and safety— a hole in the ground! And, since “ the devil a devil would be,” it looks as if he were inveigling his wise men into inventing some sort o f saucer contraption upon which to sit and follow the saints of God into Heaven itself! But that is to be his undoing, for that is the day in which he himself, will go into a hole in the ground, even as it is written: “ And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the king dom o f our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser o f our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night” (Rev. 12: 7-10). “ And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be ful filled” (Rev. 20: 1-3). An under ground pit is for the devil, and not for the saints of God! However, in this day so clearly foreseen by the prophetic eye of our Lord and Saviour— in this day when there is upon the earth “ distress of nations with perplexity” (Gr. with no way out )— in this day when we see “men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things that are coming on the earth” (Luke 21:25, 26)— in this day the children of God shall hear a voice saying: “ Neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid . . . look for him” (Isa. 8:12, 17)! Even while our Lord shall tarry, the children of God, who walk in the light o f the unfailing word of proph ecy, fear not the fears o f those who stagger about in the darkness of un belief. If only men will believe, the Word of God will comfort them and give them an assurance that men of science are unable to give. John relates his wonderful experi ence : “ I looked, and, behold a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were o f a T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
Park in Hiroshima after A-bomb struck.
Dr. Charles D. Coryell, of the Uni versity of California, chief of the fission products section of the atomic bomb project at Oak Ridge, Tenn., has declared that the world is too small to contain both self-seeking human beings and the atom bomb. Major George Fielding Elliot re marks : “ Civilized man has before him the utter necessity of preventing another World War, as the alternative to his utter extinction by the weap ons he has devised, and the forces he has succeeded in letting loose from their primeval hiding places.” Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel Prize scientist, declared to a University of Chicago Club in New York City: “ A super-world government is not a solution to world power. There is also a possibility that a tyrant will get control o f the world through such an instrument. The atom bomb is char acteristic o f a tyrant’s weapon. It is just the weapon that would enable a dictator to sit firmly in his seat, and no one could do anything about it.” Can anyone contemplate the past record o f Joseph Stalin, and his utter disregard for human life even when his own people are involved, and not realize the probability that if he were in complete possession o f the hydro gen bomb, that in his insane desire to rule the whole earth, if frustrated in that desire, he would do the Hitler act, but take all mankind with him? Page Eight
Thus, this world’s modern gods, the scientists themselves, stand aghast before the Rahu that they themselves have created. “ Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man up right ; but they have sought out many inventions” (Eccl. 7: 29). Nor do the scientists know of any defense against it. Just several weeks ago, our Defense Secretary, Louis A. Johnson, told a group in New York that even if the United States puts all of its defense money, thirteen bil lions of dollars a year, into air de fense, it would not guarantee im munity from atomic attack. “ No one,” said he, “ could honestly guar antee against the possibility o f a suicide pilot eluding our air defense, even if we spent fifty billion dollars.” One o f America’s leading armament experts, Louis Bruchiss, associate editor o f Aerosphere and Aircraft Armament Engineer, stated that “ the only defense against atomic bombs would be to construct huge under ground cities safe from atomic blasts.” In other words, the human race, in order to exist, would have to become a race o f groundhogs! But at that, how, we wonder, could the race prevent some devil incarnate from dropping a bomb down into the hole? Or, shutting off the air? Or, running water into a hole in the hole? So! Is this all man’s boastful mod ern god, called “ Science,” has now to offer mankind in the way o f peace
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