t-m* i>ti.t>t>lv/ AM ERICA'S L' PROPHETIC WEEKLY VOLUME 48 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, FEBRUARY 15, 1921 NUMBER 7

Underwood The gravest menace to American cotton has lately put in its appearance, in the form of the pink bollworm. The above group of men are a commission appointed by the governor of Texas to study into the matter, in an endeavor to find some way of combating the marauder. In northern Mexico, in the Laguna District, a great cotton center, more than 50 per cent of the crop was destroyed by this insect. DARWINISM'S DEATH KNELL Common sense decides whether man is an elevated ape or a degenerate saint. By HORACE G. FRANKS

HE whole Christian world has recently been disquieted first startling announcement that "man was not created by and discomfited and, we might well say, disgraced, by God," Canon Barnes declared, not a minute later and without a sermon preached by Canon Barnes, of Westminster. a change of accent, that "God is making man at the present His discourse has shocked Christian people because of moment." Could two "fundamental" statements be in more the way in which it burlesques and misrepresents the open quarrel? Yet they are but an example of the loose, hap- teaching of the Bible, and also by the surrender of the hazard manner in which the preacher deals with so important preacher to what he imagines are the latest "cer- and comprehensive a subject,—a sermon with no continuity of tainties" of science. Although the canon is a doctor of science thought, no clarity of definition, and little literary style. and a fellow of the Royal Society, we are forced to the conclu- But has Darwin triumphed? Is his theory of evolution gen- sion, after reading his sermon, that his science is as crude as erally accepted by science and scientists to-day? We answer, his theology is shallow. Within the limits of this article, we emphatically, No. Both on its own testimony and on the wit- wish to discuss the scientific side of this question, leaving the ness of modern leaders of thought, evolution, as enunciated by theological side to our next issue. Darwin, is a bankrupt doctrine, an exploded error. True, other As a starting point, let us take Canon Barnes' own declara- theories of evolution have been formulated, but each is an "im- tion: "Darwin has triumphed in spite of Genesis." Truly this provement" on Darwinism, and contradicts all previous and is a strange declaration to come from lips that once took an succeeding theories. Indeed, science does not know just where oath of allegiance to God and to that Book which speaks of God to stand on the question, for it has been compelled to change its and through which God speaks to man! "Man was not created position so frequently. Canon Barnes appeals to "science" to by God," says this preacher; yet, because of his position, he is support his ideas; but his own words condemn him when he says: supposed to believe the Thirty-Nine Articles, which certainly "Christian thinkers now quickly accept theories of the origin teach that man was created. Moreover, every week he recites of the earth and of man, due to modern scientific research and and requires his congregation to repeat with him, the Apostles' speculation. They therefore find it necessary to abandon the Creed, which declares: "I believe in God the Father Almighty, doctrine of the fall and arguments deduced from it by theolo- Maker of heaven and earth." gians from St. Paul downwards." Perhaps just here we should point out one of the many incon- But why should we "find it necessary to abandon" the Word sistencies with which the sermon abounds. After making that of God in favor of "theories of the origin of the earth" and 2 The Signs of the Times for February 15, 1921 "scientific speculation"? Darwin out- after the fiery heat of the crust of our the "aggregation of the primordial units lined a theory of the origin of the world globe had sufficiently cooled to permit of of matter," he then says: "We are just and of mankind, asserting that man was the deposit of water upon its surface, as ignorant as we were concerning the descended from the ape; to-day Darwin- there must have been a further continu- formation of those ultimately complex ism is out of date, and in its place scien- ance of the physiochemical processes that material combinations that lead on to the tists give us a new evolution which makes had gradually led to the evolution of all production of living matter." man cousin to the ape, and which contra- the inorganic elements and their com- We surely have produced sufficient evi- dicts, in all essentials, the evolution idea pounds from the primal stuff of which dence to show that evolution, in all its as enunciated by Darwin and Huxley. the parent nebula of our solar system theoretical forms, cannot account for the For example, Professor F. Wood-Jones, was composed."—"Origin of Life," H. origin of life; in other words, that it has one of the "new evolutionists," says in Charlton Bastian. no other starting point than that of an his recent book, "The Problem of Man's And on page 7 we read this astounding extraordinary assumption. Is it, there- Ancestry:" "The influence which Huxley assumption: "The doctrine of evolution fore, any wonder that Mr. G. K. Chester- and Haeckel exercised on the scientific being true, it seems impossible to sup- ton, the well-known author and literary thought of Europe was very great indeed. pose," etc., a statement supported on page critic, recently declared in a London jour- Upon this subject of the origin of man, 67 by these words, "How otherwise, con- nal that Darwinism was defunct—an ex- the work of Haeckel is perhaps without sistently with the doctrine of evolution, ploded error? As we might expect, he parallel for its blind dogmatism, its are we to account for," etc. Is it, then, was promptly taken to task by one of crudity of assertion, and its offensive dis- any wonder that the same author, in an- these strange people who persist in bury- courtesy to all opponents. The passage other work entitled, "Evolution of Life," ing themselves under the hatchways of a of another century may entitle such books declares: sinking ship; hence we read in the Out- as 'The Lost Link' and 'The Evolution of "We know that in the far remote past look of August 7, 1920, a letter from a Man' to take rank among the `Curiosa' of when the surface of our earth cooled disciple of Darwin who wished space "for the booksellers' lists, and with the mel- down, when oceans and an atmosphere a few arguments on the other side." lowing influence of that period of time had come into existence, chemical changes His "arguments," however, are sadly they will possibly have become amusing must have progressed, and that at last a lacking in fact, point, and logic, and if reading." new kind of synthesis must have taken they are the final sepulchral groans of the dead theory, then that theory de- UPSET ONE ANOTHER'S THEORIES place—a synthesis resulting in the for- mation of what we call 'living matter.' served to die, for it had nothing to keep And so it goes; men invent theories and Men of science no longer doubt that a it alive. There are four of these argu- other men refute them and substitute new natural birth of living matter must have ments produced, but it is difficult to find theories. All assert, in their unreason- occurred when the surface of the earth even one which is not an offense to the ing dogmatism, that evolution has taken had become sufficiently cool."—Pages common sense of any ordinary layman. place, therefore their explanation of that 20, 21. Let us notice argument Number 2, for evolution must be the only correct one. "NO ONE CAN SAY" instance: But they are all theories, mere specula- Further recital of these extracts would VARYING ACCIDENTS tions, and the many descriptions of the be wearisome; but we feel that we must "The second question to be considered origin of man are nought but bundles of reprint one more—a striking admission is: How are all these individual peculi- "if's" and "probably's," tied together of ignorance. On pages 21 and 22 of the arities to be accounted for? Darwin at- with the rope of "must-have-been." They work from which we have just quoted, tributes them to a natural capacity for lay no foundation for their houses of the author says: "Organic evolution is a variation coupled with infinitely varying cards; they have no starting point—ex- natural sequence of inorganic evolu- `accidents' in the conditions of life in cept assumption. The writer recently tion. . . . How these particular combi- which individuals find themselves." walked into a public library in one of the nations were led up to,—what were the But we must ask in reply, Where did world's largest cities, and carefully in- actual steps of the process,—no one can that "natural capacity" come from? and vestigated the "proofs" of evolution, as say, but that they MUST [capitals not how can a scientist logically deduce and outlined in the many works devoted to ours] have occurred no person possessing outline a theory dealing with "infinitely that subject. The following are a few a fair amount of chemical and biological varying accidents?" Accidents are sub- of these "proofs:" knowledge now doubts." Referring to ject to no laws and cannot be foretold, "The mystery [of the origin of nor can they be classified with pre- life] is still there and ever will re- cision enough to formulate a system main."—"Origin and Nature of Life," of evolution or a theory of progress. Dr. Benj. Moore, M. A., F. R. S., To admit that a series of accidents page 159. of an infinitely varied character have "Life probably arose as a result of entered into the evolution of the ReafiliSgA . the operation of causes which may A 4# V4V.414:11419 col world is to deny immediately and still be at work to-day causing life 411.1-0Vaiaa_-51...."1k,20m_ 1,1113. ., definitely any possibility of a logical to arise afresh."—Page 163. or scientific theory of that evolution. "No being bears life within itself." In a later letter to the Outlook a "Archimedes said, 'Give me a sup- (August 28) this champion of a dead port for a lever and I will move the theory returns to the defense, but in world.' Just so the transformist of GOD'S REWARD doing so, makes this further admis- to-day says, 'Give me a living proto- sion: "Until geology yields up all its secrets, it will be impossible even to plasm and I will remake the whole Oh, what joy it is to live, animal and vegetable kingdoms.' "— To give others happiness! guess at the missing links required "Nature and Origin of Life," Felix More than anything in life to complete the pedigrees of all ex- le Dantee, pages 75 and 249. It our souls will ever bless. isting animals." Yet many an evo- 4 And in the last paragraph of his God rewards us for the good lutionist has completed a number book, this author, speaking of the That in life we try to do; of these pedigrees (by guesswork, problem of the origin of life, says: And the happiness you give therefore), in spite of the fact that "Perhaps, too, the solution will be Is reflected back to you. this particular champion asserts that hit on by chance."—Page 250. "the race history of each species is Do not live for self alone; a Gordian knot," and a "Gordian "CONTENT TO SUPPOSE" But for good of all mankind; knot," our dictionaries inform us, is In the Foreword of another book Then the greatest joys of life, one which cannot be untied. Thus there occurred these words: "Con- You are always sure to find. Oh, the sweet and peaceful joy do the evolutionists contradict them- cerning the main question,—that of selves and one another! the origin of life on this earth,--men Your kind deeds will always bring! And of joyousness of life, HUMOROUS AND OFFENSIVE of science, or at least the majority Your delighted heart will sing. of them, no longer appeal to the in- So-called scientists and so-called MARTHA SHEPARD LIPPINCOTT. tervention of any nonnatural or mi- theologians may, therefore, recite raculous cause. As believers in the their "learned" twaddle on man's doctrine of evolution they are con- evolution; they may string together tent to suppose that at some time (Continued on page 14) The Signs of the Times for February 15, 1921 3

AUTAMA, the Buddha, when asked *le' l'sl• 1,X *•tr* -:••••?e' **I I ste *Ir 4. 9** le*** ***lc G as to the one who made the world and brought all things into existence, made no reply; but taught that the for- mer Buddhas, in the endless cycles of the past, have been as numberless as the sands on the banks of the Ganges. To SEEING GOD these followers of the Buddha, in the "noble path," we have to bring home the conviction that God exists. "How can I become a Christian? how come to your Through God?" asks the Buddhist. We answer, "By belief," for "he that cometh to God must believe that He is." Hebrews 11: 6. In every village the Standard Oil Com- HIS WORKS pany's tins are in use, and almost every village has one or more Singer sewing machines. It is not hard, therefore, to By convince the Burmans of the existence of ROBERT A. BECKNER these two companies. The products of their factories show that a mind designed and planned them for their special use. In the same manner, man, ir."1- 41• .3"1-1. -T. 4. 44-4- 43- is 4-1-1- the crowning work of God's handiwork, with his won- derful body, so complex, so a strong man to run a adaptable, shows the mind of a master Astronomers have cat- ./ race. His going forth is designer. Says David, "I will praise alogued and numbered from the end of heaven, Thee; for I am fearfully and wonder- something like 1,300,- and his circuit unto the fully made." Psalm 139: 14. 000,000 stars, though ends of it;" while the voice they do not know how many more there of his light and heat praise the Creator THE INVISIBLE THINGS OF HIM are; yet "He telleth the number of the in every speech and language spoken by An appeal to nature brings a generous stars; He calleth them all by their names. the voice of man. (See Psalm 19: 1-6.) response, "because that which may be Great is our Lord, and of great power: Once all mankind joined that mighty known of God is manifest in them [the His understanding is infinite." Psalm chorus of nature in glorifying and thank- things of nature] ; . . . for the invisible 147: 4, 5. Keeping all these suns in ing God, but a change came in, and men things of Him from the creation of the space with their attendant worlds, is began to worship and to praise the serv- world are clearly seen, being understood what is called, for lack of a better name, ant instead of the master, beginning with by the things that are made, even His the law of gravitation. But back of the sun worship and coming down to the eternal power and Godhead." Romans law is the Lawgiver, enforcing the law. worship of the lowest forms of animal 1: 19, 20. The seed, springing up and He "hangeth the earth upon nothing." life: yet all the time they claimed to be becoming the mighty tree, bearing fruit Job 26: 7. Truly "the heavens declare getting "independent," "more enlight- after his kind as the Master commanded, the glory of God;" and as the sun moves ened," out from under the "terrible bond- helps us to understand the Creator's forward in a mighty orbit toward the age" of belief in God. "Because that, power. The grass and flowers all tell the constellation of Hercules, attended by all when they knew God, they glorified Him story of their creation. "Consider the the planets, it "is as a bridegroom com- not as God, neither were thankful; but lilies of the field, how they grow." Mat- ing out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as became vain in their imaginations, and thew 6: 28. Then go out at night, their foolish heart was darkened. and "lift up your eyes on high, Professing themselves to be wise, and behold who bath created these they became fools." Romans 1: things, that bringeth out their 21, 22. If we read on to the end host by number: He calleth them of the chapter, we find a well- all by names by the greatness of drawn picture of the results seen His might, for that He is strong to-day in these lands where the in power; not one faileth." Isa- people worship and serve "the iah 40: 26. creature more than the Creator." As we study the heavens, notic- And to a man on the outside, ing Arcturus and his mighty sons, that would seem to be also a pic- and the wonders of Orion, and ture of the condition of affairs feel the sweet influences of the that is rapidly developing in some Pleiades, "To whom then will ye of the so-called Christian lands, liken God? or what likeness will as the idea of evolution takes the ye compare unto Him?" Will the place of creation, and the séance workmen of Arakan cast a brazen the place of prayer. "Even as image for devotees to plaster with they did not like to retain God in gold leaf from Mandalay, and their knowledge, God gave them adorn with Mogok rubies? Or in over to a mind void of judgment." some poorer shrine, will the devo- Verse 28, margin. tees deck with silver chains and ornaments a seated image, carved RECOGNIZING THE ALL- by a cunning carver of decay- POWERFUL resisting teak from Shwebo? "Every nation made gods of "Have ye not known? have ye not their own." 2 Kings 17: 29. So heard? bath it not been told you "there be gods many, and lords from the beginning? have ye not many." The fact that there are understood from the foundations so many false gods is another of the earth? It is He that sit- testimony to the true God. There teth upon the circle of the earth, "To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye would be no counterfeit without and the inhabitants thereof are as compare unto Him?' Will the workman of Arakan cast a a genuine. Man's nature instinc- brazen image for devotees to plaster with gold leaf from grasshoppers; that stretcheth out Mandalay, and adorn with Mogok rubies? Or in some tively cries out for some higher the heavens as a curtain, and poorer shrine, will the devotees deck with silver chains and power to worship and in which to ornaments a seated image carved by a cunning carver of spreadeth them out as a tent to decay-resisting teak from Shwebo?" trust. Most nations have wor- dwell in." Isaiah 40: 21, 22. (Continued on page 12) AMONG THE INDIANS

The gospel of Christ working miracles on "The Neglected Continent"

E wanted to get into the high moun- Wtains of the Andes to see the Inca Indians. Therefore, after visiting Argen- tina, Brazil, and Chile, on a tour of South America, our party sailed from Valpa- raiso, and three days later steamed into the surf-lashed port of Antofagasta, whence we were to take the train up the mountain sides to La Paz and other sec- Plateria Mission Station, the first to be established, now has a church building which will seat 1,200_ tions of the Andean Indian world. Andes 195 miles to the city of Antofagasta. Antofagasta lies at the foot of the dull- Puno, on Lake Titicaca. Here nursing est, dreariest mountains my eyes ever At Ascotan, the railroad reaches an was the foundation upon which the work rested upon. Up and down the coast for elevation of 13,000 feet, and then, drop- was built, but this was accompanied by miles there is not a tree or blade of grass ping a thousand feet, skirts a wonderful strong evangelistic efforts and by educa- to be seen in any direction, nothing but lake of borax, twenty-four miles long. tional work. It has been very successful, dull, brown, verdureless hills, too low to The snow-capped mountains, the varied due in part to the close sympathy shown be imposing. The city, with its perilous lines of the mountain sides, and the white by the American missionaries for the In- harbor, is like an oasis in the desert. surface of the borax, make dians, and in part to their Here we saw pretty little parks, clean an impressive scene. This having found, in the person streets, and well-kept shops, and found lake is said to be the largest of a pure Aymara Indian, a a clean, pleasant hotel in which to spend single deposit of borax in real apostle to his people." the two days of waiting for our train the world, and the chief As our train stopped at to La Paz. source of the world's supply. Nyuni, a town of five thou- WHERE FLOWS CHILE'S WEALTH sand inhabitants, many of THE MOST OUTSTANDING Through Antofagasta flows the wealth whom are Indians, we made of northern Chile. Not only is it a chief The purpose of the jour- our entrance into the Indian port for nitrates, but ships wait in its ney was not to view the world. Here, for the first harbor for copper, guano, tin, silver, scenery; that was merely time, we made the acquaint- quinine, coca, and other products of iso- incidental. We had heard ance of the llama as a beast lated Bolivia. A general air of pros- of the Inca Indians, and had of burden. Before the rail- perity was apparent in the city. read their history from the way was built, these animals days of the Spanish inva- were about the only means We boarded the narrow-gauge train at of transportation. They go night, and found comfortable sleepers, sion ; now we wished to see them in their native envi- in droves of anywhere from with dining-car attached. Gradually we half a dozen to a hundred in made our way up the mountain side. By ronment. Ten years ago the Seventh-day Adventists number. Each animal car- noon of the following day we had reached Missionary Ford's patients. an elevation of 10,000 feet, and had be- established mission work ries one hundred pounds' gun to notice the rarity of the atmos- among these people, on the weight, and it is said, will phere. We passed Calma, a center of shores of Lake Titicaca. The work has not move if this weight is increased in copper mining, and San Pedro Station, grown until a chain of missions runs the smallest degree. 10,600 feet above the sea, where are situ- about the southern and northern shores HISTORIC MOUNTAIN AND CITY ated the collecting reservoirs, blasted out of the lake. It was our desire to become Our train hastened on its way along of solid rock, which supply water to the acquainted with the Indians and to see the wind-swept Andean plateau, at an nitrate fields. From these reservoirs, with our own eyes the results of the gos- elevation of from 12,000 to 13,000 feet, pipes carry the pure snow water of the pel upon them. Some two thousand of passing Rio Mulato and Oruro. As the these people have en- train approached Viachi, the junction tered upon a new ex- which connects the city of La Plaz with perience. Having fully Lake Titicaca, we got our first view of accepted the fact that the famous Illimani, towering more than one who is in Christ "is 21,000 feet above us. A few miles more, a new creature," they and we reached Alto Station, and after have, with other things, a brief delay, the descent began to the given up the use of city of La Paz. The view at this point alcohol and the chewing is one not easily forgotten. Imagine, if of the coca leaf. Of you can, Salt Lake City, with blocks this mission, the Mis- smaller and streets narrower, dropped sionary Review of the into an immense crater 1,200 feet below World, in its November the surrounding country, and you get an issue, speaks as follows : idea of La Paz, the chief city and the "The most outstand- seat of government of Bolivia. ing mission distinctly We easily made our way down the rim for the Peruvians is of the crater to this old-world city, with that of the [Seventh- its many churches, electric lights, street Pastor Stahl on his mule. day] Adventists, near cars, and automobiles. Bright colors pre-

By OF THE ANDES JOHN L. SHAW

teach them. So insistent were they, that they did not wish to return without a signed statement that some one would be sent. Taking the train on Sunday afternoon, June 6, in a few hours we found our- selves on the shores of Lake Titicaca, a body of fresh water 12,838 feet above the sea, 138 miles long, and 68 miles wide. The trip across the lake by star- light from Quaqui to Puno was full of interest. What a marvelous body of water, surrounded by pampas which give way eventually to mountain peaks rising, some abruptly and others more gradu- ally, into treeless mountains in the dim distance! Looking up from our boat Pastor Stahl not only preaches but practices. This picture shows him extracting an aching tooth. northward into the marvelously clear heavens, we saw the Great Dipper, which had faded from view in journeys farther dominate. Fully 50 per cent of the popu- pacas. With his droves of donkeys and south; and turning our eyes southward, lation of Bolivia are Indians. Their gar- llamas, he transports much of the mer- we saw the Southern Cross. ments are mostly of their own make, chandise, since only a few miles of rail- At Puno, as the boat drew to shore, we measure, and pattern, and are in shades road exist and there are few navigable were met by Pastor F. A. Stahl and sev- of color pleasing to their eyes. They are waters on the upland. He even collects eral of his associate missionaries and a short, sturdy, hard-working people, the fuel, cooks the food, carries water, Indian workers. An institute had been inured to privation and hardship. The and performs all other domestic service. planned, at which all the American and women, generally bare- With the advent of modern Indian teachers and evangelists about footed, clad in their pecul- industries, he is learning to the lake, a company of eighty or more, iar dress, hurry along the make matches, to brew beer, were gathered. We found these Indians streets and highways, stoop- and to manufacture shoes." looking and acting different from those ing a little with their bundle Of these highland people whom we had seen before. There was of what not, very often a in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, not that fear and suspicion of the white baby tied in a blanket about and Colombia, it is esti- man. With a warm handshake and a the shoulders. It is not in- mated there are nearly 7,- few pats on the back, they greeted their frequent to see them with 500,000 of pure Indian blood. Indian and American brethren. We were a bunch of wool under one Going back to the times reminded of the words of the beloved arm, pulling it out and preceding the invasion by John, "Perfect love casteth out fear." winding it on a small the Spanish, we find an spindle which twirls in front empire governed by Indian WASHED THE UPPER HALF of them as they jog along. kings, in many respects "Pastor Stahl," I asked, "why do these As we labored to get our more advanced and civilized Indians look so neat and clean, while breath, walking slowly up than the Spaniards, who, others are so dirty and unkempt?" the streets of La Paz, we s = under the cruel leadership He replied: "At our first mission sta- wondered how these people x of Pizarro, conquered them. tion we had washing exercises. There could thus hurry by us, un- The Spaniards came not to were twenty or more in a class, and we affected by the rarity of the Two Indian chiefs and helper. colonize and civilize, but to provided each one with a piece of soap. air. But they are accustomed exploit and conquer. In the They would strip to the waist, and we to it. Here for generations their ancestors centuries which have followed, the Span- taught them to rub the soap over the have lived, and their enormous lung ca- iard has sought to live off of the Indian, body and then to wash it off. We asked pacity and strong heart action are equal often taking from him his lands and them how they felt. 'Fine!' they said. Then we would tell them, 'You have to the demand. When transferred to sea cattle, and making him a slave. level, these Indians frequently sicken and washed only half of the body; go home, For this reason the Indian is suspi- and wash the other half, and see how die. Thus nature adapts different peo- cious of the white man, and it is only good you will feel." ples to their environment. after frequent proofs of friendship that (Continued on page 11) WHAT THE NATIVES ARE the white man can gain The men wear homespun trousers, slit his confidence. Hence up the back to allow them easily to wade the difficulties of the missionary in finding an streams. In place of overcoats they wear ponchos, or small woven blankets, with a entrance among them. slit in the center to slip over the head. BESIEGED BY THE Of the industry of these people, Mr. INDIANS George M. McBride, in the Missionary Our stay in La Paz Review of the World, writes: was necessarily short, "At the present time the highland In- but we were glad to see dian furnishes the only supply of labor, some evidences of the skilled and unskilled, in country and city advance of the gospel. alike. No field is tilled but by his hand, While there we met a no harvest reaped but by his sickle. He number of believers, moulds every sun-dried brick, he dresses and listened for some each stone that goes to build hovel or time to a delegation of palace. He mines the ore, builds roads Indians that had come and railroads, constructs the bridges, many miles to urge that herds the flocks of sheep, llamas, and al- a missionary be sent to Llamas on pampa, Peru.

6 The Signs of the Times for February 15, 1921 The Storm- Proof Refuge 4

By JOHN L. SHULER

" HE Lord is my rock, and my fort- The ark was a shelter from that ter- We can say like David, "He only is my Tress, and my deliverer; the God of rible judgment that came upon the ante- rock and my salvation: He is my defence; my rock; in Him will I trust: He is my diluvian world. So Jesus is our shelter I shall not be moved. In God is my sal- shield, and the horn of my salvation, my in the day of judgment. "Verily, verily, vation and my glory: the rock of my high tower, and my refuge, my Saviour; I say unto you, He that heareth My word, strength, and my refuge, is in God. Thou savest me from violence." 2 Sam- and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Trust in Him at all times; ye people, uel 22: 2, 3. In this scripture eight dif- everlasting life, and shall not come into pour out your heart before Him: God is ferent figures and expressions are used condemnation; but is passed from death a refuge for us." Psalm 62: 6-8. to convey to the mind some idea of how unto life." John 5: 24. If we are found Jesus is a sure refuge in time of precious Jesus is to His people. He is in Him, we shall not be condemned. "He trouble, because He will never fail us our "rock," our "fortress," our "deliv- that believeth on Him is not condemned: nor forsake us. "The Lord also will be erer," our "shield," the "horn of my sal- but he that believeth not is condemned a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in vation," our "high tower," our "refuge," already, because he hath not believed in times of trouble. And they that know and our "Saviour." the name of the only begotten Son of Thy name will put their trust in Thee: A very beautiful illustration of what God." John 3: 18. for Thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them Christ is to us may be gained by a study The ark was a sure and safe refuge that seek Thee." Psalm 9: 9, 10. When of Noah's relation to the ark. What the for Noah, when that awful storm burst our troubles are so great that our spirits ark was to Noah, Christ is to us. upon the world, and it is well to note that are overwhelmed within us, and it seems the ark proved to be the only safe place that all earthly friends have turned away ONLY WAY OF SALVATION in that storm. from us, and that no man cares for our There was only one door to the ark. So Christ is a safe refuge for us in all souls, then we find that Jesus is our true The only way a person could be saved the trials and conflicts of life. "The refuge. Psalm 142: 2-5. Then we say from the Flood was to enter through that eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath with the psalmist: "I flee unto Thee to door. Every one who did not go into the are the everlasting arms." Deuteronomy hide me." Psalm 143: 9. ark through that door was lost. 33: 27. "God is our refuge and strength, "Other refuge have I none; So Christ is the only way to salvation a very present help in trouble." Psalm Hangs my helpless soul on Thee ; and eternal life. "Jesus saith unto him, 46: 1. "For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion: in the "All my trust on Thee is stayed, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no All my help from Thee I bring ; man cometh unto the Father, but by Me." secret of His tabernacle shall He hide Cover my defenceless head John 14: 6. "Neither is there salvation me; He shall set me up upon a rock." With the shadow of Thy wing." in any other: for there is none other Psalm 27: 5. "The name of the Lord is THE DOOR WAS CLOSED name under heaven given among men, a strong tower: the righteous runneth whereby we must be saved." Acts 4: 12. into it, and is safe." Proverbs 18: 10. There came a time when it was too late to enter the ark. Seven days before All who accept Him will be saved. "He OUR CITY OF REFUGE that believeth on the Son hath everlast- the Flood came, the faithful eight entered ing life: and he that believeth not the Christ is our city of refuge. Inside the ark, and God closed the door. Gene- Son shall not see life; but the wrath of the city of refuge was life; outside was sis 7: 1-4. After that day it was forever God abideth on him." John 3: 36. Every death. Numbers 35: 26-29. As long as too late for any one to enter the ark of 4 one who fails to accept Him will be lost. the slayer remained in the city, he was safety. "I said therefore unto you, that ye shall safe; but if he ventured outside, he could So there will come a time when it will die in your sins: for if ye believe not that be killed. So our only hope of safety is be too late to accept Christ. The door of I am He, ye shall die in your sins." to abide in Christ. "He that hath the mercy and opportunity will be forever John 8: 24. Son hath life; and he that hath not the closed, just before the pouring out of the Son of God bath not life." 1 John 5: 12. seven last plagues in the last days, prior EXPRESSION OF GOD'S LOVE "If a man abide not in Me, he is cast to the appearing of the Saviour in the The ark was an expression of God's forth as a branch, and is withered; and clouds of heaven. This is plainly taught love to Noah, in providing a way of es- men gather them, and cast them into the in the following scripture: "He that is cape from the Deluge. So God in His fire, and they are burned." John 15: 6. unjust, let him be unjust still: and he great love for us has provided His Son "And now, little children, abide in Him; which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and as our Saviour, to save us from eternal that, when He shall appear, we may have he that is righteous, let him be righteous destruction. "For God so loved the confidence, and not be ashamed before still: and he that is holy, let him be holy world, that He gave His only begotten Him at His coming." 1 John 2: 28. still. And, behold, I come quickly; and Son, that whosoever believeth in Him The ark was the only refuge in that My reward is with Me, to give every man should not perish, but have everlasting storm, so Christ is the only refuge in all according as his work shall be." Reve- life." John 3: 16. the storms that beat upon us in this life. lation 22: 11, 12. The Signs of the Times for February 15, 1921 7 This decree will forever settle the des- eth, give I unto you. Let not your heart There was only one window in the ark tiny of every soul. No one can accept of be troubled, neither let it be afraid." and that was above. Genesis 6: 16. Christ after this fiat is pronounced, be- John 14: 27. "Therefore being justified Noah had to look up. So Christ should cause the unjust will remain unjust, the by faith, we have peace with God through be the one window to our lives. Keep filthy will remain filthy. This should our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we your eye fixed on Him every day, and He teach us the importance of fully accept- have access by faith into this grace will carry you through. "Looking unto ing God's truth now before that decree wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of Jesus the author and finisher of our goes forth, that we may be prepared for the glory of God." Romans 5: 1, 2. faith; who for the joy that was set be- that awful time of trouble which will fol- The ark was built after the Father's fore Him endured the cross, despising the low. Zephaniah 2: 1-3. "Now is the ac- pattern. Genesis 6: 14, 15. So Christ shame, and is set down at the right hand cepted time; behold, now is the day of developed a character in the exact image of the throne of God." Hebrews 12: 2. salvation." 2 Corinthians 6: 2. "Seek Our looking to Jesus should take on of the Father. 2 Corinthians 4: 6. ye the Lord while He may be found, call three aspects. 1. A backward look to the ye upon Him while He is near." Isaiah RIGHTEOUSNESS A GIFT BY FAITH dying One-the Lamb of God hanging 55: 6. "While it is said, To-day if ye In his experience in connection with upon the cross for our sins. Isaiah 45: 22. will hear His voice, harden not your the ark, Noah found righteousness by 2. An upward look to the living One-our hearts, as in the provocation." He- faith. "By faith Noah, being warned of High Priest, pleading in heaven for us brews 3: 15. God of things not seen as yet, moved with to-day. Hebrews 7: 25. 3. A forward 0 sinner, accept of your Saviour, while fear, prepared an ark to the saving of look to the coming One-the King return- probation still lingers and mercy's sweet his house; by the which he condemned ing to earth in all His glory to gather voice gently pleads! May God grant that the world, and became heir of the right- His saints. Titus 2: 13. you will not be among the number who eousness which is by faith." Hebrews will with weeping, wailing, and gnashing 11: 7. So when we accept Jesus, we re- A SPECIAL MESSAGE SENT of teeth knock for admittance, after the ceive the gift of righteousness; because Before the Flood came, Christ sent a door has been closed. Luke 13: 24-28. He is the Lord our righteousness. special message to the world through When that great flood of Noah, warning the world of waters swept over the the impending doom. 1 Peter world, Noah found a safe 3: 19, 20; 2 Peter 2: 5. The hiding place in the ark. So THE ONLY LASTING PEACE salvation of those people de- Christ will be a safe refuge pended on their acceptance for His people, when that BY MILTON C. WILCOX of this special message. great flood of wrath sweeps Those who heeded that mes- over the world in the seven HE Boston "Post" of July 4, 1920, quotes approvingly the sage were prepared when last plagues at the end of T following from Pope Benedict's Pentecostal Sunday En- the crisis came, and they time. "Thou art my hiding cyclical: "Things being thus restored in the order desired by justice and charity, and the peoples reconciled among them- were saved. "But as the place; Thou shalt preserve selves, it would be truly desirable, venerable brethren, that all days of Noe were, so shall me from trouble; Thou shalt states should put aside mutual suspicion, and unite in one sole also the coming of the Son of compass me about with society, or rather family of peoples, both to guarantee their man be." Matthew 24: 37. songs of deliverance." Psalm own independence and safeguard order in the civil concert of So in the last days, just 32: 7. "Come, My people, the peoples." before the end of time, enter thou into thy cham- All this would be most excellent, but suspicion, distrust, Christ will send a special bers, and shut thy doors jealousies, hatred, envy, are born of the carnal, or natural, warning message to the heart of man. See the divine diagnosis of the heart in the about thee: hide thyself as world. Joel 2: 1. We may it were for a little moment, following scriptures: Jeremiah 17: 9; Mark 7 : 21-23 ; Gala- tians 5: 19-21; James 4:1-4. Man cannot of himself change expect to hear a new and until the indignation be the heart. Resolutions, compacts, leagues, can never unite startling message then, dif- overpast." Isaiah 26: 20. hearts. A league of nations for peace would be a good thing ferent from any other mes- Jesus is the secret place of to lift the intolerable burden of war from the people. But no sage in the past, just as the Most High (John 1: 18; league can sweep from the heart the war-generated hatreds Noah's message was unlike Judges 13 : 18; Daniel 8: 13, of humanity, or reconcile the people among themselves. any other up to that time or margin), and those who Yet men believe it is possible. The Pope believes it, and since. We can be ready for abide in Him, will be pro- logically he believes that the only effective head is himself. the Lord's coming only by tected from the plagues. Others believe it, and have so little knowledge of the funda- accepting this special mes- Psalm 91: 1-8. "Because mentals of religion that they would place the Papacy upon the throne of universal empire, the sole head of the "one sage for the last days. thou hast made the Lord, sole society." In order to enter the ark, which is my refuge, even Pope Benedict speaks of the "civil concert of the peoples," Noah had to bid good-by to the Most High, thy habita- that must be in order to keep from war; but he holds, as do everything in the world out- tion; there shall no evil be- all his predecessors, that the great essential to harmony is side the ark. So to accept fall thee, neither shall any the church at the head, a position never given of God. The Christ, we must be willing plague come nigh thy dwell- only concert of nations in this world that can be made effec- to forsake all for Him. "So tive must exist entirely apart from religion or church, with ing." Psalm 91: 9, 10. How likewise, whosoever he be of can we be sure that we are religious liberty of all persons guaranteed, and no religious dogmas recognized by the state. This can never come now; you that forsaketh not all abiding in Him? You will that he hath, he cannot be find the answer in 1 John but the dream of the Pope will come. Yet with it will come, of logical necessity, the persecution of "the whitest of the My disciple." Luke 14: 33. 3: 24. "He that keepeth His saints of God." Prophecy declares it in the Book of books. He has given you all, and commandments dwelleth in Revelation 13 : 14, 17. He asks for all in return. Him, and He in him." There is peace for the troubled heart of man only in God, WHY MANY ARE LOST "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, and God gives it to the soul that surrenders sin and self in Let me hide myself in Thee." Christ Jesus. "Therefore being justified by faith, we have The majority of the peo- PLACE OF PEACE peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans ple in Noah's time were so 5:1. That is God's message to each soul in the warring The ark was the place of world. "Peace, peace, to him that is far off and to him that wrapped up in the things of peace and rejoicing to Noah is near, saith Jehovah; and I will heal him. But the wicked the world that they would in the midst of the storm. are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters not enter the ark. Matthew So Christ, to all who put cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to 24: 38, 39. And many to- their trust in Him, is a place the wicked." Isaiah 57.'19-21, A. R. V. day refuse to respond to the of perfect peace and happi- Do not be deceived. Peace, true peace, effective peace, can heavenly invitation, because come only through the individual soul's making peace with ness in the conflicts Of life. God. Then, if men are at peace with God, they cannot be at they are absorbed with the "Thou wilt keep him in per- war with one another. They will coalesce, even as two rain- pleasures and riches of this fect peace, whose mind is drops. That is the peace of Christ's kingdom to come,-peace world. Many will be lost stayed on Thee: because he based on righteousness or harmony with God. Then, when because they have put the trusteth in Thee." Isaiah He comes and reigns, "the work of righteousness shall be things of this world ahead 26: 3. "Peace I leave with peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance of the things of the world you, My peace I give unto forever." Isaiah 32: 17. to come. Luke 14: 16-24. you : not as the world giv- (Continued on page 14) HAS THE CORNER

HE great corner stone was missing keep it in spirit and in truth, it will yield Tand it was impossible to proceed with its strength. The Sabbath was to fur- the building of the temple. A national nish the bulwark, which would keep the advance was halted, and the erection of river of destruction from overflowing its the greatest building of history checked. banks. The atmosphere of the Sabbath All activity depended upon the placing and the atmosphere of worldly courts are of the corner stone. antagonistic. The one destroys the other. The divine directions concerning the Since the Sabbath was charged with the building of the temple had been explicit. atmosphere of heaven, which was able to No sound of hammer should be heard. transform and transfigure men, it soon Each piece, whether from the quarry or became the object of Satan's most ter- from the forest, must be cut so as to fit se- rible assaults. Mortal man must have curely in place as the building proceeded. the Sabbath. The Sabbath was embosomed in the While the foundation was in the mak- human race when, during the seven days, ing, a large stone,—a peculiarly shaped the Creator brought into existence the stone,—was constantly in the way of the major necessities of man. "The Sabbath workmen. First, this laborer would was made for man," said Christ. When stumble over the stone, turn round, and God brought to Himself, on eagles' wings, berate it; then another workman, to his the chosen people, the Sabbath was em- vexation, would unexpectedly encounter bosomed in the Jewish nation. For forty the same ubiquitous stone. Finally, the years in the wilderness, the Creator, "by workmen, knowing not the value or place terrible things in righteousness," pressed of this peculiar stone and wishing to be home upon the Israelites the necessity of rid of it, agreed to throw it aside and the Sabbath. out of the way. A double portion of manna fell on the Then came consternation. History's sixth day, but none fell on the seventh. story would have been differently told, Manna kept over from one day to an- had not a workman remembered. When other decayed, but when kept over from all inquiries were being directed toward the sixth day to the seventh, it remained locating the corner piece, he told of the fresh. "It shall come to pass, if ye dili- stone over which they had so often gently hearken unto Me, saith the Lord, stumbled. Search was instantly made. to bring in no burden through the gates The offending stone was recovered, and of this city on the Sabbath day, but to the wonderment of all, it turned out hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work to be the missing corner stone. Hence therein; then shall there enter into the came to pass the saying, used by Inspi- gates of this city kings and princes sit- ration, "The stone which the builders re- "The Jews alone of all nations ting upon the throne of David, riding in jected, the same is become the head of observed this ordinance, ob- chariots and on horses, they, and their ligatory on all men by divine the corner." Matthew 21: 42. command, and of supreme ne- princes, the men of Judah, and the inhab- cessity to man's well-being." GOD NEVER CAN itants of Jerusalem: and this city shall Christianity away beyond the Jew- God never can forget that He rested remain forever." Jeremiah 17: 24, 25. ish perversion of the Sabbath. The on the seventh day; and man can never It was Satan's effort to produce a Sab- Jews had perverted; antichrist would make God forget that He rested on the bath which would point back, for its change. Therefore in one funda- seventh day. We have no record any- origin, not to creation but to the will of mental utterance Jesus cleared Him- where, in any language, that the Maker the majority. This would make the ma- self of any suspicion that He was anti- of the heavens and earth rested on any jority antagonistic to the minority; thus christ. "Think not," He said, "that I am other day. It was a time when great a supreme controversy would be fabri- come to destroy the law, or the prophets: deeds were done. Colossal changes came cated. Worse than this, the majority I am not come to destroy." Matthew 5: 17. in twenty-four hours. On the first day, would regard the counterfeit, not as its God made light. It was a great creation. own offspring, but as the child of di- No less than five times does Isaiah the He has never lost light. We all joy in vinity; this would bring in intolerance, prophet predict the restoration of the light. On the second day, God made the if not persecution. Sabbath. He who foretold the first ad- sky. That was a titanic production. Yet vent of Christ as "a man of sorrows, and THE SUBJECT OF PROPHECY He has never lost the sky. It is still with acquainted with grief," described His us, and the millions of earth rejoice in The Sabbath, therefore, became a sub- second coming as preceded by a return its animated beauty. On the third day, ject of prophecy. Holy men of old, to the keeping of the Sabbath. Therein God made the grass. Who of us would moved by the Holy Ghost, took up the should it be known that the return of be without grass? Never has it been lost. theme. Over and over again they told Christ was near, when, throughout the Christian world, persons became pressed These all were pronounced good. But of the final and complete restoration of in spirit to restore the day on which Je- what God made on the seventh day, He the Sabbath. The blessing originally hovah rested. blessed and sanctified. How strange to placed on the Sabbath in Eden would de- say that God kept what He made on the part with Eden, they said, but glorious WHEN SALVATION IS NEAR 4 first day,—light; that He kept what He would be the movement and message de- In three of these five chapters in which made on the second day,—sky; that He signed of God to restore both. This mes- Isaiah predicts the pre-advent message kept what He made on the third day,— sage would be the last call to a rebellious of the restoration of the Sabbath, the grass; but that He lost what He made on race to obedience. case is stated clear and plain. Then in the seventh day,—the Sabbath! What God rested on the seventh day, and di- two other sublime chapters, by compar- the Creator formed on the first six days vine example is equal to precept. The ing scripture with scripture, the case is concerned material things; but what He just as clear and plain as when stated in necessity for the Sabbath, written in made on the seventh day concerned spir- so many words. In the first three, we man's physical constitution, was the first itual things. The Sabbath was indeed are startled by the written significance; the corner stone of creation. writing of the Sabbath law. Yet the we are charmed by the unwritten depths Jews alone of all nations observed this in the other two. SATAN'S SUPREME ASSAULTS ordinance, obligatory on all men by di- Consider Isaiah 56. "Thus saith the Satan has directed his supreme attacks vine command, and of supreme necessity Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: against this arsenal of invisible strength. to man's well-being. In founding the for My salvation is near to come, and The Sabbath was made to enable man to Christian church, Jesus foresaw the co- My righteousness to be revealed. Blessed triumph in the major issues of life. God lossal attempt of predicted antichrist to is the man that doeth this, and the son put strength into it, and to those who undo this supreme necessity and to swing of man that layeth hold on it; that keep- ENE DROPPED OUT?

their corresponding prediction. But why nature on time and labor. The Sabbath cannot we see the greatest of all signs of of antichrist was the signature, or mark, By the last time—the call to restore the of the beast. God has a right to be wor- Sabbath? shiped by His creatures; yea, to call the BENJAMIN G. THE ALARM CLOCK SET people together for collective worship. Why was this call not given before? And God had the right to choose His own WILKINSON Consider. Does an alarm clock, set for day for collective worship. The beast five in the morning, go off at midnight? exalted himself to change that choice, or, God's twelve great chains of prophecy, as Paul says, exalted himself above the showing Sabbath reform as a forerunner God-established worship. of Christ's second coming, could not be From age to age has God proclaimed fulfilled before the appointed time. It is the Sabbath to be a sign between Him even now the last time. and His people. By Moses He said, Leaving now the Old Testament and "Keep the Sabbath." "It is a sign be- going to the New, we read this terrifying tween Me and the children of Israel language: "The third angel followed forever." Exodus 31: 16, 17. Nine hun- them, saying with a loud voice, If any dred years later, by Ezekiel He said: man worship the beast and his image, "Moreover also I gave them My Sabbaths, and receive his mark in his forehead, or to be a sign between Me and them." in his hand, the same shall drink of the Ezekiel 20: 12. The order of worship wine of the wrath of God, which is poured established by God on the seventh day out without mixture into the cup of His could be lost no more than could the light indignation." Revelation 14: 9, 10. established on the first day or the sky established on the second. He who pre- So dreadful a denunciation of wrath serves the one preserves the other. The cannot be found elsewhere in the Book of faith of God's people in His power to pre- God. Does it not imply a strong trans- serve the light and the sky would be gression to require so terrible a condem- marked by their flocking into the temple nation? These sore judgments are to on the seventh day to worship. The lack fall on those who have the mark of the of faith in God as capable of preserving beast, that is, who have the sign of anti- the original seventh day, would be christ. Read the identification marks of marked, first, by their saying that time the beast, as given in Revelation 13: 1-10, was lost, and that it made no difference and you will be startled to find that they which day was kept, and, further, by are identical with the marks of anti- keeping the day imposed by the majority. christ as seen by Daniel and recorded in The faith of the first honored the Sab- chapter seven of the book bearing his bath as the sign, or seal, of God. The name. And the outstanding mark of unbelief of the second gave rise to the antichrist in Daniel seven, the blasphe- counterfeit Sabbath, or the mark of mous mark which indicated the change of the beast. God's system of worship into a Heaven- defying counterfeit, is this: "He shall HOLDING ARMAGEDDON'S WINDS think to change the times and the law." As the end neared, these two tendencies Daniel 7:25, R. V. would become intense. Under the most Now the beast, or antichrist, came majestic figures of Scripture, the reve- after Christ. Christ specifically rid Him- lator paints the last great message, pro- self of the identifying prediction of anti- claiming the truth of the Sabbath more eth the Sabbath from polluting it, and christ by declaring that He came not to fully. Amid the rending rocks, the reel- keepeth his hand from doing evil." Verses change the law. Antichrist was to change ing mountains, the deep despair of the 1, 2. This is a call to the human race to the law. Christ was not. Therefore, the worldly wise and prudent, he pauses to give special attention to the Sabbath. change in the law took place after Christ, say, "After these things I saw four When? When "My salvation is near to would remain changed for centuries, and angels standing on the four corners of come." God's salvation has long been then, just before the second coming, the the earth, holding the four winds of the talked of and looked for. "Waiting for law would be restored. The mark, then, earth, that the wind should not blow on the adoption, to wit, the redemption of of the beast, or of antichrist, must be a the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. our body," says Paul. If therefore it has change in the Ten Commandment law. And I saw another angel ascending from long been looked for, we can search the This can be convincingly proved. The the east, having the seal of the living Book, confident that God has revealed remnant which escapes the mark of the God: and he cried with a loud voice to when it "is near to come." beast and is prepared for Christ's glo- the four angels, . . . Hurt not the earth, Yes, here it is in 1 Peter 1: 5. "Kept rious appearing, is described as "they neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have by the power of God through faith unto that keep the commandments of God, and sealed the servants of our God in their salvation ready to be revealed in the last the faith of Jesus." foreheads." Revelation 7: 1-3. time." The overwhelming majesty of This message of John is the same as this salvation has long been ready to be THE SIGN AND SEAL OF GOD that of Isaiah, who, when portraying the revealed. There will come a moment, Antichrist, or the beast, is a counter- marvelous growth of spiritualism and however, when God will cease making feit Christ. His changed decalogue is a the terrifying confederacies in the last ready, and then the readiness will over- counterfeit decalogue; and his changed days, says, "Bind up the testimony, seal flow in the revealing. When? "In the Sabbath is a counterfeit Sabbath. That the law among My disciples." Isaiah last time." But what making ready on the counterfeit Sabbath is itself precisely 8: 16. The law, therefore, has a seal. earth will accompany the making ready. the mark of the beast can be readily That divine seal, or signature, we have in heaven? What great movement on proved. To change the day set for God's seen, is the Sabbath. The winds of war earth will show that it is indeed the last worship and thus to change the worship cannot blow in their final fury, Arma- time? The call to cease polluting the given by God in the morning of creation, geddon cannot break forth with all its Sabbath. is represented in Paul's animated warn- colossal horrors, until this angel has fin- "Distress of nations" was given by the ing against antichrist. "Let no man de- ished his work. The four war-controlling Saviour as a sign of the last time. ceive you," he said. The "man of sin," angels have direct power over Armaged- "Men's hearts failing them for fear," was "the son of perdition . . . exalteth him- don. But the sealing angel has authority another. Paul gave "without natural af- self above all that is called God, or that over the four. When the angel, at fection," as another. John the revelator is worshiped." 2 Thessalonians 2: 3, 4. Christ's resurrection, descended to roll gave "the nations were angry." We can Contracts may be signed by a signature away the stone from the tomb, the earth see now that all these fulfillments have or a mark. 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The Master forewarned us in such scriptures as the seventh What May Be Seen in Europe verse of the 24th chapter of Matthew, that famines and pesti- HENRY P. DAVISON has been touring the United States, de- lences would be the world's lot; and elsewhere He shows us scribing the conditions that he finds prevalent in Europe. that these things will prevail until the glorious time arrives when He returns in person, the second time, in the clouds of Mr. Davison is among the best-known men in the United heaven forever to bring to an end the ills and sorrows that States. He is a banker of wide repute and international stand- distress us. ing, and because of his philanthropic principles and sentiments, Famines and pestilences come as a direct result of war. he was chosen to stand at the head of the American section of Wars of great magnitude have always been followed by want, the Red Cross during the crisis of the World War. by plague, and by suffering in general, of a magnitude propor- As a business man of the banker type, Mr. Davison would tionate to the war that has cursed the earth. But the prophets not be inclined to sensationalism or to the overstating of con- predict the greatest wars of all times for these last days. 4 ditions. He has just returned from Geneva, where a conference Joel, Jeremiah, Zephaniah, and other Old Testament prophets was held by representatives of the twenty-seven nations that describe in most graphic language the war scenes of these last are embraced in the International Red Cross Association. His days. Is it at all surprising, then, that the Master should fore- opportunities for information, therefore, are great, and what warn us in such scriptures as the following of the conditions he addresses to his fellow countrymen in the United States that will prevail just before His coming? should receive the closest consideration. "There shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon The following paragraphs quoted directly from one of Mr. the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of Davison's speeches, will give, in a few words, quite a compre- the sea and the billows; men fainting for fear, and for expec- hensive view of what he found in Europe: tation of the things which are coming on the world: for the "I am custodian of authoritative reports recording appalling conditions among millions of people living in Eastern Europe. I feel it is essential that the people of the United States realize that one of the most terrible tragedies in the history of the human race is being enacted within the broad belt of territory lying between the Baltic and the Black and Adriatic Seas. . . . "The reports which come to us make it clear that in these war-ravaged lands civilization has broken down. Disease, bereavement, and suffering are present in practically every household, while food and clothing are insufficient to make life tolerable. "Men, women, and children are dying by thousands, and over vast once-civilized areas there are to be found neither medical appliances nor medical skill sufficient to cope with the devastating plagues. . . . Wholesale starvation is threatened in Poland this summer, unless she can procure food supplies in large quantities. There are now approximately 250,000 cases of typhus in Poland and in the area occupied by Polish troops. "This is already one of the worst typhus epidemics in the world's history. . . . In villages of two to three thousand, half the people were ill at the same time, and there was almost no medical care. In many cases, a territory forty miles in diameter I nternattona had but one physician. Some doctors who had from 20,000 to The above photograph, showing unemployed men lounging in the streets of Vienna, tells the story of conditions in Austria better than could a five- 30,000 patients could get no medical supplies whatever, and hundred-page book. Unsettled and uncertain politics, low exchange rates, had nothing better to give the sick than oral instruction. Pau- lack of credit, lack of food, poverty, and disease make this once-powerful perism is intensified every day." nation a plague spot of the earth to-day. Furthermore, Mr. Davison found that Budapest was "one powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall they vast city of misery and suffering." He affirmed that "the num- see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great ber of deaths is double that of births." "In Siberia, typhus has glory. But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, broken out again, and there are but 200 physicians to minister and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh." Luke 21: 25-28, A. R. V. to the needs of that entire country." The general situation With what striking literalness do we behold in world condi- he sums up in these words: tions to-day the fulfillment of our Master's prophecy? And "Hunger and disease and despair are the lot of these fellow knowing these things, we should stand for the helping of hu- humans of ours. Powerless to help themselves, they are slowly manity to the fullest extent of all our resources and ability, and perishing before our eyes." we should sense in an ever-deepening degree that there is no "Tuberculosis," declares Mr. Davison, "is spreading in an help so all embracing in its value as telling the world the true alarming and unprecedented manner." And the warning is meaning of these appalling conditions that surround us. sounded to our nation that the plague of typhus, which, as Through war, through plague, and through calamity of every stated by Mr. Davison, "is already one of the worst . . . in the sort, our God is permitting the wicked men of the world to reap world's history," "is a parasitic disease, and if not throttled, their terrible harvest of seed sowing. They have sown and are may spill into the western countries of Europe, and creep to still sowing to the winds of crime and vice, of cruelty and op- 4 our own shores." pression, and now they are reaping and are destined to reap The Red Cross is an organization supported by the govern- still more fully, the whirlwind of calamity and despairing ments of the nations that make up its international member- distresses. ship, and while here and there occasional abuses may creep But for every one who will turn away from sin there is pro- in, yet the organization as a whole stands the highest, and is vided a sheltering protection by the omnipotent hand of a loving worthy of our fullest support. Every American citizen, man heavenly Father. Oir God so loved sinful humanity that He or woman, should take an active interest in this organization, gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever should believe in in view of the world's glaring needs. Him should not perish, but should have everlasting life. And And not only should we exert ourselves to the utmost to while we will praise our God because He cannot endure sin, yet help relieve the world's physical and material ills, but there is a we should sound His praises still higher because He has pro- service that reaches far beyond and much deeper,—a service vided a way of escape from sin. Not only does He give com- that includes every other service,—and that is the work of plete protection here, but an immortal crown awaits in the telling the world through the prophecies of the Bible what all great hereafter every one who unreservedly gives his heart to these appalling conditions mean. And furthermore, it is our God. The world is all despairing gloom to him, and only to duty to carry to the stricken world the tender promises of him, who is looking at present world conditions without the Jesus, who not only stands ready to bind up every wound but lamp of prophecy, and apart from the healing, consoling joys to heal every broken heart. of the gospel of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. The Signs of the Times for February 15, 1921 11 Among the Indians of huts, and flocks of llamas, alpacas, sheep, this station promises to be one of the and cattle, with not a tree to obstruct most fruitful about the lake. After two the Andes the view. years' work, there are two hundred (Continued from page 5) The missionary property consists of church members, forty awaiting baptism, "Our people," Pastor Stahl continued, the missionary's house, the church, the and three hundred others interested to "are taught to bathe once a week, wash dispensary, stable, and storehouse, erected know the gospel. The Sabbath school their clothing, and rid themselves of lice. at a cost of $1,500. Though having been has a membership of four hundred. Formerly, after shaking hands with the in operation only about three years, three We saw the people gathering from Indian believers, our American workers hundred Indians have been led to the every point of the compass, men, women, would find lice on their own bodies; but gospel and faithfully instructed in the and children hurrying to the dedication not so now." way of Christ. Seven outschools are in of their new church, hardly yet com- The Indians consume large quantities operation. The church building was ready pleted. Five hundred were able to get of alcohol and are slaves to its use. The for dedication. As the people gathered, within the building and as many more chewing of the coca leaf has also worked the men sat on a long bench made of crowded the door for entrance. The ser- great harm. In time, if used to excess, earth running around the wall, while the mon was delivered in English, then it completely ruins the mental faculties. women sat on the floor in the center. The translated into Spanish, that the Indian The effect of these evils can be seen in building, which accommodates four hun- translators might get it and preach it in the religious observances. For months dred, is built of sun-dried brick, covered the Aymara language to their fellow In- the Indian works in his fields, helping his with thatch, the floors being made from dians. still more industrious wife in caring for packing cases, about the only material NATIVE LIBERALITY his family, his llamas, alpacas, and sheep. that can be secured for flooring in that During this time he thriftily hoards his region. Another day of traveling, and we were able to spend the Sabbath at Plateria, the small earnings and lives a sober, quiet At the little dispensary so many were first mission station established on the life, until the feast day comes. Then the seeking medicines that we were able only lake. The church building at Plateria, bright homespun clothes are brought out with difficulty to make our way in. A accommodating 1,200, was crowded to the for all the family, and dressed in festive happy-faced young man, hobbling about doors. The people brought their tithes garb, they start for the feast which is on an improvised wooden leg, warmly and offerings in money and in kind. The held at the nearest church, where quan- greeted us. He said he was glad the large collection baskets were filled with tities of native drink and alcohol can be missionary took off his leg and thus saved obtained. For days, we are told, they his life. barley, potatoes, eggs, etc. The Indian drink and dance, until liquor or money gives liberally of his small store. An in- HOW CAN ONE DO IT ALL? is gone. Then worn out from the revelry, teresting part of the day's program was the Indians return to their native homes. A new day has evidently come to the a thousand, more or less, warm hand- A change has verily come over the In- people about Pomata. Missionary Ford shakes. They all wanted to greet us, dians who have come under the teaching and his devoted companion are bringing and if possible, after their custom, pat of the mission. help and deliverance to the people around us on the back. them. To them the Indians come to find We found that the majority of the THESE RESULTS EVERYWHERE the way of life. To them they turn in sixty or more native teachers and evan- A government official who had been sickness, to them they make requests for gelists in the field had been trained at acquainted with these people ten years schools for their children, and to them Plateria. From here they have gone to before, expressed to us his surprise at they turn for deliverance from unjust points north and south of the lake. Be- the remarkable change. "This mission," government officials. The door of service tween forty and fifty outschools are in he said, "has taught these Indian people seems open in every direction. operation. Young and old are learning to sing and read and pray. It has But how can these two missionaries to read. Villages far and near are ask- cleaned them up, and freed them from meet all this need? Who shall preach ing for native teachers. After we had the use of alcohol and coca. Everywhere the gospel and shepherd the flock? Who been waited on by forty or more dele- your missionaries have gone I find these shall conduct the Sabbath school, the gations, each consisting of from five to results." teachers' meeting, and the young people's fifteen native chiefs, who, like the im- We were interested to learn further of meeting? Who shall instruct one hun- portunate widow, urged their requests, the methods of missionary work which dred or more untutored Indians, wanting we saw how eager were the people for a had wrought such changes. We were told to know the gospel? Who shall faithfully better life. They would promise to build that from the beginning both medical instruct the baptismal class of fifty? the schoolhouse, equip it, and pay the and evangelical work had been conducted. Who shall conduct the dispensary, and salary of the teacher, if only the mission The method of Christ in preaching the care for the scores of sick who come for would supply the teacher and direct gospel and healing the sick was followed physical aid? Who shall supervise the the school. in every station, and each station visited outschools and train the native teachers? Our journey from Plateria to Puno, gave evidence of the value of this plan. Who shall look after the multiplicity of and then by rail through the territory of The Indians, who had no doctors and duties incident to the operation of a mis- the Quechua Indians, on even to Cuzco, knew nothing but heathen and supersti- sion station at an elevation of more than the ancient capital of the Inca Empire, tious methods of treating the sick, have 12,000 feet? Shall one missionary and gave still further opportunity to study found the American missionary a true his wife be left to labor alone? The these highland peoples. The opportunities friend in time of sickness. Macedonian call for help sounded in our for the entrance of the gospel are mani- HOW THE INDIANS ARE MADE OVER ears. One or two other strong, Spirit- fold; the people are ready, the hour has We wanted to see the missionaries at filled missionary families are urgently come. A training school to prepare na- their different stations, and to become needed. tive teachers and evangelists is urgently acquainted with their native workers and ALL WITHIN TWO YEARS needed. Twenty new missionaries, at believers. It was therefore arranged Thirty miles on horseback,—a day's least, should be sent to the field in 1921. that we should go some eighty miles by ride, and a long one, especially to one not As we descended the mountains to the boat to visit the Pomata Mission Station, accustomed to this mode of travel,—and Pacific, there lingered with us the vision returning by horseback in order to visit we reach the Ilave Pampa Mission, where of these people, their interest and their other stations by the way. As our boat Missionary Replogle and his wife are the need. Like a generation of sleepers they neared the shore, the mission school band only workers. In the midst of a great are awaking and calling for light. greeted us with notes of cheer and wel- pampa, stretching away for many miles, [The interesting work described by Mr. Shaw in come. We mounted our horses, and rode is set this center of light. From ten to the foregoing paragraphs is characteristic of what the people represented by this paper, the Seventh- five miles to the mission station, with fifteen thousand people live within ten day Adventists, are doing in many parts of the the band playing before us, and flags of miles of the mission. The soil is fertile, world. As you read these accounts, you may feel impressed that you would like to make a gift to welcome flying. barley and potatoes being the chief prod- help this good cause along. Many of our readers Missionary Ford and his wife are in ucts. Sheep, cattle, llamas, and alpacas are now making donations through regular chan- nels, otherwise this work could not be carried for- charge of the Pomata Station. The mis- are raised in large numbers. We were ward. But if there are those who would like to sion buildings, well located on the hill- told that at first the people of this region make contributions, but do not know through what channel they can have them reach the desired place, side, command a view of the pampa which were shy, indifferent, and unwilling to they may send their donations to Herbert G. stretches away into the distance like a listen to the gospel; but as they received Childs, Treasurer of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, California, specifying broad valley between mountain tops. physical help and the sick were healed, to what use the money is to be put, and he will see Here and there can be seen low Indian they became more favorable, until now that it is placed as the donor desires.—EntToas.1 12 The Signs of the Times for February 15, 1921 Seeing God Through His Works (Continued from page 5) shiped many gods, and all, at least one. In nearly all these various systems, if examined closely, it will be found that The the gods of immediate, or direct, worship are secondary powers. There seems to be a faint glimmer of light as of some Philanthropy almost forgotten tradition of the past of a great All-powerful who brought the world into existence—the Great Begin- of Jesus ning; showing that they once had some knowledge of the Creator and lost it. "The Lord is the true God, He is the liv- By WILLIAM P. ing God, and the King of eternity [mar- gin] : . . . He hath made the earth by PEARCE His power, He hath established the world by His wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion." Jere- "While the dead, aroused. miah 10: 10, 12. leaped to life." Although the Buddhist sabbath, or "duty day," follows the lunar month and falls on different days of the week, from the earliest times the Burmese have ESUS is called by a score of names: Dr. Thomas Barbour once said, "is named their children according to the day J a priest, greater than Aaron; a prime minister in the cabinet of love." of the week on which they were born, and prophet, greater than Solomon ; a It is not a question of race or creed, but of need. It is not a question of they have always had just seven days in philosopher, greater than Solomon; a teacher, greater than Hillel; a re- mere cash, but of soul. Chrysostom the week. On the seventh day, one must former, greater than Luther; a king had the right idea, when he said : "You not build a house, start a journey, buy to be, greater than all the Alexanders, go into the church to obtain mercy; clothes, and such like, as it is an unlucky Cmsars, Bonapartes, and Hohenzol- first show mercy. Make God your day for the doing of these things. They lerns, whose words are oracles and debtor, and then you may ask of Him must at one time have had the true story whose acts are miracles. Yet nowhere and receive with usury. We are not of the creation of the world in six days is Jesus call a philanthropist. But heard for the mere lifting up of our and God's resting on the seventh; but He was. Heaven gave no greater gift hands. Stretch forth your hands, not having wandered far from God, they than "the unspeakable Gift," and only to heaven, but to the poor. If you stretch out your hands to the have lost the meaning of that day of earth never raised a larger-hearted, more generous son, than Jesus. poor, you touch the very height of which He said it "shall be a sign between heaven; for He who sits there receives Me and you, that ye may know that I am The word "philanthropist" is a big word, but it is bigger in action. It is your alms. But if you lift up barren the Lord your God" (Ezekiel 20: 20) ; made up of two Greek terms: "philos," hands, it profits nothing." so that instead of their remembering "the loving; "anthropos," man,—a lover of There are just two classes of folks Sabbath day, to keep it holy," it has be- man, of man in the larger sense of in the world, after all. One class is come to them a day of ill luck for vari- mankind,—manifesting benevolence to- absorbed in considering what he can ous kinds of work. ward all, without class prejudice, caste get, the other in what he can give. prejudice, race prejudice. The former works on the supposition DON'T LIKE GOD Jesus was universal man's big man. that the world is indebted to him; the Men do "not like to retain God in their When He spoke, soul-cuffs of devils other that he is a debtor to all men,— knowledge," because to do so demands of broke, and rationality was reinstated to cultured Greeks and to rude bar- them respect and reverence toward so in the captive's mentality. At His barians. Romans 1: 14. The former mighty a Being. Especially of late, have touch, locked tongues were unloosed; represents luxurious living and penu- many men become too learned to believe sightless eyes beheld the surroundings rious giving; the other giving to live. in a conflagration of glory; deaf ears in creation or in creation's God, as por- "For a thousand million lives are his heard the vibrations of the harmonies Who carries the world in his sympathies." trayed in the Bible. They think them- of nature's music; while the dead, selves too wise and learned in science to aroused, leaped to life and cast them- John Wesley is said to have preached believe; but the real obstacle seems to be selves at the feet of Him who was a sermon on giving, in which he made that "the wicked, through the pride of his manhood's greatest possibility, in these three points: Get all you can, countenance, will not seek after God: all whom is combined all generosities, the save all you can, give all you can. A his thoughts are, There is no God." heart and pulse and purse of realistic miser who heard him was pleased with Psalm 10: 4, margin. Men believe largely philanthropy,—"the image of the in- his first proposition, and tickled with visible God." Colossians 1: 15. his second; but when he heard the what they want to believe, and because third, he shook his head and said: they do not want to acknowledge God and Jesus was a philanthropist. Paul said "He was rich." But He left His "Now he's gone and spoiled it all." the attendant duties they should render riches and "became poor, that ye He saw from the wrong angle. Blessed Him, "the fool hath said in his heart, through His poverty might be rich." is he who can pray as did Charles There is no God." Psalm 14: 1. Any 2 Corinthians 8: 9. Yet what a many- Kingsley, "Lord, give me a hand to thinking, sane man must admit that God sided Giver was He! Many so-called get and a heart to give." He began exists, but the foolish in the vainness of philanthropists merely give money. working on a small salary, but God his heart, the seat of his desires, as if to But Jesus gave something more than prospered him, so that he went into a convince his own reason, keeps repeating, money; He gave food to assembled big business, and his heart kept pace "There is no God; there is no God!" thousands on two occasions. That was with his hand. Let us follow Jesus and give with "a cool head and fervid "The Lord made the heavens," and rea- philanthropy. He gave sight to the blind, speech to the dumb, hearing to heart," wherever and whenever need son tells us "the Lord is great, and the deaf, locomotion to paralytics, life presents itself. greatly to be praised: he is to be feared to the dead. That was philanthropy. Jesus shows that the philanthropist above all gods." Also, that we should He gave news which was good news,— shall be rewarded. He makes "a cup "give unto the Lord the glory due unto how sins might be forgiven, souls of cold water" reveal a disciple's heart. His name." Psalm 96: 4, 5, 8. In order saved, and eternal life assured. That He shows that help afforded one of that we may render to God the praise was philanthropy. He even gave Him- Christ's "little ones" will be remem- due His name, there must be a revelation self as substitute for man's indemnity. bered in the day of His appearing. of His glory, a record of His mighty acts That was the summum bonum of phi- Said He: "Inasmuch as ye have done and wondrous works, examples of His lanthropy,—the greatest thing in the it unto one of the least of these My world. brethren, ye have done it unto Me." goodness and mercy, and a description of Jesus taught philanthropy. "Freely Matthew 25: 40. Then He reaches His glorious everlasting kingdom, so that ye have received," He said, "freely the climax by saying that such shall the saints can make them known to the give." Matthew 10: 8. "Giving," as (Continued on page 15) sons of men. The Bible and the Bible only gives this revelation. The Signs of the Times for February 15, 1921 13 HERE was a small park near little thing, but it seems to speak TRobert's boarding place, and to me across the years, and it has here sometimes of a sunshiny after- helped me many times—just the noon he used to sit and feed peanuts memory of that dear little mother to the squirrels that strayed near, of the long ago. And nom that or to the blue jays that chattered makes me think of something I at him as they alighted, eyed him wanted to speak to you about. Do shrewdly, and flew away suddenly you go to Sunday school?" with the nuts as if they were com- "Oh yes! I teach a class of boys. mitting theft. Why do you ask?" As he thus sat one fine day in "Well, I'll tell you. There is a the fall, he noticed that a young campaign on just now, you know, woman was coming his way. She to increase the attendance at Sun- seemed familiar even at a distance, day school, and they are after me and a moment later he discerned to go. Some of the girls won't give that it was May Manning. Robert me up." hoped that she would not notice "Why should they? What have him, and he even looked down at you against the Sunday school?" his feet that she might not see his "Oh, nothing, so far as that goes, face so well. He heard her steps only I haven't gone since I was a on the walk, coming closer every youngster. Saturday night I'm out moment, but still he did not look up. rather late, and I like to sleep Sun- "Why, hello!" she exclaimed, day morning. And so I don't like "studying the size of your shoes, or to promise, because if I promise, having the dumps? Why don't you I'll do as I say I will. And they look up and speak to your friends?" don't want me for just one Sun- "Why, how do you do?" replied day; they are getting students to Robert. "I've just been feeding the pledge to come every Sunday animals. That's all." throughout the whole school year. "The animals?" Just think of that!" "Why, yes, the squirrels and the "What of it? I may go all my blue jays." life. I like to go. You will like it, "Oh, I see." She sat down on too, if you get started. Sign the the bench. "I didn't know but you pledge, and turn over a new leaf." were homesick," and she smiled at "I'll think it over. If I do, I've him mischievously. got to give up some of this Satur- "No, I am never homesick, unless day-night fun. That's the worst I fail to get a letter from my of it." mother when I think I should." "Possibly it will be the best of "Oh, what a baby! Such a nice it. Sunday school ought to do you little mamma's boy! How about more good than that can. Don't your father? Why only mamma?" you think so?" "My father has been dead sev- 'Who teary of a battle "Y-e-s," she answered slowly, eral years." with "liberal theologian" "that's why I say a mother would "Oh, that's it. Excuse me. It's QI alto day. have made me different. Well, I just the other way round with me." don't know how I'll decide it. If She hesitated a few moments. "I you see me in Sunday school, you'll have a dear old dad, but my mother PART SIXTEEN know. I'll have to move along. I died when I was about five years promised to meet Beth, and she'll old. I have very little recollection of her not like it if I keep her waiting too long." I don't know much about what the word Robert tipped his hat and bade her `mother' means. It must be wonderful "I have only the dimmest recollection good-by. He did not know what to think to have a mother." of how my mother looked," May con- of this Sunday school question. Not that "It is wonderful to have one like tinued, "but I am sure she was a very he had any doubts about her duty to the mine," he said. "Mother gets down deep- good mother. There is one little incident church in this matter, but he wondered est into my heart; but father has most that stands out in my memory quite at the motive which might be back of it influenced my ideas and beliefs; mother sharp and clear, and from it I think that all. She had told Beth, when she did not in my heart, father in my head and heart my mother was very good and kind. It know that Robert had heard her, what too. I think one misses a great deal when makes me feel sad when I think about it." her plans were, and everything she had he has to lose either." "Tell me about it," Robert requested. done since seemed to fit in with her dec- "I think that's so. I think I'd have He was very much interested in this se- laration at that time. He mused over been quite different, if I'd had a mother rious side of her nature. He thought it the situation, and finally dismissed it as all along. I've been rather giddy, I guess. much more worthy of her. too deep a problem for him to solve. He I know I seem different from other girls, "Why, I must have been just a little was glad that Jim had not come along and I lay it to that." thing. Someway, I broke my doll's head this time, at least. He would not have it Robert thought this explained some right in two. I was heartbroken over it. to add to the list of meddlings, as Jim things he had noticed about her, but did I cried and cried, and took on dreadfully. called all such occurrences, unless May not think it wise or diplomatic to say so, Mother at first didn't know what to do should mention it to him herself, in an hence he did not speak. She went on with me, I guess. Then she told me that attempt to tease him. What she was again in a moment. I must not cry. I could play that my doll capable of in this regard he hardly "I think I should have been more care- had got hurt, and must go to the hospital, dared think. ful about some things. At times I don't and have the doctor fix her just as he did feel very well satisfied with myself, es- big folks. I wanted to know if the doc- BOUT this time, one evening, Mr. pecially when I get in the company of tor could do that to my doll. She told me A Blakely made the announcement that certain people. I feel that I have failed just to wait and see. She put on her hat, there was to be another development in in some things. Don't you think so?" took the doll and went away. In a few the college theological controversy. "Why—" he hesitated, "why—I do not hours she came back, and sure enough, "What now?" asked Robert. think I am competent to answer that the doll was all right. It looked quite a "The Bible teacher is to speak next question. I don't know you very well. bit new, but I supposed that was on ac- Sunday at the church." Naturally, one can hardly be the same, count of the doctor's work. Mother had "You don't say so?" exclaimed Mrs. growing up an orphan. A father and evidently duplicated the head, and had Blakely. mother leave an impression for good on it fixed. I was too little to understand "Yes. And what do you suppose his one for life, or at least they should; else then. But I know now that mother did subject is?" what is the use of the training they give?" all that to make me happy. It was a "Can't guess," said Robert. 14 The Signs of the Times for February 15, 1921 "No knowing," remarked Mrs. Blakely. The teacher stopped and pondered a Until the Flood came, those who were "Tell us," suggested George. moment as if thinking just how to say outside of the ark were just as well off "'The Miracles of the Bible and Bible what he had in mind. as Noah, but when the great Deluge broke Miracles.' You see he's firing his second "This member of the board has told loose, it was worth everything to be in- barrel this time." me that another man has already been side of the ark. So those who are outside "Wonder which will have the heavier engaged to take my place. He is visiting of Christ during this earthly life may load," Robert commented. "The first on the coast on a leave of absence from seem to be as well off as any one else; but barrel seemed to do some execution, the institution where he has been teach- when death comes, and one's destiny is that's sure." ing for several years. This leave was sealed for eternal weal or woe, it will be "There's a report going around that granted him because of his liberal views. worth more than all this world to be this will be his last chance. They are They did not wish to lose him, but thought found safe in Christ. telling that the president says that if he a few months of absence would quiet the Nothing but a full acceptance of Christ talks again on the subject, he's going to opposition against him. will avail. It did not matter how near lose his job," Mr. Blakely said. "He has been all but engaged to begin people were to the ark when the door was "That will be too bad!" Mrs. Blakely work at the next semester. So, you see, shut, they were lost just the same. May exclaimed. I am to go at that time, although the God help us to be wise and make sure of I "He ought not to do it in that case," president and his board do not know that a home in heaven at last. "A prudent said Robert. "If he loses his place, he I am at all informed of the fact. man foreseeth the evil, and hideth him- will not be able to help us in this serious "And then, right at this time came the self : but the simple pass on, and are situation. I'd rather see him go slower opportunity to speak at the church. I punished." Proverbs 22: 3. feel that there are some things I must and last longer." "Hide me, 0 my Saviour hide, "Well, it's his affair, and he seems to say before I go. When I have said them, Till the storm of life be past; I am content to leave the work here in Safe into the haven guide; be planning it to suit himself. If he likes Oh, receive my soul at last l" it, we shouldn't complain." Mr. Blakely the hands of God. Surely 'we can do paused a moment. "Still, as you say, I nothing against the truth, but for the don't want to see him go. Then there truth.' So says the Word. The truth Darwinism's Death Knell wouldn't be any one left to stand for the is mighty and it will prevail! (Continued from page 2) old principles but you and me, Bob." "But let me assure you that failure to their guesses and probabilities ; but no "A lot you'll do," Mrs. Blakely said to speak at the church will have practically honest-minded, clear-thinking man can her husband, "although, as to Mr. Mc- no effect on the situation. I cannot see accept their strange theorizings. When Donald, you must not forget that it was how anything I do or refrain from doing scientists talk learnedly about man's re- just a boy that vanquished Goliath." now can change matters. The thing is lationship to the ape, their ramblings are "But David had a sling, and knew how already settled. humorous; but when preachers proclaim to use it," ventured Robert. "But do not let this matter be known. that Darwin has triumphed in spite of "And I think you have a sling, too, Perhaps I have been unwise in telling it, Genesis, their remarks become offensive Bob," Mr. Blakely remarked. "Of course but I trust you two men more fully than both to the intellect and to the spiritual it's a different kind, and has something you might think. I do not believe you experience. "Darwin has triumphed in in it besides rocks, and I've been sur- will fail me. Your desire for my welfare spite of Genesis"? Never! As well de- prised sometimes how you can use it. I led me to tell you all this." clare that a dead dwarf has vanquished hope we'll hear from you yet." The two men assured him again that a mighty giant. Darwinism is defunct; "So do I," said George, with a smile. no one would hear of the affair through evolution is an exploded error. Man is "He could do quite well, I'm sure," sec- them. And no one did, but already there certainly not an elevated ape or even a onded Mrs. Blakely. had gone out a report, as we have said, superintelligent relation to that animal. Robert was quite troubled about the that the Bible teacher would lose his po- Rather, man is a degenerate saint, the rumor that if the Bible teacher resumed sition if he spoke again publicly on the product of sin working in a body made his attacks on the miracle question, he subject of miracles. in the image of the Creator. would lose his position. As he and Mr. (Continued next week) Science to-day has undeniably demon- Newton were now on quite friendly terms strated the utter falsity of the Darwin- with the teacher since the episode con- ian theory. As Alfred Fairhurst, M. A., cerning the days of creation, Robert sug- The Storm-Proof Refuge Professor of Natural Science in Ken- gested that they appeal to him and try (Continued from page 7) tucky University has said: to dissuade him from jeopardizing his When the Flood came, the most impor- "This all-comprehensive doctrine rests position. tant thing in the world then was to be upon no adequate scientific basis. It is Between periods the teacher met them inside the ark. It was better to be on a theory the truth of which it is impos- with a friendly smile as he sat at his the inside of the ark and have nothing, sible to establish. Evolution is not an desk. The older man told why they had than to be on the outside and have all the established fact of science. The doctrine come, and that it was their desire to dis- world. So the most important thing in of evolution is not science." And to con- suade the teacher from doing anything the world to-day is to be right with God clude, we must give Canon Barnes' own that would cause the college to lose such by abiding in Christ. Therefore, we admission concerning the reliability of a faithful and loyal Bible teacher as they should make it our first business to ac- the theory for which he has discarded considered him to be. If he should go, cept Christ and His righteousness, and Genesis. Says he: "Evolution was, and another might be put in his place who thus be ready for a home in the kingdom still is, not an observed fact, but a very would be quite in harmony with the presi- of God. Matthew 6: 33. A home in probable theory." Comment on this ad- dent and in opposition to the Bible, as heaven is worth more than all this world. mitted weakness is unnecessary! they had come to view it. If we lose eternal life in that better Thus is science itself ringing the death "But," said the teacher, "there is some- world, we have lost everything. What knell of the evolution theory, proclaiming thing you do not know, and I shall have would it profit us to gain the whole world to the world the demise of an unscrip- to be careful about mentioning it. I and then lose eternal life? Therefore tural, illogical, and unscientific doctrine. think I can safely tell you two, but it this matter of accepting Jesus and His Common sense has triumphed over Dar- must not become generally known, for truth should receive our first attention. winism rather than Darwinism over that might make it hard for a friend of It should come before everything else. Genesis. mine who gave me the information." It is better to have only a little here "The Word of our God shall stand The teacher stopped a moment to give and be faithful to Christ than to have forever." the two men time to assure him of their all the world and be without Christ. "A • carefulness in the matter, and then he little that a righteous man hath is better THE religious survey of Ohio shows continued. than the riches of many wicked." Psalm that of the 6,000 churches in the state, "There is a member of the board who 37: 16. "Better is a little with righteous- 5,500 receive only part-time service from is in close sympathy with me. He does ness than great revenues without right." a pastor. In the rural districts, 66 per not have very much influence with the Proverbs 16: 8. "Better is little with the cent of these churches nave tower than others, and he does not see how he can do fear of the Lord than great treasure and 100 members each, 55 per cent have less much in open opposition to them. He trouble therewith." 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"The Crime of Competitive visited with unprecedented scourges of Shall We Stand Against God? war. But without seeking for the tap- Armament" root cause of war, which is wickedness, A LARGE number of the newspapers a prominent ingredient of which is cov- and magazines of our nation have ex- A CAMPAIGN against "the crime of com- petitive armament" is being waged by etousness and greed, men will endeavor pressed themselves upon the agitation the New York World. to secure "peace and safety" on plans of that is now so prominent regarding the The campaign conducted by the World's their own devising. establishment of the so-called blue laws But to have perfect peace exist along staff is based on facts and figures that throughout our nation. By far the are, as they themselves suggest, "as ac- with greed and selfishness in the same greater number of these newspaper curate as careful research could make heart is as utterly impossible as for a writers have unsparingly stated their man to lift himself over the fence by the them." The best sources of authentic opposition to such legislation. Indeed, straps of his own boots. We can see the information were exhaustively examined, some of our strongest religious journals absurdity of attempting the latter thing, and then they affirm that all their find- have openly announced themselves as op- why cannot we see with equal clearness ings were "carefully revised by an ex- posed to drastic Sunday laws. Many of the absurdity of the other? And why the most influential preachers in the large pert accountant." cannot we see with perfect vision that Among the figures presented is that the city churches have endeavored to show world conditions are most rapidly ful- that we have outgrown the idea of "Puri- great World War has "cost the United filling the predictions set forth by the States alone $24,010,000,000." In ana- tanical Sunday laws." apostle Paul in the first part of the third But the crux of this whole discussion lyzing the statistical tables gathered in chapter of his second letter to Timothy? research, we should be found in the fact that there is connection with the World's There it is specifically affirmed that are invited to observe that— no divine law for the observance of Sun- "grievous times" shall come "in the last day. There are at the present time many "In the fourteen years, 1900-1914, in- days" because men will be "lovers of self, clusive, the total appropriated for the human laws requiring Sunday observance, American army and navy (exclusive of and these human Sunday laws may be fortifications, Military Academy, etc.) found scattered through the pages of his- was only $3,567,989,532, while that for tory, even back to very remote times. the single year 1919-1920 amounted to But the truth stands out as a lone, con- more than thirteen billions! Nearly four spicuous, towering mountain peak, that times as much in one year as it used to there is but one divine Sabbath law. The be in fourteen! An average of about law that the infinite Jehovah proclaimed $250,000,000 a year before the war, from Sinai, defining the Sabbath and pre- against about $13,000,000,000 in the year scribing the manner of its observance, after the war!" is the one and only divine precept. In other words, we spent last year This controversy, then, over the Sun- fifty-two times as much as the average day question involves something more of the fourteen years before the war. than mere human legislation and mere Referring to the "five great allied human factors. It involves, with all its powers," Great Britain, United States, startling significance, the setting aside of France, Italy, Japan, it is affirmed "that the one supreme law of Jehovah, in favor the total appropriations for armaments" of a man-made institution. for "1920 amount, to the stupendous Can there be any doubt in your mind total of $16,185,356,422." The World in- where the great God Himself will stand vestigator says that "flap American share" in this controversy? Is it not perfectly of this vast sum of sixteen billions "is clear to you that He will stand on the side more than thirteen billion," which means of His own law? And does not the con- that it will take $124 out of the pocket viction strike down deep into your soul of every man, woman, and child in the that He will maintain the authority of

United States. I•tc, the commandments that He so majesti- The World investigators quote Dr. Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, founder of the Interna- cally proclaimed from Sinai? tional Reform Bureau, who is heart and soul in • E. B. Rosa of the United States Bureau the current movement for "blue law" legislation. of Standards, as saying "that 67.81 per He has been a reformer for fifty years, and were he to have his way, the church would sit in Cae- The All-Sufficient Book cent of all the money spent by the Gov- sar's seat, dominating politics as well as religion. ernment goes in paying for recent and "THIS Book contains the mind of God, previous wars, and that another 25.02 lovers of money," and it is also affirmed the state of man, the way of salvation, per cent is for the running expenses of that these selfsame men who are creat- the doom of sinners. Its doctrines are the army and navy. Which leaves just ing the grievous times will be "holding a holy, its precepts are binding, its his- 7.17 per cent for all other functions of form of godliness, but having denied the tories are true, its prophecies are sure, the Government." power thereof." and its decisions are immutable. Read Or stated differently, these figures show Misguided religious enthusiasts will it to be wise, believe it to be safe, and that nearly 93 per cent of the income of yet lead the world into joining in the practice it to be holy. It contains light our Government is spent in taking care acclaim of "peace and safety," as pre- to direct you, food to support you, and of our wars of the past and in looking dicted by Paul in the first part of the comfort to cheer you. It is the traveler's after the wars that are in prospect for fifth chapter of 1 Thessalonians. But map, the pilgrim's staff, the pilot's com- the future. note that this prophecy also forewarns pass, the soldier's sword, and the Chris- These staggering burdens in the us that it is when they are saying peace tian's charter. Here Paradise is re- strongest nations of the world are driv- and safety that "sudden destruction corn- stored, heaven opened, and the gates of ing men to seek some method of patch- eth upon them." hell disclosed. Christ is the grand sub- ing up a world peace. Even the greed There was one rude awakening from ject, our good its design, and the glory and covetousness of the time may be a the dream of "peace and safety" when of God its end. It should fill the memory, leading factor in causing some men to the World War broke upon us in 1914. rule the heart, and guide the feet. Read' attempt to work out a peace program. It is more than likely that we shall have it slowly, frequently, prayerfully. It is As the Scriptures most abundantly and a patched-up peace in the near future, a mine of wealth, a paradise of glory, clearly show, God has foretold that wick- when misguided religious men, as well as and a river of pleasure. It is given you edness of every sort, covetousness and the world in general, will say as at no in life, it will open at the Judgment, and greed of the deepest hue, would curse the time in the past, "Peace and safety," only be remembered forever. It involves the world, and create unheard-of perils in to be disillusioned a little later on by the highest responsibility, will reward the the last days. In consequence of this out- still greater "sudden ,destruction" that greatest labor, and condemn all who trifle breaking wickedness, the world would be awaits all the wickedness of this time. with its sacred contents."