Useful Pamphlets.—The following have been sent us:—Noah and the Ark by A. G. Warren Smith. In a recommendatory foreword it is described as a timely and effective challenge against the insidious and dangerous teaching so prominent on the radio and in schools and colleges. Very useful for young people. May be had from the author, 128 Edgemoor Lane, Sandiacre, Nottingham, price 3d. post free.
Behind the Dictators (Gospel Witness Office, 130 Gerrard Street, East Toronto, Canada.) Price 50 cents post free. This pamphlet is by Dr. Lehmann who was born in Ireland and brought up in the Church of Rome. He has an intimate knowledge of the artful diplomacy of Rome. For our taste there are too many references to Free Masons, a craft against which our Church has borne no uncertain testimony. The price of the pamphlet as stated is 50 cents post free about 2/6 at present rate of exchange.
Another pamphlet dealing with the subject is Mr. Herbert Sinclair’s Menace to World Peace—Rome. Price 2d. Sinclair’s Publications, Ltd.,
204 Great Portland Street, London, W.1, contains a number of facts pithily put and is a strong indictment against Rome.
Church of Rome and World Domination by Art Davies, M.A. (Scottish Reformation, George IV. Bridge, Edinburgh). Price 2d. An excellent pamphlet which deserves a wide circulation.
General Eisenhower’s Private Secretary.—According to the Gospel Witness (Toronto) the Generalissimo’s private secretary is a Roman Catholic
Solemn Facts.—The Times of March 7th, 1944, announced the appointment of three new Judges “to deal with the increasing number of divorce cases.” Divorce cases are thus on the increase. Such cases are usually or often due to unfaithfulness showing that marriage does not in itself prevent immoral conduct. The Daily Telegraph of the same date, said that “Mr. Vernon Gage, prosecuting at the Old Bailey yesterday in a case concerning parcels stolen from the railway companies, said that last year the losses on the L.M.S. railway alone were over £1,000,000 worth of property—nearly £3,000 every day.”
There is thus an enormous amount of stealing going on, on the railways. A third solemn fact is the enormous amount of immorality going on, even amongst young girls.
Then the newspapers tell us there is a great increase of crime among children and young people. Added to these facts is the increasing desertion of the Sabbath. Churches and chapels are for the most part empty, and there is a growing failure to remember to keep holy the Sabbath day. We think of England as a Christian country, as a land of Bibles, and a land where God is honoured, but it might be said of a very large number of our people that “there is no fear of God before their eyes.” Here is another sentence in the newspaper: “It is pitiable to see tired infants waiting in theatre and cinema queues with their parents and later being awakened out of an exhausted sleep to scramble for the last bus.”
It might be asked, “How can parents, who take their children to cinemas and theatres, expect them to grow up honest, holy and God-fearing?” There is surely a loud call for parents to realise their personal responsibility in reference to the spiritual and temporal well-being of their children. Can we expect God to prosper our nation if we flout His laws, and harden our hearts against His Commandments? “Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in His commandments” (Psalm cxii. 1). The like blessing is not promised to the disobedient. We read, “The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but He blesseth the habitation of the just” (Proverbs iii. 33).—Gospel Magazine.