the Bible, almost inexhaustible. He holds opens anew the age-old which, in everything else speaks out life eternal to those who are E question, "Shall we live truly, is foisting a fabrication abusing the privileges of the again?" Man cannot answer of falsehood upon its readers. life they now have. "Turn ye, that question—he has never re- That cannot be. turn ye from your wicked ways; turned from the land of the But there is One who has for why will ye die?" Eze. 33: enemy to tell us of his experi- passed through the portals of 11. That is the pleading of a ences there. True, Lazarus, in the tomb and whose testimony is loving Father, and not of a answer to the command of our recorded for our learning and tyrant. That death from which Saviour, did come forth; but he encouragement. Killed by mal- He wishes us to escape is the spoke no words of his experi- ice and hatred, murdered be- death from which there is no ences while his body lay behind cause. He was not desired by awaking. He wants us to the stone that sealed his four- those to whom He had come awake—and indeed we shall all day resting place. with offer of sonship and life awake whether we wish to do It is true, also, that Moses eternal, He arises from the em- so or not. and Elijah stood on the Mount brace of death, appears before But it makes a wonderful dif- of Transfiguration with our the Father as our Advocate who ference how we awake. The Saviour; but Elijah had not believe on Him, and makes this prophet Daniel speaks of that died, and Moses was honoured declaration :— awakening in language that with a special resurrection. The "I am He that liveth and was should thrill every soul. He son of the widow of Nain, at the dead ; and, behold, I am alive says : "And many of them that word of Jesus, came back from for evermore, Amen ; and have sleep in the dust of the earth the clutch of death before the the keys of hell [the grave] and shall awake, some to everlasting tomb had closed over him ; but of death." Rev. 1: 18. life, and some to shame and no word has come down to us In the latter portion of that everlasting contempt. And they telling of experiences of his soul declaration lies our hope. Hav- that be wise shall shine as the among discarnate spirits in ing paid the price of our re- brightness of the firmament; some region our mortal eyes demption, having suffered the and they that turn many to cannot discern. The Shunam- death that we were condemned righteousness as the stars for mite's son was restored by the to suffer so that death no longer ever and ever." Dan. 12: 2, 3. intercessions of the prophet has that claim on us, He has the That. is God's programme for Elisha; but not one word does right to proclaim our freedom His children—what a sad fact the record give to us that the from the embrace of death, to that so few will avail themselves child had been called back from unlock the gates of the grave, of that glorious opportunity ! association with spirit play- and bid the prisoners come Our Saviour stresses the same mates in a region into which forth. That is when they shall fact in these words: "Marvel flesh and blood cannot come. "awake and sing" ; and that is not at this: for the hour is com- What shall we conclude, then, the reason why they will sing ing, in the which all that are in that there is no life beyond the —the victory over the grave and the graves shall hear His voice, tomb? Nay, verily. The Book the "last enemy" complete, faith and shall come forth ; they that of God has demonstrated its made sight, and hopes for ever have done good, unto the resur- truthfulness in so many ways, realised. How could they re- rection of life ; and they that that we are bound to believe its frain from singing? have done evil, unto the resur- testimony when it declares: The true Christian, in his sur- rection of damnation." John 5: "Thy dead men shall live, to- rendered life, his consecrated 28, 29. Both these scriptures gether with my dead body shall heart, dies to the world, and is declare in plainest words that they arise. Awake and sing, ye then buried with his Lord by not all avail themselves of the that dwell in dust: for thy dew baptism into His death. Then, gracious opportunity afforded is as the dew of herbs, and the says the inspired Word, "If we them by the great gift of God. earth shall cast out the dead." be dead with Him, we shall also Those who come forth "to shame Isa. 26: 19. That is very posi- live with Him." 2 Tim. 2: 11. and everlasting contempt" can tive testimony. It is impossible It is in Him that we live and by no stretch of the meaning of to spiritualise it away. It means move and have our being, in the words be considered as coming exactly what its words would in- spiritual sense as well as in the forth to life everlasting. And dicate. There is life for the literal sense. Without the power (Concluded on page LI) 8 SIGNS OF THE TIMES October 14, 1929 HIS article discusses the work of a particular peo- T ple, the Seventh-day Ad- ventist denomihation, in carry- ing the gospel to all the world What One Denomina and fulfilling the prophecy of our Lord that "this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations ; and then shall THE GOSPEL TO the end come." Matt. 24: 14. We especially cite the work of this denomination because it GWYNNE furnishes, we think, a remark- able instance of what can number of their workers abroad, churches are well known in be accomplished in missionary scattered everywhere their pub- Shanghai, in Peiping, and even endeavour by a whole-hearted lications, proclaimed their Sa- on the distant borders of Tibet. consecration to world-wide re- viour and their goal. We be- Their missionaries preach zeal- sponsibilities. The Seventh-day lieve that it is the only Protes- ously to Mussulmen in Irak, Adventists in their origin were tant denomination that has kept Sumatra, and Egypt, and to obscure to the point of humilia- steadily before its members, as fetish worshippers in Sierra tion. Their early membership the goal of their efforts and Leone and the Gold Coast. was composed almost entirely of their hopes, the evangelisation While their ministers carry on persons who had been connected of the world in this generation. a vigorous campaign in all with the Adventist movement of No carnal wisdom of a "social the South American Con- William Miller, and who had gospel," no allurement of enor- tinent, their Christian been disappointed when our mous institutions with enormous schools, in the face of Lord did not return in the year centralisation, has seduced the b i t t e r opposition, 1844. Seventh-day Adventists from flourish in Peru and • Mr. Miller's followers had their primary task, which they Bolivia. Their mis- been left with no church connec- regard as the sole reason for sion teachers, an- tion, and in great spiritual per- their existence as a denomina- choring their motor plexity. They were publicly de- tion—the telling to every soul launches off the rided. No fanaticism was too on earth that Jesus Christ died coasts of Fiji, by blind, no excess too absurd, to for them; that Jesus Christ will the New Hebrides, be charged to the early Advent- forgive their sins; that Jesus and among the ists by people far more credu- Christ will enable them by di- Solomon Islands, lous than the very sect that they vine grace to do the will of God ; persuade canni- affected to despise. Yet in and that Jesus Christ will soon bals that God is hardship and poverty a little make His second advent in all love. Their sales- group continued to search the His glory to this world. men of religious Scriptures, to supplicate divine To sustain the work of their literature go from guidance, to adopt the Bible as missionaries, the members of village to village their sole rule of faith and prac- the denomination have made tice ; and from this little group great sacrifices. Their average came the Seventh-day Adventist per capita for missions, accord- denomination. Although since ing to the most recent figures, that time they have had a mani- was £5 3s. 7d. annually, out of a fold increase in numbers, they total per capita for religious are still comparatively few. purposes of £15 10s. 11d. an- They have few • if any wealthy nually. And their singular de- adherents ; and we have not been votion to missions has been re- able to find that there are any warded with a singular success. persons of conspicuous fame The number of their workers in connected with them. On the mission fields is 7,803. The other hand, they have not, since number of languages, ranging the time of their origin, been from Afrikaans and Amharic to affected by the current notions Xosa and Zulu, in which they of "modernism," which, by re- issue publications, is 141, be- jecting the Word of God, is do- sides 206 others in which oral ing so much to tear down Prot- work is being done, or a total of estant missions. 347 languages in which they are labouring. Sixty - eight lan- SMALL, .BUT MIGHTY guages were added during 1928, YET this small denomination or a language every 5.3 days. is carrying on the strongest and, The places to which their mis- in some respects, the most re- sionaries have gone are more markable mission work of any numerous than we can here re- Protestant body. Starting in cite ; yet it will help us to form 1874, with a single missionary an estimate of the extent of to publish the gospel in all the their work if we remember that world, the Seventh-day Advent- their representatives are scat- A Seventh-day Adventist church and teacher' thousands of Seventh-day Adventist believer ists have continuously enlarged tered liberally all over the globe. is a general view of the Kiangsu Chinese Ir their programme, increased the The Seventh - day Adventist young people are trained for the work of mak October 14, 1929 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 9 every sacrifice to save lost men, and in the foreign fields to sound a definite and powerful call 'on Is Doing to Carry against heathen degradation and sin. 3. Seventh-day Adventists in their work seem to be blessed with the power of the Holy Spirit. God is not dead. He LL THE WORLD who sent His Spirit into the hearts of men at the day of LRYMPLE Pentecost will still send His Spirit into the hearts of men in all the countries of Europe. denomination, they a r e •not when they meet the conditions Between Pamir and Cape wealthy. It cannot be their of Pentecost — consecration to Comorin their work has per- popularity, for, as a denomina- duty, faith in God and in His haps attained its least success ; tion, they are not popular. It divine revelation, harmony in yet in India they are making cannot be the laxness of their association, and unity in Christ. strong efforts to arouse the requirements for membership, Why should it be thought in- natives to the glory of faith in for, as a denomination, their credible that God will bless in- Jesus; and it appears that these requirements are probably more struments, even weak and base, efforts will not be fruitless. strict than those of any other when they are in such condition What are the reasons for Protestant sect. What, then, is that He by His mighty power this amazing vitality and the secret of their success? Al- can use them? Why should it success of Seventh-day though we cannot discuss their be thought incredible that God, Adventist missions, at faith and organisation exhaust- who among the nation that six a time when other ively, we should like to notice weeks before had crucified His denominations a r e Son, could, in a single day, con- the following points :- vert three thousand hearts to recalling many of 1. their representa- Seventh - day Adventists, their Saviour, should bless the tives and closing having a message to present to preaching of His gospel, and all the world, present it with no strengthen those who go forth some of their sta- uncertainty. They preach the tions? Why has a to proclaim it? We believe that people so obscure, second coming of Christ. They Christian people need more sim- preach a judgment at which plicity in their faith, and less and, humanly every man shall appear to an- cavilling ; more confidence in speaking, so weak, swer before Almighty God for attained such a God, less indifference and hesi- all his deeds, good or bad. They tation. distinction in wit- preach the necessity of doing nessing abroad the will of God. They follow GOD STILL WORKS MIGHTILY for Christ ? It His explicit command in Sab- THE experience of the denotni- cannot be their bath observance and in the pay- wealth, for, as a nation that we have been dis- ment of tithes and offerings. cussing gives us, we think, proof They have a definite gospel. that God can still do wonderful 2. Seventh-day Adventists ex- things for missions and mission- alt the Bible as inspired by the ary work. He can still bless His Holy Spirit. They teach that followers when they consecrate the Bible is the Word of God, themselves to their task of going infallible. They teach that God to all the world to preach the has protected its transmission gospel to every creature. Though to us down through the centur- He cannot bless selfishness, He ies. They believe its contents can bless self-denial. Though from cover to cover. And this He cannot bless indifference, He implicit faith in the Scriptures can abundantly bless earnest is, we think, a large element in effort. their success. Heathen are not YetA besides this truth, we see likely to be converted to a gospel another important lesson that that may or may not be true. the Seventh-day Adventist work Young men and young women, can teach us. It is common for strong and fearless, are not their missionaries to report in- likely to offer themselves to go stances of remarkable conver- into the wildest and most deso- sions—cases of heathen—pro- late corners of the earth, to tell fane, idolatrous, immoral, sav- the story of a gospel that their age, sunken in every vice and pastor has assured them is, in beneath the slightest virtue= many of its incidents, wholly who have yielded their lives to uncertain, and in some parts the redeeming power of the Sa- even mythical. It is because viour. They have turned from Seventh-day Adventism has kept their vile feasts in which human itself and its people from the flesh was eaten ; they no longer lispings of modernism, which go to the debauching ceremonial ouse, Ranonga, Solomon Islands. There are z the Solomon Islands alone. The photo above never knows what it believes, dances ; they have left their na- mediate School, Shanghai, China. Here Chinese that in the homeland it is able tive grog; they have laid aside known the gospel to their fellow-countrymen. to arouse its people to make the tobacco, the betel nut, and 10 SIGNS OF THE TIMES October 14, 1929

.opiates ; by the power of Christ Below: they have dismissed from their A general view of our mission hearts all the malice and hatred, established all the impurity and lust, which among Indians formerly rested there. Their of Mt. Roraima, very faces are changed, for in near the Brazil border, interior place of the crazed savagery of of British heathenism has come the peace- Guiana. ful calm of Jesus, and they, like the demoniac healed on the shores of Gennesaret, are clothed and in their right minds. Mark 5 : 15. What can explain these mir- acles? It is that these former Baptising converts in Rho- heathen, hearing the call of the desia, South Central Africa. The missionary work of the gospel, felt the greatness of Seventh-clay Adv entist Church their need, and knew that apart in Africa has been growing from Christ they were helpless. marvellously during recent Therefore they turned com- years, so that today thou- sands of native believers are pletely to Him. They have given scattered all over that great themselves to His control, to be continent. moved upon by His Spirit alone. And they are saved men—saved from perdition, saved into the these things. How pitiful would kingdom of God. Their child- it be if we who are called civil- like faith, their sound conver- ised and refined should finally Already the nations are hearing sion, their sure hold upon eter- be cast into outer darkness, be- its call, and individuals are re- nal realities, seem to warn us in cause we have not opened our sponding to its message. And the words of the Bible, that hearts to the influence of the it will not be- long until, the task "many shall come from the east Spirit of God—because we have being finished, Jesus will come. and west, and shall sit down allowed in our lives passions Lord God, renew our hearts, so with Abraham, and Isaac, and and characteristics, which, be that we may say with John the Jacob, in the kingdom of hea- they ever so respectable in Revelator, "Even so, come, Lord ven. But the children of the worldly society, can never be Jesus." Rev. 22: 20. kingdom shall be cast out into known in that heavenly king- outer darkness." dom ! We, like Nicodemus, the wealthy and respected Pharisee, OUR GREAT ADVANTAGES the model citizen for the com- (Ohe Value of the WE of the enlightened nations munity, need to "be born again" are not heathen, born in a into the kingdom of God. "Ex- Sabbath strange land where the name of cept a man be born again, he THE value of the Sabbath as Christ was unknown and His cannot see the kingdom of God." a means of education is beyond worship unprofessed. Rather, John 3 : 3. estimate. Whatever of ours we have heard these truths from "This gospel of the kingdom God claims from us, He returns childhood. We have been taught shall be preached in all the world again, enriched, transfigured, that Jesus is the Son of God. for a witness unto all nations ; with His own glory. The tithe We have been instructed in and then shall the end come." that He claimed from Israel was Christian duties and responsi- Matt. 24: 14. Already the gos- devoted to preserving among bilities. We know all about pel is going to all the world. men, in its glorious beauty, the pattern of His temple in the heavens, the token of His pres- ence on the earth. So the por- SOME OF THE LANGUAGES IN WHICH LITERATURE IS PUBLISHED tion of our time which He claims By the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination is given again to us, bearing His Aclim English Kinyarwanda Nivan Sintebele name and seal. It is "a sign," Afrikaans Esthonian Kipare Norwegian Slovakian He says, "between Me and you ; Amharic Ethiopic Kisanaki Oriya Slovenian Amoyese Fijian Kisii Pampangan Spanish . . . that ye may know that I Arabic Finnish Kisukuma Panayan Swedish Armenian Flemish Kiswaheli Pangasinan Syriac am Jehovah" ; because "in six Armeno-Turkish French Korean Persian Tagalog days the Lord made heaven and Atchinese German Kugoro Polish Tahitian Aymara Greco-Turkish Lambs Portuguese Tamil earth, the sea, and all that in Batak Greek Laplandish Punjabi Telugu Bengali Guarany Latgalian Quechua Temne them is, and rested the seventh Bicol Gujerati Latvian Ranoga Tibetan Bulgarian Hawaiian Lithuanian Rarotongan Tigrinya day : wherefore the Lord blessed Burmese Hebrew Luganda Roviana Tongan the Sabbath day, and hallowed Cantonese Hindi Luo Rumanian Turkish Cebuan Hungarian Malagasay Russian Twi it." The Sabbath is a sign of Chijita Ibanag Malay Ruthenian Urdu Chibemba Icelandic Malayalam Samoan Visayan creative and redeeming power ; Chinyanja Illocano Mandarin Santali Welsh it points to God as the source of Chisbona Italian Maori Santo Wendic Chitonga Japanese Marathi Sechuana Wenli life and knowledge; it recalls Croatian avanese Marquesas Servian Xosa Czechian Kafir Marovo Sesuto Yiddish man's primeval glory, and thus Danish Kanarese Mende Sgau-Karen Yoruba Dovele Khasi Mongolian Shanghai Zulu witnesses to God's purpose to Dusun Kiikidzu Navajo Siamese re-create us in His own image. Dutch Kijita Nias Singhalese —"Education," Ellen G. White, page 250. October 14, 1929 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 11

(0-he MOST COLOSSAL PUBLICITY MOVEMENT of Modern Times

A stupendous task, and how By it is being accomplished LYNDON L. SKINNER

HE world teems with people. these inventions for some great up the words, and seal the book, Any publicity programme purpose, or we would not see the even to the time of the end : T that would attempt to reach great growth and discovery that many shall run to and fro, and everybody in the world would have been crowded into the past knowledge shall be increased." be a tremendous undertaking. hundred years. Dan. 12 : 4. If you saw "everybody" at once Along with the prodigious you would see something you THE CONGESTED CENTURY growth of scientific knowledge would never forget. And if you PRINTING with movable types and invention during the past had to teach "everybody" simply is only a little more than 300 century, has come a tremendous to say "Oh" at meeting you— years old. The first newspaper awakening interest in the study well, eternity would be too short. advertisement was published in of the Bible and particularly the It is a big world that we live 1652. The first sewing machine prophetic books of Daniel and in, and it is full of millions of was invented in 1790, though it the Revelation, both of which people. To attempt to reach did not come into common use for centuries had been regarded them all within the single life- until Howe's machine appeared as "sealed" books—books that time of an average man with in 1846. The first successful were beyond comprehension. any real message calls for the steamship did not appear until Students of prophecy find in most colossal piece of publicity 1807, and the locomotive was this very fact a fulfilment of the world has ever known. Some developed in 1814. Wireless the prophecy of Daniel that may even say it is a physical telegraphy began to be investi- in the time of the end "many impossibility, and to them it gated about 1842. Electric shall run to and fro, and would be ; but to the little group lights were not in use commer- knowledge shall be increased." of men and women of indomit- cially until 1880. The motor- Thus the increase of knowledge able faith who have gone so far car, while invented during the in science and invention has as to attempt it, all things are last ten years of the nineteenth been accompanied with an in- possible—and they are actually century, did not come to success- crease of knowledge and under- doing it! ful operation until the early part standing of the portions of the of this century. The aeroplane Bible that were written with PREPARATION FOR PUBLICITY is only twenty-five years old, particular application to our Modern means of communica- and modern radio broadcasting day. tion, the telephone, telegraph, was unheard of until after the Fifteen distinctly different radio; modern means of travel, World War. lines of prophecy in the books motor-car, motor-cycle, railroad The achievements of inven- of Daniel and the Revelation train, aeroplane ; modern meth- tion in the past hundred years point to our day as "the time ods of education, the public have sped on at ever-increasing of the end," "the end of the age." school, church school, college, velocity until today even the Jesus' last command to His night school, church, motion pic- most reactionary sceptics of two followers on earth was : "Go ye tures, newspapers, books, peri- decades ago frankly throw up therefore, and teach all nations, odicals — all have by predeter- their hands and admit that noth- baptising them in the name of mined design come into exist- ing is now impossible to modern the F4ther, and of the Son, and ence just at this particular industry and science. of the Holy Ghost : teaching period of modern history to Any serious thinking man them to observe all things what- make possible this stupendous recognises that all these events soever I have commanded you : piece of world-wide publicity of have some positive significance, and, lo, I am with you alway, an idea 2,000 years old. whether he can understand them even unto the end of the world." Is it not a little strange, after or not. Many centuries ago the Matt. 28: 19, 20. all, that for nearly six thousand prophet Daniel, the prime min- Jesus connected His promise years the world plodded along, ister of Babylon, then a world of a return with a teaching that each generation doing practi- empire, wrote out a book of there would be an end of the cally the same things the previ- prophecies under the direction world. When asked by His fol- ous generation had done, with of God on the future history of lowers what would be a sign of very little progress or develop- the world. Thoughtful Bible His coming and of the end of ment, as we know and recognise students everywhere agree that the world, He said : "For then it here in the twentieth century? he accurately forecast the out- shall be great tribulation, such Surely there must be some standing movements of world as was not since the beginning power or force, some wisdom history, the rise and fall of tem- of the world to this time, no, greater than the men who poral and ecclesiastical powers, nor ever shall be. . . . Immedi- brought about these wonderful even down to the present time. ately after the tribulation of inventions of the past century, As Daniel finished his work, those days shall the sun be dark- that worked through human in- the guardian. angel Gabriel, who ened, and the moon shall not strumentalities to bring about directed his writing, said : "Shut give her light, and the stars 12 SIGNS OF THE TIMES October 14, 1929 shall fall from heaven, and the known — that of carrying the ers, 7,803 workers in mission powers of the heavens shall be message of God for this time to fields working in 127 countries shaken : and then shall appear the whole world in one genera- and 296 languages. £404,776 the sign of the Son of man in tion. 16s. 5d. was contributed to home heaven : and then shall all the Some things begin small and missions, £779,894 9s. 11d. to tribes of the earth mourn, and get larger. Others begin larger foreign missions. Seventh-day they shall see the Son of man and get smaller. The Seventh- Adventists support their min- coming in the clouds of heaven day Adventist movement is in istry by the Bible system of with power and great glory. the class that began small. The tithing, and through this med- . . . Verily I say unto you, This first general meeting of believ- ium. in 1927 contributed £1,280,- generation shall not pass, till all ers who later were organised 775 6s. 8d. to the support of the these things be fulfilled. Hea- into the Seventh-day Adventist church. ven and earth shall pass away, denomination took place April Seventh-day Adventists are but My words shall not spending more each year pass away." Matt. 24: in • proportion to mem- 21-35. bership in foreign mis- Any history of the lat- sions than any other ter part of the eight- Protestant denomination. eenth century carries the Their literature is be- account of the great ing published in 141 lan- Dark Day of May 19, guages by 57 publishing 1780, and how the moon houses, and they are la- appeared the following bouring in 206 other lan- night with the colour of guages. To buy only one blood. There are still copy, of each publication living on the earth men put out by these publish- and women who recall ing houses would cost the falling of the stars £328 13s. 4d. In 1927 on the night of Novem- £956,314 17s. 1d. worth ber 13, 1833. This was of gospel literature was a celestial phenomenon distributed by the de- astronomers have never nomination. In its ef- been able fully to explain fort to achieve its tre- from a scientific view- mendous goal of carry- point. ing the gospel to the These are literal fulfil- world in this generation, ments of Jesus' own this denomination has prophecy. He said that not limited itself to the the generation who saw word of the minister and these things should not of t h e printed page. pass away before He Every medium of modern would return. education and communi- The Book of the Reve- cation is used. lation shows that "in the Seventy - one sanitar- time of the end" there iums a n d treatment will be a "remnant" peo- rooms representing alone ple, keeping the com- an investment of more mandments of God and than £9,896,907 minister having the testimony of to the physical as well as Jesus. It teaches that spiritual needs of hu- Dr. Birkenstock, a Seventh-day Adventist 'medical their work will be to missionary, treating a leper in Nyassaland, Africa. manity in all corners of sound a clarion cry to Seventh-day Adventists 'make medical work a strong the world. the entire world to re- feature of their missionary endeavours. Through an educational turn. to a faithful observ- programme of the church, ance of all the laws of God and 20-21, 1848, at Rocky Hill, near 1,307 primary schools are main- to make preparation for the Middletown, Connecticut, U.S.A. tained ; and 144 intermediate imminent return of Jesus, which There were only about thirty schools, academies, and colleges He Himself, on many occasions, people present. educate the youth of the denomi- promised would take place. This Fifteen years later there were nation to become workers in the work is to be done within the only 3,500 communicants in the great work of the kingdom. lifetime of our generation. world. In 1900 there were but Newspapers, magazines, the 61,509 believers in the United radio, billboards, motion pic- SPECIFICATIONS FULFILLED States and 14,548 outside the tures, and many other modern THE only group today who United States. Last year's means of communication con- comply in every detail with the record showed 112,276 Seventh- tribute their bit to finishing the prophetic word as to what this day Adventists in North Amer- task this people sincerely believe "remnant" will be is the Sev- ica, 161,788 in foreign countries, God has appointed them to do. enth-day Adventist Church. Its a total of 274,064 world mem- Even this periodical has a growth during the past eighty bership. The denomination has small part in this great task in years has astonished all who are doubled its membership every the publication of this and other familiar with its activities. It ten years since it came into ex- articles on the "signs of the is this organisation that has istence. times." attempted the greatest publicity In 1927 there were 26,100 One cannot read these aston- project the world has ever baptisms, 18,307 church work- ishing facts about the rapid rise October 14, 1929 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 13 of a world-wide movement from In that wonderful hope the We may rest and trust in the a little group of thirty people Apostle Paul trusted, though same confidence as these patri- back in 1848 without marvelling, the sword of the Roman em- archs and apostles ; we can "What hath God wrought?" Did peror was hanging over his trust in the words of our Sa- not Jesus Himself say, "By their head. Nothing, could pluck that viour ; we can lie down, if need fruits ye shall know them"? glorious hope away from him, be, with our head pillowed on These facts and figures have nothing turn him back on his the same promise that sustained not been set down here with any way to the eternal city where God's servant Job—"Thou shalt thought of boasting to the world the beloved Master waits for His call, and I will answer thee." about the accomplishments of faithful children. Hear him Isaiah's testimony that "thy this group. The guidance of di- testify :— dead men shall live" nerves us vine providence is frankly and "I am now ready to be of- to meet the foe in the power of gratefully acknowledged. The the Lord. It is a blessed hope; fered, and the time► of my de- task has not yet been completed parture is at hand. I have it makes life worth the living, by any means. fought a good fight, I have fin- no matter how hard and bitter This article has been written, ished my course, I have kept the may have been the experiences however, in the hope that it will faith. Henceforth there is laid through which we have been call the attention of many to the up for me a crown of righteous- called to pass. We shall indeed fact that God is working ness, which the Lord, the right- come forth again ; but whether mightily in our time and genera- eous Judge, shall give me at that to peace and joy and life ever- tion and that the day of mir- day : and not to me only, but lasting, or to shame and con- acles has not yet passed. unto all them also that love tempt, sorrow inexpressible, May those who read these His appearing." 2 Tim. 4: 6-8. and death eternal, depends upon pages be led to a more serious Paul's confidence was simply un- whether we have accepted the consideration of their relation to shakable. He declared, "I know gift of God at the hands of Jesus their God and to Jesus Christ, whom I have believed, and am Christ, or have spurned the gift their Saviour. persuaded that He is able to and rejected the Giver. May keep that which I have commit- God help us to take that wise ted unto Him against that day." course that brings all the bless- Is There a "Blessed Hope"? 2 Tim. 1: 12. It is a blessed ex- ings of heaven in its train. S. perience to rest in such confi- (Concluded from page 7) dence ; and if we are surren- when our Saviour declares that dered to Christ as Paul was, they that have done evil shall then we have the same right to Palestine and the Jews "come forth" "unto the resur- that hope and trust and confi- rection of damnation," the last dence that Paul had. Hear him (Concluded from page 6) shred of a hope that all who die again : "I am persuaded that of faith the same are blessed shall live again eternally is neither death, nor life, nor an- with faithful Abraham." swept away. gels, nor principalities, nor pow- "There is neither Jew nor The matter is made very defi- ers, nor things present, nor Greek, there is neither bond nor nite in these words of the great things to come, nor height, nor free, there is neither male nor Master : "Ye• will not come unto depth, nor any other creature, female : for ye are all one in Me that ye might have life." shall be able to separate us from Christ Jesus." And "if ye be John 5: 40. "I am the way, the the love of God, which is in Christ's then are ye Abraham's truth, and the life : no man com- Christ Jesus our Lord." Rom. seed, and heirs according to the eth unto the Father, but by Me." 8: 38, 39. What a blessed as- promise." Gal. 3 : 7, 9, 28, 29. John 14: 6. There is, then, but surance. All the trials and per- "The divine ideas concerning the one way to eternal life, and secutions and disappointments Israel were all spiritual rather that is through the Lord Jesus and sorrows are as nothing than national. It was human Christ. It was His purpose in when one steps out into the thought that linked the name coming into this world that He white light of that blessed as- with national life."—"Jews and might give life to those who surance. Jerusalem," page 87. were sitting under the shadow But the saints of the older God has prepared for His peo- of the condemnation of eternal dispensation, as well as the ple both a country and a city. death. He says: "I am come saints of the new, had that hope. That was the country for which that they might have life, and Job rejoiced in it. "I know that Abraham and his companions that they might have it more my Redeemer liveth, and that "looked" — "a city which hath abundantly." John 10 : 10. It He shall stand at the latter day foundations, whose Builder and was thus His one business in upon the earth : and though Maker is God." God will yet this world to put away sin and after my skin worms destroy save a people to inhabit that the results of sin by the sacrifice this body, yet in my flesh shall city. That people will be a peo- of Himself — dying that we I see God : whom I shall see for ple of whom it can be said : might live, living that we might myself, and mine eyes shall be- "Here is the patience of the know how to live, and might hold, and not another [not a saints : here are they that keep also have an Advocate with the stranger, margin]." Job 19: the commandments of God and Father who had been tempted in 25-27. He knew that if he the faith of Jesus." Of these all points as we have, yet with- passed down into the grave, the people it will also be said : "And out sin. He thus also became a grave would be his house, he in their mouth was found no "merciful and faithful High would make his bed in the dark- guile." Dear friends, it is your Priest," ministering on our be- ness ; and yet he declared, "Thou privilege and mine to have an half in the sanctuary on high, shalt call, and I will answer inheritance in that country and and leading us, through the in- Thee : Thou wilt have a. desire live in that beautiful city fluence of the Holy Spirit, in the to the work of Thine hands." "wherein dwelleth righteous- way of life everlasting. Job 14 : 15. ness."

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CARROT SOUP Teaching Habits of Courtesy Boil 2 cup rice until nearly cooked. Add to this 1? cups finely minced car- HELEN GREGG GREEN rot, and let boil until cooked—about A "Hail ye small, sweet courtesies of life, for hour. Then add sufficient milk to smooth do ye make the road of it"— Sterne. make nice consistency for soup; add a pinch of thyme, a little chopped ECENTLY I overheard the expect to hold the love and parsley, about A teaspoon marmite, story of a young lad ap- respect of our own little family and a little celery salt, and serve. R plying for a position and circle in the fullest measure un- getting it, because of the "How less we use similar methods? do you do, sir ?" with which he Courtesy wins the love of our addressed an elderly official of families and our friends. Let a big corporation. us teach our children that not "You see," the man who en- many become great or famous, gaged the courteous young chap but all can be courteous and explained, "so many young men thoughtful of others—a prac- are not properly attentive to tical application of the Golden those who are older. That young Rule. man's courtesy was genuine. In our town, there is a big, It's true," he quoted, "that jovial policeman who stands `acorns of courtesy in business, guard at a street corner where usually, develop into oaks of many children pass on their way financial return.' " to school. Expectantly, he waits Teachers and parents, alike, for them in the morning, at need to take time to think and noon, and in the evening. He teach courtesy. If such habits is their idol, always ready to are inculcated in boys and girls look at their report cards and To Soup add while they are still in the plas- eager to hear their little tales of tic, j ust-around-the-corner-from- happiness or woe. MARMITE babyhood age they will, in all One day, I happened to be probability, carry these habits passing, when I saw three little IN they go, into a pint of through life. water or vegetable stock, girls wave a cheery, "Good carrots and turnips finely It is generally agreed that morning, Mr. Reynolds," to the sliced, a taste of tomato, courtesy is indeed a most desir- smiling man. celery cubes, the savoury able quality to develop in chil- I nodded to him and said, onion, sprig of parsley. Boil, dren, but parents and teachers "Really, Mr. Reynolds, I believe s k im, add tablespoonful who expect their children to be you're one of the happiest men sago ; boil an hour, strain. thoughtful of others must re- in the world." member that courtesy begets And quickly he replied, "I Richer Flavour, courtesy. They must set an ex- am! I wouldn't trade places More Nutrition ample of courtesy. Is it not with anyone for a much larger true that we often save our most salary. You see my children Finally—stir in a dessert- courteous, gracious selves for are all so polite and thought- spoonful of Marmite and our friends and acquaintances ful." serve hot. Marmite is the outside the home ? Husbands whole secret of better soup "You have helped to make — improved flavour, in- and wives often speak to each them so," I told him. other and to their children in a creased nourishing power. way they would not think of "Perhaps," he admitted, "I've At all grocers and Sanitarium speaking to a stranger. How found that courtesy and good- Health Food Shops foolish ! Must we not continu- will often win where gruffness fails." ally "sell ourselves" to each A SANITARIUM other as a salesman sells his wares to win orders? How does he do it? Partly by being CHARMS strike the sight, but 4tigit mit* friendly and courteous. Can we merit wins the soul.—Pope. October 14, 1929 SIGNS OF THE TIMES 15 The Blessing of Humility O be the last, the servant of C1111,DR€18 all, to be humble, to recog- T nise the vanity of one's own reason, knowledge, strength, will, virtue, genius, activity, ambitions, interests, pleasures, CORI/CR. and glory—in a word to confess one's own nothingness ; that is the condition, to enter and to be great in the kingdom of heaven. God only hears the humble and the needy, the hungry ones who cry to Him with a true feeling of their wretchedness. This was How God Prepared a Captain the special teaching of Jesus, VERY day for ten months ary and his family. They made and He reminds the Twelve of two little Japanese children, their escape in a boat down the it by showing them a child, as E one three and the other river in the darkness, and fin- the symbol of weakness, sincer- four, toddled down to the sandy ally reached Shanghai in safety. ity, and lowliness. beach on the island of Tononiu "Boys," said the missionary The innocence and docility of and looked wistfully seaward father, "we are going back to the child moved His compassion, for the coming of a white ship. the homeland ; but never forget for His sympathy was always how much poor heathen China aroused by helplessness and "Mother," asked little Cherry needs the help of Christians." purity. He took him in His Blossom, "where is that white arms and said : "Whosoever ship that says `dub-dub, dub- "Father, what does China shall receive one of such chil- dub' ?" need most?" asked little James. dren, in My name, receiveth "I don't know, lassie ; but "China needs Christian men Me, and whosoever shall receive watch for it, and perhaps you for all kinds of work," replied Me, receiveth not Me alone, but will see it come." the father; "but it greatly needs Him that sent Me." — Pere "But I've looked a long time, trained engineers." Didon. mother. I want it to come and . James remembered his father's bring us its tall, kind captain." words, and, as he grew older, he "I wish I could see the cap- worked very hard to make him- Heaven's Best tain's kind face, too," remarked self a marine engineer. The IN the Teacher sent from God, the father. "Christians are so Great War came on, and young heaven gave to men its best and hated on this island, and our James Laughton became skilful greatest. He who stood in the heathen neighbours make it so in piloting war vessels along the councils of the Most High, who unpleasant for us, that we need rough and stormy coasts of Scot- had dwelt in the innermost him to keep up our courage." land. Whenever his ship made a port, he visited missions on sanctuary of the Eternal, was "Pray again, Cherry Blossom. shore, and earnestly and simply the One chosen to reveal in per- Pray, Kihu," directed the told the story of Jesus. son to humanity the knowledge mother, turning to her little of God. ones. Kneeling together on the This was exactly what the Through Christ had been com- beach, the children turned their mission board needed; a brave, municated every ray of divine little 'faces to the blue sky and skilful captain to pilot the white- light that had ever reached our prayed that the dub-dub ship winged ship safely among the fallen world. It was He who might come back. islands of the Inland Sea of had spoken through every one Japan, and to tell the people on "Look ! look !" cried the that throughout the ages had the islands the story of Jesus' declared God's word to man. Of mother, as they rose from their love for them. When the mission knees. "She has just rounded Him all the excellences manifest board heard the story of his life, in the earth's greatest and nob- the point ; the white-winged gos- they said : "We believe God has pel ship is coming back." lest souls were reflections. The been training Captain James purity and beneficence of Joseph, Yes, it was the Fukuin Maru, Laughton ever since he was a the faith and meekness and the white - winged ship that boy to become the captain of our long-suffering of Moses, the sailed the inland sea of Japan, gospel ship." steadfastness of Elisha, the and stopped at many an island, Already this fine Christian noble integrity and firmness of while the captain told the story captain has won the love of old Daniel, the ardour and self- of Jesus. and young of these islands. sacrifice of Paul, the mental and For many years God had been Little children, like Cherry Blos- spiritual power manifest in all training a sturdy Scotch boy to som, and grown-ups, like her these men, and in all others who become captain of this white- parents, count it.a happy, happy had ever dwelt on the earth, winged gospel ship. This is how day when the white-winged ship were but gleams from the shin- it happened. One dreadful night steams toward their island, for ing of His glory. In Him was some Chinese soldiers entered a it brings the man of God whom found the perfect ideal.—"Edu- city, tortured the Chinese Chris- they love, to tell them more of cation," Ellen G. White, page tians, and drove out the Inission- the story of Jesus.—Selected. 73. 16 SIGNS OF THE TIMES October 14, 1929

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Ow- ing to the urgent need for new land for farming and residential purposes the Dutch Government decided some Around the World time ago to drain this vast area. It is estimated that the land reclaimed MORE than 6,000 books printed in will provide homes for at least 400,- Braille (raised-paper type for use by 000 people. When the work is fin- the blind) are on the shelves of Lon- ished, a small portion of the Zuyder don's National Institute for the Blind. Zee will remain, but it will be nothing more than an artificial lake with an IN all recorded industries of Aus- AFTER all, it's likely to be a pretty tralia during 1927-28 the total pro- area of 280,000 acres, while Marken, strenuous summer, and the winter duction was estimated at £453,311,000, an island whose inhabitants have has been fairly trying too, hasn't or an average of £73 9s. 6d. per head hitherto •specialised in fishing, will it? Don't you think you'd be very of population. become a typical Dutch inland vil- wise to give yourself a fortnight in lage, 45 miles from the sea. In order which to lose your winter cold and COLONEL P. S. LELEAN, Professor to keep out the waters of the North put your system in thoroughly good in Public Health at Edinburgh Uni- Sea the construction of a huge dyke trim before summer sets in seri- versity, in a lecture to the British 21 miles in length is necessitated. ously? Come to Social Hygiene School, reported in the When completed this dyke will be the London Daily Telegraph, attacked the largest of its kind in existence. It Victoria's Leading Hydro frying-pan method of cooking as a will carry a railway line on the top Come for the splendid air, the at- menace to health. "It is estimated," and will be 300 feet in width at the tractive, wholesome food. Come for he asserted, "that the average house- base. 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