Word of God is simple, telling, of ten in story form, God’s way for us to live. Christ is the answer to Numer ology because it is not our name, but His name which is important. We pray in Christ’s name and some day we will discard our name be cause in eternity we will be given a new name (Rev. 2:17). Christ is the answer to Palmistry because when we become a child of God we know our future is not dependent upon the lines of our hands, but in the fact that “ Even the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was none of them” (Ps. 139:16 A.R .V .), and that “ . . . he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world” (Eph. 1:4). Christ is the answer to Astrology because “ Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven” (Jer. 10:2). In the days of my girlhood, if the stars were wrong, I faced the day with fear. Now I face each day with confi dence, knowing that it is secure in Him. Christ is the answer to Spiritual ism, not because we have received a message from the dead, but be cause death has been conquered by One Who died and rose again, by One Who said, “ I am the resurrec tion, and the life” (John 11:25). I thank Christ for freeing me from the mumbo-jumbo of heathen cults. It is a relief to get up in the morning and know that my name, the stars, Animal Magnetism and not even the lines on my hands can affect me because “ If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). Let it not be said of you, “ . . . be cause they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved . . . for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie” (2 Thes. 2 :1 0 , 11), but rather, “ . . . He that hear- eth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemna tion; but is passed from death unto life” (John 5 :2 4 ) . END.
heart and find sin there, but what should I do with it? I found the answer in “ That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus* and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Rom. 10:9). Yes, in Christ I was saved, not only from sin, but in Him I found the answer to all my fears and questions. It was the fall of 1932 when I said “ I believe” and became a new creature in Christ Jesus. Since then I have faced the false teachings of the cults in the light of Christ and God’s Word. Christ alone is the answer to Christian Science because Christ ac knowledged that man is not only mind, but body. Sickness is not to be scorned because a person has not thought correctly, but should arouse our compassion as it did the com passion of Christ. Neither is sin un real, for Christ said, “ . . . that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins” (Matt. 9:6). As for the Animal Magnetism which the Christian Sci entist fears, there is no reference to it in the Word of God. Christ is'the answer to the men tal gymnastics of Theosophy, be cause in Him “ . . . are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Col. 2:3). Books on Theosophy lead one through a mental laby rinth, full of abstract terms, but the Extra Copies We believe this is one of the finest, short articles ever written on the sub ject of cults ¿aid false religions. Its greatness lies in the fact that it is a personal, first-hand, account. This is not theory. This is not a mew from afar. Because of the importance of this article we believe many of you will want extra copies to give to your Sunday school class, neighbors and relatives. This article is in attractive pamphlet form for only 35c a dozen. Please order direct from Dorothy C. Haskin, 2573% Glen Green, Holly wood 28, Calif. — ED.
used to think I would be really grown up when my own hand would itch and I could foretell good luck. I waited vainly for that day. M y hand never seemed to itch at the right time. Mother told me that the power would not pass to me until her death. Spiritualism was mother’s last cult. The first time mother and I went to a public meeting the medi um said my grandmother wanted to contact us and that she carried a bird cage in her hand. This com pletely captivated my mother be cause my grandmother’s name had been Bird. Surely it was the devil deluding the medium and us! After that, mother used to go to the med ium’s home, to the darkness of the cellar, and with others, sit around a table, singing my grandmother’s favorite hymn, “ Shall We Gather At The River?” But grandmother never materialized. How long ago that all seems! After vainly searching, believing their false claims without results, when she was 47, mother in des peration shot herself. She had found nothing in life to satisfy her. The shock of her death sent me search ing. I paid a Christian Scientist practitioner to tell me that my mother had become part of the In finite. I paid a spiritualist medium to tell me mother would wander in outer darkness until the time came when she would have died natural ly. A Catholic priest suggested that I pray her out of purgatory. Finally, weary, I telephoned a nearby church and, unwilling to hear the minister preach, I asked if they had a week-day Bible class. They had. I attended it, and was surprised to learn that just because one is born one is not a child of God. But, “ As many as received him, to them gave he power to be come the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1 : 12 ) . M y next question was, “ Believe what?” That, “ All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). It was not hard to search my
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