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Cobra Attends
Inquest Of Victim
From Bedagama, Ceylon, comes a
United Press story of a cobra appearing
at the inquest of its victim.
A man who accidentally stepped on a
cobra was bitten by it and ran a quarter
of a mile home, where he collapsed and
died. During the inquest, which was held
in the house the following evening, a
cobra was seen crawling about outside.
Villagers caught it and showed it to the
coroner, saying it was the same one that
had killed the man.
They declared that an injured' cobra
will often not be content with biting a
person who injures it, but will follow
him about afterward. If he escapes the
first time, it will lie in wait and attack
him again.
Sin, like a cobra, having once bitten a
man, follows him to his death. But when
the murmuring children of Israel were
dying from the bites of the fiery serpents,
Moses at God's command put a brass ser-
pent on a pole and whoever looked on
the serpent was cured. "And as Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,"
the Lord Jesus Christ told Nicodemus,
"even so must the Son of man be lifted
up, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, that who-
soever believeth in Him should not per-
ish, but have everlasting life." John 3:14-
16.
Because the Son of God, taking the
sinner's place, "died unto sin once," and
rose triumphant, everyone who believes
in Him has passed from death unto life.
And when cobra sin comes to attend the
inquest of the believer, he should find
him "dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto
God through Jesus Christ our Lord."
"The sting of death is sin; and the
strength of sin is the law, but (every
believer can say) thanks be unto God
which giveth us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:56,
57.Bullet Photographed
At 1 /1,000,000 Second
Taking photographs at a speed of about
one-millionth of a second, Drs. Francis
W. Godwin and Alfred O. Walker of
Chicago "stopped" a .22 calibre bullet
in its course. Their photographs, says
Time, showed the bullet in flight, clear-
cut with highlights gleaming on its sur-
face; stopped again so close to a pane
that its reflection could be dimly seen in
the glass; passing through and emerging
in a cloud of glass dust.
Making one picture at a time, they
obtained the brief, intense illumination
necessary by discharging 38,000 volts
through a vacuum tube filled with mer-
cury vapor at one-twentieth of atmos-
pheric pressure. To set off their flash, they
placed a spark gap close to the gun's
muzzle so that the bullet passes just be-
low the electrodes. The hot gasses or
burning powder which follow the bullet
enable the spark to jump the gap, com-
pleting the circuit and discharging the
voltage through the vacuum tube. By
moving the spark gap closer to or far-
ther from the gun's muzzle the bullet is
snapped at various parts of its trajec-
tory.
But it would take faster photographic
equipment than that to "stop" a sinner
in the instant he becomes a saint through
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Said the
Lord Jesus Christ: "Verily, verily I say
unto you, He that heareth My word,
and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath
everlasting life, and shall not come into
condemnation; but is passed from death,
unto life." John 5:24 He didn't say
"shall have," He said "hath"; He didn't
say "shall pass," but "is passed." One
instant, a sinner utterly unclean in God's
sight, clad in filthy rags of his own right-
eousness; the next, a child of God, cloth-
ed in the righteousness of God.
If there is any shorter interval of time
than expressed by those words, it is de-
scribed by "now." And, "behold, now is
the accepted time; behold, now is the day
of salvation." 2 Corinthians 6:2.
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R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. NOW, Volume 3, Number 36, January 27, 1939, periodical, January 27, 1939; Peoria, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1533192/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library.