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NOTICE with incessant industry from the choicest rank ; his father was a butcher, and he stores of nature." himself in early life was a wool-comber. No second Sabbath programme is Disraeli was hissed when he first ap- He was, however, a close student. Sir provided for this month, as the Week peared in Parliament, and every sentence Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the was laughed at. But he did not become spinning jenny and the founder of cotton of Prayer has been appointed for June discouraged and mope and whine in soli- manufacture in England, was a 7 to 14, and Sabbath, June 14, is the tude. He persevered. Writhing under his barber. . . . second Sabbath of the month. The humiliation and defeat, he said, " I have No greater preacher ever trod the earth Week of Prayer reading for that day begun several times many things, and have than the great apostle Paul. He endured succeeded in them at last. I shall sit the most incessant toil, and suffered ship- will therefore take the place of the down now, but the time will come when wreck, stoning, whipping, and other abuse. usual programme furnished for the you will hear me." And it did come. By Yet he speaks of his infirmities, and says second Sabbath, and the Annual Offer- persevering effort he forced his way to the that he was " in bodily presence weak." ing to missions will take the place of front, and arose to be one of the leading God helped His servant, and He will help men of England till at last he occupied a you. John Milton, author of " Paradise the usual monthly offering to missions. place where men laughed with him instead Lost," was blind, and an invalid early in of at him. His success was the result of life. Daniel Webster tells us there was one dauntless energy and unfailing persever- thing he could not do when a boy, and that ance. was to make a speech before the school. Missionary Volunteer Never, since the advent of sin, was com- The burning eloquence of this distinguished petition in every branch of industry so man was the result of hard, persevering Department fierce as now. Tireless energy is in work. George Stephenson, the engineer, demand. On every band we can see when addressing young men, said, " Do as wrecks ; on some hidden shoal or unknown I have done—persevere." . • . Missionary Volunteer Programme rock they have stranded. But we must The same perseverance should be shown in not falter because of these. God will the work of perfecting a Christian life, and First Week honour the right, and triumphantly vindi- proclaiming the gospel message to all the cate those who adhere to righteous princi- earth. If it is commendable in worldly Pushing to the Front ples. In this time especially we are matters, how much more in divine things ! exhorted to be diligent. " Seest thou a What marvellous light would dawn on our Opening Exercises. man diligent in his business ? he shall pathway if we would persevere in like " Perseverance." stand before kings ; he shall not stand manner in the study of the Bible I Shall " How to Achieve Results." before mean men." we not do so ? " The soul of the sluggard "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Won." G. B. THompsoN. desireth, and hath nothing : but the soul of " What It Costs." the diligent shall be made fat." " Hold Fast." G. B. THOMPSON. " Look Not Back." Poem': " The Man Who Wins." " Reaching the Goal." How to Achieve Results Closing Exercises. THERE is, perhaps, no greater mistake that a young person can make than to Nothing Ventured, Nothing Won suppose that in order to succeed, he must be OFTEN when we start to go somewhere, Perseverance endowed by nature with some special and are deferred by unfavourable weather talent. Some doubtless are ; but, un- indications, we find that we made a mis- IT has been truly said that there is no developed and unused, it will be of little take in not taking the risk and going on. royal road to success. The greatness which value. What counts most is to develop the The day clears up unexpectedly, and our we covet and admire in men is the result of talents we do possess with indomitable fear of getting wet has robbed us of a indefa igable push and energy. perseverance, and in spite of obstacles pleasure. Success grows out of struggles to over- hammer out success. Seeming defeat can many times be turned into a great victory. It is the same in all life. If one waits come difficulties. If there were no obstacles until all the conditions are just right for to surmount, there could be no success in his venture, he will never launch out. As the truest sense of the word. " Heaven " Thus at the flaming forge of life, Our future must be wrought ; the preacher says : " He that observeth the helps those who help themselves," is a wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth maxim we do well to remember. In order Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought." the clouds shall not reap." And the writer to succeed we must persevere through trials of the Proverbs observes, with a fine scorn : and obstacles, and many times practise the "The slothful man saith, There is a lion most rigid self-denial. A harvest can be We often hear it said that " where there's without ; I shall be slain in the streets." gathered only where seed has been sown. a will, there's a way." By unceasing Strenuous individual application is the effort we many times may force an opening There are risks that it is right to run. price we must pay for true distinction ; in a hitherto impregnable barrier. Many You may lose much ; but if you have a excellence has been forever placed beyond who have succeeded have been surrounded man's heart in you, you probably will gain the reach of indolence. Greatness cannot with the most unfavourable circumstances. much. There is a wholesome note in the be transmitted to another. One person, Environment, early training, lack of edu- old English lines of Montrose writing of himself, repudiated the idea of cation, were against them. Time and being " a genius," but attributed his again they failed, but they tried again. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, success to industry. " My mind is like a Sir Isaac Newton was the son of a poor beehive," he said ; " but full as it is of man, as was also the distinguished astrono- That dares not put it to the touch, buzz and apparent confusion, it is yet full mer Adams, who discovered the planet To gain or lose it all." of order and regularity, and food collected Neptune. Shakespeare was of humble —The Watchman. MISSIONARY LEADER JUNE, 1924

What It Costs It holds the memory of the wrongs, real eternally. I kept on. In the twentieth or fancied, that have been done to us; year that magazine accepted one of my IT costs always unsparing toil to carve from which we draw the grudges, the ill articles." the beauty God shows us as an ideal for will, the hatred, the desire and purpose to After more than ten years of wandering our life. It costs self-discipline, anguish, "get even," that are harboured in so through the unexplored depths of the pri- ofttimes, as we must deny ourselves, and many hearts. These are the things that meval forests of America, in the study of cut off the things we love. Self must be more than all else fill the soul with birds and animals, Audubon determined to crucified if the noble manhood in us is bitterness. publish the results of his painstaking ever to be set free to shine in its beauty, Look not back. We cannot advance in energy. He went to Philadelphia with a if the angel within the block is to be un- one direction while looking in another. portfolio of two hundred sheets, filled with imprisoned. Michael Angelo used to say, Before us lie the city of God and eternal coloured delineations of about one thous- as the chippings fell thick and fast from joys beyond the mind to imagine. These and birds, drawn life-size. Being obliged the marble on the floor of his studio, beckon us forward ; while behind are to leave the city before making final ar- " While the marble wastes the image things which, if looked upon and har- rangements as to their disposition, he grows." There must be a wasting of boured in the mind, will surely turn all placed his drawings in the warehouse of a self, a chipping away continually of the they touch to bitterness and salt, and friend. On his return, in a few weeks, he things that are dear to our human nature, leave us anchored in the desert of sin. found to his utter dismay that the precious if the things that are true and pure and " REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE " fruits of his wanderings had been utterly just and lovely are to be allowed to come destroyed by rats. The shock threw him out in us. The marble must waste while LEON A. SMITH. into a fever of several weeks' duration, but the image grows. It is not easy to be- with returning health his native energy come a good man, a Christly man. Yet came back, and taking up his gun and we must never forget that it is possible. game-bag, his pencils and drawing-book, he God never yet put into a soul a dream of The Man Who Wins went forward to the forests as gaily as if noble manhood or womanhood which He THE man who wins is the average man : nothing bad happened. He set to work is not able and ready to help make Not built on any peculiar plan, again, pleased with the thought that be real.—J. R. Miller. Not blest with any peculiar luck ; might now make better drawings than he Just steady and earnest and full of pluck. had done before, and in three years his portfolio was refilled. When asked a question he does not The young people who stick to it, are the Hold Fast " guess "— ones who achieve results. It does not pay He knows and answers "NO" or "YES; " to scatter one's energies. If a man cannot SOME years ago, in a country school, a When set a task that the rest can't do, succeed at one thing he is even less likely boy at the bottom of the class unexpectedly He buckles down till he pulls it through, to succeed at many things.—Selected. spelled a word which had passed down the entire class. Three things he's learned; that the man " Go up to the top," said the teacher, who tries " and see that you stay there. You can, if Finds favour in his employer's eyes ; Missionary Volunteer Programme you work hard." That it pays to know more than one The boy hung his head. But the next thing well, Second Week day he did not miss a word in spelling. That it doen't pay all he knows to tell. The brighter scholars knew every word in The Youth the lesson, hoping there might be a chance So he works and waits ; till one fine day Opening Exercises. to get ahead, but there was not a single There's a better job with a bigger pay, " Blessings and Privileges." one. Dave stayed at the top. He had And the men who shirked whenever they been a poor speller, but now he knew could " Decision of Character " every word. Are bossed by the man whose work made "Jesus Draws OuL the Best." " How do you get your lessons so well ?" good. " Alone." said the teacher. " The call to Youth." " I learn every word in the lesson, and For the man who wins is the man who Closing Exercises. get my mother to hear me at night ; then I works, go over them in the morning before I come Who neither labour nor trouble shirks, to school. And I go over them again Who uses his hands, his head, his eyes ; Blessings and Privileges before the class-work begins." The man who wins is the man who tries. " Good boy, Dave," said the teacher. —Charles R. Barrett. GOD'S Word abounds in its mention of " That's the way to have success ; always work that way, and you'll succeed." youth,—invitations, warnings, admoni- Dave, today a manager of a large timber tions, and illustrations of its possibilities. company, attributes hie start to the words : Reaching the Goal From the story of the first two boys until the happy time when the boys and girls " Go up to the top, and see that you stay THE Chinese tell of one of their country. there. You can, if you work hard."— will be playing in the streets of the New men, a student, who, disheartened by the Jerusalem, God speaks of and to the young. Adapted. difficulties in his way, threw down his book in despair, when, seeing a woman What are the characteristics of youth? rubbing a crowbar on a stone, he inquired 1. Youth is the season of freshness. Ps. the reason, and was told that she wanted 110 : 3, last part. " Thou bast the dew of Look Not Back to make a needle, and thought she would thy youth." The margin of the Revised LOT'S " wife looked back from behind rub down the crowbar till she got it small Version reads : " Thy youth are to thee as him, and she became a pillar of salt." enough. Provoked by this example of the dew." Gen. 19: 26. patience to " try again," he resumed his Two qualities are noticeable about dew. " Look not behind thee," was the studies, and became one of the foremost It is refreshing. Hosea 14 : 5-7 ; Prov. divine warning to Lot. The Christian scholars of the empire. 19 :12. It falls silently. Deut. 32 : 2. life is one of looking and pressing for- When Carlyle had finished the first vol- There is in youth a freshness that is not ward. " Forgetting those things which ume of his " French Revolution," he lent always manifested in old age. The happy are behind, I press toward the mark." the manuscript to a friend to read. A countenance, the light step, the freedom Phil. 3: 13, 14. maid, finding what she supposed to be a from care and anxiety, the good spirits, the We may look back to worldly pleasures bundle of waste paper on the parlour floor, sound sleep, are all characteristics of youth. and treasures which we have left behind ; used it to light the kitchen fire. Without It is the happiest period of life, the days but the past of our lives holds worse spending any time in uttering lamenta- when everything looks bright, when no things than these to hinder our heaven- tions, the author set to work and trium- dark clouds are in the sky. ward progress. It holds the record of phantly reproduced the book in the form in The silent falling of the dew is seen in our mistakes and failures, which, as we which it now appears. the quiet, constant, steady growth from look upon them, give us feelings of doubt Says the poet, James Whitcomb Riley : childhood to manhood. and discouragement. " For twenty years I tried to get into one 2. Youth is the time of strength,— But it holds worse things than these. magazine ; back came my manuscripts physical, mental, and spiritual. 1 John JUNE, 1924 MISSIONARY LEADER 3

2 : 14. The blood is fresh, and bounds " Dare to be a Daniel ; dare to stand Constantly Improve through the arteries. Young men delight Thus, as did Moses, you will alone." Keep reaching higher and still higher. It in feats of strength. The boy is proud of endure as seeing Him who is invisible. A is the ability to put to the tax the powers his muscles, and extols his mastery in cowardly and silent reserve before evil of mind and body, ever keeping eternal athletics. Sse Prov. 20 : 20. David and associates, makes you one with them. realities in view, that is of value now. Samson were both strong in youth. Seek the Lord most earnestly, that you Modern athletes do not begin to train in Have Courage To Do the Right may become more and more refined, more old age, but in their teens. God wants spiritually cultured. this strength preserved for His service. Possess an individuality of your own. However large, however small, your If you would succeed in anything that is talents, remember that what you have is 3. Youth is the period of mental activity. elevating and ennobling, you must culti- Luke 2 : 52. Jesus increased in wisdom in yours only in trust. Thus God is testing vate firmness for the right. you, giving you opportunity to prove your- His youth. A gradual development of Jesus has revealed to you your value by self true. To Him you are indebted for all mind is manifested from childhood. Dur- the price He has paid for your redemption. ing the period of youth, when new powers your capabilities. To Him belong your Your salvation has been purchased with powers of body, mind, and soul, and for are developing in the body, new ideas flood agony and blood. You have everything in the mind. There is a natural desire to do Him these powers are to be used. Your your favour. Everything has been done time, your influence, your capabilities, something, to invent, to formulate schemes. that God could do. In giving Jesus to be Everywhere we see this grand onward your skill,—all must be accounted for to the propitiation for your sins, God gave Him who gives all. He uses His gifts best march of youth in fields of fresh endeavour. you power to resist and to overcome evil. Disraeli said ; " Almost everything that who seeks by earnest endeavour to carry is great has been done by youth," and out the Lord's great plan for the uplifting while some exception may be taken to You Can Be Resolute If You Will of humanity. the statement, its truthfulness has been Persevere in the work that you have It will require higher help than any begun, until you gain victory after victory. worked out in many lives. human friend can give you, but that help Youth is the time for memorising, for Educate yourselves for a purpose. Keep in is promised, if you yourself will consent to view the highest standard, that you may studying languages, for grasping new ideals ; form new habits. This will require effort and for this reason God is calling for young accomplish greater and still greater good, on your part, persistent effort ; for if Satan thus reflecting the glory of God. men and young women to enter the foreign sees you taking a step decidedly for Christ, MRS. E. G. WHITE. fields. he will employ every ingenious method to 4. Youth is susceptible to religion. deceive and ruin you. But Christ has Eccl. 12 : 1 ; Prov. 23 : 26. According to provided a refuge for the weak and tempted. statistics, the largest proportion of persons His angels will help, shield, and guide Jesus Draws Out the Best join the church at the age of sixteen. God, every trusting soul. you remember, called for the young of the You have within your reach more than JESUS had the power to draw out of flock for sacrificial purposes. Lev. 4 : 3, 14, finite possibilities. A man, as God applies men the best there was in them. Possi- 23, 28, etc. God calls today to the young the term, is a son of God. " Now are we bilities, traits, and powers that neither people to dedicate all to Him. the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear they nor their friends supposed they had, " God calls young men [and young what we shall be ; but we know that, when came out into strong life under the spell of women, too] in the vigour and strength of He shall appear, we shall be like Him ; for His touch. There seemed to be something their youth, to share with Him self-denial, we shall see Him as He is. And every in Him that drew the same sort of thing sacrifice, and suffering."—" Testimonies for man that hath this hope in him purifieth out of them. the Church," Vol. V, page 87. himself, even as He is pure." It is your Out of Simon, the hot-headed, impulsive Youth is fresh, strong, active, and privilege to turn away from that which is fisherman, He drew the steady man of ambitious, and God wants the best we can cheap and inferior, and rise to a high rock. Out of fiery John, the son of give. He asks for no lame sacrifice. standard,—to be respected by men and thunder, He drew the man of tender, H. S. STREETER. beloved by God. strong love. And out of quiet, retiring The religious work which the Lord gives Andrew, He drew a man with a reputation to young men, and to men of all ages, for bringing others to Jesus. shows His respect for them as His children. He drew out of the Sychar outcast a He gives them sense of her sin, and then a winner of souls ; and out of that other woman of Decision of Character The Work of Self-Government open sin, a longing for purity that paved the way to all else that came. tinder His EVERY youth needs to cultivate de- He calls them to be sharers with Him in compelling touch there came out of the cision. A divided state of the will is a the great:work of redemption and uplifting. blind-born man a willingness to sacrifice all snare, and has been the cause of ruin to As a father takes his son into partnership for such a Master ; and out of James, the many. in his business, so the Lord takes His other son of thunder, a courage to endure In Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress " children into partnership with Himself. suffering that men bad not known he had. there is a character called Pliable. Youth, We are made labourers together with God. That was when He was down here, a shun this character. Those represented by Jesus says, " As Thou hest sent Me into man. And ever since that fleecy cloud it are very accommodating, but they are as the world, even so have I also sent them received Him out of sight He has been a reed shaken by the wind. They possess into the world." Would you not rather drawing men of all the world. And time no will power. Be firm, else you will find choose to be a child of God than a servant would as utterly fail me, as it did the your house—your character—built upon a of Satan and sin, having your name writer of the Hebrews, if I tried to tell of sandy foundation. Those who would keep registered as an enemy of Christ? the men He has drawn. Men of every in the path cast up for the ransomed of the Young men and women need more of the rank, high and low, in every nation, savage Lord, grace of Christ, that they may bring the and civilised, in every generation of all principles of Christianity into the daily these centuries, have felt the thrill of His Must Not Be Swayed in Matters of life. The preparation for Christ's coming power. And they have followed Him at Conscience is a preparation made through Christ for the cost of all that men hold most dear. They must show moral decision, and must the exercise of our highest qualities. It is And He is just the same today. He is not be afraid of being thought singular. the privilege of every youth to make his as available now in all His drawing power Many there are who are changed by character a beautiful structure. But there wherever men meet, in city slum and every current. They wait to hear what is a positive need of keeping close to Jesus. savage wild, in college hall and business some one else thinks, and his opinion is He is our strength, and efficiency, and street, among the philosophical and often accepted as altogether true. They power. We cannot depend on self for cultured, and among the ignorant and un- do not say to the Lord, " Lord, I cannot one moment. trained. If we will take Him to them, and make any decision until I know Thy will." Young men and young women, exercise let Him out through our lips and lives, He If these youth would lean wholly upon your ability with faithfulness, generously will draw men up the heights. He can God, they would grow strong in His imparting the light that God gives you. draw against any power of downward strength. Study how best to give to others peace, and suction, and He will. He promised to We are not to fashion ourselves by the light, and truth, and the many rich bless- draw men, if lifted up. And He has never world's criterion or after the world's type. ings of heaven. failed to do it.—S. D. Gordon. 4 MISSIONARY LEADER JUNE, 1924

Alone was but a youth when he became the feet wide, these houses would line both champion of religious liberty in Switzer- sides of eight streets reaching across the IT is human to stand with the crowd ; land. John Calvin, when only twelve years United States from the Atlantic to the it is divine to stand alone. of age was made a church chaplain, and in Pacific. For each one to be sick one day is It is manlike to follow the people, to drift his early youth became France's great equal to thirty thousand being sick an en- with the tide : it is Godlike to follow a prin- Reformer. tire year. ciple, to stem the tide. Roger Williams, the " first American," We are told that in one state (Massachu- It is natural to compromise science and as historians like to call him, was only in setts), in one year, there were lost twenty- follow the social and religious fashion for his twenties when he became the champion eight thousand five hundred (28,500) years the sake of gain or pleasure ; it is divine to of soul-liberty in old New England. of time through the illness of working peo- sacrifice both on the altar of truth and duty. Moody, the great evangelist, was converted ple by preventable diseases. Dr. Buck, in "No man stood with me, but all men at the age of eighteen years, and began his his " Hygiene," tells us that one hundred forsook me," wrote the battle-scarred apostle life's work at nineteen in the city of Chicago. thousand persons die every year through in describing his first appearance before Nero Today, the tremendous task of giving the preventable diseases ; that one hundred to answer for his life for believing and teach- threefold message of Revelation 14 to all and fifty thousand are constantly sick ing contrary to the Roman world. the world before this generation closes, is through preventable diseases; and that the Noah built and voyaged alone. His the task of the young people of this denom- loss to the nation, through the illness of neighbours laughed at his strangeness and ination. working people by diseases that might have perished. " Many a lad of today," writes Mrs. E. been prevented, is more than a hundred Abraham wandered and worshipped alone. G. White, " growing up as did Daniel in million dollars [£20,000,000] a year. So we The Sodomites smiled at the simple shep- his Judean home, studying God's Word and can see that each individual has a mone- herd, followed the fashion, and fed the His works, and learning the lessons of faith- tary value to the nation. You are worth flames. ful service, will yet stand in legislative just as much to the nation as you can earn. Daniel dined and prayed alone. Elijah assemblies, in halls of justice, or in royal If you earn a pound a day, you are not only sacrificed and witnessed alone. Jeremiah courts, as a witness for the King of kings. worth a pound a day to yourself and to prophesied and wept alone. Jesus loved Multitudes will be called to a wider ministry. your personal employer, but you are worth and died alone. The whole world is opening to the gospel. a pound a day to the nation ; and if, And of the lonely way His diciples should Ethiopia is stretching out her hands unto through illness, you are laid aside for one walk He said, " Strait is the gate, and God. From Japan and China and India, day, the nation, as well as yourself, is the narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, from the still darkened lands of our own loser. and few there be that find it." continent, from every quarter of this world I want you to reverence yourself, to rea- Of their treatment by the many who of ours, comes the cry of sin-stricken hearts lise your own importance, to feel that you walk in the broad way He said, "If ye for a knowledge of the God of love."—" Edu- are a necessity to God's perfect plan. were of the world, the world would love his cation," page 262. When we are young and feel that we are own : but because ye are not of the world, What a wonderful future it ,is that God of no account in the world, it is difficult to . therefore the world hateth you." . . . has in store for the youth who are qualify- realise that God's complete plan cannot be Multitudes now, in both the church and ing for this great work, and who believe carried out without us. The smallest, the world, applaud the courage and forti- that " their Maker has claims upon them tiniest rivet or bolt may be of such great tude of the patriarchs and prophets, the which are paramount to all others." importance in the construction of an apostles and martyrs, but condemn as ALEXANDER R. BELL. engine that its loss means the inability of stubbornness like faithfulness to truth to- that piece of machinery to do its work. day. As God has placed you in the world, He Wanted, today, young men and young has placed you here to do a specific work women, who will obey their convictions of Missionary Volunteer Programme for Him and for humanity, and your truth and duty at the cost of fortune and failure to do that work means the failure friends and life itself I—Selected. Third Week of His complete and perfect plan. Now can you begin to see how much you are A Health Talk worth ? And can you begin to realise that in the conduct of your life as a young The Call to Youth Opening Exercises. person you are a factor of immense im- " What Are You Worth ?" " IT is good for a man that he bear the portance to the great problem of the better- " Care of the Body." ment of the human race? In the light of yoke in his youth." Lam. 3 : 27. " Food." It is a recognised fact today that responsi- these thoughts I would like to have you " Sleep." ask yourself this question every day, How bility is shifting to the young of the world. Closing Exercises. In every walk of life, in almost all of the much am I worth ?-Mary Wood-Allen, M.D. business life of the world, young men and women are taking the lead. While all this may be a new thing to the world, it is not a new thing with God. What Are You Worth? Care of the Body You will remember that Joseph was only in IT is not what you possess but what you THE care of the body adds to our value, his teens when the Lord began to use him. are that determines what you are worth. because it gives us a better instrument, a Samson was only in his twenties when he One may possess much wealth and be better medium of expression. began to judge Israel. Samuel was only a worth very little. child when the Lord made him His prophet. I was reading the other day that the first The old saying, "A workman is known David was only a lad when Samuel great lesson for a young man to learn, the by his tools," is equally true of the body. anointed him to be Israel's king. Solomon first fact to realise, is that he is of some The carpenter who cares for his saws, was only twenty years old when, as king of importance ; that upon his wisdom, energy, chisels, and planes, who keeps them sharp Israel, he asked God for wisdom and an un- and faithfulness all else depends, and that and free from rust, will be able to do better derstanding heart. Daniel and his three the world cannot get along without him. work than the one who carelessly allows companions were scarcely more than grown This is equally true of young women. them to become nicked, broken, handle- up boys when they were called to bear high Dr. Conwell estimates that there are less, or rusted. The finer the work which honours and responsibility. . twelve million young men in the United one does, the greater the care be must take Saul of Tarsus " was regarded by the States between fourteen and twenty-eight of the instruments with which he works. rabbis as a young man of great promise" years of age ; that these twelve million A jack-knife will do to whittle a pine stick, (" Acts of the Apostles," page. 112). Timothy young men represent latent physical force but the carver of intricate designs must was so young, even after he had been preach- enough to dig the iron ore from the mines, have his various sharp tools with which to ing for a number of years, that when Paul manufacture it into wire, lay the founda- make the delicate lines and tracings. wrote to him he said," Let no man despise tion and construct completely the great When we speak of health and physical thy youth." Brooklyn Bridge in three hours ; that they conditions in discussing the question of Martin Luther was only twenty-eight represent force enough, if rightly utilised, your value, we are discussing the instrument years old when God thundered in his ears, to dig the clay from the earth, manufac- upon which depends your ability to demon- The just shall live by faith," and he arose ture the bricks, and construct the great strate your value. from doing penance on his knees, and shook Chinese wall in five days. If each one Many young people think it nonsense to Europe with the Reformation. Zwingle were to build himself a house twenty-five pay attention to the preservation of health. JUNE, 1924 MISSIONARY LEADER

I have heard them say, " Oh, I don't want too, that unless the various tissues receive Missionary Volunteer Programme to be so fussy ! It will do for old folks the material which they can transform to be coddling themselves, but I want into themselves, they will not be fully Fourth Week a good time. I'd rather die ten years repaired. If material is taken into the sooner and have some fun while I do live." system which supplies no tissue with what Preparation for the Era of I wonder what these same young people it needs, this material becomes a source of Missions would think if they should hear a workman irritation. say, " Well, I have here a fine kit of tools ; If you will eat regularly of plain food, Opening Exercises. I am assured that if they are destroyed vegetables, fruits, cereals, milk, and eggs, " Beginnings of Protestant Missions." they will never be replaced ; but now, while plainly prepared, and avoid rich pastries, " The Danish-Halle Missions." I am learning my trade, I don't want to be cakes, puddings, pickles and sweetmeats, " Ziegenbalg." so fussy ' about keeping them in order. you will have compassed the round of " Egede and the Moravians in Green- It will do for boss workmen ' to take care healthful diet. I should like to emphasise land." of everything so constantly, but now I want the fact, however, that tea and coffee are " The Moravians." to break stones with these delicate ham- not foods. They are irritants, stimulants, Closing Exercises. mers, to cut nails with these razor-bladed nerve poisons. They bring nothing to the knives, to crack nuts with these slender system to build it up. They satisfy the pincers. By and by, when I am older, I'll sense of hunger without having contributed use them as they should be used, but I to the nourishment of the body. if you LEADER'S NOTE.—As space does not think it's all nonsense to be so careful are wise you will avoid them. permit of our giving sufficient matter in now." If in later years you should hear When you live upon the higher plane of this programme to occupy the time of the him complain that he had nothing to work thought, you will not be so much interested meeting, have the Missionary Volunteers with, would you feel like pitying him ? in the question of food as regards physical read up beforehand concerning the lives of No " kit of tools " was ever so complete pleasure. You will understand that eating John Eliot, David Brainerd, and Hans as is the bodily instrument given to each is a necessity, but you will not be thinking Egede and be prepared to supply some one of us. Its mechanism has been the about it. You will serve your friends with additional facts or incidents concerning inspiration of inventors ; it combines all delicate food, simply and daintily pre- them. forms of mechanical devices : its delicacy, pared, and seasoned with wit and wisdom. intricacy, completeness, and adaptability We often treat our friends as if we challenge the admiration of the philosopher, thought they came as beggars for physical the engineer, the master mechanic. food. It is a much higher compliment to Beginnings of Protestant Life is joy, vigour, elasticity, freedom treat them as though we thought they Missions from pain or illness, enjoyment of all came to exchange thoughts with us, to innocent pleasures in maturity as well as walk with us in the higher paths of living, THE attention of the Reformers of the in youth. We have no right to look for- and that the physical food we give them is sixteenth century seemed wholly devoted ward to decrepitude, to failure in zest of only incidental.—Mary Wood-Allen, M. D. to building up the work amidst papal living, to lessening of real enjoyment be- opposition and reaction here and there. cause of coming years. Life should in- King Gustavus Vasa, of Sweden, however, crease in beauty and usefulness, in ability promoted missions to the Laplanders. and joyousness, as the years bring us a Sleep Grotius, of Holland, encouraged work for wider experience, and this will be the case the Malays and heathen of the Dutch if we in youth have been wise enough to SHAKESPEARE writes of " sleep that Indies, but efforts made were so backed by lay the foundation of health by a wise, knits up the ravelled sleeve of care." We governmental compulsion that little per- thoughtful, prudent care of our bodies and should be very careful to secure for our- manent fruitage was gained. our minds.—Mary Wood-Allen, M.D. selves a due amount of good sleep. It was in 1631 that John Eliot, a Puritan It is not at all difficult to understand pastor of Roxbury, Massachusetts, began that if you are constantly taking money work for the American Indians. From out of the bank, you must also be con- 1646, he gave all his time to them, continu- Food stantly putting money in, or some day you ing faithfully in this work until his death will be told that your account is already forty-four years later, in 1690. As a result IF I can arouse in your mind a most overdrawn and your draft will not be of his labours a missionary society was earnest desire to be strong and vigorous, honoured. One can overdraw for a time, formed in England for the spread of the I shall not find it necessary to give you and right here is the danger with young gospel in New England, U.S.A. Twenty- very minute directions, for if you have the people. They fancy, because they are not four Indian preachers were trained by Eliot. ambition you will find the way. If I could at once told that they are overdrawing, that His Bible in the Algonquin language, issued excite in you an intense longing to visit their bank account is unlimited, and then in 1663, was the first Bible printed in the Paris, I should know that you would begin when it is too late, they find themselves on New World. At the end of his grammar to seek for the way of getting there. If I the verge, if not clear over the verge, of book be wrote, " Prayer and pains, through could create in you an earnest aspiration to bankruptcy. faith in Jesus Christ, will do anything." be well and physically strong, I should know How shall you know whether you sleep The Algonquin Indians and others were that you would seek for the books that enough ? If you will make it a rule to go scattered in the years that followed, leaving would give you the necessary instruction. to bed by ten o'clock every night, and go to none to read the translations prepared. In regard to the matter of diet. We eat sleep at once, and sleep soundly, and waken In the next century, David Brainerd, to live. We know that the food which we with a clear head and a rested feeling, you helped by a Presbyterian society, worked take into our bodies is digested, elaborated may infer that you have slept enough. If among the Indians of New Jersey. His was and assimilated—that is, made over into you waken unrefreshed, I should want to a brief work. He died in 1747, at the early ourselves—and unless this digestion, inquire into your habits of life. Was there age of thirty years, leaving a journal that elaboration, and assimilation is properly opportunity for fresh air to enter your glows with inspiring missionary fervour. conducted, we shall not be fully and com- room ? Did you eat a hearty supper late in Oh, that I could be a flame of fire' in pletely nourished. Our body is made up the evening? Is your system oppressed the service of my God " he wrote. " Here of cells ; the food which we eat is trans- with a superabundance of sweets? Are I am, Lord, send me ; send me to the ends formed into cell structure, and this new you living on simple, wholesome food, or of the earth; send me to the rough, the cell-material takes the place of the worn-out eating irregularly of all sorts of trash ? savage pagans of the wilderness ; send me cells. Our reason would tell us that if too There are many causes, you see, for your from all that is called comfort in earth ; little material is furnished, cells will not " tired feeling " in the morning, and send me even to death itself, if it be but in be properly repaired and ill-health will instead of taking some "Sarsaparilla," or Thy service, and to promote Thy kingdom." follow. Our reason would tell us other drug, I should try to find out the in the same way that if too much cause and remove it. material is furnished, the machine will be Sleep is the most positive beautifier, the clogged and the work will not be properly best cosmetic. The term " beauty sleep " The Danish-Halle Missions done. We will also understand at once is no misnomer. Sleep freshens the com- that an irregular supply of new material plexion, smoothes out wrinkles, clears out AFTER the Reformation, the reformed would interfere with the elaboration of the brain, strengthens the muscles, puts churches generally had become formal in that which is undergoing the process of light into the eyes and colour into the' their worship and rationalistic in their digestion and assimilation. We can see, cheek.—Mary Wood-Allen, M.D. ideas, and therefore lacked missionary 6 MISSIONARY LEADER JUNE, 1924 fervour to push the conquests of the Cross. mother replied. I have watered every produced the moat astonishing effects."— At the opening of the eighteenth century, page with my tears.'" Robinson, " History of Christian Missions," a revival of religion touched portions of the page 52. Lutheran Church. August Francke, of Halle, Germany, was one of the lea'lers in Egede and the Moravians in One happy illustration of the text, " A this pietist movement, which had as its Greenland little child shall lead them," appears in object a revival of real spiritual life. the story of Greenland. Hearts that were HANS Egede, a pastor in Norway, had Francke's school at Halle was a missionary as cold as the icebergs on the Greenland training centre, though not especially long been burdened to preach the gospel to so designed. King Frederick IV, of Den- descendents of the Norse colonists, sup- coasts warmed under the influence of the mark, from his youth had felt interested in posed still to exist in Greenland. His little child of John Beck. spiritual things and with a heart of love wife resisted the idea, until, conscience- " The Greenlanders, who could find no stricken, she sought God, and became an for the heathen, he determined to do attraction in the story of the gospel, took something for the natives of Denmark's earnest advocate of her husband's plan. great interest in watching the home life trading colonies. He wanted missionaries At last, the Danish missionary king, for India, and applied to Francke. The Frederick IV, helped to launch the mission. of the missionaries ; and when they saw result was the beginning of the Danish- In 1721, Egede sailed for Greenland with the little fair child making friends with Halle missions. his family. Terrible storms buffeted the ships. Off the coast, the ship on which their own children, and heard her lisping the family sailed was surrounded by ice their language, their former coldness and Ziegenbalg that was closing in upon them in the rudeness of manner began to die away. storm. The captain shouted down the Later on, as the little child grew, she Two young students of Halle, Ger- ladder into the cabin, telling all to prepare many, Bartholomew Ziegenbalg and Henry to die. Paul Egede's narrative tells how, showed great aptitude in learning the Plutschau, were selected to answer King as his father continued in prayer, the hymns which Beck and Bohemish wrote Frederick's call. They landed at Tranque- captain came to report that the storm had for her in the Greenland tongue, and which bar, southwest India, in 1706. They broken an opening in the wall of ice, and she sang with remarkable sweetness. were the first Protestant missionaries to they were sailing through the passage into India. They met the hostility of the open sea. When he arrived in Greenland, Then the Eskimo mothers wanted to hear Danish officials, secretly instructed from Egede found that there were none remain- their own children sing the way she did ; Copenhagen to put every obstacle in their ing of the old Norsemen. The Eskimos and so it came to pass that they acquired way. But the pious king stood by them, proved most hardened. The missionary and learned to love the simple gospel and they could not be expelled. They were toiled for fifteen years, with but little refused the privilege of having a language fruit. Ill health compelled his return in hymns she taught them, although as yet teacher, so, nothing daunted, they sat on 1736, but others had joined in the work, there was no religious impression made the floor with children of the native school and the Christian Eskimo settlement of upon their minds."—Hodder, " Conquests learning the language, writing its char- Godthaab (God's haven) was established. of the Cross." acters in the sand. Ziegenbalg mastered When the Danish government planned to the Tamil and began translating, By give up the mission, Count Zinzendorf After many years, the coast Greenlanders 1711, he had the New Testament ready for found Moravian missionaries to go to Green- were generally won from paganism ; and publication, and set up the first missionary land to continue the effort for the Eskimos. in 1899, the Moravians turned their mis- printing press in India. Two Moravians, Stach and Bohemish, sons in Greenland over to the Danish arrived in 1733, followed by others. They His comrade returned to his homeland on Lutheran Church. No missionaries of account of ill-health ; but Zeigenbalg established themselves in another section of laboured on winning souls, until 1715, the coast, naming their station New other denominations are allowed passage when he took a furlough. He returned, Herrnhut. They met the hostility of the, on the Danish boats to Greenland. married, and brought out a grammar of Eskimos at every turn. The first yielding the Tamil language. His efforts at first was when a visiting chief and his men were opposed by religious people in Ger- came to see them from the south. John many, just as William Carey of England Beck was translating a Gospel, and read to The Moravians later met opposition. The faculty of the men some of the words of God just put THE Moravians who carried on the great- Wittenberg University (Luther's old head- into the Eskimo tongue for the first time. est of the early missionary undertakings, The men listened as the manuscript spoke quarters) called the missionary enthusiasts were from of old a people of the Waldensian false prophets." But the fruits of the the words of God in their language. work began to secure attention. The " Then, taking up his book again, he type. In 1467, they joined Bohemian English archbishop of Canterbury wrote to read the account of our Lord's agony in believers in forming the United Brethren Ziegenbalg: Let others be prelates, the garden of Gethsemane. As soon as Society. Especially in Moravia (Austria), he had finished, one of the Greenlanders, patriarchs, and popes. . . . You have won they were persecuted long after most of a greater honour than all these." named Kajarnak, stepped up to the table, and said with great earnestness: 'How the Protestant groups in various lands had At his death, in 1719, at the age of thirty- was that? Oh, tell me that once more, found deliverance by the influence of the six, Ziegenbalg left several hundred con- for I would fain be saved, too ! ' These Reformation. Fleeing from intolerance, a verts, numbers of trained teachers, schools, words,' says the missionary, ' the like of chapel, and the translated Tamil Bible, which I had never heard from a Green- community of them were given refuge on besides a dictionary and a grammar." lander before, melted my heart.' " the estates of Count Zinzendorf, in Saxony. He had " paved the way for the great work This Greenland chief was the first con- of Protestant missions to the heathen." Here, in the forest, their town of Herrnhut vert, and continued a faithful worker for (" The Lord's Watch ") was founded in The work was left without a permanent the remainder of his life. home-base for supplies after those who had In 1740, the Moravian missionaries put 1772. It became a signal of release, and established the Danish-Halle co-operation on record their method of labour. At first, many came from Moravia to make their passed away. But after trying experiences, they had argued much with the Eskimos home in this region. Count Zinzendorf the remnant was taken over by one of the concerning the existence of God, His was a godly man, who found in these Lutheran Church societies, organised toward attributes, and our obligation to obey Him. the end of the next century. For five years they had laboured in this Moravian believers brothers indeed. From One glimpse is given to us of the home way and could scarcely obtain a patient childhood he had given his heart to Christ's influence that helped to shape in childhood hearing from the savages. Now, therefore, service, in the written covenant, " Be Thou the life of this noble pioneer missionary to they determined in the literal sense of th e mine, dear Saviour, and I will be Thine." India :— word to preach Christ and Him crucified, " As Ziegenbalg's mother lay dying, —to present His wonderful love before The work of the Danish-Halle mission had with the children weeping about her bed, calling for repentance and faith. his sympathy, and his missionary spirit she said to them. ' My dear children, I am " No sooner did they declare unto the led him to help these Moravian believers leaving you a great treasure, a very great Greenlanders ' the word of reconciliation' and direct them in missionary service.— treasure.' A treasure, dear mother! ' said in all its natural simplicity than they the eldest daughter; where is that beheld its converting and saving power. Adapted from "Our Story of Missions," treasure.' Seek it in the Bible,' the This reached the hearts of the audience and by W. A. Spicer. .TINE, 1924 MISSIONARY LEADER 7

quick work. Will you do your part, quickly, in only one day. We use no Sabbath School brethren and sisters, and support us by nails, and the cost price is only the carry- your prayers and by your means? ing of the bamboos from the bush. We tie the bamboos together with rope vines, Missionary Exercises and build a house of leaves on top. We (June 14) then spread our mats, and load on our goods and much food. The boat is now (June 7) Greetings from Fijian Students ready for its journey. Our friends now gather on the banks, The Fijian Mission Training Buresala Training School, Fiji. and we say good-bye, get on board, and School —Buresala March I, 1924. begin our journey. We just drift and To Our White Fathers and Mothers in drift. If the river is in flood we go BY C. S. PALMER the Faith of Jesus. quickly, and reach the sea in three or four Dear Friends : days. If the water is low it sometimes IT is now over twenty-five years since It is a source of joy to me that takes two weeks. We do not have to the first band of Fijian youth landed at God continually preserves my life, so bail out the water. We do not sail or Buresala Bay. They had come, as they that I can write a message to you in a use oars. When we get to the sea, we said, to school in the Word of God. far-off land. I wish to tell you how I put our things on the Buresala steamer, came into the truth. It was not a min- Today some of these pioneer students are and sell our bamboo boats to the Indians ister or a teacher who first taught me, for a few shillings. This, friends, is how sleeping in the dust, having "fought a but it was an old, torn book of " Bible we go to school in Fiji. good fight." Some are still actively Studies." I was then in darkness, and When we get to school we live in na- preaching the message. Through all the did not want religion. tive houses, and plant gardens for our food. years others have come and gone, and no One day I found a book which had School life is hard, but we are anxious to been left behind in my house. It was man can tell the influence these have learn God's Word to teach others. Every torn, but I read parts of it, and looked morning we must get up and work three exerted on the progress of the message in up the texts in my Bible. It had a hours in our gardens. Then the tali rings Fiji and in surrounding groups. different message. No other church and we are in school until one o'clock. Buresala School is prettily situated on taught what was in that book. The In the afternoon we work for the school. the island of Ovalau, just about the message was very sweet to me. For six We give thanks to all the churches in months I studied that book, and then I Australia and New Zealand for giving us centre of the Fijian Group. It faces the bought some books of another church to large island of Viti Levu, and has for a our new school house, and new houses to compare what was in them with the new live in. background the mountains, forest-clad message. We shall try to help you to finish the and ever green. I now discovered the true Sabbath, message of the "Good News," and then Much of the two hundred and seventy true baptism, the tithe, and clean and Jesus will come. acres is virgin forest, only a small portion unclean foods. I believed the message I This is all. read in that book of " Bible Studies." I consisting of swampy flat. The soil is Your obedient student, could not rest until I found the full light EPEL1 NAQASE.. fertile, although not so good as found and obeyed. elsewhere in Fiji. Tapioco and bananas When a year later the cutter Talai grow splendid crops, while sweet potatoes called at my island, the minister on board and taro give good results on well-drained came ashore. I took him to my house (June 21) and told him I believed in the message. land. During dry years, yams have pro- We kept Sabbath together. One month Bringing in the First Students duced well. Ka wais, a small yam, yield later, on August 3, 1922, he baptised me. to Our Batuna Training School prolifically. The students also plant I at once gathered up my goods, said maize, and relish the corn when fully good-bye to my friends, and came to BY H. B. P. WICKS matured. Buresala to train for God's work. ON Friday, January 25, the Melanesia On the estate there are two cottages, a Dear friends who sent us the message of the "Good News," my heart overflows called at one of the out-stations on the school-building, and a workshop which with thanks to you. Wonderful light Duki coast, where we spent a quiet and was formerly the press-building. The has come to me. Before all was dark, profitable Sabbath with the people. On students are housed in a number of native now God's Book is open and my mind is Sunday, at 3 a.m., we took aboard one dwellings, and these are now being re- too small to hold all the wonderful light. boy as a student for the training school, and then set off for Ranonga. built with iron roofs. I am here at school, your school, God's school. God helps me every day, and I It was a lovely morning and the sea The school is a new building, but we am learning His will. My friends and was calm. We anchored just opposite are calling for an additional class-room, relatives, who are big chiefs, write to me our Mondo Mission and I went ashore and also for facilities for extending our and tell me I am mad, but I cannot go and met Pana, our native teacher. When manual training department. The na- back to them. I have found the true the Melanesia was sighted those on shore tives handle tools readily and we are knowledge and wisdom of God. at once sounded their bells and conch This is my message to you. I trust shell to call the people in, as they were making efforts to give them some experi- you have good health, and that you will all away working in their gardens among ence and training along this line. be strong in the truth, so we shall be able the hills. One young lad was about The Fijian youth are anxious to better to keep strong also. twelve miles away from the mission when themselves in educational lines, and re- I am your true friend, he first sighted the Melanesia, but he was spond well to their teacher's efforts. We WILIAMI RABALOTU. one of the first to greet us on landing. The people soon began to come in, and are handicapped because of the lack of To the Sabbath Schools of Australia it was not long before there were well text-books. In Bible they soon become and New Zealand. over two hundred assembled. They knew proficient students. Sirs, what I had come for as the last time that Instruction is given in Bible, arithmetic, I want to explain to you a little about we were there I told them that the geography, physiology, reading and com- our school life. First of all I shall tell Melanesia would soon call for the boys to go to the training school. As the position, prophetic history, and also you how we get to school. You understand, don't you, that we who live in the people assembled for service, the writer English for the younger boys. mountains cannot ride to school on spoke words of cheer and comfort to Buresala School is endeavouring to steamboats, or motor cars, or flying-ships those who were parting with their sons meet its responsibility in helping to finish as you can who live in the white man's The Ranonga coast is rugged and the. the work in Fiji. Almost all of the thirty country. Yes, on your ships you have anchorage at Mondo is poor. The eight students have professed a Christian ex- rooms to eat in and beds to sleep on, and boys that were coming to the training you go quickly. school quickly gathered up their few be- perience, and have the work of God in We travel on what we call land-boats, longings and by 4 : 30 p.m. we were under view. We as teachers and students are that means they never return to the place steam again, making for a safe anchorage trying to do our part in accomplishing a they start from. We build these boats for the night. This time we had several 8 MISSIONARY LEADER JUNE, 1924

canoes and a big crowd of natives aboard. and introduced to their teachers, Brother teacher's residences, and the printing Some came with us to the harbour to and Sister Barrett. press. have the last few hours with their boys. We trust that the young people, as they The native houses, too, are representa- The next morning, after filling up our commence their studies, will realise the tive. The Marovo people built the leaf water tanks from a near-by stream, as we necessity of a thorough and quick prep- house for the white workers, and are now were getting up steam, the final good-byes aration. They are all bright boys, and building the workshop; the Dovele boys were said. One mother, as she leaned all have the one purpose of becoming constructed the first boys' house ; and the weeping on her boy's neck charged him missionaries to tell others of the light Viru boys assisted by the Ughele boys between her sobs to be a good boy, and a that has come to them and made them so erected the second. The Gatokai folk true Juapa Rane (Seven Day). Then she happy. are now working on the engineer's hotte ; dried her tears, shook his hand, and Our hopes are at last realised; and that and the Ranonga boys have commenced stepped over the side of the vessel into for which we have been praying and work- the school. her canoe with her husband and two ing for years is fulfilled. Next week the Other work, such as the cutting of other children, and paddled off a little school will open. We hope that the tracks throuch heavy timber and over way waiting for the Melanesia to move. school will be all to this field that it hard coral; and the construction of a Soon our anchor was up and they followed should be, and that many young people wharf and a jetty ; the clearing of land us along the coast for about two miles, will be quickly prepared to go out among and planting a garden ; weeding the gar- waving all the time until our courses lay the many tribes and tongues of the den ; cutting and hauling timber for the in different directions. The lad climbed Solomon Islands, to preach the gospel. native houses; handling the material for up the rigging and waved until they were We are endeavouring to do our utmost to the European houses, and assisting in the out of sight. These people are just as help finish the work in this generation. erection of the same ; the handling of loving and fond of their children as any cargo on boat days; all this, and much white people, and the mother heart is just more have the boys done with a pure the same the world over. My mind was missionary motive, in order that the third directed to the time when I first left home (June 28) angel's message might quickly go to their and went through a similar experience. The Solomon Islands Training fellow beings. The day appointed for the opening of We then made our way to Dovele, and School when we were about ten miles from our the school, February II, dawned bright destination we were met by Brother BY A. R. BARRETT and clear, and the forenoon was spent as Tutty in his launch. Next morning, after EIGHT months (at the time of writing usual in the garden. speaking to the people, seven boys in March) have passed since we arrived At 3 p.m. eighty people assembled at gathered up their belongings to go to in the Solomons. A retrospective review the teacher's house where the school is Batuna, and early in the afternoon we set of the events of this short period, brings now held, and united in singing hymn No. off again, intending to call at Gizo to to mind many and varied experiences, 305, " I Remember Calvary." Surely the transact some business. chief of which is the witnessing of the Lord was with us as the words of this We left Gizo for the Duki coast and wonderful providences of God in calling beautiful song ascended in praise to Him. anchored at Hambere. There the chief out a people in these heathen lands for We knelt in prayer, and Brother Gray and most of the people were away, help- His name; a people, who, a few short invoked the blessing of the Lord. ing to build a church some miles further years ago, were enshrouded in darkness, After singing " Take Time to be Holy," up the coast ; so we sent some boys by but who now are willing and anxious to Pastor Wicks delivered the opening ad- canoe to tell them of our arrival and take the message of a soon-coming dress, and other speakers followed,— the purpose. About three hours afterwards Saviour to those who know Him not. writer, Brother Gray, and Peo, who has they all came. Later they went to their Evidences of a true missionary spirit recently been placed in charge of the gardens and brought some talo plants for we saw amongst the people as we visited work in the Mar ovo Lagoon. Intense Batuna. We spent the evening with them them in the Melanesi 2 with Pastor Wicks earnestness was shown in the meeting, and were able to speak words of en- in October and November last, and day and every word seemed to be taken in by couragement. The next morning before by day we have seen it as we have been the listeners, as though they were intended daylight we called aboard those who were with the boys who have worked at Batuna, for each individual alone. to come to the training school, and set off prior to the opening of the training The benediction was pronounced after for the next mission on the Duki coast. school. singing, " Anywhere with Jesus I Can Here we secured two more boys, and From all parts of the group where there Safely Go," and the congregation dispersed, went on to Ughele again where we spent areJuapa Rane [Severs Day] missions, rep- happy in knowing that the training the night. resentatives have been sent to assist, and, school for the Solomon Islands had come In the morning four more boys came where eight months ago there was a piece into being. aboard to join the student band, then we of seemingly useless territory at Batuna set out for Viru. Here we spent a quiet and Motusu, today there stand three Sabbath encouraging the folk to faithful- European buildings; a leaf house, until The Missionary Leader ness in the message that we all love. As recently occupied by the white workers ; PUBLISHED BY THE soon as it was light enough to see on two native houses, capable of accommodat_ AUSTRALASIAN UNION CONFERENCE OF Sunday morning we hove anchor, and with ing sixty boys ; two smaller houses, used several more boys we headed for the for additional helpers and shelter for a SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS Marovo Lagoon. Our boat was crowded dinghy ; and three other buildings in the " Mizpah," Wahroonga, N.S.W., by this time, but they were a happy, ex- course of erection, the engineer's house, Australia pectant throng. We called at Telina for the new workshop, and the school. an hour and then at 3 p.m. there was great The three European houses were erected Editor: Anna L. Hindson excitement as we dropped anchor at under the supervision of Brother H. R, Printed for the Australasian Conf. Assn., Batuna. They were quickly all ashore Martin ; they are the superintendent's and Ltd., by the Avondale Press, Cooranbong, N.S.W