OF THE TIMES - THIS FAST-MOVING AGE Vol. 83, No. 4 UNITED PRESS 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Volume 83 1•"--"9" Jan. 24, Number 4 1956 ll'illillilliii111111111111',i1111111111i11111111111111111111111111111111il1i11ilill1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ft> ( f < Lutheran Reader DEAR SIR: NA/ I am a Lutheran, but have had much good from the Signs of the Times. Enclosed is a little financial help—$10. H. K. of the TIMES Spring Valley, Minnesota. Light iri the Dark DEAR SIR: The World's Prophetic Weekly I consider the Signs of the Times very im- portant to my spiritual growth. To be without Editor . ARTHUR S. MAXWELL this magazine would be like turning out the light in a dark hallway. H. C. Assistant Editors Charles D. Utt, Donald A. Webster Lathrop, Missouri. Art Director . Robert E. Kutsch Bundle of Blessing Circulation Manager H K Christman DEAR SIR: The Signs of the Times is the greatest little bundle of blessing on earth to me. Before I CONTENTS started reading it I threw most of my money away on beer, wine, and whisky; but thank EDITORIAL God the Signs has helped me to give up the The Shining Flood 3 liquor habit. Now I have a nice Pontiac auto- mobile and have been sober over a year. Thank ARTICLES God again and again for such a wonderful Why I Hope to Get Out Alive Leonard C. Lee 5 little magazine! Enclosed is my renewal. What's Getting Under W. E. H. Your Skin ? . ... Clifford R. Anderson, M.D. 8 High Point, North Carolina. Certainty of Bible Prophecy Ernest Lloyd 14 Priceless Value This Fast-Moving Age .... Donald W. McKay 16 DEAR SIR: Due to an automobile accident, I have just SERIAL STORY spent nearly a year in a hospital. While I was God Cares for You Betty Stirling 10 there a nurse entered my name for a year's READERS' QUESTIONS subscription for the Signs of the Times. It has Signs Counsel Corner William A. Fagal 7 been of priceless value to me in comfort and spiritual help, and I surely appreciate the gen- I Have a Question, Doctor "Your Radio Doctor" 9 erous thoughtfulness of the nurse. B. J. B. Your Bible Questions Answered Charles D. Utt 11 Brookline, Massachusetts. JUST FOR YOUTH Face to Face With Truth How Are You Building ? Donald A. Webster 12 DEAR SIR: BIBLE STUDY For sixty-one years I was a member of a "A God-Inspired Book" Robert H. Pierson 13 certain church. I began to realize that I was getting further and further away from God, POEM and that I could not believe many of the doc- Light in the Dark Helen Rogers Smith 5 trines which this church taught. I wanted to REGULAR FEATURES get back to God and wondered how to do it. Letters to the Editor, 2; Our World Today, 6. Then came the Signs of the Times, which a patient sent to me. God bless her! The paper brought me face to face with the real truth of the Bible. As the Signs kept coming, I searched the Scriptures, and now I am happier and better satisfied than I have ever been, thanks to the Lord and the Signs of the Times. I do not want to ever be without the paper. I pray A publication of the Seventh-day Adventists, the "Signs of the Times" is printed and that more people may read it and find the published weekly (four issues a month) by the Pacific Press Publishing Association of Moun- truth as I did. DR. T. T. C. tain View, California, U.S.A. Entered as second-class matter September 15, 1904, at the post office at Mountain View, California, under Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mail- Okeechobee, Florida. ing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, and authorized September 18, 1918. 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Page Two T 0 It I A L the flight o THE SHINING FLOOD OME waterfalls seem to be luminous, even on the dark- est night. Somehow the tumbling torrent takes on a fluorescent glow. Even so it is with the Signs of the Times. As it pours from its great rotary press week by week, Pilots of Thailand's Royal Air Force line up before their new T-33 jet trainer planes at Don Maung. The jets are the first given to it is like a shining flood of truth and love flowing out into Thailand by the United States. the world's dark night. Nor does this flood lose its gleam as it divides into even smaller and smaller channels. Even the one lone copy, still moving slowly from hand to hand in some far-off village in a foreign land, retains its mystic light, bringing hope and Cheer and gladness to darkened minds and hearts. More than twelve million copies of the Signs are printed every year. This torrent of truth, this shining flood of spirit- ual light, flows into more than sixty different countries around the globe, leading more people to Christ, saving more sinners from despair, bringing more lonely hearts good cheer than will ever be known till the day when all secrets are revealed. We are permitted but a few brief glimpses of the good accomplished by this glowing ministry; but when they come to us from time to time they are always the same—like little flashes of light in the dark that tell us this labor of love is not in vain in the Lord. From North India comes a letter telling of a man living in an out-of-the-way village who somehow, three years ago, Pleas for help sprout like flowers at the Friedland prisoner repatria- tion camp in Germany. The signs appeal to POW's returning from obtained a copy of the Signs and read it. As a result he ac- Russia for information concerning missing German soldiers. cepted Jesus as His Saviour and decided to follow the teach- ings of the Bible. Then he won his family and several friends for the Lord. Early in 1955 a missionary was sent to this village. Today, nine months later, there is a church of 1.4.0 members here. From the Bahamas a minister writes to say that most of the converts he baptizes find their way to Christ through reading the Signs. From West Africa a letter tells of a copy of the Signs being read aloud to the crew of a river boat during a long trip. "You should have heard the commendation of these men as I read to them 'A Cure for Selfishness,' in your issue of October 6, 1953," says this correspondent. At a baptism on the Gold Coast a new Christian recently gave this testimony: "I was a drunkard and did not care a fig for Christianity. One day someone offered me a copy of the Signs. I accepted it but threw it aside when I got home. Some days later I took it up and began to read. I was so impressed, with the message that I could not put it down PHOTOS: UNITED RRESS until I had read every word. I went back to the man who had given me the paper and asked for another copy. A little The U.S.S. X-1, the U.S. Navy's first midget submarine, cruised across Long Island Sound recently for a series of tests. The tiny while later I gave my heart to Jesus and decided I would X-1, which is fifty feet in length, will be manned by a crew of five. never drink again." This man is now an active lay preacher and has won many to the Lord. From Portuguese Goa a friend writes, "Though I am a for January 24, 1956 Page Three &Air 4111. 4.46 AS+A& • 11.4. 9.‘ %lb lb .11,11. Catholic I enjoy reading the Signs and always look forward 4V+911. 411. 4! 99.91. 9V 91. 69 .946 ea 99.111. to it. I am surprised to find that every one of its teachings is based on the Bible." The Hindu librarian of a medical college in India says, "I want to have this paper for my personal use. If you will Signs" Requests see that it is sent to my home address, I will be greatly obliged." Another Hindu writes, "The Signs of the Times is a won- for 1956 derful weekly. It is a source of great pleasure to me. I pre- serve whatever copies of the paper I can get in a binder for AFRICA 100 Nuzvid, Kistna, India future use." 50 Bo, Sierra Leone 100 Mussoorie, United Prov- Pastor A.