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T h is un usua l scene is a n artists conce ption of the
view you would see if
you
were on t h e operating
table. M a n y articles i n recent magazines-LIFE, LooK-have
had actual color photos, even showing the throbbing hearts
of
patients with their chests cut open.
In
thi s wor ld, a scene of this sort glorifies t he medical
pro fess ion as the saviors of ma nk ind .
As
y o u can see from the
expression
on
the se mens faces, th ey are dedicated, sincere,
th ey believe th ey are doin g right-but th e laws of he alt h re-
vealed by the Creator God prove them
to
be in
GR OSS ER R OR .
Read i n this issue how imp ortant this knowledg e of the
true health laws is-knowledge only Gods Tr ue Ch ur ch has
See opposite page.
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What
our
READERS
SAY
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I s o l a t e d M e m b e r C o m m e n t s
I
received my
GOOD
NEWS ester-
day. In the art icle about the Visit ing
Program I can t see how any member
could treat Gods servants in such a
way. How I wish they could visit me
often If
a baptizing team comes
through, please let me know
so
I can
meet with them.
I
have been baptized
and have finished my 31st Bible lesson.
I
can meet them anymhere in James-
town, Tennessee.
Ruby
J. ,
Tennessee
F at d i a t , i t y sometimes bseeds
c o i l -
teiiipt, R n b j , a u d s o m e t i m r s those
who
H A V E
t h e oppostimity
of being oisited
re~y / / lnrl j~
o d t appreciate
t h e
blessiiig
)oil .so
q r k k l y
wcogtiize
because
yon
m~ 0 1 1 ~ 2 of
the .rcattei~ecl r,ethiwi.
Apprec i a t e s Apr i l GOOD NEWS
How beautiful the cover on the
April
GOOD NEWS
And it
is
good
news the way God is car ing for the
true church members and prospering
the
new
b u i l d i n g p r o g r a m .
T h e
article
on church organization is very informa-
t ive ; a lso, What Can Widows Do?
I{- is
so
helpful and
corrective for me.
Lately the papers have a lot about
witches and h ow g ood theyve gotten.
That and other godless acts
are
enough
to make my hair stand on end.
L ~ L c ~. , Oregoti
Joy
Over
O r d i n a t i o n
I
received a letter from one of the
sisters telling that
Mr.
Crim had been
ordained. This was really a joy to m e
for we are some of the scattered Negro
brethren here in the South. I hope that
soon we can have a colored minister
near by. W e do not have a minister to
counsel with here now. The tension is
too high to allow white ministers to
come, but we are praying that God will
soon open up a way for us out here.
Negro member from Louisiana
Remember t o KEEP pi .ayi izg f o r
more 1abor.er-for.
all .aces
Follow
T h e D i r e ct io n s
To find my place coming north on
Number
50
hiway to Harry Cooks
Store and go west
4
mile and you are in
Alonsa . N ow go north f rom the east end
about
3
mile, and the road turns sharply
east down off a ridge; do no t make this
turn, but continue north you are in the
bud1
dnd
for
one-half mile there
is
barbed wire on each side
of
you, then
a house with no windows or doors,
and
you
keep c o m in g n o rt h o n th i s n u -
row and not much used road, till you
come up on another l i t t le ridge; from
here
look
west
a n d
you will see some
buildings, and a little old gravel pit
(PleaJe
conti twe
011
page
1 9 )
June, 1964
w
Good
News
International magazine
of
THE
CHURCH OF
GOD
ministering to
i ts
members
.tcuttered abroad
VOL.
XI11
NO.
6
Published
m o n t h l y at
Pasadena, California
@ 1964, b y
Radio Church of God
EDITOR
HERBERT . ARMSTRONG
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Garner
Ted Armstrong
MANAGING EDITOR
David Jon Hi l l
SENIOR
EDITORS
Roderick
C.
Meredith
Herman L.
Hoeh
Associate Editors
Albert
J.
Portune Ronald Kelly
Contributing Editors
W. A .
Berg
Robert C. Boraker
Bryce G. Clark
C. Wayne Cole
Raymond C. Cole
Charles
V. Dorothy
Jack R. Elliott
Selmer Hegvold
Ernest L. Martin
Leslie L. McCullough
Raymond F. McNair
C. Paul Mcrcdith
L.
Leroy Neff
Benjamin L. Rea
Lynn
E.
Torrance
Gerald Waterhouse
Basil Wolverton
Clint C. Zimmerman
Foods
Consultants
Velma Van der Veer
Rose McDowell
Isabel1
F.
Hoeh
ary
E.
Hegvold
Editorial and Production Assistants
Paul
W. Krol l
James
W.
Robinson
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PROOF FIVE
SEVEN
PROOFS
Of Gods True
Church
Gods
Tr u e Church know s the T R U TH about d iet, exercise and
fo od fads . Its another major PROOF of the
TRUE
Church.
Do
YOU know the real laws
o f
health?
by
Garner Ted Armstrong
ou
caizt
become a superman, and
live
forever,
by gulping pills,
swallowing supplements , and
avoiding white sugar like the black
death of London
Y
Gods True Church
KNOWS
it.
You
CANNOT
get into Gods King-
dom by judiciously drinking apple juice,
taking
a
shot of rose-hip
t e a ,
avniding
white crackers at all cost, or chewing
twenty times before swallowing
Gods TRUE hurch KNOWS it.
Its
a
SICK, SICK, SICK,
SICK WORLD
Ever wonder why it
is
the hangers-on
around health food stores are
so
sick?
Did
you
ever wonder why health-food
fanatics appear
so weak, so sickly,
and
are usually mentally unbalanced ?
Its a terribly SICK world youre liv-
ing in
Today, more than
NINETY-TWO
MIL-
LION people in the United States alone
are suffering with one or another of
the terrible chronic diseases such
as
hcart disease, cancer, tuberculosis or
polio.
It is a R A R E thing to see a really
HEALTHY
person, today.
Look at a few of the shocking facts.
Sicki icss i s a g i g a d c inaizcial b w -
d e n
Scvcral ycars ago, the
average
American-meaning every man, wom-
an and child in the nation-actually
paid $137
a year for
hospital and doc-
tors bills. This was a monstrous sum
of more than 2 5 BILLION dollars for
the whole nation. This was DOUBLE
the amount paid as recently as 1 9 5 0 .
It was proved, by the statistics of a
major insurance company, that half a
million American families had medical
bills larger than their total incomes for
that year
And, while the
c o s t
of getting sick
has tripled in the past decade, the
average American family is spending
f i ve t imes as nziich It was found that
the average family of four in the
United States spends about
400 a
year on medical expenses alone. Said
one 69-year-old, receiving
$33
per
month from Social Security,
I
could
get along fairly well on my savings
and Social Security but the cost of
medicine is so great that I can barely
make ends meet. Sometimes I think I
must stop taking the medicine and just
die. A fantastic crowd of more than
60,000 Americans enters into
our
clinics
and hospitals every day
An d, remember-these figures repre -
sent what
is
occurring within the U nited
States
a l o m ,
the healthiest nation on
the face of the earth. Yes, brethren, our
peoples are SICK
Sickness
is
a terrible draiiz
on the
strength and vitali ty
of
o w eoples, and
is
a
f i i l f i l lment
of
o m of the major
prophet ic CIJRSES God
p r o t z om c e d
i ipon o u r
peoples or breaking
is laws.
Dr.
W . Coda Ma rtin, former chief of
Geriatrics Clinic Metropolitan Hospital,
New York, says that only 6.5 per cent
of Americans are free from physical
defect.
More than a third of the nation is
suffering from one
of
the
18
main ill-
nesses
and handicapping conditions, and
M E NT AL DISORDERS
are right at the top
of the list
Currently, it is estimated that one out
of ten Americans is suffering from a
mental disorder. The statistics are
endless, brethren.
I
will not take
further space in this article to quote
the monstrous statistics available from
our
Ambassador College News Bureau.
The point can best be illustrated by
having
YOU look
at YOURSELF Wh at
about your own health? Do you feel
full of zest, vitality, zip and dr ive? Are
you the pictrue of radiant he alth? Does
your hair shine, do your cheeks glow
with a robust vitality? Does your body
feel full of life and
e n e rg y ?
D o
you
feel physically STRONG, mentally alert,
vibrantly A L I V E ?
I hope and pray
many of
our breth-
ren Do-but lets face it, most probably
D O N T
T h e n ,
look around you. What about
your own loved ones, your friends and
relatives? Undoubtedly you know
per-
sonally
of
MANY-perhaps in y o w
ow12
family-who have died of one
or
an-
other of the major chronic diseases af-
flicting such vast segments of our
population.
Yes, it truly IS a sick world.
Broken Laws Result in
Broken
Lives
Gods
Truc
Church knows the reason
WHY
the worlds most advanced
civilizations are suffering from such
hideous curses We have Lceii sliowii
the TRUTH that God Almighty is
our
H E A L E R .G o d is the great Lawgiver
and Judge. And God has also laid down
certain
physical Iauis
involving our
physical well-being and good health.
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Wide
W o r l d
Photo
This pictures mankinds pitiful state as he
continues to live contrary to the laws
of
health
the Creator set in motion.
However, these phy.c&l laws, though
applying basically to our diet and how
we act when we are sick, are also very
definitely S P I R I T U A L in principle.
When God laid a choicc before our
forefathers, He promised wonderful
ble.ssjngr for obeying His laws H e
promised we would be
a
people
FREE
from the botch and blight of Egypt,
from the childhood diseases, from
T h e
G O O D
NEWS
mental fear, anxiety, tension and worry.
He promised we would have healthy
children
Today, a God-rejecting world seeks
to the god of flies, Baalzebub, for de-
liverance from its physical and mental
afflictions.
But God reveals He will not only
bless us
by giving
us
good health,
through obedience to His laws-but
IF we make mistakes and commit a
physical sin against our own bodies, HE
is our Healer
Gods True Church
recognizes how
the world got th is way-knows
the
exact yeason for the staggering amount
of physical affliction in
our
nation, and
understands what God intends to do
about it in the future
Do
you realize, brethren, how vitally
IMPORTANT
to you, and to your loved
ones, it is
to
understand even this
ONE of the S E V E N major proofs of
Gods True C hurch? Think of the
MARVELOUS blessing of knowing our
Heavenly Father is also
our
H E A L E R
The churches of this world simply
do not KNOW the real cause of sick-
ness an d disease-nor do they know
how to be healed of their infirmities.
KNOWLEDGE, Not Nonsense
But, brethren of G ods Tru e Church
-some of Y O U , KNOWING this pre-
cious truth-have go ne to
extremes
in
matters of health.
Gods Church is NOT
a
Chnrch
nf
bug-eyed food fadists, plumb bobbers
and pill swallowers. Gods Church
should NOT be made
up
of those who
search through others cupboards trying
to spy white bread or white sugar
God s Church should
NOT
be composed
of those who must ladle wheat germ,
bone meal, cod liver oil
or
compressed
alfalfa onto every meal
God s Church should not be a
collection of food fanatics who dearly
LOVE to pass on the proverbial old
wives tales about how to get rid
of
this
or
that childhood rash, fever, or
disease-about how to eat this or that
during pirgiialicy-about how to diag-
nose and treat
anyth ing
from bunions
to bruises
And yet, brethren,
sornc
of YOU
absolutely
DO
fall into these categories
There literally HAVE BEE N, n times
June, 1964
past, those who plumb bobbed their
food.
I
mean-they actually pulled out
a little weight and a ball of string, held
the weight suspended by the string over
their plate of food-and tried to de
termine (or should
1
say divine
?
whether
or
not the food was good and
fit to eat by the direction in which the
plurrib bob swung back and forth
Others have thought the excremen
from ducks was an excellent salve fo
the removal of corns Still others havc
become convinced you should drink gal
lons of grape juice during pregnancy
e a t yogurt religiously;
cook
all mea
until it is roughly the consistency of
last years shoe leather; and above al
things, never use anything but .red salt
But WHY, brethren ?
Tr y as you may-whether you fin d
a formula for diet never heard of in
the remotest reaches of the nether val
leys of Nepal-you S I M P L Y CANNO
FIND A SHORT
C U T
T O
HEALTH
M E M BE RS OF GODS
T RUE
C H U R C H
KNOW IT
The True Church of God KNOWS th
most basic of all laws of health-the
revealed laws about clean and unclean
foods
One
of the most important proofs o
A L L is the right knowledge abou
H E A L T H , and about H E A L I N G Here
the vital reason.
God is
our
Healer. Thats one o
His very NAMES
And God
reveals
plainly, in Hi
Word, that healing is the forgivenes
of physical sin. Only GOD can forgiv
sin
ONLY
G O D
CAN H E A L
The
FIRST of
the Ten Command
ments says, Thou shalt have no othe
gods before me Th is great law, to
gether with the FOURTH commandmen
comprises the great
TEST
command
ment God laid before
our
ancient fore
fathers.
The Sabbath law is the identifyin
SIGN of every true Christian And
equally, the
SECOND
commandment-
again st IDOLATRY-points ou t
WHER
To
rely on A N Y foods, supplement
medicines, drugs, knives, OR E V E N O
FASTING, or
HEALING (AND
NON
EVER w r u HEA L ) I S TO BREAK
(Please continue
o n
page 22)
AR E
THE T R U E P EOP LE OF
GOD.
OF
THESE
CAN, EVER HAVE, U
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Fqteen Men Ordained
--
And Gods
Work
Grows
A
joyous
PENTECOST
was
recently obserued. And more
ordinations und GROWTH follow in its wake
by Roderick C. Meredith
E
DO
hear them speak in our
tongues the wonderfiil w o r k s
of God
(Acts
2 :11 ) .
Certainly the THOUSANDS of brethren
meeting around the world on this re-
cent Pentecost could say the same
From everywhere, reports come of
power fu l
preaching,
i m p i r e d
sermons
and record attendances this Pentecost,
1964.
Over three thoirJand met in the
beautiful Pasadena Civic Auditorium
with Gods Headquarters Church. Over
twen ty - one h imdred met at Chicago,
eighteen hmzdred
at Big Sandy and
three hzrndred three in far-off Aus-
tralia. Even down in South Africa, the
Feast attendance record was broken
when otie hurrdred
l i f l y - e i g h t
brethren
were present there for Pentecost.
Fifteen Ministers and
Elders Ordained
Jesus c o m m a n d s us : Pray ye there-
fore the Lord of the harvest, that he
will send forth labourers into his har-
vest
(Matt. 9 : 3 8 ) .
H a v e Y O U been praying for more
ministers
?
I f you have, your prayers are be ing
answered For m a n y m o r e servants of
Jesus Christ are qualifying for ordina-
tion at each Festival season.
Wh i l e Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong
was in New York on his way to
England, he was joined by Mr. Ray-
mond Cole in ordaining two Preaching
Elders. Mr. Guy Engelbart, already a
Local Elder, was elevated to Predching
Elder;
and Mr. Gary Antion was also
ordained to that rank.
This year, three men were ordained
o n the Day of Pentecost itself. They
were :
Mr.
Roy Holladay-Ambassador
graduate ordained as
Local Elder
by
Mr.
Jon IIill and Mr. Bill McDowell at
Pittsburgh. Mr. Jim Lichtenstein-an
Ambassador graduate ordained also as a
Local Elder
by Mr. Les McCullough
and
Mr.
Carlton Smith at Portland.
Then, Mr. Gary Arvidson-an Am er-
ican graduate of Ambassador College in
England was ordained as a full
Prearhjng
Elder
in
Gods
Church.
Mr.
Ken Swisher and
I
had the privilege of
performing this ordinat ion on the Day
of
Pentecost at Big Sandy.
Ordinations at Graduation Time
T h e
other tcri
ordinations took place
on the Sabbath before the Ambassador
graduation exercises in Pasadena. This
i b
oftcn done in the case of advanced
ministerial students who have proved
themselves in Christs service.
The fol lowing men were ordained to
the office of Local Elder at the Pasa-
dena Headquarters Church on the Sab-
bath
of
May 30,
1964:
Mr. Elbert
Atlas, Mr. Paul Flatt , Mr. Roy Page,
Mr. Paul Royer, Mr. Walter Sharp, Mr.
From left to right: Mr. Antion,
Mr.
Arvidron, Mr. Engelbart-all recently ordained
l o
the rank o f Preaching Elder
i n
the Church of God.
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Ordained at groduation as Locol Eiders, left to right: Mesrrs. Kemnitr, White, Flatt, Sharp, and Page.
Robert Spence, and MI. Gltii
White.
Then, to the added rejoicing of every-
one, Mr. Howard Clark was ordained
as a f u l l P r e c i ~ h i i z ~ y
l d ~ v , n Cods
Church.
Meanwhile, in El Monte, Mr. Les
McCullough
ordainrd Mr. Bill
Rapp as
a
L ocd
Elilcr. there. And on Monday
following, after he returned from his
honeymoon over the weekend, the
Evangelists at Pasadena joined in Mr.
Ted Armstrongs office to ordain Mr.
George Kemnitz as a Lor-nl Eldet, along
with the other leading Ambassador
graduates.
So now, Christ has placed i n His
Church a total of
oiie
h/ozdr.ed
f i f t e e / z
ordained ministers
and
elders to serve
His people
This may not sotind like many to
some of you newer brethren, but it
means a great deal to many of us
uldci
i n i i i i b l a b a i d bietlireii-arid to
me personally. For I well remember
that there were far less than I 1 5
brdww-not
to
speak
of
ministers-
in attendance even at the Feast of
Tabernacles when I first started at-
tending
in
1949 So let us give God
THANKS for providing these ministers
-and r~rmember~o p r q
for
each of
thrrn and their responsibilities in His
service
Deacons and Deaconesses Ordained
Although
you
brethren can all ap-
preciate the impossibility-in Gods
growing Church-of describing the
ordinations of all the Deacons and
L)eaconesses in every local church, I
would like to mention two such
or -
dinations here because they are firsts
in far-flung areas of the earth.
First of all, then, I would like to
report the ordination
of Mrs.
Howard
Silcox as the fii..rt DracoizeJs to be or-
dained in the British Isles. Mr. Silcox
is already a Deacon, and he and
his
wife were among the early pioneer
members of the London Church and
have been attending and assisting zeal-
ously since early in 1957.
In addition to all of our brethren in
Britain,
iiiaiiy u l
ub l r ~ i
ere in the
States know and love Mrs. Silcox and
we can all say to her: CougTatzila-
t i o m , and Godspeed in your new of-
fice of service in Christs body
Mr. Bill Winner, pastor of Gods
Church
in
Melbourne, Aust ra l ia , re-
ports on the ordination of the first
Deacon in this church on the Day of
Pentecost: An additional,
zooizdetfd
blessing the Melbourne Church was
able to experience this Feast was the
ordination of its
first Dencoiz,
Mr.
David Neil. The blessing of beautiful
weather for Gods Holy Day was also
appreciated. A total of
195
attended the
all-day services and rejoiced in the
multiple blessings God poured out
upon us this Pentecost season.
A
word about
Mr.
Neil, recently
ordained Deacon: Prior to being added
to Gods Church in
1960,
Mr. Neil
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GOOD NEWS
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served as a Troop Commander (hold-
ing office of Lieutenant) in the C.M.F.
(Citizen Military Forces) here in Mel-
bourne. He was the first f rom Mel-
bourne to be baptized and he and his
wife were among those observing the
first Passover, Pentecost and Feast of
Tabernacles in Australia.
Since coming into Gods Church,
Mr. Neil has developed into
a
strong
leader among his fellow brethren in
Melbourne and has gained their love
and respect. We thank God for now
or-
daining him a Deacon in His Church.
Overseas Baptizing Tours
This March, a most rewarding and
inspiring baptizing tour in New Zea-
land was conducted by Mr. Frank
Simpkins and Mr. Dexter Faulkner. A
total of eighty-two contacts was made,
including visits to interested persons
and members. Fifty of these met the
team fo r baptism counseling and a final
total of exactly
twr / z t~~-u / ze
ere bap-
tized and added to the body of Christ
The team covered a major portion of
both North and South Islands, and
were able to counsel and encourage
many scattered listeners who will un-
doubtedly be baptized later.
In addition, Mr. Bill Winner-Gods
minister in charge of the Melbourne
Churcli-rrcrritly curiducted the fzvst
known baptizing tour by one of Gods
ministers to the island of Tasmania.
Mr. Winner reports: God now has
a handful of His own people in Tas-
mania. The addition of
.rix
people to
the Ludy
uf
Cliribt with riiade possible by
a recent tour of the island by my wife
and me.
Leaving the evening of March
9 ,
we
boarded the Princess of Tasmania bound
for Devonport. After a very rough
night rrossirig Bam Strait we were in-
deed happy to set our feet on stable
land once again.
Probably
ncvcr
bcforc in the his-
tory of Gods Church has God had a
small group of His begotten children in
this area of the world. Just
as
the Scrip-
tures say, God is calling only a little
flock to be heirs of His Kingdom dur-
i n g this
present
age. Six
is not a
very
impressive number, but thinking in
terms of
six
potential Gods, it staggers
the imagination. Let us all thank God
for our new brethren in Tasmania.
German
Baptizing Tour
From the other side of the
world,
in Europe, Mr. Ronald Kelly reports
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a Gr /~zn iz aptizing tour he is taking
accompanied
by
Mr. Frank Schnee-
Manager of our German office in Dues-
seldorf: Herr Schnee and I have had
a very fine trip so far. Everything has
gone exceptionally well. W e have been
in Switzerland today driving into parts
the tourists never see. It is really beau-
tiful here-I wonder if America is like
this now in the spring. Where weve
traveled today reminded me much of
Colorado.
Here are the statistics so far-for
the first week. Only one person did not
meet us-she had gone to the hospital
just a few days before we came.
We
met
twenty-four people, three were bap-
tized. But we could only count four-
teen or fifteen of those people as hav-
ing actually asked for baptism. The
others did not want to be baptized,
just to ask questions. So three out
of
fifteen were baptized and we visited
nine who wanted help.
We ieel a gICdt deal has been ac-
complished in many ways this week.
Many were helped and we hope a few
of these will be baptized in the future.
One thing you really see here is the
deceptioiz of the churches. It is so much
more than in America. Almost every
visit we make they ask what the Catho-
lic Church
or
Lutheran Church will
think if they leave. And did you know
members of the Lutheran Church H A V E
TO PAY TO GET OUT OF THE CHURCH?
They charge
Lwu
hundred Deutsche
marks (over fifty dollars ) to let some-
one go. And some people we met
have been afraid
to
Icavc-though still
others have paid the amount to get out.
That is
tlir biggest
piubleiii we
face-these people are really deceived
and they need
a
leader to guide them
very badly. They believe thc truth, but
the worldly churches have scared them
into not obeying the truth. The big
question is: Who will bury us if we
leave the church? The ministers say
they will not, and that we have no
ASTONISHING
ministers for the funeral. The people
are not smart enough in most cases to
know that when they are dead i t
mnkes
110 d i f f e r e m e
It sure makes one real-
ize even more than ever why God
mulst
inter.ueize
and why Christ
t m s t
set
thi.r
w oi l d
JII-aiXhl
Brethren, I enclosed as much of Mr.
Kellys direct report as I did
so
that
you may understand the problem faced
by many of our new converts in Europe
and remember to P R A Y
FOR
THEM-
and for the German baptizing tvui and
the French baptizing tour soon to
begin
FIVE Baptizing Tours in
the US. and Canada
Here in North America, Mi-. Dean
Wilson-Director over the Canadian
office and pastor of Gods Church in
Vancouvei-will coIiduct
a
short Ca-
nadian baptizing tour assisted by Mr.
Ron Miller, Ambassador College grad-
uate. On this tour, he will be able to
reach most of those requesting baptism
in Western Canada and to become per-
sonally acquainted with many scattered
brethren who may be able to attend the
annual Festivals from time to time.
A short Negro baptizing and visiting
tour is now being conducted by Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Bass. Mr. Bass-an
ordained F l d r r
in
Gods Church-re-
Mr. Howard C la rk, newly o rda ined Preach ing
Elder.
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Mr. Roy Hol laday, Local Elder.
Flatt-assisted by Mr. Dennis Pyle-
who will be covering basically the
Rocky Mountain and Plains State areas
where we have no churches.
These tours are just now getting un-
der way,
so
no reports are in as yet.
But they will bc visiting h m d r e d s of
prospective members of Christs body,
driving thousands of miles, and will be
in mnny unusual and difficult situations
before the summer is over.
So
R E -
M E M B E R to pray for these baptizing
tours-and for the others which will
be conducted in Great Britain and other
parts of the world
Fantastic
GROWTH
continues to
he
almost the order of the day in most
of
our local churches and several more
Mr. Jim Lichtenrtein, Local Elder.
cently spent this last school year at
Ambassador College in Pasadena for
special ministerial training. Hc and his
wife will be able to baptize those re-
questing it in the southern part
of
the
United States and thus perhaps avoid
tronble and persectction which might
result
if
white tours attempted to do
t h i s
at
t h i s time. Also, he will be able
to visit and encourage many of
our
scattered Negro brethren in this area.
Th e regular nation-wide tours are
being conducted this year by Mr. Frank
McCrady-accompanied by M r. Dick
Arnes-who will cover the southeastern
section of the United States; Mr. Hal
Baird-assisted by M r. Joh n Pruner-
who will primarily cover the north-
eastern section of the United States
and up into Eastern Canada; Mr. Paul
Mr . Wi l l iam Rapp, Local Elder.
new churches
are already in the plan-
ning stage
P l a n s f o r M o r e
New
Churches
Recent high attendances in some of
the local churches include 452 in St.
Louis,
410
in Akron, Ohio, and
360
in the still relatively new church in
Greensboro, No rth Carolina Also,
I
understand that our burgeoning church
in New York City had 604 in at-
tendance recently It will soon have to
split into
I W O
churches-in orde r to
provide adequate hall facilities.
Within a few weeks, the new Bible
study in Ashcville, North Carolina, is
slated to become a
ftdl
church-with
Mr.
Gary Arvidson moving there to act
as co-pastor with Mr. Richard Plache
in this new congregation.
Also, in the eastern area, Mr. Ray-
M r .
Paul
Royer, Local Elder.
mond Cole-District Superintendent-
and Mr. Guy Engelbart plan to convert
the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Bible
study into a regular church yet this
month .
To eliminate confusion, and most of
all to acquire better hall facilities, our
other Har risbu rg congregation-this
onc in Illinois-has moved i h
iiieetirig
place to Evansville, Indi ana A very
fine hall has been secured there by
Mr.
Hal Baird,
and
this new location with
finer facilities as well should cause the
congregation to increase in size within
a
short period
of
time.
On the four th of July, Mr. Ben
Chapman-co-pastor of the Dallas
Church-will preside over a planned
split in his congregation. This split
( P lease con t iwe 012 page 13)
Mr.
Robert Spence,
local
Elder.
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The
U G LY
CHRISTIAN
M a n y
h r e t h r m
without renlixing it
f nto
the category
of
being Ugly Christians DO Y O U ? Here, from a member of
the Letter Answering Department sta ff-which handles N U N -
DREDS of
letters dealing with these problems-comes
in f o r -
mation
FEW
years ago, a book came out
on the market entitled The
Ugly
Aniei,icnii.
Perhaps you read it.
It was the gripping story of what is
WRONG
with American foreign policy.
This eye-opening book revealed the stark
fact that Americans themselves, are the
worst feature of United States foreign
policy. T he conduct of American citizens
traveling abroad gives America a black
e l e in the sight of peoples everywhere-
in Europe, the Midd le East, South A mer-
ica, and Asia
But what about
YOU
? In your conduct
before the world, do you give
Gods
Church
a B L A C K E Y E ? Do you strike
people as being weird, oddball, crazy,
or fanatical
?
What kind of A M B A S S A D O R for Jesus
Christ and the Kingdom of God A R E
Y O U ?
Too many of God s people are
falling down in this vitally important
ma tter It is time we understood how
to be a
GOOD
representative of the King-
dom of God
A
W h a t
Do You
M ean , U g l y ?
The word
U G L Y
is a vivid, gruesome,
word. Nobody wants to look at some-
thing that is ngl j f . Things which are
ngl) ,
are
repulsive-repN~?za?zt-LOATH-
What, then, is an
n g l y
Chiist ian?
Hare you ever heard people comment,
If
he
is
a
Christian, then I dont want
anything to do with it
Or,
If that is
a sample of Christian conduct, you can
have it. Its not for me Such a person
would qualify
as
an
ng ly
Christiaiz-a
Christian who is not R E A L L Y following
Christ
o r
imitating His perfect example
It is a supposed
member
who is
SELF-
WILLED
A N D
OBNOXIOUS
before God
and toward other people
Why do worldly people sometimes
utter such disgusted comments, referring
SOME
you
need
7
know-A$D PRACTICE
by
B i l l D an k en b r i n g
to some
of
Gods people? The answer
is simple. Some of
us
have
not
been
sett ing the
RIGHT
example before the
world Some, just like the Ug ly Ameri-
can, have offended unconverted peo-
ple by ill manners, self-righteous con-
duct, ostentatious display of being reli-
gious, and
dmost
t o t d luck of ulisdonz
Many Americans traveling in foreign
lands treat the people as local yokels
nr
nnimportant nobodies. They love
to
display their riches, lavishly buying
gaudy trinkets. They complain loudly
when
they think the price
of a
particu-
lar item is too high And, because
of
these thoughtless actions, many for-
eigners
Ante
the sight of
our
people
I KNOW
Having lived in the Orient.
The fact that Asians despise Americans
with their big, shiny cars and fat wallets
was vividly impressed on my mind. It is
not uncommon for Americans to walk
down the streets of cities in Formosa
and hear oaths and curses muttered-
or even shouted-as they go past.
But, brethren-are we ma king the
.rume mistake in
O U R
dealings with the
unconverted people
of
the wor ld? Do
some
of
us tend to parade o ur self-right-
eousness before people?
Do
we boast
and brag about the
new truth
God has
revealed to us and give the impression
we think we are som ething special? Do
we loudly complain when restaurant
waiters mix
up
our
order s? W hen ea t ing
in the homes of unconverted friends
or
relatives, do we always strive to bring
the conversation around to
re l ig ion?
If
pork happens to be served at dinner, do
we haughtily declare, D ont you know
pork is not fit to be eaten? Pork is
znclean-the Bible says
so
If
the answer is Y E S to any of those
questions, then you should think serious-
ly and ask yourself--What kind of
Christ ian am I?
Let Your LIGHT
Shine
Lets notice what Jesus Christ had
to say about
Christiun
conduct .
During
the Sermon on the Mount, Christ ad-
monished His followers,
Y e
are the
light of the world. A city that is set on
an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men
light a candle, and put it under a bushel,
but on a candlestick; and it giveth light
unto all that are in the house (Matt.
5 :14-1
) . Yes,
as C h i s t i a m ,
we are the
LIGHT
of this sin-da rkene d, corrupt and
wicked world W e are the ONLY light
this world has ever kno wn But, lets
read on.
Let your
LIGHT
so
shine
before men,
that they may
see
your
g o o d
ulorhs , and
glorify your Father which is in heaven
(Verse
16).
As followers of Christ,
brethren, W E HAVE A J OB
TO
DO We
have a commission-to let our light
SHINE H o w ? I n
good
works By show -
ing love to our neighbor, giving
assist-
ance when needed, lending a helping
hand. If it were not for the people of
God,
this world would be
in
pitch dark-
ness
When a person enters a room and
flips a switch, a light turns on and il-
luminates the entire room. It is a helpful,
pleasing light. That is the kind of light
we should be But too many are
so
weak
in the faith that they barely give any
light whatsoever-just
a
feeble flicker.
When an unconverted person sees them,
he is hardly aware of the light Such
a
Christian has not fully come OUT of this
world and its pagan ways
Others go to the
opposi te
extreme.
Rather than flooding the room with wel-
come light, they
act
like HUGE
BLIND
ING SPOTLIGHTS
When an uncon-
verted person sees them, he wants to
either shut them off or run and hide
God Almighty, our Father in Heaven,
wants us to live BALANCED,O RMAL
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Christian lives. H e does not wa nt us to
be weak lights, failing to live the way
we profess. Neither does He want us to
becorr~e fa i in t icd e.r.trwmst.r
laring
spotlights-who give peo ple the impres-
sion that true Christianity is some weird
scct o r o//t lcii idjsh cult
Jesus said,
L o w
your enemies, bless
them that curse you, do good to them
that hate
you,
and pray for them which
despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may he the CHILDREN of your
Father which is in heaven: for he
maketh his sun to rise on the evil and o n
the good, and sendeth rain on the just
and on the unjus t (Matt . 5 :44-45) .
What about y o u ? Do you love the
people of this world---people who are
ignorant of the laws of health, ignorant
of Go ds perfect way of life,
TOTALLY
ignorant of
hozu
to h e , th e
p tupose
of
life-people whose lives are all mixed
up, frustrated, miserable and wretched ?
Do you feel
COMPASSION
for the multi-
tudes, as Christ-our example-did?
W h e n I O N chance to meet an uncon-
verted stranger, what is your reaction?
Do you fearfully ignore him, afraid he
might f ind out
you
are a Chris t ian?
Or
do
you
despise him, because he doesnt
have the t ruth you have? What .rhodd
you do Chris t said
LOVE
even your
enemies W e should show lozw, warmth ,
and
f i ~ i e td l i ness
whenever we meet un-
converted people
T h a t is the kind
of
l ight we are to
he
Too M u c h T a l k
One mistake many people in Gods
Church make when around unconverted
people is, THEY TALK TOO Mum H o w
many times have p i got ten into hot
water because you opened your mouth
when you shouldnt have?
How
many
times have you said things which you
later regretted?
One th ing
we
often fail to remember
about being a Christian LIGHT, is that a
I i ~ ~ h thines forth and illuminates. It
is sihtzt-it does not ma ke a
SOUND
Ponder that a while. A light is i i o t A
T R U M P E T
It is a silent, cJn/iet,
hining
WITNESS Gods
people
should be shin-
ing /i
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The
First
NOT
Pope
Here are T E N solid, Biblical proofs that Peter
toas
not at R o m e .
Mark each in your Bible and understand them
w e l l , so Y O U
udl not be deceived.
by
Erne s t
L.
M a r t i n
H E P R I M A C Y of t he R oma n C a th -
ol ic Church depends upon o m
fundamenta l doctr ine : the c la im
that Peter
was
the f i rs t Bishop of Rome
a nd the founde r
of
t he R oma n C hurc h .
The t e a c h ing
of
Cntholir.
historians
tells us t ha t S imon Pe tc r we n t to R ome
at the same t ime
as
Simon Magus in
order to thwart h is evi ls . This was
dur ing the re ign of Claudius . After
successfully combating the Magus, they
tell us, Peter assumed the Roman bish-
opric and ruled i t unt i l the Neronian
persecutions of 68 A.D., dur ing wh ic h
Peter was supposed to have been cruci-
f ied ups ide down on Vat ican hi l l . This
is t he basic stoiy
aiicl
Catliulic w r i t e r s
never shirk in a t tempting to defend i t.
Some
of
them say that this general ac-
count is one
of
the mos t provable of
historical events.
h t .r it?
The fact remains, many ecclesiastical
a u tho rs of the second century, Justin
Martyr among them, give informat ion
complete ly
m g a h g Peter 's supposed
Roman bishopric. This is admitted by
virtually all scholars-except conserva-
tive Catholics ( E q . Biblica, col.
4 5 5 4 ) . B ut more impor ta n t t ha n
this , the records
of
t he True C hurc h o f
God-the writings of t he Ne w Te s ta -
ment bsolute ly refute the Rom an
Catholic claim.
I t is t i m r
t h a t
t h e world gets its
eyes open to the t ru th
of
this matter-
the t ru th , which is clearly revealed in
t h e W o r d of God. The Apos t l e Pe te r
was N E V E R the Bishop of R ome
The
B i b l e T e a c h i n g
T h e r e a re t e n ma jo r Ne w Te s ta me n t
proofs which comple te ly disprove the
c la im tha t Pe ter was in Rome from the
t ime of Claudius to Nero. These Bibl i -
cal points speak for themselves and
A N Y ONE of them is sufficient to prove
the ridiculousness of the Catholic claim.
Not ic e wha t God t e ll s u s Th e t ru th
is conclusive
P R O O F ONE W e s hou ld c ons ide r
This i s o wide-angle general view of St. Peter s Square. The very name
i s i n
error-the Apost le Peter was never here-read the proo f in
this
article.
Wide
Wor ld
Photc.
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name important Apostles in his narra-
tion of Acts. But he says noth ing of
Peters meeting with
Paul.
Why?
Because Peter was not in
Rome
PROO F SE VE N. When Paul f inally
arrived at Rome, the first thing he did
was to summon the chief
of
the Jews
together (Acts 28:17) to whom he
expounded and testified the kingdom
of God (Verse
2 3 ) .
But what is amazing is that these
chief Jewish elders claimed they knew
very little even about the basic teach-
ings
o f
Christ. All they knew was that
as concerning this sect, we know that
everywhere it is spoken against (Verse
2 2 ) . Then Paul began
to
explain to
them the basic teachings of Christ on
the Kingdom of God. Some believed-
the majority didnt.
Now, what does all this mean? It
means that if Peter, who was himself
a
strongly partisan Jew, had been
preaching constantly in Rome for
14
long years before this time,
AhTD
WAS STILL THERE-how could
these Jewish leaders have known so
little about even the basic truths of
Chr istianity ? Th is again is clear proof
Peter had not been in Rome prior to
59 A .D .
Christs
commission
t o Pete ). This is
often very embarrassing to Catholics,
because Christ commissioned Peter to
become chief minister to the C I R C U M -
CISED, not to uncircumcised Gentiles.
T he gospe l o f th e CIRCUMCISION
ziaJ. T I ~ Z I OPeter;
(For he that wrought
effectually in Peter
to the apost leship
of
the cirwmcis ion, the same was
mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
(Gal . 2 : 7 - 8 ) .
Here we have it in the clearest of
language. It was P a d , NOT Peter, who
was commissioned to be the chief
Apostle to the Gentiles. And who was
it that wrote the Epistle to the
RO-
MANS? I t certrzitzly WASNT Peter
And when James, Cephas [Peter),
and John, who seemed to be pillars,
perceived the grace [i.e. the gift or
office] that was given un to me, they
gave to me and Barnabas the right
hands of fellowship; that w e should
go
m t o the Gentiles,
and they unto the
circumcision (Gal. 2
: 9 ) .
Paul further mentioned his special
office
as
the Gentile Apostle in I
Timothy 1
11
:
W h e r e u n t o I a m a p p o i n t e d
a
preacher, and atz apostle, and a teacher
of
the Gentiles.
P E T E R
j, NOWHERE called the
Apos -
t le to the Genti les This precludes him
from going to Rome to become the
head of
a
Gentile community.
PROO F T w o : Paul specif ical ly told
the Gentile Romans that HE had been
chosen to be their Apostle, not Peter.
I
should be the minister of Jesus
Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the
gospel
ol
God, rhdt the offevi izg z ip of
the Getitiles
might
be acceptable
(Rom. 15:16) .
How clear
Paul had the direct charge f r o m
Christ in this matter. H e even further
relates in Romans
15:18
that it was
Christ who had chosen him
t o
make
the
Gentiles obedieizt,
by
word and
deed.
PAUL Es tabl i shed Only
TRUE
Church
at
Rome
PROOF H R E E :W e are told by Paul
himself tha t it was he-not Peter-
who was going to officially f o m d the
Roman Church.
I
long to see you, that
I
may im-
part unto you some spiritual gift, to
the end ye may be established (Rom.
1 : l l .
Amazing Th e Church at Rome had
not been ESTABLISHED officially even
by
5 5
or
56
A.D. However, the Cath-
olics would have
us
believe that Peter
had done this some ten years before-
in the reign of Claudius. What non-
sense
Of course you understand that NEI-
T H E R Peter nor Paul
established the
Catholic Churc h But these proofs are
given to illustrate that it is utterly im-
possible for P ET ER o have been in any
way associated with
A N Y
Church at
Rome.
PROOFFOUR:
W e find Paul not
only wanting to establish the Church at
Rome, but he emphatically tells us that
his policy was
N E V E R
to build upon
another mans foundation.
Yea, so have I strived to preach
the gospel, not
where
Christ was
fzamed,
M A N S FOUNDATION (Rom. 1 5
20).
If Peter had founded the Roman
Church some ten years heforc this state-
ment, this represents a real affront to
Peter. This statement alone is proof that
Peter had never heen in Rome before
this time to found any church.
TEST
1 SHOULD
BUILD U P O N A N O TI I ER
Peter
Not
in
R o m e
PROOF FIVE: At the end of Pauls
Epistle to the Romans he greets no
fewer than
28
different individuals, but
tzeuer
meiitiotis Peter once See Romans
16-read the wh ole chapter
Remember,
P a d
greeted these peo-
ple in 5 5 or 56 A.D. Why didnt he
mention Peter? -Peter simply zoasnt
there
Some four years after
Paul wrote Romans, he was conveyed
as
a
prisoner to
R o m e
in order to
stand trial before Caesar. When the
Christian community in Rome heard
of
Pauls arrival, they all went to meet
him.
Wh e n THE brethren
[of
Rome]
heard of us. they came to meet
11q
(Acts 2 8 : 1 5 ) .
Again, there is not a single mention
of Peter among them. This
would
have
been extraordinary had Peter been in
Rome, for Luke always mentions by
PROOF
SIX:
No
Mention
of
Peter
in Pauls Letters
PROO F EIG HT: After the rejection
of the Jewish elders, Paul remained in
his own hired house for two years.
During that time he wrote Epistles to
the Ephesians, the Philippians, the
Colossians, Philemon, and to the He-
brews. And while Paul mentions others
as
being
in Rome during that period,
he nowhere mentions Peter. The ob-
vious reason is- the Apostle to the
circumcision wasnt
thtre
With the expiration
of Pauls two years imprisonment, he
was released. But about four years later
(near
65
A. D. ), he was again sent back
a prisoner to Rome. This time he had
to appear before the throne of Caesar
and was sentenced to die. Paul describes
these circumstances at length in I1
Timothy.
In regard to h i s t r i a l , no t i ce
PROOF
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The Bible
Answers Your Questions
I
lease address any quest ions YOU would l ike answered
i n t h i s c o l u m n to t h e E d i t o r.
I
W h a t g o o d d o m y p r ay er s d o
f o r o t h e r s a n d t h e W o r k o f
God? W o n t God intervene
whether
I
pray
or
n o t ?
Perhaps YOIJ
ike
this reader
dont realize the real IMPORTANCE or
N E E D for yoiw persoiial prayer.s or
others, for yourself, and
for
the
Wor k
of God.
Perhaps
yoii
have been
neglectitzg
prayer as a result-not fully real iz ing
how
dangeroils
it is to do
so.
Perhaps
you d ont believe that one man s prayers
-especially yours-will ma ke any d if -
ference.
But
y o i u Bible
says they will
I n N u m b er s 1 4 : l l - 1 6 G o d gives 11s a
living example of how
ef fect ive
one
mans prayers can be. Notice: Israel
had rebelled over and over again until
God-a mer ciful an d lovin g God-was
R I G H T E O U S L Y A N G R Y . God was going
to D E S TR O Y Israel-the whole na-
tion H e asked Moses . , .
HOW
LONG
will this people provoke me? . . . I
will smite them with the pestilence, and
disinherit them, and
will
make of
THEE
a greater nation and mightier than
they.
Realize-this was GO D speaking, not
a mere man, God had the POWER to
bring about what H e said, and H e
said H e was going to destroy Israel-
all of it
But what happened?
Moses ust one hum an being
prayed for Israel. H e pleaded for them
(Verses 1 5-1 9). H e presented the
whole situation before God and
asked
God to have mrrrj .
Moses was
ONE
MAN. But notice
what God did because of this one mans
prayers
:
And the Lord said, I HAVE
PAR-
D O N E D
AC C OR DI NG
TO
THY WORD
(Verse 2 0 ) .
God heard
and aimcer~rd Moses
prayer for Israel. Yet I F Moses HADNT
prayed, Israel would have been D E -
STROYED.
That one prayer
was
IMPOR-
T A N T .
For another example notice James
5 : 1 7 ,
Elias was A M A N subject to like
passions
AS WE A R E .
.
. Elijah of the
Old Testament was a weak human be-
ing-weak of himself as you an d I are
-but did he use that as U N exciise for
not pra ying ? Did he say, Im just a
weak human being. What good could
my prayers do? I guess Ill just not
p r a y ? N o
Notice, . . . and he prayed EAR -
NESTLY
that it might not rain
. . .
A N D
IT R AI NE D N O T . .
.
God heard and answered this one
mans prayer. How important that
prayel was
lo God
G o d
acted
upon
i t . He
intervened B E C A U S E
of it.
Y O U R P R AYER S are just that impor-
tant. God will hcar and Le5peCl yvui
prayer for your sick husband
or
wife or
children. He will
interveize ONLY I F
we
pray.
He
WILL
answer
whea
we
pray
for
the financial standing of Gods
Work, for the opening of new
Churrhes,
for The WQRLD
OMORROW
broadcast, for the publishing
of
T h e
P L A I N TRUTH agazine, and for the
spreading
of
this vital endtime mes-
sage
to
the world.
needed
YOUR
P E R S O N A L
P R A Y E R S
ARE
You
have of t en ment ioned I
Thessalonians 5:21 o v e r t h e
radio, te l l ing your l is teners
to
prove al l things . How does
o n e p r o v e a l l t h i n g s ?
God has so writ ten His Word, the
Bible, that you can PROVE it
to
be
true.
There are two basic
ways
to prove
all things-two ways to be sure your
beliefs are based upon .rcriptziral fact
and not the vain i deas of men.
Th e Bible includes many definite pre-
dictions about
future events.
These
prophecies, and the historical records
that accompany them, have been so
written that you can see God is stand-
Gods Work Grows
(Contit ined from page
8 )
Mr. Elbert
Atlas,
Local Elder.
has full approval from Headquarters
For it is adding an additional local
church in Fort Worth, Texas. to help
solve the overcrowded condition in Dal-
las and enable many brethren from west
of
Fort Worth to attend regularly.
Brethren, the Living CHRIST is com-
pletely otz the job this summer in
guid ing His Work
As
the long sum-
mer days arrive, let us gird up our
loins and U S E them in the service of
our
GOD.
Let us not bog down
or
be-
come listless. Let us not become weary
in well doing, but U S E the long sum-
mer hours for extra prayer, extra Bible
study and ex t i z service and encourage-
ment to our fellow brethren.
Let us
GIVE
of ourselves-pay f o r
uiie amdw.--and make this summers
spiritual harvest the
GREATEST
in the
modern history of Go ds Church
ing behind His Word, and that these
prophecies have been and continue to
be
fulfilled. (If
you
dont already have
our free booklet The Proo f of the
Bible, write for it immediately ) But
checking Bible prophccics in an
aca-
demic way is only one method to prove
all things. You can prove all things
in nnotker. way
The
K E Y lies in the
word, prove used in I Thessalonians
5 : 2 1 .
-
Lets understand
In Luke 14:19, you will find the
very same Greek word
used and trans-
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lated prove. Luke
is
writing of a
man making the excuse that he must
prove five yoke of oxen, and cannot
at tend the great supper
of
the par-
able. Th e word pro ve is translated
from the Greek word dokimazo and
means, to test by doing. This man
was going out into the f ie ld, and put
his new oxen to the test-to test them
by putting them to work
I Thessalonians
5 :2 1
challenges you
to prove G ods W ord by pi i t ting
it
to the test
Notice in Malachi
3:10
he Hebrew
counterpart of this Greek word is used.
The Hebrew word for prove here
is,
bachaiz
and means to try or test
by doing. This is Gods challeitge to
the skeptic or doubter Read i t Bring
ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that
there may be meat in mine house, and
PROVE MI: now herewith, saith thc
Eternal of hosts,
if
I will not open you
the windows of heaven, and pour you
out
a
blessing, that there shall not be
room enoug h to receive it . W e prove
this tithing law by putting it to the
test
This is the SECOND way to
PROVE
A L L
THINGS
Acts 17:11 gives the concrete ex-
ample of how the Berean converts
proved all things. Lets receive the
instruction
we
find in their attitude of
study.
What was it that the Bereans
stud ied? They did n ot study the ideas
of men about the Bible, or the tradi-
tion of their pag an ancestors hey
studied the SCRIPTURES
DAILY
They
studied the O l d
Testament
scriptures.
N o other scriptures were available at
that time.
How did the Bereans s tudy? Their
approach to the Bible was not tzega-
tive-sccking to fitzd far& with Gods
Word. They were open-minded, wil l -
ing to put the Bible to an honest test.
Read Lukes evaluation of them , Thes e
were MORE NOBLE than those in Thes-
salonica, in that they received the word
with
ALL R E A D I N E S S OF
M I N D ,
and searched the scriptures daily,
whether those th ings
W E R E
SO (Acts
1 7 : l l ) .
The Bereans sought the plain t ruth
with a positive attitude. They were will-
ing to accept the Bible which was writ-
ten for our instruction, correction and
reproof (I1 Tim. 3:16).
In 1 lhessalonians 5:21 God chal-
lenges y ou to tes t His Word as these
Bereans did by putting it into ACTION
in your l i f e
The skeptic doesnt believe
in
an-
swered prayer, because he has never
had prayer answered for him.
You
cant understand the ECONOMY of tith-
ing until you begin to tithe and
S E E
Some of Gods Wo rd must be tested
by putting it into action, by taking it
out to the field to see whether
or
not
it will work in a down-to-earth situa-
tion.
God
challenges
yoid to put His Bible
to the TEST
If you have the corirage and the
f a i t h to act
as
the Bereans did, then it
can be written of you, therefore
MANY
OF
THEM
B E L I E V E D (Acts 17:12)
IT WORK
My t e e n - a g e d a u g h t e r h a s
asked me, If t ime is so shor t ,
w h y not l ive it u p n o w ? I wont
be he re to have a marr i age and
chi ldren. Wel l a l l be s laves .
Wh a t s t h e u s e of missing every-
t h i n g ? How should I answer
her
?
Many teen-agers have voiced the
same question. They look about at
world conditions, they may understand
a few Bible prophecies, and they as-
sume that everything is hopeless-we
are all UUUMEL) Calamity is coming
and there is n o escape
However, there is a fatal flaw in
such reasoning. What such an indi-
vidual does not understand is that God
Almighty is bringing punishment upon
our nation for a REASON-and, fo r
those who
act,
God has provided a way
of escape
God is going to punish this nation
because of SIN Jeremiah wrote, All
thy lovers have forgotten thee; they
seek thee
not;
for I have wounded thee
with the wound of at2 etzemy, with the
chastisement of a cruel one, for the
MULTITUDE
of thine iaiyui ty; because
thy S I N S w ere increased ( Je r . 30 :14) .
Yes, it is this very attitude of Lets
get our kicks now which is bringing
Divine retribution upon this nation.
Many people, especially teen-agers,
think that sin is fun. They think that
if they d on t get their kicks, they
are missing out on something Yet
Gods Wo rd shows that sin is
EVIL,
filthy, rotten and leads to empty, miser-
able, frustrated lives.
lhis attitud e of Eat, dri nk , and be
merry, for tomorrow we die is ramp-
ant in the United States. And it wa.r
prophesied / Isaiah was inspired to
write, And in that day did the Lord
God of hosts call to weeping, and to
mourning, and to baldness, and to gird-
ing with sackcloth: And behold joy and
gladness, slaying oxen, and killing
sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine:
L E T US E A T A N D DRINK; FOR TOMOR-
ROW WE
S H A L L D I E
(ha . 22112-13) .
Instead of repenting at Gods warn-
ing message, instead of fearin g to con-
tinue living in SI N, people are eating,
drinking, dancing, trying to have
a
good time and get their kicks
Instead
of
looking at the dire
P E R I L
stalking the world, penple turn
away
their eyes and seek their own fleshly
pleasures.
It was the same way before the Flood
of Noahs time. Jesus Christ said,
For
as in the days that were before the
flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until
the day that Noe entered into the ark,
And k n e w not until the flood came,
and took them all away;
SO
S H A L L
ALSO
the coming of the Son
of
man be
(Matt . 24:38-39). And i t was the i a m e
way in the days of Lot, when God
rained fire and brimstone from heaven
to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah for
their wickedness (L uke 1 7 28- 29) . So
i t always
has beetz
when nations faced
Divine judgment
W hy not l ive i t up n ow ? The an-
swer is very simple. Living it up now,
plunging headlong, heedlessly on into
sin, and refusing to REPENT is the w r y
th ing which
is B R I NGI NG
destrzirtioiz
atid piitzishmetzt ybotz this laud The
011ly way
to escape these punishments is
to STOP living it up now, repent, and
turn to G OD in utter hum ility
(Luke
1 3 : 3 , 5 ) . G o d warns his people through
the Prophet Ezekiel, . . . turn ye,
(Please coiztiniie o n page 2 0 )
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WINE M A K E S
A GLAD H E A R T
Do
you knoiij the HEAL T HFU L benefits
of
wine? Or, have
you
FALSELY assumed that wine is AL L BAD ? Y o u can learn
now
how to receive a BLESSING instead of a curse, by PR O PE R
USE OF W I N E .
by L. Leroy Neff
H E BI BL E says that Go d gives
wine to make men glad Ps.
104:15 ) . Why have some men
turned this blessing of God into a
rnt..re?
God plainly shows the proper i u e of
wine in the Bible. But, men have
re-
f i t s e d to follow God's instruction. If
we follow the scriptural instruction our
health will benefit , and we will have
a happier heart .
Here
is an opportunity to learn these
benefits from your own Bible and from
scientific sources that you probably have
not known before.
In the United States there are about
fifty million social drinkers, three to
five million
excessizv
drinkers, and
seven hundred fifty thousand alcoholics.
Thousands
of
lives are ruined by drink-
ing Countless numbers of people suf-
fer untold pain and anguish because
of relatives or loved ones who drink
excessively.
Because of the zrnpt'opev use of alco-
hol by
a
relatively few people, many
others have come to the conclusion that
arzy
r/.tr
of alcoholic beverages
is
com-
pletely and totally wrong. Many devout,
religious people sincerely believe that
God has forbiddeli any use of alcohol.
Wine is frequently mentioned in the
Bible. If the use of wine is a sin, the
Bible will plrliiily show that it is wrong.
If there are benefits of wine, it will
say so.
Enjoy Wine
T
Melchizedek was priest
of
the Most
High God at Salem (Jerusalem) during
the t ime of Abraham. Th e Apost le Paul
showed in the New Testament that this
Ambasrodor
C o l l e g e Photo
The way God in tended i t s use, wine can be used as
a
regu lar par t o f the d ie t -ond be a
cont ro l led benef i t , not an uncon t ro l led curse. As th is pho tog raph shows, win e has i t s naturo l
beau t y as we l l
os
t he o ther foods Go d c reated to be en joy ed.
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person was none other than the One
who became Jesus Christ of the New
Testament (Heb.
7 ) .
On one occasion Abraham was
eutei.-
taiiied
by Melchizedek. On this mem or-
able occasion Melchizedek broug ht
forth bread and
wiize,
for Abraham
and his companions (Gen.
1 4 : l S ) .
This is an example of Jesus Christ
IIimself, our Lord and Master serving
&tie to His guests And,
H e
did not
.sin
This particular Hebrew word trans-
lated
wiize
is jayiiz.
This word is used
134
times in the Old Testament and it
means
fer.mcizted
winc, not grapc juicc
This same beverage, when used ex
cessively causes d i x n k e m e s s . Proof is
found in Genesis 9:21 where Noah
drank
yayin
excessively and became
drunk. Lot also became drunk on this
Jnme
beverage (Gen. 19:30-36). I t
was
the beverage used by Nabal
so
that he
too became drunken (I Sam.
25:36-37) .
God instructed His people to
ENJOY
yayiiz
at the commanded Festivals
(Deut .
14:26) .
In addition to enjoy-
ing
wine we
may also
e n j o y r tvnng
drink. This term comes f rom an en-
tirely different Hebrew word-shekar-
which is used twen t y- two times in the
Old Testament, and means an in-
tensely alcoholic
ligiior.
Thew scriptiires shmild make
it
dear
that there can be a right and a wrong
use of yayiiz. Christ in the office of
Melchizedek
nsed it properly.
Noah ,
Lot and Nabal used it
improperly
in
the accounts mentioned. W e should
learn to use it
properly as
Christ did.
In addition to using wine as a bev-
erage God
also commaizded
His Levit-
ical Priesthood to include in thc
sacrifices
a
portion of wine
as
a drink
of fer ing
(Ex.
29 : 4 0 ) .
A blessing of wine was prophesied
for our people today as a part of our
national heritage Read it in Genesis
27:28. lherefow God
gizw
thee
of
the dew of heaven, and the fatness of
the earth, and PLENTY of corn and
W I N E .
Today, some people think that this
particular blessing from God is
a cwse
instead of
a blessitzg
God gives
good
GZFTS
to his children. For some people
who have improperly used it, it has
become a curse.
But if used correctly
it is a blessing from Almighty God.
This should emphasize
our
need to
learn the proper use.
This same wine ( t irosh) is also
shown to be
a
gift of God in another
scripture.
For
she [Israel) did not
know that I gave her corn, and
wine,
and oil, and multiplied her silver and
gold, which they prepared for Baal.
Therefore will I return, and take away
my corn in the time thereof, and
my
wine in the season thereof, and will
recover my wool and my flax given to
cover her nakedness (Hosea 2 :8-9).
The word
tirosh,
new wine,
is
used in these two places and in thirty-
six other places in the Old Testament.
People sometimes conclude that this
word means
grape jriice,
or
fresh-
pressed juice
of
the vine.
These scriptures show that wine is a
blessing
from God; however, the Scrip-
tures
also show plainly that wine
can
be a curse if
improperly
used. Hosea
4:11
states: Whoredom and
wine
[yayin)
and
u ew w i n e
[tirosh] t a k e
away
the heart. Grape juice could not
have this effect. This scripture should
make it plain that the
impyoper or
ex-
cessive use of
either
wine
or
new wine
will cause a person to temporarily lose
proper control of his mind and body.
The Hebrew tirosh, translated ?zew
wine, can be iiztoxicatiizg
This
i s a l s o
proved in Judges
9 : 1 3
where it is stated that
tirosh CHEER-
ETH
God and maiz. Grape juice does
not have a warming or cheering effect,
but wine, used moderately and not in
excess does.
Chr ist Drank-John Didn t
John the Baptist did not drink wine
(oz izos)
(Luke
7 : 3 3 ) .
However, Jesus
Christ DID dr ink
oiizos
(wine) . He sa id
He did in Matthew 11:19 , and Luke
7 : 3 4 .
Christ had not changed since the
days of His office
as
Melchizedek. He
did not preach against the
temperate
use of wi ne; instead H e did like most
of the other people of His day and
drank
u h e
in moderation It was one
of the principal beverages in Palestine
at tha t time-and is to this day.
His first miracle was to change water
into real f
ermeuted
wive
( o i m s )
(John
2 : l o ) .
People who preach abstinence
refuse to admit that this first miracle
of Jesus was really what the Bible
plainly says it was. They claim that
this miracle was to turn water into
grape juice Imagine
if
you can an elab-
orate Jewish wedding supper where
everyone drank only grape juice
Christ turned six jars of twenty or
thirty gallons each into wine ( o i i z m )
This was no small miracle
This was the kind of wine that the
steward said was of
f inest quality.
Could it havc bccn grape juice? Evcry
man serves the good wine first; and
when men have drunk freely, then the
poor wine; but you have kept the
GOOD W I N E
unti l now (John
2:10,
R S V) . At such wedding feasts after
men had drunk freely,
or
more
cor-
rectly were softened with drink, the
poorer quality of wine was brought out.
The people did not realize the differ-
ence by then. To anyone who will read
the Scripture for what it says, and who
will be honest with himself the answer
is obvious, this was
real,
fermented,
alcoholic
u~j t ze .
Another proof that
oi i ios is FER-
M E N T E D u h z e is the fact that Paul said,
Be not drunk with wine
(o inos )
(Eph.
5:18 .
Yot i
cdni zot g e t
d u m k
o n
grape juice
A parable which Jesus gave also
proves that
oiizoJ is
the kind of wine
or juice that has been fermented. At
that time, instead of having metal or
glass bottles to ericlose wirie, the ~ k i
of animals were used. The workin g
quality of the wine while fermenting,
would break an old skin. It would not
break
a
new skin because of its pliable
characteristics. Jesus said that
oiiios
would break old bottles (skins) (Matt.
9 : 1 7 ) .
Paul instructed Timothy, Drink no
longer water, but use
a little zuiize
( o i i zos )
for thy stomachs sake and
thine of ten inf irmit ies ( I Tim.
5 : 2 3 ) .
Notice, he said to use only a
little
wine, not
a
whole
lot.
This one scrip-
ture shows that the amount of wine
used should be limited. The purpose of
this wine was T imothys frequent
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stomach
ailments.
Later we will see
why it was beneficial for Timothy to
use fermented wine for his stomach.
W r o n g U se of W i n e C o n d em n e d
Several scriptures have shown that it
is not a sin to use wine
p r ~ ~ p e r ~ l j , .
ut
what of the
iiiiproper, //.ie?
Drunken-
ness and the excessive use of wine is
condemned (Eph. 5 : I S ) . Drunkenness
is one of the works
of
the
jle.rh
(Gal .
5 : 2 1 ) .
Those who are mighty
to
drink
(excessive drinkers), are condemned by
God (Isa . 5 : 2 2 ) . The improper use
of
wine is a mocker and deceiver. Wine
is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and
whosoever is deceived thereby is not
wise (Prov.
20:1
) . Those that tarry
loizg
over wine and spend a great deal
of time in drinking
will
find all kinds
of woe, sorrow and trouble (Prov.
2 3 : 2 9 - 3 0 ) .
Whi le i t i the yime.r.r of
fermentation, wine will cause sickness
and pain
(Prov.
23:31-32) . Verse 2 1
of this same chapter instructs us
fiat
to
be among those who are wiiie bibber..r
(excessive drinkers),
n o r
are we to be
among glut tons (excess ive eaters) . The
excessizse use of food is just as e z d
as excessive drinking. If this verse
means you should not touch one drop
of wine, it
also
means you should not
touch one morsel of food
Even though alcoholism is a serious
~ i t z n our land, only a small percentage
of people are guilty of it. There are
untold rnillioiis more who a re gliittotzs,
smokers, idolaters, Sabbath - breakers,
and wh o violate all of God s other
commands.
One doctor looks
a t
the matter of
alcohol being habit-forming as fol-
lows: Occasionally heard as an ob-
jection to prescribing alcohol
. . .
is that
alcohol is habit-forming.
So
now hold
on to your chair or your prejudice if
any. Drinking is nothing like as habi t -
forming as smoking. It isnt even as
habit-f orm ing as overeating. From all
practical viewpoints and for all prac-
tical purposes liquor is not habi t -form-
ing a t a l l (F rom Liq~or.,
he
Servaizt
of illaiz, by Walter Hall Smith and
Ferdinand C. Helwig, M . D . ) .
Two
Prohib i t ions
Many religionists claim that the
use
of real fevnzen/ed wine is
f o v h i d d c n
in
the Bible. The truth is that they
d o
izot
kizow WHAT
i.r
j z the
Bible.
There are
only two specific TEMPORARY p r o b ib ; -
t i o m
against any use of wine and they
were given for particularly
nnusual
sitiiatinns~The first concerns that
of
a
Nazari te . This was a vow taken volun-
tarily by people in Old Testament times.
While a person was u n d e r this vow
he was not to cut his hair, nor was
he to eat or drink anyth ing that would
come from p p e s . Such a person could
not eat raisiizs, drink grape jiiice, or
wine. If this vow is used to prove that
wine is wrong (as some people attempt
to do) then so are grape juice and
raisins, and it is wrong for a man to
cut his hair
The second complete temporary pro-
hibition concerned
o ? z I ~
he High Priest,
or those other priests who served per-
sonally within the Temple, or withiiz
the Tabernacle in the wilderness. This
is given in Leviticus 10 :9-1 1. Th is com-
mand was given to prohibit any pos-
sibility of a priest ministering in a
drunken, or partially drunken state.
Since the priests under the Old Testa-
ment dispensation were carnal, and did
not have G ods Holy Spirit , they quite
possibly would on certain occasions ap-
pear before God drunken, unless there
were a t o t d prohibi t ion for their drink-
ing
a t
t h e t i m e when they were to per-
form their particular service. At other,
t im e r they
were
given full permission
to drink wine.
God wants us to learn how to dis-
cern what is good and evil by exercis-
ing our senses properly (Heb. 5 :14 ) .
The use of wine is one such thing that
we
M U S T
leartz t o cont ro l. W e should
only use wine in what the world would
call E X T R E M E moderatioiz. A small
amount of wine, especially at meal-
t im e , is B E N E F I C I A L to the body. Ex-
cessive amounts of wine are harmful.
It brings
all
kinds of trouble, woe and
unhappiness to the user as well as to
everyone around him.
H e r e A r e M o r e B e n e f it s of W i n e
We have already seen from the Bible
certain benefits from wine. In the ex-
ample of Timothy, the Apostle Paul
said to drink wine
would
h e l p .rtomuh
d i ~ t r e ~ ~nd aid digestion. This benefit
of wine as well as several others have
been recorded in the Biblc for many,
many centuries. Some doctors in the
medical profession are now
begitziziizg
t o lenrz some of these very same things.
They have not learned the basic cause
of sickness and disease. But despite
their mistakes, the medical profession
has been able to observe the effect
of
certain foods on health. As a result of
their research they recognize a few of
the principles concerning health.
Doctors realize that the excessive use
of wine and liquor is very harmful.
Yet they also realize the BENEFITS of
its proper
m e .
Dr. Peter
J ,
Steincrohn,
M.D., wrote
in
his column in the P a d -
deiza l~zdepeizdeizt of December 30,
1961,
concerning the problem of alco-
hol . After arknowledging the n7nt7j
evjls of excessiiw drinking he stated,
Yet, we doctors know there is an-
other s ide to i t. W e recognize t h a t
alcohol can also do
M U C H G O O D.
He stated that, Alcohol
is
a two-
d g word; ni ie dri/Ij the other
Jbnvp.
Before accepting it or rejecting it, there
are a few things you should know. In
moderate
anzo2mt.r
l iqi ior
is
an appe-
tizer and a stomachic. A martini makes
many
a
dinner and social function. For
the elderly, alcohol seems to provide
a
new lease on life. This famous doctor
continued in this column to say that
over the years, hundreds
of
patients
have told me (in all sobriety) how
much the daily onizce or t u o of liquor
has added to the fullness and enjoy-
ment of their lives.
In laymans language a Jtomachic is
an aid, benefit
or
tonic to the stomach.
D o you suffer fro m stomach distress?
Proper use of wine in the diet may help
you.
As a result of the work of Dr. Sal-
vatore P. Lucia, Professor of Medicine
o n
the San Francisco campus of the
University of Calif ornia , doctors and
laymen are being acquainted with the
benefits of the proper use of wine. His
book, Witze as
Food
aizd Medic ine ,
is
a comprehensive study of wines place
in the d i e t . Several
ycars
ago the Uni-
versity of California, in its public in-
formation radio broadcasts Th e Un i-
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