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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. No one-is entirely satisfied communists in all parts of the world THE WORLD EXPECTED TOO MUCH with the Treaty of Versailles. Open regard bloodshed as a necessary at- TN the Washington Post of Sunday, war has been going on in many parts tendant of the world revolution they -I- July 17, are the following startling of the world ever since Germany laid are agitating for, and they take ad- headlines, side by side on the same down her arms, and as Sir Douglas vantage of every area of discontent to page : "Condition of Working Class in Haig recently expressed it, "The seeds foment disorder and contempt for law. France Causing Alarm," by Joseph of future conflict are to be found in Capitalists, often led by men whose Caillaux, former Minister of Finance every quarter of the globe, only await- fathers were laboring men, seem in- and former Prime Minister of France ; ing the right conditions, moral, politi- clined to ignore the danger signals of and "German Attitude May Doom All cal, and economical, to burst once discontent and to accept the challenge Europe," by Guglielmo Ferrero, more into activity." of the radicals, preferring the ruin of Italy's greatest historian. Again, in Commenting in lighter vein upon civilization, rather than to submit to the Saturday Evening Post of March the tremendous burden of taxation dictation as to the management of 26, 1921, is an article entitled "Wells that the war has left, the Kingston their business. In Ireland, Sinn Fein [H. G. Wells] Sees Civilization (Ontario) Whig facetiously remarks : has carried on a guerrilla warfare of Crumbling," and in the July De- "Well, why shouldn't posterity pay for murder and arson, waged in the name lineator, Vice President Coolidge, in the war, seeing it will get all the little of liberty and religion. The outlook a stirring article on "Enemies of the wars this one hatched ?" is not at all reassuring. In a speech Republic," sounds a note of warning delivered in London, February 8, Mr. against certain radical tendencies in THE DANGER IS NOT PAST Lloyd George was reported as saying: American schools and churches. HE embodiment of German mili- "Has the need for unity passed? While facing this forbidding out- Ttarism in the theory that might The answer to that is another ques- look on earth, we must not give way makes right, seems to have infected all tion: Is the danger past? Is it? Do to blind pessimism. Especially can the nations and classes. In Soviet Russia you say Yes? I wish . . . somebody Christian look calmly to the future. the Red army makes cruel and ruth- could, because it worries me—fills me God lives, and sin's manifestations less war, both at home and abroad, in sometimes with dread—when I see the have not taken Him by surprise. Dur- behalf of their "dictatorship of the facts. Can some one tell me the dan- ing the anguish and anxiety of war proletariat," despite the fact that mil- ger is past—some one in authority ; and carnage, no doubt we were all in-

PAGE FOUR The city of Cork, Ireland, has been the center of a guerrilla warfare between the Crown forces and the Sinn Fein. Because of the wanton killing of some of the constabulary, Cork was set on fire by way of reprisal, and the smoking ruins are to be seen below. Wide World

Wide World

The Sinn Fein and the Unionists engage in hand-to- hand conflicts almost daily in some part of Ireland. Above, the Unionists of Belfast can be seen driv- ing back their opponents with stones and clubs. dined to expect too much of the end lot in life. As an example of the ex- word, it is because there is no light in of the war, forgetting that war has tremes to which this disregard of con- them. And they shall pass through it always been followed by a train of sequences to others can go, I quote [the land], hardly bestead and hun- evils, engendered by the state of mind from "Behind the Veil in Ireland," in gry : and it shall come .to pass, that that is produced by every lapse of civi- the Dearborn Independent, July 16, a when they shall be hungry, they shall lized men into organized and legal- conversation between Alexander Ir- fret themselves, and curse their king ized murder. vine, an American of Irish birth, and and their God, and look upward. And A GAMBLER'S CHANCE Sinn Fein leaders. Mr. Irvine says : they shall look unto the earth ; and be- E frequently hear the questiom, "I was asked scores of times hold trouble and darkness, dimness of W"When shall we get back to-nor- whether, in my opinion, the United anguish ; and they shall be driven to mal ?" but the fact is, we are not going States would recognize the Irish re- darkness." Isaiah 8 : 20-22. back at all. We must go forward and public. When I ventured to suggest Compare with this the words. of Je- make the best of the changed condi- that such recognition would probably sus of Nazareth : tions that the war has left. The dan- mean war, they said they knew it and "There shall be signs in the sun, and ger is intensified because this time prac- were working toward that end." in the moon, and in the stars ; and tically the whole world was drawn into I think any fair-minded man will upon the earth distress of nations, the horrid maelstrom of hate and de- readily admit that men who would with perplexity ; the sea and the waves struction. In the past, there has been a welcome such a calamity as war be- roaring; men's hearts failing them for large neutral section of mankind to tween Great Britain and the United fear, and for looking after those help stabilize more rapidly the return States, in order that their own ends things which are coming on the earth : to industry and law and order. As we might be gained, are altogether un- for the powers of heaven shall be' have already shown, men who are not worthy of either respect or success, shaken. And then shall they see the naturally pessimistic, fear that the mo- and that it will be a sorry day for their Son of man coming in a cloud with mentum of postwar lawlessness may country and for the world when such power and great glory. And when carry civilization over the precipice men gain power. It is the widespread these things begin to come to pass, and down to ruin and oblivion. But lawless mental attitude which consti- then look up, and lift up your heads ; the war has left no scars that justice, tutes the greatest danger to world for your redemption draweth nigh." faith in God, and industry cannot peace, and which, foreseen by Bible Luke 21 : 25-28. readily heal, though the greatest dan- prophets, stands as the justification PAUL'S ADVICE TO THIS AGE ger lies in the mental attitude that for the many prophecies that the pres- leads men to discount these funda- ent age will be wrecked by sin, but that OTH these prophecies describe mentals and seek short-cut healing of the coming of the Prince of Peace will B conditions on earth just before the our national and social ills through establish the righteousness that good second coming of Christ. If we agree new, untried, and speculative theories. men have dreamed of. that the picture fits our own time, is it These modern philosophers show the not sensible to give sober considera- most reckless disregard for the rights ECHOED BY BIBLE SEERS tion to what the prophets advise under of others in pursuing their fanatical HE fears and warnings openly ex- such conditions, and to what they ideals. Tpressed by statesmen in all coun- say will follow these manifestations? Altogether too many people seem , tries sound very much like a fulfill- Paul says the last days will be peril- to be willing to take a desperate ment of the visions of the old Bible ous, and gives sound advice to Chris- gambler's chance that the overturn- seers. Listen to Isaiah, the son of tian ministers : ing of religion, law, and vested Amoz : "This know also, that in the last rights may some way benefit those "To the law and to the testimony : days perilous times shall come. For who are dissatisfied with their present if they speak not according to this men shall be lovers of their own selves,

PAGE FIVE covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, the heavens were of old, and the earth Every man, whether he be pauper disobedient to parents, unthankful, un- standing out of the water and in the or millionaire, employer or employee, holy, without natural affection, truce- water : whereby the world that then should in these days seek earnestly to breakers, false accusers, incontinent, was, being overflowed with water, per- find that promise fulfilled in his life. fierce, despisers of those that are ished : but the heavens and the earth, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, good, traitors, heady, high-minded, which are now, by the same word are whose mind is stayed on Thee." lovers of pleasures more than lovers kept in store, reserved unto fire against Isaiah 26: 3. God says that "in quiet- of God." 2 Timothy 3: 1-4. "Teach- the day of judgment and perdition of ness and in confidence shall be your ing us that, denying ungodliness and ungodly men." "Nevertheless we, ac- strength" (Isaiah 3o : I5 ), and it there- worldly lusts, we should live soberly, cording to His promise, look for new fore behooves every one to place his righteougly, and godly, in the present heavens and a new earth, wherein confidence in the God of the nations world ; looking for that blessed hope, dwelleth righteousness." 2 Peter 3: who will soon come to establish His and the glorious appearing of the 1-7, 13. kingdom in an earth free from sin and great God and our Saviour Jesus The things that perplex political its baleful heritage. Christ." Titus 2: 12, 13. leaders are but the omens of a bright future that is to be ushered in shortly DANIEL SEES OUR DAY by the second coming of Christ in A Sad Disillusionment ANIEL predicts a time of griev- glory. In the meantime, what can "DR. ALFRED E. GARVIE, of New D ous trouble in the last days, fol- we do to help ourselves and others ? College, London, writes in The Journal lowed by a glorious deliveraince for We cannot do much to control circum- of Religion that Christians in England God's people. The prophet did not stances, but we can do our part in are disillusioned as to the effect of the fully understand the vision when it prolonging the period of comparative war. Hate, fear, and greed have been was given, but he was told by an angel peace, always keeping in mind that the allowed to influence the peace terms, not to worry, because wisdom would world is very much what the people and idealism has suffered much dam- be given to the righteous when the make it. Unrest is very largely a age. The churches too have suffered. time came. God has never failed to mental condition. There has been no real reformation raise up men of courage or widespread revival. In and vision in every crisis. the colleges and universities "At that time shall Mi- there is unrest and distaste chael stand up, the great of control. The divorce prince which standeth for courts show an enormous the children of thy people: increase in immorality and and there shall be a time of physicians' records show an trouble, such as never was increase in venereal dis- since there was a nation eases. Standards of mod- even to that same time : and esty have been lowered at that time thy people shall among girls, and crimes of be delivered, every one that violence are more numer- shall be found written in ous. High prices, profiteer- the book." "And he said, ing and industrial unrest Go thy way, Daniel: for have caused discontent and the words are closed up dishonesty. Many pulpits and sealed till the time of have been marked by the the end." "Many shall be preaching of extreme purified, and made white, theories and substitutes for and tried ; but the wicked the gospel. Old evangelis- shall do wickedly : and none THE STORM tic methods do not seem to of the wicked shall under- be effective, and there are stand; but the wise shall The storm sweeps wild o'er ghastly main, signs of general religious understand." And booming billows break, indifference. Dr. Garvie The apostle Peter sums While human hearts are plowed with pain, continues in effect : And human hopes forsake; pp the writings of the "Many are looking for the The surging sea of mortal might, remedy for this condition prophets in the following : A miry, murky mass, "This second epistle, be- in a 'social gospel' rather Betokes the shades of nearing night than in personal surrender loved, I now write unto When mortal mandates pass. you ; in both which I stir to God. They forget that up your pure minds by way society is made up of units, One ship alone is safe upon and that the whole is not of remembrance: that ye This sea of stinging strife; better than the several may be mindful of the And though 'tis frail, with crimsoned sail, words which were spoken It holds the Lord of life; parts. Some think that before by the holy prophets, Though manned by falering fishers' forms, better legislation, better and of the commandment (As once on Galilee) housing, improved indus- of us the apostles of the Its Pilot stays the surging storms trial conditions, higher Lord and Saviour : know- As Sovereign of the sea. wages and secular educa- ing this first, that there tion will save the situation. shall come in the last days As worldly wisdom, failing, falls, They forget that a man's scoffers, walking after their As ships of state go down, right relation to God is of own lusts, and saying, The Christ, Creator, crying, calls: first importance, and that Where is the promise of "Behold the unfading crown! if this is adjusted his rela- His coming? for since the Behold the holy haven placed tions to his fellow men will fathers fell asleep, all Where reigns eternal rest! be corrected. A spiritual things continue as they Receive that realm with glory graced, awakening, following the were from the beginning Be sealed, be saved, be blessed !" war-time suffering, is of the creation. For this ALBERT CAREY. needed to-day as truly as they willingly are ignorant Pentecost followed the of, that by the word of God crucifixion."

PAGE SIX PEACE ON EARTH Peace is many times more a matter of the heart of the individual than it is the limitation of armies and navies or the signing of treaties. 2/9 AGNES L. CAVINESS OT long ago I read, I felt as if I were guiding an in a reputed maga- angel. She was one of those zine, an editorial en- souls you discover and at the titled "Real Peace moment know of a certainty on Earth," which that you have found pure "peace," the writer gold. We needed no time to declared, was none other become acquainted. Heart than that which emanates spoke to heart in the dark- from a successful, perfectly poised ness. First she began to speak in home-keeper, who each day sends her French, then remembered herself and family forth to their various duties, began again in German ; then she well-fed, well-clothed, and content— halted again and—oh so carefully— "at peace with all the world" because began speaking English. She told me the spirit of peace permeates their how she .had learned English because dwelling place. There is a great deal there were many English-speaking of truth in the article. I read it sev- people near her home in Jerusalem ; eral times, and I have seen demon- how she had been everywhere in the strated the proposition it propounded. region of Palestine, been to Bagdad, I remember the homes of two to Beirut, to Cairo, and to Constan- brothers that I used occasionally to tinople ; how her children were scat- visit. The two men had had much the tered all over Europe ; how she was same education, the same blood flowed here because they wanted her to be in their veins, they had the same capi- where she preferred, even though it tal with which to begin life, and they was alone, but that really she was married at about the same age. I happy anywhere. knew them before marriage, then did During another visit I asked her not see them again till several years The real peace on earth is as it was two how long she expected to remain in thousand years ago,—Jesus Christ, born had passed. then in Bethlehem and cradled in a manger; Switzerland. On my next visit I found one with born now in your heart and mine, and "I do not know," she said, "the his wife and interesting trio of little crowned in our everyday lives as we yield money, it is so hard since the war. I girls in a fine new frame house. But ourselves to His sovereignty. took twelve hundred marks to be the walls of the house were already changed to Swiss francs, and I got besmudged with finger marks and— highest, most glorious sort of peace one hundred twenty-five francs ! And worse—lead pencil scribblings. The to be had on this earth, I should be the mark and the franc used to be meals were never on time nor care- very sad. equal ! llut all is right anyway. fully set upon the table, though the The "real peace on earth" is as it When you have the peace of God in food was excellent and abundant. was two thousand years ago,—Jesus your hearty everything is beautiful ! The children were unwashed, un- Christ, born then in Bethlehem and Everything is well !" combed, and often tumbled into bed cradled in a manger, born now in your Then I said, "But has it always been at night without undressing. heart and mine, and crowned in our so, or did you find this peace only late Now the other brother with his everyday lives as we yield ourselves to in your life?" family lived in a little old house that His sovereignty. Any other sort of "Oh, no ; I learned early to rest in was on the farm when he bought it. peace—or poise, as my editorial friend God. When you are left alone to The house had been painted and put it—breaks down sometime, in a bring up eight children, you cannot papered, and the floors were scrubbed crisis. The real peace never does. bear the burden alone. I had to trust white. There was no silver on the That is the sort I need, and that is the in God. I had much property and table, but bone-handled steel knives sort of peace you need; for there are many servants,—twenty-five rooms in and forks that were scoured after more crises in life now than there my house, now I have two. [ She every wholesome, well-served, appetiz- were even a year ago. dropped her face in her hands, but in ing meal. The lady of the house told A few weeks ago, as I came out of a moment looked up with.her eyes full me she would wait for her silver until the chapel, having attended prayer of tears, but smiling.] But, never the home was paid for. (She has it meeting where the hymns were mind, I am rich—I have my Jesus !" long ago.) The children were clean strange to my ears, the reading in a Now, to my mind, her life is a mani- and happy, and got up and went to foreign tongue, and the prayers intel- festation of the "real peace on earth," bed at a stated time. This woman ligible only because the heart speaks —"the peace which passeth all un- was, plainly, "peace" on her little por- to its God in a universal language, derstanding." Neither poverty nor tion of the earth. some one touched me and said, "Ah, prosperity change it ; neither comrade- But in each case the peace was a the little madam may go with you, may ship nor loneliness, neither youth nor peace having to do with material she not? She goes your way, and you age. I had rather possess that sort of things. There was a great influence may speak English to her !" peace than inherit the Rockefeller for- upon character in the atmosphere of English ! Happy thought ! I put tune. Indeed, it is far beyond the each home. And I doubt not this in- my hand under her arm, took her lan- purchase of millionaires or princes. fluence manifests itself in the differ- tern, and we set out. As we entered But priceless as it is, it is to be had for ence of the two families of young the big road, the flash of the lantern the asking. people that are going out from the showed me her face, and from there "Ask, and it shall be given you. . . . two homes. But if I thought that the on to the corner where we separated, For every one that asketh receiveth."

PAGE SEVEN Underwood

Looking across the Tigris to the Mesopota- mian city of Mosul. This photograph was taken from the site of the ancient city of Nineveh. Nineveh was at one time the me- tropolis of the world, and apparently had a long and brilliant future; but Jehovah said through His prophets that because of its sins, Nineveh should become only a barren waste. To-day we find that prophecy fulfilled to the letter.

PROPHECY, the ACID TEST 29 HORACE G. FRANKS

O the average student the If it be true that God is the great prophecy, because the latter challenges story of nations and peoples invisible power in the affairs of the time as well as knowledge. The Word as outlined in our history nations, it is reasonable to believe that itself throws out a challenge to all the books presents many strange He would give intimation to those on religions of heathenism, saying, "Let contrasts which rapidly re- the earth of their future. Indeed, He them bring them forth, and show us solve themselves into per- has emphatically declared, "Surely the what shall happen : let them show the plexing problems. To many persons Lord God will do nothing,.but He re- former things, . . . or declare us the dramatic events of national and vealeth His secret unto His servants things for to come. Show the things international importance, past and the prophets" (Amos 3: 7) ; and, adds that are to come hereafter, that we present, are but accidents, and the Daniel, "He that revealeth ' secrets may know that ye are gods." Isaiah varied happenings of the times naught maketh known to thee what shall come 41 : 22, 23. But that challenge has but a chain of coincidences. Not so, to pass" (Daniel 2 : 29). Prophecy, never been accepted, and the religion however; for in the terrible satires of then, is the direct revelation of God to of the Bible remains the only system history the hand of God is plainly man, the unfolding of His secrets, the of ethics, philosophy, or science that manifest. The great Creator who foretelling of His plans. Says Je- has ever dared thus to leave the proof launched this twirling planet on its hovah, "I am God, and there is none of its authenticity in the relentless and earthly course has not forsaken the like Me, declaring the end from the impartial hands of Father Time. world of His creation. He still orders beginning, and from ancient times the But the mere claim to prophecy is the happenings of men and the chil- things that are not yet done." Isaiah not sufficient for the honest student. dren of men, and it is in history that 46: io. Do you ask why? Let the The claim must be proved. Moreover, we see most plainly the leadings and Christ reply : "I have told you before it it must be remembered that to establish judgments of the omnipotent One, come to pass, that, when it is come to one prophecy is to set the seal of inspi- who, declares the Bible, "removeth pass, ye might believe." John 14: 29. ration upon them all, but that to dis- kings, and setteth up kings" (Daniel prove one is to brand all the others 2 : 21), and "who smote great nations, GOD ISSUES A CHALLENGE with the mark of fraud; for they all and slew mighty kings" (Psalm 135 HE fulfillment of prophecy, there- stand or fall together. But not one io). As Jeremiah puts it: "The Lord Tfore, is an honest and definite Biblical prophecy can be disproved, is the true God, He is the living God, proof of the inspired nature of the while the fulfillment of hundreds can and an everlasting king: at His wrath Bible. No other religion has ever be accurately placed on record. His- the earth shall tremble, and the nations dared to rest its claim on prophecy— tory books dealing with past ages un- shall not be able to abide His indigna- or even miracle, although it would be consciously bear witness to the accu- tion." Jeremiah To : DD. easier to counterfeit a miracle than a racy of countless prophecies of God's

PAGE EIGHT Word ; stones unearthed in ancient rized 2,458 years of time, with all its prophet of the Lord brought back to lands reenforce the Bible foreview of national changes, in one hundred the mind of the worried king the vi- the fate of town and city, empire and forty-three words, and the interpreta- sion' of a gold-headed, clay-footed nation; while the very newspapers of tion of which occupies only nine man, with shining breast and glitter- to-day are recording, as definitely as verses. Much time and ink have been ing thighs,—a dream-image, mysteri- journalism can write, the fulfillment in wasted in a vain endeavor to prove ous in character yet portentous in our day of half a hundred detailed that Daniel, if he wrote the book, meaning. Beginning with the head of prophecies relative to the second com- wrote it after the events mentioned gold, the prophet minutely and accu- ing of Christ. therein had taken place. This argu- rately described the strange, shining A GALAXY OF PROOFS ment, however, is now admittedly object until it was swept to its doom false, although even were it still used by that mighty stone that crumbled it ET us now briefly examine some of extensively, it would only testify to into myriads of pieces, to float away L the most remarkable prophecies the inspiration of God's Word. As on the wings of the wind, while the made by Inspiration,—although we Jerome observes, "This method of op- stone, untouched by human hands, must admit that every prophecy is re- posing the prophecies is the strongest grew in extent until it blotted out the markable. testimony of their truth ; for they earth from the wondering monarch's Jehovah has very plainly left on were fulfilled with such exactness that gaze. The forgotten vision having prophetic record the story of the na- to infidels the prophets seemed not to thus been outlined, the dream inter- tions of the past. The Assyrians, for have foretold things future but to preter was called upon to define six instance, proved themselves terrible have related things past." enemies of both Judah and Israel; but symbolic terms : the dazzling head of The interpretation of the strange gold, the gleaming bust of silver, the they paid the price of their disobedient dream of Nebuchadnezzar was Dan- burnished thighs of brass, the power- cruelty, and to-day the ruins of Nine- ful legs of iron, the mottled iron-clay veh, their capital, cry aloud in testi- iel's first prophecy ; and that the inter- pretation was inspired, the prophet feet, and the doom-laden stone emerg- mony to the prophetic judgment pro- nounced upon them. Nahum and himself admitted to the king. The ing from space. dream had affected the dreamer very Zephaniah foretold the doom of the MILLENNIUMS OF HISTORY IN A strongly at the time, but all was con- great Nineveh, contrary to all humanif PARAGRAPH probability and even possibility ; but fusion and forgetfulness when he to-day we read the literal fulfillment awoke. The "wise men" and "proph- ANIEL wasted no time in prelimi- ets" of Babylon could neither outline in the historical accounts of both an- D naries, for his first words of in- cients and moderns. the forgotten dream nor give its in- terpretation were, "Thou, 0 king, . . . terpretation, thus demonstrating the art this head of gold." What did he Babylon, Tyre, and Egypt,—these powerlessness of heathenism. But the mean ?—Simply this, that the golden three again form a tripod of proof on which the inspiration of God's Word may safely rest. The pr