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Signs of the Times Magazine for 1921 October 25c Read—The Sea and the Waves Roaring Page 4 Among the Trees by EDMUND J. BRISTOW I'VE been out among the trees— The wild, free, natural trees; Talking with nature and nature's God; Hearing the humming of honey bees, The birds' sweet songs and melodies, And the crickets' chirping down in the sod. I've been out among the trees— The clean, wholesome, refreshing trees; Inhaling the forest's odors so sweet ; Breathing the breath of beautiful flowers; And resting myself in the shadiest bowers; A carpet of beauty under my feet. I've been out among the trees— The great, strong, majestic trees, Standing like spires of cathedrals grand, Pointing me upward from everything low; Lifting my thought, and bidding me go ; Each like a finger on God's own hand. I've been out among the trees— The pure, sweet, beautiful trees; And some were drooping their leaves with shame, And dropping down their dewy tears, Expressing on and on, through the years, The sorrow of God for the wrongs of men. I've been out among the trees— The kind, brotherly, loving trees, Living in peace and amity rare, All shades and colors and sizes and kinds. We think it's because they haven't got minds; But the mind of the Master put them there. I've been out among the trees— The living, singing, sighing trees. Their songs bring a message from above ; And for every noble deed of men, They clap their hands and sing again, And reecho the heart's deep thought of love. 1 --: . A CHAMPION OF THE 4- ,pee ADVOCATING A RETURN BIBLE, GOD-BREATHED, sjIGN0 ..a, lines COMPLETE, A PERFECT TO THE SIMPLE GOSPEL A RULE OF LIFE OF CHRIST , AND A PREPARATION FOR HIS Edited by FAAGAZ IE N. 3 IMMINENT SECOND A. O. TAIT A. L. BAKER A Magazine With a Message APPEARING VOLUME 13 OCTOBER, 1921 NUMBER 10 IS THE BIBLE OUT ofc DATE? 49 ROY F. COTTRELL T varying intervals, and Romans, but not a fragment for sundry•reasons, the of the great undertaking re- call is issued for a new mains ; and the same is largely Bible. In the seven- true of the works of Neander, teenth century, Comenius urged the Euripides, Tacitus, Cassius, and many other preparation of a substitute volume to renowned authors. serve "as a basis and a framework for the The Bible, however, has survived the wars of thoughts and the imaginations of every citizen ages and the storms of criticism. Said H. L. of the world." Even certain missionaries have been heard Hastings : "The Bible is ,a book which has been refuted, to voice their desire for an abridged and revised edition demolished, overthrown, and exploded more times than of Holy Writ to be used for translation into the languages any other book you ever heard of. They overthrew the and dialects of heathenism. Bible a century ago, in Voltaire's time—entirely demol- One of the latest and most definite appeals of this na- ished the whole thing. In less than a hundred years, said ture comes from the trenchant pen of the well-known Voltaire, Christianity will have been swept from exist- British author Mr. H. G. Wells. He looks out upori a ence, and will have passed into history." Notwithstand- world with its multiplicity of interests, its complex gov- ing all, four hundred million copies of the Scriptures, ernmental systems, with decay and disintegration threat- published in seven hundred thirty-three languages and ening civilization, and concludes that a new Bible is one dialects, testify that the old Book still lives. of the greatest needs of humanity. The Book, he believes, The religion of the Bible confronted the ancient civi- while serving as the active coherent, or cement, that de- lizations, and has outlived them all. In dismay the veloped and sustained Western civilization, has somehow magicians of Egypt exclaimed, "This is the finger of ceased to function as a controlling agency over the peoples God ;" and while the most High was unfolding future of earth in meeting the tremendous issues of the twen- mysteries to Daniel and his companions, the astrologers tieth century. of Babylon were asserting, "There is not a man upon the In order to stay the receding tide and to exert a positive earth that can show the king's matter." Greek mythology influence over present and future generations, the Bible, and Roman paganism went down before it ; and it has we are told, should be written in the light of the best withstood triumphantly the attacks of French, German, ancient and modern scientific thought. The new produc- and American infidelity. tion should follow the order of the old by giving the ori- DANIEL WEBSTER RIGHT gin and development of mankind ; it should present a comprehensive outline of universal history with its phi- TN every age the Book has met hostility, because it op- losophy and practical lessons ; a new Leviticus should deal -1- poses man's selfish instincts. It denounces vice and with questions of hygiene, sex relations, and morals; a crime and oppression in all their varied forms, and re- sound code of laws focused upon the just administration quires its followers "to do justly, and to love mercy," of property and labor rights, should be an important fea- joyfully accepting self-denial and sacrifice as a part of ture,—the entire scheme to be a résumé of the garnered God's plan. It attacks the sins of governments as well wisdom and knowledge of the ages. as those of individuals, and declares that "the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish ; yea, those TRIUMPHANT O'ER STORM AND TIDE nations shall be utterly wasted." Isaiah 6o : 12. T is admitted that the preparation of such a book would Never may we with truth and impunity ascribe the I be a gigantic task ; yet Mr. Wells believes that a group recent world cataclysm to the failure of the Book; rather of men, representing the world's choicest intelligence and let it be announced as the refusal of kings, statesmen, scholarship, might be chosen. Such a body, clothed with legislators, and diplomats to be guided by the divine coun- authority and animated by the highest purpose, should be sel. Daniel Webster was right when he said, "If we abide able to prepare a compendium capable of assisting this by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go troubled world out of its mists and quagmires, and of on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity giving to individuals and nations a community of thought neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how and a system of regulations by which they may again sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our square themselves. glory in profound obscurity." The argument for a new Bible is based upon the false The Bible is not obsolete, has not been superseded, nor assumption that the old one is outgrown. The gen- will its place ever be filled by another. Among its eral law controlling the productions of the human authors were men of every grade and class,—rich intellect suggest that sooner or later all will be su- men, poor men, princes, statesmen, poets, captains, perseded or replaced by something else. The unin- legislators, taxgatherers, shepherds, learned philoso- spired literature of antiquity has nearly all been cast phers, uneducated fishermen ; men educated in aside and lost. Pliny wrote twenty volumes of history, not Egypt, in Babylon, in Jerusalem ; men in the desert, and one of which may be obtained to-day. Varro produced for men in captivity. The Bible is in reality a library treating his countrymen the biographies of seven hundred celebrated upon all subjects that occupy the (Continued on page 1.1) PAGE THREE UPPER: Unemployment is widespread to-day, not only in the United States, but also in Great Britain and on the Continent. Every city has its thou- sands out of a job. CENTER: West Virginia coal mines have been the scene of a real con- flict between union and nonunion men. One hundred families were evicted from their homes and had to live in tents. LOWER: One of the striking miners shot and killed on the railway track. Jesus said: "There shall be . upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." `rhe Sea and the Waves ROARING .sue 20 C. F. McVAGH HE wave of rejoicing that lions of people are reported as likely swept over the world when to die of starvation this winter in Rus- the word was given to cease sia—the potential bread basket of the firing, on November I I, 1918, world. In the Near East, Greece de- has been tempered with disap- fies the powers and wages war with some one with a vision ; some one pointment. True, some of Turkey. In England and the United whose word we can take, who can say, our boys have come home, but the States large sections of organized `Yes, the danger is over' ? I should promise of a new world from which labor openly advocate the use of vio- be so glad that I would sign my resig- war and tumult should be excluded lence, if necessary, in securing what nation to-morrow and retire." appears much farther from realization they judge to be their rights. The than ever.
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