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i HE TITLE OF this editorial is the title o f a book published by Doubleday & Co. in June o f this year, carrying the sub title, "Successful Preservation o f Human Body Feasible in 1964 .” Unfortunately this editorial must go to the printer before the pub lication date o f the book. But from advance promotional litera ture the book promises to be one o f the most widely discussed books o f the year. A scientist friend o f the author states, in the preface, “ It is important to realize that Mr. Ettinger (the author o f the book) is, in the strictest biological section o f the book, carrying to its logical conclusion an argument for which he has unimpeachable premises. He realizes the job cannot be done over night. What he is telling us is that we must begin. The job will be done some day and for every day that we put it off, untold thou sands are going to an unnecessary grave.” According to news re leases, the book, "The Prospect o f Immortality” begins with the sober explanation o f the scientific probabilities. It is explained that many lower forms o f life have already been frozen and revived and also many human tissues. "Complete mammals cannot yet be frozen and revived but it should be possible soon. Many individual scientists in this country and Europe are working on the problem. Freezing damage will be overcome in the near future, according to these scientists, and medical science will develop cures for most fatal diseases including old age. An individual dying o f kidney failure may elect to enter frozen 'sleep’ and be revived in later years when repair o f the kidneys is as simple as an appendectomy is today.” The second part o f the book deals mainly with the religious, legal and economic problems which are raised by the theme o f the book. Among the questions the author endeavors to answer are: What about the population growth? What happens to the soul? What about wills, property and insurance? Who decides whom to freeze? And who decides whom and when to thaw? How and where will the bodies be filed? What about a widow who is re married and is revived to confront two husbands? Contemplation upon the theme o f the book would lead one to a number o f most ludicrous conclusions and we would be inclined to consider the
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whole book a rather huge joke were it not written from such a serious point o f view and by serious-minded men o f science. Let it be said, first o f all, that the title o f the book is a com plete misnomer. Immortality is a long, long time. Even if a human being could be put into a "deep freeze” for a hundred years or more and then revived, after a short period o f time he would need to be frozen all over again or his demise would surely take place after all. The problem o f storage for frozen bodies soon would take on rather staggering proportions. I f one’s mind were allowed to indulge in a little fanciful contemplation, he might conclude that the vast continent o f Antarctica would become a huge deep freeze for such a program. It is well that Admiral Byrd made his several trips to the land way down under and laid claim to vast areas for the United States! On the other hand, as astronomers advise that one side o f the moon is in perpetual darkness, that is, the sun never hits it and nobody knows how many hundreds o f degrees below zero is the temperature on the dark side o f the moon, perhaps that is another good reason for the United States getting to the moon as soon as possible and laying claim to the frozen catacombs for the temporary resting place o f frozen bodies until such time as it is deemed advisable to revive them! Imagination conjures up the possibility o f reducing a body to an infinitestimal part o f its normal size during the period o f freezing by means o f an unknown process, soon to be discovered, o f course. This process might be compared with the present process o f microfilming books. Or, better yet, the newer process for conserving space in libraries as has been devised. (The editor recently saw an article describing a process whereby the whole Bible could be reduced in size so that the entire volume might be reproduced on a piece o f paper the size o f a postage stamp.) It would be quite a development to re duce the human body to those proportions! It would be merely a further development o f the head-shrinking skill o f the South American Jivaros. This is not intended to ridicule a serious treatise on the part o f a man o f science. We appreciate more than we can ever tell the contributions o f science to the physical well-being o f the hu man race, and we are thankful for every genuine scientific ad vance that has been and is being made. However, certain rather sobering questions come to mind when one considers the problem o f the prospect o f man-made immortality. The Word o f God very clearly states, "It is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment.” Unsaved men may long for immortality in this life because they instinctively know that when this life is finished there is a time o f judgment by a holy God which will not go well with them, based upon their own life and works. Hence it is conceivable that man might wish never to face that time o f judgment. But a state o f suspended animation through the process o f freezing would merely prolong the inevitable end o f this life in the flesh and bring one face to face with his Creator. (continued on page 31)
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O N th e front of Union Station in Washington is carved an inscription eulogizing man for the dis covery of fire and electricity and ending with the Bible quotation: “ Thou hast put all things under his feet.” Whoever prepared that inscription did not understand his Bible for the verse quoted refers, in its final appli cation, not to man but to Jesus Christ, the Son of man. God indeed made man to have dominion over creation 8
but he lost it and the only way he will ever regain it is through the last Adam, our Saviour. We certainly do not see all things put under man. True, he has come from tallow candles to television, from Kitty Hawk to outer space, but as Chancellor Hutchens put it: “ The world we have created is too much for us-. The wisdom of the race has failed before the problems which the race has raised.” The trail THE KING'S BUSINESS
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (II Cor. 5:17). How many church members give any evidence of being “ new creatures” ? With most of them, old things have not passed away nor have all things become new. They love the things they always loved. They go to the places they always frequented. They live the same kind of lives as before. They are just what they have always been and a man who is what he has always been is not a Christian for a Christian is a “ new creature.” We have tried to make the Gospel acceptable to modern man AS HE IS. We are so anxious to get church members that we lower the bars and denature doctrine and mark down prices until the church becomes merely an Old Adam Improvement Society. Let me illustrate: here is a prospective church member in a Sunday morning congregation. He is a man of the world, takes an occasional drink, swears a little and if tempted might be a little shaky morally. He wants to join churchv It helps his business, helps him socially and looks good on an obituary. He has his church let ter. People are going to hell these days on church let ters. Do we ask him whether he has ever been born again? He might be offended, even insulted. If we challenged him to deny self, take up his cross and follow Jesus, he would probably take off to some other church where he can be a member and live as he pleases. Such a church would not be hard to find. Our Lord had a far finer prospect in the rich young ruler who came with his manners, his morals and his money. Yet the Saviour demanded a complete sell-out from the very start. What kind of psychological ap proach is this? If He had followed the modern pitch Jesus would have said, “ Come along just as you are. Up to now my disciples have been fisherman and rather ordinary men. You will be a valuable addition and enhance the outfit. We will talk over the money problem later for that can wait.” Under no circumstances would we risk offending such a prospect with strict terms of discipleship. Not so our Lord. He must have thinned one multitude with His three “ cannots” (Luke 14:25- 83). In fact, if we may condense what He said, it amounts to this: “ If any man come to me and come not after me, he cannot be my disciple.” He preached another crowd away in the Sixth Chapter of John. He never played up to old Adam. Today we recruit unregenerated and uncommitted people who have never died to sin nor risen to walk in newness of life. Then we wonder why «we make so little impact on the world. There is not enough differ ence! We do not oppose sin; we appease it. The devil is not fighting churches these days; he is joining them. He is not persecuting Christianity in America; he is professing it. The new imitation brand may fill churches with members and put up buildings and raise money and be popular with this age, but it is a greater enemy of the true cause of Christ than all other foes combined. Well did the late Dr. A. W. Tozer write: “We who preach the Gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make. Christ acceptable to Big Busi nessmen, or the Press, or the World of Sports, or Modern Education. We are not diplomats but prophets and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.” We are not here to make God acceptable to men. We are here to help men get right with God. We are ashamed of the reproach of the cross and the foolish ness of the Gospel. A new gospel for old Adam may gather a church full of cheap disciples but it is with out the power of God unto salvation.
from protoplasm to perfection has ended in pande monium. Albert Schweitzer said: “ This is the most dangerous period of history. Man has learned to control the elemental forces before he has learned to control himself.” The worst of it is that God has been dethroned in our thinking and man deified. Communism and Hu manism teach and believe that man can take care of himself and get to heaven on his own power. He is building his Babel by education and legislation. He has never been so proud of himself and never had less reason to be. He has made himself the center of his universe. There was a time when he contemplated the sky at night and said with the Psalmist: “When I con sider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained, WHAT IS MAN ?” Today he surveys himself in haughty pride and says, “When I consider man, what are the moon and the stars!” Today religion has geared itself into this mood and has devised a new gospel for Old Adam. It gives man what he wants instead of what he needs. There was a time when we heard sermons on “ Prepare to meet thy God” as men preached on the holiness of God, the awful ness of sin and the certainty of judgment. But now God is the Big Buddy Upstairs winking at the wickedness of man. Although humanity is wallowing in a cesspool of filth and corruption, man is no longer regarded as a poor lost sinner. Basically he is thought to be sound and working his way up to a knowledge of God although the Bible says he started with that knowledge but has been going the other way ever since. And who believes in the judgment or hell ? Most parents today do not think of their children as being lost. “ Johnny is a good boy,” we hear. So was the rich young ruler. Johnny is a lost boy until he is found and a sinner until he is saved. If he believes not, he is condemned already. It would be a shock to know how many of our church peo ple are really Universalists at heart, believing that everybody will be saved somehow. The Gospel has been revised and streamlined to please modern man instead of calling on him to be reconciled to God. This new imitation brand of Chris tianity is more dangerous than outright infidelity. The true Gospel has never been popular and never will be. The natural man does not receive the things of God for they are foolishness to him. One might as well talk nuclear physics to a monument in a city park as to talk the deep things of God to an unregenerate man. Old Adam is under sentence of death. He must die and a new man must be born through faith in Jesus Christ. The supreme race issue today is: Do-1 belong only to the old race of Adam or am I a member of the new race, the sons of God? Old Adam must see himself a lost sinner and repent of his sins and turn to the Saviour saying what we used to sing: “ I am coming to the cross; What man needs is a miracle. I heard of a con verted drunkard and gambler who was asked whether he believed that Jesus actually turned water into wine. “ Yes,” he replied, “ and I can tell you more. I have seen beer turned into furniture and gambling tickets turned into food and an unhappy poor wife trans formed into a radiant woman, all by that same Jesus. It is easy to believe that He turned water into wine.” We need more miracles like that. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new I am poor and weak and blind. I am counting all but dross; Free salvation I shall find.”
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invitation rejected, and no idea un tried. Everyone must have his chance, and under our American system of free enterprise and equal opportunity, everyone gets just that chance. It is our freedom that has brought us to this high estate — intellectual free dom, religious freedom, political free dom, industrial freedom — freedom to dream, to think, to experiment, to invent, to match wits in friendly com petition — freedom to be an individ- A bed— but not sleep. Books— but not brains. Food— but not appetite. Finery— but not beauty. A house— but not a home. Medicine— but not health. Luxuries— but not culture. Amusement— but not happiness. A crucifix— but not a Saviour. A church pew— but not heaven. BUT what you cannot buy, you can receive as a GIFT. ual. That is our great American heri tage. To each of us is assigned a part in the great drama of life, and we can play our parts with the greatest meas ure of perfection only as free, un hampered individuals. Faith vs. Communism I believe that the Church is the only institution that can save this country from Communism. The rea son for this is quite simple: Com munism is atheistic — the Church is MONEY W ILL BUY
I n 1790, John Philpot Curran, the great Irish patriot, enunciated the principle of liberty when in a speech to his constituency he said: “The con dition under which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance, which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.” Liberty is a Christian concept, but people must first have faith in God before they can enjoy the blessings of liberty, for God is the author of lib erty. Then they must fight for the preservation of that liberty. Their failure to do so is a crime the punish ment for which is servitude. From the first until the fifteenth century liberty was rare, because the people either were lacking in faith or were unwilling to fight for their liberty. During this period there was little or no material progress; each generation lived just as did its for bears. Then in the fifteenth century came the Reformation. Under the Re formation men’s consciences were freed. Thereafter they were able to exercise their genius, initiative, and ingenuity. Freedom— Its Accomplishment No planning authority could possi bly have foreseen, planned, and or ganized such an amazing spectacle of human progress as the world has wit nessed right here in this country dur ing the last hundred years. No trust or combination — ecclesiastical, pri vate or governmental — could have accomplished it. This foresight could have been achieved, but only if there had been a wide-open invitation to all the genius, inventive ability, organiz ing capacity, and managerial skill of a great people — nobody barred, no
Christian; the one is the very anti thesis of the other. The Church must inculcate in the minds and hearts of its people that God alone is the Lord of Creation. When the Church takes its stand that man is a creature of God, it denies the very concept of Communism. Communism, crime, and delinquen cy are not caused by poverty, bad laws, poor housing, or any other eco nomic, social, or political condition. They are caused by sin. The only way to eradicate sin is by the redemptive power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Church is God’s instrument to carry the Gospel to man. In one of his great sermons. Dr. McCartney told of an old Saxon king who set out with his army to put down a rebellion in a distant province of his kingdom. When the insurrec tion had been quelled and the army of rebels defeated, he placed a candle in the archway of the castle in which he had his headquarters. Then, light ing the candle, he sent his herald to announce to those who had been in rebellion that all who surrendered and who took the oath of allegiance while the- candle still burned would be saved. The king offered to them his clemency and mercy, but the offer was limited to the life of that candle. We are all living on candle time. While the candle still bums, let us accept Christ as our Lord and Saviour. Let us by our life and witness spread the Gospel. And let us through faith acquire Christian freedom which alone can make this country a better and a finer place in which our chil dren and our children’s children may live and work. —J. Howard Pew Available in printed form from the American Tract Society, Oradell, New Jersey.
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ically local crimes and do not violate federal laws within the FBI’s juris diction. While the FBI does not have direct responsibility, we do render every possible assistance to state, county and city police in their fight against crime. Q . The country hears, though, that much crime today is committed by youths. A. Unfortunately, that is correct. Arrests of juveniles have more than doubled in 10 years while the popu lation increase o f youths aged 10 through 17 was less than one half. Young people in cities accounted for 62 per cent of all arrests for automobile theft, 51 per cent for burglary, 49 per cent for larceny, 28 per cent for robbery, 20 per cent for forcible rape, 12 per cent for aggra vated assault, and 8 per cent for murder. In rural communities, youths rep resented 52 per cent o f all arrests for automobile theft, 41 per cent for burglary, 33 per cent for larceny, 13 per cent for robbery, 10 per cent for forcible rape, 8 per cent for ag gravated assault and 5.5 per cent for murder. Q . What, as you see it, has caused this rise in the crime rate among youths? A. For one thing, there is a steady decline of parental authority. Moral (continued on next page)
and automobile thefts rose 13 per cent. Or, look at the cost side of crime. Our estimate o f this cost is 22 bil lion dollars a year — an average of $128 for every man, woman and child in the United States. For each $1 spent on education, crime costs $1.11; and for every dollar donated to religious organizations, crime costs $9. Q . Since you became a part of the FBI nearly 39 years ago, in what way has organized crime changed? A. We find that the overlords of crime have moved out of gang hide outs into the mainstream of Ameri can life. These criminals have great wealth, taken in from organized gambling, prostitution, the sale of narcotics, the sale of obscene materi al, and other vices. With that money, they have bought into legitimate businesses or set up their own. They have even infiltrated labor unions. Using this new “ respectability” and their wealth, hoodlums and rack eteers have been able to exert real pressure on government, businesses and unions to make possible a fur ther spread of graft and corruption. The fountainheads of this organ ized crime, of course, are the vices that support it. These vices and their by-products, such as thievery, as saults, rapes, and murders, are bas
Q . Mr. Hoover, is the problem of crime in this country getting more and more serious? A. It certainly is. During the 10 years between 1950 and 1960, serious crimes in this country increased ji&- per cent. Population rose 18 per cent. C?hne—grew five times faster than population. Q . But what does this mean in terms of crime itself? A. It means that the more than 7,700 police departments of this country reported 1,861,300 murders, forcible rapes, robberies, aggravated assaul t s , burglaries, au t omo b i l e thefts and larcenies o f $50 or more. Q . Can that figure be simplified still further, so that the public gets an even better understanding of it? A. Yes, it can. In analyzing the statistics, we have found that, on an average, there was a willful homicide committed every 58 minutes; a burg lary every 39 seconds; a robbery each 6 minutes; an aggravated as sault every 4 minutes; a car theft each 2 minutes during the year. Compare figures with an average of three preceding years, and you will find that murders were up 10 per cent; forcible rapes up 9 per cent; aggravated assaults rose 12 per cent; robberies up 23 per cent;
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standards, too, have declined in the home and the community. Because of adult delinquency, young people are not being given the proper guid ance. Public indifference to organized vice has made it easy for the sales men of the criminal empire to reach young people with obscene material, narcotics and other evils which weak en their character. Television and movies, I think, must also share part of the blame. The highly suggestive and, at times, offensive, scenes, as well as the fre quent portrayal of violence and bru tality on television screens and in motion pictures, are bound to have an adverse effect on young people. Q . Do you have any suggestions con cerning how this youth-crime problem can best be dealt with? A. I have been called an advocate of a “ get tough” policy with respect to young criminals. I do not deny the charge. Of course, I do not propose harsh treatment for perpetrators of minor offenses. The treatment o f young criminals, like those who have passed their eighteenth birthday, should be fair, reasonable and realistic. How ever, I can see no difference between a 17-year-old who willfully robs, rapes or kills and a person of greater age who commits the same acts. Frankly, I am disgusted by the misguided sentimentalists who want to pamper and excuse teen-age thugs. This leads only to disrespect and con tempt for law and order. As long as we have people who in sist that tender age is an excuse for any and all misdeeds, we will have young hoodlums who will think they can get away with anything. When they realize, however, that they will be held strictly accountable for their crimes, many of them will be de terred from committing crimes. Q . Is it going to be necessary, then, for the public attitude toward criminals to change? Has the time come when police authority needs to be strengthened? A. There is a large segment o f the public which seems bent on protect ing a criminal regardless of what crime he has committed. I firmly be lieve that the lawless must be con vinced that they will be held strictly accountable for their willful acts. Unmerited sympathy only encour ages disdain for law and further depredations. Certainly this is no time for weakening the authority of law-enforcement agencies, but the matter of strengthening authority must be decided by the people ac cording to their needs.
Q , In view of various police scandals we keep hearing about, can the American people really trust their law-enforcement agencies? A. Yes, of course they can. Now, I know that there are dishonest members of the law-enforcement pro fession — just as in every other pro fession. But I am glad to say that such low characters are very few, and the vigor with which honest officers ferret them out is a credit to the profession. Since I took office in 1924, public respect for law-enforcement agencies has progressed to the point where the American people can and should take great pride in them and provide the support they need and deserve. Q . In your opinion, are most criminals mentally ill people who should be treated in a hospital, not punished? A. The trend toward labeling all criminals as “ mentally ill” is gain ing popularity among some people. I view this as just another attempt to shower sympathy on those who mock law and order. Hardened criminals definitely are “ morally ill.” Their “ sickness,” in my opinion, is more dangerous to society than the most dread communicable disease, and society can be protected from them only by their isolation. Q . What is your position on capital punishment? A. I believe that despicable crimes must be dealt with realistically. Ex perience has shown that the best deterrents to crime are sure detec tion, swift apprehension and proper punishment. Each is a necessary in gredient. It is my opinion that, when no shadow of a doubt remains relative to guilt, the public interest demands that capital punishment be invoked where the law so provides. I cannot see where the complete abolition of capital punishment would benefit this country. Q . Whaf are your feelings about parole, probation and other forms of leniency for convicted criminals? A. I realize the necessity of re habilitation efforts. I stand behind the principles of parole, probation and other forms of clemency. But nothing can discourage a law-en forcement officer more than to see some criminal he has risked his life to capture set free through unwar ranted leniency. I have seen too much abuse and maladministration of the systems of parole and probation, and too many instances where little or no consid
e r . J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation eration was given to the need of protecting society by isolating de praved criminals. It is imperative that the rights of law-abiding citi zens receive at least the same respect and consideration as the rights of the lawless. To give you an idea of how often ill-advised trust has been placed in convicted criminals: Mo r e than 20,000 of the persons listed as fugi tives in our Identification Division are wanted as parole or probation violators. Of the 160 criminals who have appeared since March, 1950, on the FBI’s “ Ten Most Wanted Fugi tives” list, 135 have previously re ceived some sort of leniency. Q . Mr. Hoover, both you and the FBI are held in high esteem by most Ameri cans. What are the organizational prin ciples which you have followed, to earn this respect? A. The FBI is organized under three basic principles: Recruit the best-qualified men and women of in tegrity possible, thoroughly train them, and hold them strictly account able for the work they are assigned to perform. Each applicant for work in the FBI is thoroughly investigat ed and carefully judged to deter mine if he meets the high standards we have for employees. We strive to weed out the weak and the un trustworthy before they join us. We realize we hold a great trust, and all our principles of operation are aimed at insuring that we do not violate or misuse this trust in any way. —Courtesy of U.S. News and World Report
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T here is no greater blessing in all the world than giving the truths of God to sin-darkened hearts. Such was our privilege among the Dyaks of Borneo. We found, how ever, that when these wonderful peo ple became converted, they were a real blessing to us personally. Having heard the Word of God for the first time in the village of Balai Ranjok, one man came to me saying, “ I would like to have you come to my village and visit my home.” I promised him I would do so. However, I was somewhat sur prised when the day for the visit came and he ran out to meet me, strangely saying, “ I am so glad you have come. But we aren’t quite ready.” Leading me down the trail to his longhouse, he again assured me that he was glad to see me, but that he wasn’t quite ready. What an odd welcome! Reaching his humble home which was built about eight or ten feet off the ground, with a notched ladder running up into it, he urged me to enter, again apologizing for not being ready. Once inside I was given a block of wood upon which to sit. And as I took my place, I wondered what was going on. /Meanwhile he called to his wife to put on the water. I watched in amazement as he brought in a four-legged arrange ment that vaguely resembled a table. Nodding his head with satisfaction, as much as to say, “We’ll be ready after a while,” he disappeared, and the next time I saw him was at the entrance to the longhouse. He was struggling to bring something inside which was several inches too wide for the opening. But door jambs in the jungles of Borneo are made of bark, so it gave as he jerked it back and forth and with one great yank, he was successful. This rather shaky object was none other than a chair he had built for the occasion. Then in a few moments, he came back with a little woven cloth rug. I was amused as these “ conveniences” of home. He told me to sit down. Pro testing that my shoes were muddy, I wondered at the stability of the “ furniture.” But I knew he would be offended if I didn’t comply with his plan. First, placing a bit o f white cloth on the table, he brought in a tray on which was a bowl of coffee, a bit of sugar in a saucer, a can o f milk and a few cookies. Then he eagerly urged me to help myself. The
What have I done today for the Lord? What did it cost me yester day to serve Him? Pray the Lord of the harvest that He will thrust forth laborers into the over-ripened fields to gather precious souls to His name. There are many just like the man who made the shaky chair and the unsteady table and spread before me a true love feast that day! Let us seek them while it is yet day for the night cometh when no man can reap, teaspoon of sugar I took was not enough for him. “ Have some more. Have all you want,” he pressed. So, not wanting to hurt his feelings I helped myself lavishly. The milk was that thick Eagle’s brand condensed milk from home which is very sweet. This too I had to use in abundance. Literally pushing the cookies at me, he sat down on the floor by my side. In great excitement he watched me drink this strange mixture and eat the odd-tasting cookies. I could not but think of the words of the Lord Jesus Christ when He spoke of the reward for giving even a cup of cold water in His name. (Actually the cold water that day in the jungle would have been more palatable!) Now, coffee, sugar, con densed milk and cookies are not the usual staples of a Dyak home. Know ing I would be coming, he had sent downstream for them, while he in dustriously worked with his hands, laboriously building a crude table and chair for my use. I figured the food must have cost him at least 40 cents. In those days, one could hire all the men he wanted for 8 cents a day! So there on the table was the equivalent of five days’ work. He had gone to all that trouble and ex pense because he wanted to welcome a servant of the Lord into his long house. Do you wonder that my heart was filled to overflowing? Why did he do it? Because one day in the village of Balai Randjok, he had heard about the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God. Hearing about Him, he had bowed his head, heart and knees and received the Saviour. Je sus said, “Whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but Him that sent me. Whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.” As you think of the dear people in foreign lands who have little op portunity to hear, ask yourself:
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