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N O W
Honesty Test
By TOM M. OLSON
For six years Miss Louise Omwake, a
psychology teacher at Centenary Junior
College in Hackettstown, N. J., has tried
to find out how honest ordinary people
are. She devised a test, gave it to 198
girl students at her college. To encour-
are candor, she let them answer anony-
mously.
In School and Society, Miss Omwake
reported that "honesty appears to cor-
relate with convenience." Guided by cir-
cumstances, not by a consistent moral
principle, the same students seemed to
be sometimes honest, sometimes not.
Some findings:
84% said they would steal bread for
hungry children if they were certain not
to be caught.
88'/ said that, if they found $500 in
the street, they would look for the owner.
19%/c would be tempted to steal $100,000
if they could do so without being caught.
Only 281/ would tell the truth if do-
ing so meant hurting someone's feelings.
54/c believed the early Christian mar-
tyrs were right not to lie to save their
skins.
Students were most likely to be dis-
honest in their school work, which led
Miss Omwake to observe that the tradi-
tional school curriculum, stressing com-
petition for marks, "may promote dis-
honesty." Of her students, 33/, said
they would be tempted to cheat in an
examination if they could get away with
it; 50(t would be tempted if most of
their classmates cheated; 79% had actu-
ally cheated in an examination at least
once.
It is encouraging to know that 79%
of those under this honesty test were
honest enough to admit that they had
been dishonest in an examination "at
least once."
The regrettable thing about many per-
sons is their unwillingness to be honest
with themselves in an honesty test.
It is apparent as Miss Omwake has
demonstrated that "honesty appears to
correlate with convenience." But in the
final examination there will be no pos-
sibility of cheating!
The Judge truly sees all and knows
all. "Everything lies bare and complete-
ly exposed before the eyes of Him with
whom we have to do." (Heb. 4:13 Wey-
mouth)..
The Psalmist said of Him: "Yea, the
darkness hideth not from Thee, but the
night shineth as the day: the darknessand the light are both alike to Thee."
(Psa. 139:12).
In this final examination the answers
will not be given anonymously. Each
unsaved person will be confronted with
a perfect record of his or her life.
Thoughts, words, deeds and motives are
all recorded. Sins of commission and
sins of omission are all there-and above
all else is unbelief in the Christ of God
as Savior and Lord.
It will be too late to take advantage
of offers of mercy in that day, for that
day is the day of judgment. "Behold
non is the day of salvation."
One should be honest with himself be-
fore God now; and admit his sinfulness
and receive the Savior by faith if he de-
sires forgiveness and deliverance.
The Lord Jesus said: 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).
"No condemnation! precious word!
Consider it, my soul;
Thy sins were all on Jesus laid
His stripes have made thee whole."
Send Out Your Ship
By Tom M. OLSON
The August number of Your Faith
relates the following:
Two people who were watching boats
in the harbor were talking. One said, "I
wish my ship would come in." The other,
so the story goes, asked, "Have you ever
sent it out? It can't come home if it has
never started, can it?"
The things we send out are the things
that come back to us. Kindness, courtesy,
friendliness and sacrifices return to us
in kind. We have the promise that bread
cast upon the waters will return to us
after many (lays. But first we have to
cast it.
Know that "whatsoever good thing
any man doeth, the same shall he receive
of the Lord whether he be bond or free.)
(Eph. 6:8).
NOW
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is the day of salvation." 2 Corinthians 6:2.
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