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age,"you?"came,'years."versant with the history of the times andthe men of whom he writes and has visited the scenes of their labours and theirmartyrdom. The studies will includeSamuel Rutherford, Donald Cargill,Alexander Peden and others.We believe these sketches will be ofgreat interest to all our constituency,and particularly to those who will readthe new serial "How Sleep the Brave!"which commenced in the August issue.The story deals with this period whenthese men suffered, bled and died forChrist's crown and Covenant and thatyou and I might have the heritage of anopen Bible and freedom to worship Godwhen and how we please. We would askour readers to please make this series ofarticles known and secure as many copies of the magazine as possible to sendto interested friends.The Evangelical ChristianHISTORY OF THE COVENANTERSDear Dr. Taggart:Your reference to the series of articleson Covenanter history, now being published in the "EvangelicalChristian"should interest all Covenanters. Theseries began in the August issue. In addition to eight pages of history a column in the "March of Events" sectionbears on the same subject.The September issue covers six fullpages of Covenanter history togetherwith a splendid article on Samuel Rutherford under the title of "Studies of theLives of the Scottish Covenanters." Several others are to follow.I have taken this magazine for yearsand prize it highly. The cost is $2.00for six months or $4.00 for one year. Theaddress is Evangelical Publishers, 366Bay St., Toronto, Canada.Covenanters writing about Covenanters is not new. But when able writersof other churches take the time and energy to praise the deeds and write thehistory of the Scottish Covenanters itcomes with special interest.D. H. ElliottHOW OLD WAS GRANDPA?By Alfred I. TookeOnce a little boy"Grandpa, how old areasked his Grandpa:"Darling, you shouldn't ask peopletheir his mother said."Well, I don't mind this time," Grandpa responded, putting down his Bible."As a matter of fact, I just finished figuring how old I am, so I don't mindtelling you both:"Take the number of Commandments,Add the number of Job's daughters(Job 1:2)Add the number of the plagues (Exodus7-12)Ere Israel passed the Red Sea's waters.Add the number of the Psalms,And the chapters in Isaiah,And the number of the brave menWho went through the furnace fire(Daniel 3:20).When you've figured this correctlyAnd divided by eleven,Add the number of the daysIn which God made earth and heaven(Genesis 6:16)And the days and nights it rained (Genesis 7:12).Now, if you made no mistake,Grandpa's age you've ascertained."How old was Grandpa? You maycheck your answer with the solution onpage 187.Reprinted from The Christian AdvocateDROP IN BEER SALESLiquor sales are showing a gratifyingslump. "In 1954 the U.S. consumed but83 million barrels 4,000,000 barrels lessthan the all-time peak in 1947. In termsof per capita consumption, the dip iseven sharper; beer sales last year weredown almost 15% from the wartimehigh of 18.7 gallons per person. And beeris not the only beverage industry hit:hard liquor sales have slumped nearly30% from the postwar high, to 1.18 gallons per capita. And sales of soft drinksare also down." Time, July 11, 1955."No One Knows Why"The Time editors state that "no oneknows why. Some brewers say thatthey themselves have brought on theslump in beer by preaching moderation.Others feel that it is the natural resultof changes in U. S. living habits. . . . Theworking man . . . has too many . . . thingsto occupy his leisure hours: auto trips,sports, do-it-yourself hobbies, home improvement. Moreover, motorists are increasingly conscious of the danger indrunken driving. Other reasons for thedecline in beer drinking: reducing diets,the fad for low-calorie soft drinks, rising beverage taxes, which have helpedto make the poor man's drink expensive.Ibid.Brewers are now making a supremeeffort to stop the slumpand sell morebeer. "Milwaukee's Schlitz, which onceloaded its beer with vitamin D, is spendingTiny, seven-ounce,millions on TVadvertising."Ibid."ladies' size"bottlesof beer are now on the market. Beerin special small-size bottles selling foras little as five to ten cents is now beingsold. The brewery industry is alert andhustling to regain its lost businessreachingout the "glad hand" to all customers. The head of one of the nation'slargest breweries, in order to halt declining sales in St. Louis, "invited everywholesaler, retailer, and saloonkeeper inthe area to his home 11,000 in all."For eleven nights running, the guestsarrived in batches of 1,000. Bush, withhis handsome third wife Gertrude, 28,made sure to pump every hand, pass afew pleasant words with each. 'Whenmidnight Busch recalls, 'myhand would be so swollen I couldn'tmove my fingers.' Every night hesoaked his hands in Epsom salts untilthe swelling went down; on the eleventhnight the soaking took two hours. Butwhen St. Louis' Budweiser sales shot up400%, Brewer Busch was satisfied."If the vendors of beer are willing togo to such excruciating measures to haltdeclining beer sales, let the advocates oftemperance make even more superhuman sacrifices to drive the beer andliquor interests cut of business.Review & Herald"THE ASTRONOMICAL BIBLE"After almost seven years of work,with a telescope on Mount Palomar, theNational Geographic Societyand theCalifornia Institute of Technology recently announced that three fourths ofthe sky had been mapped to a depthnever before photographed in detail.Two hundred photo-sky-charts, representing the first section of a "GreatAtlas of the Universe," are being sentto the world observatories. The complete work will include 1,758 such mapsand is expected to be ready next year. Inthe announcement from the CaliforniaInstitute ofTechnology, the work wasreferred to as a "treasure chart showingastronomers where to dig for discoveries."Dr. Lee Du Bridge, the Institute'spresident, said it would be "an astronomical Bible for a hundredThis sky survey has been described asthe "farthest reaching everattempted."It reveals "millions of new stars, galaxies and systems of galaxies far out inspace."These discoveries, some scientists believe, may point to a new general law of nature governing the organization of matter in the universe.The facts which our modern astronomers are revealing about our universestagger the imagination. Our standardsof measurement are too small to give usany idea of interstellar space. At bestwe can get a faint notion of the physicalinsignificance of our earth. The wordsof the psalmist are more significant to192day than when they were written,"What is man that thou art mindful ofhim? and the son of man that thou visitesthim?" COVENANTER WITNESS