p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 57, No. 26. (7/8/1930)

Earlier text: Is* JIM *in* HEAVEN?

Books by George McCready Price

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DISCARDING THE BIBLE

The attacks made on the Bible have changed greatly within the past few years. The terms “infidelity” and “agnosticism” have become altogether too harsh, hence more refined expressions are now used. The modern teaching is the more deceptive because of the garb in which it is clothed. In the university, it parades under the name “science;” in the “church,” it is called “higher criticism.”

FUNDAMENTALISM Versus MODERNISM

Shall the Bible and its teachings be brought into disrepute by modern thought? The books of George McCready Price are now recognized as standard authority in the fight against evolution and anti-Biblical teachings. His works stand as a protest against modernism in all its phases, and they are used everywhere by those who stand for the fundamental teachings of the Bible.

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NEW GEOLOGY
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EVOLUTIONARY
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Will Every One Go Insane?

By B.

According to reports made at the recent International Congress of Mental Hygiene, held at Washington, D. C., the rate of insanity is going up very rapidly. Fifty years ago there were only 63 mental cases for every 100,000 of our population. Now there are more than 600 insane among every 100,000 people. If the present rate should keep up, in three hundred years every person in the United States would be insane!

In seeking to fathom the causes of this alarming state of affairs, the experts tell us that heredity is a decided factor in this increase, but that our rushing, jangling civilization also plays a great part in nervous breakdown. Insanity comes “through the speed, congestion, and tense competition of our modern life. Too much hurry. Too much worry. Too many sights and sounds and impressions pressing on our eyes and ears, our brain and nerve centers. You don’t have to be born crazy. You can get that way.” Crowded into cities, working under high pressure, living in jammed-up apartments, trying to maintain an economic pace that calls for more and more luxuries and extravagances, ceaselessly roaming about in search of new sensations and thrills,—these impair the nerves by wearing them out.

All this is not God’s way. He never intended men to congregate in cities: He planned for them a quiet life, working in and surrounded by the beauties of the garden, the fields, the hills, the streams. Such an environment provides its own medicine for mind and body. And God must take us back to that original plan before all the world goes stark mad. B.

The Maltese Imbroglio

By B.

The people of Malta are Roman Catholic in religion, but the island is a British Colony. The governor, Lord Strickland, is a Catholic; but he has ideas about the church in politics that make him decidedly persona non grata with the two bishops there and with the pope at Rome. It transpires that he is more British than Catholic, for he maintains that the civil law is above canon law, and he refuses to exempt the clergy from process in civil courts. The governor has declared for political independence, while the church authorities there insist that religious allegiance and political subservience must be identical.

As a result of these “heretical” statements of Lord Strickland, the bishops have forbidden priests to administer the sacraments to any Maltese who might vote for Lord Strickland, and the newspapers were placed under a severe censorship by the church. The pope, in a recent “White Paper,” insists that the British Government either recall Lord Strickland or severely reprimand him.

This is but another example of the attempted dominance of the state by the Catholic Church in a country where the people are predominantly Catholic. It holds that when its members constitute a majority in any land the church then has a duty to take a firm hand in political affairs. In such a situation the state is practically annexed to the church, and church dignitaries become the virtual rulers and dictators in the state. This is the established and age-long policy of the church, as borne out by her practice in many lands and in all ages. B.

A Sample of “Wet” Propaganda

By B.

A FEW of our readers have thought that sometimes we are a bit too vigorous in going after the “wets” for their unfair and unscrupulous campaign against Prohibition. Perhaps we have been; but we are still of the mind that it takes more than Cologne water to fight a polecat. As another instance of the unconscionable and grossly untrue “facts” broadcast by the anti-Prohibition press, we will cite the tragic case of the recent penitentiary fire at Columbus, when upward of three hundred prisoners were burned to death.

The “wet” press immediately came out with the glaring statement that the Ohio prison was greatly overcrowded (which was true), and that the cells were “crowded with Prohibition prisoners” (which is untrue).

INTERNATIONAL
Zaro Agha, a 156-year-old Turk of Istanbul, Turkey, has never taken a drink of intoxicating liquor in all his century and a half of life. He has recently toured the United States under the auspices of the American Anti-Alcohol Society. — INTERNATIONAL Zaro Agha, a 156-year-old Turk of Istanbul, Turkey, has never taken a drink of intoxicating liquor in all his century and a half of life. He has recently toured the United States under the auspices of the American Anti-Alcohol Society.

Here are some of the figures on the classification of the 4,800 prisoners in that institution: 742 murderers 964 burglars 293 convicted of rape 1,018 robbers, bandits, safe-crackers 296 forgers 308 convicted of larceny 19 violators of the Prohibition laws

Nineteen out of 4,800 prisoners there because of liquor law infraction, yet the “wets” declare the overcrowding was due to those nineteen! The proverbial “drop in the bucket” was never better exemplified than in this case. And yet this is a fair sample of anti-Prohibition propaganda. The “wets” have no case, and so they have to make up one, and they do it by exaggeration, misrepresentation, half truths, and demagoguery. And yet many people, hitherto ardent “drys,” are undecided as to their attitude on the Prohibition question to-day, and all because they got their information solely from “wet” newspapers that employ such methods. “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise,” said the wise man; and that deception includes pro-booze newspapers too! B.

A Calendar Debate

By B.

MANY of our readers will want a copy of the Forum magazine for July, in which appears a debate on the proposed thirteen-month “blank day” calendar. Mr. George Eastman, the kodak magnate and calendar reform enthusiast, takes the affirmative side of the argument, declaring that this business age demands a radical revision of our time-reckoning methods. Francis D. Nichol, one-time associate editor of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, assumes the negative, explaining with clarity and force why the disadvantages of the new calendar plan greatly outweigh the advantages.

We know of no better source to get the arguments pro and con on this moot question than in this issue of the Forum. There is much more involved in the calendar question than merely the adjustment of days or the regularity of the weeks. The new calendar disrupts the weekly cycle established by God at the creation of the world, and throws days consecrated by religious custom and divine command out of sequence. In order to obtain certain alleged monetary advantages, some of the calendar proponents are ready to ride ruthlessly over the religious convictions of a minority to achieve their end. This question will bear careful watching and study. B.