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office do not take seriously their oaths of allegiance to support the Constitution. Without honesty among nations, there can be no peace, even oi^*a temporary basis. The crying need today is not for more cleverness in the carrying on of international relations. It is for more fair dealing and simple honesty. It is believed by many that diplomacy must consist of bluffing and deceiving, of fiomp and pretense. It is sometimes ar gued that the democracies must “beat the dictatorships at their own game.” But this is false and unchristian coun sel. Honesty is still the best policy. The Ten Commandments are good for the nation as well as for the individual. AROUND THE KING’S TABLE [Continued from Page 171] concord and harmony . . . It . . . provides the necessary agencies for the establishment and safeguarding of a permanent and universal peace . . . “But in the Bahai teaching, sin is seldom mentioned. The evils of war, ignorance, poverty, prejudice, etc., are discussed, but Bahaism has contented itself with an attack on the symptoms, and has failed to realize the seriousness of the dis ease.” Again we see man’s futile attempt to bring in a golden age, largely by means of his own power. All of the aims are high-sounding and beauitful, but they lack the Scriptural conviction of “thus saith the Lord.” . In summing up the weaknesses of the movement, Mr. Miller exposes the heart of the error: « “The most serious charge which can be brought against Bahaism is that it has dishonored Him whom Bahais profess to love, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . The clear teaching of this Faith is that Jesus was not what the Bible represents Him to be—the only begotten Son of God, the one Saviour of men—for it declares that Jesus was succeeded by a greater Prophet, namely, Mo- ' hammed, who brought a new springtime to the world, and was for a period of twelve hundred years the Manifestation of God for all men.” The Christian cannot for a moment tolerate this disloyalty. For while on the surface, especially as it is pre sented in American" circles,- Bahaism appears to embody the highest of Christian sentiments, yet in its essence it is but another of Satan’s many de ceptions to veil the deity and the ab solute authority of the Son of God and His infallible Word. [Copies of The Bahai Cause Today are available upon request to The Mos lem World, 156 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.]
that the airplane wings and the engines of war will receive the coatings and the paintings r a t h e r than human faces, fingernails, and toenails! STALIN’S STRADDLE: • For days the newspaper headlines featured the “sensational news” that Russia had signed a nonaggression pact with Turkey. For weeks thereafter, the editorial writers and columnists pro ceeded to comment on the “high sig nificance” of this development. Past experience has proved that an agree ment made by Stalin is worth precisely as much as a treaty made by Hitler. The “significance” of any pact signed by Stalin is exactly nothing at all. If it indicates anything, it is the likelihood that the signatory will do the opposite of what he pledges himself to do. The strategy of the totalitarian diplo mats in sealing "pacts” is, of course, to deceive the nations of the world as to the nature of their real intentions. It will be recalled that the Soviets had a “nonaggression” pact with Poland. It was reaffirmed less than a year before the joint invasion and seizure of Poland by Germany on the west and Russia on the east. America will be laying herself open for deception and destruction if she permits herself to be deluded into be lieving that any agreement made by an atheist government is worth any. more than the paper upon which it is written. WASHINGTON’S WARNING: • It is sometimes said that, because he lived in the “horse-and-buggy” days, George Washington’s advice to his coun try is no longer valid. It is true that Washington did not understand modern machinery and inventions, but he did understand modern problems. Our prob lems today are derived, not from tech nology and invention, but from sin in the human heart. And Washington lqiew the awful reality of sin; he also knew the blessed deliverance from sin which comes through accepting Christ as Lord and Saviour. In his “Farewell Address,” Washing ton counseled his countrymen that the Christian faith of our people must be kept strong if the nation is to stand. All human relations, he pointed out, must be based upon truthfulness and common honesty among men. Even our courts of law, he observed, cannot operate fairly if the “sense of sanctity” departs from the hearts and lips of those who offer testimony. But where there is no fear of the Lord, there is no regard for truth. In America today our judicial system has been seriously impaired by the loose ness and laxity with which witnesses in court will engage in various modifica tions of perjury. Our Constitutional sys tem is imperiled because men elected to
By HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER Lord, nothing I can say will be enough /To keep hint at my side; But, when the way grows long, and steep,"and rough, Be Xhou his guide. My love would hold him close, but distance calls: The far horizon’s rim Beckons. Beyond the shelter of these walls, Remember him. Thy mother knew the anguish, sudden, brief, That-makes these eyes go blind With woman’s tears: But Thou didst know the grief Of all mankind. Thou wast a young man once in Nazareth . . . Henceforth I must forego His secret thoughts, his dreams of life and death, But Thou wilt know. This is the end: The work of heart and hands— The mother-task—all done; But, safely, with the One who understands I leave ray son. “All the big cosmetic houses have attempted to lay in supplies of as many things as they can, but right now they are having to quit using brass, tubes for lipstick. The tubes are going into cartridge shells. . . . Lipstick itself is becoming scarce, for its color is built up through complex chemical reactions. involv- , ing bromine and chlorine. These chemicals make poison gas.’’ The article goes on to explain that the “gooey mixtures” which are used to make fingernail and toenail polish “are now being shunted from the cosmetics factories to the high-explosive plants. They also are being used for coating airplane wings.” Perhaps it is for the good of the health and beauty of American womanhood
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