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Mystery
of
theAges
1
AM
writing a new book titled
Mystery of the Ages.
It
will
appear serially
for the next severa} months in
The Plain
Truth.
Why have 1 written tbis book? Why is it so
important
now?
In this Personal I would like to
explain.
1 have lived a long, active, interest-packed life
covering all of the 20th century to the present and the
last eight and a half years of the 19th century.
1 have lived through the horse and buggy age, the
automobile and industrial age, the air age, the nuclear
age and now into the space age.
1
have seen America
live through the agrarian age when farmers walked
behind their horse-drawn plows singing happily, and
into the urban age when Midwest American farmers
are groaning and fighting for more government
subsidies to prevent the extinction of farm life.
I have seen this twentieth century develop into a
state of awesome advancement and achievement
industrially and technologically. At the same time I
have seen alarming escalation of appalling evils, crime
and violence and the crucible of nuclear war develop
to threaten the very extinction of the human race
within the present living generation. These conditions
and facts are indeed mysteries that have remained
unsolved and now need to be explained.
I have t raveled over the four quarters of this globe
we cal! earth. I have rubbed shoulders with the rich
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and the poor and those in between. I have visited with
captains of industry, emperors, kings, presidents and
prime ministers. I have seen this world firsthand at
clase range as have only the very few.
And through this long and pulsating eventfullife 1
have asked myself many questions that were deep
mysteries tome, and remain unanswered and
unexplained mysteries to the world as a whole.
At age 5, my father said I was going to be a
Philadelphia lawyer when I grew up, because 1 was
always asking so many questions about so many things.
1 wanted to UNDERSTAND. 1 craved UNDERSTANDING.
King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, desired
wisdom, and God gave him wisdom above all others.
After so many years 1 realize now that the same God
has given me the UNDERSTANDING of life's deepest
mysteries that remain an enigma in most minds.
How did all this happen? 1 was reared in a
Protestant church until the age of 18, but I never
heard these plaguing questions explained in church. If
the Bible reveals the answers, why so many
denominations of Christianity and so much
disagreement as to what the Bible says?
But who can understand the Bible? 1 certainly
never had understood it. And even if one does, can you
believe the Bible? Does it speak with any authority?
That question puzzled me. How 1 carne to understand
began in the year of 1926.
In that summer I asked myself: "Who amI? WHAT
am 1? WHY am 1?" I tried to reason out the answer,
but 1 couldn' t.
It
was a mystery. Then, that very
autumn 1 was confronted with a mind-boggling
challenge on a biblical question and the theory of
evolution. This resulted in opening my mind to
amazing vistas and depths of knowledge and
understanding.
It al! started with the question of Sunday
observance and the origin of man.
I knew that the Bible was the world's number one
selling book. Yet tome it had been an enigma. I could
never understand it. 1 said, "The Bible says, 'Thou
shalt observe Sunday.' "
T
was asked how did 1 know?
Had 1 read that in the Bible?
1 answered that 1 knew because all the churches
observe Sunday and I supposed the source of their
teaching was the Bible.
But my marriage was at stake on the question.
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was