A Dollar A Minute California has a radio program en titled, “ A DOLLAR A MINUTE.” For one dollar a person can purchase one minute’s time for broadcasting. Recent ly a 38-year-old convict facing his fourth prison sentence, had the privilege of speaking over a coast to coast network direct from the Los Angeles County Jail. His speech warned youngsters that a life of crime often begins with juvenile delinquency and he spoke out of his ex perience of spending 13 of the last 23 years in jail. His testimony was “ The only big shot is the person who carries a lunch pail, and goes home at night when his work is finished, and doesn’t have to worry about being locked in a cell.” • This may be true but the convict should have added that the only “big shot” is the one who has come into a real relationship with God through faith in Christ as Saviour. 1034 Languages Jt Up to the end of last year the entire Bible or portions had been published in 1034 different languages and dialects. The whole Bible itself is published in 191 languages, the complete New Testa ment 246, and at least a Gospel or other whole book in 579. There are also 91 ad ditional languages in which there have been printed short passages or collec tions of Bible texts, but in which no complete book of the Bible has been printed. In comparison with this figure it is estimated that there is an additional number of 1500 languages and dialects into which no portion of the Bible has yet been translated. Kill Everybody <£ William L. Laurence, Science report er for the New York Times, suggests that there is in speculation one type of atomic explosion that might kill every one on the earth in a single flash. While this is somewhat remote, according to Laurence, the possibilities of the new hydrogen bomb are very real. The hy drogen bomb is made by surrounding an ordinary atomic bomb with a special kind of hydrogen. While there is only a few millionths of a second for the atom bomb to detonate the hydrogen, this, apparently, is enough. He believes that the hydrogen bomb will be a real weapon against armies in the field because one bomb’s explosion will almost totally de stroy everything within 300 square miles and will burn or start fires over an area of over 1200 square miles. This, he adds, will really stop or impede marching military forces. While it is not questionable at all that mankind would destroy himself if given the opportunity, the hindrance lies in the fact that God will not allow such whole sale destruction to come to pass by man’s own hand. Apparently the unbelievably dreadful judgments of the book of Rev elation come from God’s hand of judg ment rather than man’s. Page Thirty-three
Mountain Commandments <£* Those who are traveling in and around Murphy, N. C., should have little trouble in remembering the Ten Com mandments, for on the side of a moun tain near the town they are laid out in huge white letters, each one taller than a man. There is, without a doubt, a real need for this Decalogue to be constant ly shown to sinners and yet, of course, we know that the ministry of the law was one of condemnation. What joyful news it would be if under the law it could be printed, “ Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.” One To A Thousand In the spring of this year there were 2,695 chaplains of all faiths in active duty in the armed forces of the United States, according to recent fig ures released by the Department of. De fense. With about 500 more, the Chap lain Corps will be brought to the mini mum standard set by the three branches of military service. This shows that there is one Chaplain for approximately every 1,000 soldiers and the plan is to reduce the ratio to one Chaplain for every 850 troops. All of the services are seeking additional clergymen between the ages of 24 and 31. This is one of the splendid signs of hope among our armed forces and it is earnestly hoped that men of fundamental persuasion will seek this opportunity to be of in estimable service to both God and coun try. J. Edgar Hoover “ Parents who do not carry out their duty of instruction by example fail to assume their responsibility in a manner which is detrimental to our Christian society. The plain and simple maxims of the Bible contain the essential rules which should govern human conduct.” So says J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and so have Christian leaders been saying from almost time immemorial. Every pastor knows the tragic situation of parents who send their children instead of taking them to church and Sunday school. The tragedy lies in the lack of example, for in a few years the youth, being released from parental direction, terminates his Sunday school attendance mostly be cause of the lack of the proper example. What a difference it would make if for the sake of their children parents be came regular attendants at divine serv ices. Herod's Palace J* Dr. James B. Pritchard, archeologist, associated with the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, has an nounced that excavation in the ancient Holy Land reveals a large and elaborate palace supposed to be King Herod’s. This palace is in the Biblical land of Jericho a few miles from Amman, capital of the Hashmite kingdom of
By WILLIAM W. ORR, D.D.
Costliest Book & A copy of the Gutenberg Bible which has been lost since the first mention of its existence in 1824 was recently re discovered in London, England, and put on sale. The price is considerably higher than the highest price ever paid for a printed book. This copy of the Bible is known as the Shuckburgh copy for it was Sir George Shuckburgh who had it in his library in England in 1820. The discovery of the book brings the number of 46 Gutenberg Bibles known to exist and of that 46, 13 copies are in the United States. Teaching At 89 Mrs. L. H. Moreland of Baton Rouge, La., is 89 years old. She is perhaps the oldest active Sunday school teacher in the country and she began teaching Sunday school classes 72 years ago in the Selene Baptist Church in northern Louisiana where her father was minis ter. One of her chief pleasures is meet ing persons she taught in earlier years and one of these was Amos L. Ponder, state supreme court justice, whom she remembers as “a very nice little boy.” Bible Issue Delayed & A recent bill placed before the Cali fornia Legislature was the proposition requiring the Bible to be read in Cali fornia schools. However it will be two years at least before the legislature is asked to pass upon this question for the subject was recently referred to the State Board of Education for study. The measure as outlined would prescribe five minutes of reading from the Old and New Testaments every day. 28,000 To The Blind & The past year was the greatest year of work for the blind in the American Bible Society’s 116 years’ history. More than 28,000 of the large embossed volumes and talking book records were distributed in the United States. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 over the previous year. The books for the blind have been distributed in 34 different languages and systems but there are in creasing calls from foreign lands for these books where the conditions are even more deplorable.
Transj ordania. J U N E , 1951
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