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not,"neither,"system?"system."wrath.'mind"comfortable."ocean."now?"now,"now?"power,"religion."capacity."quotation"REMO I. ROBB, D.D.ECUFor CovenantOctober, 1955TO ILLUSTRATE THE NOVEMBERNovember 6TOPICS// the World Wants Peace,Why Not Have it?Self Defense."Do you think it would be wrong forme to learn the noble art of self defense?"a religiously inclined young maninquired of his pastor."Certainlyanswered the minister, "I learned it in my youth myself,and I have found it of great value during my life.""Indeed, sir! Did you learn the oldsystem?"English system or the Sullivan"I learned"I learned the Solomon"Theyoung man.Solomonsaid the minister,asked the"Yes, you will find it in Proverbs 15:1.'A soft answer turneth away Itis the best system of self-defense Iknow!"It would be a good idea if more peoplewould learn this system of self-defense.November 13 "God's Kingdom" WhatDo We Want?Help for AllThe Gospel River of Life does notbranch out in diverse streams. There isnot a broad sweep of water for the rich,the intellectual, and the cultivated, anda little scanty runnel where the poormay now and then come and get healedby the side of its precarious wave. Thereis no costly sanitarium beneath whoseshade patrician leprosy may get by itself to be fashionablysprinkled andhealed. Naaman, with all his retinuewatching must come and dip and plungelike common men in Jordan. There is nosort of salvation except the one ransomand deliverance that is purchased forrich and poor together by the sacrificeof the Lord Jesus Christ; and the poorbeggar, his garment ragged from thehavoc of a hundred storms, and hisflesh bleeding from the ulcers of a hundred wounds, may dip eagerly into thesame Bethesda, and emerge unscarredand comely280as a child.November 20 "O Give Thanks Untothe Lord"Let us with a Gladsome Mind."The 136th Psalm was the foundationof John Milton's "Let us with a gladsometeen. It is the onlywritten when he was fifone of his songswhich has found a responsive note in thesongs of the Church, though no one feltmore than he did the height of thePsalmist's great argument!"Their songs,with'Thin sown aught of profit or delight,Will far be found unworthy to compareWith Zion's songs to all true tastes excelling,Where God is praised aright, and godlike men,The Holiest of holies, and His saints,Such are from God inspired."November 27 Wishbones, Jawbones,Backbones.Power for Action.A traveler took ship in a deep harborfor a trip across the Atlantic. He madethe acquaintance of the chief engineer,and asked him what was the total capacity of the ship's boilers. The engineersaid it was fifty thousand horsepower."What do you have onthe passenger.inquired"Only five hundred," answered the engineer. "We don't need much just tokeep the water hot and make the cabinsThe ship began moving down the riverand across the bay."How much power have youasked the traveler."Five thousand horsepower. That isall we need to take us across the widebay and into theWhen they had gone out on the oceanwaves a few hours the traveler againasked about the steam power."Ten thousand horsepower," said theengineer. "We are getting down to business now and heading for the ports ofEurope."During the night a storm broke uponthe sea. the waves lashed the deck andthings looked dangerous."How much power do you haveasked the traveler."Full steam,fifty thousand horse-said the engineer. "We are stillnosing toward Europe, but we have tobuck the storm and still make ourschedule. We need all the power forwhich we have"ABSURD QUOTATION"A Congressman Meets Two AtheistsRecently two Atheists summonedGeorge Washington to testify for themthrough a statement which they allegedto have made by him. They were suingto stop the Post Office Department fromprinting "In God We Trust" on postagestamps. But theyreckoned without Congressman Edgar W. Hiestand, a California Republican.The atheists, John L. Manners andWalter B. Stevens of the National Liberal League, in their court brief, quotedWashington as saying "The governmentof the United States of America is not,in any sense, founded on the ChristianSomehow that did not ring a bell withHiestand, something of a historian himself. He checked the Library of Congress. The alleged quotation was froman old English translation of a treatybetween the United States and Tripoli,executed in 1797, and signed by President John Adams. Said Hiestand: "Ithas been accepted as authentic to thistreaty for years, but in fact that statement came from nowhere but the imagination of the translator, an early daybureaucrat named Joel Barlow, who hadthe position of Consul General at Algiers. The fictional Barlow translationhas remained to blur the record and provide atheists with a quotation for theirignoble purposes."The attempt of these atheists of theNational Liberal League, Hiestand added, to tie "this absurdWashington "simply demonstrates howdesperate their movement has become."toChristian Life, October 1955WHAT TO DOFor C.Y.P.U. Officers and Committeesby Mrs. A. A. Wylie(The following article, with others insucceeding issues of Echoes, were published once before in the CovenanterWitness, but a new generation of youngpeople are now wondering "What to Do"in their societies.COVENANTER WITNESS