I Picture a New Ivy Leaf, So Bright and Green and Beautiful! It Seems That Nearly All the Life of the Other Leaves Has Been Concentrated in It

By CATHERINE M. BUXBAUM

CHARLES CAREY

Gazing at the next twelve months ahead, ing hearts are to be comforted. Are you so filled with promise of achievement, let preparing now to assist the great Saviour, us remember that without God's help we Physician, Teacher, and Comforter in HEN a new year comes, instead are no more capable of growing a new these important tasks? When on earth of thinking of turning over a leaf of character than an artificial ivy He said, "My meat is to do the will of W new leaf I like to imagine grow- vine is capable of climbing a wall. But Him that sent Me, and to finish His ing one. I picture a new ivy leaf, so bright He is more than glad to grant us power work." What a wonderful resolve for you green and beautiful! It seems that nearly for growth. He delights to produce in to make as this new year opens! all the life of the other leaves has been us the fruits of love, joy, peace, long- Roy A. Moulton, a poet of Denver, concentrated in it. Yet most of the older suffering, gentleness, goodness, and faith. Colorado, framed the New Year's resolu- ones remain, by their very ruggedness and Now, especially, does God need the whole- tion to build himself a castle cradled in deeper shades accentuating the new souled consecration of Seventh-day Ad- a breeze of usefulness to others, with a roof growth's loveliness. ventist youth. The world is filled with of fidelity, a reception hall of tolerance, The years of a human life are like slaves of Satan, who spread vice like a and a staircase of temperance leading to the leaves of a plant. We cannot hide withering blight. Forces for evil are busy rooms of rest and repose. The floors them—other people and angels have seen everywhere, and the people living the would be of music, and the draperies our past actions. We cannot—and per- Christ life are comparatively few. Is it laughter and mirth. In the garden sur- haps they do not—forget them. These not thrilling to picture yourself a trans- rounding this castle would be buried all years make up our being. Some of them mitter of purity and truth amid the jealousy, prejudice, and envy, and over may not be very beautiful. They may abundant wickedness? their graves would be sown the seeds of bear marks of spiritual drought and dis- There is so much Christian work to be forgiveness. The veranda would be cov- ease. Yet contrasted with them the glorious done in 1949! Millions of persons are to ered with the clinging vines of friend- accomplishments of future years will be saved, bodies are to be healed, minds ship. stand out more vividly. are to be educated, and countless sorrow- —Please turn to page 22 VOL. 96, NO. 52 DECEMBER 28, 1948 T 'M MAKING a resolution"—Bill COMMA is a very small punctuation seems "such a little thing"—too little to 1 glanced ruefully at the red-penciled A mark, but the United States Govern- bother about. D that adorned the returned examination ment learned its importance the hard way. paper he held in his hand—"and that A new tariff act was being written, and resolution is to study every lesson every the framers of the law intended to include ID you ever have a confidential chat .day until each one is thoroughly mastered. in the free list "All foreign fruit-plants for D with yourself? You and your con- I'd sure like to meet the misguided mortal the purpose of propagation or cultiva- science can say things to each other that ti who set in circulation the idea that little tion." The provision was not designed to an outsider would not dare to whisper. things aren't important. Just look at this! have anything to do with fruit as such. Are you investing in the best material for It is the grade I deserve all right, but it But a stenographer, in copying the bill, the character you are building? And if will pull my average down to—well--to erroneously misplaced the comma, making you continue as you. have begun, what may where I can't afford to have it if I am to it read, "All foreign fruit, plants for the you expect as a finished product? Ask collect the honor points I need to get into purpose of propagation or cultivation." yourself these questions, and answer your- medical school!" Importers, therefore, contended that self honestly. "It wasn't a `mortal' who circulated that all foreign fruits, including oranges, lem- It has been said that in one sphere we lie," grinned Larry. "It was -the father of ons, and bananas, were exempt from duty all are bookkeepers, and that "our library lies himself. Remember the serpent in the under the law. At first the Treasury De- if it contains no other volume has in it a Garden of Eden, sitting up in the tree partment ruled against the contention; but ledger upon which we are at work every of knowledge of good and evil, talking later, when the law was reviewed, it was moment of our waking hours. It is a book to Eve? In modern English we can almost obliged to reverse its decision and refund which we open the first day of conscious hear him saying to her, 'Oh, come on. the money paid as duties on such fruits by responsibility, and close at the moment of Don't be foolish. Just one little taste the importers. The loss to the Government death—this character record. Then indeed won't hurt you at all!' And so she took ran into millions of dollars before the we take it with us where we can take the forbidden fruit and ate of it, and small error in punctuation could be cor- nothing else, for if we enjoy the glories of Adam didn't have backbone enough not rected. eternity the entries in this volume must to follow her example. That's what's the A lead-pencil eraser seems a mere trifle, prove our passport thereto. And in the matter with so many of us—we haven't but the crew of a Catalina flying boat last great day when our account comes the backbone we need to keep our study- realize that it saved their lives. The ship before the great Master Auditor, and 'the ing right up to the minute, no matter was forced to make an impromptu sea books are opened,' the balance sheet which what. And when the time for finals comes, landing in mid-Pacific because of a bad He makes up will determine the place and why, then we're in trouble all right! gasoline leak. The machinist's mate, after manner of our future activity through • "Take me for an example. I'm one step trying any number of makeshift plugs, endless ages." below you, for I drew an F in math. I found that an eraser from a pencil fitted So hold communion with yourself to- always meant to ,make up the few assign- perfectly. With it the hole was plugged, day. Determine whether your character ments I missed when Beth was here visit- and the boat flew safely back to its base. is being built on the foundation of Jesus ing, but I never got around to it, and if An artist was working on a difficult de- Christ, and of such materials as love, p the most important part of the examina- sign in a stained-glass window for a great joy, peace, long-suffering, meekness, and tion wasn't based on those very points! Of church. One day he left his task and went temperance; determine whether or not it course, when that happened I was sunk. for a walk. While he was gone, the janitor is fireproof, stormproof, timeproof, judg- I've been stumbling over those points and came in to clean his studio. On his return mentproof, and will endure eternity. That limping around them all the last half of he missed a small piece of blue glass. is the only kind of character worth build- the semester." "A tiny piece of blue?" responded the ing, and it is built largely of the day-by- "Put it there," invited Bill, extending janitor when questioned. "Yes, I remem- day little things that we can overlook so his hand, "and let's both resolve to begin ber it; it was so small and good for noth- easily while waiting for what seems "more the new year right, Larry, and hereafter ing that I swept it away with the trash." important" material. mind these small things that may seem "We must find it," declared the artist unimportant at the moment, but which, if in great agitation, and the search was on. they are neglected, may fling their shadows When the minute piece of glass finally EMEMBER, "for the want of a nail to the very close of life." was recovered, he took it in his hand ten- R the shoe was lost, for the want of a "Maybe we can do something about derly, mounted a ladder, and placed it shoe the horse was lost, fol. the want of `redeeming the time,' " sighed Larry, as skillfully. To the janitor who was looking a horse the rider was lost, for the want of a the two friends sealed their pact. "For on, he said, "Now, look, that good-for- rider the battle was lost, for the want of a these neglected trifles are liable to do nothing piece of blue glass is the most im- battle the kingdom was lost and all for something very like that to both of us portant part of the design. It is the clear want of a horseshoe-nail!" if we fail to make a proper grade showing blue eye bf the Christ." Really, friend o' mine, there are no as premeds." As you start the new year, friend o' little things, are there? "Right you are," agreed Bill. "From mine, be careful that you are not sweeping this moment forward my hat's off to the out of your life some important part of importance of little things!" the design, some part that has to do with "Mine too!" echoed Larry. your relationship to God, just because it a / (

Vol. 96, No. 52 • THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, December 28, 1948 One year, $3.50 Published by the Seventh-day Adventists. Printed every Tuesday by the Review and Herald Publishing Assn., at Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. U.S.A. Entered as second-class matter 'August 14, 1903, at the post office at Washington, D.C., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 148, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington 12, D.C. PAGE 2 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR What Is ,Cife ?

By J. DEWITT FOX

Time Is Life! And Life Is Time. Are You Using Your Time to Improve Your Character—the Only Lasting Thing in This World—the Only Thing That You Can Take With You Into Heaven?

CHARLES CAREY

AUSE and think. What is life? Is it life is made. A suave young realtor slip away unimproved, we shall find that sweet joys or hot tears? gay parties slipped a contract under my hand and our product is a loose, baggy piece of por dull. chores? Is life apple pie or a with a flourish produced a gold-capped burlap, drab, and aimlessly thrown to- bowl of cherries, or gritty spinach or pen. gether. sauerkraut? "Sign right here, sir," he urged in his Fortunately God lets us choose the To you life may be real, fascinating. silver-toned voice. skeins and colors to weave upon the frame- Every 'moment may be abounding in new "Just a minute, I'd like to read the work of hours, days, years. So we should discoveries and adventures. But what contract," I protested. I was still covered ever be mindful of our selection. The way about the lonely widow across the street? with blisters from recent burns, so de- we use our time determines character. A cozy fireside, a book, and a purring cided to pause long enough to be cau- Character is the tapestry, or fabric, kitten at your heels—that is the life, you tious. I read carefully. There seemed to which God will hold up to the strong light say. In a near-by hospital the little boy be no abstruse conditions, no hidden of inspection at the final judgment. If we with infantile paralysis says life is days clauses. But one tiny line of the "invisible" weave in the dark, we are likely to have in a bed of suffering, nights of pain, and print flashed from the page like neon to a distorted design—warped character. years of crippled misery. burn a lasting impression upon my mind. Therefore we must weave under the light Honestly now, is life something tan- It read: of God's Word each day, to ask of Him gible? For centuries philosophers have Time is the essence of this contract! wisdom in choosing strong and sturdy been ,beating their brains to discover its That was a vital truth. The tiny line strands; threads which have color and secret. About as far as they get is that at the bottom of the contract was a key beauty as well as tensile strength to mold life is some mysterious force which, usher- which fits the lock on every treasure chest a stanch and admirable character. ing us into this vale of tears for a fleet- of life. For the riches there encased are First, let us begin with some snow-white ing moment, quickly whisks us on into nothing more than time. Time—that bobbins of purity—cleanliness of mind the hereafter. But you and I know better, little four-letter word—is the common and body plus a twist or two of neatness. Life is made up of something real; it is denominator which makes all men equal. As we begin the day we shall stitch in merely for us to find out what that some- Yes, time is the essence of life! It is the some canary yellow for optimism, cheer- thing is. stuff life is made ofl fulness, and a vibrant look on the bright Let us ask the man on the street: "Sir, And life is afloom on which the threads side of life. Begin the day with a melodi- what is your life?" of time are strung. In the hand of each ous song on your lips, and watch your "Me? Why, my life is getting up at 7 of us is placed the shuttle. And we have spirits rise to the ceiling, instead of sink- A.M., drinking a cup of coffee, eating a a choice of pattern, color, and thread ing into the cellar, as you make your doughnut, and scrambling to the nearest to weave into the warp which God has toilet. subway train to work all day in an of- generously. strung on our loom. It moves Love and charity shine through silken fice." on at a uniform rate of twenty-four-hour threads of vivid blues, always true, never Then if we pass along the busy thor- strands each day, and what we shuttle be- fading. These lend a softness and delicate oughfare and ask each person we meet, tween the threads of the hours, minutes, hue to the personality, while lighter aqua we will receive a different answer from and seconds will determine the pattern blues, such as modesty and humility, blend each one, because each life is a unique of our lives. artfully with truth and honesty—silver experience. As it is with the leaves of a If we make good use of every spare and gold braid to enrich our fabric in a tree, so it is with lives—no two are alike. moment and. fill the fabric full and tight, rare and precious combination. Some recent business dealings caused we shall come up at the end of life with Piety and spiritUal appreciation are me to meditate on the substance of which a lovely tapestry. But if we let time —Please turn to page 22 DECEMBER 28, 1948 PAGE 3 Seventh-day. Adventists? How tragic that any Christian should be called gloomy and absolutely lifeless! Yet probably you have listened to such observations. I cer- tainly have, and I work in one of our de- nominational institutions, where such an attitude is doubly out of place. It never seems to occur to some folks that we should radiate the joy that comes from be- ing in the service of the divine Master. After the little incident I have men- tioned I promised myself always to keep in mind the privilege I have of witnessing "Recommend Your Religion. . . . by Its for my Master, and even on days when I Pleasantness," Sug- do not feel bubbling over with enthusi- gests Ellen G. White, and This Is a Point asm I remind myself "Remember, you are Which It Would Be Well for All of Us to in love," and do a. rightabout-face in- Keep in Mind Con- stantly. stantly The religion of Christ should not make us messengers of gloom but of cheerful- ness. Can we be gloomy and unhappy and give an impression that our Christian service is burdensome to us? Indeed not! If we believe the promises that are ours for the future, we will overflow with joy- ousness. "Do not for a moment suppose that religion will make you sad and gloomy and will block up the way to success," says Ellen G. White. "The religion of Christ does not obliterate or even weaken a single faculty. It in no way incapacitates you for the enjoyment of any real hap- piness; it is not designed to 'lessen your interest in life, or to make you indifferent to the claims of friends and society. It does not mantle the life in sackcloth; it is not expressed in deep-drawn sighs and groans. No, no; those who in everything make God first and last and best, are the ,2ove an, ,2aug-Ater happiest people in the world. Smiles and sunshine are not banished from their countenance." By LYDIA BELZ In my work as a nurse I have been conscious of how very closely scrutinized we who serve the sick are. I remember -OW, now, gentlemen, it can't be The other patients smiled, then laughed the case of a woman who had been acutely as bad as all that!" outright. Even Mr. Grumpus broke into ill in the sanitarium for a long time. One N The ward lights had just been a good-natured grin. day when our conversation turned to turned on and my three patients lay I made a few more suggestions as to Serious things I learned that she did not blinking up at me crossly. I was not sur- how they could remedy their personal ap- believe in God at all. When I asked prised when I did not get an enthusiastic pearance for the day, then started to her in what she placed her faith when she response, for after all it was very early leave. But as I passed the last man's bed, was so seriously ill, I was told that she in the morning to start the usual hospital he remarked soberly, "Nurse, you are the "did not trust in anything." routine. Still, orders were orders, and I first person who has come in since I've Several days later her doctor told her had to do my duty. been here who has seemed happy and who that her mental attitude had a great deal "Did you ever see such sour faces?" I has actually laughed. You must be in to do with her recovery, and that until continued with mock seriousness. "Just fove." she learned to trust in a higher power look at yourselves!" The three men glared I blushed, made some noncommittal she undoubtedly would not make a great at each other without speaking. reply, and left the ward hurriedly. My deal of progress. The physician asked "Now, take Mr. Grumpus over there, patient was nearer the truth than I had her whether she would like to talk to a almost smothered in that funny-looking realized, for I was in love! I was joyously Bible instructor, who would bring her nightcap. I'm sure if we could see a little in love with my work, and best of all, in words of comfort from the Scriptures. more of his beaming countenance he love with my faith in a just and living "No," she replied, "I would rather just couldn't be as formidable as he looks. God. I was happy that I could bring a watch you people and see what your reli- How about doffing your cap to your nurse bit of my inward sunshine to others. gion has done for you." this morning?" I realized that these patients had been Each time that I entered her room I In compliance, the little man took off observing their nurses closely. They had reminded myself that I must do my part his cap, displaying a perfectly bald head. concluded that we were not happy, be- to help her find faith in God. She left "Oh my!" I exclaimed, "I really didn't cause our religion was a burden rather us without giving any evidence of a expect to see quite so much `beaming than a joy. changed attitude, but our influence may countenance!' " Have you ever heard such remarks about —Please turn to page 20 PAGE 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR and there doesn't seem to be anyone to take it." Dreams Do Come TRUE! "Oh my," laughed Bess, "it's been years. since I taught in Sabbath school. I think By LATAINE WILSON HUGHES you were in my class the very last time when 'I was home for all summer. I'm afraid I won't be here long, and anyway HE train pulled to a stop in the lit- them sometimes for the pleasure of being I'm pretty rusty about the Bible." tle town in California; passengers with Miss Grayson. But something had "Well, good-by, and thanks so much Tgot off and a few got on. Among the gone wrong; and he knew that the last, few for the five dollars. If you stay, we'd still five or six who alighted was a lovely summers when she had been home John like to have you," and Harold turned young woman in a gray traveling suit, had seen her only at church a few times. down the winding flower-banked walk. with matching hat and gloves. The three She was such a pretty woman, and dressed For a moment the young woman stood pieces of luggage which she deposited on so well! "I wonder why she didn't marr), watching him as he made his way back the platform were not an evidence of John?" Harold thought as he drove up to the cab. "He hasn't changed since he wealth, but the quality of the leather to the neat white stucco home of her was in my class," she mused. "He was gleaming in the afternoon sun was suf- parents. always eager to catch each point that ficient to prove that she was not just an He carried Bess Grayson's bags to the was discussed and never tired of learning. ordinary person. She shaded her eyes for a door, and she slipped a five-dollar bill into He'll make his mark in the world," she moment as she looked about her. A taxi his hand saying, "Thank you, Harold. decided as she turned the knob to the stood at the end of the platform, and she Where did you say you were going to front door. signaled for it. As she stepped into the cab school?" "Hello everybody," she called, and she exclaimed, "Why Harold! Hello! "To Glenwood. I have a cousin living from the kitchen an elderly woman with Wfien did you start in this business?" near the college, and I'll live with him. lovely silver hair came out with a dish The driver grinned, blushed profusely, That way it won't be so expensive for towel in her hand. At the sight of her and stammered, "Hello, Miss Grayson. the folks." daughter she ran to her with outstretched I'm not hacking permanently—just for "Well, I wish you luck. Your college days arms. the summer. You see, I'm going to college are the ones you'll always remember. Make "Bess, my dear, why didn't you tell us next year, so I had to work at some- them as happy as you can, Harold. When you were coming? I had no idea—" thing. So far this has been the only job they are gone, life with its stern realities "I know, • Mother. I thought I'd go I could find. Suppose you want to go begins." straight to the university, but I'm a little directly to your folk's? Guess they didn't "Yes, Miss Grayson," he replied, a little tired, and I wanted to see you and dad know you were coming in today, did puzzled. And then, sure wish you first. I want to do some shopping too. they? If they had, they'd have been down would teach our Sabbath school class It's so good to be home!" here to meet you." this summer. Our teacher will be gone, "Your father will be pleased, dear. He'll "No, this is a surprise. I thought I'd go directly to the university from school, but I finally decided to come home for a few days' visit• first. After being in a Being an Intelligent Girl and Loving John as She Did, Bess Knew in Her Heart Al. classroom for nine months. I thought I most Before He Spoke What He Wanted to Say. She, Too, Was Proud, and to Spare might enjoy a week's rest before I started Him, She Cut in Quickly With, "I Know, in again." John; Ann Has Taken My Place in Your "Are you still teaching English at the Heart" junior college, Miss Grayson?" "Oh yes. That's my life. I'll get my VERNON NYE. ARTIST doctor's degree next year if I go to the university this summer and next fall. Seems,like years since I began working on it. When I started to college I thought four years was a long time. I never dreamed I'd keep on studying for four- teen!" A pained expression seemed to flit mo- mentarily across Bess Grayson's face, and Harold thought it best to say no more. He had heard his mother speak of the Graysons and their daughter, Bess, , an unusually brilliant and beautiful teacher, who was on the faculty of the junior col- lege two hundred miles away. When he was in the primary division in Sabbath school, she had taught his class, and he had learned of many interesting points in the Bible that he did not know were there. He remembered how Miss Grayson had had a way of making little things seem intriguing and important. Sometimes on Sabbath afternoons she had taken her class on nature walks and shown them the different kinds of wild flowers and told them, their names. He remembered that John Hamilton had walked with

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be here at five o'clock. Take off your hat to be a surgeon someday, but this par- The summer before her senior college and gloves and rest. I'll take your things ticular afternoon he told her something year she had gone down to visit John for up to your room." far more important. He told her he had a week. She stayed with Ann of course. "Oh no, Mother, just leave them there decided to be a medical missionary. He At first Bess did not notice the change in the hall and I'll go on up in a few explained how he had thought it all out, in her friend, but gradually it became minutes. I want to visit right now. Tell and had dedicated his talent to the Lord. apparent that Ann was much quieter than me alf Lhe news." Bess was so happy she could not find words during their college days, and when Bess "There isn't much to tell. Ruth Barnes, to speak. She had dreamed since girlhood spoke of John, she only nodded her head the girl you chummed with when you of going across the ocean and teaching in or changed the subject. She had been both were in the academy, has a new a mission station school. Her A's in Span- there two days before John could be free baby boy. She named him after her doc- ish had not been for nothing. for an afternoon. Bess packed a lunch and tor." Standing there by the river, she felt planned to drive out in the country, "John?" that no one but Johnny would ever share where it would be cool, perhaps up into "Yes. He's a darling baby. His daddy her heart and life. However, realizing the the foothills. At noon Ann came into the would have been so proud of him if he'd years of hard work and study ahead, they room and announced that John was in the lived. He's named after him too, John parlor waiting for her. She slipped an Russell. Now you just sit here and rest arm around Bess and whispered, "Have a bit while I run upstairs and get your IMINEMINIMILY a •good time, Bessie. I wish the best for room ready—it won't take but a few you." minutes." The two rode in silence to a little lake After a delicious dinner, during which that reminded Bess of the place at home news was exchanged between parents and where they had gone many times. As daughter, Bess declared she would do the they walked beside the water John talked dishes, but as usual her mother protested, about various medical subjects in terms and the had to be content with drying Bess sometimes could not understand, but them. Everything seemed so natural, she she listened intently to every word. In thought, as she ran her hand through her another year he would be graduated. wavy auburn hair, a gesture that was as There would be a year of internship and much a part of Bess as her hand itself. She then—they could start their lifework— could not remember how many years it had together. Bess said, "John, I'll finish next been this way, with mother washing the "You never see driftwood year, and I hope I can teach near here. dishes and she drying them. Of all the floating upstream." Then we could be married, and with what places she had been, it was always home I make you wouldn't have to borrow any she thought of most, because she could more money. We could begin working depend on its never changing. .AVAILYAll001010101M1 together before we go to a mission field." Bess had been home several days when John was embarrassed, but he explained her mother invited her to go to Dorcas only smiled their thoughts and Bess wished that Ann's parents had lent him some one afternoon, but she declined, saying john all the success in the world. money despite his objections, that they that she wanted to take up to the attic That next year when she had been insisted on seeing him through his course, • some things she no longer needed, and graduated from the academy, he was not that of course he would pay every cent pack them in her old trunk. However, able to, attend commencement, but he of it back. "But," he added, "it wouldn't she could not repress the question on her sent her a lovely white Bible with this be fair for a man to marry when he has lips, "I suppose John's wife attends the note: "I think you know what this stands obligations such as mine staring him in Dorcas regularly?" Her mother looked at for; keep it until the day when I can tell the face." After a moment of silence he her keenly but did not comment upon you in words." Bess had kissed the little went on to say, "Bess, I want to tell the obvious reason for her inquiry. Bible and put it away with her dreams of you—" "No, she has been ill for quite some that day. But she being an intelligent girl, and time," she said simply. The next year she had gone to John's loving John as she did, knew in her heart Mrs. Grayson left, and Bess went up- college. Then they had their first real almost before he spoke what he wanted stairs to the attic. As she opened the lid dates. Because Bess was an "A" student to say. She too was proud, and to spare of her trunk she found her old "Memory she was able to earn most of her expenses him the words she cut in quickly, "I Lane" album lying on top. In it were by tutoring. John also worked long hours know John. Ann has taken my place in all the little things a girl will keep: because he was responsible for half of his your heart." souvenirs, clippings, programs, ribbons— expenses. But whenever they could they John turned pale and his lips quivered, things that stood for happy times and would talk of their dreams together and of but Bess went on: "It's all right. You have memories. Leafing through the book, she that day when they would leave their much in common. She, as a nurse, can saw many things to which at the Moment native land to give new life to the poor help you as I never could. I want to wish she could attach no significance. But when humanity in need of the help that only you all the happiness in the world." she saw a ticket that read, "Good for one missionaries can give. "But how did you know, Bess? I mean, glass lemonade, school picnic," she smiled In due time John went to medical I don't know how or when this all hap- faintly. That had been her junior year school, and Bess's roommate, Ann, became pened, and I wouldn't have told you, but in the academy. a student nurse on the same campus. But I want to be honest with you, always, and Instead of getting the lemonade that she continued her work at the old college. I do love you." afternoon at three o'clock when it was John's letters came regularly, and fre- "It's all right," Bess said simply, and her served, John Hamilton had asked her to quently, at first; then as he became more lips were tightly pressed to keep them take a walk out to see the wild flowers and more occupied with the heavy grind from trembling. by the river. He was a senior that year and of study and training, they came less Bess graduated at the top of her class. would be graduated in two weeks. He often. However, generous-hearted . Bess She was as beautiful as a statue in her told her he was going to college, and made allowance for that, and kept her black cap and gown—a beautiful but cold would enroll for premedical work. She part of the correspondence regular, and statue. Her head was high, as it always had known ever since he was in the sixth at the level and tone on which they had had been, but her eyes looked straight grade and she in the fifth that he wanted parted. —Please turn to page 19 PAGE 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR LUTHER and the BIRDS

By RUTH GORDON SHORT

OLFGANG was exasperated. There they were again, those vex- Wing birds, swarming over his gar- den, ruining everything—pecking .at the berries, nibbling at the plums, devouring the corn. He would fix them! They were not going to spoil all the back-breaking work he had been doing in the garden all spring. No, sir! He would get them all— blackbirds, finches, thrushes, and linnets. Nets would put an end to this wholesale robbery, and that would be that! , But as he commenced placing his traps in appropriate places he was entirely un- aware that his master, Dr. Luther, was thoughtfully looking out the window of his study. Soon a servant delivered to Wolfgang a note written in a neat, small, almost feminine hand. As he read it, his expression was almost as interesting as the message itself. First a look of wonder, then a great grin spread over his face. "Behold the Fowls of the Air: for They Sow Not, Neither Do They Reap, nor Gather Into Barna; "To our good and kind Dr. Martin yet Your Heavenly Father Feedeth Them" Luther, preacher in Wittenberg," the note read, "we thrushes, blackbirds, linnets, in the nights, so that nothing may inter- It is said that at the Leipzig disputation gold-finches, along with other well-dis- fere with our freedom of flight. Luther ascended the platform with a bou- posed birds who are spending the summer "Why does he not vent his wrath on the quet of flowers in his hand, and that he at Wittenberg, desire to let you know that sparrows, magpies, crows, mice, and rats smelled them so often his enemies sug- we are told on good authority that your which inflict so much injury on man, gested the devil must be hidden among servant, Wolfgang Sieberger, out of the stealing the corn from the barns, which we the blossoms! great hatred he bears to us, has bought never do, for we only pick up little frag- During his confinement at Wartburg some old rotten nets to set up a fowling- ments and single grains of corn, which we he always was writing letters to his friends ground for finches, and not only for our requite a hundredfold by swallowing flies, inscribed, "From the Region of the dear friends and finches, but in order to gnats, and other insects? Birds," and making amusing comments on deprive us of the liberty of flying in the "Given in our celestial retreat among the assemblies of the jackdaws, whom he air and picking up grains of corn, and also the trees under our common seal and sig- compared to black-robed priests. to make an attempt upon our lives, al- nature. From Feste Coburg, an immense hilltop though we have not deserved such a pun- " 'Behold the fowls of the air: for they castle where he stayed for several months ishment at his hands. sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather during the Diet of Augsburg, he wrote a "Thus we poor birds humbly beseech into barns; yet your heavenly Father feed- delightful letter to his household about you to prevent him carrying out his in- eth them. Are ye not much better than the birds: tentions, or if that be impossible, compel they?' " "At the Diet of the Grain Turks, him to scatter corn for us in the evening, The constant allusions to nature in the April 28, 1530. and forbid him rising before eight in the writings' of Luther show him to have been morning to visit the fowling-ground, and a close observer and keen laver of God's "Grace and peace in Christ. Dear gen- by doing this we shall ever be grateful to handiwork. One day while admiring the tlemen and friends, I have received the you, as it will enable us to take the route budding branches in the springtime, he letter which you all sent me and so have through Wittenberg. But if he continue remarked, "Look at that bough full .of learned how everything is. And that you his wicked attacks upon our lives, then young things coming to the birth. It is a may also learn how things are with us, I we shall pray God to restrain him, and figure of our faith—winter is death, sum- would have you know that we, namely, supply him with mice, lice, fleas, and bugs mer is the resurrection." Veit Dietrich, Cyriac Kaufmann, and I, DECEMBER 28, 1948 PAGE 7 aid not press on to the Diet of Augsburg, meet in, for their hall is roofed with the spect. God bless you all. Keep house well." but stopped to attend another diet here. vault of the sky, its floor is the carpet of Luther was very tenderhearted. It was "There is a coppice directly under our green grass, and its walls are as far as the hard for him to understand how anyone windows, like a little forest; where the ends of the world. They do not ask for could get pleasure out of hunting. At laws and crows are holding a diet; they horses and trappings, having winged Wartburg, when, he was invited to join a fly to and fro at such a rate and make such chariots to escape snares and keep out of hunting party, he could not forbear from a racket day and night that they all seem the way of man's wrath. They are great trying to save a poor little rabbit pursued drunk, soused and silly. I wonder how and puissant lords, but I have not yet by the dogs. Of his observations while their breath holds out to bicker so. learned what they have decided upon. hunting, he wrote: "Pray tell me have you sent any dele- "As far as I can gather from an inter- "Last week I hunted two days to see gates to these noble estates? For I think preter, however, they are for a vigorous what that bitter-sweet pleasure of heroes they must have assembled from all the campaign against wheat, barley, oats, and was like. We took two hares and a few world. I have not yet seen their emperor, all kinds of corn and grain, a war in which poor partridges—a worthy occupation in- but nobles and soldier lads fly and gad many a knight will do great deeds. . . deed for men with nothing to do. I even about, inexpensively clothed in one color; "Today we heard the first nightingale, moralized among the snares and dogs, and all alike black, all alike gray-eyed, all alike who could hardly believe that it was the superficial pleasure I may have with the same song, sung in different tones April. The weather has been splendid, derived from the hunt was equalled by of big and little, old and young. with no rain except a little yesterday. Per- the pity and pain which are a necessary "They care not for a large palace to haps you are not so fortunate in this re- —Please turn to page 20

gray-brown fur. But it is not often that one sees these little animals, though one sometimes hears their piercing whistle and wonders what it is. A company of marmots always has its scouts, generally the older males, who seem to prefer soli- tude and who keep a sharp lookout at a considerable distance for intruders. At the first indication of any approaching danger these sentinels utter a sharp whistle by blowing through their cleft upper lip, and then vanish, still whigtling as they disappear. Their eyesight is won- derfully keen, and they can see even rather small objects from quite a great distance. An uncommonly cautious little creature is the marmot, and he has good reason to be; for his enemies are numerous. Fore- most among them is man, with his mur- derous gun. Greatly to be dreaded, too, PUBLICITY OFFICE OF THE BERNESE OBERLAND INTERLAKEN. SWITZERLAND is the eagle, which swoops down upon F YOU knew exactly the right spot to they discover a patch of rich Alpine grass him at an Unguarded moment and carries choose and where to start digging or some nourishing herbs, they will eagerly him off to his eyrie. Hence Master Mar- I some winter day on one of the lower start feeding, and in a few days they will mot's precautions when he leaves the slopes of a mountain in the Engadine, look much plumper. When the marmot security of his home. you might come across something very first leaves his winter quarters he is very At the first rosy flush of sunrise he peeps wonderful. When you had penetrated thin, and scarcely resembles the same crea- out, but it is only by degrees that he be- below the thick mantle of snow, and a ture who was so busy helping to line the comes bold enough to expose his whole little way into the earth, you would find burrow in October. For then he was a person. The merest tuft of fur, indicating a passage from four to eight inches wide, huge fellow, with great layers of fat under the top of his head, appears above ground, leading downward for a distance of many his skin that kept him alive while he was then after a while his bright eyes come to feet. Suddenly, just as you were beginning hibernating. view, suspiciously scanning the neighbor- to wonder whether there was an end to Marmots have quite a complicated way hood, and after various other maneuvers this subterranean way, it would widen out of living, for they generally keep up the entire marmot sits on his hind legs, into a big, round burrow lined with soft separate summer and winter residences. making a final inspection from the en- grass and occupied by a number of brown, The same winter burrows are used year trance of his burrow before he starts feed- furry animals, all fast asleep in their cozy after year by succeeding generations; but ing. He has long, curved teeth, which en- nest. There may be sixteen or twenty of during the summer they go higher up able him to bite off the grass quickly; and them, and if the burrow is extra large into the mountains and are very fond of as he feeds he stops continually to glance you might even find as many as thirty. old moraines, heaps of debris, or boulder- about him, to listen and to sniff for any These little creatures, about the size of strewn slopes, where they can hide be- sign of the unusual. Naturally, marmots a Scotch terrier, are marmots, and they tween intervals of nibbling the grass. The do not eat all day long. Sometimes they lie snugly sleeping away the long, cold males generally make solitary burrows for lie down and bask in the sun, but never months of winter, until with the first sign themselves, while the young stay with without leaving some of their kin on of spring, the earth grows warm, the their mothers. guard duty. The young ones often gambol snow melts, and they awaken, feeling If you saw a marmot standing motion- and frolic together after they have ,satis- desperately hungry. Then they will hur- less on a rock, you might easily mistake fied their hunger; and sometimes they sit riedly emerge from their long tunnel and him for a queer-shaped stone, so like is up and perform their toilet, washing their look around for something to eat. When he to his surroundings, with his neutral faces and brushing their fur. PAGE 8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR

t. Captain Jones

spreading suchsuch literature? Surely this was something he could do to help forward the Lord's work. Sunshine With _VA d GIG Uti Colporteuring was practically unknown in those days, but when he called upon some of his friends and talked to them By FREDRIK W. EDWARDY - - - Part Four about his plan, they told him there were already several engaged in this work in London; however, they were sure that RDINARILY Captain Jones prided den to Thee and to myself." When he had his aid would be welcomed. Two men, himself upon his ability to make finished, such a feeling of peace and well- Ellery Robinson and John McAvoy, some- O up his mind, but since he had being overcame him that he fell asleep. times assisted by the mission workers, were made the decision to give up the sea, there When he awakened, the rain had selling Adventist books in the city, and appeared to be no other goal within his stopped, and he decided to go down to were glad to give him a start. reach. He had to admit to himself that he the .commons. Outside the rooming house But getting the average Londoner to was not a little discouraged. the walk had suddenly filled with great share his enthusiasm for the Present The very elements themselves seemed activity. Throngs of people hurried about Truth was not so easily accomplished as to have conspired against him to add to their business, hoping to get to their des- he had anticipated. They simply were his despondency. Rivulets of rain ran tinations before another downpour. not interested in any other doctrine ex- down the panes of the casement windows, Heavy clouds hung low, making the nar- cept that taught by the Church of Eng- which looked out upon the all but de- row streets dark and dismal; although it land; neither did they care to hear of his serted street. He had taken a room in was but an hour past noon. remarkable experience in finding his first London to be near his new friends in Captain Jones put on his greatcoat, copy of the paper and how he had been hopes that it would help him forget his took his hat and gloves, and walked slowly led to give up the sea to follow his new old life, but it looked as though the sea down the stairway leading to the street calling. itself had come looking for him. The in- door, where he stood for a moment before "A sea captain, is he!" They muttered termittent pounding of the raindrops re- stepping into the muddy lane which led behind his back. "What kind of sea cap- minded him of the spray from the waves to the common. It seemed to be threaten- tain would leave his ship and go aped- that crashed against his vessel when he ing rain again any moment, but that did dling like a common tinker? It doesn't came up the channel from Calais. not deter him. It was simply his indecision make sense, it doesn't!" This was the longest period he had re- as to which way to go. But since he was Those who did listen courteously were mained ashore since he was a boy. He was really not going anywhere anyway, what probably so amazed by the oddity of an homesick for the first time in his life— did it matter? He waited until a group of obviously cultured young gentleman en- homesick for the feel of the swells be- young men went by, and followed after gaged in such religious work that they neath his ship, the smell of clean salt air, them, a vague feeling of loneliness spur- were too busy thinking about the incon- the hoarse-voiced shriek of the gulls, and ring him on, until shortly they turned gruity of the situation to hear the appeal all the bustle associated with entering into a public house. he made for the Present Truth's message. and leaving port. He missed, too, the men 'He continued on until he came to the In any event, Griffith Jones discovered who talked his own language, who loved avenue where many of the shops were lo- that frequently doors were closing in his the sea as much as he himself loved it. cated, but nothing in the windows inter- face more quickly than they had opened. If God had led him thus far, was He ested him. That old feeling of dejection His co-workers were sympathetic, and to lead him no farther? The young cap- was slowly overcoming him again, and he did all they could by way of encouraging tain turned from the window and lay was walking with head bent, thinking, him and praying and working with him, down upon the bed, looking up at the when he noticed that he had stepped but there was no improvement. They ceiling. Almost without realizing it he fell upon a little magazine covered with shook their heads. It was odd that one so into what was to become a lifelong habit, liquid mud. Why he stooped to pick it enthusiastic could not interest others, yet a way of praying to God that was more up he did not know, but he was surprised that very enthusiasm was without 'doubt like talking to an intimate friend. He to 'discover it to be another copy of the the cause of his difficulties. His words ran tried to imagine that the Lord knew.noth- tract Present Truth. away with themselves. He jumped too ing of all his troubles, and he did his best It was like meeting an old friend, and quickly from point to point, so impatient to bring Him up to date on all that had he returned to his room carrying it care- was he that his listeners hear the good befallen him. fully, so that he might clean and dry it. news. But all that they could gather was "Father," he concluded, "Thou know- Reading its message afterward left him that before them stood a strange, eager- est what is best for me, and if I must leave more than ever determined to follow his eyed young man on fire about some the sea to follow in Thy footsteps, please new faith, but it also opened to him a equally odd religious doctrine described show me the way quickly. Whatever it is different line of thought. Since it had in a paper he was trying to sell. They that I must do, help me to do it. Show taken but one of these papers to cause shook their heads in bewilderment and me what it is Thou hast for me to do, lest him to change his entire philosophy in sent him on his way as soon as they I falter by the wayside and become a bur- the beginning, why not devote his time to could—some not so politely as others. DECEMBER 28, 1948 PAGE 9 About this time Dr. Daniel H. Kress, enough to keep him occupied at the enters into each one of the causes listed by the who had opened hydrotherapy treatment health center. And also there would be travelers' insurance companies. The well-un- derstood effect of drinking alcohol is to de- rooms in the city, heard of the difficulties time in the evenings that he could devote crease caution, impair judgment, and inflate of Captain Jones, and offered him a job to such activities. There would probably the ego. The Safety Council observes: in his establishment. What could he do? be more people at home from work, if he "The driver may exceed the speed limit be- Oh, there were always many things to be made his calls then. cause drinking so-called 'moderate amounts' of alcohol has caused him to have an entirely done—the doctor could think of any So it was decided. Captain Jones re- unjustified confidence in his ability to control number of ways he could make use of such ported for duty at the doctor's office ready the car. He may be on the wrong side of the a stouthearted young man. Would he take for any task, but he could hardly be ex- road either because even small amounts of the position? pected to make a success of this kind of alcohol cause carelessness, or he may be But what of his devotion to the Present work. there because he is abnormally ready to 'take a chance,' in passing other vehicles. Truth? Should he give up trying to take The young captain did not long con- "In the case of the pedestrian, the same psy- others the Word, which had brought so tinue working in the treatment rooms, chological results of taking alcohol have similar much inspiration into his own life? No, for he left London soon after, "discour- significance; as a rule, it is the tendency to carelessness which is responsible for the was the doctor's diplomatic advice; he aged," he wrote later, "at my lack of pedestrian's offenses against traffic safety. should keep on with his colporteuring, success." "Life has enough hazards without adding but he could do that when there was not (To be continued) to them by impairing the control of the mind over the body and the environment." What Price Liberty? "Does anyone have the right to drink liquor?" asks Deet Pickett, editor of the Method- ist Board of Temperance. He answers his own question thus: "Liberty is the most precious possession of American citizens, bought 'with a price.' It is doubly precious today.. . . But the liberty to choose slavery is modified by the right of others to choose freedom and to enjoy the benefits of freedom. There is a right to drink, just as there is a right to eat decayed meat, but there is no natural right to traffic in alco- holic beverages just as there is no natural right to traffic in food which endangers health. One of the most difficult things to understand is the support given to the liquor traffic and the drink custom by men whose fathers or other dear Children Protest! lost. . . . It was the drunken driver's third relatives have been ruined by alcohol." "The Christian Herald" reports that John offense, and when he came to court he was Krasoveck applied to the Pueblo, Colorado, fined $250 and sent on his way to drink and How to Say "No!" drive another day." city commissioner for a license to open a Ken Weaver, writing in "Allied Youth" of drive-in beer establishment near Memorial Drunkometers! October, 1948, makes these suggestions: Palace Park in Pueblo. On the Monday follow- "(1) Remember that you have plenty of ing the filing of the application, a delegation "Drunkometers" are devices now used by company if you choose not to drink. Many of of thirty boys and girls appeared bearing a several American cities with persons charged America's top-flight businessmen are well protest petition which carried the signatures with drunk driving; the suspect blows a known for their sobriety. of seventy-eight children. Chairman John E. measured quantity of breath into a rubber "Athletes by the hundreds leave alcohol Hill of the board remarked humorously, "You bag within which is a series of tubes contain- alone and never hesitate to say so publicly. are protesting to the city," and a youthful ing chemicals which determine the alcoholic Such All-America football stars as Johnny spokesman shot back, "That means protest, content. Lujack of Notre Dame and Harry Gilmer of period." Shocking! Alabama, Glenn Davis and Joe Steffy of Army, The petition read: "We, the children of tax- Waldon Humble of Rice, Bob Davis of Georgia payers in the vicinity of 14th and Santa Fe, Every time a dollar is spent for support of Tech and Doak Walker of S.M.U. are in this appear in protest to the proposed request of schools in the State of New Jersey, the people group. So also are such Big League baseball anyone selling liquor in the locality of our of that commonwealth drink a gallon of beer stars as Don Black and Jackie Robinson. The homes. We consider it imposing on our safety and smoke four packs of cigarettes. These list of coaches who do not drink and who and freedom to play in that part of town. We figures are issued by the Educational Planning emphatically oppose drinking by their teams consider it a nuisance and a menace, and we Commission of that State. is endless. ask the aid of our city commissioners to help us "(2) When you decline a drink be casual and One Billion! eliminate this hazard to our moral and physical natural. There is no more reason why you well-being." Then followed the names and American citizens smoke a billion cigarettes should take a cocktail than a cup of coffee if addresses of the seventy-eight youngsters. a day, according to the calculations of the you don't want to. Federation of Tax Administration as reported "(3) Never, never assume a 'holier-than- Liberty? in a recent issue of "Time." thou' attitude. Be a good sport if you are made "We had checked the car and taken every the butt of ridicule. Adverse Effect! precaution that we might have a safe and en- "(4) Remember that in the long run most joyable vaccrtion, trip," writes R. E. Griffith, of Two scientific researchers, E. M. Jellinek and people respect those who stick by their con- Richmond, California, as quoted in "American R. A. McFarland, make this conclusive state- victions. It is the sad experience of some people Issue." "We were on a beautiful wide stretch ment in the "Quarterly Journal of Studies on who forsake their convictions in order to please of freeway with a safety zone between the Alcohol": the crowd, only to discover that they are really double lanes. The night was clear and the "Relative to the immediate effect of alcohol despised for being weak-kneed. traffic was very light. Out of the night like on recall and remote memory . . . there is no "(5) Win your popularity by pleasant per- a crack of lightning there came a swerving question in any experimenter's mind of the sonality and your ability. If you do these car, a flash of light ahead, then darkness, deleterious effect of alcohol on memory. There things and make friends easily, you will seldom . . . the shriek of sirens, the rolling up of is no doubt that immediate memory is ad- have to worry about being unpopular just be- three ambulances, the participation of four versely affected by alcohol, and to a very cause you choose not to drink." police departments, pain and suffering and marked degree. There seems to be some indi- realization. On the other end of the line there cation that the impairment increases with the After the Accident! had been a drinking party. Out into the night complexity of the memory function." On the front page of a recent British maga- rolled one of the participants . . . and drove zine is the striking picture of a mother and her straight for our car. Both cars were completely Against "Moderate" Drinking! two small children standing beside a newly wrecked. . . . Five out of the six in our car The National Safety Council is of the opinion made grave. With her arm around the little were hospitalized. . . . There were broken that approximately one fatal highway accident girl the mother is saying: "Your father didn't backs, broken feet and legs. . . . The insurance in four is caused by drinking, either on the drink, but the man who killed him did." company paid out approximately $20,000, but part of the driver or on the part of the pedes- Perhaps the pleaders for the drinker's "per- money could not buy back all that had been trian. And it is a significant fact that drinking sonal liberty" have some answer to this.

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into the den of hungry beasts, that this very experience, terrifying as it was, in GOD'S DEALINGS course of time would be God's means of delivering His people! By HAROLD SHRYOCK, M.D. After Elijah had fled from the face of Jezebel, the Lord gave him an insight into the divine attributes. First, "A great and EXT: "Another parable put He David's slingshot is another example of strong wind rent the mountain, and brake forth unto them, saying, "The king- a simple instrument which the Lord saw in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but Tdom of heaven is like to a grain of fit to bless to the extent that it turned the Lord was not in the wind." Then came mustard seed, which a man took, and threatened defeat into victory. In his en- a terrifying earthquake, "but the Lord sewed in his field: which indeed is the counter with Goliath, David had oppor- was not in the earthquake." Then a great least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it tunity to learn a lesson we too should fire, "but the Lord was not in the fire?' is the greatest among herbs, and becometh learn—that the Lord's blessing 'does not These negative demonstrations were for a tree, so that the birds of the air come depend upon riches, or material pros- the purpose of demonstrating to the and lodge in the branches thereof." perity, or elaborate equipment. His name prophet that God's dealings with His chil- It is typical of God's dealings with the is honored more when great results attend dren are often not spectacular and that human family that His enterprises have the use of simple instruments than when He does not force Himself upon His crea- small beginnings. Christ's own first advent confidence is placed in the elaborate pro- tures. When the Lord did reveal Himself, was heralded by a lone preacher in the visions of man's own devisings. it was in a "still small yoke." By this wilderness. As He organized the group In His dealings with His children God means He communed with Elijah, and that was to be trusted with the task of often sees fit to entrust the success of His helped him to overcome discouragement. promoting His kingdom, He chose only cause to a human agent. Usually the hu- God's children today have the same twelve men, and these from the humbler man medium does not know the full im-. access to this "still small voice" as had walks of life. port of the work he is assigned to do. Elijah. "Thine ears shall hear a word How similar to the beginning of the Could he see the unfolding of the divine behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk Advent Movement! The founders of the plan, however, he might be overcome with ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, Seventh-day Adventist denomination were the importance of the task that falls to and when ye turn to the left." unassuming people with meager funds him to fulfill for His God. and limited influence. The key positicin When Daniel was cast into in this early organization was divinely en- the lions' den, he was doubt- trusted to a seventeen-year-old girl who less tempted to question had had very little educational opportu- God's purpose in permitting nity and whose health was broken. From him to be humiliated in the this small beginning, as a grain of mus- eyes of his Babylonian asso- tard seed, the gospel program now reaches ciates. It was only by faith to all parts of the earth. that he could understand Not only does God use small begin- that the heavenly Father had nings, but He uses simple instruments. arranged this experience Take, for example, Moses' rod. It was just "that He might make the de- a shepherd's staff, which he had carried liverance of His servant while caring for Jethro's sheep. But this more marked, and the defeat rod became the medium for such miracles of the enemies of truth and as brought conviction to the heathen peo- righteousness more com- ple of Egypt and even to the hardhearted plete." The favorable im- Pharaoh. • pression which King Cyrus The capture of Jericho by the children probably received when he of Israel involved the use of some very heard about the lions' den simple instruments. As far as the basic experience awakened his in- technique of taking the city was con- terest in the inspired scrolls cerned, it consisted of seven priests blow- written by the prophets and ing their trumpets of rams' horns, fol- eventually induced him to lowed by a long shout by the entire con- give the Jewish people their gregation. As the inhabitants of Jericho freedom by terminating watched from the walls of their city, they their Babylonian captivity. must have derived considerable amuse- How little did Daniel real- ment from observing the equipment ize, as he was being lowered which was used in this strange type of warfare. But with the Lord's blessing, the Moses' Rod Was Just a Shepherd's Staff, Which He Carried While rams' horns and the shouting accom- Watching Jethro's Sheep; but This Rod Became the Medium for Such plished a more thorough work than could Miracles as Brought Conviction the mightiest army of that time. Even to the Hard Heart of Pharaoh DECEMBER 28, 1948 PAGE 11 The prodigal son did not realize the in a dream that he would eventually be- Israel. This might have "turned his head" folly of his ways until he found himself in come greater than his brothers and par- with a feeling of self-sufficiency. But the difficulty and unfortunate circumstances ents, he was sold into slavery. Then when Lord saw fit to permit him to be perse- gave him an opportunity for meditation. he had become somewhat reconciled to cuted for a time by the jealous King Saul. This meditation allowed the "still small this misfortune and had been advanced The experiences through which he passed voice" to speak to his heart and thus bring to a position of responsibility in Poti- before he actually came into possession him to a full realization of his spiritual phar's home, he was suddenly thrown into of the kingdom made him realize his de- need. prison on the strength of a false accusa- pendence upon God. John the revelator received the divine tion. In terms of Joseph's "cross-sectional Paul the apostle, on his way to Damas- inspiration for the last book in the Bible perspective" these experiences must have cus, experienced one of the most spec- during his lonely confinement on the Isle seemed unjust. But in terms of God's tacular revelations of God's glory recorded of Patmos. It took the solitude of a twelve- in the Bible. His own "cross-sectional year prison sentence to give John Bunyan perspective" gave him a zeal for carrying that spiritual insight which enabled him the gospel to the ends of the earth. In to write Pilgrim's Progress. "longitudinal perspective," however, God Even today God works in this quiet saw fit to strike Paul with blindness for a way to impress hearts and lead people to time, then to send him to the wilderness realize their need of a personal spiritual for a period of meditation and study, and experience. Occasionally He permits a eventually to involve him in a great deal person to pass through a period of illness of persecution and disappointment. The in order that the noise and hurry of the experiences through which he passed everyday program may be excluded long would have discouraged an ordinary per- enough to permit a period of communion. son. But as his own spiritual vision became It has been said that the only way to get clearer, he began to see the divine pur- some people to look heavenward is to pose. His perspective became longer and put them on their backs. wider, until finally he could remark, "I God often leads otherwise than we ex- reckon that the sufferings of this present pect. The disciples were so sure that time are not worthy to be compared with Christ's kingdom was to be set up literally, the glory which shall be revealed in us." with the earthly Jerusalem as its capital, Paul even came to the place where he that their hearts and minds became could say, "We glory in tribulations." blinded to many of the spiritual lessons We sometimes become impatient with the Master sought to teach them. God's dealings with us, and in our human The mother of Jesus expected Him to TIorthern, origitts way we wish that our progress could be establish an earthly kingdom. Even when more spectacular. We are prone to chafe He was being nailed to the cross, she still By JOHN W. BOYD because things move slowly. We are even expected Him to work a miracle which tempted to be critical and to assume that would not only save Him from the dis- Giant searchlights streaming from the God is party to injustices which-come to grace of crucifixion but be the means of north; us in the form of disappointments and diverting public opinion in His favor in Beamed across the Dipper to the Milky tribulations. These thoughts come because such a way that He would become the Way; we do not realize the tenderness and hero of the Jewish nation. Fading, growing, writhing in the sky, mercy with which He arranges circum- So in our own lives we tend to become Could you not be a few stray gleams stances for our good. discouraged because God, in His provi- Of glory from the throne of God? "God has a purpose in sending trial to dence, does not permit circumstances to His children," observes Ellen Gould follow the plans that exist in our minds. White. "He never leads them otherwise We forget that "all things work together than they would choose to be led if they for good to them that love God." Because "longitudinal perspective" they were could see the end from the beginning, and of our limited perspective we fail to under- necessary in order to prepare this youth- discern the glory of the purpose that they stand and appreciate the divine plan and ful servant of His for the greater responsi- are fulfilling. All that He brings upon purpose. bility that lay ahead. them in test and trial comes that they may God in His wisdom sees the end from When Moses reached the age of forty be strong to do and to suffer for Him." the beginning. His view of our lives gives he felt that the time had come for him As the poet sings: Him a "longitudinal perspective" by to make preparations for delivering the "God never would send you the darkness which He arranges those circumstances children of Israel from their bondage in If He felt. you could bear the light; that are for our good as well as for the Egypt. His own perspective was such that But you would not cling to His guiding good of His cause in the earth. Our own he assumed that the Lord would work hand shortsightedness causes us to be concerned through him because of his favor with If the way were always bright; only with the "cross-sectional perspective" Pharaoh. He pictured himself as a military And you would not care to walk by faith of the immediate present. We are apt to leader, releasing his people by virtue of Could you always walk by sight. become impatient with God in His deal- his political influence and military genius. ings. This assumption on Moses' part was very " 'Tis true He has many an anguish God often finds it necessary to teach us logical in terms of his "cross-sectional per- For your sorrowful heart to bear, His way by allowing hardships and diffi- spective." But God's thoughts were dif- And many a cruel thorn crown culties to overtake us. These are for our ferent. He saw that this young man, even For your tired head to wear: good, and should be accepted by us in the though he was a foster son of Pharaoh's He knows how few would reach heaven spirit in which they are intended—as daughter, and had enjoyed the best advan- at all, means of giving us insight into God's over- tages in education, needed forty years in If pain did not guide them there. all purpose. solitude to develop his character before Joseph's character had to be perfected he could be trusted with the great work "" "So He sends you the blinding darkness, by some very severe disappointments and the Lord had planned for him. And the furnace of seven-fold heat: injustices. Just after he had been shown David was divinely chosen as king of —Please turn to page 22 PAGE 12 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Left: Villa Aurora Where the Florence (Italy) Youth's Congress Was Held. Right: Mrs. John Spencer, Gemma Gherardi, Master Sheldon Spencer, and Pastor Carlo Pipping (Austrian), Acting Assistant Pastor in Rome

ITALIAN UNION YOUTH'S CONGRESS those who desired to be baptized soon, Aurora. It is a place filled with peace. On This is a personal letter report, but it and among these Mrs. Cruciani arose, so Monday, the sixth, I returned to Rome, tells such an interesting story that we she also is near. Then, at the end, he called carrying in my heart the experience of know you will appreciate it. This Italian for all those who desired to reconsecrate these five days of serenity, spent in com- Missionary Volunteer was won to the themselves to our Lord, and here every- munication with our Jesus. truth of the third angel's message by a one stood, and between the sobs many "On Tuesday your two letters arrived. young American Army wife who shared prayers were raised to the throne of the Oh, how pleased I was with your letter her faith after she joined her husband who Most High God. It was a very moving ex- written in Italian! I read it and reread it was with the occupation forces for some perience. Afterward the service ended with many times. We spoke much of you during months after the war ended. The letter hymns and 'prayers. those days and also of your mother. I is written from Rome: "Ai two o'clock everyone returned to wrote to her from Florence. Has she re- "MY DEAR MRS. SPENCER, the church, and those who were to be ceived my letter? "It has been only three days since I baptized were examined in the presence "I spoke with Professor Vaucher, presi- returned from the beautiful and pleasant of all. At three o'clock we were all twelve dent of the school of Collonges, and he Villa Aurora. We left Rome on the first ready in long white robes to bury our old told me that I have been accepted, and I of September, I and Mrs. Cruciani, for sins in the watery grave. But before this am waiting only for my passport and to Florence. On Wednesday, the first, at we knelt down together in the large park leave. eight-thirty in the evening, the congress to ask for the Spirit of God and His bless- "It is time to close. I am tired, and you opened. Ministers from every part of ing upon us. Then we were plunged into also will be very tired when you have fin- Italy spoke, besides three French brethren, the water of the baptismal font. Oh, my ished reading this. Kindest greetings from including the president, of Collonges [Al- sister, I do not know how to tell you the my family, kisses for little Shelley, greet- fred Vaucher]. He was introduced to me emotion of that moment! It is something ings for your husband and for your dear and is expecting me [at Collonges] as soon that I will never be able to forget. I was mother. For you always my affectionate as possible. so happy. I felt you near me with your remembrance. "There were six conference meetings a thoughts, and' everyone was near—Pastor "Gemma." day, with short intervals between each Pipping, Mrs. Teucci's mother, Mrs. Cru- "DEAR MRS. SPENCER, one. This ended on Friday. Now, I am ciani, Pastor Karl, pastor of our church in "Gemma has described perfectly our going to give you an account of the next Rome, who baptized me, and all the five- stay in Florence. We returned to Rome morning, Sabbath, September 4: Eight hundred and fifty people attending the edified. I, who am a star in Gemma's o'clock, breakfast; nine to ten o'clock, Sab- congress, many of whom I knew. I wrote crown, am happy that I too will soon bath school and a quarter-hour of mission- you only a card on that day, with the sig- belong to the people of God. I am happy ary meeting; ten-thirty to twelve, church natures of many people. I hope you have that you write Italian so well, and I am service, conducted by a French brother, received it. Excuse me for not having done very proud of you. It makes me feel that Pastor Fridlin, who spoke well, quicken- more, but I Was too moved and emotional. you also are somewhat Italian. I will be ing our hearts. He spoke much of the Thus this day of joy ended, and on Sun- grateful if in your prayers you will re- return of Jesus, saying to be awake and day, the fifth of September, the congress, member me and my family. I send kisses ready for that great day. Later he called stimulating and beautiful above anything and best wishes to your .little son, Shelley. for all those who were to be baptized that that I could say, chised. I would have vol- "Sincerely, day—there were twelve of us—then for untarily remained all my life at Villa "Teresa Cruciani." DECEMBER 28, 1948 PAGE 13 Mrs. Teresa Cruciani, teacher of Eng- to have Pastor Sorensen with us through- and are looking forward to future investi- lish in Rome, who has been led to an out the meeting. ture. interest in the doctrines of Seventh-day "We were also privileged to have as our Adventists through Gemma Gherardi's ef- guest speaker Friday evening Pastor V. T. A REAL RECORD forts, is translator of letters which Miss Armstrong, president of the Far Eastern One of the most interesting services in Gherardi receives from America. Division of the General Conference. He the closing days of the last school year at gave us an inspiring message, which I am Canadian Union College was an investi- A UNIQUE CONTACT sure will help our young people to stay ture in which eighty-five young people re- An Englishman living in Lincolnshire, through thick and thin arid do their part ceived insignia in the various Progressive England, found a reference in the to finish this work of saving men from sin. Classes. Among these were sixteen who Reader's Digest to a Milwaukee. (Wiscon- Sunday morning a consecration service, attained Master Comrade standing. sin) newspaper. He wrote to the editor conducted by Pastor Sorensen, dosed the THIS WAS DIFFERENT appealing to him to publish an appeal conference. Everyone present held hands, for reading matter. We quote from this forming a circle, and we pledged ourselves The investiture program given recently man's letter: "I would deem it a great to be true and loyal to the Missionary Vol- at Sioux City, Iowa, was really unusual, favor if you would kindly inform me how unteer pledge and to the trust God has and we are glad to give space to a detailed I may get in touch with anyone living in committed to us as young people of the report. It was Wilt around a dialogue your city of Milwaukee who might care remnant church. After that we sang 'Blest written by a Master Comrade, Mabel to correspond with me, or send me read- Be the Tie That Binds' and a consecration Madsen, in which the twelve young peo- ing matter, papers, magazines, et cetera, prayer was offered." ple who were invested took part. that they have no further use for. The scene of the dialogue was in the "My health broke down during the war HOUSTON YOUTH SHARE woods, with a Master Comrade and four years, and I am now a chronic invalid "Share Your Faith" is definitely on the Sunbeams seated about a campfire. While and obliged to spend my time indoors. program for the Houston, Texas, Mission- waiting for others to return to camp, the Reading occupies a large proportion of ary Volunteers. In this largest city of the Master Comrade suggested that they re- my time, but owing to extremely poor Southwest a number are holding Bible view their Progressive Class work. After a circumstances I am unable to afford to studies at the homes of interested people, short review of their work, the Sunbeams subscribe to the reading matter I find and all these interests are growing in an requested some songs and a story. At this most interesting and stimulating. I de- encouraging way. The Sunshine Band of time the Friends appeared carrying one cided to seek your aid, and trust you will the local Missionary Volunteer Society is of their number who had been injured. be willing to help me in this matter." carrying out a regular program of visits The Master Comrade, with her knowledge TheMissionary Volunteer Society of to the sick and unfortunate on Sabbath of first aid, applied a proper bandage to the Milwaukee church has subscribed to afternoons. Approximately twenty-four the sprained ankle. The Friends explained the Signs of the Times, which is now being members of this band take an active part how after losing their way to camp they sent to this invalid. in spreading this type of encouragement succeeded in locating it by use of the and good cheer. Recently a man with knowledge which they had learned in PHILIPPINE YOUTH'S CONGRESS whom one of the members had been study- camperaft. Seen in the distance were two P. H. Romulo, Missionary Volunteer ing the Bible, met with an accident. He Master Comrades and a Companion. secretary of the Philippine Union reports: was thrilled when the Sunshiners called When they arrived they showed and de- "May 18 to 23 the South Central Luzon at his home, and as they were about to scribed the flowers and leaves they had Mission held its first youth's conference, leave he looked around at the group, and collected. The other Master Comrade pre- in the Baker Memorial Hall of the Col- with tears of gratitude in his eyes said, sented a talk on a very interesting topic— lege of Agriculture of the University of "Pray for me that I may be able to under- stars and planets. As an appropriate dose the Philippines at Los Banos, the very stand this wonderful truth." for the dialogue they asked that the con- place where our missionaries were in- gregation join with them in singing the terned during the Japanese occupation. TWELVE INVESTED Missionary Volunteer song. The conference was well attended. About Several weeks ago Pastor K. D. Johnson, Those invested were charged with serv- three hundred young people, delegates, Missionary Volunteer secretary for the ice to their church, home, and community and visitors were present during the first Texas Conference, held an inspiring in- in the benediction given by Pastor J. 0. two days. When Friday came, young peo- vestiture service at Houston. Eight young Iversen, Missionary Volunteer secretary ple just poured in, so that when the Sab- people received the Companion insigne, for the Iowa Conference. Vocational bath school record was made the next and five were invested as Friends. Many Honors and Reading Course Certificates day, more than one thousand young and more in the Missionary Volunteer groups were presented to the various members old were counted. in this city are working on the require- after the service. "During the conference young people's ments of the various Progressive Classes, —Please turn to page 22 problems were discussed, such as military training, Sabbath observance, love, court- ship, and marriage, choosing one's life- work, social and recreational activities, Progressive Classes, hobbies, and mission- ary work for the youth among their fellow youth. "After the discussions, resolutions were passed by the delegates, and these were taken back to their home societies as a guide to future activities. An investiture service was held Saturday evening, when Pastor C. P. Sorensen gave the charge to a Master Comrade, a Comrade, and several Companions and Friends. We were happy

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more," her mother re- ing to herself as she sewed, 'I love Jesus plied. "Missionaries so much! What can I do? I know! I can must be able to teach sew! others how to keep "'There is Martha across the street house and how to sew, whose husband has just died. She has a but they must learn family of little children to take care of. how themselves first. And no time to make clothes for them. And there are people I'll just sew for them. I can mend their who can do only one dresses and coats. There are Susannah or two things really and Salome and—' " well. The Lord accepts "I know, Mother!" Sue's eyes were their work as well as shining. "Then Dorcas sewed and sewed the work of the people for all the widows and orphans, and then we call missionaries, she was taken sick and died. The poor who can do many folks she had helped so much with her things. I especially like sewing all came to her house and cried to think of the two and cried. They showed Peter the clothes women I mentioned, she had made. And Peter prayed for her, because they served and God made her live again so she could the Lord so faithfully do more missionary work." with the one thing "I am 'sure she did just that for a long they could do." time and made many women and children Dorcas Sewed and Sewed for All the Widows and Orphans, and Then Sue picked up a but- —yes, and the angels in heaven and Jesus She Was Taken Sick and Died ton. She held it on the —happy." spot where it was to be "She was a wonderful missionary!" Sue DON'T like to mend! And I just 'spise sewed. "Do you know them, Mother? Did exclaimed as she carefully placed the sewing on buttons!" Sue blinked hard they ever live here?" edges of the long tear together and picked I to keep the tears from falling. "No, to both questions. I have read up her needle. "Now tell me about the It would be too bad to let drops of salty about them and heard about them. And other missionary who sewed." water get on her new blouse just because you have read of one of them, I am sure." "She is Ernestina Moreno. She lived in two buttons were missing and had to be "I have! Where?" Caracas, Venezuela. She too heard the replaced. Besides, she wanted to wear it "Do you remember Dorcas, or Tabitha, story of Jesus, and learned to love Him to the school picnic in the morning. who lived in the days when the disciples and to live like Him. Then one day she "An' I don't like to sew either." She of Jesus were preaching?" heard the superintendent of the mission was thinking of the long tear in the red "Oh, yes! She lived at Joppa, and she speak of the need for missionaries to tell skirt with white flowers that she wanted heard Peter preach about Jesus, and she others of Jesus. She longed, just as Dorcas to wear too. made clothes for poor children who had did, to help. But she could not preach "Hmmmm." Mother looked from her no fathers." Sue stopped to get her breath. either. Neither could she be a nurse. How basket piled high with mending to the "No doubt time was when she won- sad she felt! Then she thought of some- morning-glory vines which shaded the dered what she could do for Jesus, whom thing she could do. porch where she and Sue were sitting. she had learned to love. She could not "'I shall go to a little town. I shall go "That is just too bad, daughter. Two of preach like Peter. And she could not heal to Aroa. No one there knows about Jesus. the finest missionaries I ever heard about people who were sick_ Peter, through the I shall have a little shop and sew and sew; served the Lord with their needles." power of God, had done that when he and when people come to me, I'll tell "Why, Mother! I thought missionaries healed JEneas in the fittle town of Lydda them of Jesus.' " read the Bible to folks and told them not far away. I imagine Dorcas was a bit "She did just that. She sewed from about Jesus and taught the little children, discouraged, wondering what she could do early morning till night. When people as Miss Dean does." when everyone was talking about that came to have dresses and coats and other "Missionaries do all of that and much wonderful miracle. I can imagine her say- garments made, she talked to them about_ DECEMBER 28, 1948 PAGE 15 Jesus. She started a Sabbath school, but like you and Miss Dean I can still sew and No one realized the danger that threat- every day she told how Jesus came to save be a missionary. Anyway, I'll try!" ened. The thunder and lightning ceased people from their sins and how He loves "I am sure you can, Sue, and I'm sure after about two hours of continuous fire- them so much He wants them to live like that Jesus will help you and bless you as works. Then the steady roar of rain Him, and then soon go to heaven to live you do it for Him," mother replied. sounded louder than ever. The water rose with Him. They wanted to hear more, higher and higher until it was two feet so she finally had a meeting every Sunday • • • deep in many of the homes near the to teach them. After a while seven of those river. who had listened said they loved Jesus so About four o'clock in the morning a much that they wanted to be like Him. The Flood man who lived near the river was awak- " 'God has been so good to me,' she By DON CLINE ened by the water's touching the bottom said. 'I have all I need and all the sewing of his bed. He quickly arose and began I can do, and people are learning to love NE summer evening several years to go from house to house, warning peo- my Jesus.' And Sue, dear, she is still a O ago when we lived in the south- ple that a flood was upon them. After missionary, sewing for Jesus." western portion of Oklahoma City, Bill, he had awakened several families he was When mother finished her story, Sue my brother, and I were playing with our reminded that in his haste to warn others, • said solemnly, "I want to learp to mend dump truck on the front lawn of our he had forgotten to awaken his own fam- and sew on buttons, and maybe I can be home. It had been a hot, still day. ily and take them to a safe place. He a missionary like Dorcas and Ernestina Mother came out of the house and sat started back in the direction of his Moreno right away. Then when I'm big down on the front porch to watch us. home. The water was waist deep by that Presently she directed our attention to time, and the strong current almost swept the beautiful sunset. Although the sky him from his feet; yet he struggled on. was painted with many colors, there was When he had finally reached a point a queer haze rising steadily into the at- within a few hundred feet of his home, mosphere. But we were having so much he noticed that it was gradually moving fun that we did not realize that it was off its foundation. He hurried as fast as growing dark until mother called us for possible and shouted a warning, but the supper. Then we left the truck where it house was swept away, and all those was, and htirried around to the back door. within it perished. Several days later a Soon we were enjoying a good meal. few of the bodies of his loved ones were Bible Chapter Endings After supper mother told us to go out recovered more than a mile down the and bring in all our toys from the front river, but the others were never found. By Clyde Rosser yard. But we begged off, saying, "We are Our next door neighbor was also one Of what chapter of what book is each of the too tired! It isn't going to rain, and if of the first to awaken. The water was following quotations the closing words? it does, the red truck won't float away. not so high in his house as it was in those 1. "And was lost, and is found." Besides its too dark now to go outside." nearer the river, but it was rising. While 2. "To keep the way of the tree of life." Mother did not argue with us. All she .he was carrying his furniture to the 3. "As your Father which is in heaven is said was, "Don't say I didn't warn you." second floor, he happened to look out perfect." 4. "Acceptable in Thy sight, 0 Lord, my When bedtime came, I gladly rolled in, the window, and saw that a very strong strength, and my redeemer." for I really was tired, and soon was current was starting in the direction of 5. "The angels of God ascending and de- sound asleep. Not long after midnight I our house. He made his way to us as scending upon the Son of man." awakened suddenly, sat up quickly and quickly as possible and awakened dad. 6. "Six hundred threescore and six." 7. "Is charity." looked out the window just as a deafen- Then they both stood on the front porch 8. "They without us should not be made ing crash of thunder pealed forth. Then to hold it down, and watched the current perfect." a streak of lightning split the dark, over- to see how close to the house it would 9. "I say unto all, Watch." hanging clouds, which fairly seemed to come. Meanwhile mother awakened Bill 10. "He fell asleep." press down upon the earth, and struck a and me. The water was several inches 11. "The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah." large oak tree not more than five hundred deep on our floor by that time. She 12. "Made intercession for the transgres- feet away on the river bank, completely warned us that the house might be swept sors." destroying it. Limbs flew in every direc- off its foundation, so we began to gather 13. "Being about threescore and two years tion. The wind howled around the sides a few necessary articles together in case old." 14. "In the deserts till the day of his shew- of buildings and rocked trees back and we had to flee for our lives. But that did ing unto Israel." forth as it swept along. It apparently was not happen. Dad explained, when we 15. "And shew him My salvation." trying to blow the rain through every joined him on the porch, that the oil crack in the house. I tried to call for derrick in the back yard had changed mother, but was so frightened I could the current enough so that it had missed Bible Calculations ;lot make a sound. All I could do was the house completely. By Ethel J. Fessler open my mouth. So I crawled under the Then the rain stopped. Soon people blankets again and finally went back to were trying to swim through strong cur- 1. Begin with the age of Methuselah at death (Gen. 5:27). sleep. rents and whirlpools to get where they 2. Add the number of prophetic hours ten But while I slept, things were hap- wanted to go. Some ventured too far out, kingdoms receive power with the beast (Rev. pening. The rain began to pour down in and were swept nearly to the rushing 17:12). torrents, and the wind became more fierce river before they escaped. From the porch 3. Add the number of days in the time limit of Darius' decree affecting Daniel (Dan. with each succeeding moment. Soon it appeared that they were having great 6:7). muddy water was sweeping down the fun, so Bill and I thought we would try 4. Add the number of lords to whom Bel- streets and filling all low spots around it. We sat down and began to dangle our shazzar made a feast (Dan. 5:1). the houses. In less than an hour the hands and feet in the cold, muddy water, 5. Add the number of foxes Samson caught to bum the grain of the Philistines (Judges river, just two blocks away, was rising rap- but father put a sudden period to that 15:4). idly. In another hour it had overflowed notion. Result: Number of prophetic days in the its banks. Still the rain did not slacken, A few hours later the water had drained longest time prophecy of the Bible. and water began to overflow into the from the living room floor, and then —Keys on page 23 streets and lower sections of the city. our parents began the task of cleaning up. PAGE 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR For the remainder of the day Bill and I dropped on trembling knees, and mother were confined to four small rooms. By the sent this plea heavenward: "Dear Lord, 44 *tun en) next morning all the water had disap- it is only within Thy power to save our peared, and the sun shone .brightly, so home. If it is Thy will, we ask Thee to the ground soon dried to a certain extent. do this, and we pray as we have never CORE As we looked up and down our street prayed before for Thy help." we could see six houses within two blocks After the prayer they tried to call the By FREDRIK W. EDWARDY that had been destroyed. Of course, our What have the following in common? Can you far-scattered neighbors. Although the discover what it is in each group of objects? Ex- precious dump truck was nowhere to be nearest home was almost a quarter of a ample: Brick, ruby, blood, and flamingo are all shades of red. A score of 80 or more is excellent; found, even though we searched and mile away, they hoped that they might 70 is good; and 60 is passing. searched for it. We wished very much possibly shout loud enough for their cries 1. Phalanx, sacrum, patella, and tibia, be- that we had obeyed mother and brought it to be heard. So, running from the house, sides being Latin names? inside the house before the storm, for they screamed their loudest, then quickly 2. Deer, cows, camels, and pigs, besides dad would not buy us another. It was a began to take the clothing, bedding, and being four-footed animals? lesson we have never forgotten. furnitute from the house, while continu- 3. Dragon, butter, house, and horse, besides ously praying. Soon they had even re- being insects? • -410- AO- moved the kitchen range, in which there 4. William Carey, Robert Moffat, David Livingstone, and John Paton, besides being was a good fire burning. This would have great men of history? Answered Prayer been a hard task for three men to do when 5. Kuchen, gems, whirligigs, and horns, be- it was cold. God had given them abnormal sides being good to eat? By WARREN KANEN - strength. 6. Polyps, anemones, crinoids, and urchins, 'Their prayers were miraculously an- besides being kinds of animal life? EVERAL years ago, in the heart of a swered, for in the distance a neighbor 7. Jack-in-the-pulpit, wood sorrel, yarrow, S cold Washington winter, the biting woman had heard their cries and had and burdock, besides being plants? east wind howled as it blew from the come immediately. When she saw that 8. Sumac, hawthorn, pawpaw, and locust, snow-covered hills. An east wind was al- more help was needed she rushed to give besides having leaves? ways a sign of bad weather in this sec- the alarm to other neighbors. 9. Cotton top, butterball, corn thief, and tion of the State, and the many fires it goggle-nose, besides being nicknames? In the meantime mother noticed, even 10. Fan-tailed, white-tailed, black-tailed, usually caused were feared by all. It had in her haste, that the wind had died and banner-tailed, besides having tails? been freezing for several days, and the down completely. Now the flames were —Key on page 23 steady wind had made everything as dry ascending straight into the sky with not as powder. the slightest breeze fanning them. It Just recently we had moved to our new seemed as though the Lord had calmed farm, and everything was badly in need the storm in an answer to her prayer of as he surveyed the damage, and could not of repairs. The roof on the unpainted faith. understand'how a fire like that could pos- house was covered with moss, and 'the Soon the neighbors were coming with sibly be stopped with such a strong wind many valleys were refuges for the dry buckets and hand pumps to fight the pushing it. leaves and twigs from the surrounding blaze. As the men set up the pumps and Mother reverently told him how God trees. Outside the back door stood a crude chopped their way into the attic, the had heard her prayers, and had not only well house where an ancient bucket, an women filled the gathered neighborhood quieted the wind but also brought plenty old rope, and a squeaky pulley offered washtubs with water drawn from the slip- of aid. To her it was a wonderful revela- the only means of lifting the water from pery, ice-covered well. From these a steady tion of what the heavenly Father will do the deep brick-faced well below. stream was pumped onto the flames, for His children who believe in Him and Many times we had talked of the dan- which were soon smothered. ask in faith for His help. ger of fire in the inflammable moss cover- Mother sighed with relief as the last Many times in later years mother has ing the roof. Everyone feared it, because sign of fire was extinguished. She thanked told of this experience, and she always with such a poor water supply available her good neighbors for their help; and marvels at the way God rested His pro- a fire would surely be disastrous. as they returned to their various homes, tecting hand upon her home. Mother had risen early one morning they marveled at the miraculous things in order to see father off to work, and that had happened. This, they agreed, ♦ 48, also to make the lunches for those of us could only have been an answer to prayer. children who were to catch the school Soon the furniture was being carried bus. And she had kept a good warm fire back into the house. When it was once Bill's Runaway Ride burning after we left, because she was more in place, the fierce wind began to By THELMA ORTNER nursing Lucille, who was just, recovering blow again as though it had been held from her turn with the mumps. Sister back by a mighty hand and was now seek- OCK-A-DOODLE-DOO," sang the was able to be up, and was reading in the ing revenge. Its repeated gusts moved C cheery voice of a happy rooster on a cozy living room while mother was busy scattered articles from one side of the big Oklahoma farm one glorious Sabbath with her kitchen duties. yard to the other. Quickly mother and morning. About the middle of the morning, as Lucille gathered them up as best they Billy and his brothers were still in mother stepped outside the door, she could, but they left the heavy hot range dreamland when father came into their noticed a little smoke in the air. Curious, until more help could be obtained. room and announced that it was -time to before she sensed any danger, she walked When father returned from work that get up. The three boys bounded from • around the corner to see what was burn- evening, he was puzzled to see the kitchen their beds and were soon busy with their ing. Flames were leaping viciously from stove in the yard and the whole house in chores. Sabbaths somehow seemed to in- the charred shingles on the north peak of disorder. "What goes on here? Is my fam- vigorate them with a double dose of their the two-story building! Fanned by the ily moving out on me?" he asked when usual energy, and this morning the work persistent wind, they swept up the slop- he met mother, who was busily replacing was done in a very short time. ing roof, sending sparks and ashes in the disarranged smaller articles. Immedi- Mother had a steaming breakfast await- every direction. ately she led him to the corner of the ing them when they came back to the With a shriek of fear mother rushed in- building and pointed out the blackened, house. She was such a good cook, and al- side to warn Lucille. Together they ruined portion of roof. He was astonished ways tried her best to fix meals for her DECEMBER 28, 1948 PAGE 17 ised many reforms, but were remiss in block of four, or a plate block. These carrying out their pledges, so the struggle pages are punched for the standard three- for freedom was renewed. ring binder. The cost is 30 pages for $3. It culminated on February 15, 1898, Here is the answer to many inquiries CONDUCTED BY REII) SHEPARD when the United States battleship Maine, we receive about mounting covers: We lying in Havana harbor to protect Amer- have for sale (and use ourselves) Trans- ican residents and interests, was destroyed. paro art corners—clear as glass; 100 for As a result, the United States went to war, 15 cents, plus 2 cents postage for those Cuba and in less than one hundred days, Cuba, who cannot find them in local five-and- HERE was Christopher Columbus Puerto Rico, and the Philippine Islands ten-cent stores. Wsixteen days after October 12, were freed from Spanish rule. Under a 1492? He was in Cuba! temporary military government Cuba be- THE four largest post offices in the This largest island of the Greater An- gan a period of civil reconstruction and United States—New York, Philadelphia, tilles is about the size of Pennsylvania development. Chicago, and Los Angeles—handle more (making up more than half of all the land Cuban history is well illustrated on its business than does the entire British Em- area of the West Indies), and is the most postage stamps. During the long Spanish pire postal system. densely populated American republic. It dominion the stamps bore the heads and coats of arms of the rulers. In the early BOOKER T. WASHINGTON and George days of reconstruction these same stamps Washington Carver are the two Negroes were habilitado by surcharges. During the who have had their portraits on United American intervention United States is- States stamps. sues were surcharged "Cuba" and the IN the United States postal system there values marked in centavos. are 42,000 postmasters, 127,000 clerks, 70,- Among Cuban postage you will find the 000 substitute clerks, 30,000 railway mail usual array of national heroes, monu- clerks, and 32,000 rural carriers. ments, and buildings, all well printed and colorful. Industries, agricultural products, Stamp Exchange landscapes, harbors, and cities of the island are all pictured on stamps. The Don Jurgensen, 1432 Harbor View Drive, MUNL4F511... GRAL J M GONIf Santa Barbara, California (junior, 5,000, royal palms are striking; the abundance stamps), has United States stamps to ex- of semitropical and tropical fruits de- change for world-wide issues; he also collects has a coast line of 2,500 miles, and many lights the eye and palate of the vegetar- United States coins, and will answer all natural harbors, Santiago, Havana, and ian; the sugar-cane fields and related questions on United States coins for self- Guantanamo being the most improtant. industries help satisfy the sweet tooth of addressed, stamped envelope. Colonization began in 1511 under America. Kenneth W. Last, Inglewood Farm, Nu- Diego Velazquez, and in just four years Be sure to look for the stamp showing karpi, West Australia, Australia (senior, seven settlements were established. San- 5,000 stamps), who has collected for more the Tree of Fraternity which, according than twenty years, will exchange fine used tiago, at the eastern end of the island, was to tradition, was growing on this very Australian and New Zealand stamps for fine the capital until 1556. Havana then be- spot when Velasquez landed in 1519. A used British colonies and Canada, also came the first city, because of its excellent shrine was erected there in 1828, and now United States commemoratives issued since harbor and the ease with which it might 1940. Air-mail letters will receive air-mail the roots of the tree are nourished by soil reply. be defended. It was the port of assembly from the twenty-one American republics for the great sea caravans of Spain, which George H. Locker, St. Johns Village, North forming the Pan-American Union. Montserrat, British West Indies (senior), has for more than two hundred years carried If you would visit this garden island, 1,000 West Indian stamps to exchange for the wealth of the Indies and the riches you would meet a friendly, alert people world-wide stamps. of Peru and Mexico to Europe. . who have taken advantage of the best of Patricia Port, Fletcher Academy, Fletcher, As the prosperity of the island grew, Western culture. The Seventh-day Ad- North Carolina (junior, beginner), would Cuba became a mecca for the freebooters ventist message has found a welcome in like to exchange world-wide stamps for of the sea. English, French, and Dutch the hearts of more than three thousand world-wide. pirates during the sixteenth and seven- church members in sixty churches. Gordon Paxton, Route 2, Box 97-D, Gas- teenth centuries preyed on the rich ship- ton, Oregon (junior, beginner), also wishes to exchange world-wide for world-wide ping lanes, and from time to time laid stamps. waste the cities and harbors. In 1762 the Stamp Notes P. M. Swee, 90 Race Course Road, Singa- island was taken over by the British, but FIRST-DAY cover subscribers will find pore (junior, 3,000 stamps), has been collect. was returned to Spain a year later. Be- their complete 1948 statement of account ing for three years. He has stamps from cause of its strategic importance, it was in the American turners' cover, for which Singapore, Malayan States, Ceylon, China, immediately fortified and garrisoned. November 20 was the first day. Sarawak, Brunei, Borneo, Dutch Indies, and Artmaster album pages are individually surrounding islands, to exchange for world- Cuban independence came only after wide issues. a long and bitter struggle, which lasted illustrated for each stamp. The outstand- ing facts for each stamp are printed on Betty Wade, Box 46, Upper Lake, Cali- more than eighty years. In 1868 things fornia (senior, beginner), is interested in took a definite turn, when the patriots the page. Two-color lithograph on eighty- world-wide stamps. issued the proclamation known as the pound rag-content pastel paper is the George West, Route 3, Box 635, Turlock, Grito de' Yara. In 1878, at the close of stock. Besides space for the cover, there is California (senior, beginner), is interested in the Ten Years' War, the Spaniards prom- a space designed for a single stamp, for a United States stamps.

family that were as appetizing as they boys hitched the team of horses to the the hitching post. Song service had just were wholesome. buggy, and soon the family was on its begun as they seated themselves in their "Now we all must hurry so we can be way to the little white country church. usual pew. to church on time," warned mother the The drive was delightful this lovely sum- The little group seemed to have grown moment they had finished eating. mer morning, and before long they were this morning, and there was a good ex- Everyone helped straighten things. The in the churchyard, tying the horses to planation, for today they were to have a PAGE 18 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR preacher speak to them. This was a real Presently the team came to a level fill her life and mend the broken heart treat; usually there was no sermon, and meadow. It seemed so good not to be she had sealed against the world. The the service was conducted by a different jolted over such rough land, and Bill was young women in the most popular soror- member each week. •beginning • to feel relieved when he saw ity invited her to be their sponsor. The The minister spoke on the text, "Re- that they were headed straight for a initiation dance was held on Friday night, member now thy Creator in the days of heavy barbed-wire fence! If they struck but Bess had learned by now to disregard thy youth." •"There is nothing more im- the fence, he would probably be flashed her conscience. She never looked lovelier portant in this life," he said, "than giving by the wires and perhaps fall under the than she did in her floor-length net dress, your whole self to God's service. Our am- horses' feet. and her charming personality glade her bitions should be 'higher than the high- Suddenly he found himself standing on many new friends. est human thought can reach,' " he de- the ground. It seemed as though unseen At the end of the school year the board clared, quoting the words of Ellen G. hands had lifted him bodily out of dan- asked her to head the English department, White, the Lord's special messenger. ger! A moment later the team struck the a request which meant she must go to the Billy, an earnest lad of ten years, had heavy wire with a crash. The horses were university to finish the few hours she always wanted to be a farmer when he thrown to the ground, and lay exhausted lacked for her Master's degree. grew up, but as he listened he felt that and bleeding. Only a few yards away, She had been at home for two weeks perhaps that was not the thing he should wide-eyed with wonder, 'stood the bare- at the end of the summer when she ac- do. It was a big problem for such a young foot boy without a scratch. How he cidently met Dr. John Hamilton on the lad to face, and he wondered whether he thanked God for delivering him! street. She greeted him' politely, inquired had better not just forget about the mat- That boy is now a minister, and stands about his wife, and asked hesitantly if ter until he was older. Finally he decided in the pulpit each Sabbath morning as a they were sailing for the mission field to do that. living testimony to the fact that "the soon. He explained that Ann thought it "I think we are in for rain sometime angel of the Lord encampeth round about best not to take their baby daughter over- today," his father remarked several days them that fear Him, and delivereth seas, and they had therefore decided that later, while he and the three boys were them." he should go into private practice for the busy in the field. It was exceedingly hot time being. Bess wished him success and and sultry, and the flies were a great nui- hurried on. She noticed how tired. John sance. looked, and the sad expression in his "Bill! Saul!" called father from across Dreams Do Come True! eyes. No, stie was just imagining things. the field a few minutes later. "You had (Continued from. page 6) He probably had decided there was not better run back to the barn, get the team, enough money in missionary work and and hitch them to the lumber wagon in ahead as if they were not seeing, or as if that' being in the United States was more the shed. Then drive them down to she were not hearing the highest honors convenient after all. She felt the same Smith's and bring back the load of hay that were being bestowed upon her. Her way herself. they promised us. We need it right away." parents were proud as they stood back a And so the years had passed. .Bess Obediently the two boys hurried to the little so they could see their only daughter pushed higher and higher in her profes- barn and hitched the team to the wagon. every minute of the time and drink in her sion. She attended church only when she How the flies were biting the horses! beauty. But in her heart Mrs. Grayson was visiting her parents, but it made her "You'd better run to the house and ask prayed, for she realized that something so uneasy that for days afterward her old mother for the horse blankets in the cel- had happened to her girl. shattered dreams seemed to torment her. lar, Saul," suggested Bill. "The horses will Bess did not come home for the summer She never asked about John and Ann be eaten up by the time we get back with after her graduation as her parents had when she was home, but occasionally she the hay." planned. The room they had redecorated would overhear her mother speak of what Saul was at the house, getting the for her stood empty, and the many offers a lovely home and daughter Ann had, needed articles, when one of the horses she had to teach in denominational or mention that John was looking so much threw its head to one side and caught its academies were turned down. Instead, the older. Ann's ill health had kept her from rein in the harness of the other horse. new Bess Grayson went to the university attending church for the past year, but Bill jumped up on the tongue of the to study for her Master's degree. At the John came every Sabbath. He was, yes, wagon and reached to free the entangle- end of the summer she came home for two of all things, the missionary leader! Bess ment and get hold of the reins. This weeks' rest before school opened. The day wondered whether he had ever really for- somehow frightened the team, and they before she was to leave she received an gotten his plans to be a missionary? But started running toward the road•, at top announcement of Ann's graduation. When then he was the most prominent man in speed. she finished reading it she calmly tore it the church, so it was logical that he should "Help! help!" yelled Bill, but it was to bits, and blinded by tears, stumbled be in an official position. He was the too late. His voice was drowned 'by the to her room. There she went to her closet, local elder too. clatter of the wagon wheels and the drew forth a box, and took out a little horses' hoofs. He had grabbed the harness white Bible still shrouded in tissue paper. Bess came out of her reveries with a of each horse, and now all he could do She wrapped it carefully for mailing, wrote start. Strange how one little lemonade was to hold on with all his strength. Ann's name and address on the outside, ticket could bring back the whole caval- The horses dashed blindly through ra- and walked straight to the post office and cade of a lifetime! Somehow those old vines and over the brush. Bill was panicky mailed it without as moment's hesitation dreams always outshone all the other am- by now. Would they never stop? His head along the way. bitions she had in life. She put her hand was throbbing from the terrific jolting. The next day she boarded the train for on her cheek as if to brush away a tear. He closed his eyes and cried out aloud, a town two hundred miles distant where Tears! She had not shed tears for a "0 dear Jesus, please hear' ine and de- she had accepted a position in the English long time. liver me if it is best, and I will devote department of the junior college. Mother, Thoughtfully she finally rose, put the my whole life to Thee and someday be a who saw her off, prayed tearfully, "Soften little book of memories back into the minister of the gospel!" her heart, God, and make her my little trunk, and tucked in the other things she He had never before realized what a girl again." had come up two hours before to put sincere prayer was, but with all his heart During the next two years Bess became away. Why should she fight all her life he meant every word. The greatest de- the most popular teacher on the campus. against the only thing that could make cision of his life had been made. Gradually the school activities began to her happy? Her mind was in a whirl now, DECEMBER 28, 1948 PAGE 19 asking questions and answering them. Yes, ter if our first comments are merely about the image of God. Spurgeon has said, she was only thirty-two years old, and her the weather or some news event, we "He who climbs above the cares of this ambitions could still be realized. shall soon reach a point where our lis- world and turns his face to God has found She would have to write her resignation tener will want to know why we are so • the sunny side of life." to the college, but she would not tell them joyful. It makes no difference whether we are the whole story. She could not have John, When I think how joy and happiness in school or whether or not we are em- but she could go alone. Lots of others can aid in pointing others to Christ, I ployed in some branch of our organized had. Teachers in Seventh-day Adventist recall another experience with a patient denominational work. In our association mission schools were always needed. She who was admitted to the sanitarium where with those of like faith or with those who would have to cancel her reservation at the I was working about four years ago. When know nothing of our beliefs, we should university this summer and place her ap- she first arrived, the doctors told her bear in mind that unhappy thoughts are plication for a school post. Sabbath she that her disease was one for which medical unwholesome. They create contention and would ask to be taken back into her be- science had not yet found a treatment. are a bad influence. We lose hope and loved home church as an active member. Nothing could terminate its fatal progress. spirit when we forget that our work for Bess fairly flew now, and in her eager- This seemed too much for her to bear. God is a delightful and happy privilege, ness to find stationery and ink she did She had planned so many things for this and I am sure that He is not pleased when not hear her mother come into the hall. world. Her family was wealthy and she we give others the impression that our When she turned around from the desk had been educated in everything which service for Him is an irksome task. she saw her standing very still, with tears to her seemed desirable and worth while. Let us learn how to smile our religion in her eyes. She had spent some time on the stage, to others; and even though we may not "What's the matter, Mother, are you but all the applause she had received as be able to give a scholarly explanation ill?" cried Bess as she ran to her. The an actress was not sufficient to make her of some of the points of doctrine we hold, reply, in a voice which quavered slightly, happy, for her plans had been only for we can radiate the love that Christ has was, "Ann Hamilton passed away this the exaltation of herself. Now, when she put into our hearts, and thus become morning." had just reached the prime of life, this effective soul winners. We can teach oth- crippling nerve disease had suddenly in- ers how to love the third angel's message Because arrangements could not be capacitated her. She •was told that she which is so dear to us only by first falling made to go abroad that school year, Bess would be confined to her wheel chair and in love with it ourselves. taught in the little academy in her home bed the rest of her .days. Her immediate city. It was on her way to school one morn- reaction was to make herself as unpleasant • 4110 • ing early in November that she caught up as possible to everyone who cared for with a little girl walking along with a her. For some time she was a most difficult Luther and the Birds lunch box in hand. Bess said good morn- problem. However, after several years, she (Continued from page 8) ing and asked where she went to school. became resigned to her fate, and changed "I go to the Seventh-day Adventist church from a cross, demanding, temperamental part of it. It is an image of the devil hunt- school," she replied, and when queried woman to one of the most jovial, pleasant ing innocent little creatures with his gins as to her name she answered, "I'm Bessie , persons you can imagine. and his hounds, the impious magistrates, Hamilton. Most folks think Bessie is an One day she told her doctor, "I'm not bishops and theologians. I deeply felt this old-fashioned name, but my daddy said going to 'nicotine-alley' again. I'm not parable of the simple and faithful soul. A I am named after the most wonderful girl going to smoke another time." still more cruel parable followed. With he ever knew." Several months later she once more sur- great pains I saved a little live rabbit, prised her doctor when she said, "I'm go- and rolled it up in the sleeve of my cloak, More than two years have passed since ing to be baptized tomorrow night." And but when I left it and went a little way Bess made her all-important decision. A sure enough, the following Friday night off the dogs found the poor rabbit and combination of circumstances over which she took part in the ceremony held in killed it by biting its right leg and throat she has had no control are still keeping the hydrotherapy department, where the through the cloth. Thus do the Pope and her in the homeland, and teaching in the daily ministration of those who were truly Satan rage to kill souls and are not little home academy. But she and John consecrated to the Master's service had stopped by my labor." Hamilton are making preparation to re- helped her to find a new life. Sitting at the supper table one evening, ceive a call to go overseas. And when it One day I asked her if she would tell Luther thought of God's care for His comes they will answer it together. me just what had made her decide to humble little creatures and said, "No man Who dares to say that dreams do not become a Seventh-day Adventist. She an- can estimate the great charge God is at come true? swered without hesitancy, "I watched ev- only in maintaining birds and such crea- eryone who works in this institution, and tures, comparatively nothing worth. I am in contrast to their lives of self-denial persuaded that it costs Him, yearly, more Love and Laughter I saw my own selfishness. I saw that the to maintain only the sparrows, than the workers here possessed a happiness which (Continued from page 4) revenue of the French king amounts to. went far beyond that of those who live What, then, shall we say of all the rest lead her to the foot of the cross later, for for self or who have wealth. I wanted of His creatures?" I do not believe she can erase it from to be happy like that too, so gradually One time a bird built a nest in Luther's her memory. I was led to take the step which has made garden quite close to the roadway. Fre- As Adventists we have hope for a perish- me also a disciple of the Master." quently passers-by would frighten it, but ing world. How better can we awaken in • "Recommend your religion . . . by Luther said to it, "Oh, dear little bird, others a desire to know what we believe its pleasantness," suggests Ellen G. White, do not flee; from my heart I wish thee no than by being really joyful? Sometimes and this is a point which would be well harm, if thou couldst but believe me. So when we meet people who are not of for all of us to keep in mind constantly. we often do not trust in God who, so far our faith we, wonder what we should What could be more valuable than a from doing us any evil, has given us every- talk about. It is often difficult for us to sunny disposition? It gives to its pos- thing, even His own Son." find an entering wedge to present some sessor a charm that no cosmetic can add, It is difficult to understand why Protes- of the precious Bible truths which mean and furthermore it is contagious. It tant writers so frequently refer to Francis so much to us. But I believe that as spreads love and laughter to those with of Assisi when they want to rhapsodize long as we maintain good cheer, no mat- whom we associate as we strive to reflect over nature lovers, for few men in history PAGE 20 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Beginning with THE COMPLETE OLD TESTAMENT STORY BRAVE PIONEERS LIVES AGAIN FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

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could equal Martin Luther in this respect. same little proverb. In his paraphrase of blotches made by our trembling fingers His writings and conversation were always the first psalm the noted Scotch poet, will be corrected and a perfect master- enriched with references to the lovely Robert Burns, has movingly illustrated piece will be presented for God's approval. works of creation, a fact which is all the the plight of the person who disregards This is that for which we are striving. more astonishing when we realize that he God's law and spurns His offer of the Time is life! Are you using your time was working at a nervous pace all the time Holy Spirit and righteousness through to improve character—the only lasting, and constantly involved in deep contro- Christ. • enduring thing in this world, the only versies. "But he, whose blossom buds in guilt, thing that you can take with you into Shall to the ground be cast heaven? Make use of every strand of • • • And, like the rootless stubble, cost life's threads—tempus fugit. "It is later Before the sweeping blast. than you think." Volunteers in Action For why? that God the good adore (Continued from page 14) Hath giv'n them peace and rest, But hath decreed that wicked men OHIO MAKES A RECORD Shall ne'er be truly blest." God's Dealings May His love, joy, and peace refresh Pastor H. R. Nelson, leader of the (Continued from page 12) young people in the Ohio Conference, you like the gentle rain, enabling you to reports that during the closing days of grow a new leaf of character that is per- 'Tis the only way, believe me, school this past spring he invested 72 Busy fect. To keep you close to His feet; Bees, 25 Sunbeams, 17 Builders, 13 Help- For 'tis always so easy to wander ing Hands, 61 Friends, 61 Companions, When our lives are glad and sweet. 23 Comrades, 14 Master Comrades. There were 457 Vocational Honor Certificates What Is Life? "Then, nestle your hand in your Father's issued. (Continued from page 3) And sing, if you can, as you go; Your song may cheer someone behind • • • dignified magentas woven among royal you purples of our love for God, and balance Whose courage is sinking low; our designs with the physical side of And, well, if your lips do quiver, Growing a New Leaf brilliant reds, such as courage, hope, and God will love you better so." (Continued from page 1) stamina. If we do not weave by the light of How delightful are clinging vines of God's Word, our color perception will friendship! Everyone yearns to love and be blurred and our conscience a bit be loved: Of course the Bible says that a hardened. We may slip in some inky Alwitamis man who would have friends must show indigo of despondency and discourage- himself friendly. I should like to add ment, or a mousy-gray wishy-washy habit. that the man who would have friends must Smudges and streaks of black impurity or show himself good. Virtue attracts peo- uncontrolled passion will be smeared Senior Louth ple; sin repels them. have you ever loved across our weaving. someone for reasons other than that he Rusty dishonesty and mottled "white" 11—The Decaloque was kind, cheerful, sympathetic, courte- lies will make our fabric appear moth ous, diligent, wise, or in different ways eaten and tattered. So let us be sure to (January 8) admirable? No one adores a critical, com- stay clear of these spools. Vicious greens MEMORY VERSE: John 14:2I. plaining spirit, an irresponsible attitude, —envy, jealousy, hate—also should be LESSON HELPS: TAYLOR G. BUNCH, The Ten Commandments, pp. 9-22 ; Thoughts From the or•an untidy appearance. Doubtless people avoided. They can mar the most skillfully Mount of Blessing, pp. 73-81 ; Patriarchs and with such defects are loved despite them, woven pattern. Prophets, pp. 303-314, 331-342. but they would be loved the more if Pride and boasting fade easily and the 1. After God brought His people out of Egypt, they overcame them. We love Christ be- result is streaked colors which cannot how did He proclaim His law? Dent. 4:12, 13. 2. In giving the Ten Commandments, what did cause He is perfect, and the nearer perfect withstand wear. They soon tear out of God do which showed their great importance? we are, 'the more people will love us. any loom according to Solomon's predic- Ex. 24:12; Deut. 5.22. NOTE.—God first spoke His laws to the "Like green leaves will the righteous flour- tion: "Pride goeth before a fall." people, and afterwards wrote them Himself ish," says ,Proverbs 11:28 as translated by Pale and anemic hues of muddy brown on tables of stone. Alex R. Gordon. often soil our threads when selfishness "When the Lord brought them forth, from Egypt. He came down upon Sinai, enshrouded Ivy will grow and add beauty where and discourtesy creep into the habit in glory and surrounded by His angels, and in most plants will not, because it can en- pattern. awful 'majesty spoke His law in the hearing dure the shade. May you be hardy enough Character is determined by the daily of all the people. "He did not even then trust His precepts to to become more cheerful and courageous selection of habits and the use of our the memory of a people who were prone to each day of the year, adding beauty to time. Let us diligently guard our weav- forget His requirements, but wrote them upon tables of stone. He would remove from Israel your environment. Should you be de- ing. Let it be sharp, neat, fast-colored. all possibility of mingling heathen traditions prived of the sunlight of health or finan- Let us weave into our fabric rich and with His holy precepts, or of confounding His • cial prosperity, remember that the most pleasing colors which are strong and requirements with human ordinances or cus- cheerful Person who ever has walked the sturdy. Then let us sew it up neatly with toms."—Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 363, 364. 3. What evidence do we have that God's law ways of earth endured the greatest suf- punctuality, assiduously correcting knots existed before given at Sinai? Rom. 4:15, last fering, and that despite this He is ever or snarls of tardiness. part; 5:19. ready to comfort you. The more you need Take heed now what you weave into NorE.—"No law ... no transgression." Trans- the fabric of life each day, in order that gression has existed in this world since Adam Him, the more sympathy He will give. sinned. There must, therefore, have been law. You can trust His promises and rest in God may hold up a tapestry of perfec- As sin has ever been against God, the law His care. Believe that He is training you tion in the final judgment when every transgressed must be God's law. 4. Cite two examples of those who kept the to grow in just the way and in just the act will be taken into account, whether commandments before Sinai. 2 Peter 2:5; Gen. place that is the best for you. it be good or evil. Will your tapestry 26:5. 5. Give examples of persons who were guilty "A good man blooms like a green stand that close scrutiny? of breaking God's law? Gen. 3:6, 17; 4:10-12; leaf," says Moffatt's translation of this If we faithfully confess our sins, all 27:18, 19; 31:19; 35:2. PAGE 22 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 6. What scripture is often used in claiming ASSIGNMENT 2 cognized in the Judgment,-those who violate that the law of God was done away with at God's law, and those who obey it. Christ gives the cross? Rom. 6:14. God's Standard When the World Was Young the test by which to prove our loyalty or dis- NOTE.-"Not under the law" Being "under 1. Who was the first man to sin, and thereby loyalty. 'If ye love Me,' He says, 'keep My the law" does not here mean subject to the bring sin to the world? Rom. 5:12, 14. If there were commandments.' "-Christ's Object Lessons, p. law, but under the condemnation of the lawa no law, could there be any sin? Rom. 5:13. 283. sinner. Sin once had dominion over us. But 2. What commandment was broken when: "If we abide in Christ, if the love of God when all is given to Christ, the grace of God (1) The serpent said, "Ye shall not surely die"? dwells in the heart, our feelings, our thoughts, pardons, the condemnation is lifted, and the Gen. 3:4. (2) Eve saw that the tree was "pleasant our actions, will be in harmony with the will to the eyes"? Gen. 3:6. (3) "She took of the fruit favor or the grace of God overshadows us. But thereof"? Gen. 3:6. (4) "Cain rose up against Abel of God. The sanctified heart is in harmony with that grace puts the law into our heart. (Heb. his brother, and slew him"? Gen. 4:8. (5) Jacob the precepts of God's law."-Acts of the Apos- 8:1o.) We are not then under the law, or above said, "I am Esau thy firstborn"? Gen. 27:19. tles, Q. 563. the law, but with the law in Christ. (6) Esau hated Jacob and said, "Then will I slay ASSIGNMENT 7 7. According to prophecy, what was Christ to my brother Jacob"? Gen. 27:41. abolish on the cross? What did He Himself say 3. Of whom does the Bible definitely say, He Underline the Correct Word: He did not intend to destroy? Dan. 9:27; Matt. "obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My com- 5:17-20. mandments, My statues, and My laws"? Gen. 26:5. 1. The words God spoke on Sinai are (the NOTE.-Read Matthew 27:51 in connection Decalogue, the Ten Commandments, the sermon with Daniel 9 :27. ASSIGNMENT 3 on the mount). "While the system of types which pointed 2. This standard of right was written on to Christ as the Lamb of God that should take God's Standard Written on Tables of Stone tables of stone (once, five times, twice). away the sin of the world, was to pass away at His death, the principles of righteousness 4. So far as we know from the Bible record, 3. It was first given in spoken form to (Adam, who first wrote the Ten Commandments? On what Joshua, Daniel). embodied in the decalogue are as immutable as were they written? Where were they written? For the eternal throne. Not one command has been whom were they then written? Deut. 5:22. 4. It was first given in written form to annulled, not a jot or tittle has been changed." 5. What duty was contained in the command- (David, Jeremiah, Israel). -Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing, p. 80. ments written on the first table of stone? What Tell what commandments you think last-day 8. What will be evident in our lives if we truly duty was written on the second table? Luke 10:27. sins are breaking, and write down the opposite: keep the commandments? John 14:15; 15:10, 14. NOTE.-The first table contained the first (1) "Lovers of their own selves" (_) 9. What important questions does Paul ask and four commandments, which show our duty to answer concerning the demands of the law? God, His person, His name, His rest day. The (2) "Covetous" ( _) Rom. 3:31. second table contained the last six command- (3) "Blasphemers" (____) NOTE. "Establish the law." Where is the law ments, which describe our duty to others-rever- ( 4) "Unholy" (--) established? Not in God's government or plan; ence for our parents, respect for other people's (5) "Disobedient to parents" (____) for His law is eternally established, whether lives, other people's virtue, other people's prop-, men believe or disbelieve (see verse 3 ; Ps. erty, other people's reputation, and other people's (6) "False accusers" (____) 119 :89 ; 11 I :7, 8). But the law is established rights. Jesus approved that the Ten Command- (7) "Fierce" (--) in the heart of the believer, and if he goes on ments were all summed up in the words : "Thou (8) "Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of from "faith to faith," it is then written in the shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, God" ( ) heart in all its fullness forever. and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, "In the new birth the heart is brought into and with all thy mind ; and thy neighbour as harmony with God, as it is brought into accord thyself." with His law. When this mighty change has ASSIGNMENT 4 taken place in the sinner, he has passed from KEY TO "BIBLE CHAPTER ENDINGS" death unto life, from sin unto holiness, from God's Standard When Jesus Was on Earth 1. Luke 15. 2. Genesis 3. 3. Matthew 5. 4. Psalms transgression and rebellion to obedience and 19. 5. John 1. 6. Revelation 13. 7. 1 Corinthians 13. 6. When Jesus came to this earth, what did He 8. Hebrews 11. 9. Mark 13. 10. Acts 7. 11. Psalms loyalty. The old life of alienation from God say He was not going to do to the law, and what 46. 12. Isaiah 53. 13. Daniel 5. 14. Luke 1. 15. has ended ; the new life of reconciliation, of was He going to do to the law? Matt. 5:17. Psalms 91. faith and love, has begun."-The Great Contro- 468. 7. How long did Jesus say the law of God KEY TO "BIBLE CALCULATIONS" versy, P. would be His standard for mankind? Matt. 5:18. 10. How fully must the law of God be followed? 2300 (Dan. 8:14). James 2:8-12. 8. Whom does the kingdom of heaven regard as the lowest people on earth? Who is regarded 11. How is the keeping of the commandments as the greatest? Matt. 5:19. KEY TO "WHAT'S YOUR SCORE?" made possible to the believer? Phil. 2:13; Gal. NoTE.-Jesus came to fulfill the law and the 1. They are all names of bones. 2. Deer, cows, 2:20. camels, and pigs all have divided hoofs. 3. All NoTE.-"This is the genuine evidence of con- prophets. He fulfilled every prophecy made con- are kinds of "flies." 4. They were pioneer mis- version. Whatever our profession, it amounts to cerning His coming and His work. He fulfilled sionaries. 5. Kuchen, gems, whirligigs, and horns nothing unless Christ is revealed in works of the meaning of every sacrifice, so that the sac- are all kinds of bread. 6. All are underwater ani- righteousness."-Christ's Object Lessons, pp. rifices and the law of sacrifices were not needed mals which look like flowers. 7. They are wild any more. (Dan. 9:27.) But He fulfilled the law, flowers. 8. Sumac, hawthorn, papaw, and locust 319, 320. the Ten Commandments, by keeping every one are kinds of trees. 9. All are common names of 12. What will be the outward evidence of the birds. 10. They are kinds of deer. attitude of the wicked toward the law of God in of them and teaching others to keep them also. the last days? The righteous? 2 Tim. 3:1-5; Rev. (Matt. 5:21, 22; John Is :1 o [last part], 11, 14:12. 12.) 13. How will those be rewarded who are ASSIGNMENT 5 faithful to God and keep His commandments? Rev. 22:14. God's Standard in the Days of the Apostles 9. What did John the disciple say about those that keep the commandments? 1 John 2:3. What untot did he say about those that do not keep the com- P mandments? 1 John 2:4. Issued by 10. What does James say about breaking lust Review and Herald Publishing Association II-God's Standard for Mankind one commandment? James 2:10. What does Paul Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. say about the commandments? Rom. 7:12. (January 8) NOTE.-There was no thought in the minds LORA E. CLEMENT - EDITOR LESSON TEXTS : Exodus 20 : 7 ; Matthew of the disciples and the apostles of any change ASSOCIATE EDITORS 5 :17-20 ; Galatians 2 :20 ; Revelation 14 :12; being made in the commandments because FREDERICK LEE L. L. MOFFITT 22 :14. Christ had brought a new, living way of faith J. E. WEAVER E. W. DUNBAR MEMORY VERSE: "He that hath My com- for man's salvation instead of the old way of FREDRIK W. EDWARDY - ASSISTANT EDITOR mandments, and keepeth them, he it is that sacrifices. Paul declares that faith establishes CIRCULATION MANAGER loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be the law. (Rom. 3:3r.) As we studied the lessons R. J. CHRISTIAN - loved of My Father." John 14:21. from the book of Hebrews, you will remember This paper does not pay for unsolicited material. how faith could not exist without belief and Contributions, both prose and poetry, are always Guiding Thought obedience. We show our faith by keeping the welcomed, and receive every consideration; but we do not return manuscript for which return postage God's standard of right, the Ten Command- commandments with all our heart and soul and is not supplied. ments, has been in force since time began. strength. Although they were not written until the time SUBSCRIPTION RATES ASSIGNMENT 6 Yearly subscription, $3.50; six months, $2.00; in of the exodus, we can trace them all back to clubs of five or more, one year, each, $3.00; six Eden by the stories of obedience to them or God's Standard for Us Now months, $1.70. Higher in Canada. disobedience of them. Adam's first sin was a 11. How do we show our love for Jesus? John Foreign countries where extra postage is required: disobedience of God's law. Abraham kept God's 14:15. What does Jesus call those who keep His Yearly subscription, $4.10; six months, $2.30; in clubs law, so did Jesus and the apostles. The law of• commandments? John 15:14. of five or more, one year, each, $3.60; six months, the Ten Commandments is still God's standard $2.00. 12. What conditions exist when people do not for us. keep the commandments of God? 2 Tim. 3:1-5. ARE YOU MOVING? ASSIGNMENT 1 You should notify us in advance of any change 13. What will be the final blessing to those that of address, as the post office will not forward your Repeat the Ten Commandments. (Ex. 20:1- keep the commandments? Rev. 22:14. papers to you even though you leave a forwarding 17.) Read the other lesson texts and the Guid- NOTE.-"There are only two classes in the address. Your compliance in this matter will save ing Thought. world to-day, and only two classes will be re- delay and expense. DECEMBER 28, 1948 PAGE 23 0 WHEN the post office in Cebu City in the O IF you are fond of chocolates, you had o FARM accidents took the lives of some Philippines ran out of two-cent stamps re- better stock up on a supply that will last you 19,500 persons in America during 1947. cently, the postmaster cut four-cent stamps for a while. Because of a devastating disease in half and sold them for two-centers. This that is sweeping the cocoabean tree areas, O SPENDING in the United States is $683,000,- happy solution failed to please the director growers predict a world shortage of cocoa and 000 less than it was last year, and national of posts, however, for when he discovered chocolate for at least the next five years income is also down to $335,000,000. what had taken place the postmaster was while new pest-resistant trees are reaching suspended. maturity. o IT is stated on reliable authority that the population of the world has increased about O AMERICAN veterans of World War H are O APPARENTLY the United States Government 10 per cent in the past decade. is not superstitious, for in the design for its soon to be honored by the establishing of a o A SOILED handkerchief can unleash a bom- coast-to-coast highway which will be marked Great Seal there are 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 clouds, 13 letters in the motto, 13 laurel bardment of 136,000 germ particles, it was at regular intervals by blue stars. Mrs. Vance demonstrated recently in scientific tests. Hood, of Boonton, New Jersey, who is the leaves, 13 berries on the branch, 13 arrows project chairman, states that thirty-two in the eagle's talon, 13 feathers in each wing, O CRUDE oil may be obtained from tar sand, States have already joined in setting up the and 13 feathers in the tail! found in both the United States and Canada, memorial highway. simply by washing the sand in hot water. O U.S. SENATOR BRIAN MCMAHON Says that O AN Antarctic city for 10,000 persons is now America spent $350,000,000,000 to win World O ALTHOUGH Russia has released more than being built by 620 Italian pioneers on the War II, an amount which could have built half the Japanese she captured at the end of site of Ushuaia, a former Argentine penal "a 5-room house for every family on the the war, she still holds 568,000 prisoners. settlement on Tierra del Fuego Island. So globe, and a $1,000,000 hospital in every far, 72 prefabricated homes have been erected, community of over 5,000 population." O VETERINARY scholarships and research fel- and soon to be built are a cellulose factory, lowships have been inaugurated in Great a pressed wood plant, brick ovens, mechanic o DOCTORS sent from the University of Istan- Britain to aid in cutting down livestock dis- workshops, a chemical laboratory, and a bul, Turkey, to conduct a health survey , eases, which cost the nation 6,000,000 rations furniture factory. along the Black Sea report that 80 per cent of meat, 200,000,000 gallons of milk, and of the population are suffering from tuber- 1;500,000,000 eggs, at an annual loss of £60,- O WALTER F. LEWIS is living proof that a culosis. 000,000 ($246,000,000). man can serve God in more than one way. Mr. Lewis is a Wesleyan Methodist clergy- O RADIO-TELEPHONE service was introduced O WOMEN'S hose were first made from• the man who also doubles as a rural mailman in to the world for the first time when it was skins of animals and later from cloth. Dur- the State of Vermont. His mail-delivery car inaugurated in 1920 between Long Beach ing the time of Henry VIII some stockings has a cross on the dashboard, above which is and Santa Catalina Island, California. were drawn up the leg- to the full length; a sign: "R.F.D. Pulpit." In the course of his others, with side pockets attached, were draws rounds he brings hope, cheer, and the story o THE United States farmer now receives up to the. waistline. Knitted hose began to of salvation to those on his route, and prays about half of every dollar spent for food in appear in Scotland in the sixteenth century, with them when they are in trouble. the country. The remainder of the dollar and Queen Elizabeth of England and the goes into marketing costs. members of the royal family were the first to o PIDGIN English is a Cantonese corruption wear silk hosiery. However, the making of of "business" and came from South China o IT. IS reliably estimated that approximately silk hose did not begin its upward climb until ports where natives and English-speaking 1,330,000 American homes now burn oil for a machine for its manufacture was invented traders found themselves doing "pidgin" to- heating purposes. in 1589. gether, according to the language expert Dr. Mario A. Pei, of Columbia University. In his Concise Dictionary of Pidgin English, Dr. Pei offers these examples: american—flower- flag-man; envelope—pants belong letter; girl tained a lawyer, and the trial was set for —cow-child; hair—grass belong head; and September 1. knee—screw belong leg! In the meantime I had canvassed the judge, and we had had a fine visit together. I sold • LAWBREAKERS in New York City will have the court clerk a year's subscription to "Our to be more on the alert than ever to escape Times." On the day of the trial both the being apprehended now that the Police De- judge and the clerk were very favorable to- partment has acquired its first helicopter. PRO NCB ward us. Our church members from Port The versatile $30,000 plane will be able to Arthur, Beaumont, and Orange were present. hover over snarled traffic and give directions, Also several of our Seventh-day Adventist search for escaping prisoners, or persons who I sold "Bible Read- ministers came for the trial. I felt happy to get lost in city marshes, aid in rescue work of ings" in Port Arthur, know that I belong to a movement whose all kinds, help dust 'mosquito-infested areas Texas, this past sum- people are so loyal to one another. with DDT, and even land on water when its mer, and had some Pastor R. G. Campbell and our lawyer were removable floats are attached. very unusual experi- very firm. The city officials decided that the ences. One morning best thing to do was to drop the case and re- o Pow/ BEACHAM started selling roses in I was selling "Our fund the $150 bail. The cause of God had London's Piccadilly Circus when she was 24 Times" on the streets triumphed again. years old; now she is 76. During all those 52 when the police Pastor R. W. Winders held an effort in Port years no one knew where she lived until stopped me. They Arthur later, and people from two different several weeks ago when Polly became some- . placed me, along with families to whom I sold books have joined the thing of a celebrity following her radio ap- two other student colporteurs, Earl Ray and church through his meetings. pearance on a program called "In Town Lyndon DeWitt, in jail, took our fingerprints Now I am back at Southwestern Junior Col- Tonight." Listeners liked her salty remarks and pictures, and went through the usual rou- lege, at Keene, Texas. Lyndon DeWitt and I and philosophical humor, and. presents of all tine. About two in the afternoon we were per- are beginning a series of Bible studies in an kinds began to pour into the radio station. mitted to call the conference office. old Christian church building near here. Some But nobody knew where to deliver them, and We were placed in a cell next to a drunken, of the other students are helping us, and we it was some time before it was learned that insane woman. I have never heard such pray that God will bless us with precious fruit she was ill in Southend. Hot-water bottles, screaming, cursing, and crying in all my life. through our little effort. scarves, and other gifts which had arrived We sang some hymns to drown out the noise. I am of good courage and am looking for- from as far away as Australia helped cheer About one-thirty the next morning our union ward to the time when I can leave school and her up, and now she is back at her stand oc- and local conference publishing secretaries go to some mission field where the need of cupied with "business as usual." arrived and bailed us out for $150. We ob- workers for God is greatest. —JOE RAY.

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