tit IM AMERICA'S PROPHETIC WEEKLY

VOLUME 47 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 28, 1920 NUMBER 38

A general view of the athletic stadium at. Antwerp, Belgium,. on the opening day- of the Olympic games, in which the United' States athletes easily/ gained first place.

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T IS but another chap- and selfishness are still the rul- ter in the book of fate ing passion in the breast of La- which records the cease- Where bor as well as Capital, poor as less and menacing well as rich. The profiteering struggle between the germ has lodged in many a heart, classes. Another strike, LAWLESSNESS eager for riches at any price, another clash between but unable to gain the coveted capital and labor, Denver unpre- prize. Extreme bitterness pared, and the toll of human life rankles in the breast of Labor and stained honor is the result. AND as he watches, with coveting It is becoming the "ordinary" in eyes, the revelry of Capital in modern American history for a extreme luxury. city to be placed under martial This bitterness of heart is law, to guard its very existence. VIOLENCE growing so intense that it looks And the experience in Denver is as though the rich would soon but added evidence of the alarm- "weep and howl" for their mis- ing fact that the spirit of law- eries that are coming upon them. lessness is undermining the fun- Will End The final clash is not far in the damentals upon which American future. The mob scenes in our freedom is built. It is time for American cities are but the out- sane men and women to face the By VARNER J. JOHNS bursts that indicate the smolder- facts as they are. It is time to ing volcano underneath. They cease our blind optimism and are but a part of the "perilous recognize the measure of things. times" foretold as characteristic The Word of God gives a forceful prophecy of world condi- of the last days of this earth's history in its sin-cursed condi- tions in the last days. That vivid word picture has reached its tion. When the volcano bursts in all its fury, the world will fulfillment at the present time. To-day the world not only reads be a vast Russian maelstrom, where chaos, the bitter fruit of the prediction, but also witnesses its fulfillment in grim reality. lawlessness, degrades civilization to the scrap heap. "Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days," says the The world of to-day is the legatee of a sixty-century regime apostle James. In the United States to-day, "two per cent of of the power of sin. The harvest of rebellion is being reaped. the people of our country hold sixty per cent of its wealth, The bald truth is that sin has so poisoned the hearts of men, while the sixty-five per cent of the people, who are poor, own that the world has about reached the bed rock of wickedness. only five per cent of the wealth." Hundreds, during the last The Son of God, in foretelling last-day conditions, makes a five years, have taken their seat of dishonor among the million- striking parallelism: "Likewise also as it was in the days of aire class. Then, as if a mockery to social justice, it is esti- Lot . . . even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man mated "that four million persons are dependent upon public is revealed." Among the many sins of Sodom was the sin of relief in the United States, that another four million are desti- lawlessness. A mob scene is vividly portrayed in the record tute, and that ten million have an income insufficient to main- of Genesis 19, which shows Sodom a hotbed of iniquity. "As tain them in a state of physical efficiency for their work." it was . . . so shall it be," says the inspired Word; and as a Oliver Cromwell, with characteristic sagacity, said, "If there picture of the mob scenes in Boston, Omaha, Denver—every- is anything that makes many poor and makes a few rich, that where—flashes across our minds, we exclaim: "The parallel suits not a commonwealth." The mushroom crop of war and is here. The prediction is fulfilled. It can be no worse." "after the war" millionaires, bred on shameless profiteering, Sordid selfishness, inordinate vanity, snarling hatred, de- has produced the inevitable—increased hatred among the cadent morality, incessant distrust and rivalry, hypocrisy in masses for the capitalistic class. And it must be admitted that religion—these and other modern sins have corroded our civili- the great majority of the class known as the "masses" are at zation, filling the future with the darkness of uncertainty. heart but little different from the capitalistic class. Hatred Those who foolishly predicted a millennium on this earth are 2 The Signs of the Times for September 28, 1920 living in a world of illusion. There can The second coming of Jesus is the be destroyed "with the brightness of His be no cessation of strife while sin remains world's one star of hope. The Biblical coming." The "balance of power" will to curse and blight the world. Sin must signs of the nearness of that coming are then be transferred to the righteous, who be removed. But it never can be removed being fulfilled before our eyes. The then will reign eternally with Christ in by means of civic reform or religious world has stained its garments in the that great kingdom of righteousness. federation, or any effort that man can slough of sin. The blot must be removed. Amid all the hatred, the confusion, the put forth of himself. There is but one As Jesus comes in majestic power, sin violence, God urges His people to "be pa- hope for the world. and those who have reveled in sin will tient . . . unto the coming of the Lord."

THE REMEDY FOR STIMULANTS

The One Thing That Satisfies Our Cravings By DANIEL H. KRESS, M. D.

In Africa, home-brewed beer is placed in a large basin. and as many as can get their heads in at one time drink from it. The scene depicted is a wedding party.

TIURE air, food, drink, and exercise are bad habit is given up only to yield to in New York City alone being addicted r considered as the four great essentials another. So long as human nature re- to the use of habit-forming drugs. He of life. Nothing additional, aside from mains what it is, this will be the pro- says: clothing and shelter, it is supposed, is gram. Charles Lamb, at a time when "In December of last year, thirty-three actually needed. Yet it is notorious that public sentiment stood arrayed against drug stores in this city sold 2,600 ounces from the earliest ages, and among all the smoking of tobacco, said, "I design to of narcotic drugs. A grain of morphine peoples, the custom has prevailed of us- give up smoking, but I have not yet fixed divided into four portions will make a ing many substances for no other pur- upon the equivalent vice." good dose for a day. pose than to give unnatural acceleration Usually men resort to the use of the "Now if these thirty-three drug stores or stimulation. narcotic or stimulant against which there sold 2,600 ounces, you can figure out the In the East Indies, there has been used exists the least prejudice. Alcohol has extent of the habit when it can be an- from time immemorial an extract of been in general use in nearly all lands nounced as a fact that there are 2,600 hemp, which is infinitely more pernicious for many years. To take wine and beer drug stores in this city. than any other stimulant or exhilarant has been the social custom for ages. Now "One of the thirty-three stores sold known, with possibly the exception of that the evils from the use of alcohol have 585 ounces. The sale of one certain drug cocaine or heroin. The betel is uni- become apparent, and public prejudice in this city during January mounted to versally used in Ceylon. The women are has been aroused against it, and the law more than the quantity sold during the more inveterate chewers than the men. demands that its use as a beverage shall whole of the previous year, and the sale The habit is a most repulsive one. The cease, those who are deprived of it natu- in February exceeded that of January. use of tobacco is found among all peoples, rally resort to something else, often "For six months, I have been preaching from the most savage to the most highly equally or more injurious. Is this ail evi- against the spread of the drug habit, and civilized. We will not mention the nu- dence of degeneracy? Dr. A. A. Brill re- I am regarded as a fanatic on the sub- merous other drug addictions prevalent cently said before the New York Academy ject. Now the federal authorities are among mankind. of Medicine: "Persons who drink to ex- taking a hand in the matter, and raids cess are abnormal or defective. If they are being made on conscienceless doctors THE UNIVERSAL LONGING cannot express their deficiencies in alco- who have sold the drugs, so that at the There is a longing in human nature hol, they do it in some form more in- present time we have 2,000 addicts on our which demands something in addition to jurious to themselves." hands being treated at our clinic. the essentials of health named—some- "In this country last year there was thing that is not necessary for health or INCREASE OF DRUG ADDICTS consumed 475,000 pounds of opium, ten life. When the evils of one habit are ex- According to Dr. Copeland, New York times as much as in any other country. perienced, nations in self-defense decree City's health commissioner, drug victims Statistics prepared by the government that it must cease, as was the case in have increased rapidly since the enforce- Health Department show that there are China with opium. Not uncommonly one ment of prohibition, fully 100,000 persons (Continued on page 4) The Signs of the Times for September 28, 1920 WHAT WAS NAILED TO THE CROSS?

44BLOTTING out the handwriting of By W. H. BRANSON ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out These verses clearly show that God rec- of the way, nailing it to His cross." ognized a distinction between the law Colossians 2: 14. which He had commanded them and the There was a law which expired at the law which Moses commanded them, and cross. Many, without serious thought, this distinction is faithfully kept up have taken for granted that this was the throughout the Bible. law of Ten Commandments, which was We notice further that the law of God given on Sinai. But that is a serious was written on tables of stone. (Exodus error. While a law was nailed to the 31: 18.) The ceremonial law, or law of cross, it was not the Ten Commandments. Moses, was written in a book. (Deuter- Instead, it was the ceremonial law given onomy 31: 24.) by Moses to the Jewish nation, and which The former was kept by the children of was entirely separate and distinct from Israel in the ark that was in the most the law which was written on the tables holy place of the sanctuary. There was of stone. nothing in the ark but the tables con- There are therefore two distinct codes taining this law. (Exodus 25: 16; 1 of law brought to view in the Bible. One Kings 8: 9.) The latter, the law of is the moral law, more commonly known Moses, was kept "in the side"-just out- as the Ten Commandment law; and the side-of the ark. (Deuteronomy 31: 26.) other is the ceremonial law, sometimes The law of God contained only the Ten designated in the Scriptures as "the law of Moses." We have already shown, in Commandments. (Deuteronomy 10: 4.) previous articles, that the moral law is When these were written, "He added no eternal, and that it will continue forever. more." Deuteronomy 5: 22. The cere- It could not, therefore, have been "blotted monial law "stood only in meats and out" or "nailed to the cross." But the drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ceremonial law was different. It was ordinances." Hebrews 9: 10. It con- Hebrews 7: 21. The Aaronic priesthood only a temporary arrangement, made to sisted in instruction given to the Israel- was brought to an end. After Christ had serve till Christ should come; and with ites concerning the intricate and varied expired upon the cross, and had shed His that event it automatically came to an end. forms of ceremonial service, such as the own blood to atone for man's transgres- offering of special sacrifices for special sions, the blood of bulls and goats was no DISTINCTION IN LAWS occasions; how to prepare the sacrifices; longer a necessity. It had no further That we may better understand the dif- who should minister in the sanctuary; meaning. The type had met its antitype; ference between these two laws, we when the priest should wash his clothes; the shadow had reached its substance; should notice some of the points of dis- etc. "This is the law of the burnt offer- and therefore the law which had regu- tinction. One law, the moral law, was ing, of the meat offering, and of the sin lated these sacrifices came to an end by written by the Lord Himself. "He gave offering, and of the trespass offering, and virtue of its limitations. unto Moses, when He had made an end of of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice Christ "abolished in His flesh the en- communing with him upon Mount Sinai, of the peace offerings." Leviticus 7: 37. mity, even the law of commandments two tables of testimony, tables of stone, The law of God, the moral law, deals contained in ordinances." Ephesians written with the finger of God." Exodus only with moral obligations; the law of 2: 15. "Blotting out the handwriting of 31: 18. "And the tables were the work Moses is wholly ceremonial. The former ordinances that was against us, which of God, and the writing was the writing is perfect. (Psalm 19: 7.) The latter was contrary to us," He "took it out of of God, graven upon the tables." Exo- was only "a shadow of good things to the way, nailing it to His cross." Co- dus 32: 16. come." The sacrifices pointed forward lossians 2: 14. The other, the ceremonial law, was to the death of Christ, and could not But the fact that the ceremonial law, written by Moses through inspiration. "make the corners thereunto perfect." the law of Moses, was temporary, and "Moses wrote this law, and delivered it Hebrews 10: 1. ended at the cross, does not in any way unto the priests." Deuteronomy 31: 9. The law of God is holy, just, good, indicate that the Ten Commandment law "And it came to pass, when Moses had righteous, and true. (Psalm 119: 142, ended at that time. Christ declares that made an end of writing the words of this 151, 172; Romans 7: 12.) The ceremonial "it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, law in a book, until they were finished, law was not good. (Ezekiel 20: 25.) than one tittle of the law to fail." Luke that Moses commanded the Levites, which The former is a law of liberty. (James 16: 17. "Verily I say unto you, Till bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, 2: 10-12.) The latter is a yoke of bondage. heaven and earth pass, one jot or one saying, Take this book of the law, and The former is eternal, and stands "fast tittle shall in no wise pass from the law." put it in the side of the ark of the cov- forever and ever." Psalm 111: 7, 8. The Matthew 5: 18. Heaven and earth are enant of the Lord your God, that it may latter was only temporary, "imposed on still in existence; the same stars that be there for a witness against thee." them until the time of reformation." He- Abraham saw are still in evidence in the Deuteronomy 31: 24-26. brews 9: 10. heavens; the same sun and moon still rise Further distinguishing between these A LIMITED LAW and set. Though the earth is waxing old "as doth a garment," it has not passed two laws, the record declares: "The Lord Thus it is seen that the ceremonial law came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir away. This, then, is absolute evidence was limited to the Mosaical dispensation. that not even a jot (the smallest letter) unto them; He shined forth from Mount It governed the Levitical priesthood only. Paran, and He came with ten thousands or a tittle (the smallest part of a letter) Its offerings typified the offering of the has passed from God's law. of His saints : from His right hand went Son of God on the cross for guilty man- a fiery law for them. . . . Moses com- "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the STANDARD IN THE JUDGMENT manded us a law, even the inheritance of sin of the world." Being a shadow, it This law will be the standard of the the congregation of Jacob." Deuter- could not reach beyond its substance. final Judgment, by which all men's lives onomy 33:2, 4. Therefore it must of necessity end at the must be tried. (James 2: 10-12.) Man's And again: "Neither will I make the cross. "The priesthood being changed, whole duty is involved in keeping its pre- feet of Israel move any more out of the there is made of necessity a change also cepts. (Ecclesiastes 12: 13.) Those who land which I gave their fathers; only if of the law." Hebrews 7: 12. This verse, keep it faithfully will finally have a right they will observe to do according to all of course, refers to the law which gov- to the tree of life, and will enter in that I have commanded them, and accord- erned the priesthood, the ceremonial law. through the pearly gates into the New ing to all the law that My servant Moses When Christ came, He became "a priest Jerusalem, the city of God. (Revelation commanded them." 2 Kings 21: 8. forever after the order of Melchisedec." 22: 14.) (Continued on page 7) 4 The Signs of the Times for September 28, 1920 The Remedy for Stimulants acted against it. It came to be regarded Medicated snuffs were largely sold as as vulgar. The time came when Dr. cure-alls. These no doubt contained other (Continued from page 2) Johnson could say, "Smoking has gone habit-forming drugs, even worse than three or four millions of addicts in this out," although some years before' that, tobacco. country." the practice in England was general, Snuff was regarded as a great blessing In the South, there has been a great women smoking as did the men. to mankind. Moliere said: "There is increase in the use of habit-forming nothing equal to snuff. It is the craving drugs since the prohibition of alcohol. SNUFFED INSTEAD OF SMOKED of upright men, and he who lives without Some queer freaks have also been re- It is a matter of history that nine out snuff is not worthy of life. It not only ported. Dr. Brill tells of a person who of every ten who gave up smoking at that rejoices and purifies the brains of men, was rescued from alcoholism "only to go time took to the use of snuff. The snuff but it also instructs their souls into right- on what his family call 'roast beef jags' was drawn into the nostrils with a quill. eousness, and by taking snuff we acquire following the eating of six or seven The practice of snuff taking had its virtue." Snuffboxes were then passed pounds of roast beef at a sitting." This origin in French society. The use of around after dinners, instead of the pipe is because meat is a stimulant. The uric snuff soon became general in Great Brit- as formerly. George IV, it is said, had a acid that it contains will produce a form ain. Seventy years ago fully one half of dozen different kinds of snuff on his din- of intoxication; hence this freak. Mr. the people of the United Kingdom, of ner table. His mother and wife (the ill- E. M. Statler, owner of the famous Stat- both sexes and all ranks, were said to fated queen) both took snuff profusely. ler hotels, in referring to the predicament be addicted to the use of snuff. For The almost fanatical extent to which hotels are in since prohibition is enforced, every one that smoked then, five took snuffing was carried can hardly be appre- predicts, "In time, we may become after- _snuff. We are informed that "the bril- ciated. It is said that when Lord Peter- noon tea drinkers, as the English are." liant gayety and licentious excesses of the sham died, he left $12,000 worth of snuff. He said: "In fact, I look for a spurt in eighteenth century society were ushered Some had snuffboxes for every day of the this direction immediately in the cities in with snuff." The practice was in fact year. At that time, if a crowned head where the dinner hour is seven o'clock or associated everywhere with "laxity of desired to acknowledge an obligation to later. In the cafes abroad, you will see morals and brilliancy of society." an individual, it was generally done by scores of men in the late afternoon sit- The profligate court of France was the the presentation of a gold snuffbox set ting at tables drinking coffee. I predict home of snuff. Here snuff was every- with diamonds. that we will see the same thing in this where in evidence. Napoleon abhorred Following the battle of Waterloo, the country, though not to the same extent. smoking, but carried snuff in his waist- House of Commons, in one year, appro- The Englishman would rather go with- coat pocket and took it profusely. Nis- priated twenty-two thousand five hundred out his dinner than without his afternoon son, a Frenchman, described the English pounds sterling for snuffboxes alone, as tea. People who know more about it beau as a "creature compounded of a complimentary presents to be bestowed than I do," he said, "assure me upon diplomats and soldiers en- that good hot tea is a great pick- gaged in the events consum- me-up, that it really is the cup mated on the field of blood. that cheers and does not inebri- This represents a sum of over ate. They tell me that it en- $100,000. courages conversation, and that with a reserve supply of hat COURAGE THE EVILS BECAME APPARENT water and some trimmings of The time came when the evils toast and French pastry, it is BY B. F. M. SOURS of this filthy practice became as capable of holding a group to- apparent as those of smoking gether in animated talk for an ARE the colors down? Is the might all gone? had been before, and another hour or two. I certainly hope Has the foe shot well, and no end in view? wave of reform then swept over so," he added, "for it looks as Brother—charge! Trust God for the victory, Great Britain. Snuff taking fol- though we hotel men have got to And charge; for above the clouds, the blue lowed smoking and went out. `beat our swords into plow- Ever abideth. But as it went out, in its place shares,' figuratively speaking; came the modern cigarette, and and if we can do it by turning There are foes, are foes; there are roads all with it smoke inhalation. This our bars into tea rooms, so much rough; practice was introduced into the better." There are victories that come at last; England about the year 1857. During the Crimean War, the THE EFFECTS OF TEA There are triumphs great that must wait the British soldiers, being brought power Tea is not the harmless bev- Of a prayer of a humbled heart; then vast in contact with the French and erage it is supposed to be. In Power hideth! the Spanish on the field of battle, time, it greatly injures the nerv- formed the habit of smoking ous system, making nervous cigarettes. On their return, we wrecks of its users. It is one of Then rise and shout for the golden day are told, the youth of Great the causes of the increase in in- When the tide shall turn, and the victory Britain "copied the manners of sanity. "Personally," Mr. Stat- Shall fill all the skies with the flush of fire, the heroes of the day, both by ler said, "I think there will be With the foe 'mongst those whom history cultivating beards and by smok- more smoking with prohibition Derideth! ing cigarettes." in effect than there is now." For years, Great Britain has The chain stores throughout the O courage, soul! Thank God for life! recognized the practice as the country for the sale of tobacco, Thank God for power, for triumph won! greatest and most to be dreaded he says, "claim that the business Who conquers all? The Christ is He! of all her foes. It is eating the goes up wherever there is pro- To triumph He, the eternal Son, vitals out of the nation by de- hibition." The use of tobacco Swift rideth. stroying her young men for has increased enormously the service in time of war or of past year, and is still increasing. peace. The practice is now There has also been an immense common among women also. increase in the sale of soft drinks During and since the war, the containing caffeine since the en- increase in the consumption of forcement of prohibition. The time is periwig and a coat laden cigarettes has been phenomenal. Great certainly coming when the use of these with powder as white as a Britain recognizes her danger, but how other intoxicants will be much more com- miller's, a face besmeared to meet it is her problem. mon than at present. Tea and coffee with snuff, and a few af- houses will in the future become a public fected airs." "A snuffbox and a gold- INTRODUCTION OF CIGARETTES nuisance. In Great Britain, in the sev- headed cane survived as the professional The use of cigarettes was not intro- enteenth century, they had to be closed up equipment of a physician." "Ladies duced into America until about fifty years by law as detrimental to the health and snuffed as artistically as men." The ago. Since that time, the practice has well-being of the people. Smoking also snuffboxes were of various designs. Some swept everything before it; and to-day it became so common that laws were en- of them were studded with diamonds. is practically universal among men, old The Signs of the Times for September 28, 1920 5 and young. Women too are now becom- Not satisfied with causing the fall and ing victims of the cigarette. In the year the consequent expulsiop from Eden, he 1900, the factories in the United States set himself to lead man still farther into turned out three billion cigarettes. In sin. He raised the club that took the life the year 1918, the production amounted of Abel. He instigated all the heathen- to thirty-nine billions. In addition to ism of the antediluvians. He fanned the this, it is estimated that twenty billions flames of human lust until man, created were sold in this country by foreign con- in the image of God, sank lower than the cerns. The billions rolled by hand are brute. With every power of body and not included in these estimates. mind prostituted, God-given instincts and It is said that one manufactory alone emotions were placed as votive offerings had planned to spend five million dollars before his satanic majesty. in the year 1918 in advertising. This Then it was that "it repented the Lord factory claimed to be turning out at the that He had made man on the earth" time over one hundred carloads every (Genesis 6: 6), and the antediluvian month of one well-known brand of ciga- world perished in the waters of the Flood. rettes alone. The advertising was clev- Noah and his family alone were left to erly carried forward. The sympathies repeople the earth. of the people were enlisted. Even re- But Satan worked none the less. The ligious organizations that before opposed gage of battle was taken up, and warfare the use of cigarettes, were cunningly raged unmitigated. Wherever the haunts swept into the scheme, and aided the of men are found, there he has carried tobacco trusts in their propaganda. his nefarious enterprises. He entered How well the trusts have succeeded in the breast of the South Sea Islander and doing this, it is not necessary to enlarge made him a cannibal. He deceived the upon. Almost every one above the age African and made him a devil worshiper. of fifteen among the male population He lured the financier and made him a smokes. Converts to the habit are made profiteer. He reared his slimy form on at the rate of about two thousand daily the hills of Bethlehem and slew the in- at present. nocents. With relentless hate, he pur- sued the Son of God. He plaited the THE ONE PERFECT SATISFIER crown of thorns and placed it on His In every human being there exists a head. He scourged His bleeding back, desire for something, he knows not what. and then, in fiendish glee, spiked Him to This desire has been placed there by God. the cross of Calvary. It is not a desire for narcotics, however, although these will for the time being SATAN'S DAYS NUMBERED obliterate it. It is a desire for the divine But when Jesus came forth triumphant nature, which alone can permanently sat- over the tomb, Satan trembled. His days isfy the longing. The devil is fully ac- were numbered. Still, with a zeal that quainted with the plan of salvation. He never flagged, he persecuted the church. knows that God has placed in the human He plots and deceives and destroys with heart something that would, if followed, all the power of his master mind. In the lead to a life of holiness and purity. His liquor traffic, in the records of the divorce aim is to deaden the brain so that no such SATAN courts, in the wave of crime and immor- desire will be felt. Narcotics will do this ality that seems even now to be engulfing most effectively, and hence he employs AND HIS the race, we see the trail of the dragon. these. They are in fact his substitutes With all his devilish ingenuity, he is for the Spirit of God. They say, Peace, working to reproduce, on a more gigantic when there is no peace. OVERTHROW scale, his work of the antediluvian age. These narcotics—whether alcohol, He incites strife among the nations. He opium, cocaine, tea, coffee, or tobacco— heats the passions of distant peoples and are the greatest enemies of the gospel. By A. J. MEIKLEJOHN sets the war blood boiling in their veins. They do more to prevent the gospel mes- He will deceive the kings of the earth sage from coming to darkened minds than Tr HERE was a time when there was no and lead them forth in battle array to anything else. It is well to know that I sin. There was no devil, no cruel, de- Armageddon. (Revelation 16: 16.) Then opium or cigarette fiends are seldom ceiving foe. Throughout God's universe, Christ will come, and Satan, with his co- reached by the gospel. It is not in Sun- unfallen worlds reverberated with notes horts of demons, will be bound a thousand day school or in church that these are of adoration to the Being whose mighty years. (Revelation 20: 1-5.) found. "Wine is a mocker," says the power and tender love created and sus- At the end of the thousand years, wise man, "and whosoever is deceived tained them. From the smallest creature Satan will be let out of his prison. The thereby is not wise." This applies with to the majestic seraphim who stood beside city of God, with the saints, will come equal force to other narcotics and intoxi- Jehovah's throne, all lived to serve, and down to the earth, and the unnumbered cants. They are all miserable deceivers. served to worship Him. No sin, no dis- wicked will be called forth from their "Be ye not unwise, but understanding ease, no death! Oh, why did it not long sleep. A thousand years will not what the will of the Lord is. And be not continue? have changed his character. He, with drunk with wine," Paul admonishes be- There came a day when dark designs his angels, will marshal the unnumbered lievers, "but be filled with the Spirit." filled the heart of Lucifer. Though he wicked, and together they will compass Ephesians 5: 17, 18. In giving up one was created perfect in form and in mind, "the camp of the saints about, and the vice, whether it is the use of alcohol, to- yet when long cycles of eternity had beloved city," and fire will come "down bacco, tea, or coffee, do not plan to take passed away, his heart became lifted up from God out of heaven," and devour up with an "equivalent vice," as did because of his beauty. (Ezekiel 28: them. (Revelation 20: 9.) Charles Lamb, and as do all who do not 12-17.) He went forth from beside the VIEWS HIS HELLISH WORK II know what the heart craves. Open the throne to raise the Standard of rebellion. heart's door to Him who says, "Behold, The rankling in his own heart soon spread But before his destruction he will have I stand at the door, and knock: if any to others. Angels who had never known an opportunity to view once more the re- man hear My voice, and open the door, sin, listened to him. Many were seduced sults of his work. He will see the long I will come in to him, and will sup with and joined with him, spurning God's ef- battle line of sin reaching over seventy him, and he with Me." Revelation 3: 20. forts to reconcile them to Himself. Then centuries. Beginning just out of Para- This is the world's remedy. Without "there was war in heaven" (Revelation dise, it reaches down past the Flood, over it, human nature will naturally resort to 12: 7-9), and the devil and his angels Calvary, past Armageddon, and on to the narcotics and stimulants. The one ele- were cast out. This newly created world city of God. And there, inside the city, vates, refinea, and ennobles mankind, was the next object of Satan's attack, will be the objects of his assaults. There while the other degrades. and the story of the fall is known to us all. (Continued on page 7) 6 The Signs of the Times for September 28, 1920

The Authority of JESUS

By WILLIAM P. PEARCE

MO all appearance, Jesus was unau- in the coming days when He shall be rec- howled, He rebuked them, and quietude thoritative. He had little family ognized as "Crown Prince." so reigned that His disciples asked, "What standing, hence no name nor title gave manner of man is this, that even the SPOKE WITH AUTHORITY Him advantage. He had little scholastic winds and the sea obey Him!" Matthew training, hence He was not counted among Jesus spoke with authority. "He 8: 27. Mark tells that "He healed many the celebrities. He had no political office, taught them," said Mark, "as one that that were sick of divers diseases, and hence no "pull" with the "men higher up." had authority, and not as the scribes." cast out many devils" (Mark 1: 34) — In fact, He sprang from obscurity into Mark 1: 22. The Greek word for au- devils that became dumb in His presence. notoriety at thirty years of age. From thority in this place is exousia—privilege. To the man healed of palsy He said, "The the so-thought precociousness exhibited to "By what authority doest Thou these Son of man bath power on earth to for- the doctors in the temple, when He was things? and who gave Thee this au- give sins." Mark 2: 10. Lazarus and but twelve years of age, until the call of thority?" (Matthew 21: 23), asked a the son of the widow of Nain He brought His apostolic band, His life was silence. formidable deputation of chief priests to life from the dead. (John 11:43, 44; And, judging by His sad, tragic exit and learned scribes and rabbis, who came Luke 7: 14, 15.) Strangest of all, He from a spectacular stage of activities, to the temple after He had silenced the had power over His own death. At least His power was a cipher. commercialists, and was now teaching the He said so: "I have power to lay it [My people. They wanted to know His right Nearly two thousand years have passed life] down, and I have power to take it to assume the functions of rabbi and since then, and Jesus is better known and again." John 10: 18. On this score, He prophet. But Jesus would not parley. more potent than any man or set of men. appealed to men to have faith in Him: Quickly He put a question to them—a His principles adopted, have made Chris- "Believe Me for the very works' sake." question whereby they might discover His tianized lands the most powerful and John 14: 11. His calm assumption of claims if they wished: "The baptism of benevolent. His "Golden Rule" is the authority "in heaven and in earth" (Mat- John, whence was it? from heaven, or of "gold chain" that links humanity to His thew 28: 18) remains undisputed. No men?" Matthew 21: 25. They were non- heart, making all "newborns" sons and man has taken His crown. plused by this sentence of twelve words. daughters of His Father God. To deny John's mission would have en- GOVERNS WITH AUTHORITY MANY-SIDED AUTHORITY dangered their safety. To acknowledge Jesus now governs with authority. He it, would have been to confess the au- But Jesus did have authority in more has not swerved one iota from His first thority of Jesus, for John publicly and than one way. The word "authority" is religious principles; and His commands used in several senses. His introduction emphatically testified that Jesus was the are the axioms of right living and right Messiah. to this earth was by commissioned au- doing, as when enunciated.' He is "au- thority. He was God's representative— Though not "set apart" to the priest- thority in religion" in spite of the liber- the Ambassador of the court of heaven. hood by the "ordaining council," yet alistic protestators. And obedience to It is true He brought no written creden- Jesus was privileged to teach from that authority alone makes men free tials with a gold seal upon them, such as "higher up." When He spoke, it was (John 8: 32) —delightfully so, as con- ambassadors carry to the court of the na- with the voice of God. "As My Father trasted to heathenism, which is despotic tion to which they go as mouthpieces of hath taught Me, I speak these things" in its genius and spirit, and Islamism, (John 8: 28), said He. He had expert which means submission—submission to their own nation. Because of this, Ro- knowledge. He was "the last word" on blind fate. man and Jew considered His claim a fake. things relative to life and death, things "The love of Christ," said Paul, "con- They did not believe He "came down dogmatic and prophetic, things spiritual straineth us." 2 Corinthians 5: 14. Je- from heaven" (John 6: 38) to do God's and eternal. sus rules not with "a rod of iron" (Reve- bidding. But they found out later that lation 2: 27), but by love—the greatest Jesus represented God, and God's created WROUGHT WITH AUTHORITY love ever exhibited. ones who abode with Him in illimitable Jesus wrought with authority,—extra- The word "constrain" is sometimes in- splendor. His word was law—law put ordinary authority over elements, dis- terpreted as drawing or compelling. In aside by the generality, but now recog- eases, sin, death, and devils. When the relation to love for Christ, this is true; nized by nations, and to be fully obeyed lake waves boiled, and winds unchained for "we love Him, because He first loved The Signs of the Times for September 28, 1920 7 us." 1 John 4: 19. But the Greek term What Was Nailed to the Cross? (sunecho) used in this connection means "to hold together," like the hoops around (Continued from page 3) Iglu DS the staves, which keep the barrel to- To this agree all the great Protestant gether; and like the law of attraction, creeds. I have before me the "Discipline" which keeps certain stars whirling around of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Published weekly by the Pacific Press Publishing an orb of magnitude. edition of 1898. On page 4, article 6, I Association, Mountain View, California, a Corpo- read: "Although the law given from God ration of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. Alcyone is the center star of the Ple- Entered as second-class matter September 15,1904, iades. It is a thousand times more bril- by Moses, as touching ceremonies and at the Mountain View, California, post office, under rites, doth not bind Christians, nor ought Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for liant than our sun. Hugh Macmillan was mailing at special rate of postage, provided for in of the opinion that our sun and its the civil precepts thereof of necessity to section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917, and authorized planets wheel around it at the rate of be received in any commonwealth; yet September 18, 1918. notwithstanding, no Christian whatso- SUBSCRIPTION RATES four hundred and twenty-two thousand Three months $ .50 miles a day, in an orbit that will take ever is free from the obedience of the Six months .90 commandments which are called moral." One year (50 numbers) 1.50 nineteen million years to complete—held With "Questions and Answers" 2.16 together by some unknown astronomical I also have at hand a copy of the "Con- influence. fession of Faith" of the Cumberland NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Presbyterian Church; and on pages 43, Expiration: The wrapper bears date of last is- In like manner, Christ is the center of sue due on your subscription. Unless renewed in mankind, holding His saints together for 44, under the caption "The Law of God," advance, the paper stops with expiration date. life, and for the countless years of eter- is found the following language: "The Change of address: Kindly give both old and nity, by the undefinable, experiential moral law is the rule of duty growing im- new address. mediately out of the relations of rational We send no papers from this office to individuals, love that controls them to serve or sacri- without pay in advance. When any one receives fice, in any capacity, in any place, and creatures to their Creator, and to each copies without ordering them, they are sent by among any people. other, these relations being the product other parties, and we can give no information in of the divine purpose. The law has its regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of the SIGNS are not indebted to the office, and will JUDGES WITH AUTHORITY ultimate source in the will of the Creator. not be called upon to pay for them. Please read This law is of universal and perpetual the pap6rs you may receive, and hand them to your Jesus will judge with authority. He friends to read. obligation. . . . After Adam's fall, and declared that the Father had "given Him J. H. COCHRAN, Circulation Manager authority to execute judgment" (John 5: that of his posterity through him, a writ- 27)—judgment at two judgment seats: ten form of the law became necessary. This was given in the Decalogue, or Ten judgment seat one, where He presides to A Call to the Wanderer determine rewards of His saints; judg- Commandments. . . . This law is not set ment seat two, where, in conjunction with aside, but rather established, by the gos- THE whole purpose of divine revelation His Father, He presides to execute the pel. . . . It accordingly remains in full is to open a way for the wandering to decisions reached. "We must all appear force as the rule of conduct. It must come back, to convince the doubting, the before the judgment seat of Christ," said not, therefore, be confounded with the fearful, and the despondent that their Paul, "that every one may receive the ceremonial law, which was abolished Father desires their return. things done in his body, according to that under the New Testament dispensation." The whole book of God, from beginning he hath done, whether it be good or bad." Also, the "Baptist Church Manual," to end, is a continual cry to the children 2 Corinthians 5: 10. "I charge thee article 12, says, "We believe that the law of men, "Return unto Me, and I will therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus of God is the eternal and unchangeable return unto you." And God orders the Christ," wrote the same apostle to Timo- rule of His moral government." whole course of His all-teaching and eter- thy, "who shall judge the quick and the Thus we see that the Bible and the nal providence to confirm the voice of a dead at His appearing and His kingdom." church creeds agree that the moral law Father's yearning and pleading love 2 Timothy 4: 1. of Ten Commandments has not been abol- which cries through His Word. ished, but still remains in full force. Think of it, Jesus-Saviour now, Jesus- It is impossible for the wanderer to God's standard of morality and righteous- Judge then! Christians should bear in go beyond the reach of those bonds of ness is the same .to-day as it always was. mind that there is to be a resurrection love with which the Holy and Blessed He never changes. Therefore the con- of credits as well as a resurrection from One is ever drawing the disinherited stant prayer of God's children to-day the dead. That is why John urges us to child of earth back to his lost inheritance. should be like that of David of old when carefulness, that we may receive "a full DANIEL MARCH. reward." 2 John 8. Sinners should bear he said, "Make me to go in the path of Thy commandments; for therein do I de- in mind that there is to be a resurrection of character as well as a resurrection of light." Psalm 119: 35. For "thus saith the dead. the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, Promises to the Overcomer and ask for the old paths, where is the It is said that a judge, hearing loud good way, and walk therein, and ye shall IT is almost axiomatic that when one cries, rushed to the door just in time to find rest for your souls." Jeremiah 6: 16. becomes thoroughly converted, he no see a horse come dashing down the street, longer thinks of gratifying selfish de- with the carriage swerving to the right sires, but in zeal for others, gives all to and the left. He ran into the street; and the cause—even life itself. Witness Paul, as the horse came up, he grabbed the lines Satan and His Overthrow Peter, Huss, Jerome, Moffat, Livingstone, at the risk of his life, and saved the (Continued from page 5) and a host of others, noble laborers, who driver. Some time after, this man was will be Moses and Elijah and the prophets gave all for the Word of God. brought before him, charged with mur- and apostles of the Lamb. And there, Just as surely as Jesus spoke the words der, tried, and found guilty. The judge too, will be the martyrs, and ransomed to His first disciples, just so certainly asked if he knew of any reason why sen- men from cannibal islands and heathen does He speak to His people to-day: tence should not be passed upon him. lands—saved and beyond his power. "Whosoever will save his life shall lose "Judge," said the condemned man, Then fire will come "down from God it: and whosoever will lose his life for "don't you know I'm the man you saved out of heaven," and destroy them. It My sake shall find it." Matthew 16: 25. in that runaway?" will be the day of retributive judgment. "To him that overcometh will I grant "Yes," answered the jurist, "I remem- The very earth seems to sink beneath to sit with Me in My throne, even as I ber. I was your savior then, I am your their feet, and evil men and demons are also overcame, and am set down with My p judge now." engulfed in an ocean of flame. Father in His throne." So with Jesus. He is God-empowered When the last traces of sin are de- "He that overcometh, the same shall be to forgive, to save, to comfort, and to stroyed, the fire will cease to burn. He clothed in white raiment; and I will not heal; but His power reaches beyond the who caused sin and death, will never be blot out his name out of the book of life, mortal and terrestrial. The saved He any more. (Ezekiel 28: 19.) The wicked but I will confess his name before My will justly reward; the unsaved He will will be as though they had not been. Father, and before His angels." condemn, and from His presence drive (Obadiah 15, 16.) The earth will be re- "To him that overcometh will I give to them to their doom. created, and under the benediction of eat of the tree of life, which is in the "How careful, then, ought we to live, God's love, will be the long-looked-for midst of the Paradise of God." Reve- With what religious fear, home of the saved. May God hasten lation 3: 21, 5; 2: 7. We such a strict account must give Of our behavior here !" the day! CHESTER E. KELLOGG.

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Mountain View, California of the Dna September 28, 1920 "Genuine Phenomena" deceit of unrighteousness for them that Great world leaders are constantly perish; because they received not the love placing these dark pictures before our MUCH space in a recent leading church of the truth, that they might be saved." mind. The outlook from a mere human paper is devoted to the story of a series Verses 9, 10. standpoint is not very assuring; but of public performances by a highly How very clearly does this text warn when we personally come to know God trained and much traveled preacher in us against Satan as he works with and His prophecies and promises, the face order to show the absurdity. or "tricks" "power and signs and lying wonders"! of everything is changed, and we look of many of the spirit manifestations. These writers in the inspired Book tell us into the future with calmness and confi- The first part of the article would indi- of "genuine phenomena," but give us to dence. Is this experience yours? cate that this leading prelate thought understand that these "phenomena" come that all spiritistic manifestations were from Satan. merely trickery, but he disabuses our minds upon this subject through the fol- Then we may not depend upon "signs" Would Control Palestine lowing paragraph: and "wonders" in establishing our be- THE leaders in the Catholic Church "That does not mean that I deny the lief; but we must come directly to the have been quite outspoken in their oppo- existence of genuine phenomena. I ad- sition to the establishment of a Jewish mit them, because I have seen some of state in Palestine as proposed by the them myself. But I do question the ex- Zionists. The planation given by the 'spiritist' and by Catholic Standard and Times, in its issue of August 21, devotes the advocates of the 'diabolic' theory. much prominent space to the views of Lightning was a phenomenon since the Pope Benedict upon this question, and beginning of the world, and yet for sixty the instruction that he has sent to the centuries civilized and uncivilized nations Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem. A spe- explained it by the devil, the gods, or by cial dispatch from London concerning the some preternatural powers. Then came Zionist movement, in this same issue of an American, Ben Franklin, with his the Times, has the following very strik- kite, and proved it to be electricity. So ing paragraphs: it has been with spiritistic phenomena— only we are still waiting for an adequate "As long as the British administration explanation." is in power there is no doubt that Chris- tian interests will be safe; this is recog- "Genuine phenomena" are admitted; nized by the Swiss Holy Land Society, but this preacher questions the explana- which views the situation in terms of tion given by the spiritists who think that Catholic interests alone. But when the they are communicating with the dead, time comes for local self-government in and also that given by persons who ad- Palestine what will happen? Here again vocate the "diabolic theory." the Swiss Holy Land Society has a ready For a long time, popular teachers of answer. religion held to the idea that spiritism "It is clear, says the society, that the was all the result of trickery; but gradu- only safe course will be for the holy ally all these teachers, regardless of the places of Palestine to have their guardi- church to which they may belong, are anship vested in some international coming to realize that there are indeed power; a power with no political ambi- "genuine phenomena." Many of these tions. And the only international power religious teachers who have tried to re- that is able and capable of exercising fute spiritism have failed, because they this guardianship is the holy see." do not recognize a clear Bible truth which Students of prophecy are quite fully tears away the very foundation of the Wide World agreed that mighty interests are going spiritists. The Bible nowhere teaches Archbishop Mannix, of Melb.iurne, Australia, who to center in the Holy Land just before that a man has an immortal soul which has recently visited America, and who, on his way to Ireland, was taken from a steamer by a British Christ comes. All understand that it is may be separated from his body at death; destroyer and was prevented from going to Ire- land. For many years, he has been a bitter foe of here that the world-embracing forces of hence the professor of Christianity who England; and he never speaks but that he cham- Armageddon's war are to be gathered. clings to the heathen dogma of the im- pions the Irish cause and vilifies English rule in Ireland. And regardless of how the details of mortality of the soul holds as one of his those prophecies will work out, we can beliefs not only the corner stone but the Word of God, and let our faith rest upon see the immense interests that are cen- whole foundation of the spiritualistic tering in Palestine, and that events are doctrine. But once the Bible is allowed this secure and unshakeable foundation. The warnings in this Word assure us that rapidly shaping themselves for the last to speak, this foundation is swept away, great struggle. and we know that the spirit medium is the evil spirits will yet appear to bring down fire from heaven in their work of The Turkish power has held that ter- not bringing to us the spirits of the de- ritory for centuries, and will not in the parted dead. deception; and multitudes of the might- iest men of earth, including its kings and ultimate fully relinquish it without a des- Having learned the Bible doctrine con- perate conflict; and on the other hand, cerning the spirits of the dead, if we will great potentates, will be swept under the delusion. The events of this world are the crusades all through the centuries go just a step farther and listen to some rushing toward the fulfillment of these have been inspired by the desire to wrest of the warnings against the deceptions prophetic warnings. We do well to place the holy places of Palestine from the "in- that will be practiced, the whole subject fidels." But regardless of just how that of spiritism is readily cleared of all mys- all of our confidence in the Word that is given to us through Him that knows. If prophecy will be worked out, all will be tifications and misleading "phenomena." deeply interested in following the events Said Jesus, "There shall arise false our investigations are conducted merely through our human senses, they may de- that cluster around that land of the an- Christs, and false prophets, and shall ceive us. cient Israelites and of Christ and His show great signs and wonders; so as to early apostles. lead astray, if possible, even the elect. It may not be necessary, at this time, Behold, I have told you beforehand." A World Role No More that we know how the details will be Matthew 24: 24, 25. worked out; but it is important that we How specific are the foregoing words DR. DAVID P. BARROWS, president of the carefully study the prophecies themselves, of the Master in warning us against de- University of California, through exten- so that our minds may be wholly familiar ceptions that will be so cunning as almost sive travel and research, has unexcelled with the inspired predictions; and then, to deceive the very elect of God! facilities for knowing world conditions. with a keen interest, we will keep close In harmony with those words is the In a recent address, he is reported to have track of the current events that center warning of the apostle Paul in the sec- said: "The decline of Europe is so tre- in Palestine. For whatever God has fore- ond chapter of his second letter to the mendous that Europe will never again told in prophecy, will be fulfilled most Thessalonians. He speaks there of "the play a world role. The advance of accurately just as He has predicted. And working of Satan with all power and America and Asia alone prevents Euro- if we will to do His will, He has promised signs and lying wonders, and with all pean domination in world affairs." to guide us.