From the Office of the General Conference in Takoma Park, D.C., the Secretary, E. D. Dick, Makes Contact With Appointees to the Mission Fields, as They Go Out to All Parts of the World

flower, so we watch these young people. What can we do to help them develop into perfect flowers in the garden of God ? What can we do to help them get a better comprehen- sion of what it means to be a mis- sionary in some foreign field? Can we help in any way ? Well, here is my attempt to bring the matter before them. But I am not good at drawing pictures, and even if I were, at best, pictures can give us only a faint idea of the reality. Aetwe6weiitei To become real to us, it must be seen a n d experienced— and mission work in By N. P. Neilsen a foreign land is something very real. OT so long ago I visited one stood, but because they really wanted First of all, let me disabuse your of our large schools and was to be missionaries and answer the call mind of a certain "halo of glory" in invited to speak to the stu- to service. I saw them rise, some which, in the eyes of some, seems to dent body on the Sabbath day. I with trembling lips, some with tear- surround foreign mission service. gladly accepted the invitation, for I stained faces; but they arose. One, After one arrives in the mission enjoy speaking to the young people in two, five, ten, twenty, thirty, yes, field, it does not take long for that our schools. There I find life, en- scores arose in that large student "halo" to fade away as does the rain- ergy, emotion, youthful vigor, keen- group, signifying their desire to place bow after the passing of the shower. ness of mind, and sometimes—critics. their lives on the altar of service. It We shall find real work in the mis- As one representing the mission was a beautiful sight! sion field, for we must deal with real fields, I spoke to them on the call of And I thought, What an army of people, with real problems, the same God for service, the greatness of the youth for the mission fields ! What as in the homeland, only under more task that lies before us, and our re- hidden energy, what tremendous difficult conditions. You will not be sponse to the challenge of God. forces, are wrapped up in this large sent out by the Mission Board just At the close of our study, I asked group of lives to be unfolded for for the sake of adventure, or that for those who desired to respond to Christian service; I wonder if they you may see some new country, or the call of God and to go anywhere realize what it means to the cause of that you may become acquainted with He might indicate, to arise. I told God. As we watch with interest the some new ways of doing things; but them not to stand because others unfolding of a bud into the perfect you will be sent (Turn to page 3) VOL. 85, NO. 17 APRIL 27, 1937 you know Jesus? Personally, HIS letter comes from a mis- "He has told me all that happened D°as a Saviour and Friend? Tsionary in Suez, Egypt, to the in that room that night. The awful Or do you just know about Him? Board of Foreign Missions of one of struggle between love for his father It makes a world of difference ! the prominent Protestant churches in and home, and love for Christ, went the United States. It reads in part : on for hours. At first he denied his Saviour. And then the Holy Spirit N artist in words and expression "Please ask our people to pray spoke to his heart and said, 'If you read the Shepherd Psalm by especially for Hanna, a young Mos- A deny Christ before men, He will deny request— lem convert, who is now staying in my home. His is a very interesting you; and if you love your father or "And his charmed audience story, and should increase our faith mother more than Me, you are not Acclaimed the simple beauty voiced in the mighty working of God through worthy of Me.' At last he boldly In stately eloquence. His word, which is indeed 'quick, and confessed his faith, well knowing powerful, and sharper than any two- what fate awaited him. "A pastor read it, by request edged sword.' "His father quietly took every valu- Of this same artist friend; able he had—his watch and chain But there was ajjence when his voice "He is about twenty-five years of and all his money—everything! And Had quavered,tgabe end. age, the son of a wealthy and influen- tial Mohammedan, a landowner in pointing to the door, coldly said: 'Go, and never enter my house again, for "It was the artist speaking low one of the towns in the Delta. His you defile it.' He begged to be al- Who broke this hush of calm : father sent him to the Azhar Uni- lowed to say farewell to his wife and `Your pastor know the Shepherd— versity in Cairo, where he studied mother, but his father said sternly: I only know the psalm.'" the tenets of Islam for five years, and completed his course under the 'You have no relations here; you are learned Moslem sheiks in Tanta, a stranger.' And then he thrust his CURRENT book on travel came spending three years in the mosque weeping son into the street, saying. A into my possession recently. I there. Then he returned home and 'Get out, you cursed unbeliever.' read it with passive interest one rainy occupied himself in looking after his "Hanna did not have a cent, no afternoon, and then- !aid it aside with father's land. roof to cover him, no place to lay his the mental remark that it was "rather "There were one or two Christians head. Little do we in Christian lands dry !" in his neighborhood, and he eagerly know what it costs a Moslem to con- But several weeks 'later it was my entered into controversy with them, fess Christ. The next day, he went good fortune to meet the author per- confident that he could silence them to Cairo, and there was reduced to sonally. She was autographing her and prove the superiority of Islam. selling most of the clothes he wore books in one of Washington's large But in order to be better able to cope to buy bread. But he claimed the department stores, and at the moment with them on their own ground, he promise: 'Cast thy burden upon the there was a the demands on secured a Bible and began to read it, Lord, and He shall sustain thee ;' and her time; so she sat down with me then to study it, and in time the word God, who never fails His children, beside a counter, and in answer to of the living God had so taken hold of raised up friends, who have encour- several questions told some of the him that he became a humble believer aged and helped him along the way. very incidents I had read. What a in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and "Time and again he has been difference ! Now they lived ! There the only Saviour from sin. tempted to give up and go back to were unpublished side lights, too, "For two years he worshiped and his home, where things would be which made the much-traveled woman easier, and where he would have the seem very real and human and read the Scriptures in secret. He fit- ted up a small room just off his pri- association of his family. In answer friendly. When our visit was over, to the temptation there always comes I felt that I had really begun to get vate sitting room as a study and sort of sanctuary. There he kept all his to him this thought : 'The sufferings acquainted with a person well worth precious books—for by this time he of this present world are not worthy knowing. I could .iardly wait to read had secured other Christian literature to be compared to the glory hereafter.' her book again. Now there was noth- —under lock and key. And there he And he has remained faithful. ing "dry" about it. Every page held retired in the late night watches to "The Bible is his most precious my keenest interest. treasure, the God of the Bible his What made the difference? I had read and pray. most trusted, precious Companion, met the author, and found in her a "During those two years he talked and King of his heart." friend. often and also read to his wife and Just so when one meets Jesus per- mother of Jesus of Nazareth, and led •,M sonally, it makes His Book seem much them to know and love and trust Him. more interesting, and the friendship "One night he sat as usual in his you know Jesus—really, truly which invariably results makes a de- little room, with the door locked, D°know Him? cided change in heart and life and reading the Bible. It was after mid- Or do you just know about Him? interests. night, and all the family had retired. Think it over, carefully, prayer- Those who only know about Him, Suddenly there was a great crash, fully. can never have this soul-satisfying the door burst open, and he saw his experience. It is absolutely necessary father standing before him, his face to really know Him! dark with anger.

VOL. 85, NO. 17 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, APRIL 27, 1937 ONE YEAR, $1.75 Published by the Seventh-day Adventists. Printed every Tuesday by the Review and Herald Publishing Assn., at Takoma Park, Washington, 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. (Continued from page .r) tom of the sea. Yes, if there is some- and love manifested by the conse- out in order that you may save souls thing "sour" in your life, heave it up crated child of God. Here is a lan- who are lost in the swamps of de- and throw it away before you land. guage the whole world understands. spair. Your "adventure" may come Your stomach may get "sour" be- It is the first language we need to as you reach down into the mire of cause of the new experience to which learn, and without a knowledge of it superstition and sin to lift up the it is subjected through cramps of the acquiring of foreign tongues will struggling, helpless ones. You will seasickness, but you must not let it avail us but little in our work. We find that it is real work. The fireman "sour" your life. Do you know that must live the truths that we are to cannot rescue the imperiled persons a "sour missionary" is really a con- proclaim. We must be an open Bible from the burning building without tradiction, for how can a person be a that can be "known and read of all getting close to the flame. Neither missionary and be "sour"? A mis- men." We should learn this lan- can you I sionary is one who ministers; but guage of kindness before we start for When you accept the call of the how can he bring faith, hope, and the mission fields. It is easier to Mission Board to go to some foreign courage to others if he himself does learn it at home than it will be to country, of course the needed prepa- not possess these missionary qualities. learn it abroad. rations must first be made. Then He cannot catch many flies with We should know how to be kind comes the parting. You begin to cut vinegar. How, then, can he catch and gentle to those who abuse and the cords that bind you to the home- men and "make others sweet" if he persecute us. We must be patient land, as you say farewell to your himself is "sour"? under trials. We must know how to loved ones one by one. Perhaps some A full consecration to God is the love those who hate us. We must tears will flow, some hours of lone- primary requisite of a foreign mis- have surrendered all to God. They liness steal over you; but you go sionary. We must begin at the be- should be able to say of us as they bravely on—there are still more tears ginning. We must give our lives said of a certain teacher, "We could in store where these came from, and wholly to God. We must begin with not avoid giving ourselves to God, more lonely hours awaiting you. Him. We must make Him and His for she loved us in it." That will Happy are you, if some dear friend cause first in everything, if we are to be the secret of ou--cuccess. or some known face can be at the succeed. We need to seek not our Devotion is another requisite. We dock as the boat pulls aw from the own convenience, but the leading of must be devoted to, the cause we rep- shore on its trip across the seas— lost souls to Christ. resent. We must have faith in it. some one to wave a goo by to you We must know the way before we We must believe 'hat this work is of as you leave your native land. But can point it out to others. The lives God. We should be so devoted to it soon you can no longer distinguish we live will count for more than the that its progress means more to us that face from the rest of ,the crowd, words we speak. The heathen who than any personal gain or loss. We and then a final wave of the hand- know not the gospel of Christ, will should be willing to sacrifice our own kerchief, and erelong the shore is judge Christianity by the life of the convenience for it, and in all our fading from sight. missionary, rather than by what he planning its interests should be up- Now you are out on the mighty tells them. They may not fully com- permost in our nnds. deep, and each hour that passes prehend the words he speaks; but Faith, hope, and courage are also carries you farther and still farther they know the language of kindness requisites greatly needed in foreign away. Perhaps you go down mission work... We are called into your cabin—a few more upon to do that which is hu- tears may flow as you commit manly impossible. An unwav- yourself to the hands of Him PRING ering faith in God, a bright who has called you into His hope that cl rs us on, and a service. by courage that knows no defeat, You may feel homesick, but are needed, if we are to succeed that is not so bad. It is al- Mabel S. Nelson in our task. Evangeline Booth, ways better to be homesick when introducing the work of than to be sick of home. Work the Salvation Army to a large SPRING is in the air! for others, and you will forget How do I know? crowd gathered in the Hippo- your own little troubles. The Smell that particular perfume? drome in New York, was asked Lord has promised to be with See the vanishing snow? what she and her organization you all the way. You are not Feel that indescribable something were trying to 6'. She replied, alone! Swelling your breast within? "We specialize in impossibili- That longing for life and action? Nearly all of us must throw That desire to be free from sin? ties." something in the way of food We, too, are. attempting the Spring is in the air! overboard, while crossing the A blue haze hangs o'er the trees. humanly impossible; but it is stormy waters, for our stomach The lazy water puddles impossible only when viewed will begin to cramp and refuse Are not troubled with a breeze. from the human side. Faith to function normally. It would The calm of love and devotion will take us to a position where be well for you to throw some To our God who reigns above, we can view our task from Brings the peace of joy to our hearts other things overboard also be- As we feel His bountiful love. the divine side. Our God is at fore you reach the land where home in the realm of impossi- you are to labor. If you have bilities, for with Him all things the idea that your own country are possible. Dr. F. B. Meyer is the only one that "really once said, "You cannot test the knows anything," fling that resources of God until you try idea overboard. If you have the impossible." any resentment against work- I do not refer to the stern ing for those not of your class, spirit manifested by Napoleon throw that resentment over- when he said, "There shall be board at once. If you have no Alps;" for in spite of his antipathy against the degraded, indomitable spirit, he met his uncultured, and dirty heathen defeat at Waterloo. in his ignorance and supersti- Nor yet do I refer to the tion, tie a stone to this antip- proud spirit of Alexander the athy and cast it into the bot- Great, who (Turn to page zo) APRIL 27, 1937 PAGE 3 A Modern ModniiA lieto By Henry F. Brown

N Madrid, Spain, some two years friends the next time they should get ago, a wealthy young man of together. I good family was pursuing his 'When they entered, the speaker law course. The course was just was describing a new earth where no about finished, and he was preparing sin, sickness, or death will reign. The for his final examination. Like most simple words of the evangelist had young men of his social standing, he the same effect on their minds as did was dissipated, and smoked and the reading of the tract. The "fools, drank constantly. His associates who came to scoff, remained to pray," were a very fast-living group of to quote Goldsmith. The message young people. A mother who idol- was so new and strange, and so pleas- ized him kept him well supplied with ing, too, that they agreed to return money ; so he had no knowledge of the following Sunday night. And Don Luis del Rio self-support. It never dawned on his they so promised the friendly evan- mind that he might someday be called gelist who greeted them at the door upon to earn his own way in the at the close of the meeting. home. She gave him a few days to world. Sunday after Sunday they re- think about it. The next time the Don Luis del Rio, for this is the turned, drawn by the strange things subject was broached, Don Luis was young man's name, was cramming they heard. They seemed to feel firm. He never supposed his mother for an examination in Roman juris- that it was a Protestant meeting would banish him from her home. prudence. As he skimmed over the place, but the attraction was too great But her fury was terrible. She pages of a borrowed book, he found to resist. The young woman listened cursed him and cursed the day he was a tract some one had used as a book- to the message of the evangelist as born. She told him she would rather mark. He carelessly glanced at it be- eagerly as did Senor Del Rio. They see him dead than see him become a fore laying it aside to continue with still drank, smoked, and enjoyed their Protestant and so disgrace his family his reading. But the title gripped "good times," not seeing, as yet, that name. Then, coming to the climax him, and right then and there he these things were incompatible with of her fiery speech. she bade him be- read the whole of the eight pages. what was being taught them. gone, not allowing him time even to The effect of reading it was electri- Don Luis's mother is a typical get his clothing. fying. Here at last was something Spanish matron. Her family is her Don Luis left, thinking it would new in the life of one who had run pride, her church her obsession. blow over in a few days. Having the gamut of thrills. Here was some- After meals the rosary must be money in his pocket, he went to a thing that spoke of a realm of ex- prayed. Certain religious forms must hotel. But his money was soon gone, perience of which he was ignorant. be engaged in by the entire family, and his mother did not change her On examining the tract again, he including servants. It did not seem mind. For the first time, Don Luis found penciled, "Visit the Lecture incongruous to her mind that her found himself alone in the world, de- Hall at—." sons were immoral, spending the en- pendent on his own resources. His So great was the effect of this tire night carousing. It did not seem fiancée, on learning of the mother's strange leaflet on his mind that he strange to her that they drank them- attitude, and of Don Luis's changed could give no more attention to law selves into bestiality and smoked in- financial and social condition, refused that day. He wondered who had cessantly. She excused them, saying to accompany him to the hall any used such a strange bookmark, but he that they were men, and that they more, and finally even to allow him to never learned. He called on his would settle down a little later in life. visit her. His heart turned to stone. fiancee that night and read the tract But Don Luis had learned some Here he was alone completely, with to her. She was of the same wild new truths in this hall he had been no money, no food, no friends, and set of upper-class Spanish intellectu- frequenting. Heretofore he had taken no means of support. He determined als as he. Strange to say, the effect part in his mother's religious exer- on suicide. on her mind was similar to that on cises to humor her, even though, like At this point, a greater temptation his own, and they agreed that the fol- most Spanish intellectuals, he be- came to him. His mother called him lowing Sunday night she would ac- lieved in nothing at all. But one day back. She told him she was so glad company him to the address found on he told her that he would no longer he had changed his way of living. the tract. participate in her religious exercises. He had learned in the meanwhile not They found the place. It was a She reasoned, she pleaded, she to smoke or drink. She told him he simple hall, and the people who filled threatened, to no avail. Then her could come home again. He did go it were of the ordinary type. But fanatic love toward her religion over- home, and how good it was to be able these two young people were out for came her idolatrous love for her son, to satisfy his hunger once more ! a new thrill. Here was a new ex- and she told him that he should de- But the mother insisted that he talk perience of which to boast to their cide between his foolish ideas and his with a friend of (Turn to page 13) PAGE 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR tie WORLD Go By BY JAMES A. WARD

IGNIFICANT and ominous is on this very point: "When the lead- hold and to control property is chal- the current agitation for unit- ing churches of the United States, lenged. The government is pledged ing the various Protestant de- uniting upon such points of doctrine to protect property rights; it seems nominations into a closely federated as are held by them in common, shall inevitable, therefore, that sooner or church. Recently the Federal Coun- influence the state to enforce their later the government must move to cil of Churches of Christ in America decrees and to sustain their institu- discharge that duty, if order and met in convention at Asbury Park, tions, then Protestant America will security are to be maintained. With New Jersey. In his report to the have formed an image of the Roman labor's unprecedented strength, the Council, Dr. Ivan Lee Holt, retiring hierarchy, and the infliction of civil situation bodes evil to come. president, said: "American Protes- penalties upon dissenters will in- On the afternoon of Monday, tantism faces reorganization or dis- evitably result." March 8, Chrysler Corporation em- integration. We are in a day when The infliction of civil penalties ployees sat down in eight Chrysler we must find a new strategy for the upon dissenters in religious issues is plants. Around the plants they Protestant church. It is not simply religious persecution. How we shall placed picket lines and refused to al- advisable; it is necessary. We can- stand the test of that day is de- low either employees or executives to not bolster up our courage longer by termined by what experience we are enter or leave the premises without quoting statistics about Protestant gaining today. The most timely ad- permission. The business offices and membership. If there were a vote in monition for this crucial hour is: the documents of the corporation any city federation or in the execu- "Watch and pray, that ye enter not were held by the striking workers. tive committee of the Federal Coun- into temptation." "Study to show The corporation sought and procured cil, I think an overwhelming majority thyself approved unto God." a court injunction ordering the of denominational representatives The compromise settlement of strikers to evacuate the plants by would vote for federation as against General Motors' forty-four-day "sit- March 57, at 9 A.M., or be subjected union. If it is to be federation, it must down" strike did not solve America's to a $io,000,000 fine to be imposed be a closer federation than we now galling labor problem. In the eco- upon striking workers and upon know. As for me, I am not afraid of nomic history of this country, a union organizers and executives. union. It may be a union which pre- crucial hour has struck. The nation Herein the state comes to grips with serves distinct contributions of differ- seems to have erupted with a rash of labor over the issue of property ent denominations; it must be a union "sit-down" strikes. Employees of rights. As this is written, the court in which each denomination surren- automobile and airplane factories, order is being defied. The nation ders historical and inherited attitudes." electrical engineers, hotel workers, looks on with intense interest. Dr. William Bruce Sharp, reporting and even high-school students have, By far the most sensational labor 'for the Current History, observed, within recent weeks, staged "sit- story in years broke when Mr. Fair- "It was not very long ago that even down" strikes, demanding increased less, president of Carnegie-Illinois the mention of church union was wages, union recognition, and what Steel Corporation, and Mr. Murray, anathema to almost any Protestant not. The situation is grave, because CIO union organizer, sat down at a body. Opinion now seems definitely the basic right of every citizen to conference table and agreed upon veering in the other direction." Ecumenical Protestantism will in time become a 'reality ; not by un- challenged appeal, perhaps, but by the inexorable rule of majorities. Confederacy in matters of religion is an evil. The prophet Isaiah de- clares: "Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid." Religion, to be dynamic and effectual for good, must allow freedom of the con- science; for salvation is an individual matter. A church confederacy pre- supposes coercion of the principles of the minority. Coercion means perse- cution. For the church to persecute, it must be allied with the state. The Spirit of prophecy speaks definitely

AC II It PHOTO "Sit-down Strikers"—Sitting Down in a Chrysler Corporation Plant at Detroit, Michigan

APRIL 27. 1937 P %GI satisfactory terms of contract. Steel, United States. His plan called for population were given the right of mammoth industry of America, has the appointment of an additional franchise. As head of their national for more than half a century been justice for every Federal justice more congress they elected a fiery young considered impregnable to labor- than seventy years of age who did socialist. He advocates wrecking union attack. Co*cessions granted not resign at the time he reached this their new constitution and setting up by Carnegie Steel were a 4o-hour age. In the case of the Supreme a radical, independent government. week, five dollars a day minimum Court the number would at no time This awakening of Eastern civiliza- wage, and recognition of the union. exceed fifteen members. The op- tion is an omen of the approach of Concessions granted by CIO were ponents to the plan charge that the Armageddon. The yellow peril, so that nonunion employees would not independence of the judiciary is much talked of two decades ago, could be subjected to coercion or intimida- being assailed, and that, therefore, easily become a menace overnight, tion in the plants or in their homes; the religious and civil liberties of the and the "kings of• the East" unite in and that the union would not solicit people are jeopardized. Debate on an effort to override Western civili- members on the corporation's prem- the subject promises to be classic. zation. That conflict, when it comes, ises. These objectives were all Herbert Hoover has expressed the will be waged on the plains of Arma- reached without any bitter, wasteful opinion that the issue is the gravest geddon, and will be a battle to the strike. It was a shining example of crisis facing America in "these sev- death. what reasonableness and foresight on enty years." As this paper goes to The nations of earth, almost with- the part of both industrial leaders press, hearings on the measure are in out exemption, seem possessed with and labor leaders can accomplish. progress before the Senate Judiciary a feverish spirit compelling them to Around the graying heads of nine Committee. The whole country is prepare for armed conflict. Japan's venerable men upon the bench of the mightily stirred. militaristic government recently made most austere court in North America, India's teeming millions are rapidly the largest peacetime appropriation a storm of unprecedented fury broke becoming educated in the processes for armaments in her history. several weeks ago, when President of self-government. Recently there Britain proposes to build eighty bat- Roosevelt sent a message to Congress was held the first election under tleships in the next five years. asking for power to reorganize the the new constitution drawn up by America has six destroyers in the Federal Courts of the country, in- Sir Samuel Hoare. Approximately dry docks. More and more destroy- cluding the Supreme Court of the twenty-seven millions of her vast ers are to follow. Boeing Airplane Corporation recently received a con- tract from the United States Army for thirteen huge bombing planes. " Who Maketh Thee to Germany restricts her people's ra- tions that she may build cannons. In this feverish hour our minds turn ff to John's graphic words: "I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon. . . . ? For they are the spirits of devils. working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, . • . to gather them to the battle of that By Marjorie great day of God Almighty." Lewis-Lloyd Every now and then science pro- duces prime evidence which proves, despite the vitriolic attacks of higher criticism, that the Bible is a true OMETIME, somewhere, you self-respect, dignity, and a dozen book after all. Such evidence came must have observed instances other attributes calculated to gain to light recently after having been S like these: and maintain prestige. on the way for twenty-five years. The banker's son who went job- But, you say, how about people About that long ago, a herdsman of less for five years because he thought who have something to be conceited the Tandroy tribe in Madagascar saw common day labor beneath him. about, who have accomplished some- a curious, dirty-white object bobbing The overindulgent mother who thing in life'? Such as : on the waves of a swollen river. taught her son that he was better The violinist who tells you he When the herdsman got the object than the neighbor boy. hasn't an equal anywhere. to shore, it proved to be a huge egg. The father whose daughter was The artist who boasts of his paint- Carefully he carried the egg to his forbidden to marry a workingman ings. chief, who in turn bartered it to a because she was from a pioneer Perhaps these should be excused. white man for six head of cattle. family of the city. And yet, the apostle Paul asks a Finally, a missionary named Torvic It must be agreed that such con- very thought-provoking question: got the egg and brought it to Min- ceit, though prevalent everywhere, is "Who maketh thee to differ from nesota. both unreasonable and exceedingly another? and what hast thou that Scientists claim that the giant bird, distasteful. For after all, it is no thou didst not receive? now if thou technically known as Aepyornis titan, virtue of mine if my great-great- didst receive it, why dost thou glory, long extinct, laid the egg several grandfather fought in the American as if thou hadst not received it?" thousand years ago. and that the Revolution, or if my family came If you have unusual ability, a glacial age covered the egg in an West before yours, or if my uncle talent that is rare, who gave it to alluvial deposit, from whence the invented the adding machine, or if you? If you are different from, or torrential rains of the wet season my father is a Senator from Arkan- better than, another, who has ruled washed it, over two decades ago. No sas. Even if any of these things it thus? If you have anything worth doubt, some great cataclysm buried were true, I could be in no way re- mentioning that God did not give the egg, but it comes to my mind that sponsible. Why should one person you, then boast of it. Our text does the flood and not a glacier did it. seek or accept honor for what some- not apply to you. But—"what hast God has preserved the egg as one body else does or is? In grammar thou that thou didst not receive?" more bit of evidence that His word school it is called cheating. In real Since you were a child you have is true. The egg, about a foot long life it is mislabeled and ascribed to heard the story. (Turn to page 13) and ten inches (Turn to page 14) PAGE 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 44-ttetet to Attet

IM GRANT looked up as a car "Thinks I am wasting my talents. screeched to_ a sudden stop at Perhaps I am—an evening potterer!" the end of the orchard, where The twilight deepened into dusk, the branches hung low with their load and in the homes of the new neigh- of gold-and-russet fruit. bors from a land halfway around "Come on, old fellow !" Frank's the world, points of light flickered merry voice called. "We're off to and then were steady. The happy college !" laughter of children at play drifted "And you know there is always away, and only the call of a whip- room for one more at Maple Hall," poorwill in a near-by glen was heard Lee added. through the night shadows. Jim tossed a small, pitted apple BY The vision of service for others over the fence. "Go on ! Grind if came back to Jim. "I am a waster, a you want to, but I don't need it. INEZ BRASIER potterer in the Master's vineyard. Greek verbs won't pick apples !" Oh, yes, I work hard enough for "But Jim !" Frank's merry tones myself—I'd soon be a rich lad with grew serious. "Think how much In a moment he was gone. Soon that new forty—but what have I more you can do for others if you the car disappeared in the distance, done, what am I doing, for Him ?" add to the beginning we made at leaving Jim with the fruit-laden trees He dropped to his knees in the the academy. I don't mean to lec- and his thoughts. Slowly he picked darkness beneath the trees. When ture, but why not give college a up an empty basket and walked, more he rose, the lights in the valley homes trial?" slowly still, to the far end of the had been darkened, and only the "College ! I told you last week that orchard. stars above shone through the night. I would rather work here on the "Boys' visions," he muttered, farm—milk cows, harvest apples, "though perhaps Frank is right, and "How swiftly these four years even dig potatoes—than anything I should have kept mine. Oh, well !" have passed! Somehow, when one else. When chores are done, I am He set the basket on the ground is busy with worth-while tasks, time through! If I feel like looking at and reached for the sun-kissed apples goes by on wings," Jim mused, as, in the paper, I do, and if I don't—well, weighing the branches to the grass cap and gown, he walked in the I don't ! Why work my head off at underneath the trees. He turned shade of the stately trees on the college ?" them in his fingers, admiring their campus of his alma mater with his "But the vision of working for the ripe tints. old friend of academy days. "You Master wherever He calls, that we "Beauties, every one. They will do not know how deeply thankful I both had in the academy, Jim? Have bring a good price, and we'll add an- am that you and Lee stopped that day you lost it ?" other forty to the old farm, father when I was picking apples, so well Jim counted the long rows of and I." satisfied with myself and my, selfish baskets filled with apples. "I leave He forgot the interruption of the future. I. had lost our vision, but that to you !" boys' brief visit, with Frank and Lee your words kept speaking tome, even Frank jumped the ditch, stopping off to college. He forgot everything after you had gone on." at the fence. "I refuse to take it, save the beautiful fruit he was pick- "I was afraid I had said too much, Jim. The Lord expects each one to ing so carefully. When he had and grieved over the possibility of do his part, and that means you as picked all the apples from that tree, losing your friendship. But here we well as me. Even if you will not he carried the baskets to the waiting are, at the crossroads again. This go to college, won't you do some- truck. Much later, he sat on the time, you go West and I go East— thing better with your evenings than, porch, idly turning the pages of the and the Lord will bless us both." than—" daily paper, with his thoughts still Jim glanced at the • letter in his "Just sit around, if that is what on the work of the afternoon, hand. "I think I would have hesi- you want to say." "Beauties, every one," he repeated, tated when this call to foreign serv- "You could study. Then think of "and ten baskets of them from just ice came—perhaps never have ac- all the new families that have moved one tree. Plenty more trees like it. cepted it—had I not tasted the soul onto those small bottom-land farms. That means a good price; and that happiness that comes as others take You have a rich missionary field means the new forty, mid it's to be one's Saviour for their own. Some- within sight." Frank lowered his mine. Better than college, by a long how, I could not see those valley folk voice. "'You are getting to be just way. Better than—" he stopped without a knowledge of Him, and like that apple you threw away. For- musing as his eyes caught a few these three summers that you and I give me, Jim ! But think of our vi- words. have spent among them have been sion ! Think of what you could do !" "Are you an evening potterer ?" very fruitful. As you said that day, "Hurry, Frank !" Lee shouted Jim flung the paper from him, and it was a rich missionary field. This above the din he was making with stalked down the walk. "Potterer !" `at Jersualem' experience has given the horn. "We'll be late for registra- he excWmed. "That paper is just me a larger vision, and now, God tion. Don't waste any more elo- like Frank, reminding me of that old being my strength, it will always be quence on Jim! He's a farm fixture story." He stopped at the gate, half `where He wills.' " like the barns." angry. Presently, against his will, Frank reached across the fence to Frank's words came to his mind The years, with their weight of grasp Jim's hand. "Think it over— through the warm twilight. care and toil and responsibility, with and remember the old story of the "But our vision . . . your new their joy, yes, with their grief, too, potterer!" neighbors." slipped by even (Turn to page 14) APRIL 27. 1937 PAGE 7 Over tAe

ELL, boys, it will soon be isters use this convenient, timesav- ished supper; you're not interruptin' cotton-picking time in Ari- ing reference in their private study a bit. Have a chair." W zona. How would you like and in the preparation of sermons. I then hastily took the Bible from to go there to canvass for a while?" Would you not like to have a copy its box, ripped off the paper wrapper, It was the field secretary, speaking to for your own use?" and handed it to the eager father. my partner and me as we were near- "I judge that book is all right," How the gilt edges did glisten, and ing the close of our summer's work replied the minister, diplomatically, how the man fondled the soft, flexible on the coast in Southeastern Califor- "but there is so much spurious litera- treasure. Yes, and there were the nia. The two conferences were then ture being circulated that a person words of the Master printed in red— united, and he was captain of the has to be a bit careful." just what he wanted! In a moment two fields. "You are right, Pastor. I, too, am the mother, too, was proudly turning It was a good thing for my partner very careful in my choice of books." the pages of her "Bible Readings for and me that we took a house trailer "Well, I haven't anything against the Home Circle." What beautiful with us to Arizona, for Coolidge, any denomination in particular, ex- illustrations, and what clear print ! where we began work, was in a boom- cept two," said the preacher, "and The husband then set a coffee can ing young cotton-growing district, they are the Nazarenes and the on the table. "I'll have to pay you and I do not believe that there was Seventh-day Adventists," and the out of my savin's," he said, pausing a vacant house or hut in town. Yet, flash of his eyes and the color that before removing the lid; and the it would have been well worth living crept up his neck and ears verified manner in which he said it revealed a out under the unveiled sun and stars, the statement ! feeling of sacrifice on the part of the if necessary, to canvass that thriving I replied to the effect that my con- breadwinner. district, crowded with so many open- ception of "faith" is that it is not a "You don't mind pennies, do you ?" minded people ! matter of church creed or doctrine, humbly asked the purchaser. "I believe that you are Pastor but is, rather, a personal conviction "Not at all. They can be spent." Frazier," I said, as I introduced my- of the teachings of the Bible as it Then the lid came off the coffee self to the minister of the largest con- reads. To this the preacher warmly can. I had expected to see a mass of gregation in the growing village. agreed. coin, but instead there were many "Yes, you are right. Come in," "Of course, I don't know what you cylinder-shaped packages, wrapped in was the hearty response from the represent, but—uh—" faltered my regular bank coin wrappers. congenial clergyman who looked customer, in such a way that I knew "There are fifty pennies in a pack- wholesome enough to be one of the he would like to know ; but I did not age," explained my patron, and then "cornstalk preachers" he mentioned feel it wise to cause him the em- plunk, plunk, plunk, till sixteen heavy later in our conversation. barrassment of finding out—not in packages were on the table. Then "I am sure you will be very much my presence, at least ! the lid was put back on the nearly interested in the work I am doing in "Oh," I said, promptly, "I repre- empty can. this community, Pastor Frazier, be- sent the Pacific Press Publishing As- "I save all m' pennies, an' me'n the cause I believe you will agree with sociation. I understand it is the most children count 'em an' wrap 'em— me that when people are good home completely equipped press this side when we git enough. There they are. Christians, they are good church of the Rockies. Of course, they You kin undo 'em an' count 'em over Christians; and my work is to en- publish many kinds of good litera- ag'in if ye like." courage the study of the Bible in the ture, but I feel that this is the best "No thanks; I'll just take your home." suited to topical Bible study of any word for it. Your count is as good There was an enthusiastic assent work I have ever seen. as mine," I willingly answered. from my new friend. "Now, I will be delivering books in I never did count to see whether "Now to promote the intelligent this town the fifteenth of next month. there were exactly eight hundred study of the Scriptures," I explained, Would that 'date suit you all right?" pennies, but I have often thought of drawing the "Bible Readings" pros- The order was signed, and the the little family that was willing to pectus from my brief case, "a num- hook was cheerfully received on the sacrifice its fishing-trip "savin's" of ber of Bible students have cooperated appointed day. Moreover, the pas- many a day in order to better under- in compiling the best of their life's tor's signature was a very great help stand the Scriptures. work in this valuable volume. in securing orders from his church Touching on all of the important members, and he himself unwittingly "Henry, 0 Henry," called Mrs. lines of Bible research, these two aided me by proudly telling them of Hall to her husband, who was busy hundred studies answer the important the Bible book he had ordered from on the other side of the large corral, questions that naturally arise in the young man who had recently "come over here, please ; this young every thinking person's mind, by come to town. man has something to show you." quoting verses of Scripture. "Come right on in," was the reply The tall rancher obligingly walked "Of course, it is at once evident when I called one evening to deliver across the corral and leaned against what a help this volume is to the a "combination order" for a Bible a heavy rail while I canvassed him home circle, but I think you can see and "Bible Readings" to a family in over the fence. for "Bible Read- also, Pastor Frazier, why many min- Coolidge. "No, we've already fin- ings." (Turn to page 13) PAGE 8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR are anxious to hear it, and God loves them.

cTom Eight years ago, Gembu was a drunkard. He saved none of the money which he earned by driving for various transport companies. His family was left to suffer. But in his heart the conviction became stronger INDIA that he was a great sinner and that he should live a better life. He went BY E. D. WILLMOTT into the jungle to pray and to seek AND M. AMIRTHAM God. Here on his knees he over- came the drink habit and other evil habits. ERE are a few pictures of hope that in due time he will be able He continued to go to the forest to the Toda people—one of the to devote some time to giving the pray. While thus engaged one day, most interesting hill tribes third angel's message to his relatives he was deeply impressed that the of the Nilgiri hills of South India. and the other mountain tribes. coming of Christ is very near and They are rather good looking. The that he should make it known to men wear beards, and a white cloth India is a land of curious practices others. A great ball seemed to de- striped with red over the shoulders. and customs. The Todas have espe- scend from heaven directly in front A great scholar from Yale Uni- cially interesting funeral ceremonies. of him; it broke open as it touched versity named Einanove is studying There are two distinct ceremonies. the ground. Ten persons appeared with them and endeavoring to create The first or green funeral takes place from the inside. One very grave and a written language with the English immediately after the death occurs; serious person came near and said, alphabet. the second or dry funeral may be held "I am coming soon; get ready, get Daniel Codan is a Toda Christian, any time between a month and a year ready." He believed this to be a a well-educated man. He has his after the performance of the first message from the Lord to preach the Bachelor of Arts degree from the ceremony. soon-coming Saviour. And he has Madras University of South India, At the time of the first funeral the for years been traveling in the vil- and until recently he was employed remains are placed between two lages and cities, through the moun- as a clerk in the government office pieces of bark. These are wrapped tains on foot, telling all who will at Ootacamund. up and put away, by the nearest listen that Jesus is coming soon. Last year whep we were holding relatives of the deceased, until re- His trips are usually journeys of a meetings in that town, as I was pass- quired for the second ceremony. The thousand miles or more. Often he ing out notices, one day, I handed second ceremony is looked upon as a suffers for want of food, and often one to him. He said that he could great occasion. he is scorned and cast out by those hardly get in and out to the meetings, The remains are brought on a whom he tries to reach with his because he lived in the country, and bamboo bier and placed within a message. He is entirely dependent the nights were dark. "Then I will special funeral hut. Buffaloes are upon the hospitality of strangers for give you a light," I said, and handed sacrificed, and then the men dance his daily food. him one of the lamps used to light around the hut. Some of them have A little over a year ago a Seventh- our mission hall. My wife and I long beards. Kota musicians play day Adventist began a series of lec- both thought afterward that it was weird music on a variety of strange tures in Ootacamund, a hill station rather risky to give an expensive instruments. Between dances, in little in South India, where he lives. He mission light to an absolute stranger. groups they engage in quarrels, which was delighted, accepted every word, But he came, and the only . thing sometimes develop into serious clashes. and received baptism. missing from the light was the little Even very old men of seventy-five He then began to preach the sev- screw that is loosened to permit the enter heartily into that part of the enth-day Sabbath and the truths of escape of gas to extinguish the flame. activity. After this, food is distrib- the third angel's message. He found I have not yet given account for that uted, and the people return home. the way more difficult than ever screw. Perhaps a new one in the They believe that the spirit of the because some who had helped and place of it will do all right. It will deceased exists on the summit of favored him before now turned cost fifteen or twenty cents. many sacred hills in the Nilgiris. Let against him on account of prejudicet-7 However, I heard with great joy, us take the gospel of Christ to these He persevered, however, in the face% just recently, that the Toda brother people before it is too late. They of increased difficulties. Finally he who borrowed the light is coming to took up the colporteur work and be- Sabbath meetings. He has now re- gan to persuade many to subscribe A General View of a Gathering Between signed his government job and is Dances, at the Toda Funeral Celebration for the Tamil Good Way, using as doing colporteur work. He will Three Months After the Death of One his prospectus single copies which he make a first-class colporteur, and I of Their Number picked up from (Turn to page 12) Xl in the heart of Paul when he wrote, "I seek not yours, but you." This marvel- ous passion sustained him in persecu- tion and in prison, in weariness and pain, Aete6uiiitei in hunger and thirst, yea, in cold and nakedness. It was this consuming pas- sion that led Livingstone to give his life for Africa. He died on his knees, pray- (Continued from page 3) ing for the lost souls of that great land. It was this consuming zeal that caused John Knox to burst out in the fervor of conquered the world, but failed to con- service of the Master than to "rust out" his prayer, "0 Lord, give me Scotland, quer his own spirit, and died in a while doing nothing? or I die." drunken debauch. We have a right to be intensely in ear- There is joy in sacrificing that others No, there must be more than the boast- nest as we carry our message—the most may be helped. The joy that comes to ful spirit of great men put into our serv- solemn message ever committed to man us in lifting others from the miry clay ice, in fulfilling the Lord's command. —to others. The world must hear it. of sin totally benumbs any suffering in- Rather, I refer to the spirit of Morrison, We must give it. We have a right to curred in so doing. To help lift up fallen the early missionary to China, who said: be aflame with earnestness. An all-con- humanity and to be a blessing to others "Send me to the darkest part of the field, suming passion for souls is the. motive will bring a joy to the soul that ease and where the difficulties seem to be the that urges us on. We have a right to comfort can never give. Christ willingly greatest." I refer to the spirit of Liv- arrest the attention of the people and suffered all the reproach that was heaped *stone, who said: "Anywhere, pro- tell them the story of the love of a cruci- upon Him ; He bore it all without a mur- vided it be forward." I refer to the spirit fied and risen Lord. We need make no mur, that He might rescue us frotri the of faith and courage manifested by the apology for so doing. The only apology thralldom of sin, and in the kingdom of long list of worthies •mentioned in the due is for our delay in coming to them. God, "He shall see of the travail of. His word of God,. "who through faith sub- Be tactful in your dealings with others. soul, and shall be satisfied." dued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, This is especially necessary when you By working for others, we ourselves obtained promises, stopped the mouths of are laboring for a people whose customs are blessed. The truth becomes sweeter lions, quenched the, violence of fire, es- are very different from ours. We must to us as we tell it over again. The more •ettped the edge of the sword, out of not stand aloof from them if we expect we give away of this third angel's mes- weakness. were.made strong, waxed vali- to reach them. If I want to save a man sage, the more we have left. When we ant in ,ixght, •tiirned .to flight the armies who is drowning, I do not stand up on permit the streams of God's blessings to of the aliens,',' i "I'his is the, faith, hope, the bank and shout directions to him; flow through us to others, our own lives and caragewe need 'when 'we attempt but I •go down to where he is and in are enriched. The plains that furnish the humanly impossible in mission fields. some way try to reach him and give him the channel for the mountain streams to But it can. be done, and under God some the needed help. I must get down, to reach the sea, are made more fertile by one will do it. Will you? Will I? where the people are if I am to help lift the passage of these streams through Adaptability is one of the primary them up. them. There is joy in saving others, requisite's of a Missionary. You must We should not magnify the differences even the joy of our Lord. leatn 'to adapt yourself to the conditions between them and us. We should avoid The missionary who goes to the dark surrounding you. This is. very impor- unfavorable comparisons between our sections of the world, does not have the tant. When you land in a strange coun- home country and the one in which we modern conveniences which we enjoy in try, everything will seem very new to are laboring. Nor should we say too our homeland. At times he may be you. The people are strange. Their much about the land from which we sorely pressed for proper food and cloth- customs and ways of doing things are came, and its advantages, for this may ing. But if one would save others, he different—in some countries they. seem to cause the patriotic feeling to arise in cannot save himself. Christ's enemies do almost everything in just the typo; their hearts and thus widen the gulf • be- mockingly said, as He hung upon the site way from that to which we are ac- tween us. Usually we think our own cross, "He saved others; Himself He customed in our homeland. W.' If:An- country is the best, and so we must cannot save." Christ came to this world derson, in• writing about the natives in grant others the liberty of feeling that to save the lost. He "poured out His some parts of Africa, says : their country is the best. soul" in loving service for others. He "Although they make large quantities Soul winning is indeed an art, and brought life to others, but in so doing; of butter, they never eat it. They requires tact' We need the Spirit of God He yielded up His own life. grease the outside of their bodies with to show us the way, and the love of There is no greater work in all the butter, instead of the inside, as we do. Christ to open the door to the heart. world than that of bringing the gospel The native raises thickens, but he cannot A prayer life is another essential in the to the lost. It is the enterprise that will understand why the white man wants to missionary. Activity is not enough. The yield the largest returns—not in money, eat eggs the same day they are laid. He missionary must be in daily communion perhaps, but in peace of heart and in says there is no meat in the egg at that with God. When this' connection is joy of soul—and that is worth more than time; and if he ever eats an egg at all, he broken, then are we shorn of our power money. This joy and peace cannot be wants it the day before it is hatched, for for doing the work of God. There is bought with money. Sometimes we are then it is full of meat. The native does power in prayer. In a certain hospital tempted to think that money can buy things in a way just opposite to the way a little girl was to undergo a dangerous everything, but there are some things it the white Man' does them. When a white operation. As she was placed upon the cannot buy. Money can buy a soft bed, man is putting on a roof, he begins at operating table, the surgeon paused be- but it cannot buy sleep. It can buy the eaves, and roofs up. A native begins fore giving her the anesthetic and said, food, but it cannot buy appetite. It can at the apex of his hut, and roofs down. "Before we can make you well, we must buy medicine, but it cannot buy health. Again, the white roan puts the thick put you to sleep." Then the little girl It can buy a house, but not a home. It part of his shingles down, and the thin said, "Oh, if you are going to put me to can buy a tombstone, but it cannot buy part up. The native, turns the butts of sleep, I must say my prayers first." So life. It can buy material things, but not the grass up and the tops down." she said the little prayer she had been life eternal. , A story is told of a young man who taught, "Now I lay me down to sleep." Foreign mission work is indeed the asked an old missionary what is the first Afterward the surgeon said that he him- grandest enterprise in this world and requisite 'for becoming a successful for- self prayed that night for the first time.in one of the greatest as well, for it is of eign missionary. The reply was "adap- thirty years. We, too, must lead the God, while other enterprises may be of tability." "And what is the next requi- prayer life, for there must be a constant men. It will bring us the greatest re- site?" he asked. Again came the reply in inflow of power into our lives. Without turns, for it builds for eternity and not one word, "Adaptability." "Well, then, this we shall surely fail. for time alone. It is impelled by the what may be the third?" Without hesi- A consuming passion for the salvation grandest motive of all, the love of God tancy the old missionary said in solemn of souls is another requisite. The world for the lost. It is supported by the great- tone, "Adaptability." is going down to destruction ; it is est power there is, the "all power" that Earnestness in our work also is one doomed, and we must rescue as many as was committed to Christ. It can know of the requisites. We are not sent possible. How can we be indifferent no defeat, for the spirit that actuated to a foreign field just for a pastime, when others are going down to eternal Livingstone when he said, "I will open a or on a vacation, but to work and to ruin? It was this passion for souls that path into the interior, or perish," is im- hurry on with, our message. The mis- burned in the bosom of Christ when He pelling its devoted messengers to push sion field is no place for a lazy person, or left the courts of glory and came down to forward in spite of obstacles, privation, for one who is indifferent and loves to walk among men. It was this consum- and opposition. It cannot fail ! "take things easy." There is earnest ing love for his people that caused Moses What response will you, dear reader, work to be done! We should guard well to forsake the riches of Egypt and plead make to the call of God? Are you will- our health, but we must not "lie down on with God to spare sinful, stubborn Israel, ing to go anywhere for your Master, who the job." There is so much to be done, or else to blot his name out of the book gave His life for you? You can trust and there are so few to do it! And after of life. Him. Will you be led by Him? Really, all, is it not better to "wear out" in the It was this same passion that burned now, what will be your response? PAGE 10 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Atenti 4ouft

tEoRih etrwataknst t omgaoy wwael 1p BY It was a lovely day in the early spring, Iq °LH and the trees were beginning to show a called Ma gy. smoky green, with the outline of the "We 1, don't go out on the bridge," DOROTHY NELSON branches showing through the young answered mother. leaves. The birds were singing happily, "0 mother! Why not? A person and as we walked we counted the differ- would think you were superstitious about track a little way along. A man took ent kinds of birds we could see. Sud- that bridge or something, the way you one of them to safety, and was going denly Della shouted and; ran to pick up always get so excited when we want to back for Clara, when the train came and something shiny in the road. What Was go across it," complained Mae. ran over her. it? A watch? It turned out to be "Come here, and I'll tell you what hap- "After the meeting, I had gone home, nothing but a little gold-colored buckle, pened to Clara Lockard, and why I'm so and had gone to bed. I was just dozing not worth a cent. But we got more than afraid for you." My sisters and I went off, when I heard an excited knocking a penny's worth of enjoyment out of over to my mother and sat down on the at the door. My father answered, and playing with it as we walked. grass where she was tending to her I heard Clara's brother-in-law's brother Farther along the road, we 'found a flowers, and she told us this story: tell my father what had happened. As little dead bird, and after sorrowing over "In Mountain View, my old home Clara was a very close friend of my the death of such a pretty little thing, we town, there was a long train bridge going family, it was a terrible shock to me, buried it, and sang for its funeral. across the river to Galveston. One eve- and I can never forget the horror of it." Once more we started on, but We had ning a church meeting was to be held "Yes, but mother, we know the train not gone far when we saw something in Mountain View. Nearly twenty peo- times," argued Margy. that made us all shout and begin to run ple who lived in Galveston belonged to "But, my dear, you do not know when toward it. It was the body of an old car. our church, and on the night that this an extra might come along. It was an It had no wheels, no top, and no engine, meeting was to be held, a group of about extra that killed Clara Lockard. She but we piled in and took turns at the fifteen people came over on the train and the group of friends with her on that steering wheel, pretending we were go- bridge. They came over on this bridge fatal night knew the train times, too." ing all sorts of places. Margy and Mae because it was only about three quarters "And our bridge isn't nearly so long as wanted to go to Chicago, Della wanted of a mile that way, and by the road it that one." to go to New York, and I wanted to go was nearly three miles. "Yes, but there is a curve around a to Los Angeles; so we pretended that we high bank just a little way from the went to all three places. Finally we "They walked over in bright moonlight realized that our goal was the railroad and went to the meeting. It was a testi- bridge, and you would not know the train was coming. And if the wind tracks, and being tired of traveling in mony meeting, and the minister gave a the old car body, we started out once strong plea, causing the meeting to last should be blowing in the opposite direc- tion to that in which the train was going, more. until almost ten o'clock. After the bene- At last we reached the tracks and di- diction the people lingered to talk to- you would not be able to hear the whistle. You remember that on days when the vided off into pairs, with sticks which we gether, and it was rather late before they held between us to help us balance on the reached the bridge to cross over to Gal- wind is blowing hard, we cannot hear the town clock strike." rails. As we walked along, we saw little veston and home. They were talking patches of violets here and there and gaily as they started across the bridge, "Well, may we go, mother?" I asked. "Yes, I suppose so, if you're careful picked the prettiest flowers in these but suddenly some one shouted, "Run patches, looking forward to our mother's for the platform. A train is coming." and if you won't go onto the bridge." "All right, we won't, for your sake," delight in them. When we reached the All chatter ceased, and all except two trestle, we saw an enticing patch of women who were hypnotized with fear, we promised, and started off to get Della Morris, who was going with us. violets on the other side. It was a much ran to the platform at the side of the larger patch than any we had seen bel fore, and from where we were, it looked much prettier. Why was it that we did not remember that the grass on the other side of the fence always looks greener? We stopped at the bridge and began to debate whether we should go across. "There aren't any trains coming, now," Signs of Spring said Della, who had been up on a high embankment looking for smoke. And I agreed with her, for I had been listening and feeling of the rails, as I had heard Pussy willows soft as kittens, that you can feel the vibration when a train was coming. Dandelions bright and gay, "It might happen to us as it did to mother's friend," said Margaret. ' Della Dogwood buds a-swelling, swelling did not know this story; so we told it to her, all trying to talk at once. Big and bigger every day. "Well, by the schedule there won't be one till three, and we could get across in a little bit," suggested Margaret. Violets nod down in the meadow, "And mother will like the violets so Fields are green, and everything much," I added. "Come on, git'ls, let's go across," In the garden is beginning called Mae, who had already started. We followed her, but when we were To sing the happy song of spring! not yet halfway across, we heard a whis- APRIL 27. 1937 PAGE I tle, and looking around, we saw a train ever call again. But the brave youth was racing around the curve. We screamed not discouraged, and after having taken and began to run. It was hard running, his trouble to God, he went ahead and and although the engineer put on the did his canvassing work as usual. brakes as quickly as possible, the train On a certain day he called at a house kept speeding on closer to us. But at last where the woman in charge inquired we reached the stone ledge on the other what Christian hope he had, and found side of the bridge, and as it was very out that he was a Seventh-day Adventist. close to the track, with a drop on the It happened that she hated Adventists, other side, we sat down on it to let the and therefore ill-treated our brother with train whiz by. a broom she used for sweeping the house. On the way home, we were much But the courageous young man did not quieter than we had been on the way out. TIME—April 30 to May 6 give up trying to help those living in I think that all of us silently resolved to those two houses. He prayed earnestly obey our parents more carefully, as they READING-2 Kings 24 to and sent the Tamil Signs and the Tamil advise us for our own good. In the ex- 1 Chronicles 20 Present Truth series by other friends. citement we lost the violets that we had and through the mail. Also he made oc- gathered and forgot to gather any more 1. Find in this week's reading how casional personal visits. No doubt the out of the patch on the far side of the Deut. 28:64, 65, and 2 Kings 20:17 were silent messengers did their work well, tracks. fulfilled. (Deut. 29:24, 25, and Jer. 50:7 and the Spirit of God induced the family We did not tell our parents of this show how the nations felt about this of the woman who used the broom to experience for two years, but one eve- matter.) beat the canvasser, to consider the seri- ning when we were having worship, we 2. Show how through violation of the ousness of the times in which we live. told them. Then my father related a second commandment the tribes east of At last, they all gave their hearts to God, story that his father had told him when the Jordan lost the victory they had and took their stand for the third angel's he was a little boy over in Sweden. gained over the Hagarites. message. Recently they were baptized. In that country there are very many 3. What two reasons are given for What joyful news! As many souls won lakes. As the winters are extremely cold, Saul's death? as the number of broom beatings re- the lakes freeze, and the ice becomes so 4. Who besides David slew a giant ceived! This young man could join thick that people can drive their oxcarts with his own sword? with Paul and say that he received so across. One afternoon when my grand- 5. When did some brave soldiers risk many slipperings and so many broom father was a little boy, he wanted to their lives to bring a friend a drink of beatings in order to win souls. visit his cousin who lived on the lake water? shore. As the wolves were numerous 6. Which tribe is here mentioned for and very ferocious in Sweden at that its swiftness? As a missionary activity, the members time, his father made him promise to be 7. What lesson in consecration is of the Missionary Volunteer Society at at home before dark, before he would taught by the experience of bringing the Prakasapuram, Nazareth, South India, allow him to go. Joseph, my grand- ark to Jerusalem? with the help of the school staff, father, started out skating across the lake. 8. Of whom was it said : "He re- launched out to conduct open-air meet- He soon reached his cousin's house. proved kings for their sakes"? ings in the surrounding villages. It What a good time they had, as they did 9. Find in this assignment a promise was a soulsaving campaign. We did our not often visit each other. They played of a Saviour through Judah. best, and God watered the seeds that for quite a while, and became so inter- 10. What project did God forbid were sown. I am happy to tell you we ested that it was almost dark before David to undertake? have organized three branch Sabbath Joseph remembered his promise. 11. When were friends mistaken for schools as a result of this evangelistic He started out skating home, now and foes? campaign. Personal testimonies of our then stumbling on the ruts made by the 12. What does this week's assignment youth, at the time of the meetings, carts that had been going across the say of the following: changed the hearts of many persons at- lake. Suddenly he heard a noise. It a. How God used the mulberry trees tending. Other centers are now calling sounded like something running along in directing a battle? for religious meetings. over the ice. He stopped and looked. It b. The man called the "troubler in After organizing the three Sabbath came closer. Then he saw. A little Israel"? schools, our boys and girls have taken a fox came running, chased by a big wolf. c. Some who lost their lives because great delight in conducting them every But the fox was clever, and would not be they tried to steal cattle? Sabbath. But we are not satisfied with easily caught, if at all. It would run this work ; we long for some one who very fast, and when the wolf would al- can speak with the people during the most catch up with it, it would jump weekdays and spend his whole time in aside into a rut which would stop it, Here in our Ootacamund church, we presenting the last warning message. but the wolf would slide on. Then the are very fond of giving testimony. There are open doors on every side. fox would run in another direction. The Gembu has experiences enough to tell Our youth here are beginning to catch wolf was so intent on catching the little from one trip to last for several weeks a vision of the work that is to be ac- fox that he did not notice Joseph, who in the testimony meetings. Last year we complished in South India, and we ask stood as still as he could, although his organized a church of about nineteen your prayers for God's continual blessing teeth were chattering with fright. Fi- members here, and now practically every and guidance. We ask also for greater nally the animals were out of sight, and man has gone into the colporteur work support and encouragement in our work he began to skate as fast as possible. or to school. They have taken their here, from all parts of the world. All at once he heard a squeal in the dis- families to various places on the plains. tance, and he knew that the wolf had We have one man left in the church who A girl came to our school at Prakasa- finally caught the little fox. He felt was thrown out of his work when he puram, and stayed for one year. Then sorry for the fox, but was glad that the asked to have Sabbath free. He im- she went home for the summer vacation. shore was in sight. After taking off his mediately set about to open a little busi- There she was not willing to do any work skates, he ran home, where it was warm ness of his own,—a fish stall in the mar- on the Bible Sabbath. Amid persecu- and safe. ket,—and for months he has been making tions she stood firm, and returned to Grandfather also had learned his lesson his living selling fish. He is an earnest school the following year with another in obedience. advocate of the third angel's message, girl. Eventually both were baptized. The preaching to many who come to buy fish. Lord is calling the daughters of India Buf now, he, too, wants to go into the into this marvelous light. colporteur work. He is the Sabbath Another girl, eighteen years old, stu- Snapshots From India school superintendent, home missionary died the third angel's message privately secretary, acting deacon, and everything (Continued from page 9) at home without the knowledge of her else, because he is the only man left parents. It created in her a great desire here and there among his friends. He besides the evangelist. for a Christian education and baptism. did this so perseveringly that I finally She left the house without informing gave him a prospectus for "Our Day" An Indian youth nineteen years of her parents, for she knew that if she told and a canvass, and told him to see if age was engaged in the colporteur work. them of her desire, they would prevent he could learn the canvass. He did Faithfully he visited every house in his her from leaving. She came to our much better than I thought he would. territory with a definite idea of leaving school alone, and stayed with us for Now he is one of the most successful the warning message that the end of the two days. Then a deputation arrived colporteurs we have. I have given him world is near, and that Jesus is soon to take her back home. Her father ill- my old bicycle, and on it he has just coming. He was welcomed by many. treated her and dragged her. Thank God completed a two-thousand-mile trip in- But on one occasion, a certain customer she was very firm in her determination. stead of his usual one-thousand-mile ordered him to clear out, and slippered and stayed in the school and was bap- trip. He not only paid for his books, him with the shoes that had been left by tized. Now her life is of such a nature but sent several money orders to his wife the side of the door. He also threatened that it binds her to her parents and old- for her support. trouble for the young man if he should time friends. PAGE I2 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR A Modern Spanish Hero settled in a way of life completely satis- a book exactly like the one his brother factory to him, and that he had no had just bought. (Continued from page 4) thought whatsoever of returning to his In less than five weeks I had been priv- old life or associations. ileged to make a cash sale of "Bible the family. Don Luis assured her it When the revolution broke out, he was Readings" in the best binding to each of would do no good, but to please her, he sought for as a Rightist rebel by govern- the two brothers in homes hundreds of consented. The doctor of theology came. ment agents who knew of his family con- miles apart. I thought it quite a coinci- He asked Don Luis what his new belief nections and wished to shoot him. At dence to have the visiting sister-in-law was. In answer, Don Luis read the ten the same time the rebels sought him as present to bring the fact to my attention. commandments and informed the man a soldier. All of his brothers were in "Go to dat house ober dayer-r-r," in- that that was a synopsis of his religion. the rebel forces; one already had lost his sisted a three-year-old, pointing across The visitor asked him about the virgin life. Don Luis escaped into France and the little dirt road, as I was finishing a Mary. Don Luis replied that he had no found his way into the Seventh-day Ad- "lawn canvass," but I just stroked the faith in her. Then the doctor of theol- ventist school near the Swiss border, little fellow's head and continued my ogy began to cry, "Heretic, heretic," and where he is preparing to be an evangelist. canvassing up the row of houses. when the mother appeared, he advised He may never be able to return to his Soon, however, I came to the end of her to throw her son out again, so that Spanish homeland, but he is firm. He the country road and began working my the other brothers would not be contami- says he will go to Cuba or South Amer- way back on the opposite side. After nated. ica to live, but give up the gospel which giving a few canvasses, I approached the Fanaticism had so hardened the heart is so precious to him, he will not. house to which my little would-be guide of the mother that even though it was had pointed. The man of the house gave winter,—and snow falls in Madrid,—she me a ready welcome. ordered her son to leave the house the I noticed that he and his wife showed second time. He walked the streets "Who Maketh Thee to a special interest in the prophecies. They without food. For five days he ate noth- Differ?" explained this by telling me that one ing. evening each week they invited a number Reading an advertisement in the paper (Continued from page 6) of their friends to come and study the that a typist was wanted, he applied for Bible with them in their home. "And the job and secured it. For sixteen A Father had an only Son. And that this evening," they said, "we are to start hours' work a day he got two pesetas. Son was loved and adored by His Fa- studying the prophecies of Daniel." He secured a room in that part of the ther. Too, He was worshiped by the The young couple professed to be un- city where the laborers lived, for one angels of heaven. He was the very cen- acquainted with the prophecies, and peseta a day. The other peseta was not ter upon which was placed the affection seemed to share the conviction with me enough for food and subway, but he con- of a universe. Must such a beautiful that I had been divinely sent to their tinued as best he could for several existence be interrupted? Yes, because home just in time to bring them the help months, at times hungry and at times love—and God Himself is love—could they and their friends needed. discouraged. Too proud to reveal the not let man be lost. He, the only Son What a satisfaction it was to know, story of his experience to the evangelist of God, left behind His glorious home, that evening after my day's work was in the hall, where he continued to attend to live among men—more than that, to done, that the book I had that afternoon meetings, he carried it in his own heart. be a man. Angels desired to pour upon was already preaching the message to an A Bible which had been given him by Him, even as a man, the unceasing devo- interested group of truth seekers! the Bible Society provided solace and tion that was His, to minister to Him strength. here as they'had there. Don Luis heard that his mother and But His own words were, "The Son brothers were leaving on a certain day, of man came not to be ministered unto, as usual, for San Sebastian, for the sum- but to minister, and to give His life a mer vacation. He had not seen them for ransom for many." And His own teach- five months, and he wanted to see them ing was, "Whosoever will be chief once more. Spending his last ten centi- among you, let him be your servant." mos for a ticket, he entered the station. Throughout His life among men, But as his brothers saw him, they turned "though He were a Son, yet learned He their back on him. This was too much. obedience by the things which He suf- He knew they would not speak to him. fered." So he walked out of the station, never You who are sons—mayors' sons, expecting to see them again. He walked bankers' sons, ministers' sons—can you on and on, not knowing or caring where, expect to live, to learn, without suffer- the whole night long. At dawn he ar- ing? Do you expect to escape what even rived at the little room he called his the Son of God could not? AKING an exposure with a home, and threw himself on his bed. He Every one of us must learn by experi- did not have a cent ; he owed two or camera is the act of pressing ence. It is a hard master, but a sure the shutter lever to take a pic- three days' rent; and he was hungry. His one. And it knows no favorites. 1V1 mother and his brothers were wealthy. ture. Amateurs will find that snapshots Are you a son? Then forget it, and are the easiest exposures for their He could share with them, except for the you will learn the sooner. religion he had embraced. He still had cameras. his revolver, and he wondered if, after If you are using a box camera, the lens all, that was not the best way out of his opening is set at the medium or center difficulties. Return to his home as a Prospecting With a opening for pictures being taken in very hypocrite, pretending to believe what he bright sunlight. On dull or cloudy days, did not, he refused to do. The future Prospectus the opening is set at the largest opening to allow as much light as possible to was as dark as midnight. (Continued front page 8) enter the lens. If the pictures are being Remembering that it was Sunday, he "Do I pay now or when the book is snapped at the beach or in the snow on determined to go that night to the hall to delivered?" asked Mr. Hall after he and a sunny day, the opening must be set at hear one last sermon before he ended his his wife had decided to order the book. the smallest opening; because sunlight life. At the close of the meeting the "If you pay now, I can deliver your reflected by water or snow is almost evangelist noticed a dejection about his book today," I suggested. twice as bright to a camera lens as the expression and asked him to tell his "Well, I might as well pay now as any same sunlight shining on green grass or story. Until then—for months he had time," was the reply, and my buyer wrote gray earth. been attending the meetings—he had a check for the price of the book in the The correct time for a snapshot is proudly sealed his story in his heart. The best binding. 1-25 of a second. Box-camera shutters evangelist first gave him a good meal and I then went back with Mrs. Hall to the operate at about this speed. On most then encouraged him. Later, he gave ranch house and into the front room folding cameras, the speed can be regu- him special instruction, and in a few where I had left my brief case. As I was lated at 1-25, 1-50 and 1-100 of a second weeks Don Luis was baptized. packing away my prospectus and pre- by simply moving a small pointer on the The colporteur work naturally opened paring to leave, she introduced me to lens board. before Don Luis as a provision for the another middle-aged woman, saying, So in making a snapshot, if you will immediate future, and he proved to be "This is my husband's brother's wife." follow this table, which indicates the an expert salesman. As an evangelistic "I am very glad to meet you, Mrs. different lens openings for the various colporteur, he learned to know his God Hall," I replied, turning to my new( ?) views an amateur usually snaps, your more intimately. acquaintance. camera should produce good, clear nega- When he returned to Madrid for a "Haven't I met you before?" she tives. colporteur institute, some months later, asked. "Are you not the young man who Snow, Water, and Mountain Pictures his mother learned of his presence, and sold us a Bible book at Huntington Box camera—Stop 3—Snap invited him to her home. He went as Beach, California ?" (smallest opening) an honored guest this time, but he defi- Then I could place her familiar face. Folding camera (double lens) f.22- nitely informed her that he was now I had indeed sold her husband, for cash, 1-25 APRIL 27, 1937 PAGE 13 Pictures of Hone es, People Mrs. C. H. Lauda, 1323 Washington, Under Open ;4Roman Empire after the fall of Rome all time exposures, place the camera on more swiftly than the days Jim Grant in 476 A.D., which was entirely different had known in the homeland, when he from all the ten kingdoms into which something solid, to be certain it will not Rome was divided (for it demanded and move during the exposure.—Joseph Ray- walked under the stately trees of the exercised spiritual power over the other more, in the Washington Star. college campus. It was vacationtime in kingdoms), and before whom three of the that tropical land where he was sta- other kings—the Heruli, the Vandals, and tioned, and the students were scattered the Ostrogoths—fell, was the Papacy." to distant localities. Some had gone to —"Bible Readings," p. 217. N their homes in heathen villages ; others 3. What attitude was the little-horn 3:15 were going from place to place, leaving power to take toward the Most High? the words of life with all who would How does Paul describe this same power? Z accept them. Sitting in the twilight, he Verse 25, first clause; 2 Thess. 2 :4. )36 thought of the many letters that came, 4. Who has claimed through the cen- DNI`i telling of their successes, of their love turies the prerogatives of God? for him, their teacher, and of their grati- NOTE.—"The claims that the Roman tude for his guidance along the road Papacy makes fulfill the specifications. Address all 51.,1arrespondence to The When the apostle Paul foretold the rise that led from dark superstitions to the in the church after his time of a self- Stamp Corner, Youth's Instructor, light of Christ's life. Fragments of Takoma Park, D.C. exalting power, the height of its wicked- sentences mingled with the sounds of ness was said to be in its claim to speak village life on the still night air. as God ; `So that he as God sitteth in Exchange "Today my brother accepted Jesus, the temple of God, showing himself that Use Commemoratives on Your and he will come to school with me. he is God.' 2 Thess. 2:4. This is really Exchange Letters . . . Today many people bought tracts the claim made for the pope of Rome. In and Gospels. . . Yesterday I talked to Ferraris's 'Ecclesiastical Dictionary' the (In sending requests to this column, please give doctrine is set forth: your age,—junior, senior, or mature,—the length the people at the village well, and they "'The Pope is of so great dignity and of time you have been collecting, and the size of want to hear more. . . . I am happy that so exalted that he is not a mere man, but your collection.) you taught me to be Jesus' boy." as it were God, and the vicar of God.' AUSTRALIA.—M. Salton, North One by one the lights in the village "'So that whatever the Pope does, seems Avenue, Cessnook, New South Wales, were darkened. The heat of the day to proceed from the mouth of God.' AuAtralia, (senior, advanced, would like had cooled. Jim Grant sat with bowed "'The Pope is as it were God on head. "What of these boys, had I not earth.' "—"Beccon Lights of Prophecy," to hear from all Seventh-day Adventist p. 69. collectors in all parts of the world. He seen the vision again and responded to has old Australian states, commemora- it?" he murmured. "Now, many of them 5. What does the prophecy say this tives, and common issues of Australia, are bringing the love of the Saviour to little-horn power would think to do? also New Zealand and the Pacific is- their own. Cares, yes, and grief, through Dan. 7 :25, third clause. lands, to exchange for stamps of any these years ; but, oh ! the joy." His voice NOTE.—"This 'little horn' was to assume country. He will exchange Australian, faltered. "Not potterer now, but potter. authority to lay its hand on the times and Father, I thank Thee !" laws of the Most High. In its self- New Zealand, and Pacific island Corona- exalting teachings the Roman Catholic tion stamps for Coronation stamps of Church has asserted authority over the other British colonies, or for commem- divine law. orative or airmail stamps of any country. "'The Pope can modify divine law, He will answer all letters promptly. (Mr. Watching the World Go By since his power is not of man but of Salton also wishes us to make a special (Continued from page 6) God.'—Ferraris's Ecclesiastical Dictionary, statement to all his correspondents to the article on the Pope."—Id., p. 72. effect that he is quite sure that some of across, with a shell one-eighth inch thick, 6. How were the saints of God to be his mail has been illegally intercepted. If is in the possession of one Milton Smith, treated? Verse 25, second clause; Matt. any of the INSTRUCTOR readers have writ- an egg collector, who resides in Cali- 24 :21, 22. ten to him and have not received a reply, fornia. NOTE.—"As the prophecy shows, the he would appreciate another letter.) Recently the Chicago Megiddo expedi- saints of the Most High were delivered tion, excavating on the plains of Arma- into the hands of this power for a long Anita Dickinson, Route 1, Box f17, geddon, dug up some Egyptian gold period. For cruel centuries the papal Bremerton, Washington, (junior, .begin- which they believe to have been buried church had power to 'wear out' those who ner, 600 stamps), would like to trade there about 3,300 years ago, according to refused to bow to its claims. Let an im- fifty at a time. She calls attention to the Dr. Gordon Loud, director of the expe- partial historian state the bare facts. In fact that her box number has been his well-known `History of Rationalism dition. He has found some cosmetic in Europe.' Lecky says : changed since she first appeared in this jars, jewelry, and a fluted bowl. It was "'That the Church of Rome has shed column. such things that the children of Israel more innocent blood than any other insti- Clarence Russell, Box 315, Retsil, took from the Egyptians when they left tution that has ever existed among man- Washington, (junior, beginner), would the land. It seems plausible that these kind, will be questioned by no Protestant very pieces were carried to Palestine by who has a competent knowledge of history. appreciate help in getting started in the The memorials, indeed, of many of her hobby of stamp collecting. the Jews on their exodus from Egpyt. The findings of the present corroborate persecutions are now so scanty that it is Warren Byrd, Ooltewah, Tennessee, impossible to form a complete conception the Biblical history of the past. Won- of the multitude of her victims, and it Route 1, Box 33, (junior, beginner), has derful, isn't it? only 142 stamps and would like help to is quite certain that no powers of imagi- Upon the horizon of time the storm nation can adequately realize their suffer- increase his collection. clouds of disaster gather darkly. Light- ings.'—Vol. II, p. 32: —Id., p. 7o Dick Reynolds, Route 1, Box 225, Ar- nings of human hatred rend the atmos- 7. What do spokesmen for the Roman lington, California, (junior, beginner, 1 phere of intensity. The storm ap- Catholic Church admit concerning per- year), would like to get in touch with proaches. Through the gloom there secution? some collector in Great Britain. He shines a solitary ray of hope—the words NOTE.—"Spokesmen for the Catholic offers 25 U.S. stamps for 25 King Ed- of Jesus, "I will come again." Hasten Church are free to admit that Rome has wards. on, glad day! persecuted to the death. But the worst PAGE 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR of it is, even moderns not only admit the up the steps into the Castle of Antonia, at son or their reverence. They could not fact, but justify it. An American Roman the northwest corner of the temple area, bear the thought o, uncircumcised Catholic organ said: Paul asked permission to speak to the heathens being made equ J. to the sons of "'The church has persecuted. Only a Jews, and the captain gave consent. Abraham. They cried - ut that such a tyro in church history will deny that.. . . "Paul's every word and act at this mo- wretch ought not to pollute, the earth with One hundred and fifty years after Con- ment of supreme danger evince remark- his presence-that it was .1 shame to have stantine the Donatists were persecuted, able courage, coolness, and self-possession. perserved his life; and in their rage and and sometimes put to death. . . . Protes- His one thought now was to seize the oc- impatience they tossed off their outer gar- tants were persecuted in France and Spain casion of speaking to the people, when he ments (as on that other occasion when with the full approval of the church had a great crowd before him, with their the garments were laid at the feet of authorities. We have always defended the attention fixed on him. This might be Saul himself), and threw up dust into the persecution of the Huguenots, and the an opportunity of bringing the truth to air with frantic violence. Spanish Inquisition. Wherever and when- them." "This commotion threw Lysias into new ever there is honest Catholicity, there will Questions perplexity. He had not t,een able to un- be a clear distinction drawn between truth r. How did Paul begin his address to derstand the apostle's Hebrew speech, and and error, and Catholicity and all forms when he saw its results he concluded that of heresy. When she thinks it good to those who were seeking his life? What helped to gain the attention of the peo- his prisoner must be guilty of some enor- use physical force, she will use it.'- mous crime. He ordered him therefore to The Western Watchman, Dec. 24, 1908." ple ? Acts 22 :1, 2. NOTE.-"Had he [Paul] spoken in be taken immediately from the stairs into -Id., p. 71. Greek, the majority of those who heard the barracks, and to be examined by 8. Until what time were the saints, him would have understood his words. torture in order to elicit a confession of times, and the law to be given into the But the sound of the holy tongue in that his guilt. Whatever ir -truments were hands of the little horn? Dan. 7:25, holy place fell like a calm on the troubled necessary for this kind of scrutiny would last part. waters. The silence became universal and be in readiness within a Roman fortress, 9. What is the meaning of "a time" breathless."-Conybeare and Howson. and before long the body of the apostle in Bible prophecy ? When did this period was 'stretched out,' like that of a common of 1260 years begin and end? Dan. ri :13, 2. To what nation did Paul say he malefactor, 'to receive the lashes,' with margin. belonged? Of what city and province was the officer standing by to whom Lysias had he a citizen? Where was Paul educated? NOTE.-"The 'time and times and di- entrusted the superintendence of this harsh How thorough was the instruction he re- examination."-Conybeare and Howson. viding of time' is readily computed. The ceived? Verse 3. year is called a 'time' in Scripture, as, NOTE.-In beginning his address, Paul 12. What order did the chief captain 'at the end of times, even years.' Dan. then give? What did he wish to know? r :13, margin. A time is one year, times referred to those things which would give him influence among the Jews. He refers Verse 24. (plural) are two years, and a dividing of 13. What preparation was made for the a time is a half year, or three years and to his early teacher Gamaliel. This cele- scourging? As the soldiers bound him, one half. According to the Jewish usage, brated Pharisee was a member of the Sanhedrin, and had great influence among what question did Paul ask the centurion ? a year was reckoned 36o days; and the Verse 25. three years and a half would total 1260 the Jews. It was counted a high honor to have been one of his pupils. Paul men- NOTE.--To scourge a Roman citizen was days. Now, in symbolic prophecy a day a grave crime, and these Roman officers stands for a year, as in Ezekiel 6, tions in other scriptures his early ad- 4:5, vantage as a Jew, but he says, "What were afraid to proceed with their plans and Numbers 14:34. The long period when they learned that Paul was a Roman allotted to the special supremacy of the things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ." Phil. 3:7. citizen. little horn-to work its way with the 14. What did the centurion tell the chief saints and times and laws of the Most 3. What did Paul say of his zeal in captain? To whom did chief captain High-was 1260 years."-Id., p. 75. persecuting others? Who could bear wit- then go? What question did he ask? The time period of 1260 years began in ness that what he said was true? What How did Paul answer? Verses 26, 27. 538 A.D. and ended in 1798. (For infor- had he received that gave him authority 15. How did the chief captain become a mation regarding this, see "Beacon Lights to persecute those who believed in Jesus? Roman? What did his citizenship mean of Prophecy," pp. 76-83, or any of our On what errand had he gone to Damas- to him? How did Paul obtain his free- other denominational books explaining cus? Verses 4, 5. dom? Verse 28. the prophecies.) 4. What was his experience when he 16. What did those who were about to came near the city? Verses 6-8. scourge Paul then do? Verse 29, margin. ro. In the vision, what did the prophet 5. What did Paul say of those who behold? Dan. 7:9, to. were with him at that time? What ques- NOTE.-Tully, in an oration, referred to NOTE.-"While still 'great words' were tion did he ask? What did the Lord tell the ancient law, exclaiming, "It is a crime being spoken here on earth by the papal him to do? Verses 9, ro. to bind a Roman citizen, but an unpardon- power, in the vision recorded in Daniel 7 6. How did Paul enter Damascus? able one to beat him." the prophet beheld the assembling of a Who visited him while he was blind? 17. What did the chief captain still wish judgment court in heaven above, before What did Ananias say to him? What was the Ancient of days. That court is to to know? Before whom did he arrange the result? Verses r1-13. for Paul to appear? Verse 3o. give God's answer to error and sin. . . . 7. For what four things did Ananias This view, presented to the prophet, say God had chosen Paul? Verses 14, 15. Can You Tell showed what would take place in heaven 8. What did Ananias advise Paul to do in the hour of God's judgment."-Id., without delay? Verse 16. What Paul's object was in wishing to P. 85. 9. When Paul came to Jerusalem after speak to the Jews? 1. In the judgment scene, who is his conversion, what experience came to Why he spoke in the Hebrew language? brought to the Ancient of days? Verse 13. him? Verses 17, 18. Who, in a former chapter of Acts, used 12. What was given to the Son of man? ro. What did Paul tell the Lord as a the same words in beginning an address Verse 14. reason why he should stay and preach in that Paul used on this occasion ? 13. With whom does Christ share His Jerusalem? What direct command did Who spoke the words of the memory kingdom when the investigative judgment the Lord give to him? Verses 19-2i. verse? is completed? Verse 27; Rom. 8: 7. r. What word did Paul speak which What shows that these words were in aroused the anger of the Jews afresh? Paul's heart? I SUN I MON I TUE I WED I THU FRI I SAT What did they cry out? How did they What shows that they were not 'in the further show their feelings? Verses 22, 23. hearts of the angry Jews? NOTE. "When Paul spoke the word Place a v in the space below each day 'Gentiles,' then began one of the most when you study your lesson that day. odious and despicable spectacles the world can witness, the spectacle of an Oriental mob, hideous with impotent rage, howling, JUNIOR yelling, cursing, gnashing their teeth, fling- ing about their arms, waving and tossing VI-Paul's Address on the Castle their blue and red robes, casting dust into Stairs the air by handfuls, with all the furious gesticulations of an uncontrolled fanati eAr-D (May 8) cism."-Farrar. Issued by LESSON SCRIPTURE : Acts 22. As soon as Paul mentioned the Gen- Review and Herald Publishing Association MEMORY VERSE : "This is My command- tiles, he was interrupted. "Up to this Tacoma Park, Washington, D. C. ment, That ye love one another, as I have point he had riveted their attention. They loved you." John 15:12. listened while he spoke to them of his LORA E. CLEMENT EDITOR early life, his persecution of the church, LESSON HELP : "Acts of the Apostles," ADVISORY COUNCIL his mission to Damascus. Many were Pp. 408-410. present who could testify, on their own T. M. FRENCH F. D. NICHOL D. A. OCHS . PLACE: Jerusalem, the stairs leading up evidence, to the truth of what he said. S. A. WELLMAN J. E. WEAVER M. E. MUNGER to the Tower of Antonia. Even when he told them of his miraculous This paper does not pay for unsolicited ma- terial. Contributions, both prose and poetry, PERSONS : Paul, Claudius, Lysias, the conversion, his interview with Ananias, are always welcomed, and receive every con- crief captain; centurion and soldiers; the and his vision in the temple, they listened sideration; but we do not return manuscript Jews; the Sanhedrin, the highest authority still. . . . But when his mission to the for which return postage is not supplied. among the Jews. Gentiles was announced,-though the words quoted were the words of Jehovah SUBSCRIPTION RATES Setting of the Lesson spoken in the temple itself, even as the United States and Canada: Yearly subscrip- Paul had been seized by the angry Jews Lord had once spoken to Samuel,-one tion, $1.75; six months, $1. In clubs of five while he was in the temple, and they or more, one year, each $1.50; six months, outburst of frantic indignation rose from 8o cents. sought to take his life. He was protected the temple area and silenced the speaker Foreign countries where extra postage is re- from his enemies by Roman soldiers under on the stairs. quired: Yearly subscription, $2.35; six months, the command of Claudius Lysias, the chief "Their national pride bore down every $1.30; in clubs of five or more, one year, each captain. As the soldiers were taking him argument which could influence their rea- $2.10; six months, $x.to. APRIL 27, 1937 PAGE 15 • Z-1:4&ritPits,

O WHOLESALE price advances on shoes 0 THE headquarters of the Ghostwriters O FINLAND has the greatest number of in the United States, ranging from five Bureau is at 17 East 19th Street, New lakes of all the countries in the world, to twenty-five cents a pair, have been York City. For four years politicians, forty thousand being recorded in their posted by leading manufacturers to off- executives, merchants, sales managers, most recent geographic survey. set a sharp advance in leather prices. bankers, doctors, clubwomen, and others too numerous to mention, have dropped 0. NEW YORK'S Empire State Building IP. THERE is to be a world's fair in New in to these quietly furnished offices and is going to lose its title as the "world's York in 1939. Nine hundred and explained their requirements to a sym- tallest.' The Palace of the Soviets, now eighty-one acres of land will be made pathetic listener. The material they being constructed in Moscow, Russia, on the Flushing marshes, at an esti- needed has been written in a highly satis- will rear some 200 feet higher than the mated cost of $437,985,000. factory way, and for this service they Empire State. P. IN the Scandinavian peninsula all have paid at rates ranging from one and 10 LEFT practically nothing by her famed railway employees, streetcar conductors a half to eight cents a word. Fred E. flying husband who crashed with Will and motormen, bus drivers, and all Baer, head of the Bureau, began "ghost- Rogers in Alaska, but paid $25,000 by others engaged in the transportation of ing" in France during the World War. Congress for his world-girdling air- passengers, are forbidden to drink liquor When fellow soldiers learned he had plane "Winnie Mae," Mrs. Wiley Post while on duty or within six hours of worked on newspapers, they asked him has enrolled in an Oklahoma City secre- their going on duty. to compose their love letters. He turned tarial school. professional in 1932, doing this work as OP MRS. CLEMENTINE FARR DUFF saw to a side line to a publicity agency which he O WHEN the organist at St. Paul's Ro- it before she died that patients and em- had started and which was not doing so man Catholic church, of Blackstone, ployees of the Washington (D.C.) well. Persons forced to address a ban- Massachusetts, sits down to play, he Home for Incurables would continue to quet or radio audience often become plays in two States. The line runs get the ice cream she had been buying panic stricken as the speech-making day through the choir loft of the church, them for years. Her will provides a approaches. It is too late to back out, bisecting the organ so that one half is $20,000 trust fund for such purchases so they rush to the Bureau. In addition in Blackstone and the other half in as long as the home exists. to his regular staff, Baer relies on 127 Woonsocket, Rhode Island. part-time helpers who are specialists in O TURKEY'S young girls, ranging in their fields. More than a dozen of these O THE State Historical Society of Mary- age from sixteen to twenty years, are are professors or instructors at Columbia land is planning several celebrations, ready to fight, and they want to fight University. and will erect a marker for James Rum- like men. In a recent petition to the sey, soldier and mechanic, who made ministry of education, they asked that steam propel a boat 150 years ago. The ► STEPS are being taken to transform military education be given them, and St. Augustine, Florida, into a laboratory Rumseyan Society of West Virginia is that they be treated the same as boy of history by restoring and preserving planning a celebration marking the ses- recruits fulfilling their compulsory-mili- ancient evidence that goes back to ab- quicentennial of Rumsey's public tri- tary-service term. original Indian days. Planned on a umph. thoroughly scientific basis, the project O THE longest total eclipse of the sun b. A NEW $139,000 museum building in has vast possibilities, for the community Morristown (N.J.) National Historical visible from the earth in 1,200 years was founded two centuries before the will take place June 8. The path of Park, was dedicated on Washington's Revolutionary War, and is therefore the Birthday, by the National Park Service the eclipse will extend for 5,000 miles oldest in the United States. across the Pacific Ocean, and its maxi- at the annual meeting of the Washing- mum duration will be seven minutes and 0. A PACKING plant at Redley, Cali- ton Association of New Jersey. The four seconds. However, this will occur fornia, has just installed a peach defuz- building will be a center for spreading at noon at a point in the open ocean zer that takes off the fuz from fresh knowledge of the colonial and Revolu- about 1,500 miles from the nearest land. peaches, leaving them as smooth as tionary periods in American history. apples. It is reported that two tons of 10. A LANDSCAPE painting by Renoir, 10.• A NEW portrait camera for photo- fuzz were removed from twenty-seven graphing the face of the earth from the French artist of the late nineteenth cen- cars of peaches. tury, was shown recently in the art air has been designed and built by Sher- gallery of the Fleming Museum of the 10. Fox the first time in history, Japan man Fairchild. At each click of the University of Vermont. The picture, has granted permission for men and shutter when the plane is at an altitude which was painted in 1885, is character- women to skate in pairs, provided they of 30,000 feet, 760 square miles of the ized by critics who know it as a very are professionals. The practice, hitherto earth's surface is recorded on ten films fine specimen of the art of Renoir, one strictly forbidden, was legalized in view behind ten lenses. The price of the of the best-known French artists of his of the Olympic games to be held in Japan camera is $26,000, and the cost of oper- period. in 1940. ating it is a considerable item. 0. How large a standing army has the b. A DANISH inventor has discovered II. IT is reported that compulsory mili- United States? Its regular Army, Na- that by passing a weak current of elec- tary service is likely to be introduced in tional Guard, and reserve forces total tricity through the hull of a ship, the Great Britain in the course of the pres- 474,353 officers and men. The Navy formation of barnacles and other plant ent year. It will be presented to the forces number 16,000 officers and 93,000 and animal life can be prevented. empire as "a national service plan for enlisted men. The Coast Guard operates the territorial army." This will mean under the Treasury Department in peace, the enrollment of all men of military age under the Navy Department in war. and fitness in the territorial army. The The Marine Corps is under the Navy unemployed will be called first. Weekly Department at all times. drill and training will be required. O SUPPOSE a Chicago bride wants orange 0 THE selection of a pope rests with blossoms overnight from Florida, or a the College of Cardinals—seventy bish- Missouri woman wants a New York ops, of different nationalities, chosen by gown on a few hours' notice. Mildred former popes. The cardinals are locked Johnson in Philadelphia runs an efficient up in rooms at the Vatican until, by air-shopping service to which a person successive secret ballots, a majority vote in such circumstances can turn for help. is obtained. After each voting the ballots The customer who desires rare foods, Whatever is the matter are burned in a stove, the chimney of flowers, clothes, or what not from dis- which is eagerly watched by the crowds tant places in a hurry simply telephones with you, let your feel- waiting in front of St. Peter's. If the the request to the local railway-express ings soak at home and vote is indecisive, damp straw is mixed agent. This agent gets in touch with with the ballots and a black cloud of Miss Johnson. She telegraphs to one of starch them stiff before smoke comes from the chimney. When her coworkers at an airport nearest the the world. a decision is reached, dry straw is used place where the desired item is obtain- and the resulting light smoke informs able, and he does the rest. —Blanche Howard. the crowd that the election is over. PAGE 16