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evealed,"
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apologies."
frightened
anyway."
Glimpses of the Religious World
Frank E. Allen, D. D.
How the Walls of Jericho Fell
An article which appeared recently in the public press
cast doubt on the biblical record of the fall of the walls of
Jericho in Joshua's day. There was a headline which read:
"23 walls of Jericho fell long before Joshua's day." One
statement of the article was: "All that is left of the Joshuan
period is the stone foundation of a house at the eastern
edge of the tell (mound)."
There were two Jerichos and it may be that these ex
cavations have been made at the site of the later Jericho.
However, the archaeological excavations made under the
direction of Professor Garstang, then Director of Antiqui
ties to the Palestine government and recorded by Sir Charles
Marston in his book, "New Bible Evidence," shows that
the evidence is complete to substantiate the Bible record.
Mr. Garstang and his wife examined 100,000 fragments of
potsherds from the debris of the city, all of which attested
to the same date, about 1400 B.C.
Walls Fell Outwards
Mr. Marston says: "The 1932 and 1933 excavations have
completely exploded the theory of a pious fraud on the part
of Joshua. The walls had fallen outwards quite flat in
various places, particularly on the west side of the city
which alone had remained undisturbed by the German
excavators (p.
141).''
"The further fact was
Jericho Burnt
says Marston, "that
Jericho had been most systematically burnt, although it
had not first been systematically plundered. There in the
houses were found foodstuffs, such as wheat, barley, lentils,
onions, dates and pieces of dough, all reduced to charcoal
by the intense heat of the conflagration, and so preserved
for more than three thousand years mute witness to the
course of events attending the destruction of Jericho. "The
reason that the food had been left untouched was because
the city and all that was in it was devoted to God (Josh.
6:17). "They burnt the city with fire, and all that was
therein"
(Josh. 6:24).
Would that newspaper reporters and radio announcers
would examine the most accurate evidence before making
statements which question or cast doubt on the Bible record,
for wherever archeological evidence is reasonably complete
it has corroborated the accuracy
of the record in the
Bible, and that now covers nearly all important phases of
Bible history.
7s a Lie Justifiable
Dr. L. H. Bartemeier, of Baltimore, Md., addressing the
American Academy
of General Practice in Los Angeles, is
reported by the press to have said: "Doctors should lie to
human
life."
their cancer patients as a means of prolonging
There may be times when it is advisable for a doctor
to withhold his findings from a patient for a time, but he
has no more right to lie to them than a banker has to lie
about the account of a depositor. A doctor should be a
Christian, and a Christian should try to show those who
seem to be near the end of life the way
that they
of salvation so
do not die in their sins and after death suffer
more terribly than if they had cancer. One who is a
Christian will receive comfort in his sickness, and one
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who is not a Christian should be shown the way of life
and warned against the way to eternal death. "In the day
of adversity
A $10,000 Award to Waverly
A $10,000 award was made to the citizens of Waverly,
la., for their successful move to find housing for Captain
Daniels and his wife and three children. Capt. Virgil Daniels
is a Negro air force officer who some time ago was about
to be denied an apartment in Waverly, but the citizens of
the town became interested and welcomed him with his
family. The award was given by the Ford Foundation to
advance civil liberty. The citation reads: "Your prompt
action in extending the hand of neighborly friendliness brings
honor to Waverly
Efforts such as yours give life and meaning to our Consti
and makes it an example to the country.
tution and Bill of Rights." The money
will be used for
civic betterment and will be administered by the civic area
committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Waverly is the
first city in the U. S. to receive an award of this nature.
In receiving the award their spokesman, Mr. S. Spear, said:
"We greatly appreciate it, but the people of Waverly cer
tainly don't feel that we deserve anything
doing what should have been done
The Influence of Romanism
special for
A writer to Christian Herald says : "A group of churches
in Detroit purchased a full page in the Detroit News, in
an effort to express the biblical (Protestant) teaching on
the worship of Mary, Mother of Christ. It was a paid ad.
As soon as the first edition was circulated, the Roman
Catholic ....
hierarchy the management into
dropping the ad. The check used in payment was returned,
with
The writer closes with these words: "It
is frightening, to say the least, that a group
can wield
such influence in this land of the free." The Knights of
Columbus can purchase space in the papers to promote
Romanism, but they threaten and frighten the editor who
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