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A FTER eighteen y e a r s of pains taking labor, the giant telescope on Mount Palomar, California, will soon be completed. The entire world is interested in this engineering feat and eagerly awaits the revelations it will bring. So great is the magni fying power of this instrument that through its lens the moon will appear to be about twenty-five miles distant, the dim stars, of our Milky Way will be clearly discernible and the brighter stars, of course, will appear to be of relatively greater intensity. This proj ect, which is . expected to be in use early in 1947, will cost six million dollars. We wonder how much more of God’s incalculable universe will be revealed by this giant g l a s s , and whether the sons of men, as they view the amazing new areas of space and starry universes, will turn their hearts to God. Certainly the heavens, at least, continue to declare the glory of God. ♦ D URING the last month, we have witnessed another exhibition of the influence of the Roman Catholic Church over the world press. With the crowning of thirty-two new car dinals, we have seen a ridiculously lavish and disproportionate gush of publicity by papers large and small, while events in Protestant circles have been relegated to o b s c u r e , inside columns. Why does the press bow and scrape before the Roman Catholic hierarchy? Some hav^ answered this question by claiming that Catholicism was more photogenic and therefore more newsworthy. We believe there is an underlying and more significant reason than that. It is that the Roman Catholic system is essentially anti- Christian and pro-Satanic. It sets up rites, rituals, and ordinances, some of them harmless enough in them selves, but evil and dangerous when they obscure the all-important doc trine of salvation by simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The world, in cluding its p r e s s , approves of a system whicl* exalts the work of man as a requisite for the recognition of God.
move i s to be pondered, as char acteristic of our times ♦ F ROM the editor of The National Voice we learn that, the city of Whittier, California, is successfully dealing with the l i q u o r problem. There are no bars in the city limits of Whittier and only three package liquor stores, one of which will close shortly. The police chief reports that rarely do they have drunken drivers. Inebriates are not seen on the city streets and burglary is almost non existent. The city jail for the most part is used to house prisoners en route to other penal institutions. The reasons behind this utopia are these: The citizens do not want any liquor sold, and the city council has given explicit instructions that the chief of police and the city attorney shall protest every ' liquor license. The Whittier police chief claims that strict control of liquor has simplified the policing problem and cut crime to a minimum. We warmly applaud the courage of these Whittier citizens and urge other municipalities to go and do likewise. ♦ A double-page' spread in the Evan- (jelical Christian furnishes th e good news that the Sudan Interior Mission sent forth seventy-nine new missionaries in the war year of 1945. Pictures of these bright young people show unmistakably their ability and aptitude for this most important work. Due, no d o u b t , to the war, only twenty-three of the s e v e n t y - n i n e were young men, about twenty-five per cent of the number. Too long has the tremendous burden of missionary enterprise rested on the shoulders of our young women. We praise God that they have been willing to go and to do what they could to reach the un- evangelized. But missions is a man’s work, and calls for c o u r a g e and strength. We trust that the statistics of 1946 and subsequent years will re veal the preponderate? on the side of young men who will hear and heed
A LCOHOLICS Anonymous, which is a national organization for the purpose of aiding in the rehabilitation of those trapped by the liquor habit, is authority for the statement that in this country there are six hundred thousand women alcoholics, and that one out of every four confirmed drunkards is a woman. These alarm ing statistics are the more frightful when we observe the present trend in our country to license additional bars and taverns. A drunken man is a sorry enough sight, as he reels and staggers from pillar to post, but a drunken woman is the world’s worst tragedy. May God raise up fearless political and religious leaders who will hit this vile liquor traffic and hit it hard! ♦ rpHE American B i bl e Society, for -L many years the publisher and dis tributor of the Book of books, seems well pleased with its venture into the field of sound moving pictures. The figures on the Society’s film, “The Book for the World of Tomorrow,” show that fifteen thousand audiences and approximately three million peo ple have viewed it. Plans are under way for the production of a new film on the general subject: “How We Got Our Bible.” + rpHE News Exchange reports that the -*- First Congregational Church of Los Angeles makes an annual charge of two dollars for each child attending their Sunday school. The purpose of this policy, it appears, is to combat “ religious illiteracy” by securing paid teachers who afe experts in the field of religious education. That there is a need of combatting religious' illiter acy no one questions, but will not this method produce literate unbelievers? How can anyone teach the warm spiritual truth of the Word of God, who has not first come into the ex perience of personal salvation by fajth in Jesus Christ? However, this
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