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UROPE has a power — a mysterious, secretive power — selling murderous material to the nations. Now it is known that Sir Basil Zaharoff has been this "mystic knight whose irons stir the fires of war" under Europe's caldron of seething hate and envy. Clemenceau once called him "the Sixth Power of Europe." During one week last summer the tentacles from this man's forces were felt in America when a Senate Committee in Washington began to investigate Zaharoff's connections here, and to strip off the mantle of mystery surrounding his super gun-selling activities. We followed the news accounts, but the greater portion of the unknown remained unsolved. The rule he adheres to is— "never to say anything concerning myself." Sir Basil is now eighty-five years old, and is still a mystery man. It was in 1887 when he first started his career by rustling business for the arms firm of Nordenfeldt. At that time he sold to Russia, Turkey, and various Balkan nations, all of whom were eager clients for his death-dealing wares. From that early date until now he has covered the territory efficiently,—the best atmosphere for business being the ghastly chill of war. The covering of mystery around Zaharoff is complete. It is not definitely known when or where he was born. He says he was born in 1850, but he does not name the birthplace. Some name the Asia Minor town of Mughla; the date, October 6, 1849. Others say Constantinople,—having for his father a Turk and for his mother a Greek. These same biographers can find no proof for his claim that he was "educated in London and Paris." To-day he strolls feebly about Monte Carlo,—an old man in ill health. His daily automobile ride through the countrysides brings him in contact with the peasantry, with whom he often chats about

United States infantrymen, stationed on Governor's Island, New York, charge in attack formation protected by gas masks.

Sir Basil Zaharoff, , international arms manufacturer

The Supersalesman of Death

by HOWARD JENNINGS their crops. They regard him as a kindly old country gentleman; they do not know him as the purveyor of machinery which has brought death to their sons and fathers on the battlefields of Europe's many wars. Those who know him now say he takes more interest in the flowers about his château than he does in the world's affairs. His life's work is finished; secretaries relieve him of all business, rarely asking advice on MERLIN L. NEFF problems affecting his business. A small por- tion of life lies ahead of him, as he puts off Two Billions Two billion dollars' worth the use of liquor." Such statements by the the same pall of death which he brought to for Booze of liquor is estimated to editors are appalling. Have they overlooked soldiers in such a businesslike manner when have been consumed in legal channels dur- the countless news dispatches which have he was the "czar of the world's war making." ing the first year of repeal, the American come to them on the teletype from every Physicians attend him constantly, interested Business Men's Research Foundation states. part of the United States? Have they been to preserve the short span of his life ahead; "These figures are the more arresting when heedless of the drunken drivers, the sordid but the world looks on, more interested in they are compared with the $2,000.000,000 crimes, the increased drunkenness, which the years of the life behind that he has lived which Federal and state governments are have followed the act of repeal? Do they so luridly, for when Zaharoff was in his said to have paid for relief purposes during have the audacity to say that what they prime, Lord Beaverbrook once said of him: recent months." This $2,000,000,000 for print in their papers in the form of adver- "The destinies of nations are his sport, the liquor would have purchased some 3,000,000 tisements they are not willing to back up in movements of armies . . . his special delight. new automobiles. If this money had gone principle? In the wake of war this mysterious figure for furniture, clothing, dresses, shoes, food- moves over tortured Europe." stuffs, etc., there might have been a sound His main•address has been in Paris. There basis for recovery from the depression. Richer There were forty-six citi- kings and statesmen have come to the resi- America was told she might drink herself Poor Poorer zens of the United States dence at 53 Avenue Hoche, where vast arms back to prosperity, but figures, facts, and with incomes of more than $1,000,000 each bargains are said to have been sealed with the present situation show how foolish this in 1933 against only twenty in 1932. The Zaharoff. These stately customers always reasoning has turned out to be. internal revenue statistics show that all in- returned,—munitions wares were much in comes above $25,000 were on the increase, demand. but incomes of $5,000 and less were on the Inhabitants on decrease. In other words, the rich are grow- Dealings With All Nations "Are the planets in- Other Planets habited ?"has of ten been ing richer and the poor are growing poorer. It was after the highly profitable dealing the question asked astronomers. To-day Dr. Attt, with the Balkans that his eye centered upon Gustaf Stromberg of the Mount Wilson his beloved Greece. He sold that nation a Observatory declares that "life as we know Trained to submarine. But the fact that Greece was According to the ruling of it may well exist on numerous other planets." his beloved country did not prevent him Slaughter the Supreme Court, more It may be possible, he thinks, that there are from pointing out to the Turks the necessity than 100,000 youth in American land-grant other planets revolving around the suns of of new equipment in order to offset the colleges are required to take military train- the Milky Way where living beings dwell. Greek menace. This the Turks realized, and ing. This recent decision makes it impos- Can one imagine such a universe filled with they ordered two submarines. sible for young men who are conscientious suns, a myriad planets, and on these planets Then in the Boer War, generous impar- in their objections to fighting to remain in tiality was demonstrated. For a certain price countless living beings, all having come into these institutions without studying the "art Zaharoff provided the Boers with war de- existence by sheer chance or evolutionary of war." Every year Congress appropriates vices; the products for filling the order were process? Truly "the heavens declare the about $4,000,000 for this instruction. To made by the English-owned Nordenfeldt's, glory of God." such ends have the designs of true educa- and helped to swell the British casualty tion been prostituted by this nation. Educa- lists. Yet for all this sordid international tion should have as its purpose the training Newspaper The race for the "funniest" career that Zaharoff had chosen to follow of men to live, not to slaughter! "Funnies" newspaper in the country for a livelihood, King George V did not continues as one journal announces a twenty- hesitate to decorate the man for "war serv- page comic section, and a rival publisher ices" in 1918. Later, in 1921, the king e~lexico Sets counters with twenty-one pages of comics. The two most luxurious knighted Sir Basil, and permitted him to Example gambling houses in Mexico wear the cocked hat and plumes of the Order It might be suggested that the intellectual tastes of the American masses and the pres- City which have been the rendezvous for of the Bath. the city's night life have been closed by the Back again at the time of this war sales- ent moronic trend may soon lead the editors of daily newspapers to produce a paper of new president of the republic, Lazaro Car- man's earlier activities, we find that at the denas. These resorts are now to be re- start of the twentieth century the Russo- comic strips, with a few news items crowded in here and there for good measure. modeled into schools or community centers Japanese War rolled in heavy profits for instead of dens of vice. Perhaps American munitions firms which had merged some Atta, officials would do well to follow our neigh- time before, and for which Zaharoff was Succumbed to About the time that Pro- boring republic's example in abolishing not only salesman but also an executive. Filthy Lucre hibition was repealed, the rather than licensing gambling, race-track Succeeding international conflicts raised him betting, and night-life establishments. higher in profits and power. Chicago Tribune stated: "Advertisements of whisky, brandy, gin, rum, and similar liquors AA& International Honors will not be accepted by the Chicago Tribune Divorce Occasionally some news of his business with the repeal of Prohibition." But there Recent statistics show that the Declines trickled before the public eye. The authors has been a change of heart in the managers divorce rate has been diminish- of "Merchants of Death," Engelbrecht and of this newspaper in recent days. It has ing—slightly—since 1929. It is generally Hanighen, report that he supplied Spain announced that it will throw its columns agreed that this is due not to any revival of with $25,000,000 worth of murderous war open to liquor advertisements, apologetically morals, but to the fact that divorce is now material to be used in killing American sol- stating that it has "observed the reasonable a more expensive luxury than many people diers in Cuba. No one knows how much deportment of the public in the exercise of can afford. But whatever the reason, the money he really made during the World its returned right to drink liquor publicly," lowered rate is at least one benefit that has (Continued on page 14) and that it does this "without advocating come from the depression. SIGNS of the TIMES Page Two

sin; namely, the laying down of His own life. Matthew 20:28. 4. He stated distinctly the conditions on What Is the "New which His sacrifice could benefit man,—faith and repentance. John 7:37-39; Mark 1:15. Now it must be observed that the estab- lishment of the new covenant in His ministry was wholly with Israel. He confined His Covenant"? ministry to them, as He confirmed the cov- enant. Matthew 15:24. When sending out the twelve, He gave them commandment to go only to Israel (Matthew 10:5, 6) ; and the same was true when He later sent out the seventy (Luke 10:1). Likewise the apos- JESSE C. STEVENS tles, who shared with Him in the confirming of the covenant in that seventieth week (Hebrews 2 :3) preached first only to Jews (Acts 11:19). And His first solemn acts of ratification were with the apostles, who were SERIOUS error seems to exist in which come through Israel. In Ephesians Israelites. the minds of some Christian people respect- 2 :12, we are told that the Gentiles are "with- The final phases in the establishment of ing the difference between the old and the out Christ, being aliens from the common- the new covenant were confined to the clos- new covenant. The old covenant was made wealth of Israel, and strangers from the ing hours of Jesus' life. His first mention with the Jewish people, and hence whatever covenants of promise, having no hope, and of the new covenant is found in the solemn entered into it or was connected with it is without God in the world." But to the Gen- words to His disciples upon the night of His cast aside as Jewish. Hence some would tiles Paul also said, "If ye be Christ's, then betrayal, "He took the cup, and gave thanks, summarily cast aside the Ten Command- are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of ments; but it does not seem to enter their to the promise." Galatians 3:29. it; for this is My blood of the new testa- minds that consistency would demand the ment [covenant], which is shed for many casting aside of God, who also was a party The New Covenant With Israel for the remission of sins." Matthew 26:27, to the old covenant. Such persons seem to When was the new covenant made? In 28. This was the opening event in the rati- entertain the idea that the new covenant was Daniel the ninth chapter there is a plain fication of the new covenant. He on one side, made with the Gentiles, and it is held up to prophecy of the work of Christ, though it giving them the cup representing His blood, our admiration. This, however, is an ex- was written a half millennium before His thus pledging Himself to die for them, and ample of a careless reading of the Scrip- time. Verse 27 reads: "He shall confirm they on the other side, by receiving the cup tures; for the new covenant is not made the covenant with many for one week." The and drinking of it, pledged themselves to with the Gentiles. one week is the seventieth week of the same accept salvation through His shed blood and Are Gentiles Without Hope? line of prophecy as described in verse 24. It to fulfill the conditions connected there- was a prophetic week, reaching from 27 A. D. with. A little later He poured out His blood The first announcement of the making of to 34 A. D., the first part of which was the on Calvary, thus ratifying and confirming the new covenant is found in Jeremiah 31: time of Christ's ministry. Christ doubtless the new covenant, which was typified in the 31: "Behold, . I will make a new covenant had reference to this appointed time of His ratifying and confirming of the old covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house work when He exclaimed at the beginning at Sinai by the blood of beasts. of Judah." It was to be made with Israel, of His ministry, "The time is fulfilled." as was the old covenant. Note the expres- Mark 1:15. Hence the preliminary work in "No Man Disannulleth" sion, "their fathers," in verse 32,—"Not ac- the establishment of the new covenant is Now that it is confirmed by His death, cording to the covenant that I made with done in the opening of His ministry, and in nothing can be added to it or taken from it. their fathers." In Romans 9:4, 5 the apostle His preaching. He made a public announce- The apostle Paul says, "Brethren, I speak Paul says that to Israel pertain the cov- ment of its principles in that- after the manner of men; though it be but a enants (plural). Indeed, everything of 1. He assigned to the law of God its man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no spiritual value comes to the Gentiles through proper place. Matthew 5:17-19. man disannulleth, or addeth thereto." Gala- the Jews. "Salvation is of the Jews," Christ 2. He laid down the keeping of the Ten tians 3:15. It will be observed that ordi- said. John 4:22. Commandments as a condition of entering nances that were to be celebrated in the Gentiles are without hope until and unless into life. Matthew 19:16-19. church of Christ under the new covenant— they accept the blessings of the new covenant 3. He revealed the ground of pardon of like baptism and the Lord's Supper, as we often call it—were instituted and practiced in Christ's preliminary work of establishing the new covenant, so that when the cov- enant was confirmed by His death, these ordinances were confirmed with it. If they had been introduced after His death, they would have come in too late to be confirmed; for "no man . . . addeth thereto." That is to say, the cross marks the establishment of the new covenant, and confers its validity; thereafter nothing can be added to it, any more than a man's will can be changed after his death. It is sometimes claimed that the seventh- day Sabbath, the Sabbath of the fourth com- "Drink ye all of mandment of the Decalogue, that is, the it; for this is My blood of the new Eden Sabbath, was confined to the old cov- testament [new enant, and that after Christ's resurrection, covenant], which Sunday, the first day of the week, came to is shed for many be the Sabbath of the new covenant. But it for the remission of sins." came in too late to be confirmed in and with (Continued on page 9) for FEBRUARY 12. 1935 Page Three GOD'S

from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks. . . . And He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week : and in the midst of the week He shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease." In prophecy a day is symbolic of a literal year. Ezekiel 4:6. Seventy prophetic weeks are 490 literal years; sixty-nine prophetic weeks are 483 literal years. The command- ment of Artaxerxes to restore and to re- build Jerusalem is found in Ezra 7:21. The marginal reference date for this decree is 457 B. c. Adding the 483 years to this date brings us to the year 27 A. D. Adding the 490 years to 457 B. C. brings us to the year 34 A. D. Jesus as Messiah Jesus began His ministry in the year 27 A. D. The word "Messiah" means "the Anointed One ; " and in this year, as Jesus was baptized in the river Jordan, the Spirit of God came upon Him. Matthew 3 :16, 17. The unerring accuracy of the prophetic word is revealed in the events of this important "week" of years. The week began with the year 27 A. D. It ended with the year 34 A. D. In the midst of the week, Messiah was "cut off,"—crucified on Calvary's cross. Another three and one-half years passed by. Then A young man of Sidon looks down from the ancient hill of the fortress, once the citadel of the Phcenicians, toward the city which was the great seaport of Bible times. came the stoning of Stephen, and the fol- lowers of Jesus "were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Sa- RAGICALLY pathetic is the story of which are sent unto thee, how often would maria." Acts 8:1. The seventy weeks "de- Israel. Through many long centuries I have gathered thy children together, even termined" upon the Jewish people had come T a God of infinite love bore with a as a hen gathereth her chickens under her to an end, the "times of the Gentiles" had people who rejected His word, despised His wings, and ye would not ! Behold your house begun, and the gospel was carried into every counsel, and would have none of His reproof. is left unto you desolate." Matthew part of the civilized world. Time and again Israel, the chosen of God, 23:37, 38. The Jewish nation was rejected as a na- decked herself in the Babylonian garments tion. But God did not reject the Jewish of worldliness and idolatry. Reproofs, warn- The Pronouncement of Doom people. The early Christian church was ings, pleadings, were eventually followed by made up largely of Jews. All the apostles, calamities. Then would come the sackcloth This word was the pronouncement of the ministers of the Christian church, were and ashes of repentance, only to be followed doom upon the Jewish nation. The last Jews. Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, was by deeper apostasy, lower levels of thread of divine mercy had been severed by a Jew. Israel has ever been God's people, wickedness. the demon-possessed leaders of Israel. "His and always will be the "chosen" of God. At last God sent unto them His only- blood be on us, and on our children," they They are "chosen" of Him because they begotten Son. "They will reverence My cried out in Pilate's judgment hall. They have chosen Him. "Hath God cast away son," thought the Keeper of the vineyard. crucified the Lord of glory, the Author of His people?" asked the apostle. All the Miracles were wrought. The eyes of the salvation. In rejecting Him, they rejected emphasis that could be given is placed in the blind were opened, the ears of the deaf un- God. answer "God forbid." Romans 11:1. stopped. Evil spirits trembled at His pres- Five hundred years before the birth of "They are not all Israel, which are of ence; death was defeated at His call. Jesus, Jesus, Daniel, in prophetic vision, had pic- Israel." Romans 9:6. Because a man could the light of the world, had come; but Israel tured the coming of the Messiah, His cruci- trace his lineage to Abraham, did not give loved darkness rather than light. His purity fixion, and the rejection of the Jewish nation. hiin a place in the Israel of God. An Israelite they hated; His word they rejected; His In Daniel 9:24-27 these words are found : is an "overcomer." -In Romans 2:28, 29 we love they scorned. Looking over the city, "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy are told: "He is not a Jew, which is one out- His heart of love breaking with sorrow, Jesus people and upon thy holy city, to finish the wardly; neither is that circumcision, which exclaimed: "0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou transgression, . . . and to anoint the Most is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, that killest the prophets, and stonest them Holy. Know therefore and understand, that which is one inwardly; and circumcision is

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HE high pressure of modern life, aspect of our daily doings which cannot his sentences and barbing his phrases; but Tand its exacting effects upon the be hurried—and that is religion. To build can anybody think of him as meditating, minds of our young people, are well dis- character, to strengthen the soul, takes as modestly pondering and wondering, cussed editorially in the February issue time. To follow Jesus is more than as possessed for so much as ten minutes of the Woman's Home Companion: mumbling prayers into a pillow at night, by that spirit of inwardness, which has "Are we filling the lives of our children even if we have been running around on never been wholly wanting in any of those too full? Dr. Neilson, president of Smith His errands all day. kings and princes of literature with whom College, said recently that by the time "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills." it is good for men to sit in counsel?" girls arrive at college they have lost the Psalm 121: 1. But who has any time to Now, if this "spirit of inwardness" is `capacity for solitude.' He urges that gaze at the hills now? We have to keep essential to literature, how much more is parents should make a time-table for our eyes on the road, or we'll hit it essential to religion! their children which would leave them something. Parents who have labored hard to rear some time to be quite alone. 'With thea- "Be still, and knowthat I am God." their children, as the apostle advises, in ters, movies, dancing masters, radio, and "The Lord is in His holy temple: let all "the nurture and admonition of the parties, parties, parties, there is no time the earth keep silence before Him." Lord," often are disappointed when their left when a child can possess its own soul.' Psalm 46:10. Habakkuk 2:20. Keep youngsters, now grown, turn away in in- Parents, not only in cities and suburbs silence? Why, that's the very thing this difference from the faith which they have but even in small towns, know this to be modern world can't do ! been trained to cherish. The causes for true. Boys as well as girls are caught up "I meditate on all Thy works; I muse such failure are various; yet we wonder in a wild whirl of activity such as earlier on the work of Thy hands." "Let the if a partial reason may not be that the generations never knew and could not words of my mouth, and the meditation child has failed to cultivate, perhaps has have endured. It gets to be a habit. An of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight, never been encouraged to cultivate, that evening without a date, an afternoon 0 Lord, my strength and my Redeemer." "spirit of inwardness." There has been when there is no place to go, seems Psalms 143:5; 19 :14. "Meditate," much religion, but it has never gone in. empty and wasted. The seven-year-old "meditation"!—what an old-fashioned It has been like a whitewash, which asks querulously, 'What'll I do now, flavor those words have! covers a fence but does not strengthen mother ?' The seventeen-year-old ex- Yet time to think is one of the prime it. There have been church attendance claims, 'Gosh! I'm bored to-day.' Hear- requirements for the soul's drawing near and Bible lessons and Christian stories, ing this, we remember wistfully our own to God. John Morley, the great literary and testifying in public meetings, and all childhood with its long hours of quiet critic, once offered an opinion of Macau- manner of helpful spiritual exercises; but reading, of absorption in mighty projects lay, the English historian, in which he the power of the gospel of Christ has of sewing or carpentry, of golden day- accused him of shallowness: "We can never reached the soul. The cry has dreams, or of simple idling in the picture Macaulay talking, or making a •never gone up, "God be merciful to me sunshine. speech in the House of Commons, or a sinner." The soul has never breathed, "We have no patience with the futile buried in a book, or scouring his library "Create in me a clean heart, 0 God." desire to turn back the clock, to revert to for references, or covering his blue fools- This neglect to really open the inner old ways. But neither have we patience cap with dashing periods, or accentuating life to God does not come especially from with an easy yielding to all any set wickedness. It comes the social pressures of the simply because we ourselves— present moment. The tele- and our children—are so ex- phone keeps ringing. Auto- tensively occupied with per- mobiles toot their horns at the fectly proper things. "Now curb. There are always new it came to pass, as they went, films at the movie house. The that He entered into a certain neighbors' daughters are doing village : and a certain woman this and the boys at school named Martha received Him are doing that, and our chil- 3 into her house. And she had dren must not be left out. So a sister called Mary, which activities pile up, by emula- also sat at Jesus' feet, and tion, imitation, and persuasion, heard His word. But Martha until children run on sched- was cumbered about much ules as closely packed as those serving, and came to Him, and of statesmen. The wise parent said, Lord, dost Thou not care cuts through and provides for that my sister hath left me to periods of solitude." serve alone? bid her therefore As a religious journal, the that she help me. Signs of the Times approves "And Jesus answered and of these statements; and we said unto her, Martha, Mar- are interested in pointing out tha, thou art careful and the disastrous effects of our troubled about many things: Busy at his desk, preparing for the January session of Congress, current busy-ness upon the President Roosevelt poses for this photograph in the newly remod- but one thing is needful: and spiritual life. For there is one eled executive offices of the White House, Washington, D. C. (Continued on page 12)

by the Germans and held by the French with to incite hatred among the nations. And get you down; for the press is full, the fats the greatest losses to both sides in any battle who can doubt that such evil agitation is overflow; for their wickedness is great." of the war. On the French wires at Douau- increasingly successful? Joel 3:9-13. mont thousands of German soldiers were As another link in this chain of events, Yet these prospects should not discourage caught and torn to death. On the spools of the heathen will realize their own irresistible us, when we consider that these events are, this wire appeared the words `Magdeburger power. Says the prophet Joel: "Proclaim according to the Scriptures, the mere prel- Draht and Kabelwerke.' It was imported, ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, ude to the greatest of all events,—the return via Switzerland, during the war." "Italy, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of of Jesus. For when human wickedness has after entering the war, supplied the Germans war draw near; let them come up: Beat reached its height, and human misery its with sulphur." "French firms sold train- your plowshares into swords, and your prun- depth, then we understand on the authority loads of bisulphide to Germany for the ing hooks into spears: let the weak say, I of God's word that Christ, as King of kings manufacture of phosgene gas." am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, and Lord of lords, will intervene. And in all ye heathen, and gather yourselves to- the day when He establishes His kingdom, ,A Malicious Cooperation gether round about: thither cause Thy may we be found of Him in peace! In such ways as these there is exposed mighty ones to come down, 0 Lord. Let the • the horrible duplicity of the World War heathen be wakened, and come up to the IT is by a constant series of new starts that profiteers. Their guilt • in having a part in valley of Jehoshaphat : for there will I sit the spiritual life is carried on within us. needlessly prolonging the war appears more to judge all the heathen round about. Put Sanctity is not the work of a day, but of a clear as the true facts leak out. The search- ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, life.—Edward M. Gouldburn. light of human hope can be focused on all creeds and philosophies of men, but the greed A for the dollar will ever domineer. This orgy of bloodshed, with its internal treachery among "Christian" nations, so called, has 0 0 • \ been a subject of great importance in the prophecies of God's word. Two Girls of Prominent On the Isle of Patmos, John the Revelator Families in Drug Set BATTLING THE saw in vision the demons of war which TELL ENSL ANT-E'.iNIENT would agitate the last days of this troubled of W..- shnekir.g an to to world: "I saw three unclean spirits like 3t. —actin1 M3 girls ]11 WOLVES of mo cirr5 boarding Today by on, fashinast -4A told to pOlico Sur.dny in n dope raid., frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, alnycsk famtlin.shit At Ecix.c4pretty 1&-}'ear-old blonde •,. 1,, ",, OF SOCIETY and out of the mouth of the beast, and out held the two vinc",tsniq Lindin ' '44 branng Jan- of the mouth of the false prophet. For they in s2,501. rAcn lee nos,,ecung liary 7 Ott Chnri:or , are the spirits of devils, working miracles, 90110.7 e...v*3rd ',Istrtatle,, 1,-.1.71er 1.7 ,tr, 1.7 r SAM: girt N.Notr 7...the WribotY'r WaA ,Intt alri ~anu, way which go forth unto the kings of the earth tbotr othfr 4mIghter carly liberty. el Vrtannin,votenny tentawl:onrAnnt a Fixnkhn, c41-LED Arasscis. and of the whole world, to gather them to Savaty Cite i ALL vsay the battle of that great day of God Almighty. • Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that From San Francisco Examiner watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he iXPOSES gathered them together into a place called the narcotic evil in all its stealth and viciousness. You may not in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." Reve- lation 16:13-16. 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for FEBRUARY 12, 1935 Page Fifteen covered many of the happenings of the Dark "One more thought 'bout this, 'n' I'm Ages, and the Bible—so they are taught—is through. You folks'll git tired and fergit to be explained fer them by the priests. No, most o' what I've said, if I don't quit. But Jim, many very fine and honest persons are Paul talks about somebody who would be Catholics. I have respect for them, and I called the 'man of sin.' Not a very flattering Advocating a return to the simple gospel of Christ, and a preparation like them. But I know some things about the title—but what do you think would be more for His imminent second appearing papacy that they don't know, and I'm not in appropriate to call the one who dared at- sympathy with it, although I have nothin' tempt to change the law of God which is at SUBSCRIPTION RATES agin' the individual." once the standard of righteousness and the In United States: Single copy, one year $1.50 follerin' ye. If they could know what detector of sin?" Clubs of live or more to one address. each 1.15 you know, mebbe they wouldn't be Cath- "It's all fair enough," Dan expressed him- To Canada and other countries taking extra postage: Single copy, one year $2.00 olics." self; "and I don't think I'm going to trail Clubs of five or more to one address, each 1.50 "Exactly. And, as a matter of fact, many after him any more—now that I kin see Please make all checks and money orders payable Catholics in South America and Mexico and where I'm going." to "Signs of the Times," Mountain View, California. other places are leaving their church for that "Good for ye, Dan!" Horace spoke en- NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS .Expiration. All issues for the month named on very reason." the top line of your address label are included in Horace produced some slips of paper. your subscription. Unless renewed in advance, the paper stops at expiration date. passing one to John, another to Dan, and one Change of address. 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DALRYMPLE, Assistant Editor If you appreciate the messages coming to you —it took centuries, but after a while the over the air, drop a card to the station telling change was sufficiently well established so the managers of your appreciation. couragingly. "Ye'll find the Lord never for- that. Melanchthon, one of the great men of Evangelist C. B. Messer: sakes His own. Well, I better trot on home. the Reformation, said—well, John, read Station WLBL, Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Broadcasts will he made February 18, 19, and 20 Be seem' ye agin 'fore long." what he said, will ye?" at 8:45-9:00 A. M., C. S. T. 900 kilocycles. As some of the group left for home too, " 'They allege the Sabbath changed into Evangelists Boothby and Spillman: Joe sidled up to Dan, saying, "Say, Dan, Sunday, the Lord's clay, contrary to the Dec- Station KQW, San Jose and San Francisco, Cal- ifornia. Each Sunday, 5:30-6:00 P. M.. P. S. T. come over to my place next Sattiday alogue, as it appears; neither is there any 1010 kilocycles. mornin', and let's both go over to Horace's. example more boasted of than the changing Evangelist Chester S. Prout: Station KTAB, Oakland and San Francisco, It'll surprise 'im, mebbe. And I wanter say of the Sabbath day. Great, say they, is the California. Each Sunday. 9-10 A. M.; each Wed- that last Sattiday—I mean Sabbath—was power and authority of the church, since it nesday, 12-12:30 noon; each Saturday 1-2 P. M. 560 kilocycles, "at the the top of the dial." the happiest day I've spent for a good while." dispensed with one of the Ten Command- Evangelist Joseph A. Dominski: "Perhaps I'll bring the missus and take ments.' And it says that this is Article 28 of Station WAZL, Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Each the two-seated buggy so we kin ride—pro- the Augsburg Confession. From what little Friday at 4-4:30 P. M. E.S.T. 1420 kilocycles. Health Evangelist Neil Martin: vidin' she'll come." I know 'bout the Reformation he must o' Station WNRA, Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Each "I'll be ready fer ye—right on time, Dan." meant the Catholic Church." Thursday. 7 P. M., C. S. T. 1420 kilocycles. And Dan left Joe swinging his way around Evangelist B. R. Spear: "Yore right, John. And this statement is Station KREG. Santa Ana, California. Each the bend toward his lonely little cottage. the more remarkable because not many of Sunday, 6:30-7:00 P. M. 1500 kilocycles. "I wonder how she'll take it," mused Dan the Reformers kept the Sabbath day. This Evangelist Allen Walker: Station WRDW, Augusta, Georgia. Daily, 3:30 as he walked along. next quotation is from a little catechism that P. M.. E. S. T. 1500 kilocycles. used to be freely circulated about twenty Medical Evan. Julius Gilbert White: years ago. but now it is getting scarce. Seems Station WLAC, Nashville, Tennessee. Each Thursday, 5:30-5:45 P. M.,C. S. T. 1470 kc. Death's Supersalesman as though it's kinda been withdrawn. Dan, I Gilbert A. Hoppes, M. D.: (Continued from page 2) gave that one to you." Station WHBU, Anderson, Indiana. Each Sun- War, but rumors have it at nine figures. His " 'Question. Have you any other way of day at 3 P. M., C. S. T. 1210 kilocycles. Evangelist F. W. Harvey: personal fortune is estimated in the hundreds proving that the church has power to insti- Station WRBL, Columbus. Georgia. Each Sun- of millions. The diaries kept by Zaharoff tute festivals of precept? day, 6:30-7:00 P.M. Each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 5:00-5:30 P. M., E. S. T. 1200 kc. are supposed to have been burned by him- " 'Answer. Had she not such power, she Evangelist Harold M. S. Richards: self in the presence of six secretaries,—"be- could not have done that in which all mod- Station KGER, Long Beach, California. Each cause information they contained would rock Sunday, 10:10-11:00 P. M.. Monday, Tuesday, ern religionists agree with her,—she could Wednesday, and Friday, 8-9 P. M. 1360 kc. the world if ever published." This interest- not have substituted the observance of Sun- W. A. Howe, Jr.: ing item appeared in a recent biographer's day the first day of the week, for the observ- Station KS00, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Each sketch of his life. ance of Saturday the seventh day, a change Sunday, 5:00-5:30 P. M., C. S. T. 1110 kc. Evangelist Donald F. Haynes: As has been stated, Sir Basil Zaharoff has for which there is no Scriptural authority.' Station WEXL, Royal Oak. Michigan. Each a name of honor. The King of England And the author, it says, is Stephen Keenan, Sunday at 4 P. M., E. S. T. 1310 kilocycles. Evangelist Bertran M. Heald: decorated him, and in France no one knows the title 'A Doctrinal Catechism,' from Station WFAS, White Plains. New York. Each why he is at the top of the broadcloth ranks page 174." Monday at 3 P. M., E. S. T. 1210 kilocycles. in the French Legion of Honor. A French "Thank ye, Dan. Now, Silas, you have Evan. A. E. Hoist and S. A. Ninesinger: Station WMMN, Fairmont, West Virginia. Each Senator who asked Poincare at one time the last one. It's only a few sentences taken Friday at 4:00-4:30 P. M., E. S. T. 890 kc. why this was so received no answer. from the book of Cardinal Gibbons', called Evangelist H. A. Va_ndeman: It is now sixteen years after the horrors `Faith of Our Fathers.' All right, Silas, let's Station WKBO. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Each Thursday, 4:00-4:30 P. M., E. S. T. 1200 ke. of the World War that such ominous atroci- have it." Station WORK, York, Pennsylvania. Each Sun- ties are coming to the light of investigative "Calc'late I ain't much on readin', but this day, 5:00-5:30 P. M., E. S. T. 1320 kilocycles. Evangelist George R. Rapp: committees. In many instances, facts prove says, 'You may read the Bible from Genesis Station WDAS. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. that the instruments of death which came to Revelation, and you will not find a single Each Sunday, 5:30 P. M., E. S. T. 1370 kc. to the soldiers of the nations were manu- line authorizing the sanctification of Sun- Evangelist R. H. Hartwell (Speaking in English): factured at home by their own countrymen. day. The Scriptures enforce the religious Station XMHA, Shanghai. China. Each Sun- As George Seldes asserts in his recent observance of Saturday, a day which we day, 10:00-10:30 A. M. 600 kilocycles. Evangelists Hsii Hwa and Joseph May work, "Iron, Blood, and Profits," "August, never sanctify.' " (Speaking in Mandarin): 1014,—Britain sends her sons to war, . . . "That's fine! Now here we are. The Bible Station XMHA, Shanghai, China. Each Sun- day, 10:30-11:00 A. M. 600 kilocycles. and if these boys fought at the Dardanelles, says a power would 'think to change the some of them got killed by British-made law;' this power steps up and says, did it.' shells." And again. "Verdun was attacked Page Fourteen SIGNS of the TIMES tinued Horace, "if God should change His mind—which He doesn't—and decide He'd have a different day for the Sabbath, how could He do it?" and he paused for an answer. Some said it couldn't be, but pres- ently Dan offered his opinion. "Waal, the only possible way I kin see that even God could do it would be for Him to start all over again, and make the world in a shorter or longer length of time, and rest at the end. But that idee's out, because God wouldn't do it." "All right, Dan, yore right on both counts. That's the only way it could be done, and God wouldn't do it. Since He wouldn't do it, who else could do it?" "So fur's I kin see, nobody could do it, 'nd that's what's puzzlin' me." "I'm coming to yore answer, presently," encouraged Horace; "but I wanted ye ter see first that it couldn't really be changed." HORACE WHITEMAN "But still ye haven't answered Dan's ques- tion," objected "Offside" Hiram, "as to why more people keep Sunday 'n any other day." COMES TO TOWN EiliTONAJONES "Ye put it kinda unfortunatelike, seems as though," Horace responded with the good- natured twinkle in his eyes. "If yore really lookin' to go with the crowds, ye'd not keep XI Nodding heads indicated good memories, Sunday, Horace, ye'd be keepin' Friday. so Horace continued. Changing the Unchangeable There are far more Mohammedans keepin' "Now every argument changing the law their Friday in their way than there are Sabbath will apply against a change of the Sabbath; Christians keepin' Sunday." but there are some more reasons why the Hiram was nonplussed, and kept very HERE'S something I'd like to ask ye, Sabbath can't be changed." quiet. Horace, just for my own satisfac- His listeners looked their incredulity and "But yore question kin be answered, Dan. tion," Dan Tucker began as Horace doubt, but he appeared not to notice, and In the book of Daniel there is a prophecy came into the usual circle of Jim Simpson's went on evenly. which says that a power would arise and permanent customers, who were gathered on "Let's supposin' a case. Suppose, John, undertake to do just exactly what we have the covered porch. thet yore birthday had been on April 1— decided wouldn't be done." "I been thinkin' a lot about this matter of April Fool's Day. As a kid, the others would "Well, the audacity—" the Sabbath and Sunday, and I'd like to tease you about it, and when you grew older "Yes, Jim, it was audacious, all right, and, know why it is that so many people keep some would still poke fun at it. So when you more than that, it was downright wicked. Sunday. come to be man-grown, you decide you'll If you've brought yore little Bible, Dan, ye "I've found out for myself that there's change yore birthday. We'll suppose you might find Daniel 7:25 and read it to us." no Bible command for Sunday. The other choose July 4, so everybody'll celebrate with "Yes, I have it. Daniel 7:25 ye say, eh? evening I took my concordance and hunted ye. So you go to the city and hire a lawyer This is it. 'And he shall speak great words up every text in it that says anything about to go through a process of law, and after a against the Most High, and shall wear out the first day of the week—Sunday just isn't while he tells ye yore birthday's changed the saints of the Most High, and think to in the Bible anywhere, and I don't see why now to July 4. change times and laws : and they shall be so many keep it." "Now lemme ask ye, John, after all this given into his hand until a time and times "I'll tell ye what my idee is," volunteered is done, when were ye born? On July 4? and the dividing of time.' But who is the "Offside" Hiram, " 'nd 'tain't mine alone. Of course not; you were born on April 1, `he,' Horace? It doesn't say right here." I heerd a man say once that he kep' Sunday sure 'nuff, 'nd not all the laws 'nd lawyers "Don't hurry me, Dan," laughed Horace. in honor o' the resurrection o' Christ. Isn't in the United States kin change thet fact." "Let's get one at a time here. But did ye that a good reason?" he asked with assurance. "Say, yore right there, 'nd I kin see it," all notice jest how Inspiration caused Daniel "Mebbe 'tis," replied Dan, "but the Bible agreed Dan. The others, except Hiram, also to word this statement? It said he shall certainly don't tell us to do it, 'nd I want expressed approval in their own way. `think to change times and laws'—not that to know what there is in the Bible about it. "Now, lemme ask ye further. Ef you was he would actually change them, but would I hey an idea Horace can straighten it out." really goin' to change yore birthday, how'd think to do so. "Say, folks, I'm gittin' right interested in you do it, John?" "Now this 'thinking' power is described this, I am," admitted Silas "the silent." "Why, er—I kain't see any way I could— in the verse jest before as the 'little horn.' "Yore not the only one," Jim, the store- unless I could be born over again on another It had 'eyes like the eyes of man, and a keeper, was listening again through the day 'nd live life all over up to now. It's im- mouth speaking great things.' screen door. possible, I'd say." "To change civil laws would not be such The others expressed in various ways their "All right. I agree with ye, John. Now a very great achievement. But this power interest or curiosity in the subject, and let's reason along a little further. How long was to attempt the impossible—that is, to Horace, clearing his throat, began, "Waal, does it say God spent in making the world?" change the 'times' and 'laws' of the Most folks, it's a long story if it was all told, so "Six days." Everybody was surprised as High. The Bible gives it different names, I'll have to cut it awful short, only hittin' Caleb gave the answer. but we know it in history as the papacy. the high spots. But I'll do the best I kin. "Yes, Caleb, that's what my Bible tells "You mean the Catholics?" asked Jim "Let's tackle the proposition like this. me. What did God do the next day?" wonderingly. The Bible says that the seventh day is the "I kin answer that one, because I been "No, not exactly, Jim," was Horace's Sabbath, and nowhere does it mention or readin' up on it. It says in Genesis that God reply, "because the great majority of the command the observance of any other. One rested the seventh day after workin' six, 'nd Catholic believers do not know just what the day when we discussed the law of God here, that because of that rest He made it the principles are of the system of which they we came to the conclusion that it couldn't Sabbath." are a part. The histories they study are be changed, remember?" "Correct as can be, Dan. Now," con- written for them by those who would keep for FEBRUARY 12, 1935 Page Thirteen nezzar. His successors, Evil-Merodac, This four-winged and four-headed panther Twenty years after Alexander's death, in Neriglissar, Laborosoarchodus, Nabonidus, denotes not only sanguinary instincts, but 301 B. c., there remained only four of his and Belshazzar, knew not how to retain extraordinary velocity in military move- former generals. They decided to divide the such a glorious heritage. In twenty-four ments, and a fourfold political division. world among themselves: Seleucus had years, they lost their marvelous capital and This was fulfilled by the unique record of Syria; Ptolemy had Egypt; Lysimachus had their immense empire. Alexander the Great as a conqueror, and by Thrace; and Cassander had Macedon. "The the fact that after his untimely death his leopard had four heads." c friedo-Persia empire was divided into four distinct king- (Continued next week) doms. "And, behold, another beast, a second, like Let us look first at Alexander's famous to a bear; and it was raised up on one side, world conquest. In the spring of 334 B. C., and three ribs were in its mouth between its Take Time for God at the head of an army of thirty-five thou- teeth: and they said thus unto it, Arise, de- (Continued from nape 16) sand men, he set out to satisfy Greek venge- vour much flesh." Verse 5. Mary hath chosen that good part, which ance against the Persians. Darius Codo- The two unequal nations making up this shall not be taken away from her." Luke manus, the last Persian ruler, would have 10:38-42. dual empire; the three great territories been worthy of saving his empire if it had added to it by conquest—Chaldea, Lydia, There is such a thing as balance. We have been worth saving to the world. It was con- no sympathy with those Oriental sages who and Egypt; the cruelty of the Medo-Persian quered in less than ten years. wars; the unwieldy masses of their armies— spend hours and weeks with crossed legs Alexander defeated him at Issus and at all this is most fittingly represented by that contemplating the pit of their stomachs, and Granicus. "At Arbela, not far from the clumsy, ferocious bear, with one side thinking of Nirvana. But are dancing der- ancient Nineveh, his farthest advance was stronger than the other, having three bloody vishes any better? The whole tendency of disputed by Darius with an immense army ribs between its teeth, and "devouring much our modern world is toward speed and flesh." numbering . . . over a million men. The activity, often a kind of whirligig activity. vast Persian host was overthrown with enor- The Medes had united with the Babylo- mous slaughter. . . . From here, Alexander "He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to nians in the destruction of Nineveh. While mend. marched south to Babylon, which opened Nebuchadnezzar had been carrying on his Eternity mourns that 'tis an ill cure its gates to him without opposition. Susa wars toward Egypt, Jerusalem, and Syria, For life's worst ills to have no time to was next entered by the conqueror." mend them." their king Cyaxares had led successful ex- peditions in Asia Minor and south of the So much about the "four wings of a bird." We are told of our Saviour that "in the Caspian Sea. Astyages, son of Cyaxares, But the leopard had "four heads." morning, rising up a great while before day, having given his daughter Mandane in mar- He went out, and departed into a solitary riage to Cambyses, a Persian king, he was Division of Grecian Conquests place, and there prayed." Mark 1:35. Was informed by a dream, as Herodotus tells us, At the death of Alexander, the principal not this one of the secrets of Hid power, that Mandane's offspring would rule over governors of the empire were his generals, that He had time? That He did not allow all Asia and subject the Medes. As it oc- as follows: Ptolemy in Egypt, Seleucus in Himself to be forever rushed? That He was curred, Cyrus revealed himself one of the Babylon, Antigonus in Asia Minor and Cen- able to draw men to God? greatest generals of history. He first con- tral Asia, Laomedon in Syria and Phoenicia, We do not say that men should spend quered the kingdom of Lydia, whose king Cassander in Caria, Menander in Lydia, all night in prayer. But we think it would was Crcesus, of proverbial fame. Then he Leonnat in Small Phrygia, Neoptoleme in do us all good if we would spend a single turned his forces north into Turkestan, and Armenia, Eumene in Cappadocia and Paph- hour in prayer,—in contemplating eternal south into Gedrosia, and finally conceived lagonia, Lysimachus in Thrace, Antipater things, as distinguished from transitory; in the audacious plan of capturing Babylon. in Macedonia, Epyrus, and Greece. Per- considering holy things, as contrasted with The fall of that great capital made the dual diccas, to whom the dying conqueror had worldly; in weighing God's values, as dif- monarchy mistress of the empire of Asia. given his ring, was made regent. He made ferent from human trivialities. If we would Under Cambyses II, the son and successor his residence in Babylon, married Alex- talk with our Father, and let Him talk with of Cyrus, the old and venerable kingdom of ander's sister. and aspired to the imperial us, how much we might learn! what improve- Egypt was again brought low. dignity. But he was assassinated, and the ment we might make! what power we might The cruelty of the Medes and Persians realm was torn by intestine wars. receive! D. has been recorded in history. "The kings of Persia," says Prideaux, "were the worst PAILII,11 ,11.11WW11.19111.11.1.111. 1.1111,1.M1111111,1101 1111.1111 IRA IA VIIMIIIII1111,1111,11111J111,10111N11 Ell,11.11111At race of men that ever governed an empire." Their criminal code and military executions were marked by a strange inhumanity. After a Persian war, a Greek historian saw the PERPLEXING roads covered with mutilated men. After the conquest of Babylon, Darius caused TEXTS three thousand men of the highest rank to be crucified. Xerxes was even more bar- EXPLAINED BY barous. Seneca mentions the fact that a ALLEN WALKER Persian king punished a whole nation by ordering that every inhabitant should have his nose cut off. "Nowhere is there to be "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear seal such contempt for human dignity as it Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Matthew 10:28. is found in the custums of the Persians," says a historian. The bear was to "devour Pr HIS text is often read to prove that the soul He said that "brother shall deliver up the much flesh." 1 is something that is immune to death, and is brother to death;" but even death should not therefore immortal. A more careful reading of discourage them in their work. Although the The Rise of Macedon the text proves the very opposite, for it says, opponents of the gospel may put them to death, "Fear Him which is able to destroy both soul they could not prevent their obtaining the re- Third in the dream is the Greco-Mace- and body in hell." This shows that the soul is ward of the future life at the resurrection. The donian leopard, leaping out of the great sea just as destructible as the body, and that both Emphatic Diaglott translates the verse as fol- lows: "Be not afraid of those who kill the body of human strife and am bitions. the soul and the body of the lost will be de- stroyed in hell. but cannot destroy the future life; but rather "After this I behel d, and, lo, another The word "soul" in this text is translated fear Him who can utterly destroy both life and [beast] like a leopard, which had upon its "life" in Revelation 13:15. In this tenth chapter body in Gehenna." A study of the context will back four wings of a bird; the beast had of Matthew, Jesus was sending out His disciples make it very plain that this is what Jesus meant also four heads; and dominion was given to preach. He told them of the persecutions and —and not that man has an immortal soul im- to it." Verse 6. hardships they would be called upon to endure. mune to any kind of destruction. Page Twelve SIGNS of the TIMES Beasts From the Sea Studies in the book of Daniel, No. 9 N the year 540 B. c., two years after the Babylonians, the Persians held the sovereign death of Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, gen- power . . . which were also represented on i eral in chief of the Medo-Persian forces, JEAN VUILLEUMIER the image by the silver after the gold. Then was besieging Babylon. Nabonidus, fifth there was 'the third beast, a leopard,' which successor of the great king, at the head of meant the Greeks. For after the Persians, an army, was seeking to check the advance to see and hear the confusion and roar of Alexander of Macedon obtained the sover- of the invaders outside of the walls, while battles, the rise and fall of nations, and, eign power on subverting Darius, as is also his son, Belshazzar, was holding the office with it all, the untold sufferings of humanity. shown by the brass on the image. And in of viceroy on the inside of the metropolis. And when the awful panorama had passed saying that it had 'four wings of a fowl,' he In this same year, which was, says Daniel, before him, the old statesman wrote: "As taught us more clearly how the kingdom of "the first year of Belshazzar king of Baby- for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the Alexander was partitioned, for speaking of lon Daniel had a dream and visions of his midst of my body, and the visions of my `four heads,' he made mention of four kings, head upon his bed : then he wrote the dream, head troubled me. I came near unto one of viz., those who rose out of that kingdom... . and told the sum of the matters." Daniel 7:1. them that stood by, and asked him the truth Then he says: 'A fourth beast, dreadful and The prophet was now eighty years of age, concerning all this. So he told me, and made terrible; it had iron teeth and claws of brass.' and had for some years been kept away from me know the interpretation of the things. And who are these but the Romans?—the state affairs. It was under these critical These great beasts, which are four, are four kingdom which is now established—which circumstances that he received the vision of kings, that shall arise out of the earth, but kingdom is meant by the iron. And after the four beasts out of the sea. The imme- the saints of the Most High shall receive the this, what remains, beloved, but the toes of diate object of this new revelation may have kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, the feet of the image . . . by which he meant been to remind the old prophet and the faith- even forever and ever." Verses 15-18. the kings who are to arise out of that king- ful worshipers of the true God in Babylon Listen, 0 ye skeptics, philosophers, would- dom. As Daniel says, 'I considered the that the Lord is ruler over all, and that be prophets, and founders of new religions! beasts; and, lo, there were ten horns behind, whether kingdoms flourish or crumble, the In seventy words, this ancient prophecy among which shall come up another little purposes of the Almighty march on gives us the whole history of the horn springing from them;' by which none to their grand fulfillment. But its world for twenty-five centuries, other is meant than the antichrist that is to ultimate object was the instruction clear down to the borders of eter- arise." and comfort of godly truth seekers nity! Who can do better? Can any- And now that we have used the field glass, clear down to the last generation of one do as well? let us take the microscope, and look at the men. New and thrilling aspects of The first thing to be noticed here vision again. human history were to be unfolded is the striking parallel between this Babylon before the wondering eyes of those new vision and Nebuchadnezzar's who study prophecy. dream. In his Commentaries and in "The first [beast] was like a lion, and had his treatise on "Christ and Anti- eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof "Four Great Beasts" christ," Hippolytus, before quoted, were plucked, and it was lifted up from the makes the following reference to the "Daniel spake and said, I saw in earth, and made to stand upon two feet as fulfillment of these two prophecies my vision by night, and, behold, the a man." Verse 4. and to their intimate relation to each four winds of heaven brake forth We learned from the vision of the great other: upon the great sea. And four great image in the second chapter of Daniel that the first of the four great nations were the beasts came up from the sea, diverse Testimony of Hippolytus one from another." Verses 2, 3. Babylonians. There they were symbolized According to Isaiah (17:12, 13) "Now if we set Daniel's own vi- by the choicest of metals, while here they and Revelation (17:15), the great sion also side by side with this are represented by the king of animals and sea symbolizes the restless multi- [Nebuchadnezzar's dream], we shall the king of birds. These are fit emblems of tudes of earth, while the four winds have one exposition to give of the the powerful monarchy which accomplished of heaven that cause these waters to two together, and shall be able to the overthrow of Nineveh, and became at seethe and surge are political feuds, show how concordant they are and once the mistress and wonder of the ancient rivalries, national ambitions, and how true. For he said, then, that a world. How true of Nebuchadnezzar who, wars of conquest. See Jeremiah `lioness came up from the sea,' and like an eagle carrying his prey up to his 4:11-13. "It became the prophet to by that he meant the kingdom of the lofty aerie, deported so many nations to Bab- compare the great and mighty tu- Babylonians in the world, which also ylon, where he employed them in building mult of life to a mighty sea," says was the head of gold on the image. up and beautifying his capital! Hippolytus, an ecclesiastical writer . . . Then, after the lioness, he sees But the lion lost his eagle's wings and his of the fourth century. a 'second beast like a bear,' and that lionlike courage. The glory of the new Bab- Again was the prophet called upon denoted the Persians. For after the ylonian empire passed away with Nebuchad- for FEBRUARY 12, 1935 Page Eleven mit. The American Revised rightly cor- rects the King James, therefore, by giving us the word "restraineth." The "SIGNS" In 1611 "peculiar" carried the idea of a property belonging to a certain thing or per- QUESTION Conducted by son. In the scientific world we still have a WILLIAM G. WIRTH remnant of this when we say that alcohol 5447 El Verano Avenue, has peculiar properties. We do not mean CORNER Eagle Rock, California that these properties of alcohol are strange or odd, but that they are distinctive features possessed by alcohol. "Peculiar" comes from If you have a question on some subject apropos to the field of the the Latin word peculium, private property, "SIGNS OF THE TIMES," write preferably direct to Dr. Wirth. related to pecunia, money. It was in this Anonymous questions will not be answered. sense of property that the King James trans- lators meant the word to be used. However, with the passing of the centuries "peculiar" has now taken on to most of us the concep- MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN names by Christians attests the growing in- tion of odd, singular, strange. The result is, A reader in San Fernando, California, asks fluence of astrological speculations intro- unfortunately, that many reading "peculiar" if there will be marriage, with resultant birth duced by converts from paganism. . . . Dur- in the King James believe that to be real of children, in the life which is to come. ing these same centuries the spread of Orien- Bible Christians they must be designedly tal solar worship, especially that of Mithra, different from the world by being out of the It is indisputably clear from our Lord's in the Roman world, had already led to the ordinary, strange, or even odd. This is not statement in Matthew 22 :30—"In the substitution by pagans of dies Solis for dies at all the fundamental meaning of these resurrection they neither marry, nor are Saturni, as the first day of the planetary scriptures. What is meant, is that the people given in marriage, but are as angels in week. . . . Thus gradually a pagan institution of God are His own possession. If in this heaven"—that C. P. Bollman is right in was engrafted on Christianity."—Prof. Hut- sense of being possessed by God "peculiar" affirming "that there will be no reproduction, ton Webster, "Rest Days": 220, 221. is used, there can be no objection to it. May no increase of children by birth, in the new "Our observance of Sunday as the Lord's I suggest that the questioner read these four earth." The words "in the resurrection" are day is apparently derived from Mithraism. references in the American Revised Version to be understood to refer to the state or The argument that has sometimes been used to grasp the correct conception of the Bible condition of the redeemed resulting from against this claim, namely, that Sunday was writers. their resurrection. They carry the same chosen because the resurrection occurred meaning as "in the regeneration" of Mat- on that day, is not well supported. As a thew 19:28, where Jesus says: "Verily I matter of fact the first Christians adhered MORAL OR CEREMONIAL LAW? say unto you, that ye who have followed to the Jewish practice of keeping Saturday. From Perth, Australia, comes an inquiry Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Apparently the observance of Sunday began as to whether Paul in his discussion of the man shall sit on the throne of His glory, ye with the Pauline churches in Asia Minor, law in the Epistle to the Galatians, refers to also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging where the Mithraists, numerous and in- the moral or to the ceremonial law. the twelve tribes of Israel." In other words, fluential, had celebrated Sunday long before "in the regeneration," "in the resurrection" the Christian era. For even in those forms As to whether Paul has the Decalogue or allude to the new earth, the home of the of Mithraism that did not identify Mithras the Mosaic ceremonial law in mind in his saved. Matthew 5:5; 2 Peter 3 :10-13 ; with the sun god, the latter was always epistle to the Galatians, a careful study of Revelation 21:1-4. prominent in the cult. An interesting and this book would indicate that he has both of The clauses "they neither marry, nor are significant phrase occurs in the Didache, 'on these laws in view. It is hazardous to main- given in marriage" show that in the higher the Lord's Day of the Lord' (E. R. E., under tain that the apostle to the Gentiles has only life of the redeemed all things having to do "Sunday"), which shows that there was one of these two codes in mind. In harmony with the marriage relation are done away. another Lord's day besides that of the with the principle about which he is writing, See Luke 20:36; 1 Corinthians 15:44. This Christians. This could have been none other legalism, human attempt to comply with is so because "as angels in heaven" they than the Mithraists' day of their Lord, the God's requirements as the only way to will be immortal, and consequently without sun. On that day there were special Mithraic salvation, Paul is thinking of any law which need of propagating their kind,—the essen- services and prayers. And when they legalists might propose as a means of re- tial purpose of marriage. prayed, the Mithraists like other sun wor- demption, be that law the Decalogue, the ceremonial law of Moses, or any other spir- Isaiah 11:6-8 and other Old Testament shipers, faced the east in the morning, the itual code. To stoutly argue for one Scrip- scriptures mentioned by the questioner do south at noon, and the west at sunset. Nor tural law as against another in the Pauline let us know that there will be children, as has this practice entirely passed away. There writing here and in other places of his C. P. Bollman writes, "in the beginning of is a survival of it in the custom still followed epistles is entirely aside from the main point. the new earth experience." Catching the in Catholic and some Episcopalian churches, Paul is thinking of law in its qualitative spirit of redemptive development in Paul's of facing east during certain prayers."— sense, in its essential quality, so to speak, words, "till we all attain unto the unity of Gordon J. Laing, "Survivals of Roman of requirement, ordinance, statute, and not the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son Religion": 148, 149. in its quantitative sense of code, legal sys- of God, unto a full-grown man, unto the tem. The fact that in Greek he frequently measure of the stature of the fullness of "A PECULIAR PEOPLE" omits the article before nomos (law) shows Christ" (Ephesians 4:13), these redeemed this qualitative element rather than the children will grow to be adults. These chil- A questioner wishes to know the meaning of the expression "peculiar" as found in the quantitative. If we take into consideration dren are, of course, redeemed from this the historical background of Paul's time, present earth. Bible in connection with Deuteronomy 14:2, Psalm 135:4; Titus 2:14, and 1 Peter 2:9. and the fact that he was opposing the false claims of the Judaizers as to the efficacy of ORIGIN OF SUNDAY OBSERVANCE The expression "peculiar" found in Deu- legalism to obtain God's favor, it must be From Assam, India, comes an inquiry as teronomy 14:2; Psalm 135:4; Titus 2:14; patent he was dealing first with the Mosaic to whether the Romans were accustomed to and 1 Peter 2:9 should be translated as it ceremonial, Pharisaically-worked-out, Jew- observe the first day of the week, Sunday, appears in the American Revised Version; ish religious laws, and not directly with the as a sacred day. that is, "possession" should be used instead majestic, superior Decalogue, God's own of "peculiar." It must be borne in mind code of human conduct. Paul, however, is Below are two historical quotations rela- that when the King James Version was is- not confining himself to any particular code tive to the origin of Sunday as a day of rest : sued, in 1611, certain English words had a or legal system. What he is doing is to "The early Christians had at first adopted different meaning from that which they strike at law, not the particular law, as a the Jewish seven-day week, with its num- now convey. Then the word "prevent" in means of salvation, in contradistinction to bered week days, but by the close of the 1 Thessalonians 4:15 meant to go before ; the gospel means of salvation which comes third century A. D. this began to give way now it means to stop. Hence, the American by grace through faith. See Romans 6:14, to the planetary week; and in the fourth and Revised properly uses "precede." Then the where the article before "law" is omitted, fifth centuries the pagan designations be- word "let" in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 carried showing that Paul is not confining himself came generally accepted in the western half the idea of holding back, whereas it now to any particular divine code but to law as of Christendom. The use of the planetary conveys the opposite meaning of allow, per- the avenue to God. Page Ten SIGNS of the TIMES The world faces war. Whether it will break out in the East or the West, no one can tell. Tut what attitude would Jesus have His followers take?

The Christian's attitude toward war is as noncombatants. They are always ready not an academic question, for the world is to serve without reservation, except bearing growing more warlike. The armament figures arms in combat and doing unnecessary work mount and mount. The statistics of the mili- on the Sabbath day. As a matter of duty and tary forces of the world are not merely in- loyalty to human government which is or- teresting, they are frightful. There is truth dained of God, they stand loyally and patri- in the lines of Robert Nathan, that— otically with their Government. "While the foregoing is the position of "Darkness is loose upon the world; the devil Walks in the land, and there is nothing worth." the Seventh-day Adventists as a denomina- tion in the United States, the church does Some day all those guns will be fired, all the not attempt to dictate to its members indi- regiments deployed, all those aircraft sent vidually, but each person must stand upon out on their missions of death. There was his own conscientious convictions." a time when kings recruited their armies, This is the attitude which, we believe, the and those who wished to, went. But con- earnest Christian believer will take in an un- scription has become so common that in a ideal world, confronted by unideal situations. future war it is impossible to think of any But, over and beyond this present order nation that will not use it. What is the of things, the Christian has the assurance of Christian to do? a warless world. This happy prospect, how- ever, will not come by disarmament con- Opposition to War ferences, nor through the League of Nations, There is a great deal of opposition to-day nor through the mediation of the pope, nor in certain religious circles to young men's through any other human instrumentality, taking any part in war. Pledges are drawn worthy or otherwise. It will come with the up, covenants are signed, to make a future establishment of a new world, when, says conflict impossible. How much all these fine Jesus, "the Son of man shall send forth His words mean, the next war will show. Zealous angels, and they shall gather out of His persons have even advised the young man kingdom all things that offend, and them who is "drafted" to do everything he can which do iniquity." Matthew 13:41. When to actively hinder the war, even to the point wickedness is uprooted and cast out, as it of committing sabotage. We cannot imagine finally shall be, then will come eternal peace, Jesus committing sabotage, nor can we not by pact or restraint, but because all who imagine His followers doing so. dwell in that perfect world cherish the love of God and of their fellow beings in their A sincere and reasonable statement has hearts. recently been published in a pamphlet en- • titled "Our Youth in Time of War," put out )) by the Seventh-day Adventists as a guide to The "New Covenant their young men who may be called to the colors. After discussing the various attitudes (Continued from, page 3) taken toward war, such as those of the paci- the new covenant. Nothing can be added! fist, the conscientious objector, and the anti- Some have seen this principle, and have tried militarist, the pamphlet goes on to say: to prove that Christ kept the first day of the week as the Sabbath before His death and The grave of the Unknown Soldier may yet "While recognizing that warfare is un- remind us of the tremendous cost—in life and avoidable in maintaining civil government resurrection, and, like a drowning man grasp- blood—of the last war. Will the future demand in a world of sin, noncombatants conscien- ing a straw, have used Luke 6:1 in proof, "It further sacrifices? tiously object to taking human life. They came to pass on the second Sabbath after the believe that in this way they can render a first, that He went through the cornfields." But this attempt is amusing. Ethiopian freely mingled, knew well enough greater service to their fellow men and be what was meant by racial pride and national a greater influence for the cause of right- As we have seen, Christ, in His introduc- ambition. But who can dream that He ever eousness than by taking combatant part in tory work of the establishing of the new fashioned a place for these in the hearts of the destruction of human life. They do not, covenant, gave the law of God its proper His believers and in the sanctuary of His however, condemn those who take part in place. As to the Ten Commandments, He church? war. On the other hand, noncombatants are said, "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." In His discourse as re- "By this shall all men know that ye are willing to aid their Government in every consistent way in time of warfare, except by corded in the twenty-fourth chapter of Mat- My disciples, if ye have love one to an- thew, looking down years beyond His cruci- other." John 13:35. taking human lives. They will help to feed and clothe the army; assist in caring for the fixion and resurrection to the destruction of The Mind of Jesus sick and wounded; help to bury the dead; Jerusalem, He reenforced the keeping of aid in the transportation of men, food, cloth- the Sabbath in the words, "Pray ye that your These words, we believe, have forever ing, etc. They will build the camps; go into flight be not in the winter, neither on the shut the Christian from the gun and the the fields, mines, and factories at the direc- Sabbath day." Verse 20. hand grenade. Much has been said about tion of their Government. They will help to The Sabbath was instituted in Eden be- war, both for and against. We have no de- fortify positions and otherwise protect fore the entrance of sin, and hence before sire to discuss the excellent arguments, or human life. They will carry the wounded the need of any covenant, old or new, and to attempt to strike so dubious a balance. back from the front. The noncombatant is is therefore not confined to any covenant. But we are aware of no apologist who has not a coward; he simply and conscientiously It antedates and postdates all covenants. ever maintained that war is either the fruit and courageously objects to taking human Even when the earth is made new, restored or the wellspring of love. And the mind of life, so far as his participation is concerned. to its Edenic glory and beauty, the Sabbath Jesus on the topic is, we think, sufficiently "Seventh-day Adventists of the United will be kept by all the redeemed. Isaiah clear to all. States are registered with our Government 66:23. for FEBRUARY 12, 1935 Page Nine

//HAT JESUS Thought of WAR I GWYNNE DALRYMPLE

ESUS did not live in a warless world. that Jesus looked forward to the conversion Though in a sense the Pax Romana— of the world. He knew that His cutting "Roman peace"—had forced the na- question, "Why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and J tions to refrain from dynastic strife, do not the things which I say?" (Luke 6:46) the military spirit was abroad in the land. would have to be repeated to the end of time. Judea, groaning under Roman injustice, in He warned all men frankly, that "wide is the part real, in part fancied, was the theater of gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to constant revolts. Religious zealots con- destruction, and many there be which go in stantly fanned the embers of rebellion into thereat : because strait is the gate, and nar- open flame, which Rome regularly quenched row is the way, which leadeth unto life, and in blood. few there be that find it." Matthew 7:13, 14. Nor were the Jews ever allowed to forget that they were in subjection to a foreign War Will Remain power. By day the legionaries marched And since Jesus knew that the hearts of through the streets of Jerusalem on their men, at least of the majority, would remain way to Caesarea or Pelusium; by night their unchanged, He also knew that organized war- trumpets marked the slow passing of the fare would continue to the very end of time. hours. Abuses of the military power were "Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars," frequent. "There were present at that sea- He plainly said; "see that ye be not son some that told Him [Jesus] of the Gali- troubled: for all these things must come to leans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall their sacrifices." Luke 13:1. And as the rise against nation, and kingdom against priests performed their services in the courts kingdom." Matthew 24:6, 7. Indeed, Jesus of the temple, they could always behold, taught that the passage of time, so far from towering far above them, the lofty walls of mollifying national and racial passions, the Antonia, a Roman fortress whose bar- would intensify them; for, speaking of the racks were prompt to pour forth soldiers into days just preceding His coming, Jesus de- you, and persecute you; that ye may be the the temple itself if mischief threatened. clared that there would be "upon the earth children of your Father which is in heaven: for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil Would He Have Blessed? distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; mens' hearts failing and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just But what was the attitude of Jesus toward them for fear, and for looking after those and on the unjust. For if ye love them which military power? And what did He think of things which are coming on the earth. . . . love you, what reward have ye? do not even war as an institution? Would He have spread And then shall they see the Son of man com- the publicans the same? And if ye salute out His hands in blessing over the legions ing in a cloud with power and great glory." your brethren only, what do ye more than marching to the frontiers? or would He Luke 21:25-27. others? do not even the publicans so? Be have blessed the standards of cohorts fresh Jesus thus cherished none of those com- ye therefore perfect, even as your Father from the blood of barbarous Scythians? fortable hopes which occupy the time of so which is in heaven is perfect." Matthew One of the commonest mistakes of Jesus' many churchmen, to the effect that war 5 :43-48. followers has been to assume that He ex- would finally be banished from this planet We submit that in Jesus' mind it was un- pected all the world to accept His teaching, by human cooperation. The disarmament thinkable that two of His followers, each —that He thought there would be a great advocates, worthily inspired as they are, can ensconced in opposing trenches, could lie in mass conversion to the pure and holy prin- pin the success of their plans from no text .wait for an opportunity to blow the other's ciples of the kingdom of God. It is true, of of His. head off, or sear his lungs with poison gas, course, that Jesus died for all men, and that "Thou Shalt Love" or, flying high above his home, drop T.N.T. He made a complete atonement for every upon his family. We do not argue the justice son of Adam. And He predicted that some Yet His instruction to those who profess of such things, nor their conceivable right- from every nation would accept Him as their His name is very clear. "Ye have heard that eousness ; we simply point that in no way, or Saviour. "I say unto you," He declared, it bath been said, Thou shalt love thy neigh- by any imaginable manipulation, do they fit "that many shall come from the east and bor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto into Jesus' idea of what His followers are. west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and you, Love your enemies, bless them that He, born a member of the most intolerant of Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven." curse you, do good to them that hate you, races, and living in a country where Jew and Matthew 8:11. But they err who suppose and pray for them which despitefully use Roman, Greek and Egyptian, Chaldean and Page Eight SIGNS of the TIMES sister died of smallpox, and one brother of Martha Mary leave, we would never see her Even so will I break this people and this plague and one of cholera; the others died again. It was highly improbable that her city, as one breaketh a pottees vessel, that I know not why. My father also is dead. husband had sent a letter demanding her cannot be made whole again." Jeremiah When the white men made war in Bilait release, as he could neither read nor write. 19:11. [England], he went because the pay was Ram Chundra's uncle returned to his vil- The only gathering of Israel will be the good. He died of pneumonia. lage without Martha Mary, but his inborn gathering of spiritual Israel. "Behold, these "When I was six years old, my father said, cunning read in us a desire to keep Martha. shall come from far: and, lo, these from the `Let us marry her to Ram Chundra of And he hit upon a scheme to make a little north and from the west; and these from Dogudha village,' and so I was married to money. the land of Sinim." Isaiah 49:12. "The isles him. He was sixteen at that time. Of the Martha Mary trusted us implicitly, and shall wait for His law." Isaiah 42:4. From wedding ceremony I cannot remember. I took our promise that she should not return every corner of the world God is gathering was young, and my head was whirling with to her former life as a guarantee of her out a people who shall be ready to meet bewilderment. They took me from my future happiness. Yet when the day finally Him at His appearing. They are Israelites mother and I wept, for I had no wish to go. arrived, and when looking from the window indeed "in whom is no guile." Many literal she saw the man who was her husband Jews are among them; many Greeks; many Days of Trouble coming down the same trail that had been from the islands of the sea; many of every her road to escape a few months before, race and people. They are fulfilling the con- "At first it was not too hard, living at my she displayed the alarm and terror of a dition of salvation, which is obedience to husband's home. But time went on and I trapped animal. With a terrified gasp she God's commandments, through the faith of was eleven, and men mocked him, for he had ran first to her own room, and then began a Jesus. The law of God has been written in no sons. He cursed me and said, 'I will take frantic effort to lock, bar, and barricade the the fleshy tables of their hearts. Of them it to me another wife.' My mother-in-law be- doors and windows of the house. She may well be said, "Here is the patience of gan to be angry with me. I was made to dragged a chair and a table against the front the saints: here are they that keep the com- carry all the water for the household, drive door, and pushed a heavy bed, ordinarily mandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." the cattle forth in the early morning, and requiring two of us to move, up against the Revelation 14:12. cut the grass for them and bring it home on door to the dispensary. When this was done, my head. We ate twice a day, in the morning "And so all Israel shall be saved." Romans she ran to her own room and falling across 11:26. Glorious entrance into the city of and in the evening. I was made to wait until the bed she sobbed hysterically while my the family had eaten, and then what was God! Through the gates of the beautiful mother endeavored in every possible man- city the saints go marching in. Over the left was for me. Here on my arm—do you ner to soothe her, and promised again and see them there?—are the marks of the red- gates are the names of the twelve tribes of again that she should not return with Ram the children of Israel. Revelation 21:12. hot poker my husband's mother beat me Chundra. with. No Gentile gates to the New Jerusalem! "One day I drove the cattle out to graze, Gates of character are these gates of pearl. then I ran away to my mother. It was no God's Zionist Movement This is God's Zionist Movement. This use. After a month my husband came and is the Bible truth on the subject of Israel. took me away. Twice I did this. Then I (Continued from page 5) It is a "shield and buckler" against the de- thought I would kill myself by jumping over her. Finally, through the prophet Jeremiah, ceptions of those doctrines which would a cliff; but I was too frightened, and could came a forceful object lesson of the sad end teach us that there is a second chance. not do it. Then I came here. It took me of their disobedience. In the sight of the In our next article we shall consider three days and nights, for I was afraid that elders of the people Jeremiah broke a pot- further aspects of the deceptive and delud- I was followed. That is all." ter's vessel. "Thus saith the Lord of hosts; ing rapture theory. Hardly had she finished telling us her story when she frowned and asked in a worried voice, "Won't you please tell me what soap it is that you use to make your skin white? I swear that I will not tell." She no longer lived in the past, but in a he very hopeful present that held no worries of an undesirable future. POWER of Mother did not like the heathen name of Muttra, so gave her the name of Martha. Later on,, when Martha learned more of the Conscience ways of the white people, she asked for another name, for she said, "Do not they all T IS a strange and solemn power which con- less, swift, and unrelenting. They pursued the have two names?" So mother called her I science wields. In your secret soul you com- guilty, especially those who had sinned against Martha Mary, and she was content. mit a sin: it is a mere passing thought, perhaps; the aged or their own parents, and those who The snow melted, and from our window no human eye has seen it, no tongue will ever had committed perjury or murder. No prayers, speak of it: yet even in the dark you blush at no sacrifices, no tears, could move them. Cain we no longer watched thinly clad and bare- it ; you are degraded in your own eyes ; you feel was fleeing from them, as he wandered like a foot natives hop about in the snow. Spring guilty and wretched. vagabond over the earth. Herod was haunted brought the red rhododendrons, violets, and And this guilty wretchedness does not pass by them when, on hearing the preaching of the wild narcissus, tiger lilies, and jasmine. away ; it may at any time revive. Conscience Jesus, he cried, "It is John the Baptist, whom I We had wondered that we had not heard comes to us in lonely hours ; it wakens us in the beheaded, risen from the dead!" Judas, the from Martha Mary's husband before this; night; it stands at the side of the bed and says, betrayer, was fleeing from them when he rushed so we were not surprised when one day his "Come, wake up and listen to me !" into the jaws of death rather than abide the uncle appeared with a message. "Muttra," And there it holds us with its remorseless eye; touch of their fingers. he said, "must return with me to her and buried sins rise out of the grave of the past; This was what Shakespeare meant when he husband." they march by in melancholy procession; and made the ghost of Banquo sit at Macbeth's we lie in terror looking at them. Nobody knows table, and the specters of those whom Richard but ourselves. Next morning we go forth to III had murdered file before him in his tent to JI/luttra's Husband Comes business with a smiling face ; but conscience has claim revenge, on the night before the battle in We had determined not to let Martha had its revenge. which he lost his life. These are extreme cases ; but this pain is one return to the squalor of her old life; yet we This punishment is sometimes of the most terrible description. It was set forth by the which every one has felt in his own degree. It knew the law of the land, and must obey it. ancients under the figure of three sisters of is among the secrets known to all. There are We replied, "We know the law; it is very awful aspect. They were called the Eumenides, hidden chambers in every soul, the keys of strong; therefore show us a letter from or Furies. Tall in stature, they were draped in which are never given away; and one of these the girl's husband and we will immediately black ; serpents twisted in their hair, and blood is a torture chamber, where conscience plies its give her up." We felt that if we ever let dropped from their eyes. Their step was noise- scourge and rack.—James Stalker. for FEBRUARY 12, 1935 Page Seven

The ring in the nose of this little girl of India indicates that she has already been married.

A Daughter of the HIMALAYAS

,A true story of high lights and

T was not the first time that I had seen shadows in India's life my father had hung on the wall of the front the dirty, poorly clad little girl hurry down room a colored prophetic chart covered with the trail just beyond the stone wall that en- striking illustrations of the beasts seen by circled our compound; but she wore such a CHARLES SHREWSBURY Daniel and John in their visions as recorded frightened look as she glanced again and For many years resident in the Bible. My brother and I had de- again over her shoulder to watch the trail in India. veloped a little drill in connection with the behind her that I could not suppress a feeling chart, and every evening after supper would of pity. She wore a small gold-wire nose stand with a pointer and name the beasts ring,—the symbol of Hindu wifehood,—and kerosene, in phenol solutions, and in many and what they represented. After a few her matted black hair fell in unkempt wisps other disinfectant waters before the offend- days, yet long before she had any under- and strands to her shoulders. Her sari was ing crawlers were exterminated. Thereafter standing whatsoever of the chart, Muttra so frayed and torn that it barely covered her Muttra took considerable pride in the care would take her turn with the pointer, and emaciated little body. Her eyes met mine of her tresses, and kept them glossy with name, without a mistake, the impossible and dropped quickly; then she hurried on frequent applications of coconut oil. beasts of the visions. around the mountain, and out of sight. On rare occasions when there were pack- That same evening as I sat in the shade ifrluttra's Progress ages from our home in America, she shared of our mission bungalow and watched the with my brother and me whatever gifts the lights and shadows play over the jagged Dressed in her clean sari, face washed parcel might hold, and cherished them as peaks of the Himalayas to the east, she came and hair combed, Muttra was attractive but treasures of great value. From the begin- again, this time clinging to her mother's never really pretty. Her feet were large ning she attended morning and evening wor- cheddar [shawl], and trembling with fear. and flat, but she had a straight back and a ship with the rest of us, and took her turn queenly carriage acquired by carrying great in the prayer circle. In fact, she had a part ,A Runaway Wife loads of grass and earthen jars of water in almost all of the family's activities. upon her head. Within she had a soul worth The mother was an old retainer at the saving. ikluttra's Early Life mission station, and had been employed for The girl was as ignorant as one who years in the care of the orphan boys we were realized the conditions under which she bad It was during a long winter evening that able to shelter. She was large and coarse, been born, married, and reared might expect Muttra first ventured to tell us of her early and although a Christian, still subconsciously her to be. She could, of course, neither read life. She was seated on the floor, and punc- clung to her old superstitions. Hers was a nor write; and when we handed her a box tuated her short descriptive sentences by problem; and as she explained to my mother of pictures to look at, she was not able to killing the fleas that climbed up out of the how this little waif had run away from a tell which was right side up, but turned them matting on to her feet. She spoke in a slow heathen husband and the beatings of a nag- around in her hand and replaced them in monotone when telling of her past, for the ging mother-in-law, we determined to do a the box with a rather blank expression. memory of it brought her neither joy nor little more than our best to help her. It Muttra's first duty of any importance was remorse. was eventually agreed that Muttra, for that to wash the dishes. She learned quite rapidly, "I was born," she said, "farther up in the was the little wife's name, should stay with and did her work well, but she had to be mountains than we now are. It was on the us and do such small duties around the house watched closely until she should be able to bank of the Ganges River. My mother was as we might find her able to perform. understand the reason for some of our sim- angry that I was not a son, and my father It was an all-day task, the combing and ple sanitary precautions. Imagine my beat her. This I know, for my mother has washing of her snarled hair ; and when that mother's horror when, one chilly morning, shown me the marks of the beating. was over, we had just begun. Muttra at first she walked into the kitchen to find Muttra, "Of my childhood I remember little. My could not understand our anxiety concerning with the dishpan on the floor, washing the father had some land. He was a farmer. I the extermination of the vermin that thrived dishes with her feet! According to her ideas, remember when he took me to the temple on her scalp; but when we explained it by it was a sufficient explanation that the stone to worship the gods. I bowed to them with saying that it was a custom of ours, that floor was cold and the warm water felt good him while he mumbled a prayer. appeared to be a sufficient reason to justify to her cold feet. "I had seven brothers and a sister. My all the trouble. Her head was bathed in As a means of education for his two sons, sister and five brothers are now dead. My Page Six SIGNS of the TIMES ZION IST MOVEMENT Will the Jews Be Restored to Palestine?

that of the heart, in the spirit, and not. in VARNER J. JOHNS "secret rapture." There will be no value to the letter." our property after the coming of Jesus. If Abraham was an Israelite; Moses, David, you plan to lay up treasure in heaven, give and Daniel were Israelites. But Esau and now to the evangelization of the world. Now Ahab, Annas and Caiaphas, though literal Luther, Knox, and Wesley; John G. Paton is the time to preach Jesus to the uncon- descendants of Abrahain, were no part of and Adoniram Judson—what a gathering of verted Jew. Now is the time to give of our the Israel of God. Only by the "new birth" the faithful that will be, in the glorious means to carry "the gospel to every nation. was there an entrance into the Israel of God. morning of the resurrection!, and kindred, and tongue, and people." At Only by victory over sin could anyone be- The popular teaching of the restoration the coming of Jesus this old world will be- come an heir of the promises of Israel. of the Jewish nation in Palestine is twin come a desolate waste, and will remain in sister to the "golden age" deception of a Many a Jew of the strictest sect of the a chaotic, broken-down condition until after more favorable opportunity for salvation Pharisees has been broken off from the tree the millennium. There is no hope of salva- of Israel because of "unbelief." Many a during the millennium. Both are bypaths in tion after Jesus comes. the labyrinth of error. They are a part of black man of Africa, many a yellow man of Israel in Prophecy China, many a white man of Europe, and the presumptuous hope that God will some- how bring salvation to those who have de- many a brown man of the South Seas, has There will be no restoration of the Jewish spised His grace and rejected His salvation. been "grafted in" to the tree of Israel nation. In the Old Testament are many con- through faith in Christ. The wild "gentile" Property After Christ's Return ditional prophecies. One of these, Deuter- branches are a part of the Israel of God. No onomy 28, is characteristic of all. more beautiful chapter can be found in the In a copy of the Sunday School Times a "If thou shalt hearken diligently unto Bible than the eleventh chapter of Romans. question is asked by an Illinois reader: the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe Is there hope for the literal descendants of "Should we, in the event of the rapture of and to do all His commandments, . . . the Abraham? Let the apostle answer: the church, draw a will so that our holdings Lord shall make thee the head, and not the would go to the orthodox Jews or the "They also, if they abide not still in un- tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou Zionist Movement?" In the answer given belief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to shalt not be beneath." Verses 1-13. graff them in again. For if thou wert cut it is stated that, "one of our eminent premil- "But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not lennial friends has made an orthodox Jew out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, hearken, . . . thou shalt become an astonish- his executor, instructing him to and wert graffed contrary to nature into a use his estate ment, a proverb, and a byword among all for the evangelization of the Jewish people. good olive tree: how much more shall these, nations whither the Lord shall lead thee." which be the natural branches, be graffed into I have written several wills in which we at- Verses 15-37. their own olive tree?" Romans 11:23, 24. tempted to conserve the estates of earnest The condition of obedience was broken Christians for the same purpose." again and again. Israel debased herself be- The Gathering of Israel This is but another tangle in the web of low the level of the idolatrous nations about error which is woven by the believers in a (Continued on page 7) A forlorn hope indeed is the hope of a future gathering of the Jewish people, a Jews gather by the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem to pray for the restoration of their native land. rebuilding of the Jewish nation, and a nation- wide acceptance of the Messiah. There will be a gathering of Israel, but it will be in the heavenly Canaan. Not in old Jerusalem, with its sin and sorrow and suffering, but in the New Jerusalem is the hope of Israel. Abraham "looked for a city which bath foun- dations, whose builder and maker is God." Hebrews 11:10. The Israel of God, black and white, bond and free, Jew and Gentile, will come to Zion with everlasting joy upon their faces, with the song of salvation upon their lips. "We're marching upward to Zion, the beautiful city of God" is our song of hope. One of the greatest verses in all the Bible is Galatians 3:29; "If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." How can anyone who reads this verse aright teach a restoration of literal Israel? The children of the promise are the heirs of the kingdom. "They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed." Romans. 9:8. There will be a gathering of Israel—Abraham. Isaac, and Jacob; Paul, Peter, and John;

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