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JANUARY, 1952 Sirs: VOL. 61 No. 1 Just a few days ago I had the pleasure of reading—for the first time— Established in 1891 as The Southern Agent. Name changed to an edition of THESE TIMES, April, 1951. I wish to inform you that I The Southern Review in 1892. to The Southern Watchman in enjoyed your publication very much and discovered a source of great in- 1901. to The Watchman in 1905, to The Watchman Magazine spiration in the various articles. in 1917. to Our Times in 1946. Incorporating: The Tennessee I am especially interested in the free Bible correspondence course which River Watchman (1901), The Gospel Herald (1903). is being offered for adults. Will you please enroll me in this course of * * study as soon as possible? Chestertown, Md. J.E.B. Editor RODNEY E. FINNEY Circulation Jtlanager - IRVIN H. Sirs: Art Director - - ROBERT M. ELDRIDGE I have been reading THESE TIMES and appreciate the Christian spirit it has, and I feel that I need your prayers very much. * * * Lebanon, Tenn. Mrs. B.N. Published monthly (except December, when semimonthly) by the SOUTHERN PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, 2119 Twenty-Fourth Sirs: Avenue, North, Nashville 8. Tennessee. Entered as second-class matter January 19. 1909. at the post office in Nashville, Tennes- I have just finished reading several copies of your wonderful magazine see, U. S. A.. under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Accept- THESE TIMES, and it has helped me greatly by increasing my knowledge ance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section of God and His teachings. 1103. Act of October 3, 1917. and authorized July 11. 1918. * Rates: 25 cents a copy, and $2.75 a year, in the United States. If it is possible, please enroll me in your free Bible correspondence Rates higher for other countries. course. May God be with you and your staff always. 4 Change of Address: Please give both the old and the new Richmond, Va. R.L.M. address. * Expiration: Unless renewed in advance, the magazine stops at the expiration date shown on the wrapper. Sirs: Someone laid a copy of THESE TIMES on my desk. I had never seen Member of Associated Church Press. this publication before. This was the September issue. Yours is a very * interesting publication. Will you please send me a copy of the October number? If it is as good as the September one, you'll have another Special Features subscriber. Mansfield, Ohio W.G.H. Pageant of Prophecy 3 The Man God Made Again—Harry Orchard . . . 4 What I Like About the Baptists—Kenneth J. Holland 6 Sirs: The Shame of the City—Bill Oliphant 8 I am sending my check for a renewal of THESE TIMES. I have just the Men on Stilts—Charles Ashur 11 radio and my magazine. I listen to the "Voice of Prophecy" and have A Passport to Heaven—Arnold Bengston . . . . 12 THESE TIMES to keep me up to date. So please don't fail me—be sure I Can We Talk With the Dead?—W. A. Touniend • 14 get it. I am past eighty years old, but still strong in the faith. Slaves in Babylon—Leonard C. Lee 16 Smithfield, N. C. Mrs. P.M. The Scepter of Salvation—M. E. Erickson . . 20 The Parcel God Sent—Inez Brasier 23 Sirs: A Quiz for Church Members—Benjamin Allen Bow- I saw a copy of THESE TIMES in my hairdresser's salon and was very man 24 much impressed with the fine articles it contained. I wish to subscribe Character Analyst—Thomas C. McCants . . . ,7 to it and am enclosing my check for $2.75 for a year's subscription The Hidden Truth About Our Daily Bread—Michael starting with the August number. Bakalar 28 New York, N. Y. Mrs. D.O. Regular Departments Sirs: Letters From Our Readers I am enclosing a money order for $2.75, for which I would like a Events of These Times 10 year's subscription to your magazine, THESE TIMES. A friend of mine Interpreting These Times, by the Editor . . . 1S gets it, and she let me read the October issue. It's a very nice and in- Happy Homes 22 teresting magazine. May I start it with the October issue. please? Let's Ask the Doctor 26 Mrs. V.H.M. Science Insights 31 God's Two Books :14 Sirs: Please Explain =15 I saw and read the January, 1951, issue of THESE TIMES many weeks ago, and still I read it over and over each chance I get. Although I'm an Poetry engineering student and do not have much spare time to read, I intend Now As Through a Glass—Wilbur J. Powell 13 to find time to read your good magazine. It surely is a great help in I Have a Part—Grace R. Ballard 17 answering some of my spiritual questions. God Walks Within My Valley—Inez Brasier 25 I enclose a money order for $2.75. Please start sending THESE TIMES Recipe—Inez Clark Thorson 29 to me with the past issue. I Know There Is a God—Mary O'Connor . 30 Clemson, S. C. S.J.G. The Cover Our cover picture this month is by Eva Luoma.

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"History is but the un- "We have also a more PAGEANT of sure word of proph- rolled scroll of proph- ecy."—Garfield. PROPHECY ecy."-2 Peter 1:19. Because of the hundreds of Bible texts dealing prophetically with our troubled days, THESE TIMES presents this new feature. It will bring in to sharp focus the true meaning of world events.

LABOR TROUBLES. Prophecy: "Behold the hire of the laborers,...which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth." James 5:L.

Despite prosperity, somewhere every hour of day and night, week in and month out, industrial strife is rampant. The Bible predicts horrible bloodshed as result of, labor conditions, stating that when laborers "shall be hungry, they shall...be driven to darkness." (Isaiah 8:22.) Truly, economic issues are the bitterest of our day. Background for labor trouble is the fact that in U.S. seven eights of national wealth is controlled by less than 1 per cent of population. Only 4 of every 100 in U.S. leave anything in form of an estate or that requires legal administration. In England 2 per cent have 85 per cent of the wealth....Not long ago a strike of 58,000 copper and nonferrous metal workers cut production of strategically important copper, lead, and zinc to 5 per cent.

U.S. IN PROPHECY. Prophecy: "I beheld another beast [nation] coming up out of the earth." Revelation 13:11.

Although the U.S. is not mentioned by name in the Bible, there is no mistaking it as the only nation that meets the specifications of Rev. 13:11. Interestingly enough, prophecy points out that the U.S. would rise like a silent seed and grow into a mighty empire. As example of prophecy's accuracy, U.S. set-electrical power mark in 1951; with less than 7 per cent of earth's population it produces 2 world's supply of electricity. In single second the power and light.industry of this nation can turn out enough elec- tricity to_supply the average American family for 5 years....The Bible predicts that U.S. will some day repudiate its principles of religious liberty and unite with religious powers. This will be interesting to watch. Freedom-loving Americans should be on guard to protect their precious heritage of religious liberty.

CRIME RAMPANT. Prophecy: "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." 2 Timothy 3:13.

The growing loss of respect for civil, spiritual, and moral laws is causing grave peril to U.S. security. One minister recently said, "Our forefathers feared nothing but God, but their grandchildren fear everything but God." The Children's Bureau reports that 12 of every 1,000 children between 7 and 17 appeared before tribunals in 1949.... Although the crime bill in America for frauds, burglaries, embezzlements, and similar crimes runs to 7 billions annually, the petty swindles of millions of so-called "honest" citizens are astronomically higher. Each year, the government receives about 14 million income-tax returns with errors ranging from petty to flagrant.

GOOD NEIGHBORS. Prophecy: "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh." Acts 2:17.

Despite the prevailing moral degeneracy the Bible reveals a counteracting force that produces real Christianity. When Frank Flees, a disabled veteran of World War ran up against severe misfortunes, 200 of his Galloway, Wisconsin, neighbors put the finishing touches on his new 7-room house, built a new barn and silo, plowed and harrowed 80 acres,: seeded an alfalfa pasture, and did-other things for him and his family.

Written for These Times, January, 1952 3 ie MAN GOD

EDITOR'S NOTE With this installment we begin one of the most amazing stories ever to be penned. This is the story of one of the country's most celebrated criminals, a man whose crimes were headline news throughout the nation at the time they were committed. Harry Orchard's trial helped make the reputations of a number of men who after- ward became national figures. Among them were William E. Borah and Clarence Dar- row. We consider it a great privilege to bring to our readers this exclusive story of the life of Harry Orchard, told by himself. We print it, not to publicize crime, but to make plain the wonderful redemptive power of God with the hope that it will bring glory to Him.

I write this story in the sunset of my life. It is penned within the shadows of the walls of the Idaho State Peniten- tiary, where I have been confined for more than forty years. I am now an old man, but I am still young in spirit be- cause of a never-failing hope and trust in the gracious promises of Jesus Christ, my Saviour. I well remember the day I walked into this penitentiary. I was a lost man, doomed before God, con- demned by my fellow men, and tor- mented by an awakening conscience. I had committed atrocious crimes in sev- eral western states. As the jailer turned the key in the lock on my cell, I felt in- JULIUS ZALON stinctively that I would never be a free man again. That was more than four decades ago. Although the Idaho State Penitentiary has been the home of Harry Orchard for the past forty years, he has found freedom of soul and I am still in that prison. But in spite spiritual joy. Life became different when he, in the early days of of these years of confinement, I have confinement, found Jesus Christ. within my heart a spiritual joy and a 4 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 trace my ancestry there was no criminality in either branch of the family. My grandfather was born in England, coming from a fine old family. But he married MADE AGAIN against his father's wishes, was disinher- By HARRY ORCHARD ited, and came over to Canada. Drink proved his downfall, and he never had much of freedom of soul that I never knew once as I had surely sinned away my day of this world's goods. His early death in the days when I was physically at grace. My sins seemed to reach down to left his family, some of its mem- liberty. Stone walls and metal bars have hell and to mount up to heaven. They bers rather young, to shift for itself. held my body captive, but my soul has were so terrible that even if I bitterly My mother's parents were born in Ire- long been free. With the poet Lovelace, repented, I had the dread fear that God land, my grandfather having consider- I can sing his seventeenth-century song, would never forgive me. But there was able ability. But "booze" likewise short- "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor still a tiny flickering ray of hope, and in ened his life. So I did not come into this iron bars a cage." I can do this sincerely, my agony of mind I clung to it like a world with a silver spoon in my mouth for in the early days of my confinement drowning man would cling to a straw. though I did have something that the I found in Christ the freedom that only * * * wealth of the world could not buy—a He can give to a captive soul. Life be- I WAS born on the sunny slopes of strong, healthy body, for which I was came different from that day. Lake Ontario, in North Cumberland grateful. In 1906 I wrote out a full confession County, about a hundred miles from I was the second oldest child of a of my life of crime and violence which Toronto, Canada, on March 18, 1866. I family of eight children—six girls and was published in 1907 by McClure's remember beautiful rolling hills and two boys. We did not live in poverty, Magazine. This laid bare a long list of fertile farm lands. My parents ran a but we all had to work in order to make crimes that shocked humanity and made truck farm. And when I became old both ends meet. My father was a hard me a moral leper in the eyes of the enough to work, I contributed my bit, worker, but a poor manager. With all world. I wrote it after months of con- helping them in the fields. We used to due respect to his memory, I consider sideration when I went over my life prepare the produce for the market, that he managed his family as badly as hundreds of times, from every angle of which was just a few miles from our he did his finances. He never seemed to which I could think. In this story I am home, making it easily accessible. think of the future. The result was that going to tell why I am glad that I then We lived close made a complete confession of all the to nature and dreadful crimes I had committed. I had raised the greater traveled the broad road that leads to part of the neces- destruction, and was in sight of the end. sities of life. I could almost see the very gates of hell Maple trees fur- and of death opening to receive me. nished our sugar For several years I had tried to forget and syrup. We all this, but even in the worst part of sheared the wool my wicked life, I had not quite suc- from our own ceeded in forgetting. My cup of sin and sheep, hand- iniquity was full, and running over. I carded it, and had drunk the bitter cup to its last dregs. wove it into the I could plainly see the terrible results of cloth from which sin, and I was about due to collect its some of our wages in full. I was reaping all that I clothes were The depot at Independence after Orchard exploded an had sown. made. We also infernal machine that killed thirteen men and maimed Then my mind went back to my made most of our many others. mother's God, whom I had forgotten. I blankets, socks, was just about forty years old, right in gloves, and sweaters. We slaughtered as soon as we were old enough, we got the prime of life, when I was arrested. our own beef, and made our own cheese out from under his control, for he ruled But sin had made me a human degen- and butter. We raised grain and took it with an iron hand. I never remember erate. I was not fit to live, and far less to the old stone mill where it was ground having made a confidant of him even in fit to die. Mine was a desperate situation. into flour. Because we were able to pro- the smallest matter. I feared his tongue Hundreds of times in my life I had said duce in this way, we needed little and, until I was old enough to resist that I did not believe there was a God; money. We enjoyed life because we him, I feared his rod. but down deep in my heart I knew there lived close to nature, and grew up to be On the other hand, I always found a was. But at the time I was arrested it strong and healthy. In those early years sympathetic listener in my dear mother, seemed to me that it could make little I was carefree and happy. whom we all adored. She had a childlike difference that I knew there was a God As far back as I have been able to (Continued on page 27) THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 5 This is the first of a series of articles on leading Ameri- can religious denominations by Kenneth J. Holland. Mr. Holland is on the staff of special writers for THESE TIMES.—Editor.

The story of an aggressive Missionary Organization . .

OHANN ONCKEN, founder of Jthe Baptist work in Germany, was once asked the question: "Mr. Oncken, WHAT I how many missionaries have you at work in Germany?" In replying, Oncken gave the number of church members, which at that time stood at about 1,900. The questioner said, "I was not asking how LIKE many members, but about missionaries." Kenneth J. Holland Oncken, with great dignity, responded: "There isn't any difference with us, for intelligence among their people in order every member is a missionary." that they may understand God's Book. ABOUT This zealous missionary spirit, which They obtain its real message by careful, still abounds today, is first on my list of wise, sympathetic, and patient toil under things I like about the Bap- the guidance of God's Spirit. tists, who now total close to I like the Baptists, too, because they twenty million around the think of their churches as spiritual THE world. (Incidentally, when democracies whose only head is Christ. I speak of Baptists, I refer to From the beginning they have been all their various groups.) separatists. It is not unfair to say that They have made the largest their favorite text—at least for many of BAPTISTS and most sustained growth them—has been, "Come ye out and be of all Protestant bodies in ye separate." This separatism historically By KENNETH J. HOLLAND America and are to be found has been fostered by one of their prin- in practically every country. It is in- cipal tenets, the priesthood of the be- teresting to note that well over half of liever—the right, nay the duty, of every the American Baptists live within the individual to go to God Himself for con- bounds of the Southern Baptist Conven- fession, inspiration, and guidance. It is There are 77,804,047 church tion, which brings to mind Booker T. also of interest to note that no outside Washington's famous statement: "Every tribunal or organization has any control members in the United States. colored man is a Baptist . . . unless or authority in the work of the individ- Ninety per cent of these belong some white man has been tampering ual churches. to ten general bodies. These are: with his religion." Of course, commendation must be • Roman Catholics 25,268,173 Among the Baptists' many refreshing given to the Baptists for adhering to the qualities is their love for the Bible, to Bible method of baptism—immersion. • Baptists 15,099,925 them the only authoritative, inspired Men, they claim, have no authority to • Methodists 10,306,751 source of religious truth and knowledge. change the manner in which this ordi- To that source they look in all matters nance was given. To do so is to disobey • Lutherans 5,198,838 relating to doctrine, to policy, to the the Lord and forsake the truths which • Jewish 4,641,200 ordinances, to worship, and to Christian are symbolized. Their reluctance to ac- living. They hold that the Bible is for cept into full fellowship those who • Presbyterians 3,067,391 all, and that the right of private and in- have not been immersed grows out of • Episcopalians 2,160,207 dividual interpretation is an inalienable the fact that the very genius of their • Disciples 1,693,807 right. They have no doctrinal formulas people is found in their emphasis upon to supplement the Bible. In keeping a regenerate church membership. From • Congregationalists 1,150,853 with their "Bible only" stand they reject the beginning they have felt that such • Churches of Christ 1,400,000 the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, a membership can best be preserved by and all others. For them the Bible is adhering rigidly to baptism by the New TOTAL 69,987,148 final. Hence, they seek to produce the Testament form of immersion. Baptism, best scholarship and the greatest possible they feel, should be only for those who 6 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 are able and willing to make a personal confession of faith; thus infants are ex- cluded. Baptists, as well as other denomina- tions holding to immersion, believe that this ceremony—not pouring or sprin- kling—is a required ordinance. They point to such convincing texts as Acts 8:38: "And they went down both into the water, . . . and he baptized him"; and Mark 1:9, 10: "And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. And straightway com- ing up out of the water, He saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon Him." The importance of immersion is seen in the fact that true New Testament baptism is looked upon as symbolizing the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus; also the death of the saved man to sin and his resurrection to new life in Christ. In baptism the believer puts a grave between the old life of sin and the new life of salvation. (Romans 6:4.) Scholars of leading denominations point out the fact that immersion is the only proper and Biblical mode of bap- tism:

Dr. Dean Arthur Stanley (Church of S. C. ELDRIDGE England), in his Christian Institutions, Symbolizing the Baptists' ever-popular appeal are two of states that "for the first thirteen centuries Nashville's leading churches—the First Baptist Church, erected [after Christ] the almost universal prac- in 1864, and the modern Inglewood Church. The Baptists tice of baptism was that of which we have about 60,000 churches in the U. S. read in the New Testament, and which is the very meaning of the word 'baptize' —that those who were baptized were plunged, submerged, immersed into the water."—Pp. 256, 257. Dr. E. P. Gould (Episcopalian), in his Commentary on Mark, says: "The proposition here coincides with the proper meaning of the verb, indicating that the form of the rite was immersion into the stream." John Calvin (Presbyterian), in his Institutes, says, "That very word baptize, however, signifies to immerse." John Wesley (Methodist), in his Notes on the New Testament, page 379, says: "We are buried with him—allud- ing to the ancient manner of baptism by immersion." Cardinal Gibbons (Catholic), in The Faith of Our Fathers, says: "For several centuries after the establishment of Christianity, baptism was usually con- ferred by immersion; but since the twelfth century the practice of baptism by allusion has prevailed in the Catholic Church, as this manner is attained with less inconvenience than by immersion." With these scholars to back them, plus IL C. ELDRIDGE the clear statements of the Bible, Bap- (Continued on page 25) THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 7 By Bill Oliphant

CITY A "Quiet" Night With Car 89

i QUAD CAR 89 eased over to the post. The front bumper was bent into circle of staring people and dumped him k curb and stopped in front of a hole- the shape of a "V." The sharp nose of into the patrol wagon. The wagon was in-the-wall liquor store. The Satur- the car was flattened out and the hood already well filled. day night crowd lounging about the was gaping open. Two empty beer cans Two fountains with orange-colored streets made way for the police sergeant and an empty bottle which had con- lights playing on sprays of white water who got out of the car and stood by the tained a fifth of a gallon of one of the stood like huge flowers on the lawn of door of the liquor store. It was hot and "best brands" of whisky lay in the front the city hall. Up the street to the left the crowd was restless. seat of the battered car. The grinning stood the capitol building, white and An Air Force soldier and his girl driver stood against the fender of his car serene under the glow of floodlights. To friend, both about twenty years old, as he posed for a picture. He was a the right, down the street a few blocks, went into the hole-in-the-wall. The girl handsome man, well dressed and neat one car was shoved up on the curb al- paid for the pint of whisky which the appearing. He was thoroughly drunk. most against the side of a liquor store. soldier held unwrapped in his hand as "You'll be needing some of that in- A woman, petrified with fear, sat behind the couple came out of the store and the wheel. A man whose hands were walked past the sergeant to enter a door- shaking talked to a policeman. The man way marked "The Club." There were This is the first of a series was a farmer. He had been drinking dirt heaps in the corners of the stair- of articles on current prob- moonshine. His car was half a block steps and the walls of the stairway were lems written by Bill Oli- down the street with its windows shat- smeared with vari-colored layers of phant. Watch for others to tered and its body crumpled. The wom- an whose car he had rammed didn't take grime from the hands of those hundreds follow. her hands off the wheel. Her face was who half walked, half slid down the —The Editor. stairs of the club after "killing" their still white thirty minutes after the pints. wreck. Business was brisk at the hole-in-the- Business was good. The people who wall, one of the lesser of the 121 liquor surance you sell," remarked one of the came to look open-mouthed at the drunk retail stores which sell whisky legally policemen. farmer down whose face blood was in the city limits of Nashville, Tennes- The little hole-in-the-wall was doing a slowly flowing had money in their see. Over the counter the backslapping brisk business. The backslapping pro- pockets. They bought the "best brands" proprietor slid some of the "best brands" prietor was sliding some of the "best and looked again at the white-faced of whisky. The empty spaces on the brands" across the counter to a group of woman who sat behind the wheel of her shelves behind him grew larger. soldiers. Car 89 did not stop this time wrecked car. Then the people left. The "Car 89, go to three hundred block on in front of the little liquor store. It raced woman clerk in the liquor store blew a Eleventh Avenue South. Accident, through the narrow street and entered cloud of smoke half through her nose, drunk driver." Church Street. A drunk man was beat- half through her mouth into the muggy Officer Hill swung the squad car into ing his wife. night air and tossed her cigarette into the stream of traffic and turned on the The four hundred taverns licensed to the street. Another customer had entered siren. The red and green lights of the sell beer within the city limits were the store. While the woman wrapped his taverns and liquor stores were a blur of doing a steady business. Their customers pint, the man picked at a piece of glass run-together color. Against this back- were buying some of the "13est brands." embedded in the sole of his shoe. The ground of unsteady light which cast dull The lights of the tavern flashed—flashed police had just begun to sweep up the reflections on the faces of the two police- —and the neon tubes, glowing brightly, fragments of the drunk man's car wind- men in the speeding squad car, were sil- reflected briefly on the polished hood of shield which were scattered along the houetted the dark forms of customers Car 89 as it roared into the business sec- sidewalk and the street in front of the moving in and out of the liquor stores tion just off Broad Street. "One down on whisky store. and the taverns, buying some of the `best the corner of Broad and Fourth Ave- In the night trucks and cars moved brands." nue," the dispatcher at police head- past the capitol building being washed In the three hundred block of quarters had said. white by the steady flow of light from Eleventh Avenue South, a 1951 Stude- The man was too drunk to stand. flood lamps surrounding the building. baker was rammed against a telephone Two policemen lifted him through the The capitol, standing alone on its hill, 8 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 seemed detached from the reality of the where the water fountains poured out city. Some of the trucks and cars that orange-tinted streams of water, were rolled past the light-drenched capitol moving part of the merchandise of the building carried part of the thousands of million-dollar moonshine business to gallons of moonshine whisky which flow waiting customers five blocks from the into the state's capital city every week. capitol building. Some of the trucks and cars that paused Every patrol car on the force was in at the traffic light in front of the city hall the streets. The dispatcher at head- quarters loosened his tie a little more and pulled his sweat-soaked shirt loose The pictures below por- tray the sickening after- math of the excessive use of beer and whisky, gotten at easily accessi- ble taverns and liquor Bill Oliphant stores. Poignant, in- deed, is the state- ment at the right by L. Kenneth 7 7ft—Aef from his back. There was a Johnson, Tennessee break-in downtown, a free-for- State Penitentiary official in charge of all fight raged in a tavern on identification and the eastside, two cars had col- records. lided on the southside, a man in the northwest section was beating his wife and threaten- ing her with death, another man was drunk on the floor in the bus 76 station. At about ten o'clock one of the (Continued on page 30)

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- „ • * * * PADLOCKED PULPIT.—The doors of descending order of authority. The de- cessful, it will be worth $200,000 to the Lake Charles, Louisiana, Methodist nomination is democratically governed, $500,000 in electric power alone. The Church have been shut and padlocked and the governing is done representa- extra power produced would help to re- by the pastor, William 0. Byrd. Byrd tively through the steps named. lieve the aluminum shortage, since padlocked the church as a symbolic The climaxing act of the meeting was much of the white metal is produced warning of the danger of the suppres- the setting of the annual mission budget, with hydroelectric power. sion of the basic freedoms. Together in excess of $17,000,000. Seventh-day with T. V. Owens and H. H. O'Brier, Adventists rank second among denomi- both Baptist ministers, Byrd took an nations in per capita giving and are * * * active part in the People's Action Group, among the foremost in promotion of CHRISTIAN WESTERN.—What he an organization formed to clean up gam- mission activities. claims to be the first moving picture of bling in Lake Charles. The People's its kind has been produced by Billy Action Group numbers three thousand Graham. The film uses a rather thin citizens and was backed up by the pub- * * * story as a springboard, the real feature lishers and editor of the Lake Charles being Graham's rise to prominence. The SANCTITY OF THE MAILS.—A American Press. Following an under- film's first public showing was in the Baptist minister, L. G. Barnhart, of the ground investigation by the group there Hollywood Bowl recently. Graham ex- mining country of northern Quebec, was a jury investigation. During the pects to tour with the film, following its recently discovered that the postmaster trial District Judge Mark C. Pickrel sug- showing with preaching in person. gested that there might be a possibility of the village of Ste. Germaine was that public officials had been defamed. turning copies of his sermons over to the parish priest, Father Roy. The This resulted in the indictment of five * * * newsmen and three other citizens. Now, priest admitted that for three or four years he intercepted mail of this sort and COLOR ON THE AIR.—Nobel Prize the three ministers named above have winner Ernest 0. Lawrence, inventor of asked to be indicted also, since they say burned it lest it "give his people wrong ideas." Upon discovery of the practice the cyclotron, is also inventor of a new that they have equal guilt with the all-purpose television tube which, it is others. Byrd has padlocked his church the postmaster resigned, and Father Roy was publicly rebuked by the archbishop claimed, will receive either the CBS or doors, stating, "History has taught us RCA systems of color and change from that a padlocked pulpit follows a perse- of Montreal. Now it has been an- nounced by Postmaster General Edouard one to the other automatically. What the cuted press. Let freedom of the press go, tube actually does is to paint successive and you let the heritage of freedom die." Rinfret that both the priest and the former postmaster will be prosecuted. pictures of red, blue, and green so Rinfret asked publicly what would have rapidly that the eye sees all three colors happened if a non-Catholic pastor had at once. It is claimed that the tubes can * * * done as did the priest of Ste. Germaine. be manufactured both easily and ADVENTISTS ADVANCE. — Repre- cheaply. Production is slated to start sentatives of the Seventh-day Adventist within a few weeks in a Connecticut denomination from all parts of the globe factory. Initial demonstrations indicate met in Cleveland for an annual council * * * that the pioneer tube does not produce meeting beginning October 18 and last- RAINMAKING FOR POWER. — It so good a quality of color as older sys- ing for ten days. Not generally attended has not been raining so much as it tems, but it is thought that refinements by the rank and file of the membership usually does in the Northwest, so the through factory production will bring of the body or, for that matter, even by nation's Bonneville Power Administra- the quality up. the ordinary ministers of the church, the tion has been directed by Under Secre- council was attended by only about five tary of the Interior Richard D. Searles to hundred, mostly men. try to seed promising-looking clouds in * * * Many of the representatives were that area. Seeding will be done so that AIR-RAID SHELTER.—New York from the denomination's General Con- if rain falls, it will fall in forested hill City is considering a $15,000,000 pro- ference, which directs the world-wide areas, thus running no risk of incon- gram to provide air-raid shelters in the activities of the church; also in attend- venience or loss to farmers. The power subway system and to make key stations ance were division leaders, union lead- association intends to spend $50,000 in easily accessible for pedestrians in an ers, and local conference presidents, in rainmaking, and if the attempt is suc- attack. 10 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 By CHARLES ASHUR

...YOU /110 aE THEM

VERY small boy knows the thrill by the might of my power, and for I e equally as distaste ul to God, and He and excitement which the word honor of my majesty?" Daniel 4:30. ol- will abase him j t as surely as He E "circus" holds. The sawdust lanes lowing this stilt-strutting by Nebuc ad- abases proud natio s and proud rulers. bordered by tents housing fire-eaters and nezzar is an account of his topple to the He says, "Pride an arrogancy, and the snake charmers, and booths where cot- ground. He was driven from the p• ace froward mouth, d I hate." Proverbs ton candy is spun are bizarre avenues into the field to eat grass and live like 1 8:13. leading to the big top, mecca of all small the beasts until he learned tha the When a man lints the stilts of boys at the circus. honor and glory of which he boast be- pride, he places hi if above his fellow Under the huge dusty canopy of the long to God alone. Chapter four the men and from his h ght looks down on big top are enough wonders to fascinate book of Daniel ends with these vords them. Position beco es the important the eager heart of a boy for a full day. from the king: "Now I Nebucha • ezzar thing in his life. Or rhaps the man on And the greatest of all big top fascina- praise and extol and honour the ng of stilts begins to admir his own wisdom tions are the clowns. There are clowns heaven, all whose works are true , and and congratulates mself on being with big noses and big feet; and clowns His ways judgment: and those th t walk smarter than the next ellow. He forgets with unbelievably long legs. These men in pride He is able to abase." that God upholds the niverse and that on stilts are capable of such comical This Old Testament stil -walker by one flick of His fi er He is able to antics that even the ten-year-old dynamo learned his lesson better than 'd two knock the flimsy sp nters out from is held spellbound. twentieth-century men on stilts. bne day under a man. "The pn e of thine heart After the big top is folded and stacked the late dictator of Italy was b ting his hath deceived thee, hou . . whose onto the colorful wagons and the clowns chest on a balcony and being ailed by habitation is high; that ith in his heart, have departed, the neighborhood is millions of his subjects as II 1 ce. The Who shall bring me down to the likely to have an epidemic of long legs. next day, as it were, he was h ging by ground? Though thou xalt thyself as Small boys will suddenly appear to have his heels being beaten to deat by these the eagle, . . . thence will I bring grown to terrifying heights as they pa- same people. thee down, saith the r ord." Obadiah rade around on homemade stilts in imi- Adolph Hitler, too, was nable to 3, 4. tation of the circus clowns. maintain for long his bala e on the Stilts are an unnatur 1 walking de- Not all stilt-walking is done by circus high stilts of self-exaltation which he vice. The Lord knows t the stilts of clowns and small boys. Grown men and built. He fell from his perch nd died in pride will bring ruin to the man who women climb up on stilts—not stilts a rubble heap, hated and espised by climbs up on them, and t is for man's made from two-by-fours and blocks, but most of his countrymen. own good that He pulls he stilts out. stilts of self-exaltation and pride—forget- These accounts are spect cular. They And when a man falls rom his stilts ting as did King Nebuchadnezzar, ruler are records of men on stilt who moved of self-exaltation and ac owledges his of ancient Babylon, that "pride goeth about under the big top human ex- error, "he shall not be utt- y cast down: before destruction." Nebuchadnezzar istence. They performe before the for the Lord upholdeth m with His climbed up on the stilts of pride and crowds and were imitated y the "neigh- hand." Psalm 37:24. "I well in the boasted about the capital city of the boyhood kids." But the neighborhood high and holy place, with im also that nation over which God permitted him to kids," far more numero fall just as is of a contrite and humbl. spirit, . . . rule, "Is not this great Babylon, that I hard as did these actors nder the big to revive the heart of the c. trite ones." have built for the house of the kingdom top. The pride of the ordinary man is Isaiah 57:15. THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 11 By ARNOLD BENGSTON

Specific Requirements Must Be Met

ILL YOU be happy in heaven? Be- (God will not) anything to enter that fore you dismiss this seemingly blissful state to corrupt and to contami- preposterous question, think for a nate? Just think how few of the things few moments. Will the joys of this life of this world will receive God's sanction be hard to part with—all the modern and blessing and be admitted to heaven! conveniences and pleasurable worldly With this thought in mind, search habits that seem a little out of place in a and measure your own life against the Christian's life but which you indulge in divine yardstick of Christ's example. anyway? Then you won't be happy in What better rule could there be? Since heaven. He was "in all points tempted like as we Heaven will be, of necessity, a holy are, yet without sin" (Hebrews 4:15), place since it will be filled with holy we have an equal chance to gain the beings. "And there shall in no wise enter victory over the insidious wiles of the into it any thing that defileth, neither devil. whatsoever worketh abomination, or Matthew 5:48 reads: "Be ye therefore of a person's make-up. We all have the maketh a lie." Revelation 21:27. By in- perfect, even as your Father which is in opportunity to develop our characters to ference, we can include many modern- heaven is perfect." "But," you say, "that the point where we are perfect. day conditions and practices in the state of perfection is impossible for me Most of us, however, fall far short of phrase "anything that defileth." Added to attain, sinful nature that I have!" this mark. Yet, we must be perfect in to the more obvious evils should be the Webster's dictionary even quotes Bible the sense of "blameless" if not in the little things, those apparently innocent texts in explaining the word "perfect." sense of "faultless." When Peter uses the trifles by which professed Christians The word "whole" when used as a phrase "without spot, and blameless" in hold at least token affinity to the world. synonym for "perfect" is explained to be 2 Peter 3:14, he obviously implies a state Few people realize the extent to a "perfection that can be sought and of perfection. We can be, in fact we which we who look for a better life to gained and even regained (as, Thy faith must be, getting ready for heaven while come should remove ourselves—spirit- bath made thee whole'—Matthew 9: still here on earth. We cannot expect to ually, mentally, and physically—from the 22)"; and "entire," used as another syno- wait until we get to heaven to adjust our world. Nor do many imagine the im- nym is described as "a perfection that habits and customs and idiosyncrasies to perativeness of such a withdrawal. derives from the integrity, soundness, the right way of life. Righteousness has no kinship with un- etc., of the thing so described (as, 'that Let us examine a few of the so-called righteousness, good no brotherhood with ye may be perfect and entire, wanting "Christian" habits that we are prone to evil, steadfastness no tolerance for com- nothing'—James 1:4)." We are born in embrace, and try them by the searching promise. sin, it is true, with an inherent sinful light of God's Word. We are admon- Imagine a perfect environment, a nature. But we have the capability, the ished to do just this in the Book itself: faultless state of being, an utterly ideal potentiality, the will to do right. The "Search me, 0 God, and know my social relationship (and for that matter, dictionary says "perfect" is "having all heart: try me, and know my thoughts: the acme of perfection in any respect), the properties naturally belonging to it; and see if there be any wicked way in and you will still be far from the realiza- complete; sound; flawless." Are we not me, and lead me in the way everlasting." tion of the sacred atmosphere of heaven. as normal, healthy babes complete, Psalm 139:23, 24. Truly, if there is any Paul says: "Eye hath not seen, nor sound, and flawless? The evil effects of "wicked way" in us, we ought to purge ear heard, neither have entered into sin leave marks through heredity upon ourselves of its evil growth in our hearts the heart of man, the things which God the physical and sometimes the mental and lives. hath prepared for them that love Him." nature of newborn infants. But no There are so many even of these 1 Corinthians 2:9. Would you allow handicap is put upon the spiritual side "lesser evils" that one hardly knows 12 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 where to start. But the vicious habit of and ye gave me no drink: I was a everlasting kingdom of righteousness. gossiping will serve to begin with, since stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, These are only a few of the many it is one of the most notorious. We and ye clothed me not: sick, and in "little" things, any one of which can should guard carefully here so as not to prison, and ye visited me not. . . ." Let keep us from heaven. The life of a cross the indistinct boundary between us not think as Cain did that we "are Christian is truly a battle, but if we can innocent joking and reputation-damag- not our brother's keeper," but rather one day say with Paul, "I have fought a ing "have-you-heards?" It is a good idea make our own missionary adventure the good fight, I have kept the faith," we to talk about other people as little and as helping of the people next door, on our can also be assured with him that "a carefully as possible, even when no • block, and in our community whenever crown of righteousness" awaits us. malice is intended. Sometimes a remark they need assistance in the trying battle No inference should be drawn that made in guileless jest is misconstrued of life. A word of comfort and kindness people happy in this life will be un- when repeated in the ever-widening spoken in time of spiritual, mental, or happy in the world to come, for that circle of gossip. How many of us make physical distress will do wonders for reason alone. We should not, however, this mistake, and are as yet unaware of the average person in these times of allow ourselves to become too attached it! Let us remember that there will be impatience, rudeness, and selfish gratifi- to the things of earth when "our citizen- no gossipers in heaven, and then make cation. ship is in heaven." (Philippians 3:20, certain that we do not fall, in the eyes of There are moments of opportunity 21.) Live fully, live godly, live happily, heaven, into that category. when our failure to speak a word of and look with joy toward an earth made There are other things that seem to be spiritual encouragement and consolation new when "He will make her wilder- almost as enjoyable as some people be- can mean the difference between "meat ness like Eden, and her desert like the lieve talking about other people to be in due season" and the first step in a garden of the Lord; joy and gladness (and how they seem to regard this as downward direction leading to the ulti- shall be found therein, thanksgiving, one of the real joys of life!). Showing mate loss of a precious soul for God's and the voice of melody." Isaiah 51:3. off, for instance. Pride of life is one of the hardest things some of us have to overcome. In this world of feverish com- petition, it seems almost mandatory to "keep up with the Joneses" to maintain our social and business positions. But we go to the opposite extreme when we find someone less fortunate than our- NOW AS THOUGH A GLASS selves. What does it matter to God if you do have a three-thousand-dollar car while your neighbor or your brother in the church has one that costs considerably Now as through a glass we darkly see less? What does He care if you have a Life's mysteries, its strange and varied way; television set and your best friend at the And wonder why these things must ever be, office has not? If you are a deacon or an The sorrow and the dark and stormy day. elder in the church, you are there to serve, not to regard yourself as God's Now as through a glass we darkly see most honored helper. If you, dear sister, The narrow path that "winds down through the night," have more expensive clothing, more Or in the "twilight stealing o'er the lea," money to spend on hairdressers and And surely need, 0 Lord, Thy guiding light! beauticians, and, in fact, are endowed by nature with more outward beauty than your poor, unfortunate friends, do not Now as through a glass we darkly see adopt a condescending attitude. Remem- The plan of God—His wise and great design; ber, true beauty comes from within, Some day, our minds and souls forever free, radiating from the sun of a shining We'll know, as now we're known by love divine. character. Pride over any accomplish- ment, any advantage, any asset, is ap- Now as through a glass we darkly see, propriate only as it is tempered with And fret and fear to trust His loving hand; the realization that these good fortunes Some day the "mist will roll away" and we are the blessings, the endowments of Shall know the answer, and shall understand. God. These have been sins of commission; now let us notice a few of the opposite Now as through a glass we darkly see, variety: sins of omission. One of the But let us leave the future all to God; marks of a true gentleman (or lady) And trust His keeping, offered full and free; is that he thinks about the comfort, the Believe the promise of His Holy Word. convenience, and the benefit of others —Wilbur J. Powell. before he considers his own welfare. The Bible is plain about the seriousness of these sins of omission as proved by Matthew 25: 42, 43: "I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 13 Life is one of the first subjects with which the Bible deals. And, interest- ingly enough, the topic of death is in- troduced soon after it. It does seem, too, that life and death have always run fairly close to each other throughout the whole experience of the human family. It was God who first presented to- gether the subjects of life and death, and it was our first parents, Adam and Eve, who heard what God said on that occasion. In fact, He was speaking di- rectly to them. Listen to His statement: "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowl- edge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Genesis 2:16, 17. Thus, disobedience to the com- mand of God, that is, sin, was to be fol- lowed by the penalty of death. Obviously Satan, whose avowed pur- pose it was to deprive man of life, could never do so until, and unless, he caused man to doubt God's words concerning death and believe his (Satan's) instead. Or, putting it another way, Satan had to

Spiritualists like the one pictured boldly claim that then can talk with the dead.

E POOR fellow doesn't know he's ead yet. At this very minute he's walking through the rooms of his home trying to talk to his family. He can't understand why they don't hear WE TALK him or acknowledge his presence." This statement, claims E. Stanley Brookes, a leading Australian spiritual- ist, was made to him by the spirit of a deceased Lord Mayor in regard to an- you explain Mr. Brookes' claims and cause man consciously to believe a lie. other public figure who had just died. those of many ardent spiritualists and Here is how the evil deed was per- Spiritualist Brookes, who states that he others who believe in, and offer to pre- formed. Appearing as a beautiful and had asked if the two dead men had met, sent evidence in support of, life imme- appealing creature, Satan asked Eve, says further that the recently deceased diately after death?" "In fact," say some "Hath God said, Ye shall not eat of man was "earth-bound for only a few of the inquirers, "it seems that there is every tree of the garden?" To this ques- days" because "spiritually he had de- no such thing as death—it simply is tion Eve replied, "We may eat of the veloped far enough to proceed to the something that takes place as one 'passes fruit of the trees of the garden: but of next plane." But that is not all. on,' or 'over,' to a new kind of life." That the fruit of the tree which is in the This same spiritualist is reported as is just what those who believe in man's midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye having heard from the spirit of King Ed- ability to talk with the deceased do shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch ward VII of England, who had reported teach. it, lest ye die." For this response Satan "a wonderful life after death." The late The question for discerning Chris- was well prepared; "Ye shall not surely king was introduced, claimed Brookes, tians then is, "What does the Bible tell die," he declared, and then cleverly gave by the spirit of Armes Beaumont, noted us about this subject?" The Bible is the his reason in support of his contention: tenor singer. true Christian's only rule of faith and "For God doth know that in the day ye These, and similar items, are often re- doctrine. It is far above partiality, for its eat thereof, then your eyes shall be ported in such an easy, matter-of-fact purpose as God's Word is to enlighten opened, and ye shall be as gods, know- style that many honest inquirers are led the minds of men and women every- ing good and evil." The result Satan to ask (and perhaps even to answer their where concerning their God, their life, desired was achieved—Eve took the fruit own question in the affirmative), "Can their responsibilities, their privileges, and then gave some to her partner, we talk with the dead?" "If not, how do and their prospects for the future. Adam. (Genesis 3:1-6.) 14 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 But Satan's lies, be they ever so trils the breath of life; and man became of course not. Search the Scriptures from "reasonable," do not alter the plain state- a living soul." Genesis 2:7. Here we beginning to end, and you will not find ments of God. God said that death have a matter of simple addition: dust, anything in them that teaches that there would follow disobedience. It did. If you formed by God, + breath, given by is some mysterious never-dying thing in read carefully the third chapter of Gen- God, = a "living soul," or man. At death man that can talk or with which we can esis, you will discover death in prac- the procedure is reversed. The "dust" converse after death. tically every verse. On the margin of returns to the earth and the "breath" is It is true that a thorough search this writer's Bible he has there made withdrawn from the body. This is ex- throughout both the Old and New notes on the death of the following as actly what the Bible teaches. Testaments will not produce one verse suggested in these few verses. Here is Now most people believe that the in support of our being able to talk with the pitiful list: innocence, shameless- "dust" of which man is made returns to the dead. You will discover, too, that the ness, constant and natural contact with the earth after burial. It is the "breath" word "immortal" is used but once in the God, fearlessness, inherent obedience, returning to God that provides a mental King James Version of the Bible and loyalty, honesty, beauty, harmony, com- problem for some. And yet, a simple ac- that in connection with God; and plete maternal happiness, constant non- ceptance of a "thus saith the Scripture" further, you will discover that it is God wearying employment, harmlessness of can quickly dispel any fogginess on this "who only hath immortality." (1 nature, and the innocent for the guilty. point, for the Bible states the facts, and Timothy 6:15, 16.) Then, in Genesis 5:5 the fate of Adam states them plainly. Does the truth that man has nothing is recorded in these words: "And he It is recorded in Ecclesiastes 12:7 that in himself which lives on after he dies died." Of each of his successors named at death this is what happens: "Then support the claim that death is the end in the same genealogy the fact is re- shall the dust return to the earth as it —final, complete, and everlasting? corded: "And he died." was: and the spirit shall return unto Significantly, it was Christ Himself Death is life in reverse. This becomes God who gave it." This "spirit" is the who said, "Marvel not at this: for the clear to us as we notice just how man breath of life. Originally the text just hour is coming, in the which all that are was made. Says the Bible record: "And quoted was written in Hebrew. The He- in the graves shall hear His voice, and the Lord God formed man of the dust of brew word for spirit is ruach. Occurring shall come forth." Now all means all. the ground, and breathed into his nos- 442 times in the Old Testament, it is ex- It cannot mean more than all, and it

WITH THE DEAD? By W. A. TOWNEND

pressed by several different English does not mean less than all. Everybody, words. More than 90 times it is rendered irrespective of age, nationality, circum- "breath." Looking at the first of these stances surrounding death, or personal occasions we discover that man and desire before death, will come forth from beast alike have this "universal principle the grave when God's hour for the resur- imparting life from the Creator." In rection strikes. We have Christ's own other words, they have "breath," as it is word on that. rendered in Genesis 2:7; 7:15, 21, 22, or And, too, Christ tells us that the "spirit," as it is expressed in Ecclesiastes results of this divine reuniting of the 12:7. There is nothing mysterious or dust and breath of every man, woman, ghost-like about that. and child who has died since the crea- Clearly, then, there is nothing in man tion of the world will be this: "They that has in itself life after he dies. There that have done good, unto the resurrec- is nothing in man that can speak after tion of life; and they that have done evil, he dies. Thus it becomes evident that unto the resurrection of damnation." we cannot talk with the dead, for dust is John 5:29. The dead will be raised to dust and breath is breath; divinely com- receive their rewards. Until that time bined in the right way these two pro- the dead know not anything—"neither duce a living man, but divinely separated have they any portion for ever in any- they bring about that man's death. And thing that is done under the sun"—and Every year Claude Noble attempts to contact neither dust nor breath (air) could be clearly, this includes talking. We can- the spirit of Clarence Darrow. He has failed. honestly said to have life on its own— not talk with the dead! THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 15 1HREE of the mightiest and the most ;411MpRAINPALS,AIX,1 ji )11.NrMMS•ADIAP ty•Al, • WI PA.Pjak•AMIAP rAAPv•A'EXIALSRAMOSIMMIAIAPIPA soul-stirring messages ever sent down from heaven to the earth are brought to view in Revelation 14. The first angel "e. (verses 6, 7) carried the everlasting gospel, announced the hour of God's 111 judgment, and called men back to the worship of the true God. The very set- SLAVES ting of the verse points to the almost universal backsliding of the church into • apostasy. This apostasy is in particular ?io the forgetting of the Creator. Notice in the words, "Worship Him that made • heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." Revelation 14:7. These are almost the exact words of the fourth commandment (Exodus AitYLON 20:11) setting before man the Sabbath day as a sign of God's creative power. This is a call back to Sabbathkeeping as A Willing Slave Is a Slave Still a sign of worship and loyalty to the one true God. But another message is to follow, Dvrentrirrici • • •iviweitrirrolrimr~reknetil • • MirrettiratendrelMVP 11 ( 71Y•Yirrig% "And there followed another angel, say- ing, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations Hundreds of years later another king- which Babylon had. Rome, like Baby- dom had taken the place of Babylon in lon, was a union of church and state. world leadership, but the same spirit pre- First pagan rulers and later partly con- vailed. Rome, one of the seven heads of verted Christian rulers reigned as des- By Leonard C. Lee universal paganism, the city on seven pots claiming sovereignty over religious hills, had the same boastful pride, arro- as well as political affairs. It is not drink of the wine of the wrath of her gant spirit, and religious intolerance strange then that God should call the fornication." Revelation 14:8. The first mention of Babylon is found in Genesis 10:10, which refers to Nim- rod and states that "the beginning of his kingdom was Babel." The margin lists Babylon as the Greek equivalent of Babel. The place received its name from God Himself when He confounded the language of the people who were trying to build a tower to heaven. "Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." Genesis 11:9. Babylon has always been a symbol of confusion, disbelief, defiance of God's authority, blasphemy, and substitution of human works for faith in God's salva- tion. More than a thousand years after the confounding of the language at Babel, the great city of Babylon overcame the Jewish nation and carried thousands of its people captive. Religious freedom was denied, and in at least one case dissenters were cast into a burning furnace. The crowning act of Babylon's impiety came on the last night of her existence as a nation. The king held a great feast and drank wine out of the sacred vessels of God's holy temple. It UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. was then that an angel wrote a message The rites of many churches today stem from the practices instituted in pagan Babylon. The of doom upon the wall of the palace. Bible refers to such churches as "Babylon," the "habitation of devils." 16 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 new nation by the same name, "Baby- with the pagans until they were scarcely giving the same message but with more lon." But because the crimes of Rome distinguishable. Though some Chris- power. "And after these things I saw were greater, the term "Babylon the tians clung tenaciously to the purity of another angel come down from heaven, Great" is used. Rome crucified Christ their faith, the great majority adopted having great power; and the earth was after only a mockery of a trial. Rome pagan customs, rites, and ceremonies. lightened with his glory. And he cried killed James, imprisoned Peter, be- Images of Christian saints appeared in mightily with a strong voice, saying, headed Paul, and persecuted the place of heathen idols, and works took Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and church. Rome was a religious tyrant. the place of faith. The ministry that is become the habitation of devils, and The disciple John, writing from the Christ had ordained and sent forth to the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage lonely, rocky isle of Patmos, saw in preach the gospel to every creature de- of every unclean and hateful bird. For vision the terrible war and hatred of teriorated into a priesthood like the all nations have drunk of the wine of Rome against the church, and in his priesthood of the Old Testament Jews the wrath of her fornication, and the warning to the church he used the name or the sun-worshipping pagans. Intoler- kings of the earth have committed forni- "Babylon" instead of "Rome" so that the ance took the place of love, and worldly cation with her, and the merchants of Roman 'authorities might not understand pomp and show took the place of zeal the earth are waxed rich through the his true meaning and put him to death for God. abundance of her delicacies." for his writings. The true church is to be the bride of John also wrote in his book, "So he Christ, but God accuses this church of carried me away in the spirit into the being the "habitation of devils." Paul wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon I HAVE A PART said of the church, "I have espoused you a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of to one husband, that I may present you blasphemy, having seven heads and ten as a chaste virgin to Christ." 2 Corin- If words I speak in tenderness, horns. And the woman was arrayed in thians 11:2. But this church has been purple and scarlet colour, and decked or write, entering into unholy alliance with the with gold and precious stones and May lift one ounce of burden world. No wonder God calls it fallen pearls, having a golden cup in her hand from some heart, Babylon. full of abominations and filthiness of It is when men forget God that they her fornication: and upon her forehead Then is my effort cognizant of fall into sin and error. The Sabbath was was a name written, MYSTERY, might, ever to remind man of the Creator. It BABYLON THE GREAT, THE And in God's universe I have was to remind man constantly that he is MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND a part. a child of God, created in the image of ABOMINATIONS OF THE God. "Hearken to me, ye that follow EARTH." Revelation 17:3-5. -GRACE R. BALLARD. after righteousness, ye that seek the This seems to be terrible language for Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are the Bible to use, but when we realize hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence that practically all the ways there are in ye are digged." Isaiah 51:1. the world to commit sin, evil, wicked- Even in this man-made confusion of It is the same loving God who called ness, and abomination were invented, the false and the true there were many Abraham out of Ur that he might keep fostered, encouraged, and passed on by honest hearts and true lives. God did not the purity of his faith, the same God who Babylon, we do not wonder that the condemn even Babylon until it had called Lot out of Sodom who is today very name brings visions of lust and filled up the cup of its iniquity. But calling His people out of Babylon. "And cruelty. From the long list that might be there would come a time when the I heard another voice from heaven, say- mentioned, the following things can be solemn message would go forth, "Baby- ing, Come out of her, my people, that traced back to Babylon, many of them lon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, ye be not partakers of her sins, and that to the tower of Babel, and some even because she made all nations drink of ye receive not of her plagues. For her farther back: sun-worship, the worship the wine of the wrath of her fornica- sins have reached unto heaven, and of human beings who claimed to be tion." Revelation 14:8. God hath remembered her iniquities." gods, the worship of images, the worship It is the forcing of the nations by po- Revelation 18:4, 5. of the dead, salvation by works, virgin litical pressure and unjust law to observe As the first angel's message calls men priestesses, and human sacrifices. false doctrines that will finally cause back to the worship of the Creator and When Christ founded the church God to condemn Babylon and call His the observance of the true Sabbath, so and sent the first disciples out as "sheep people to come out and be separate. the second angel points to the fallen and in the midst of wolves," He knew that "She made all nations drink." pitiable condition of many who profess the pressure would be very great to It is in connection with the clos- to be the people of God. "Having a form lower the standards and accept some of ing of the work of God on earth that of godliness, but denying the power the false teachings and practices of the the angel's message is being given. "But thereof: from such turn away." 2 Tim- pagan world. The Apostle Paul, speak- in the days of the voice of the seventh othy 3:5. ing to the elders at Ephesus, said, "For I angel, when he shall begin to sound, God took His people out of Egypt know this, that after my departing shall the mystery of God should be finished." with a mighty arm. He brought back grievous wolves enter in among you, Revelation 10:7. The mystery of God is again from Babylon the captives in the not sparing the flock. Also of your own the gospel. The great work of the gospel days of Nehemiah. And in our day He selves shall men arise, speaking perverse is to call men from sin to holiness, and is calling for a mighty reform. There things, to draw away disciples after to turn men to the Saviour who alone are many honest Christians still mixed them." Acts 20:29, 30. can atone for sin and reconcile man to up in the errors of the centuries. They Gradually as the centuries passed the God. are longing for light and truth. Many Christians compromised more and more In Revelation 18:1-3 another angel is (Continued on page 21) THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 17 * Lost Frontiers per cent. Experts say that the land ex- seems nevertheless in danger of being pansion reached its ultimate point in stripped of her centuries-old power. The THE CENTER of population of the 1930. Naturally such things as improved economy of Britain has not recovered United States is now in the eastern part production methods, irrigation, and the from the terrible demands made upon it of the state of Illinois. From 1890 to like will continue to be factors; but the by the second world war. In India the 1950 it was in Indiana, but it has inched discovered land area will remain the British government was compelled to westward with the increasing population. same. yield ground in a few months that it had Students of American history have The population of the world has risen previously seemed it could hold for a long been aware that one of the great from less than a billion at the turn of the half century to come. After investing a molding forces of that history has been nineteenth century to about two and a half billion dollars in developing Iranian the frontier. The frontier has been of half billions today. In this fact thinking oil, Britain has now been told by the vital significance not only to the United men can see some of the reasons for the Iranian government to get out. Also the States but indirectly to the world. Again tension among nations that now exists. Egyptian government has served notice and again in this country the frontier has In this fact also can be seen the fulfill- on Britain of the nationalization of the come to the rescue of our economy. In ment of the following prophecy: "Of Suez Canal. It may be that these moves times of depression unemployed factory old hast Thou laid the foundation of are being guided by some power with a workers of the East simply loaded their the earth: and the heavens are the work desire to break the Western nations, but possessions and their families into a of Thy hands. They shall perish, but be that as it may, we have seen Britain covered wagon or later into the family Thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall stripped of power that she enjoyed for car and headed westward to stake out a wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt centuries. Surely we might say with the homestead. Many an American fortune Thou change them, and they shall be prophet, "Hath this been in your days, was founded in just this way, and many changed." Psalm 102:25, 26. an American boom began thus. The world is getting old. It is getting The frontier affected every phase of too full for comfort. In a short time it American life: its culture, its religion, its is to be made eternally new, a home for politics, its manner of thought. It pro- those whom God calls His own. May vided hope for its own population and you who read these lines be prepared for the needy populations of the Old World a home with Him at that time. until it shut the immigration gates. Even today the dearest wish of millions is somehow to be admitted to the United States. * "Hear This" But now the frontier of the United "HEAR this, ye old men, and give States is no more, and the frontiers of the ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath world are fast disappearing. In the year this been in your days, or even in the 1500 the population of European origin days of your fathers?" Joel 1:2. In suc- in the world stood at 100,000,000. It had ceeding verses Joel characterizes our little more than doubled by 1800. By day, matching the prophecy of Daniel, 1850 it had increased threefold, by 1900 "There shall be a time of trouble, such fivefold, and by 1950 eightfold—all this as never was since there was a nation while the size of the world remained the even to that same time. . . ." Daniel same. And one must not forget that the 12:1. population of the rest of the world was These are strange times. Trouble far from static during these years. breaks out on every hand. The good- Expressed in percentages, the growth intentioned men who seek peace for of population in the Western World in the world are confronted not only by relation to the expansion of the known troubles which follow one another in and usable land is still more startling. quick succession but by crises which Using as a starting point 1492, we give break out simultaneously. the land and the population a percentage Great nations, once world dominant, of 100. In 1930, when the land per- seem to be breaking up before our aston- These balloons, made up to represent the United States centage had risen to only 600 per cent, ished eyes. Britain, especially, is harassed ence at Gatlinburg, Tennessee. They were typical of sir the population rise had reached 18,308 by many ills. Valiant as always, she give the truth about free countries to mei 18 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 or even in the days of your fathers?" in the days of your fathers?" Joel asks. Wilson spoke on production, and Mil- At the same time, the United States The nations spy upon one another lard F. Caldwell spoke on civil defense. is not without difficulties of its own. It with much anxiety, nervously dreading Following these talks the governors spent is engaged in one of the strangest wars the first use of atomic weapons as they most of their time in round-table discus- in all history. It is a war which has called are now developed, and in the meantime sions. forth a new name for a war, a "limited stock-piling as many as they can and Two outstanding problems were war." For over a year the United States frantically seeking development of new under consideration. One was public has been bearing the brunt of this types. welfare. Although certain aspects of the strange conflict, which the United Na- Meanwhile we pause and think how question brought the governors into dis- tions have neither won nor lost, and all this might be different. In the United agreement with the federal government, which has cost a fearful sum in dollars, States, in particular, boom times are the question that was paramount was materiel, and human lives. In June truce being enjoyed. Autumn brought bumper the provision of adequate care for the talks were begun, and the world held crops to most of the nation. Production dependent. Our attention was particu- its breath with hope. In August they is at an all-time peak. Advances in medi- larly arrested by a statement made by were broken off; and since then, we are cal science have been spectacular during Adlai Stevenson, governor of Illinois, told, the Chinese alone have suffered the past five years. The standard of to the effect that the number one item eighty thousand casualties. In October, living, insofar as it is reflected in ma- on that state's budget was the care of after considerable jockeying for position terial things, has never been so high. the mentally ill: those who, in the gov- on the part of both sides, the talks were And yet to say that even in this country ernor's words, "have hearts that beat, resumed—to what end no one could tell. people are happy and contented would but whose minds have ceased to func- "Hath this been in your days, or even be untrue. They cannot be happy in a tion." world that is sick. Mental illness is an increasing prob- Only a Christian who understands the lem to the states, none of which desire prophecies of the Bible can be truly to gain the reputation of maintaining happy in a time like this. Recognizing the "snake pit" type of institutions for the prophecy-fulfilling nature of his them. The question the governors have time, he thinks not only about the to grapple with is whether the states can prophecies of doom but also of the bear the burden of giving these un- promises of redemption which are so fortunate people the kind of care and closely coupled with them. "There shall treatment they need. The mentally ill be a time of trouble, such as never was are not the only ones who must be cared since there was a nation even to that for by the states. same time: and at that time thy people Mental illness may have its source, to shall be delivered, every one that shall some extent at least, in the conditions be found written in the book." Daniel described in the preceding editorial. 12:1. (Italics ours.) Those who are thoughtful must be dis- mayed by such statements as the one we heard made by Millard F. Caldwell, who * Governors' Council told the governors that in the event of an IT WAS RECENTLY our privilege, all-out atomic attack on our nation, we along with many other editors and news- must expect, in the first attack, one mil- writers, to attend the forty-third annual lion dead and one million wounded. Governors' Conference at Gatlinburg, Caldwell's plea to the governors was for Tennessee. For a little more than three co-operation among the states in setting days almost all the governors from the up an adequate organization for caring forty-eight states and five territories of for these casualties. the United States sat and discussed the Not less disturbing was the picture problems with which they have to deal presented in the panel on law enforce- ■. PINNY in their respective positions. ment and crime. As a result of the To bring their view into national Kefauver Committee's disclosures we flag, were sent aloft at the recent Governors' Confer- now know that the United States is :ilar balloons released in Europe containing leaflets that focus, George C. Marshall spoke on the and women behind the Iron Curtain. military manpower situation, Charles E. (Continued on page 27) THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 19

By M. E. ERICKSON

• they shall be as wool." Isaiah 1:18. In these and other texts God counsels the fearful to surrender to Him and to seek • His mercy without delay. "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye • upon him while he is near." Isaiah 55:6. The present is the time to seek the Lord; the future may be too late. • Those who come to the Lord will find

Tile SCEPTER 01 SALVATION

You Have But to Reach Out and Grasp It

Esther accepted Mordecai's challenge to appear before the king in behalf of the Jews, saying, "If I perish, I perish."

AMAN deceived King Ahasuerus into issuing a decree which would ll have all the Jews destroyed. Morde- would favorably answer her request and a gracious Saviour ready to hold out the cai, a Jew, sent a message to his cousin, fear that she would fail. Finally the de- scepter of mercy just as Ahasuerus Queen Esther, requesting that she "go cision was made: "I go in unto the king, offered the royal scepter to Esther as a in unto the king, to make supplication . . . and if I perish, I perish." signal of his favor. Esther stretched unto him, and to make request before Today there are thousands or, as the forth her hand and touched the king's him for her people." The law stated that prophet Joel says, "multitudes in the scepter. In the same manner the sinner "whosoever, whether man or woman, valley of decision." Joel 3:14. These are must reach out the hand of faith and shall come unto the king into the inner they who are wavering between hope touch the scepter of God's grace. That court, who is not called, there is one law and fear as Queen Esther did. They touch assures the sinner of God's pardon of his to put him to death, except such long to be saved from their sins and to and grace. Oh, that we might have the to whom the king shall hold out the receive pardon from Christ, but fear of faith of the sick woman who said, "If I golden sceptre, that he may live." In his failure and timidity hold them in doubt may touch but His clothes, I shall be message to Esther Mordecai said that and bondage. To such the Word of the whole." Mark 5:28. Then we would be she might have "come to the kingdom Lord is: "Behold, now is the accepted healed of the plague of sin just as she for such a time as this." She sent back time; behold, now is the day of salva- was healed of the plague of sickness. this wonderful answer, "I go in unto the tion." 2 Corinthians 6:2. Those who are waiting to make them- king, . . . and if I perish, I perish." "Come now, and let us reason to- selves more worthy of divine favor be- Esther 4:8, 11, 14, 16. gether, saith the Lord: though your sins fore claiming the promises of God are For a time Esther wavered between be as scarlet, they shall be as white as making a serious mistake. Notice the hope and fear—hope that the king snow; though they be red like crimson, words of the prophet, "If he trust to 20 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952

his own righteousness and commit in- (Isaiah 64:6.) It is not our righteousness you, and learn of Me; for I am meek iquity, all his righteousnesses shall not but the robe of Christ's righteousness and lowly in heart: and ye shall find be remembered; but for his iniquity that that will cover our sins in the day of rest unto your souls. For My yoke is he hath committed, he shall die for it." judgment. easy, and My burden is light." Matthew Ezekiel 33:13. We cannot depend upon Jesus alone can cleanse us from sin; 11:28-30. He not only calls the sinner to our own righteousness. Think of the He alone can forgive our iniquities. We come but He draws him to Him. "No children of Israel who said, "All that must accept Him while we are yet sin- man can come to Me, except the Father the Lord hath spoken we will do." Exo- ners. "I came not to call the righteous, which hath sent Me draw him." John dus 19:8. As we study the history of but sinners to repentance." Luke 5:32. 6:44. the Israelites we find them constantly "For the Son of man is come to seek and It is necessary to come to Christ, but struggling to obey the Lord in their own to save that which was lost." Luke having Him abide in us is of equal im- strength. When relying upon them- 19:10. "While we were yet sinners, portance. "If a man love Me, he will selves they continually yielded to temp- Christ died for us." Romans 5:8. It is as keep My words: and My Father will tation. sinners that we must come to Him, and love him, and we will come unto him, Paul says that "all have sinned and He will give us His righteousness in ex- and make our abode with him." John come short of the glory of God" (Ro- change for our sinfulness. He has prom- 14:23. It is the abiding presence of mans 3:23); and Isaiah says, "We are all ised to listen to our petitions and to Christ that can keep us free from sin. as an unclean thing, and all our answer our prayers according to the "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto righteousnesses are as filthy rags." richness of His great mercy. the end of the world." Matthew 28:20. It is not necessary to make some won- When He makes His abode with us, derful effort to gain God's favor. Self- He is able to do more than pardon our dependence is vain. Only by connecting sins, He is able to keep us from sinning. with Christ through faith can the sinner "Now unto Him that is able to keep you become a member of..God's family. The from falling, and to present you faultless Lord is constantly calling the sinner to before the presence of His glory with come to Him. "Come unto Me, all ye exceeding joy." Jude 24. God, speaking that labour and are heavy laden, and I through the revelator, says, "Because Jesus is graciously hand- ing out the scepter of will give you rest. Take My yoke upon thou hast kept the word of My patience, mercy to you. Accept I also will keep thee from the hour of it today. temptation, which shall come upon all KLINKE, ARTIST the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." Revelation 3:10. Christ pleads with you to allow Him • to come in and dwell in you, not as a visitor but as a Friend and Saviour who will abide with you forever. "Behold, I • stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, • I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me." Revelation 3:20. As King Ahasuerus held out the • golden scepter to Esther, Christ holds out eternal life to you. Will you accept it? • Slaves in Babylon • (Continued from page 17) have been steeped in error and falsehood • from infancy. Some are blinded by prej- udice and ignorance. But to all God says, "Babylon is fallen; come out of her, • My people." Wherever the human is set before the • divine, there is Babylon. "Come out of her, My people." Wherever there is union of church and state, there is Baby- • lon. Wherever there is intolerance, strife, disbelief, arrogance, and pride, there is Babylon. "Come out of her, My • people." True Christianity consists of walking • humbly with Christ. Love, loyalty, obedience—these are true Christian vir- tues. These can never fall.

THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 21 advance of the dinner hour. This par- ticular evening I unwrapped an entire loaf. Half of the loaf I spread with melted butter to which onion juice had been added and the other half with butter and finely chopped parsley. The loaf was reassembled and put back in its wrapper. It was then ready for the oven. Now the lone can of asparagus must be made to stretch. An asparagus loaf was the best answer to that problem as I needed an entree anyway. This recipe with rich milk, fresh eggs, and whole wheat bread crumbs is hearty enough for any winter dinner menu and can be served with gravy or sauce. Asparagus Loaf 1/2 cup cream Keeping Winter Menus Out of the Doldrums 2 eggs 2 tbsp. butter 1 tsp. grated onion WAS four o'clock on Wednesday went to the window box and picked out 11/2 cups milk Tafternoon. A short, dull winter day a tiny pot of ivy, snipped off some stray- I 1 cup rolled bread crumbs was just ending, and I was wondering ing tendrils, clothed the pot with a 2 cups asparagus in a half-hearted way what I should pretty new dress of aluminum foil, gave 1 tsp. salt have for dinner. Nothing I had on hand it a shower, and it was all ready for its seemed particularly exciting. My closest role as centerpiece. I cut the asparagus into one-inch friend often had clever ideas using the I decided to prepare the potatoes first lengths, beat the eggs, added seasoning, same old standbys, so before I started for of all. Lady finger potatoes were chosen hot milk, bread crumbs, and folded in the kitchen I decided to give her a ring because they may be prepared to go into the asparagus. Then I baked it in a and see what she was serving her family. the oven and stored in a cool place for moderate oven thirty to forty minutes. Just as I reached the telephone, it rang some time. Any hostess who has ever tried it sharply. Startled, I picked up the re- To prepare them, cut as for French knows how exasperating it is to have to ceiver and immediately recognized my fries. Pour salad oil into deep skillet or make white sauce in the last minute husband's voice. Friends were in town pan. Dip potatoes in oil, then in finely rush with guests arriving. It is far better shopping and had just dropped into the ground whole wheat bread crumbs. Ar- to make the sauce early and store it in office. Could I prepare lunch for them? range one layer deep on cookie sheet or the double boiler to heat at the last Yes, was the answer. I put down the re- shallow baking pan. Sprinkle them with minute with no watching necessary. ceiver and turned to the kitchen in a salt, bake them in a moderate oven White sauces may put on company dress mild panic. thirty to forty minutes, and serve im- in many different ways. Some favorite I had potatoes, of course, but my mediately. ways are: add chopped toasted almonds, supply of other vegetables was sadly de- As a variation on this recipe, mix a minced pimento, chopped parsley or pleted. A bunch of carrots, celery, and generous amount of peanut butter with chives, or tiny mushrooms. half a bunch of parsley were all that the salad oil in which you dip the String beans are always a popular were there. I could call and have my potatoes. They're a special treat. vegetable but may be made doubly at- husband bring home rolls and that I put the potatoes in the cooler and tractive if served green and yellow would take care of the bread for lunch. turned my attention to the salad. There mixed. Since I prepared cream sauce I hurried to the telephone only to re- was not enough celery to serve gener- with the asparagus loaf, the string beans member that my husband would not be ously on a tray so the next best solution were served buttered. back in his office until after the bake- was to combine it with the carrots. Cel- !WINO GALLOWAY shop was closed. ery diced fine for last-minute salad mak- I turned to my emergency shelf. This ing may be kept fresh and crisp in an one time at least it was rightly named. ordinary fruit jar with the lid screwed There, sure enough, were asparagus on tightly. and string beans but only one can of The finished salad contained three asparagus, which wouldn't serve six cups of shredded carrots, two cups of persons. diced celery, and one cup of shredded About the only thing on the right side coconut, moistened slightly with dress- of the ledger was a nut loaf I had baked ing of mayonnaise and condensed milk. while preparing lunch. With' cream Served on crisp lettuce leaves, topped cheese and marmalade it would do beau- with a sprinkle of coconut and garnished tifully for dessert. with large, dark, well-drained stewed Next I turned my attention to the prunes, this salad makes company fare setting of the table. This certainly was anywhere. not going to be an elaborate meal, so I Even day-old bread can be made in- chose a gay informal cloth. Quickly I teresting and may be prepared well in 22 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 Serving a meal is as important as cooking it. These days, when we have so much color in our dinner service, a table may be beautiful indeed if proper care is exercised. But did you ever try eating scrambled eggs from a raspberry- pink plate? White mashed potatoes in a white bowl look like a good case of anemia unless they are dressed up with TIIE PARCEL melted butter and paprika. The best pudding ever made, served in a chipped cereal bowl, would go begging beside a humbler dessert served in a frosty GOD SENT stemmed sherbet. So for our lunch I served our bread not on the usual small tray, but put the whole hot, crisp, deli- cious-smelling loaf on a large platter. By Garnished with celery leaves and a few Inez Brasier stuffed olives, it was certainly nothing to apologize for. Apologies always let your guests know you were caught unpre- pared, and make them feel ill at ease, anyway. Johnny put on his old, patched, worn- Whenever the dessert is something quite simple, it is easy to add greatly to out jacket as the postman blew his its importance by serving a hot drink whistle at the front door. He ran around with it. the house through the snow. Winter meals often become monoto- "Here's a parcel for your grandmother. LAMBERT nous for the reason that many women It's so heavy it must have something quit shopping for food during the valuable in it," laughed the postman. winter. Shopping by telephone almost is the coat! God is so good to us, Johnny carried the parcel around the invariably means a decline in mealtime Johnny." interest. Seeing the wonderful array of house and into the kitchen. "It's here, "Let's thank Him right now, Grand- fresh foods in a large market is an in- Grandma! It's here! It's so big, too. ma. You always tell me that is the right spiration in itself, and the walk to the What do you suppose is in it?" way to do." market gives the homemaker a good ap- Grandmother looked very happy. "I Grandmother and Johnny knelt down petite, which always makes of her a don't know for sure what's in it, but I beside the empty box. First grandmother better meal planner. know one thing. God has sent the warm thanked Jesus for her warm coat and Anyone who has studied nutrition at things we asked Him for," she said. all knows that without a rather complete her new dress and stockings. Then chart it is difficult to remember which Grandmother and Johnny opened the Johnny thanked Him for his warm red vitamins, and how many, are in the parcel. Johnny took out a pair of new and brown jacket and new shoes and different foods. One quite safe rule to shoes and a pair of warm, new over- new overshoes. follow so far as vitamins are concerned shoes. "They are just my size! I know Grandmother picked up her Bible is to shop for color. The more deep they are," he cried. from the little table by the kitchen green and bright yellow vegetables we "They will be just your size, for God window. She turned the pages and then carry home in our shopping baskets, the sent them," grandmother told him. she read, "But my God shall supply all more bright eyed and alert our children Johnny took out a thick, warm red your need according to His riches in will be. Many of the darker green vege- tables are sadly neglected by most fami- and brown jacket. "Look, Grandma! It's glory by Christ Jesus." lies. For instance, lettuce, which we de- the color I wanted, too. Now you won't "Why, Grandma! That is the verse pend on so much, contains only about have to patch my old jacket that is you read the day we told Jesus we one tenth the amount of vitamin A as already all patches." needed warm things because it was get- kale. One-half cup of kale furnishes He held the red and brown jacket ting so cold. I can say it, too. 'But my twenty thousand units of vitamin A, tightly. Then he put it on. "Look quick, God shall supply all your need accord- while ten leaves of lettuce furnish only Grandma! Isn't there something for you ing to His riches in glory by Christ two thousand. in the box?" Jesus.' And He did, Grandma!" Remember, let's stay out of the "winter rut" in meal planning. Let's put "I asked Jesus for a warm coat for "He surely did supply our needs. He on our wraps and personally see to it winter so I could go to church and go always will. We can thank Him by that our families are properly fed on a to help others who are sick and need being very happy. We can thank Him, wide variety of bright-colored fresh and me," said grandmother as she took out too, by letting our light shine for Him frozen vegetables and fruits. Canned a dress and some stockings. "Yes! Here every day," said grandmother. and dried foods are good but cannot give the lift to daily menus that fresh things will. THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 23 A Quiz for Chur

By Benjamin Allen Bowman

What kind of churc ld my church be If all the me ere just like me?

• How much interest do I take in the services of my church? Can folks count on my attendance? prayer? How long has it been since I've the teachers, and for the unsaved pupils? Or am I a Sabbath morning member, testified? Have I visited any of the non-Christian regularly missing other services? Am I Can my church count on me in homes represented in my Bible school? a religious butterfly, flitting from one special meetings? Do I let the evangelist Do I co-operate one hundred per cent preacher to another to get the sweetest know I am backing him? Do I pray for with my pastor? honey while my pastor plods along as the meetings? Do I ever help sinful men best he can? find God? Do I regard my pastor as a man sent Do I attend my church by fits and Do I welcome strangers? Do I make from God? Or do I take him for granted? starts? Do I attend only when I like the them feel like coming back? Do I treat him as a human being de- speaker or the program? pendent on my help and encourage- Do I regard the midweek prayer meet- How much interest do I take in the ment? Or do I assume that he can do ing as the powerhouse of my church? business concerns of my church? everything without any help? Or do I treat it as some sort of supple- Do I contribute sacrificially? Or am I Do I tell my friends what a fine man mentary affair which I can well neglect content to give my small change? he is? if I am busy? How many of my church business Do I urge them to hear him? Or do Why do I attend my church anyway? meetings do I attend? Do I ever hear I go about criticizing him? To have my ears tickled with fine music the pastor's report, the treasurer's report, Do I give my pastor full attention and homiletic gems? Or to worship the or the reports of the various auxiliary when he preaches? Lord in the beauty of holiness? Do I organizations? Do I notify him of new people who attend to see who is there, or what is Do I know what my church is doing move into the community or of cases of going on, or so that others will see me for missions? illness or cases of spiritual need? Or do there? Or do I go in order to meet Do I help elect my church officers? I assume that he somehow knows every- Jesus? Do I take my church papers? Do I thing? Do I attend my church out of a sense read them? Am I praying for his success in pas- of duty, or because I would rather be toral counseling and in his business ad- How much am I doing for my Bible there than anywhere else? ministration of my church as well as for In what spirit do I enter the house of school? his success in the pulpit? God? Do I enter praying, or tittering? Do I regard my Bible school as an in- Do I give my pastor suggestions which Do I enter as a lifter or as a dead tegral part of my church? Or do I treat I think would help my church? Do I weight for others to lift? Do I go into it as a sideline? offer to help in any way I can? battle as a warrior against sin? Or am I Am I in my class when not providen- content to look on as a spectator? tially hindered? Do I study the Bible How conscientiously am I keeping my What part do I take in the services of school lesson in advance? church vows? my church? Do I enter into each phase Do I ever invite anyone to Bible Do I labor earnestly for the peace, of the worship? Or do I think mostly school? purity, and prosperity of my church as about Monday's business? In the mid- How much have I prayed this week I promised to do? Have I called on mem- week service, how often do I lead in for my Bible school superintendent, for bers who needed encouragement? Or 24 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 have I forgotten my covenant to watch preservation, the first Baptist church in Baptists have been the authors of over them in love? America was formed. some of our best-loved hymns; among Do I find fault with my church? Or Baptists have had a leading part in the them are "Majestic Sweetness Sits En- do I boost it wherever I go? modern missionary movement. William throned," "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Do I abide by my church discipline? Carey, an English Baptist, became the Name," "He Leadeth Me," and "My How often do I pray for my denomi- father of modern missions. The first Country, 'Tis of Thee." national leaders, for the evangelists, for missionaries from America were Judson I like the Baptists for their unique the missionaries, for the president of my and Rice—who became Baptists on the history. One should note that Baptists church college? Have I ever told them way to India. Joshua Marshman trans- do not trace their beginning to a modern that I appreciate them? Or have I lated the Bible into the Chinese lan- founder as do other denominations. The merely complained when things do not guage. Francis Mason gave the Karens Lutherans began with Martin Luther, go to suit me? their first version. Nathan Brown pro- the Presbyterians with John Calvin, the How earnestly do I pray for a revival? vided the translation for Japan and Methodists with John Wesley, the Dis- Is my church only incidental in my Assam. Lyman Jewett rendered a similar ciples with Alexander Campbell, etc. life? Or is it verily God's chosen instru- service to the Telugu. Joseph Hughes, The Baptists, however, in pointing to no ment for the salvation of men? another Baptist, organized the British one man as their founder, recognize Am I burdened when I see the lost and Foreign Bible Society. themselves as being descendants of a plunging on toward hell? The Baptists have been strong advo- number of churchmen of Reformation Do I care? cates of Christian education. Henry days who were "Baptist in spirit." These Dunster, the first president of Harvard early Christian protesters included Peter University, was a Baptist. Vassar and Waldo (Waldensians), Balthasar Hub- What / like About Judson, the first colleges for women, maier (Anabaptists), Menno Simons were established by Baptists. They (Mennonites), and Robert Browne the Baptists founded Brown University, one of the (Separatists). oldest educational institutions in the Although the name "Baptist" was not (Continued from page 7) country. In the Northern Convention used to designate a particular religious tists follow the Bible way, baptizing by alone there are twenty Baptist colleges sect until a few centuries ago, Baptist immersion. They feel that there are no and universities. principles and practices, it is claimed, forms of baptism; sprinkling and pour- have lived through the centuries of ing are not baptism—they are misnomers Christian history. Some Baptists would whenever used to designate baptism. like to feel that they got their name One cannot adequately praise the GOD WALKS from John the Baptist, but church Baptists without alluding to their out- WITHIN MY VALLEY history refutes that idea. However, they standing part in gaining the religious were called "Baptists" for the same liberty we Americans enjoy. Years ago, reason that John was called "the Bap- at a notable dinner in London, a world- God walks within my valley tist," or "the Baptizer": they baptized famed statesman, John Bright, asked an Where the long trail is dim, people who repented of their sins and American statesman, Dr. J. L. M. Curry, believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. "What distinct contribution has your Where so often I stumble Today Baptists are particularly active America made to the science of govern- Following Him. in the matter of evangelization. South- ment?" To that question Dr. Curry re- ern Baptists, for example, a group that plied: "The doctrine of religous liberty." God walks within my valley! refuses to enter "compromising and After a moment's reflection Bright made unionizing movements," are proving that the worthy reply: "It was a tremendous Oh, then, my soul, never fear an ultracongregational body can promote contribution." The dim trail, the shadows— extensive enterprises. Recently they Indeed, the supreme gift of the new He is so near. voted a ten-million-dollar budget for world to the old is the contribution of world evangelism, which will go to sup- religious liberty. This is the chiefest -INEZ BRASIER. port 1,750 missionaries in twenty-five boon that America has thus far made to countries. With farseeing vision Baptists civilization. It was pre-eminently a Bap- are marching ahead in their efforts to tist contribution. George Bancroft, a win men to Christ. Perhaps their vigor famous American historian, says: "Free- Baptists have been active in other and their growth are due to the recogni- dom of conscience, unlimited freedom of fields of service, too. They have estab- tion that the fields about them are mind, was from the first the trophy of lished hospitals, orphanages, and homes "white unto the harvest." the Baptists." It was John Locke who for the aged. In the realm of literature For the reasons I have presented here said, "The Baptists were the first pro- they have made a most worthy contribu- and for many others—I like the Baptists. pounders of absolute liberty, just and tion. John Milton, the author of Para- Perhaps the words of Henry van Dyke true liberty, equal and impartial liberty." dise Lost, was a Baptist. John Bunyan, a are appropriate at this point: "The Ringing testimonies like these might be Baptist, penned Pilgrim's Progress from things that I care for most in our Church multiplied indefinitely. within the walls of Bedford Jail. Like- are not those which divide us from other It was Roger Williams, a Separatist wise, Baptists seem to have a genius for Christians but those which unite us to banished from Salem, who established producing great preachers, such • as them. The things that I love most in the first government on earth where Robert Hall, Charles H. Spurgeon, John Christianity are those which give it there was absolute political and religious A. Broadus, J. B. Hawthorne, George C. power to save and satisfy, to console and liberty. In this place, called Providence Lorimer, P. S. Henson, and James A. cheer, to inspire and bless human hearts in recognition of divine guidance and Francis. and lives." THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 25 The answers to health questions are supplied to the readers of THEsr TIMES by Owen S. Parrett, M.D. Address your queries to him in care of this magazine.

Are the seeds of fruit when swallowed suggested as resulting in fungus lung functional point. Frozen orange juice re- liable to cause appendicitis? infections due to the eliminating of in- tains about 90 per cent of its vitamin Appendicitis is an infectious disease in hibiting bacteria. Another complication content if it is frozen fairly rapidly. The which the bacteria, usually of a rather not uncommon in the use of sulfa and same holds true for vegetables. Without virulent type such as staphylococci, or penicillin is most severe skin erup- doubt freezing is the best method of streptococci, invade the wall of the ap- tions such as hives and erythema which preserving both fruits and vegetables, re- pendix. Sometimes a mechanical diffi- afflict the patient to the degree that he is taining not only their vitamins in large culty such as a badly kinked, adherent, made extremely ill and unable to be at measure but also the fresh appearance clubbed, or twisted appendix offers me- work for as long as several weeks. Prob- and flavor as well. At the same time one chanical difficulties to proper emptying ably the use of all these drugs is being can, if desired, freeze them without or drainage, thus inviting infection; but overdone, and in the main it might be much sugar or none at all and thus seeds seldom enter the appendix. The in- better to reserve their use for such cases eliminate one of the disadvantages of the creased putrefaction which meat causes as are known to be helpful or specific heat canning process. in the bowel tract with its encourage- rather than to use them promiscuously, • • • ment and introduction of pathogenic thus causing some patients to become so Is there any way to keep hair from bacteria of the more virulent types sensitized that when badly needed the getting gray prematurely?—W.D. patient might be unable to receive them. greatly favors the development of all Certain persons or families tend to kinds of bowel infections including ap- • • • get gray quite young. People who are in- pendicitis. Extra or excessive use of clined to be very exacting in their re- What is the reason for the feet being sugar also, by its irritating effect upon quirements show a greater tendency to- cold almost continually? Is there any the bowel, favors such infection. In ward this, as well as those who may way this condition can be cured?—L.R. countries where both meat and sugar worry considerably. One of the B Com- are little used acute appendicitis is Although there are certain specific plex vitamins is supposed to play a part much less common. If one who is conditions, such as obliterating endar- in delaying this process. To show any threatened by a so-called growling ap- teritis, in which the blood vessels become appreciable effect, however, one would pendix will leave off all meat and use clogged or closed, thus interfering with certainly have to use rather large doses very little sugar with an increase in the flow of blood, most cases of cold ex- over a considerable period of time. the use of fruits, salads, and whole-grain tremities are due to more simple causes. • • • cereals and drink freely of water and Nervous tension, causing an uneven dis- What are piles? What is the treatment juices, it is possible to greatly diminish tribution of blood, is a common cause. A for them?—J.S.O. the danger of having appendicitis. general lowering of the vitality may be Piles, or hemorrhoids, are simply vari- • • • responsible. Be sure that the blood pres- sure is up to normal. Specific treatment cose veins in the region of the rectum. Are there dangers in using penicillin that should be helpful would be the use They are of two common types, internal and the other antibiotics? If so, what of contrast leg bathing, immersing the and external. Internal hemorrhoids may are the dangers? legs first in a hot-water bath for forty- be treated quite satisfactorily by injec- five seconds then dipping them in cold tions, but external ones are usually best Probably the last word has not yet operated upon by some well-proved been said in regard to the advantages as water for approximately fifteen seconds. Repeat for about twenty minutes. method. 'When treated by injections, well as disadvantages of using the sulfa they may, after a certain time, partially drugs and the penicillin group. It has • • • recur and require additional treatment. been pointed out by an authority in the The advantage of this method is that field of blood clotting and coagulation Are frozen foods and juices equal in food value to the fresh foods? the patient can still keep working with- that as a class these medicines tend to out loss of time, and there is no hospital favor blood clotting which is often a The modern freezing of foods is of expense. dreaded complication of surgery as well the greatest importance in permitting 0 • as in some diseases. Another problem the use of almost fresh fruits and vege- offered is the fact that these powerful tables in the wintertime. Thus, in a Is it possible to have mumps more destroyers or inhibitors of germ life tend measure, we can offset some of the than once?—L.H. to rid the body or the intestinal tract of health disadvantages which the winter If occurring on only one side, mumps friendly as well as unfriendly bacteria. brings. The month of March usually may subsequently develop on the other This may sometimes result in undesir- finds the body at its lowest point of side. Otherwise the disease very rarely able results such as has been recently vitality with the glands at their lowest occurs twice with the same patient. 26 THESE TIMES,' JANUARY, 1952 The AM Cod Made Again Mr. McField presented me with a bill which father owed the man from whom (Continued from page 5) Mr. McField rented the farm. When CHARACTER ANALYST faith in God, and she was the light and this bill was deducted from my wages, I joy of our home. I was never afraid to did not have enough left to buy a suit A MODERN PARABLE take my troubles to her. If I had done of clothes. It took a great deal of wrong, I did not fear to tell her, though mother's pleading to hold me that time. she would reprove me. Her gentle words She succeeded, however, in getting me By Thomas C. McCants hurt me infinitely more than father's some clothing, and I tried to forget what harsh measures. I would do for father I considered was a great injustice on only what he compelled me to do, but father's part. For her sake I endured it; "I have," said Dr. Anglestotz, "an mother could persuade me to do any- but I was still counting the days when amazing innovation in television." We thing she desired. I read the Bible some I should pass from under my father's stood in the kind of laboratory in which in my youth and heard it read every hand. I thought of going a long way almost anything could be expected. "I morning by mother as long as I was at from home to work, but I could not happen at the moment to be tuned in home—just as regularly as we had break- bring myself to leave mother when she on Leonard Potz. A friend of yours, I fast at the beginning of each day. I was pleaded with me so earnestly to stay. believe?" sent just as regularly to Sunday school I was about seventeen years old when "Yes," I replied hesitantly. Leonard and church. I hired out to a young man who had had so many contemptible little traits. Father's thought seems to have been been recently married. I told him that if I would not dignify my feelings toward to provide for himself first, and his he paid or promised to pay my wages him with the term "hate." family afterward; but mother's whole (Continued on page 32) "The image on the screen portrays not life was lived for us children first, last, the body of Potz, but his psychic areas— and all the time. She was the backbone Governors' Council what I suppose you would call his of the family. My heart wells up as I (Continued from page 19) character. Each area appears in a differ- remember how ungrateful we really ent color, and the intensity of the color were for all the sacrifices which I know pretty well blanketed by crime syndi- indicates the degree to which he pos- she made for us. We were terribly cates and that these syndicates are sesses that particular trait. The code selfish, while she unselfishly lavished countenanced in many cities by so-called law enforcement officers who are system- printed beneath the screen shows what her love upon us. I am glad that she did characteristics in a particular behavior not live to see the depths to which I fell. atically bought off by the racketeers. Only yesterday we were given the pattern correspond to each given color. I do not wish to dwell further upon this Leonard is coming in nice and strong painful subject. My only thought is to story of the brutal beating of a resident now if you'd care to—" point out the effect that the harsh treat- of a Chicago suburb whose mistake was in reporting bookmaking which was I put my head into a queer looking ment from my father had upon me, in box and looked at the screen at the the hope that it may influence parents going on near his home. For reporting a crime to the police, this man was way- farther end of it. Yes, that was Potz, all who read these lines. I believe that par- right. And how accurate! A despicable ents should so deal with their children laid in broad daylight, forced to lie face downward, and beaten with baseball little half-man if there ever was one. that there will be a spirit of mutual con- I looked at the doctor and hoped he fidence between them, and that the par- bats by four men. He sustained multiple didn't notice the trace of a smile on my ents will be the ones to whom the chil- fractures and a severe concussion which face. Frankly, there was a certain feeling dren will take all their troubles, always might have been fatal in a less robust man. The shocking part of the story is of satisfaction within me. confident that they will find help, sym- The doctor didn't notice it. Some- pathy, and guidance. that it has now been disclosed that the police knew all the time that the book- thing had embarrassed him. I well remember the first time I "Dear me, dear me, that isn't the tele- worked away from home for a longer making was going on. The Chicago vision plate I inserted into the appara- period than a day. I hired out for a newspapers have charged that law en- tus. But it works on the same principle. month to a neighbor, just a short dis- forcement officials in the Chicago area It's a mirror." tance from home. He was to pay me ten have made no serious effort as yet to dollars. Scarcely a day passed that I was control crime. not figuring out what I was going to buy Looking at the assembled governors at I. C. CLDRIDGE With that ten dollars. But when the Gatlinburg, we came to the conclusion month was up, Mr. Dauncey, my em- that, for the most part, they are sincere ployer, told me that father had collected and honest men who wish to give their my wages. My first angry thought was states good government. That they are to run away from home. But how could not more successful is due partly to the I do that without telling mother? And fact that they cannot find enough de- of course she soon persuaded me not to pendable, honest men to conduct the run away. details of government for them. In a The next year I hired out to another greater degree any failure that may exist neighbor for seven months, and I told results from the apathy of the people him that if he let father collect my and their neglect of adherence to the wages I would quit. Farmers in those moral principles which are based upon days paid their bills in the fall, after the law of God. No governor can, un- they had harvested and sold their crops. aided, give his state good government; But when my time was about expired, only a people can do that. THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 27 What You Should Know About White Bread

ITH twelve billion loaves of white polyoxethylene monostearate to thank bread estimated that 75 per cent of U.S. bread being consumed each year (or one of several other agents with bakers were using softeners, including W by Americans, the question of such coy trade names as Tweens and the ones that were banned. This was what, exactly, goes into it is clearly Spans) for its yielding softness. This months after the FDA's ruling. The everybody's business. Milk, shortening, softness, incidentally, has no necessary representative of one of the large firms yeast, water, salt, sugar, synthetic vita- relationship to freshness. But the con- making the chemicals reported that his mins, and flour—these we know about. sumer is carefully shielded from these company's sales had hardly been affected But there are others the public is hardly explosive facts. No breadmaker so much by the ruling. aware of. as hints of them, either in his advertising As for the bleaching agents, the one Tucked away neatly in the average or on his label. Not all bakers employ most commonly used today is chlorine store-bought loaf lurks a clever concen- these "benevolent" deceptions, of course. dioxide. It is listed by the FDA, in tration of chemical gimmicks. These But until they all are required to label rather uncertain language, as "toxic, but chemicals contribute nothing whatever their bread fully, how is any consumer probably safe as normally used." What to the nutritive value of the bread. And to know the sheep from the goats? this means precisely is not clear. The even more disturbing is the fact that To many top nutritionists and physi- consumer, however, might reasonably their safety has never been adequately ologists, the chemicals used in bread are, wish for a somewhat more wholehearted established. to say the least, suspect. Last year the assurance. These facts were brought to light re- Food and Drug Administration outlawed Another chemical bleach, nitrogen cently by a little publicized congressional several of the most popular of the trichloride, or Agene, by trade name, committee, the Delaney Committee, softeners, questioning their safety. At also had the FDA's blessing once. It too which investigated the use of chemicals last reports, though, these were still in was considered safe. Our bakers used in our food supply. wide use. One leading manufacturer of Agenized flour for twenty-five years or The consumer can thank the chemical more. Yet in 1946 the secretary of the chlorine dioxide for his bread's unnatural British Medical Research Council, Sir whiteness. He has the tongue-twister By Michael Bakalar Edward Mellanby, discovered that bread 28 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 containing a large amount of Agene and Pepperidge Farm Bread, Inc. has grown associated the two qualities, freshness fed to dogs sent them off into running to a $3,000,000-a-year bonanza—without and softness, that it would be difficult to fits. benefit of bleach or softener. Made with convince anyone that a soft loaf of bread As far as can be discovered, Agenized unbleached flour, butter, honey, fresh might actually be stale. flour has never set humans to babbling milk, and other wholesome ingredients, The Institute of Baking itself has or hurt them in any observable way. this bread is hand kneaded and costs a recommended against using softeners, What the long-term cumulative effects little more than ordinary breads. But the mainly because of their dubious toxicity, may be, if any, however, the scientists consumer receives full nutritional value. but to little avail. are still trying to find out. Dr. Anton J. If good, tasty white bread, then, can The time-worn controversy of white Carlson, noted physiologist of the Uni- be made without waging chemical war- bread versus whole-wheat has, of course, versity of Chicago, points out, "We fare, why do manufacturers persist in been decided by the public and the don't have sufficiently delicate methods giving us their trick product? breadmaking industry—though not by to detect what is called `sub-clinical' in- The industry's answer, simply, is: the scientists—in favor of white. But the jury; it has to be a great deal of injury." "We're giving the public what it wants." mass desire for superwhite bread—which Nitrogen trichloride was officially "We can mill any type of flour," the Dr. Carlson calls "a social custom and banned on August 1, 1949. Bakers, in millers claim. "We can bake any type of biological stupidity"—didn't just grow. It general, to their credit, had already bread," claim the bakers. "But," say was in great measure created by the in- voluntarily stopped using it, and sub- both, "the public won't buy anything dustry itself in the first place. It has stituted chlorine dioxide. except soft white bread, the whiter the since been nurtured by countless mil- Bakers can of course make good, better. And the only way we can give lions of advertising dollars. The industry nutritious white bread without resorting the housewife the bread she wants is currently spends more than $18,000,000 to chemical shenanigans. This has been by using bleaches and softeners." a year to promote white bread, little or proved time after time. Even back in This is all true enough—as far as it nothing to promote whole-wheat. 1921 one of our largest bakery chains, goes; it just doesn't go far enough. But the reason why the bread in- Ward, produced an excellent white dustry is wedded to white flour and bread which was nutritionally far ahead bread has little to do with nutrition or of its own competition and of today's catering to the public taste. The under- "enriched" product. It was supplemented lying reason is primarily technological with wheat germ oil and 12 per cent and financial. milk solids. The experiment lasted two RECIPE Today the bread industry is highly years. After a company reorganization centralized, physically and financially. the milk content was greatly reduced Sift a smile, a song, a handclasp— The Federal Trade Commission has and the wheat germ oil eliminated al- It's really not a bit of trouble— described the situation as monopolistic. together—for "business" reasons. Soon Some figures are revealing. Before the the bread was no different from its Leaven all with love to make it advent of the high-speed, mass produc- rivals. Light as any bubble. tion steel roller mill, 27,000 local in- Not long ago Dr. Clive M. McCay, Here's a recipe that offers, dependent millers ground out grandma's chief nutritionist for the navy during For the minimum of labor, flour for her. By 1909 only 11,690 were World War II, now research professor left in business; by 1929 only 4,000. at Cornell University, developed a bread Something good for future serving Today there are fewer than 1,800 mills which nutritionists consider a superior To a friend or neighbor! altogether. Last year they produced yardstick for the industry to measure up about twenty billion pounds of flour— to. The bread, sponsored by the Co- -INEZ CLARK THORSON. but only three firms did 38 per cent of operative League of the U.S.A., is called the total business. "Triple Rich." It is white in color and Fifty years ago the housewife baked is made with unbleached flour. Soy her own bread at home. Today 95 per flour, wheat germ, and outsize portions cent of the nation's bread is store bought, of milk solids are added—but no softener, Dr. William B. Bradley, research di- and 95 per cent of that is white bread. bleach, or other chemical "improver." rector of the American Institute of Bak- At the end of World War I 50 per cent Its formula, including all its ingredients ing, the bakers' own organization, be- of all commercial bread was baked and and their amounts, is clearly stated on lieves, along with most impartial scien- sold by independent bakers. Today they the label. tists, that although softeners act to pro- are inexorably being squeezed out of Sold in the East, mainly, "Triple duce a softer loaf, they definitely are not business. They now produce only 10 per Rich" consistently outsells standard antistaling agents, as they are often rep- cent of the total. The remaining 90 per breads in the same market. In one store, resented, and "offer the consumer no cent is produced by about eighty whole- where it is given no special pushing, it advantage." sale and chain bakeries. According to outsells its five nearest rivals combined. The softener's job is to prevent the the Federal Trade Commission, the The bread is enjoyed by 500,000 families evaporation of water in bread. This eight largest of these control over two and by 300,000 children who eat it keeps the bread slightly waterlogged and fifths of the national production. under New York City's school lunch quite soft for an unnaturally long time. Where do white flour and bread come program. Meanwhile the bread's nutritive value in? They make the whole structure Another wholesome bread, free from may slip away, and the bread become possible. "toxic, but probably safe" chemicals, is stale. But thanks to the softener, it may The old-type grist mill ground out put out by a Connecticut housewife, still remain as soft as when you bought whole-wheat flour. But whole-wheat Mrs. Margaret Rudkin. Beginning as a it. Years of conditioning through ad- flour, because it contains the nutritious small home enterprise in 1937, her vertising and propaganda have so closely (Continued on page 32) THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 29 The Shame of the City gallon-size jug of queer-looking liquid. identification, and records at the prison. "That's moonshine. Caught that com- Ninety per cent of the people in the penitentiary convicted of murder were (Continued from page 9) ing into the city this morning. The use of moonshine is about as great as the under the influence of alcohol at the patrol cars intercepted a carload of use of bonded whisky in this county. It's time their crimes were committed; nearly moonshine. It was a quiet night, the ser- a wet county, too. The State Alcohol every case of forgery is the direct result geant in Car 89 remarked. Car 89 was Tax Unit men can tell you about the of the using of alcohol, according to Mr. on its way to break up a brawl in the moonshine." Johnson. "Forgery and hot checks are middle of Fourth Avenue. Tommie Anderson's office is in the the by-products of alcoholism," i\4r. The chief of police pulled a mimeo- War Memorial Building. He is em- Johnson explained. graphed crime report from the top ployed by the State Alcohol Tax Unit. "No, it doesn't happen overnight. drawer of his desk. He called the file But he looked out of place in his city There is a set pattern which is followed clerk into his office. Then he leaned office. Tommie wore a pair of heavy over a period of years in the case of the back in his chair and spoke slowly. work shoes, blue jeans, an army shirt, forger. He begins to take a social drink "Ninety per cent of the crime in this and a brown hat without much shape. now and then. This continues and in- city is caused by whisky and beer," he Strapped to his waist was a snub-nosed creases until the person finds himself be- said. "You take the break-in cases. It pistol. coming inefficient at his job, and the never fails that the persons involved "Pardon my looks—just got back from first thing he knows he is out of a job. have been drinking. They take a couple the woods. Been out checking on some He has to have money to buy liquor of shots of whisky to give them nerve to stills." He called in one of his men who with and he begins forging checks or do the job." brought with him a box about a yard writing hot checks. Would you like to Chief Burgess paused and studied his long and a foot deep. The box was 'half talk to a couple of cases?" thumbnail. The telephone rang. Two full of newspaper clippings dealing with On the inside—they call the cell plain-clothes men flanking a man about the bootleg business. blocks of the prison the "inside"—a big twenty-one and a girl around nineteen "Sure, there's lots of moonshine steel door with heavy bars running its walked through the corridor. One of the whisky coming into Nashville every day. full length was swung open. A well- plain-clothes men held a brown paper We know of one big operator who hauls built man—his face still showed traces of sack in his hand. The girl was scared. 500 gallons in every week. He's just one strength, but it was ruined strength like She twisted a cloth purse with both of them. Bet if you went down the street that of a house fallen into decay— hands. Her lower lip quivered. The a few blocks and searched every house stepped past the armed guard. He sat man's eyes were red about the lids and You'd find moonshine in nine out of down on a bench, not on all of the his step was slightly unsteady. ten of the houses. This bootlegging is a bench's width, but on the edge. He held The plain-clothes man carrying the million-dollar business in this area." his cap in both hands between his sack entered the office of the police knees. It was a striped cap. clerk. He pulled a nickel-plated thirty- The man's voice shook a little and eight caliber pistol out of the sack. The I KNOW his eyes swept the room as he spoke. young couple was under the hot lights, His eyes moved in quick, short dashes. being questioned. They had attempted a THERE IS A GOD They were eyes which had beheld the holdup. smoke of the fires that had consumed all The chief placed the receiver back on I know there is a God, because that this man had once called his life. its hook. "Every case of assault is caused only divinest power They were tragic eyes. by whisky or beer. Sober people don't Could give mankind-of-the-many-flaws The man had been a civil engineer on cause us much trouble," he said. "The another wondrous hour, the outside. He held a degree in engi- young person who takes his first drink Another span of precious time neering from the University of South- is heading straight for trouble. That first in which he may correct ern California. He had worked as city drink leads to crime. These hardened His many faults in the pantomime engineer for Los Angeles for thirteen years. Then he was resident government criminals we catch get started in crime of living tall—erect. by drinking when they are in their engineer with headquarters in Fort I know there is a God, because teens. They want to be smart, but they Worth, Texas. He had been happily Only He would endure man's flaws. don't realize what they are doing. Drink- married. His home was ideal. Religion ing among young people is on the in- -MARY O'CONNOR. had been an important factor in his crease and crime is on the increase. home. Drinking and crime go together." The "When I was government engineer in phone rang again. The Tennessee State Penitentiary Fort Worth, I began to take social drinks "I'd say the chief was a little high on looks like a medieval castle—except that with builders who came to see me about his percentages," remarked the county it has bars on the windows. It is a gray contracts." sheriff. "I think that only about eighty- stone building. The atmosphere is gray He looked at me. His eyes stopped five per cent of our arrests have the on the inside. More than 1,400 people sweeping in spurts across the room. The drinking element figuring in them. Now are spending their lives in this gray striped cap was held still in his hands. the highway patrol would agree with building with the gray atmosphere on "I didn't do anything that just about Burgess. But whisky and beer are defi- the inside. Over 1,200 of these people, every other civil engineer I ever knew nite contributors to crime," Sheriff Rob- between whose lives and society stand didn't do. I just drank to be sociable. But inson stated. "Lot of the crimes are the prison walls, are confined because of I got into trouble solely because of caused by bootleg whisky—see that jug the excessive use of whisky or beer, ac- whisky." over there?" cording to L. Kenneth Johnson, super- Then his eyes swung back and forth In the corner of the office there was a intendent of the bureau of classification, again across the prison waiting room. 30 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 The striped cap was revolving again be- tween his knees. "I drank more and more. I lost my job with the government because I drank too much. I thought I could handle my liquor, but it slipped up on me. It began to handle me. "I didn't stop drinking after I lost my job. I got a job as production engineer with the Fisher Aircraft Company. I kept drinking. The doctor told me I would be dead in a year if I continued to drink. I quit for seven months. I didn't work. I had money and played golf and took life easy. I started drinking again. I drank a lot. My money went, my house went, my wife . . ." The man stopped talking. He did not SI • • • SI • • • look at me. There were tears in his eyes. MOVIES OF SURGERY ADVO- PUNCTURE-PROOF TUBE.—A new Mr. Johnson had told me why this CATED.—A move is underfoot among puncture-proof tube, made of butyl rub- man was in prison. He had forged the world's leading surgeons to make it ber, will outlast several sets of tires. This checks to buy liquor after he lost his compulsory that motion picture photo- tube is made in three layers, with two position and was unable to earn a living. graphs be taken of fall surgical opera- sealing elements under the tread. The The next man was good looking. He tions. One of the chief supporters is Dr. inner layer, composed of soft rubber, was smart and had a sense of humor A. L. Soresi, noted Brooklyn surgeon, flows around a nail or other sharp object which he displayed in the prison news- who says it would help make surgery a to prevent loss of air. The middle layer paper he edited. He had a brown mus- more precise science. "It's a sound idea," resists tearing or the enlargement of tache. He could have stepped out of one said Dr. Soresi. "And it will eliminate puncture holes. of the "men of distinction" ads which much of the guesswork which now blurb the merits of one of the "best exists." The photographs, which may be brands" of whisky. He had all the still as well as moving, would constitute SI • • • qualifications of a man of distinction. a permanent record, not only for the UMBRELLA HAT.—A rainy-day hat He was handsome, he was intelligent, surgeon, but for the examination and for women that can be folded up into a he had studied journalism at the Uni- scrutiny of future students, and would small corner of a purse is being pro- versity.of California, he could have held point the way to improvements in tech- duced by the Los Angeles Rain Bonnet an editorial job on any newspaper in nique, he declared. Co. At the first drop of rain the hat, the country. But he drank. He was in made of Vinylite plastic, can be quickly prison. He had an incurable case of the blown up to two feet in diameter and "shakes" from drinking whisky for tied on under the chin like a bonnet. SI • • • The price is only $1.98. which he paid with hot checks. He SHAMPOO PERMANENT.—A cold- spoke freely about his past and there wave permanent in a shampoo is the was almost a twinkle in his eyes—but newest modern beautifier. Here is the not quite. . . . SI • • • way it works: Just shampoo your hair, PLASTICS MOLDING PRESS The little hole-in-the-wall was still let the foam stay on for fifteen minutes, TURNS OUT FURNITURE.—Test- doing a brisk business when Squad Car rinse, and set in pin curls while wet. 89 went by at midnight to answer ing has been completed at the General When it's dry, your hair will have a Electric Company's plant at Decatur, another call. The neon lights of the curl which lasts through three ordinary taverns flashed—flashed—and the cars Illinois, for a giant plastics molding press washings. This amazing liquid shampoo weighing nearly as much as a locomotive. and trucks bringing the moonshine into requires no special curlers or neutral- the city moved through th"e streets. All The press, which weighs 135 tons, is izers; it actually gets the hair clean while capable of producing such furniture of the patrol cars were out. it curls it. "Car 89, go to north side. Accident, items as end tables and kitchen cabinets drunk driver." weighing up to thirteen pounds, accord- ing to H. M. Brusman, manager of the It was two-thirty A. M. "I only had one beer. I . . . I . . ." SI • • • chemical department's plastics division. The cool morning air played with the TELEPHONE LAMP.—A lamp for the Other products of the same weight, but little bunch of brown hair hanging on telephone that automatically turns on simpler in design, can be molded at the the end of a piece of jagged glass that when the telephone bell rings has just rate of two a minute, he said. He added formed part of the perimeter of the hole received a patent. Sound waves from the that the press, manufactured by the in the windshield through which the bell actuate the switch that turns on the Jackson & Church Co. of Saginaw, girl's head had gone. She was in the electricity. It is particularly for use at Michigan, could turn out up to 1,000 hospital. The wind played gently with night to aid in reaching a ringing phone. pounds of molded plastics hourly. her hair hanging on the jagged glass... . Squad Car 89 went to the police sta- tion. Two hours later the sun came up over the city. THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 31 The Hidden Truth happens to all the other nutrients—vita- you buy. You have no chance of decid- min E, calcium, phosphorus, copper, ing for yourself whether you care to eat About Our Daily Bread manganese, magnesium, and the rest? chemicals that are prohibited or are The milk content of bread is another "toxic, but probably safe." Full labeling (Continued from page 29) major source of nutritional despair. The would put competition on a much higher National Research Council strongly rec- level. The race would be to see, not how but fatty wheat germ particles, gets ommends that bakers use 6 per cent milk soft and white a bread can be, but how rancid rapidly and doesn't keep well. or milk solids. According to a recent much milk and other wholesome in- Nor does it bake uniformly, and insects study by the Department of Agriculture, gredients could go into it. dote on it. Grandma had to use her however, the average loaf possesses about The ironic fact is that we safeguard flour freshly ground, therefore, or it 11/2 per cent. By contrast, "Triple Rich" the welfare of our chickens and hogs by might spoil. contains 8 per cent. appropriate legislation and by demand- When the modern roller mill came Before softeners were introduced a ing complete open-formula labeling of along in the 1870's, on the other hand, dozen years back, our bread contained their feed. Why stop there? it ground out a flour without the dark about 4 per cent fat. Then came the wheat germ and bran particles in it. softeners. Some of their manufacturers The Man Cod This took care of the rancidity problem. claimed they could be used as partial But there were still the insects. The only substitutes for fat, lard, or other shorten- Made Again way to take care of them, the big milling ings, thus reducing the baker's costs. The companies discovered after a few years, Department of Agriculture reports that (Continued from page 27) was to bleach the flour. Bleached flour, now the fat content of bread is less than or any part of them to my father, I for some reason, is unattractive to in- half what it was before World War II. would quit on the spot. Of course I sects. The nutritional value of softeners is— knew that father could probably collect But bleached flour also made baking nil. them by law, but I did not believe that easier. Bakers knew that the older flour In short, balancing the pros against he would resort to the courts. Neverthe- becomes, up to a point, the better it the cons, our daily bread is white, soft, less he stopped my wages again, and I bakes. And the bleaching agents de- photogenic, and "enriched." But it con- quit on the spot. I then made a solemn veloped by their chemists not only sists of impoverished flour, air, water, vow that I would never work out again changed the color of the flour from its some highly questionable chemicals, and where he could get my wages, unless I natural yellow to bright white, but as little else as possible. Its chemicals are had it so arranged that there was no "aged" the flour as well. designed to enrich, not the bread, but danger. The significance of these develop- the miller, the baker, the chemical However, I still could not bring my- ments was that flour could be stored maker. self to leave my home and my mother. safely for long periods or shipped over What can you do about it? So I tried again. I went to work for a long distances. The great mills centered First, protect yourself by law. Get well-to-do farmer not far from home, in Minneapolis, Kansas City, and your state and national representatives to and he agreed to pay me as fast as I Buffalo could ship a continuous stream enact legislation similar to that govern- earned my wages. I kept them collected of flour to New York, San Francisco, ing new drugs and cosmetics. Under very closely and at that time had no or Goose Creek, Texas. There was no these, the manufacturer must prove satis- thought except to save my money and longer any need for the numerous local factorily, in advance, that his product is to get mother something that would mills dotting the countryside, and their harmless to our health. No such law surprise and please her, although she number dwindled. With a uniformly applies to the chemicals used in bread usually told me she would rather I baking flour, bakers could standardize today. would save my money. I worked for this their loaf and adapt it to complete Secondly, don't let the Food and Drug man several months, in fact all winter, machine production. Today the milling Administration rule out of the market for which he paid me ten dollars a and baking industries are under the more nutritious bread simply because it month, with board and room. control of a handful of large producers is more nutritious. This is no joke. Irra- This Mr. Valentine, for whom I who are inextricably—financially and tional as it sounds, this is precisely what worked, was an old bachelor and was technologically—tied up with white the FDA—under insistent prodding from considered to be a hard man to work flour and bread. the white flour interests—proposes to do. for, but I ' stayed with him several The bread industry as a whole has Under tentative rulings, bread contain- months and had no trouble. I could get made just one nutritional improvement ing more than 6 per cent milk, 3 per my money whenever I wanted it, which during the past four decades—the "en- cent soy flour, and 11/2 per cent wheat meant everything to me under the cir- richment" program. The industry has germ cannot legally compete in the cumstances. So I hired out to him again just celebrated the program's tenth anni- market as "white bread" or as "enriched for the summer. Father, realizing that it versary. By law in twenty-eight states bread." This, even though the bread was not wise to try to force me further, and territories and optionally in the rest, actually be white as Kleenex and, as in persuaded me to endorse his note for three synthetic vitamins (B1, B2, and the case of "Triple Rich," far richer than fifty dollars, which Mr. Valentine agreed B3) and one mineral (iron) are partially any "enriched" bread. to let him have. I did this—and had to restored either to the flour, by the miller, Finally, you can demand to know pay the note. Father never got a cent or to the bread mix, by the baker. exactly what you're eating, and how from me after that. But the wheat berry itself contains much. Get your legislators to pass laws I worked for Mr. Valentine steadily more than twenty essential minerals and requiring that bread be fully labeled, as for about four years except for one vitamins in significant amounts! are drugs and other foods. As things winter—that of 1888—which I spent in a The "take-and-put" game obviously stand now, you must willy-nilly eat rough lumber camp in Michigan. It was involves more "take" than "put." What whatever happens to be inside the bread my first experience away from home. I 32 THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 believe that up to that time there was is beyond recall, and the future is wisely It is not a pleasant task for me to picture scarcely a Sunday that did not find me hidden from our eyes so that we live my misspent and wicked life, and I shall at home to see mother. Poor mother! only in the present. not go into the detail of those terrible How she loved to have her children all When I was about twenty-two, we crimes as I did in The Confessions of at home on Sunday! The tears roll down were married and started a home. Our Harry Orchard, written in 1907 before my cheeks as I write these words and love was true and strong when we en- my conversion was complete and my think of the toil and burdens she bore tered into that life partnership. I had Christian life stabilized. But I am happy, without a murmur for us children. She saved up enough money to furnish a after testing out Christ's promises for always put my clothes in order and saw small house and had a little left to live forty years, to testify to His power and to it that they were washed and mended. on. My wife was an expert cheese willingness to save to the uttermost one She spent many a weary hour over the maker, and we worked at that trade. We who has touched bottom. Sunday dinner. I thought at the time got along nicely for a while. But as I My wife was a good girl. She had that I loved mother, but I can see how look back at those happy days, I can see been brought up in a Christian home little my love for her really was, com- clearly now what a world of trouble I amid wholesome surroundings. But that pared with her love and self-sacrifice for might have saved myself, and hundreds part did not concern me greatly at the me. I realize now that I must have of others, had I only let God come into time, because I did not then have any grieved her often with my indifference. my life as my wife so greatly desired. fixed ideas in regard to religion. We The winter I spent in the logging We were both young, strong, happy, were quite different in temperament. camp in Michigan was my first ex- and we were fairly prosperous. We did But things went well for the first three perience with the immorality and wick- not owe anything and had enough or four years of our married life. How- edness of a city. Saginaw, Michigan, at money in the bank to take care of our ever, as I look back now, I can see how that time was as rough and tough a needs until the factory began to pay. little estrangements were developing place as I have seen in all my experience. Florence picked berries and fruit, from faster than appeared on the surface. Yet But I was captivated by its toughness, which she canned an abundant supply I never had a thought, at the time, that although it did not get a permanent to last us till another season. Never anything serious would ever come be- hold upon me. In Saginaw I became in- before, or since, have I ever been in a tween us, though we were young and toxicated for the first time. It made me more favorable situation. My wife and I both had plenty of temper. so sick that I thought I would never both had faith, courage, and confidence. Then came the day, as in the lives of taste liquor again; but I did. We were devoted to each other, and be- all too many young married couples, My first venture after I started to cause of our faith in each other and our when we began to quarrel. At first, they shift for myself was to buy a horse and will to make our marriage work, we were only little spats. We would always buggy, and a cutter with harness and were able to realize much happiness for be sorry for what we had said to each robes. There were no automobiles in a time. other, and would kiss and make up. those days. But good driving horses and Yes, those were happy, joyous days. Nevertheless, the hurt of those quarrels buggies cost around $500, as much Not a moment dragged or was dull. began to affect our lives and love. We then in proportion as cars sell for today. We were up in the morning in ample were often just like a team of horses I succeeded in getting $500, but it took time to eat breakfast together and for stuck in the mud; one would pull one me two or three years to pay for the my wife to make me a lunch to carry way, and the other would pull in the outfit, and then the upkeep kept me with me when I went to work at the opposite direction. So it is not hard to broke. I got rid of it and started a little break of day. The smile and kiss that picture what often happened when we bank account. This kept me from spend- came from a clean, true heart of love let this demon, temper, have control of ing money for a lot of things that I could made the day and its labors like a lovely us. And those ugly words that some- very well get along without. I continued dream—only it was real. They were days times passed between us began to leave to add to this little savings account until without a ripple, and I firmly believe scars of hatred and bitterness in my I was twenty-two years old. that they could have remained such heart that were never healed until years I had heard wonderful stories about throughout life, growing more wonder- later when the Great Physician came the "wild and woolly West," as it then ful as the years passed by—if only I had into my life and healed all the wounds was called, and of the vast opportunities not started off on the tangent road of that sin had made. to make money out there. Naturally I wrong. As I look back I can only extol As I now see it, I was mostly to blame. got a touch of western fever. I very the beauty of true love, loyalty, and I began to find excuses for being away much doubt if the memory of home and clean living in comparison with im- from home a great deal. And may I, as mother would have kept me from hitting morality, dishonesty, and lust, and the one who has been through the fire and the western trail; but there was another deadly harvest we are bound to reap has been severely burnt, say that you tie that did succeed. I had learned to from such. Just as truly as night follows may be on the path to destruction—at love a sweet Scottish lassie, and I looked day, we reap what we sow. least destruction of your home—when anxiously for the weekly letters that If I can in some way help any young you find in the company of any other arrived regularly during our separation. man or woman to see the folly and person, in any other place, more enjoy- We were already engaged, but when I misery that wrongdoing brings, then ment than you find in the company of told her that I was going west to make a this story will not have been told in vain. your own wife in your own home. fortune, she threatened to break our en- I am confident that you will agree with Instead of using the money we made gagement. I went east instead. I cannot me, as you follow my path from a happy to build up the home and factory, I help feeling that if she could have seen home down to the very lowest depths of began to spend it foolishly on non-essen- in advance the heavy sorrow, misery, shame and crime. Now I can see clearly tial things. Soon I was spending more and heartache I would bring to her, she the pitfalls and the cause of my down- than I made. In fact, I got so far in debt would surely have rued the day she in- fall. I can trace every major step in my that I mortgaged our future. duced me to return. However, the past downward path with unerring accuracy. (To be continued next month) THESE TIMES, JANUARY, 1952 33 be considered even greater pests than sparrows are now. Professed lovers of God will be admonished to destroy 11 them. Governments will make laws to 11911 V2 get rid of them. Men esteemed in busi- ness, professional, and religious circles will, as Satan's agents, lay traps to en- fwas a. N nopTrei snare them. In a last futile effort to J1110 starve them out, the world will decree that they shall neither buy nor sell, not even to secure their most necessary food. When that time comes, as come it will, By Mary Hunter Moore may we like the sparrows be able to `sing our humble song without a fear,' knowing that we serve a God who notices even sparrows." SPARROWS AGAIN The Scapegoat Sitting beside the craft lodge in King's of the little birds and trust the benevo- (Continued from page 35) Mountain State Park, South Carolina, lence of our heavenly Father, who opens Seventh-day Adventists did not originate my flying fingers busy with a project for His bountiful hand and satisfies the de- the view that he is a symbol of Satan. the coming classtime, I became aware of sire of every living creature. That view had been held by many bird sounds all around. They were the Not only the chipping sparrows but Jewish and Christian commentators of undertoned remarks of a group of tiny their more robustious cousins can teach all times. We have simply brought to- chipping sparrows that took advantage us lessons of trust. Did you ever see an gether and harmonized into a clear, of the opportunity to search the premises English sparrow moping because he is logical picture the interpretation that for food since all the campers were at not popular? The Creator planted the the scapegoat is a symbol of Satan's the water front. They worked the edges instincts of life in those little beings; being punished at the end of the day of of the volley ball court, then moved on and live they will, whatever the buffet- judgment for the sins he has instigated, down the slope under the trees around ings of adverse circumstances. after the guilt for those sins has been the craft house. One little fellow hopped Perhaps one reason God chose spar- entirely removed from God's redeemed to within a yard or so of my feet. One rows as symbols of His own children is by the blood of Christ, the one and or two quick glances in my direction, that He wants us to go ahead undaunted only Sinbearer. then he went over every inch of the by the dislike the world may feel for us, Adam Clarke, leading commentator, ground for crumbs or insects. or the. downright hatred it may express understood fully the difficulty of apply- Watching, I wondered. If I had come for those who will try to live godly. In ing to Christ the symbol of a live goat into the presence of a living being as the eyes of the world those whom God whose blood was never sprinkled before diverse in appearance as I was from him, calls "saints" may appear as "sparrows." the broken law. To obviate the difficulty and as much bigger as I was bigger than We need not fret. God knows; God he tried to make the scapegoat a symbol he, would I have ventured as near to cares. As my friend, Helene Suche of the living Christ after His resurrec- that thing as he came near to giant me? Wollschlaeger, has beautifully written: tion. But this puts the commentator in I reckon not. Yet that little bit of "Like the sparrows, God's children the weirdly illogical position of having feathered vitality, scarcely bigger than should be everywhere. Like the spar- as a symbol of a risen and triumphant my two thumbs, trusted me enough to rows, we may not always be welcome; Christ a hated and despised animal, come within reach of a blow. Or did but if we are truly like sparrows, we loaded with the sins removed from the he? Maybe he knew he had wings, and will not worry about that. Ears ac- cleansed sanctuary, being sent away I could no more have caught him than customed to eloquent, flowery sermons from all habitation to perish miserably. I could fly myself. Anyway, he came may find our constant emphasis on the The misfitting of the symbol to the near, and I sat entranced. Later, in my second coming of Christ and the im- risen and ascending Christ, leading "a class, Jane Cutter, of Chattanooga, told mutability of God's law as monotonous multitude of captives," the spoils of me of "Tommy" Titmouse whom she as the unvarying chirping of the spar- abolished death, to seat them and Him- taught to eat from her hand, and who rows. But should that stop our song? self upon the throne of God, is too scolded vigorously if she did not come to Fashionably dressed worshipers in im- illogical to be tolerated. his terms of time and amount of food. posing edifices may regard our simple The symbolism of the scapegoat is He felt himself quite within his rights houses of worship as void of attraction as plainly shown in the very name given it to ask and seek, expecting to find and the modest brown dress of sparrows, in in Leviticus, "Azazel." But the study of receive. comparison with the colorful beauty of that word and its use in ancient litera- Such trustfulnesses are little glimpses the bluebird or the striking garb of the ture and its interpretation by commen- of how it must have been in Eden before scarlet tanager. But as followers of the tators in the Christian era must be the shadow of man's sinning fell on the meek and lowly One, who outwardly saved for another article. Here we re- innocent creatures. No doubt in the new had 'no beauty that we should desire peat that we believe and teach that we earth these tiny ones will have a confid- Him,' should we not be as simple and are saved only by the blood of Christ, ing trust in the benevolence of the larger unpretentious in our dress, our homes, and that blood is symbolized by the creatures. In the meantime we who are and our churches? animals which were called "sin offer- not really so big ourselves, except in our "The time is soon coming when those ings," and which were slain and their own opinions, can follow the example who refuse to disobey God's law will blood carried into the sanctuary. 34 THESE TIMES, JANUARY 1952 Address your questions to Editor, THESE TIMES, Box 59, Nashville 2, Tennessee. THE SCAPEGOAT

Why do Seventh-day Adventists make onomy fully teach that the slaying of its blood carried in and sprinkled upon Satan their sinbearer by teaching that animals was symbolic, vicarious, and the ark in the most holy place. (Verses 6, the scapegoat of the day of atonement is prophetic. Again proof texts are too 11-14.) Then the goat which is called a symbol of Satan? numerous to quote. In Leviticus 4, "the sin offering that is for the people" We hold with all our heart, and have where the symbolism of the sin offering (verse 15) was slain and its blood was published in everything we have ever is very minutely taught, it is made clear sprinkled in the most holy place. Its put out on the subject, that we have one that the forgiving of sin (sinbearing) blood was also used to "cleanse" (take hope of salvation: "the precious blood of was brought about only by the death of away the sins which had been sym- Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish the symbolic animal. This animal, which bolically transferred there) the entire and without spot." 1 Peter 1:19. Quota- typified Christ, was slain by the sinner outer room of the tabernacle and the tions to support this summarizing state- himself, to signify that his sins caused altar of burnt offering in the court. ment would be too numerous to repeat. the death of the Son of God. The All the time that the blood of these We emphasize that Peter says that we animal was not slain until the sinner's two sin offerings was being used to are redeemed "by the precious blood of hand had been placed on its head, to cleanse the whole sanctuary, there was Christ." We are not saved by anyone typify the transfer of the sins from the a certain live goat standing by, looking else than Christ; and we are not saved sinner to the vicarious sacrifice. The on. This goat is never called in Leviticus by any other act of Christ's than His third, and most essential, element in the a "sin offering." This goat was not killed. shedding of blood on the cross. There is sin offering is that the blood of the slain Not one single drop of its blood was nothing we believe and teach more animal was taken into the tabernacle ever carried into the sanctuary to be earnestly than that "without shedding and sprinkled before the curtain separat- presented in payment of the law's of blood [there] is no remission." He- ing the two rooms of the tabernacle. penalty. Except for the ceremony of brews 9:22. We believe that each one of The only exception to this was that choosing it, this live goat had no part us is a lost sinner, condemned to death sometimes the priest ate the sin offering or function whatever in the service of by a violated law. We believe Christ and then in his own body (he himself forgiveness of sins. It simply stood by died the death that was ours in order to becoming the type of Christ) he carried waiting until Aaron had "made an end give us the life that was His. We believe the sins into the tabernacle. In either of reconciling the holy place and the that absolutely nothing can wash away case the life of the animal was forfeited; tabernacle of the congregation [the two our sins but the blood of Jesus. the slain animal, either by its blood or rooms of the tabernacle] and the altar We believe and teach, in common its eaten body, was carried into the [in the court]." Verse 20. with all other true Christians from the presence of the violated law and offered This living goat was not in any sense time of the crucifixion to the present, in payment of its penalty in substitution a sin offering. He did not come into the that the blood which paid the penalty for our own death. symbolic services until after the work of for our sins was shed on Calvary by the On every day in the year but one this atonement was finished. He was not incarnate Son of God. We believe that symbolic life of the animal was carried slain; his blood was not offered before it is by faith that we receive the cleans- by the priest, whether in the blood or the violated law. If he is to be considered ing to be found in that blood. We be- in his own body, as close to the law as as a symbol of Christ as our sinbearer, lieve not only that there is now no salva- he was permitted to go; only a thin linen then I must protest that he had "too tion except by the blood of the Lamb of veil hung between him and the ark little and too late." The service of atone- God, but also that there never has been containing the offended law. On the day ment was over before he began to func- any other means of salvation from the of atonement he was permitted to lift tion. He had no vicarious blood to offer. time of Adam's fall to the time of Cal- the veil and sprinkle the blood directly For the forgiveness of my sins I am vary. The whole New Testament book on the ark. trusting the Divine Sin Offering, whose of Hebrews is devoted to proving that On that solemn day (which by every sacrificial service was over before the the ancient Israelites could be saved only teaching of the Bible and the under- ceremony of the scapegoat began. as they understood that the blood of standing of God's people from the days The meaning of this strange cere- the animals slain in their tabernacle of Moses to the present typifies the mony of the living goat that was not in services was symbolic of the coming day of judgment) there were two sin any sense a sinbearer has puzzled Bible Lamb of Isaiah 53. offerings presented. They are described interpreters throughout all Old Testa- The laws of the sanctuary so fully set in Leviticus 16. 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