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intensely interesting to know that our leaders are considering such a plan, all of which gives further confirmation to the accuracy of Bible prophecy. Destroy Civilization? It is being argued back and forth that an H-bomb war would mean death, devastation and the complete destruc tion of civilization. Dr. Linus Pauling, director of chemistry for Caltech believes that human, animal and plant life could never recover. f He believes that the atmosphere over the whole earth would be filled with radioactive products of nuclear reactions and no human being, no animal, no plant over the surface of the earth would in future years be safe from the insidious action of these materials. There is no doubt but that the danger that awaits the hydrogen bomb war would be the most horrible ever to be conceived. Yet, most Bible students will agree that the Scriptures do not portray any such' devastation to be caused by the hand of man. It does not seem that God will allow mankind to senselessly destroy himself although this might be man’s own intention. The scenes of destruction as portrayed by the book of Revelation come from the hand of God when He pours out His wrath upon a world that has spurned His love. Before that time, however, must come the calling away of the body of Christ—the true Church. The Main Trouble ■Jt The entire history of the human race shows plainly that envy and selfishness have been the underlying causes of most of the world’s trouble—so spoke Will B. Davis of Chicago, Christian Scientist, in a recent lecture. This is a surprising admission for the Scientists, who claim, of course, that all these things are im material and ethereal products of an evil mind. However, a man would have to be blind indeed not to reach this same conclusion were he to honestly study the world’s history. The ahswer, however, is not as Mr. Davis would suggest: the adoption of the principles of Scientist philosophy, but rather the new birth as taught in the Scriptures and provided by God’s own dear Son. Experimentation A Yale anthropologist predicted that within three generations society will condone premarital sex experimentation as a valuable means of choosing a satis factory husband or wife. Prof. George P. Murdock said that such experimenta tion would remove a major cause for divorce by permitting men and women to determine whether their married life would be- satisfactory. It is a strange thing how men who shout loudly enough can persist in claiming that black is white, and have some folks believe them. (Continued on Page 19)
all chance of getting, into Who’s Who is almost exactly 3-in-10,000. Only living Americans can appear on its pages and that appearance, of course, is determined by the degree of prominence and influ ence of the person listed. I might add .that God also keeps a book of Heaven’s Who’s Who, and entrance into its pages is attained by doing noth ing at all save to trust in the finished work of another, even Christ. Booze Ads Out •£ Recently the Pathfinder, which is America’s oldest news weekly, published a whole-page beer advertisement. Im mediately there went up such a protest from subscribers as was never before ex perienced in the history of that publica tion. Later at a stockholders’ meeting the matter of beer advertising was put up to the owners and the vote was unani mous to exclude henceforth all beer, liquor, or institutional advertising of these i n d u s t r i e s from Pathfinder’ s columns. This decision proved two things: first, that newspapers have respect for the expressed convictions of decent people and will not publish liquor advertising if the people tell them about it and, second, if the drys continue writing to newspaper publishers objecting to these ads, space given to such advertising will become less and less. New Eden In a recent issue of one of Chicago’s daily papers it was intimated that Presi dent Truman was interested in the plan to make several “ Edens” in the Near East, particularly one territory near the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This, of course, is purely on a business basis with the rewards accruing to be counted in dollars and cents. However, students of prophecy have long believed that this desert part of the Near East would regain its former glory and that a new Babylon would come into being some day as a world city. It is
Portugal Revival For what may be the first time in history, a stirring revival is reported to be sweeping a city in Catholic-dominated Portugal. In one week, 332 people who were all Catholics came forward for salvation in the Marinah Grande Baptist Church in Portugal. The Portugal press, normally dominated by the Roman Catholics, has been publicizing these meetings while government spies have been present at every meeting vainly watching for any suggestion of a sub versive movement. One high official re ported that the priests never did what the Baptists are doing there. At the present writing the services are con tinuing. El Rio Miracle? Manuel Reyes had been in the army and had come back to take up drinking in a shanty suburb of Oxnard, Calif. He and his brother, Aurelio, were building a new house next to the basketball court. On Saturday morning Manuel saw on the boards of the room what he described as an outline of the Virgin Mary, and ran crying through the dirt streets like a man bedeviled. The news spread until by Sunday night an estimated 10,000 persons had gone tq, view the little frame building, although both priests and police declared the vision was a water stain on the shingles. Such is the amazing credulity bred by Roman Catholic superstition. On the other hand, we hold in our hands the overwhelmingly authentic Word of the living God whose pages point us to the living Christ. New W ho's Who Jf The 1950-51. volume of the famed publication, Who’s Who, tops all its predecessors in size, Containing 3200 pages and 46,729 listings. Educators are first with businessmen running a close second, and lawyers third, while religious leaders, medical men, public officers and scientists follow in that-order. The over
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