The Broadcaster, December 1924
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The Broadcaster
Vol. 1, No.12 Thursday, October 30 1924 Chicago, Ill.
' Entered as Second Class Matter, August 14, 1924. at the Post Office at Chjcago, HL; under the Act of March 3, 1879.
DISCOVERIES AID HEALTH
RATIO OF LONGEVITY INCREASING
DR. WILEY’S PUNCH IS
AS STRONG AS EVER
Dr. Harvey N. Wiley, former Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry in Washington, one of the most useful men America ever produced, in an address delivered on his 80th. birthday said; “If luxury were to be destroyed and all houses burned to drive us out of doors the diseases which kill us old and middle aged men would disappear.
NEW YORK’S INCREASED
APPETITE FOR GRAPES
It is remarkable how the prohibition law has increased the appetite for grapes in New York City. In 1917, the shipments of grapes into New york City totaled 300 cars. In 1918, when prohibition was going into effect there were 3,000 cars. In 1920, there were 5,000 cars. In 1922, 12,000 cars, in 1923, 14,000 and this year, 16,000 cars, besides frequent shipments from Europe in 200 barrel lots. Fruit dealers report that some customers order at one time as many as 50 twelve quart baskets. This would be enough for Papa, Mamma and each child to have a twelve quart basket at each meal and an occasional one in between.
TARRING THE
STREETS PREVENTS
TUBERCULOSIS
The announcement comes from Vienna that where the streets are paved with granite, the dust, laden with germs, oppreses the weak with a burden too great for their systems to bear. This matter having been brought to the attention of the Vienna Authorities, they have resorted to tarring and, oiling the streets and anticipate that the improvement in the public health will more than pay the expense.
THE TRANSFORMATION
OF DENMARK
Before the eyes of the world, Denmark has been making amazing progress in creating an ideal country in which to live. The Socialist Government has done everything possible to turn the tenant farmers into owners, moreover they have made electric power so cheap and so plentiful, that more than half the farms of Denmark now have electric lights and do their pumping, feed cutting, threshing and grinding by electricity. The step next contemplated is the complete scrapping of the entire Army and Navy.
Jesus’ Death Guarantees Life
LIFE is recognized as a great boon.
Part of the appreciation of life is vitiated by the erroneous theory that mankind must live forever, somewhere. Life is a gift from the Almighty; and it is the righteous who will receive this gift, not the wicked.
When Adam was created and became a sentient being, he might have continued his life in a state of happiness had he not sinned. The perpetuity of his existence was made contingent upon his loyalty to his Benefactor. God told him plainly that if he disobeyed he would die. And this was right, proper and just. Being created perfect, perfection of conduct was not only possible with him, but entirely natural; for every fiber of his being was made harmonious with Gods’ law.
Why Man Is Dying
Man is not a dying creature because he was created but to die. Man in harmony with God will live, so death is unnatural. When Adam became disobedient and wilfully transgressed the law of his Maker, he was driven from the life-sustaining trees of the Garden and began dying. His children having been born subsequent to the expulsion from Eden, perfection of being and everlasting life on earth were an impossibility for them. The human family is a dying race because of the condemnation which father Adam brought upon us.—Romans 5:12-18.
Hatred, jealousy, and selfishness are as much diseases as are rheumatism and catarrh. The race has been degenerating for centuries, growing weaker and weaker. The influenza pandemic could not have taken its terrible toll had the peoples of earth been strong in body. If there is not a change, within a thousand years it is estimated that the race will be unable to transmit the spark of life and will become extinct.
Redemption of Man Necessary
The Bible refers to Jesus as the “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” This means that God foreknew the course man would take. There is no redemption without the shedding of blood. A perfect man was condemned to death; a perfect man must needs voluntarily meet the penalty to rescue the condemned. The slaying of animals to clothe Adam and Eve with the skins prefigured the necessity of blood redemption to satisfy the justice of God. The paschal lamb saving the first-born of Israel in Egypt pictured the sacrifice of Jesus, who John declared was the “Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.”
God created the earth and purposed it to be inhabited eternally with a contented, happy people fitted for an earthly environment. He could have permitted the Adamic family to die out, to become extinct, and could have created a new race to people the earth; but in His wisdom and love He decreed otherwise.—John 3:16.
Therefore Jesus came to earth at the appointed time, and sacrificed his humanity for the life of the world. He said: “The bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” (John 6:51) He died “the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God.” “We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” (Hebrews 2: 9) What a wonderful thing this is, and how our gratitude should respond to it!
Opportunity for Life Must Come
St. Peter said respecting Jesus: “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men,whereby we must be saved.” St. Paul said that God “will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth”; and also, “as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” These texts surely prove that because of the wonderful redemptive plan that is being carried out by the Lord Jesus all must come to a sufficient knowledge of the truth to release them from Adamic condemnation. The time set for this to reach the world of mankind in general is during the thousand-year reign of Christ’ Jesus.
The mass of mankind is in the tomb, having never received this knowledge. No one can be saved in unbelief or in ignorance. Therefore the sleeping dead are to be awakened and come forth from the graves in order that they may receive their first opportunity for salvation. (John 5:28, 29, R. V.) Those who have already received this opportunity, and have made their “calling and election sure,” belong to the “seed kof promise” and shall be with Christ Bn the neavenly phase of the kingdom ■ben it is established in power and great glory. But those outside of the Church will have their opportunity in the “day of Christ,” when the refreshing times of restitution will prove to be the Golden Age of prophecy.
The Resurrection and Kingdom
Not only was it necessary for Jesus to die, but He must be raised from the dead, ascend on high and intercede in behalf of the Church during the Gospel Age. But not all are Christians. Jesus said that He would come again. The Church will then be joint-heirs with Him in the kingdom. And the kingdom is for the blessing of everybody outside of the Church with opportunities of living forever upon the earth, in a world-wide Eden.
The rightful ruler of the world is Jesus. (Isaiah 9: G; Ezekiel 21:25-27) The second coming and the inauguration of the kingdom of equity, truth and righteousness, is the sequel to the ransom sacrifice. As the Great Physician He will cure all the ills mankind is heir to, until there is none sick anywhere. As the Mediator He will reconcile the world to God the Judge of all. And the world shall be lifted to perfection of mind and body, and, remaining loyal to God, live forever in a state of happiness upon the earth.
— Judge J. F. Rutherford.
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DR. ELLIOT TELLS
THE TRUTH
Dr. Elliot, President Emeritus of the Harvard University, tells the truth when he says that the religion of the future will reject the idea of a place of torment where a just God will inflict punishment for misdeeds. He might have added truthfully also that the Bible does not teach the existence of such a place and that this fact is well known to every intelligent minister of the Gospel. Dr. Elliot also states, and wisely too, that a future existence in idleness would be wholly unbearable.
PRIMITIVE BAPTISTS
ANNOYED BY
THE TRUTH
The Primitive Baptists of Virginia are all upset because one of their Ministers has discovered and set forth in his sermons the plain teaching of the Bible that there are two salvations, one spiritual and one temporal. They are even having a lawsuit about it. All this is encouraging as it will stimulate some people at least to read Acts 15: 14-17 inclusive and many other like passages until understood.
COLORS OF
DECORATION
AFFECT NERVES
Wall paper and carpets of red are so trying to the nerves as to be almost sure to make those who live in such surroundings quarrelsome and might even drive people insane. On the reverse side of the question, it is found that those who are insane are benefited by quiet blue tones, chrome yellow or buff.
Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc., Required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912,
Of THE BROADCASTER, published weekly at 5315 West 25th Street, Chicago, Illinois, for October 1st, 1924.
State of Illinois, )
County of Cook j '
Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared M. E. Woodley, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the publisher of the BROADCASTER and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulation, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit:
1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are:
Publisher, M. E. Woodley, 5315 W. 25th Street, Chicago, Ill.
Editor, C. J. Woodworth, 18 Concord Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Managing editor, None.
Business Managers, D. Papageorge, 5315 W. 25th Street, Chicago, Ill. • .
2. That the owner is: Woodworth, Hudgings & Martin, 18 Concord Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None. .
4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of.the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant’s full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and. conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds or other securities than as so stated by him.
D. PAPAGEORGE, Business Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before this 20th day of October, 1924.
WALTER G. HENRY.
(My commission expires January 6, 1927.)