in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.” School Bible Reading •J* William McCarthy, age 84, of New Jersey, is an atheist and believes reli gion to be a racket. Consequently, he filed a suit against his own state ask ing that the law requiring five verses of the Old Testament be read each day be repealed. The New Jersey Su preme Court replied: “ The Old Testa ment is not a sectarian book when read without comment . . . While it is necessary that there be a separation between church and state, it is not necessary that the state should be stripped of religious sentiment.” The New Jersey law permits, although it is not required, the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer. The court added on this point, “We find nothing in the Lord’s prayer that is controversial, ritualistic or dogmatic. It is a prayer to God, our Father. It does not con tain Christ’s name and makes no ref erence to Him. It is, in our opinion, in the same position as is the Bible read ing.” ' A carefully-documented release from our nation’s capital reveals many atrocities being currently committed by the Roman Catholics of Colombia, South America, against Protestants and Protestant property. Without a doubt in many instances these acts of violence have been done at the in stigation of Roman Catholic priests. A partial list includes 24 chapels burned, 5 chapels confiscated by Ro man Catholic priests or police, 8 chapels dynamited or otherwise dam aged, 2 chapels or missions closed by force. In each case, the congregations have been scattered under threat of death. In some, the local preachers have been murdered and many of the homes of local Christians have been burned. The date of these atrocities is the year 1950. High I. Q. ^ We quote the national Jewish re ports of 40 High School students who won the highly-coveted annual West- inghouse science scholarships. There were 13,585 students who competed for the 40 awards. Of the 40 who re ceived the scholarships, 20 were Jews. In other words, one-half the winners of this test of mental brilliance were members of American Jewry. To a fair, honest mind, there is no doubt but what God has given to the Jewish Colombian Inquisition
race two outstanding characteristics: first, an intelligence superior to the average intelligence of the Gentile, and secondly, a will to survive under persecution. These two characteristics explain in part why there is a Jewish race today after most bitter persecu tion. War Casualties It has been suggested in the pub lic press that the trouble in Korea was merely an “ incident” or a “police ac tion.” As of the first of October of this year, the casualties in Korea to tal nearly 21,000 men, making this a far more costly war than the Ameri can Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, or the Spanish-Ameri- can War. Conflicts today are fought on a vastly different scale from those of the past. The explosion of one bomb or the work of one machine gun can put to death more men than were killed in whole battles in the wars of history. With this in mind, the de scriptions of Ezekiel 37-39 and Reve lation 19 do not seem so incredible. Truman's Bibles The President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, has for many years been a collector of Bibles, assembling in all a total of about 50. The latest one to be added to his collection is one printed in Finnish, presented by the Finnish minister, K. T. Jutila, on behalf of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Not only does President Truman collect Bibles, but often amazes his callers with his ready Bible quotations. Of the many Bibles given to the President, the most expensive is a $5,000 Morocco, reproduction of the original Guten berg Bible, printed about 1456. No Delinquency According to a Wayne -University psychologist, William W. Wattenberg, associate professor of educational psy Thanksgiving, Nov. 23. . . ................... Psalms 121 Friday ........................Psalms 1 Saturday ............................ ................... Matthew 5 Sunday, Nov. 26............... .................John 1:1-18 Monday .......................................... Exodus 20:1-17 Tuesday ............................ ..................... Psalms 5! Wednesday ..................... ......................... Luke II Thursday ............................ ..................... Psalms 27 Friday ................................ ..................... Psalms 43 Saturday ............................ . . Psalms 119:105-112 Sunday, Dec. 3................. ........... Proverbs 4:1-19 Monday ............................ .................John 8:1-19 Tuesday ............................ .............John 12:23-36 Wednesday ........................ ................... II Peter 1 Thursday ......... ......... Friday ................................ ..................... Psalms 91 Saturday . ........................ ..................... Psalms 23
chology, boys who attend church are much less likely to become juvenile de linquents than those who roam the streets on Sundays. Professor Wat tenberg derived his figures from a series of interviews with over 2,000 boys who had been picked up by the Detroit police officers. The professor believes that church attendance is a part of a way of living which gener ally reduces tendencies toward juve nile misconduct, and that church at tendance not only helps keep a boy out o f trouble, but is a real help in keeping him from becoming a “ re peater.” Three Tyrants <£* According to Dr. Richard H. Hoff mann of New York, physician and psychiatrist, the three greatest killers in today’s world are not heart disease, cancer, and accidents, but the calen dar, the telephone, and the clock. Each year, estimates Dr. Hoffmann, these assassins topple nearly a million peo ple into an early grave. The calendar, by ever reminding the victim of dead line dates, produces tensions, tortures, and the tyranny of apprehension. The telephone jangles nerves into fatal fa tigue. The clock incites the urge to hurry, with the worst offender the alarm clock. It is to be remembered that in Heaven’s calm there will be no .calendar, no telephones, no clocks. Remember the Bible Institute in Your Will We suggest that our friends should remember the Bible In stitute of Los Angeles in their wills. The proper form for this is: “ I give, devise and bequeath the sum of $ .................. to the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Inc., 558 South Hope Street, Los Angeles 17, California.”
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WORLD -W IDE BIBLE READING Suggested by the American Bible Society
Universal Bible Sunday, Dec. 10
Psalms 119:97-104 ..................Luke 15 Isaiah 40:1-8, 28-31 . . . I Corinthians 13 ................... I John 3 ................Romans 12 .............Matthew 25 .............John 3:1-21 ......................John 14 ..............Matthew 11 . .Hebrews 12:1-13
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Revelation 21:1-7, 22-27 ...............................John 17 .............................Isaiah 53 Dec. 24........................Matthew 1:18-25 Christmas, Dec. 25..................... Matthew 2:1-12 Page Nineteen
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