tory. The awful cost of blood- 
shed, and money, and_ national 
id 1onor is staggering and heartbreak- 
. Our own nation has already 
ent far more than twenty bil- 
lion dollars for the struggle in Ko- 
rea, and yet, what advancement 
are we making? 
~All those who have eyes to see, 
can see that the great pe sction: 
described in the Word of God, 
a taking place at this very hour. ra 
Beda and Russia are the greatest 
“ friends in the United Nations or- 
ganization. The nations belonging 
Seerotlray-are still holding us in sus- 
_ picion. Egypt has turned on Great 
_ Britain as the Word of God de- 
_ clared she would, and she is now 
leaning toward Russia. Iran and 
_ Traq are courting the USSR. The 
oil that our forces had access to is 
ae being directed toward the 
_ Reds, to move the great war ma- 
- chine into operation against us. 
_Mchammedanism and Commun- 
ism are uniting. Truly, every way 
es. 
_we look, there is distress of pe 
- tions. 
« ~ The Lord Jesus Christ femnized 
and named very clearly, certain 
things that would come to pass just 
_ before His appearing, and with our 
eyes today, if we have eyes to see, 
we can very clearly see that these 
things are taking place in our 
midst, as they never have taken 
_ place before in the history of the 
world. Christ said, “When ye see 
these things come to pass then, 
__ know ye, that his coming is nigh, 
yea he is even at the door.’’ He 
said we could know, ‘‘then know 
ye,” be convinced that the king- 
dom of God is nigh. 
The present condition of the 
world today is almost an exact ful- 
-fillment of the warnings of our 
Lord as recorded in the thirteenth 
chapter of Mark. Read the chap- 
: ter carefully, and you will not find 
GOUDEN TRUTHS 
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bles have no parallel in human !a single sign but what is manifest- 
ed somewhere in _ this stricken 
world today. It does not take a 
spiritual man, or even one who 
claims to be a Christian, to see that 
these things are facts, even men 
who profess to be atheists are start- 
led with the evidence that the New 
Testament is offering today. Some 
of these men have declared that 
the New Testament offers precise, 
gs |and elaborate specifications of the 
events preceding the inevitable end 
of the world, and the reading of 
them must lead any rational man 
to conclude that the events are now 
upon us.” These words did not 
come from a professed follower of 
God, but from an editor of a cer- 
tain publication in our land. We 
must all admit that extraordinary 
events and circumstances are exist- 
ing all over the world today, and 
tremendously destructive things 
are being planned in every part of 
the world. The nations of the 
world are now at each other's 
throats. 
MEN’S HEARTS FAILING 
THEM 
Men’s hearts are failing them for 
fear, and for looking after those 
things which are coming on the 
earth. for the power of heaven 
shall be shaken” (Luke 21:26). In 
the licht of the atomic bomb, and 
the hydrogen bomb, and the threat 
of germ warfare, which the world 
is facing today, it is very clear to 
any rational. mind why men’s 
hearts are failing them for fear. and 
for looking forward to those things 
which are to come to pass here on 
this earth. We face the fact that 
extraordinary events are taking 
vlace all over the world, and extra- 
ordinary measures of war and de- 
struction are being planned all 
over the world. These are without 
parallel in the history of the world, 
for scientific discovery has sudden- 
EPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN, HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD. —John 3:3. 
ly put the life of all humanity in 
danger. We are told that the atomic 
bomb can wipe out one hundred 
thirty-six thousand lives in a mo- 
ment of time, and that now we 
have other explosives far more 
powerful—they can wipe out 
whole nations. 
The emergency council of atom- 
ic scientists declares that if war 
breaks out that atomic bombs will 
be used, and they will surely de- 
stroy our civilization, for the 
bombs now being used are from 
seven hundred to eleven hundred 
times more powerful than the 
bombs used on Hiroshima. They 
declare that if these bombs are 
used, human life will be brought to 
an end forever on this earth. These 
facts are horrifying indeed, but 
there are those who tell us now far 
graver facts. A former Major Gen- 
eral in the Canadian army’s Medi- 
cal corps, who is said to be one of 
the world’s foremost authorities on 
biological warfare, made this state- 
ment; ‘“The atomic bomb is child's 
play in comparison with the weap- 
ons of biological warfare.” We are 
told from reliable authorities that 
Russia has the supremacy over us 
in this biological warfare, that she 
has possession of two disease 
'verms, identified only as substance 
X and substance Y, which, the 
world health organization, says, 
have such strength that seven 
ounces of them would be sufficient 
to wipe out most of the human 
race. This organization also de- 
clares that substance Y could ex- 
terminate a whole community in 
six hours, then disappear without 
a trace, so that an occupying force 
could take safe possession of the 
area within twelve hours. Small 
wonder then that ‘men’s hearts 
are failing them for fear, and for 
looking forward to the things that 
are going to take place on this 
earth. 
