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ENTLE whiffs of perfume from the G locust tree stole through the window into the darkness of the room. The cease- less rustling of the breeze in the poplar leaves broke the calm of the late summer evening. "You are going to leave tomorrow," they whispered. "Your carefree childhood is gone." Were not these my very own thoughts? Yes, for the next day's events were to take me to a Christian school some distance from home. I was going because mother and dad would be pleased to have me do so. They had made it possible.

My parents had just come from the Midwestern United States to live in a large • Eastern city. It was strange and lonesome in contrast to the friendliness of the small university town we had known as home. The churches presented the worst prob- lem, for they were as cold and as dead as tombs. They lacked the fire and fervor of our Christian Endeavor Society back home. No cheery voice of a minister ever wel- comed us or invited us to return, and we did not do so. One evening as dad was reading the paper, a small announcement almost hid- den by the screaming movie advertise- ments attracted his attention: "BIBLE -X PROPHECIES EXPLAINED AND DIS- CUSSED." "Well," he mused, "it won't do us any harm to go and listen. Maybe this is the S. M. HARLAN answer to our problem." "Now, Dick, you'd better be careful. One Evening as Dad Was Reading the Paper, a Small Announcement Almost Hidden Don't get mixed up with any silly religious by the Screaming Movie Advertisements Attracted His Attention belief. Remember, we want Shirley brought up in our own church," cau- tioned mother. But dad went to the meet- ing anyway. He listened eagerly to the precious truths AN APPRECIATION of well-known Bible prophecies. Were these texts really in the Bible? How strange! He had never before heard of of My Parents such doctrines. "Whai will Jane think of this?" he wondered. "The people are so friendly too, —Please turn to page 16 By SHIRLEY CLARKE

rf, 17,' • rio‘Ni ?essv-er,a, VOL. 97, NO. 17 APRIL 26, 1949 My Gethsemane Our Morning Prayer By ALICE LOUISE TENSEN By VEDA VAN ETTEN I walked a lonely road tonight As dawning lifts the shade of day Of failure and defeat; Before our path is trod, With head bowed down and spirit low, We pause with thankful, loving hearts Master Artist My grief full and complete. And lowly bow to God. By GERTRUDE SIMPSON I walked the road that Jesus walked. We thank Him for the night of sleep, A Master's hand is here; a stroke, 'tis done; My scourge was dark regret; For angels from above, What brush can paint, what pen portray The bitter of the cup I drank, Steadfast and sure the hours through, His skill? I shall not soon forget. We thank Him for His love. What mind can know the secrets of His power? It seemed upon my shoulders We pray for faith that walks with us What tongue can tell the counsels of His Was a cross I could not bear; And smooths the stony ways; will? Until I felt His hand in mine. We ask for grace and virtue strong He would my burden share. To keep us through the days. The simplest things of life on every hand Demand our praise and adoration too— How could you walk that lonely road, We pray that God will give us strength The sunset's tinting, the green grass of spring. Dear Lord, of Calvary? Until our victory's won, The swallow's clinging nest, the violet's The cross you bore, the cup you drank, And we at last can hear Him say hue. Such sacrifice for me. Those blessed words, "Well done." These small parts of His ways our skill defy; Now as I walk each day life's road. Though daily multiplied o'er sea and land: I hear Thy whisper low, Fear And who, of all the puny sons of men, "My grace, dear child, is all-sufficient; The thunder of His power can understand? Have I not told you so?" By HELEN J. ANDERSON Oh, wondrous are His ways. 'Tis He who And so the road's not lonely now I fear, 0 God, I fear forms The cross not hard to bear. The storm that gathers; and the night Our nature hosts in wisdom and in love. Forgiveness through regret is written. Is cold and dark; there is no light They show His matchless skill, His power His cross and crown I share. To guide or warm or cheer. supreme, And sing glad praises to our God above. The shadows are too near; They press me closer, closer still. Like sighs from death's dim, lonely hill Brooklet to Ocean The sobbing winds I hear. By FRANCES SMITH But then there shines a glory from the sky, Listen to the splashing As when a wanderer sees a cottage light; Of that tiny brook! And though his soul is dark and near to die, Hark! the fairy music His heart is warmed, and he forgets the night. In the shady nook! So now, 0 God, I know that Thou art nigh, And, knowing this, I have no need of sight. Watch it while it's skipping O'er the pebbles small, Catching crystal droplets As they rise and fall. His Temple By GERTRUDE TEMPLE TOWNE Sending forth a silver sheen Made of dewy spray, Nearness of Heaven I'm building a body for Jesus, Drops that sound like elfin bells By HELEN W. WESTON To be of some service for Him; Tinkling all the way. I pray that He'll help me remember I saw a glorious sunrise My purpose, which must not grow Now the brooklet widens In beautiful splendor above, dim. As the sea it nears; And thought as I watched that glory, Now it's rushing, roaring, God has filled this day with His love! He says that it is His temple; While the course it steers. Kept holy and clean it must be. I heard a blithe trilling robin He left us this word in the Bible; See its dashing torrents Singing sweetly upon the wing, I'm sure it was written for me. A tumbling crystal wall, My heart then joyously echoed, Now a bubbling lava bed, Praise God for another gay spring! Whether I'm eating or drinking, Then comes a leaping fall. Or working us nesting, 'twere well I heard such sweet childish laughter To do everything to God's glory Contagiously ring through the earth, And all selfish motives repel. It added its note of courage Once again sweet peace and calm; To blend with this real rippling mirth! Not only for this day I'm building, A silver ribbon floats along. But for days that shall lengthen to Widening, ever widening, I rose from my knees this morning years, The river, ocean bound, Aware of the nearness of heaven, When the harvest of souls shall be Merging into briny deep, And turned with smiles to my Father ended Out of sight and sound. Because of these blessings He'd given! And the sign of the Saviour appears.

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A TRIBUTE HE Lord blessed me when He gave me Tmy son, George. Children do not al- • ways realize the great love that is in the heart of a parent, but I tried to tell him to My Son each day how much I loved him, how much he meant to me, and I believe with all my heart that he knew the depth of By MRS. JESSIE TOMKINS my affection. When a child is taken from one, how wonderful it is to have no regrets and to know that he will see Christ when the resurrection morning dawns. I have that assurance. He was just a young boy, fourteen There is no assurance that any of us has merciful the Lord had been to him, for years, six months, and twelve days to be twenty-four hours left in which to prepare his first words upon hearing of the acci- exact, when the Lord permitted him to be to meet the Lord, or even one hour. Jesus dent were, "My pal was ready, but if taken. I shall not forget the morning of said, "Be ye also ready"—not, Be getting God had allowed me to get on that motor- November 3, 1948. We had breakfast, and ready, but, Be ready. George was ready. cycle before the accident occurred, I would there was the usual rush to take care of But am I ready? Are you ready? have been lost!" How happy George would last-minute details before we both left for Yes, God answered my prayer that be to know that Wayne now has given the day. As usual, George kissed me morning. He knew George's heart. He his heart to the Lord and has asked for good-by and told me that he loved me. knew that if He permitted the life of my baptism. Motherlike I cautioned him to be careful son to be taken, I would be sure of seeing When the news reached the school, it on his motorcycle. Then I set out for work, him again. God cared for George, not as was as though the sun had suddenly with- • and he left for church school. I might have chosen if the heavenly Father drawn from the sky. Teachers and stu- A few minutes after I arrived at the had said, "Today you may choose to have dents alike could not get their minds on office I was on my knees, as I had been George live to meet all the temptations and their studies. Someone vital was missing. every other morning, asking God to take trials of life, or you may choose to have George was gone! The radiance of his care of my boy, and to give me strength him laid to sleep and be saved." When presence no longer filled the room; his for whatever might come during the day. Jesus calls him from the tomb, I know I shining face and twinkling eyes were not At five minutes to eight—the very moment shall see him; and together, if I am faith- there. School was dismissed. Many of his I bowed before the great God of the uni- ful, we shall go to meet the Lord in the classmates who were Christians have now verse—my boy's life was snuffed out in an air. turned to the Lord in a stronger way, instant. One minute his mind had been While George lay still in death, just a and some have accepted Christ for the first filled with the thoughts of the day—the short distance down the road, his friend time. beautiful sunshine, the thrill of riding in Wayne waited. "What could be delaying When George's playmates in Michigan the fresh morning air, and his friends at George this morning?" he wondered. —he was there for a short time—learned school who would be looking for him—but George always picked Wayne up, and of his death, they, too, were deeply af- the next minute there was darkness, death, together the two went on to school. George fected and have made a new consecration and sleep. His thoughts had perished. How had often prayed for his friend, for he to God. little time we have! Little did we realize knew that Wayne was not baptized, and. Had he lived, George was in line to be that his name had come up in the judg- he longed to see his friend make the full valedictorian of his class this year. He was ment, that his probation had closed! surrender to Christ. Wayne realized how a good, obedient, diligent, and tender- APRIL 26, 1949 PAGE 3 hearted boy. Those who knew him—both George was making. It was even more be so sad." She told me how George had old and young—loved him, for he was full noticeable than his physical growth. He turned and looked at her, and she will of spirit and fun. He also had filled his had always been a good boy—a boy who never forget the expression on his face. In • mind with the good things of life, and he loved the Lord and loved to pray—but all sincerity and earnestness and with a could talk on a wide variety of subjects a change had come over him. He had be- wondrously sweet smile, he said, "Mrs. with anyone. come quiet and was often found deep in Flemmer, when that happens, I will not I suppose I shall always think of him thought. He also prayed very earnest know anything about it." His statement as my little boy, but he really had grown prayers. was true. God did not permit him to into a big boy, almost a man. Yes, he was At evening worship he would often ask suffer, for his death was instantaneous. five feet, eight and a half inches tall, and for the song, "Then Jesus Came," and Neither do I believe that it was a mere weighed a hundred and thirty-two pounds. would say, "Mother, let's sing all four. coincidence that three days before he died I do not believe he had one enemy in stanzas. They are so beautiful." At his he went downtown to do some shopping. the world. He never spoke of disliking funeral all four stanzas were sung by, one It was raining that day, and he did not anyone, and, as far as I knew, he loved of his teachers. like to ride his motorcycle in the rain. He everyone. His was a beautiful and noble About two weeks before his death could have waited another day, but he in- life and one that reflected the image of George had taken some pictures, and sisted that he must go. When they told Christ. among them were some of him. They are me at the funeral parlor what articles of During the last few weeks George the only recent ones I have, and how I clothing to bring for his burial, I thought I walked very close to the Lord. His mind treasure them! that I would have to buy them. But when was absorbed with spiritual things, and he It seems strange that just four days be- I arrived at home there in the first drawer talked much about the nearness of Jesus. fore the accident a woman should say to I opened I found the things I would need He told me time and again that he did him, "George, be careful on your motor- to take to the funeral parlor. They were not think we would have long to wait until cycle. Someday I might pick up the paper still in their wrappings as they had come Christ would come. A friend and I re- and read that you have been hurt and are from the store. On that rainy day George marked about the rapid spiritual growth in the hospital. You know, we would all had bought most of his own burial clothes! Nor was it by mere chance that the day before his death George stood in his class- room and said, "As far as I know there is nothing in my heart that would separate me from God. I have laid all on the altar, and I have determined to live every mo- "THAT'S ment of every day the way God would • want me to live." Those words will ring in the ears of his classmates for many a day, and there may be some in the kingdom be- MY MOM" cause of them. Thank God for such a testimony and for such an assurance! On the evening of the same day George By INEZ STORIE CARR went with me to the academy grounds where a meeting was held to discuss the building of a chapel. Again I know God She's an aristocrat, a great lover of peo- dresses. Then mom hitched Orf a, her was near, for that evening when George ple, thrilled to go places and see things, spirited two-year-old colt, to the buggy said he would like to go with me, I said, but withal an ambitious hard-working, and took us to the station. Soon we were "Son, I don't think this is anything for down-to-earth farm woman—that's my on our way to South Lancaster, Massa- children. It is just going to be a business mom. chusetts, and an education. The tears she meeting, so you stay at home and get your Picture a poet milking cows, a musician shed we will never know about. She cooking for thrashers, a woman of ex- closed the door to our room and did not lessons." He replied, "But, Mother, I want ecutive ability raising turkeys, a public enter it for months. to go!" Ordinarily when I told him to stay speaker isolated from brilliant compan- Her friends and neighbors reproached at home, that was all there was to it. ionship. She's a Joan of Arc for bravery, her for sending us so far away when there However, I telephoned the minister and an Edison for perseverance, a Paul for were public schools so much nearer our asked whether it was permissible for him principle, a bird for gladness—that's my home. But she pledged her life to give to attend the meeting with me, and he mom. us the right kind of an education, and it said that it was. I know that God directed She has run the gantlet, or so it seems took just that. me in my relenting, for that was our last 41 to me, of human longings, sorrows, hopes, There was the constant press of lessons evening together. And what a happy one and tears. Nestled among the rugged hills to learn and grades to pass, and then it was. of a beautiful lake region in northern came the call of companions and finally During the meeting a paper was passed New York stands a lone frame house. marriage. We both located far from the Here she came to live when she was seven- homestead nestled among the stately pines around for those to sign who wished to teen years old, and here she still is. and cedars of the valley, so we never went become charter members of the new chapel The recollection I have of her folding back again except to visit. But the day where the people of Fair Oaks could come us up in her apron on the front porch as came when sister went home to stay. She to worship. When it came to me, I was she rocked and sang in her clear beautiful made the journey in the baggage coach surprised to see George's name sixth on the soprano voice, while the whippoorwills with mother silently weeping in the car list. On the way home he said, "Mother, called across the valley, will forever re- ahead, but comforted because our loved I signed my name on that paper because main a sacred memory. I shall always one had passed away a child of the loving I want more than anything else to have remember, too, the ready ringing laugh Master. a place built on the school grounds where that was so much a part of her. My sister Was it worth it? you could have asked we can worship God." and I were her friends, companions, and mom. She would have asked you in turn, playmates; she loved us intensely. "Is heaven worth working for, giving for, George discovered a beautiful spot back When we were in our teens, a dress- living for?" I believe that someday in the of our home in Fair Oaks that he called maker came to stay a few weeks in our glad hereafter all the things my mom his point of inspiration. Truly it is a place home. 'When she left, sister and I were missed here will be made up to her a where one can meet with God. It is just at the proud possessors of several new thousandfold. —Please turn to page 18 PAGE 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR make their summer homes in the United States and Canada. So there was good reason for consulting Sidney Esten, a trained naturalist in Indianapolis. Surely -ativentute Uniimitel he could tell me where to look for these elusive birds. "They're everywhere," he said, "in spring and fall, but just now—well, why don't you join our 'Christmas Census' two weeks from Sunday? Our little group will be here at eight sharp, dressed for a rough all-day hike." Of course I accepted the Forty invitation but wondered what he expected to do for me on a cold winter day. In that eight-hour laboratory course I learned more about bird observing than I could have FEATHERED JEWELS learned from all the books in the Congres- sional Library. It was evident that hence- forth I must go after the birds rather than wait for them to come to me. By OREN C. DURHAM Esten and his Audubon Society friends pushed rapidly from wood to swamp to upland, carefully scanning the trees, sky, and ground, and making frequent short ONSIDER the wood warblers. Of these onto my first fine gold, which was a yellow stops for breathless listening. Most of the C carefree "jewels of the bird world," it warbler feeding among the yellow catkins chirps and bits of song were immediately can be as truly said as of the more familiar of a willow. Next an unmistakable male recognized, but if not they were treated as lilies that "Solomon in all his glory was redstart, in rich orange and black, fanned valuable clues. I was surprised that these not arrayed like one of these." I am sure his tail again and again, giving me time experts all carried field guides and con- of it without ever seeing Solomon's ward- to get acquainted. Then another gleam of sulted them often. I had always followed robe or ornaments, for the excellence of gold when a black-masked yellowthroat the plan of trying to remember what my • the living creature is built in by a Master eyed me from a thick bush and sang, strange quarry looked like until I got Workman and appeals to the mind and "Wichery, wichery, wichery, wich." For home, with the result that I invariably soul, as well as to the eye. several years I was unable to distinguish failed to note or keep in mind the one im- Take a single example out of the forty between this rollicking song and that of portant field mark. My tutors brought their in my own collection—the prothonotary the Carolina wren. Number five was the binoculars into action with such remark- warbler, done in two tones of pure gold modest but immaculate black-and-white able rapidity that nothing with wings (except the contrasting gray wings), and warbler which explored the bark of an old seemed to escape. Their enthusiasm was guaranteed never to tarnish. But this liv- oak along Cicero Creek in Indiana—in infectious. What a pity that as a lad I had ing ornament of the wooded swamps also September. not found someone to inspire and guide has grace of movement, unbelievable But at the rate of five species in eight me, to initiate me in this fascinating pur- energy, and a language of his own— years it would require nearly eighty years suit! "PEACE, peace, peace, peace peace," he longer (I was already turning forty) for So when spring finally came again, and pipes to his lady. A diligent workman, he me to find all the fifty-four warblers that apple-blossom time, my eyes and ears were provides well for his family, and in early fall takes them for a long winter vacation in the tropics—Central or even South Number Five Among My Jewels Was the Modest America. Living jewels like this require but Immaculate Black-and-white Warbler Which no polishing. Their luster can be increased Explored the Bark of an Old Oak Along Cicero Creek in Indiana only by the effort spent in their pursuit. And once we acquire them we are really rich, for they cannot be lost or stolen. They are, in fact, a lifetime investment LOUISE MATTAUSCH. ARTIST that pays large annual dividends. I speak from long and happy experience in this kind of treasure hunting. But I searched a long time before find- ing one of these prothonotaries, not because they are such rare gems, but because I did not know when, where, or how to look for them. At the end of eight long years I could boast of knowing only five kinds of warblers, and the twenty-four-carat pro- thonotary was not among them. The oven- bird, with the orange crown, happened to head the list, having deliberately stepped off the picture page of Frank Chapman's little book What Bird Is That? for my special benefit. We met face to face on May 6, 1922, in Shiloh Hollow, which was then a wild ravine near Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri. Two weeks later I stumbled APRIL 26, 1949 PAGE 5 reasonably alert, for I had been practicing learned to identify the handsome bay- have been few and far between—one or on the blackbirds, sparrows, and other breasted warbler and to bring the Black- at most two in a season, and none in the hardy birds ever since the holidays. Before burnian down from the treetops. But the grim war years. But dividends from the in- going to work on May 14 I had searched songs of these two were difficult for my vestments of the dozen previous seasons a hedgerow, and found a redstart, a chest- ear, and still are. The song of the black- more than compensated for lack of new nut-sided warbler, a magnolia, and a north- throated green was finally mastered only bird faces. My wife suddenly found that ern water thrush, the last three of which two years ago. We found a hooded warbler she could make good use of the binoculars were brand, sparkling new to me. Three in the rain; and at Clifly Falls Park, Indi- on warm May days when warbler waves warbler discoveries in one hour was almost ana, just across the Ohio River from Ken- broke over our back yard and the little ad- too good to be true. Only once since have tucky, a nature guide pointed out our first jacent city park. We cured that difficulty by I been more successful in so short a time. Kentucky warbler. buying another pair, so she continues to Thus began the three most productive For a month in the spring of 1931 I was greet some of the colorful returning mi- years when the life list of warblers grew in Waukegan, Illinois, by myself. I soon grants before I do. We often step out into steadily from five to thirty-one and my an- discovered a little ravine, where on a short the park together and glean the treetops, nual score of all kinds of birds increased early-morning hike on the tenth morning bushes, and shady nooks, renewing our steadily. The stock market collapse of 1929 of May four new jewels glistened in the touch with ten or a dozen familiar friends. did not touch my securities. That was the sunshine: the Cape May, Connecticut, Sometimes we are content to use the field year that the priceless black-throated blue goldenwing, and palm. I had stumbled into glasses from our lawn chairs and watch the and the far-more-abundant myrtle, as well Warbler Glen, so named long before by the warbler world go by. Our yard list totals as the blackpoll and Tennessee warblers, bird watchers of the Chicago area who for twenty. were added to my collection. On a bright years had been reaping rich harvests from Only one of the last nine jewels, a November day in Rock Creek Park, where its trees and bushes. Four days later I fol- cerulean—and well named too—has been Theodore Roosevelt had hunted birds with lowed these Audubon Society members in picked up in our own vicinity. We have binoculars a quarter of a century before, their annual Warbler Day field trip when also seen an orange-crown in Swope Park, I picked up a pine warbler. this little ravine was combed from end to more than a dozen years after the discovery My searches were rewarded with nine end. It yielded me two more warblers—the of the ovenbird; a yellow-throated warbler new ones the next season, every one a parula, marked in blue and yellow with a beside a bayou in Louisiana; the prairie prize, beginning with the prothonotary that saddle of green; and the Canada, which warbler on an outing with the Miami was feeding along Cicero Creek and end- wears a black necklace across its yellow (Florida) Bird Club in November; and a ing with a Kentucky warbler that nested in breast. Time would fail me to mention the worm-eating warbler in the city park at the same locality. Between these were the excellencies of the blue-winged and the Peoria, Illinois. Of strictly Western species Wilson's, bright yellow with black vel- Nashville or of the shy mourning warbler we can boast only four. Three bear the • vet cap, and the yellow-breasted chat, that had to be stalked several times around names of noted ornithologists—Audubon, which is all of that and a sober-faced clown a bush in Forest Park, Saint Louis, Mis- Townsend, MacGillivray. The last two of besides. souri. these were identified on the trail near On a May field trip with Esten we Since 1931 the additions to the life list —Please turn to page 20

One night Jessie, a dear little patient my face uplifted to heaven, and silently in the tuberculosis ward of the Indian besought the Lord, that if it were His Hospital where I work, was very sick. She will, He would give me power to turn that had recently lost her three-year-old daugh- gauge. A ter with tubercular meningitis, and now I picked up the wrench again, this time she herself lay on her deathbed. calmly, knowing that my Father would She was taking oxygen, and her nurse help me if it were His will. The wrench called me to help change the tank. It was was set to the bolt again; and I gave a Miracle usually a simple task to loosen the gauge long, steady, downward pull, never letting from the empty tank and transfer it to loose my grip, and suddenly it gave way. the new one. But I began to worry when, Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, as try as I might, that connection simply the now simple task was finished, and I By ROBERTA R. PALMER would not budge, no matter how hard I breathed a fervent thank-you prayer to tugged on the wrench. All this time poor the Lord who had given me the strength Jessie was lying there gasping for breath. to do it. O THE world this little story probably My next thought was to get some Jessie's mother looked at me and ex- Twill not seem remarkable, but to me brawny man to help me out of my dif- claimed with astonishment in her voice, it was a miracle which I want to proclaim ficulty. I called thc fireman from the "You did what even that husky fireman far and wide, that others may know of basement, and he applied his powerful couldn't do, and you're such a little girl!" the wonderful love of Jesus and the un- muscles to the task, but he also found that But my heart was almost full to over- limited power of God in answering prayer. the bolt would not turn, and went to find flowing as I answered, "No, I didn't do I would like to proclaim to all the earth a larger wrench. it—it was God!" how near He always is to help us in our Panic was clutching my heart, and Jessie every need. became more and more apprehensive. Her But I have not told you of the real How well I know that prayer changes mother, who was also in the room, looked miracle of the story. A day or two later things. There is blessed assurance in the at me as if to say, "Hurry up! you're a another nurse had opportunity to explain verse in Matthew which says, "All things nurse, why can't you do something for my to Jessie the way of salvation, and she gave whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believ- daughter instead of just letting her lie her heart to Jesus before she died. I cannot ing, ye shall receive." John adds, "Hitherto there and die?" help thinking that God, in saving her life have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, Suddenly I realized that only the om- that night, was giving her a little longer and ye shall receive, that your joy may nipotent and ever-present God could help in which to choose the way that leads to be full." me. So I stood still with hands folded and eternal life. PAGE 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Not until she sits enshrined in the hearts of her husband and children is a girl truly a queen. And then as she rules her little kingdom in kindness and firmness, in un- selfishness and wisdom, angels hover gDEALS for IDA around to marvel at the ways of God to man, for no angel has ever loved as a woman loves a man; no angel has ever loved as a mother loves a baby; no angel has ever loved as a child loves his parent. Little wonder that they watch so carefully the homes of earth, that they guard human beings as precious charges. The spirit of woman must be dedicated to her home, for her duties "are more sacred, more holy, than those of man." Implanted in the heart of a girl is a de- sire for a home. Unnourished, untrained, and unsanctified, that impulse may lead to a life of sorrow and uselessness. Camilla had never had a desire to go to school. She went when forced, but instead of thinking, she dreamed. Every boy who showed her friendliness set her to dream- ing up an imaginative home with him until her grades and her character both wavered. She had never lived in a good home, but it was her great desire to have one. When at last someone offered her a home, she accepted quickly, thus ridding herself of the nuisance of the beckoning schoolhouse, but securing instead a house rather than a home. Having followed the stars, climbed the mountains, and dreamed dreams, Ida may culminate her earthly living in the castle of home. Clara wrote that when one of the men in the office told her one does not begin to live until he is married, she thought him a bit biased on the subject. After her marriage to a minister, she said, "But I think now that he was quite right!" It reminded Ida of the Bible class after "The Mother Is the Queen of the Home, and the Children Are Her Subjects. She Is to Rule Her House- the study of the Trinity when the teacher hold Wisely, in the Dignity of Her Motherhood" had said: "An unmarried woman cannot develop character to its fullest extent by loving a cat or a dog. Nor can a man and OF HOME AND MOTHERHOOD wife progress in character building if they do not give their love to a third. There ought to be marriage, and there ought to By JANET McKIBBEN JACOBS - - - - Part XIII be children for the complete development of character on earth." This, of course, is the ideal. Better a life of single service than one where the THE apex of all ideals is in the home, caves, in snug holes, or in hollow trees, ac- shadows are never lifted because of in- I which was ordained by God for man, cording to the comfort, nature, and cli- equality in spirit, mind, or body. Many an and is the object of unceasing wonderment matic needs of each. Does the heavenly unmarried girl has achieved a trinity of and joy and guardianship of the angels. Father desire to provide less for His own direction in her life by loving others to Love is a builder. And he is not content children? Christ. Buried in true unselfish service she to live out his bliss in somebody else's When the ideals of life have been thus perfects a character worthy of en- spare room or in a little old sod shanty on formed, the quality of friendships has been joying in more completeness a heavenly a hill. Instead, he adds to, improves, beauti- determined, the trend of the character set, home. fies, and creates an atmosphere of peace- the physical and mental strength estab- The husband is frequently called the ful blessedness blended from the careful lished, the vocational training accom- head of the house. Some would thus take work of his hands and the sanctified long- plished, the soul nourished, and love has license to rule with iron knuckles their ings of his soul. gently girded her with strength and good- wives and the smallest details of home Birds build varied nests to suit the habits ness and purpose in living—then Ida is management and provision. But the Spirit and temperaments of each type of feath- ready to sit as queen on the throne of of prophecy has otherwise indicated: "The ered family. Has God planned less for home. Around her is the kingdom wherein mother is the queen of the home, and the man? Wild creatures seek privacy and rest she may shine as the stars of truth she children are her subjects. She is to rule her among the rocks, in deep grasses, in cool has followed. household wisely, in the dignity of her APRIL 26, 1949 PAGE 7 motherhood. Her influence in the home is is none too broad for the girl who would arouse pleasure in their minds. Her own to be paramount; her word, law." Thus seriously enter into the life of a home. training in playing an instrument. or sing- it would seem that outside the home man It is her duty to understand the laws of ing will produce many hours of pleasure is to be its representative in business, life, that ignorance may never account for her family. sustenance, and protection. But within the for wrong tendencies in the physical, The experience of motherhood is the little kingdom he becomes the cooperator mental, or spiritual growth of her chil- great test of a woman's life. After the first and sympathizer with the queen. He is to dren. two years the child begins to assert himself. reinforce her efforts, to encourage her, and As the Mormons say it, "Children are He no longer is content to follow mother's unite his spiritual resources with hers. little joys." From the minute that dear well-regulated schedule. He will not be Many a wife does also rule her husband. bundle is borne to her breast, a mother satisfied to let mother have everything her In a way. Perhaps two ways. Or four ways. realizes a new happiness and thrilling way. More and more he becomes a sort But he is not a man who must be ruled contentment. The burden and the pain are of intruder in her work, in her rest, in her completely. One husband expressed it thus: gone, and in its place this, this precious. social life, in her religious activity; that is, "My wife acts as a governor to me—.not gift. an intruder unless she forgoes her own that she rules me exactly, for I have per- From then on it is a new world for Ida. ideas and makes him a companion. fect freedom up to a certain point. She is His mind is awakening, and he wants like a governor on an engine." Though to find out about everything. A pail of they are of one mind and one spirit, the mop water will do as well as a bed of body is sometimes weak to obey; flowers. It is the teaching period. thus, the one who is stronger in The first two years were a sort one point may check the weaker t^ of training period. Now he will one, and together they may not stay in one place while smooth the road over which they Mother does her work. He must pass. be there with her to feel the It is an old road, the home dough or to splash in the tub of road, yet new as resourceful rinse water or to pull all the thought and effort and love can • magazines on the floor. make it. Many before have trod "Those small fry keep me go- it. From the Garden in Eden ing around like a whirligig," said down through Beersheba in After you have been kind, after Love a young mother. "Trying to get Canaan and Egypt and Nazareth has stolen forth into the world and anything done aside from taking it winds to the bills and valleys care of them is a Herculean task. done its beautiful work, go back into and prairies of America. Here it Cleaning day, ironing day, and has reached its peak of practical the shade again and say nothing about it. family washday are frenzies." • and beautiful livability for more —Henry Drummond. No one knows what being busy people than anywhere else on is until she has been a mother. earth. Seldom can the mother do one It is in the good middle-class • thing at a time. More than likely home that families are most she is cooking dinner, ironing, wholesomely reared. Where clean- and straightening out childhood liness, neatness, and beauty are manifest; Eagerly she awaits the morning when quarrels all at the same time, while in where comfort, privacy, and adequate baby's coos and gurgles are the most beau- between she answers the telephone, gives room for individual activity is enjoyed; tiful sounding alarm clock she will ever her order to the vegetable man, and binds where the days are planned and intelligent hear. Feeding time is a most intimate and up a scratched finger. consideration is given to the food, work, restful experience when all she need do is Cora found little time for anything but and recreation of the family; where liv- hold the little one and watch its cunning motherhood. "Believe me, I am a busy ing is simple, and a spirit of love, of study, motions, listen to every contented sigh. woman," she wrote after the first seven and of holiness pervades—there is the Washing clothes becomes fun, and iron- children. "But happy! I thank God every ideal home for the girl who would realize ing a pleasure, for the privilege of touch- day for a good husband and our wonder- the culmination of life's ideals. In it she ing the dainty garments comes none too ful treasures, the babies! God has befit can best rear children for. God, protected often. Cleanliness all through the house very good to us. The kiddies help me a lot. from the evils attending extreme poverty, has added incentive. She can wash wood- I am teaching them that life is not just a saved from the softness and vanity of the work and scrub floors with a song, for a dream—there is work to do! And I praise idle rich. baby is in the house! It is a new world. them when they do it. But I am being Girls should be trained for motherhood. Even her taste in music will alter itself young along with them. I really feel as This job is one of the biggest and noblest to accommodate baby with Brahms' "Lul- if I were only sixteen. I go sledding with in the world, yet girls receive less training laby," "Mighty Lak a Rose," or "Sweet them, and they work with me." for it than do men for the ministry or and Low." As she sings her love into those With the responsibilities accompanying doctors for their profession. Too much charming lyrics she is blending the melody the training, teaching, and caring for chil- preparation can never be made for the of her life with that of her child. Those dren, making home a haven for the entire founding of a home.' It requires a vast songs forever will recall mother to the family, what time is there left for any in- field of knowledge, from food study and grown babe and will renew precious mem- dulgence in the world of fashion or amuse- chemistry, physiology, clothing, art, home ories for her in later years. ment? Mothers who love dress and the nursing, baby care, child training, garden- Stronger than any other sensory pleas- chitchat of frequent visiting are surely ing, simple carpentry, electricity, good ure is music. Accompanying a happy ex- stealing from their children time and English, to teaching methods in music and perience, a particular song or score of thought if not money, which should be Bible. As the children begin to grow, music will forever after arouse the mind their rightful benefit. they demand to know about birds, animals, to live again the joy of the event. A child is as tender as a plant. Too bugs, fish, geography, history, literature, If the bond of music can be so powerful, much jostling is apt to injure him. Crowds and stars. Believe it or not, astronomy is Ida should conscientiously surround her annoy him. Hurry and flurry upset him. one of the most valuable courses Ida can growing children with the best melodies His life should be maintained on a high take in college. .A liberal arts education and hymns, that good music may always —Please turn to page 22 PAGE 8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR LICAIOR DID IT!

A. DEVANEY Children Went to School by Street Lights and Came Home Again by Dark. Time Dragged Wearily On for • Transients Wintering in the Various Hotels and Cabins

APTAIN BLANK was the handsome tide; and when it was carried out again, It took all the Army trucks, including C young head of the Army Signal Corps a fairyland of frozen castles, bridges, and the captain's private car, to get the boys station in one of the larger Alaskan towns. tunnels remained anchored to the shore— back to the station that night when finally A brilliant record at West Point and in anchor ice they called it. the festivities ended. The thermometer subsequent special courses and assign- Children went to school by street lights showed 20° F. The road was icy, espe- ments had won him this coveted post. and came home again by dark. cially on the curves. Quite a group of men and considerable Work was at a standstill until the With the boys safely home, the captain equipment of great strategic importance breakup in the spring. bade them a fond good night. He was glad were under his command. Time dragged wearily on for tran- they could be happy. He was proud of his The assignment was a lonely one, per- sients wintering in the various hotels and boys. Automatically he climbed into his haps, for one reared in the Deep South; cabins. Reading, card playing, eating, and car and headed for his dreary room in the and the climate, too, was no doubt trying drinking filled their time. A sociable lot colorless old wooden hotel. Bleak and col- to the quiet, unmarried Army officer. He they were as they sat around and spun their orless was his heart too. lived at one of the larger hotels in the yarns—generous, too, always with several He was almost out of the canyon now. town, a huge, top-heavy frame building, bottles of the more expensive brands of The stars were dancing overhead. There from which Mount McKinley could be whisky on hand for whoever happened in. was the dipper—straight up it seemed seen on a clear day. Ugly boardwalks The captain was observed quietly drink- right overhead! skirted it on two sides. ing on many a long winter evening, but Zip!—the rear end of his car swung The signal corps had an office and sta- always "as a gentleman." He "carried his around. It was skidding crazily on the tion in the downtown area, but the main liquor well." Everyone liked this young curve. Helplessly he sat, as the light car station and the barracks were about three Southerner, especially his boys at the left the beaten tracks. He tried to maneuver miles out, around behind Government Signal Corps post. People observed to it back onto the traveled part of the road, Hill, in a canyon and out of sight of the themselves, however, that for one so young but more and more it slid off, until he saw town. The Alaska railroad tracks crossed he drank an amazing amount—he did well it was useless to try longer. the road to this main station about one to carry such a load. The moon shone on the railroad tracks and a half miles beyond the city limits. The family people of the town had very a few yards away. They offered a closer, The summer season was very busy, but little to do with the Army boys, but at more direct, route to town. Fastening his the oncoming winter brought increased Christmas time a large entertainment was galoshes carefully and pulling the bill of loneliness. The fishermen drew their pay planned for their benefit. Eagerly it was his fur cap lower over his forehead, he and left for the States. Mine after mine looked forward to. made his way to the tracks. Only a little closed down as their water and ground Rough boots were replaced by dress walk, and he would be home—easier froze up. Many merchants and families shoes; heavy socks, by lighter weight wool- walking, too, than on the road. had gone south on the last few boats. The ens; and the drabber, everyday wear, by On and on he went. His feet were get- town was deserted by all except the few dress uniforms. ' ting cold. He must be nearly there. Surely year-round residents. A good time was had by all, except per- he had come a mile and a half! His face Snow fell on the frozen ground, and haps the captain, who held aloof a little was very cold; his whole body was getting frost gave an enchanting outline to alder and appeared to be drinking more than cold. He ought to see the lights of the town and willow brush. Ice floated in with the the others. —Please turn to page 19 APRIL 26, 1949 PAGE 9 CRESTED Friends

By MRS. LOIS M. PARKER

HERE is company for you!" Allen, my husband, opened his hand just enough so that I could see the black beak and shiny red-brown eyes of a bird he held. It struggled a little, in fear. "It can't fly, or even hang onto a branch," he went on to say. "I was afraid the cats would get it while it was down in the snow." A cedar waxwing! Whatever would we feed such a tiny feathered friend? Wax- H. 0. WHEELER wings are not seedeaters, or the problem would have a simple solution. We had through the motions of a bath, but his dish When we want to clean his cage, the seen flocks of them in the elderberry was not big enough, and the cage would cats are put outdoors because they would bushes, but the berries were gone now. not hold a larger one. like to help! Then the bird is loosed to get Perhaps rose berries? The name of the Now, what could we give him to eat? some exercise. birds suggested cedar or juniper berries, More snowberries and some rose berries When we first kept him in his cage, he but we had none near. did not seem to please him. He picked at got dirty because he could not even stand "He was trying to get snowberries, but the rough edges of his cage, as if looking on his feet but flopped feebly into his food they didn't seem to satisfy him. I'll bring for something else. Then someone had a and water, and really kept the cage and some in," Allen offered. really bright idea. Why not give him some himself in a mess. Now he can stand and The little fellow was getting over his of our dinner raspberries? Canned red even fly up to the footboard of the bed, first panic when a twig loaded with the raspberries were as near like fresh fruit as though he tires easily. He hops from one white berries was placed before him. We we could find, so we offered our pet some perch to another in his cage without much had first thawed these in cold water, and in a spoon. Hurrah! He snatched at them fluttering, though at first we had to place he tore up and eagerly ate several before as if they were the answer to his heart's him on a perch at night when it was time he remembered that he was a captive. (or stomach's) desire. And never yet has for him to go to sleep. When the children came home from he failed to become excited over them Our waxwing is a lovely grayish-brown school they were charmed with the thought when they are offered to him. color, with a black bib, a black streak of caring for this new and unusual pet. Canned cherries, though almost the same across, and a white line under each eye, and They found a corrugated cardboard box, color, are not to his liking. He will pick at quite a russet tinge to his crest. Sometimes and cut a large window in each side; then them when nothing else is at hand, but not he flares the crest high, but usually it is put pieces of wire into the corrugations at if he has what he wants. And canned nearly flat. His tail is dark, with a yellow the top and bottom of each opening, to huckleberries! He picks them up, tips his band across the tip. There are white and keep the cats out and the bird in. A board head back, hesitates a moment, and down yellow tips among his wing feathers, and suspended by wires made the bottom of they slip. One, two, three, four, five, six— three brilliant-red wax ends shine on each the cage. After covering this with layers of how many berries do you imagine a little wing. He is not very large, not more than newspaper, we set the box top upon it, bird can hold? As many as ten at one sit- seven inches long, if that. Altogether, he and hung the cage from the ceiling to dis- ting! is just about the neatest, sleekest little courage further investigation by Pinky, We keep snowberries, and rose berries creature one might see. our yellow cat, and by Spunky, the big on the twig, in his cage, but they are more We plan to take him out into the woods gray one. for entertainment and. exercise than for when warm weather comes and let him go, A dish of water was put in the cage, food. He prefers the nice, soft, canned but he could not stand bitter cold weather but the little cedar waxwing did not know berries. (It does not take long to "civilize" after becoming used to our "hothouse" what it was until a bit of his food fell into some wild creatures, does it?) He will also atmosphere. We tried putting his cage out- it; then he drank and drank. He also went eat uncooked oatmeal soaked in fruit juice. -Please turn to page 19 PAGE 10 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Captain Jones

IX years after Captain Jones and his The World's S wife sailed into the Solomon Seas they returned to Australia and spent some months resting on the island of Tasmania. SECOND LARGEST ISLAND While there they were asked whether they would relieve the missionary stationed at Bisiatabu, New Guinea, so that the worker By FREDRIK W. EDWARDY - - - - Part Sixteen might have a furlough. Yes, of course, they would go wherever they were needed, although they must have had some misgivings about leaving "The people of the hills, back of the the center, around which they all sleep. their Solomon Islanders, of whom they coastal districts east of Port Moresby, are "They have an interesting custom at had grown so fond. Too, the captain would called Koiaris. Up among these hills, their evening meal, which is really quite not have a boat, for he would be working twenty-seven miles, is our place, Bisiatabu. nice. Each family group will send one of up in the interior of a high mountainous For about thirteen years our workers have their number to that of another family country, but if that was where he must go, been located here with no encouragement with some of their food, and the others then he must go! from the natives around them. The Koi- return the courtesy. They all seem so happy New Guinea, the largest island in the aris seem to be unprogressive. The natives among themselves. I feel encouraged to world after Greenland, is separated from of the coast, as well as the white people, work more zealously for them." Northern Australia by one hundred miles give them an evil name. These natives are We can just picture Captain Jones study- of shallow water. If the ocean level dropped looked upon and talked about as a treach- ing these hill people, trying in some way sixty feet, one could walk over on dry erous, murderous, superstitious, people to reach them. "Surely," he kept telling land. On the map the country looks like who practice sorcery. They murder the himself, "they cannot be as forbidding as some strange Oriental dragon about to unwary natives of other districts if they they are reputed to be. There must be devour the Moluccas Islands on the west, pass through theirs, so it is seldom we can some way I can interest them in our mis- with its tail lashing out toward the Solo- induce a native to carry a message any- sion work." And sure enough, he found mons on the east. Could it be laid over the where in these parts. a way to their hearts, just as he had to the United States with its eastern end at New "None of the Koiari men, except some hearts of the Solomon Islanders. He talked York City, its western tip would reach the who live among the whites, wear clothes. to them about something in which they middle of Nebraska. The women wear grass skirts, as in most were interested, told them of the mission If the climate was hot and disagreeable places in New Guinea. Their houses are work, and how he wanted to have their in the Solomons, it was infinitely more un- built from three to five feet above the children come to the school so they could bearable in New Guinea. Along the coast ground, with one room and a fireplace in —Please turn to page 20 it was torrid and humid, yet bitterly cold on the mountains, which rose above six- This Picture Was Taken at the Village of Kagi in the Owen-Stanley Ranges of New Guinea teen thousand feet. Great swampy river basins were breeding grounds for mos- quitoes and tropical fevers as bad or worse than those in the Solomons. The black, frizzy-haired natives were even more back- ward and treacherous than any Captain Jones had worked with yet. Nevertheless, Pastor and Mrs. Jones took the steamer from Sydney and sailed for New Guinea on April 13, 1921. The trip to Port Moresby, the principal city in Papua, on the south shore, took eight days. They enjoyed good weather, and discov- ered that the captain, chief steward, stew- ardess, engineer, and others were old ac- quaintances with whom they had made frequent trips to the Solomons and Singa- pore years before. They were met by Pastor A. N. Lawson, who conducted them back into the hills where the mission was located. It was a most discouraging outlook from the start. Captain Jones wrote back to his friends: APRIL 26, 1949 PAGE 11 TRY asking the general public what I Colorado brings to mind, and you will find the answers falling into a set groove as surely as the average person describes "POSTAGE STAMF a spiral stairway with a corkscrew gesture. •To the majority, Colorado symbolizes Pikes Peak, or the Garden of the Gods, or By GR Ai Estes Park, or the gold-tipped capitol at Denver, or possibly Rocky Ford canta- help a town to stick, whether it is situated loupes. on a plain or in the most remote mountain But here and there on the face of this gulch. smiling earth you will locate some venture- A unique experience it was for the wait until the dead of winter when tre- some tourist, roaming schoolteacher, geol- travelers who were privileged to ride the mendous snowfalls occur and ice more ogist, salesman, mining engineer, and narrow gauge from Salida to Telluride. than glazes the highway. grizzly old prospector to whom Colorado The puffing, breathless little engines, twist- The Million Dollar Highway links the can mean only one thing—Telluride) ing and climbing the hair-raising grades sister mining camps of Ouray and Silver- Named for the tellurous ores in its vicinity, and dipping into cool, dark canyons, were ton with Durango, and connects with it is pronounced "tell-your-ride," a fitting a source of wonderment to all. They made Telluride by a good graveled highway. pronunciation, for no one can remain quiet up in reliability for what they lacked in ex- It follows one of the toll roads constructed about the ride to this "postage stamp ternal impressiveness. Waves of informal- by Otto Mears back in the '80's. It was town" stuck in the heart of the Rockies ity washed back and forth in the narrow an expensive project, but its name came in southwestern Colorado—be it by burro, coaches while the railway emplOyees de- from the gravels containing gold and silver ox team, covered wagon, stage coach, nar- lighted in spinning yarns for the benefit which surface it rather than from the row gauge, or automobile. Remembering of eastern greenhorns and "sea-level suck- financial outlay. The Million Dollar High- in this instance certainly means telling! ers," who were said to believe that the way offers an incomparable panorama. Telluride lies 8,500 feet above sea level, engine did leap the tracks at every sharp Among the first things you will notice about 2,000 feet higher than the highest of curve and then climbed the hill to get in Telluride are the shadows. The tower- our eastern peaks, but this elevation seems back on again. It was a memorable ex- ing mountains block the morning and mild when you gaze, awe-struck, at the perience to wrap up in furs and the warm- afternoon sunshine, making the sunrise mammoth encirclement of mountains aver- est overcoats and still feel as if ice blocks seem late and the sunset early. aging 14,000 feet—a sea of gray granite had supplanted fingers and toes, when not You will note also the narrowness of stretching farther than the eye can reach, so many hours before you had been roast- the houses, especially those built long ago, where the old West has not fully made its ing on the transcontinental trains passing sloping from the mountains. Many of these exit. You hardly know whether it is the through Oklahoma and Kansas, or Iowa houses are only a room's width in addi- height or the view that snaps your breath- and Nebraska. tion to a tiny entrance hallway. In the ing into exclamatory sounds. Passenger trains do not visit Telluride early days of building, it was a slow and To the seeing eye, this town of two today, but two freight trains come in trying process to carry the construction thousand inhabitants has never been mo- weekly. A bus, called the Galloping materials up the trails beaten out by the notonous, uninteresting, or in a condition Goose, brings passengers to Vance Junc- burro. Everything had to be stretched as of neglect since it made its initial start not tion at the foot of Keystone, three miles far as possible, enabling all to obtain a long after John Fallon staked out his min- from Telluride. A truck or regular car share. Even windows were grudgingly al- ing claims in 1875. Since those first diffi- picks up the passengers and mail. The lowed for. cult rides, imperiled by nature as well as nearest air terminal is Grand by highwaymen with their convoy of Junction. dummy assistants mounted at advanta- If you use your own car in geous points with wooden guns, Telluride climbing to Telluride, see that has learned to weather the flood of pros- your brakes are in good condi- perity let loose by lavish bonanza kings; tion and that you are not en- nor did the lean days after the sharp de- tirely unaccustomed to moun- cline of the extensive mining operations, tain driving. A steady hand running into millions of dollars, wipe her and the will not to be diverted off the map. From the earliest days of her by the magnificent scenery will history Telluride has had a generous sprin- help to ensure your safe ar- kling of sturdy, persevering citizens who rival; that is, if you do not

Below, Left: Telluride Lies 8,500 Feet Above Sea Level, About 2,000 Feet Higher Than the Highest of Our Eastern Peaks. Below, Right: Predominant Among the Hardy Birds Are Prairie Chickens, Pheasants, Ptarmigan (Shown Here), and Eagles. Right: Among the First Things You Will Notice in Tell- uride Are the Shadows

PAGE 12 politician's daughter, who gave up social standing for the primrose trail weaving toward the underworld of mining camps. TOWN' and Vicinity The tall blonde of athletic build, who greets you cheerfully, is a rancher's daugh- ter who had to serve as an emergency HIEBAUD midwife fifty miles from a doctor during a howling blizzard before she had quit Christmas banquets, is served you with wearing long braids and ribbons. lemonade or cold milk. Food in greater Do you see that mild-mannered man or lesser quantities is the climax of any absorbed in Telluride's weekly newspaper? But the hospitality and glow within social function. They glory in their cakes He had to serve time in jail after his boot- make up for the size of some of the which require expertness in making at leg establishment, wearing a soft-drink houses. Gay Indian rugs and blankets such an altitude. And how the calorie- appellation and false front, was raided adorn the floors and couches, arK1 the skin conscious have difficulty glorying in their with seventeen others of like caliber. The of bears and other animals can be seen denial of appetite! incident helped a young social science on walls or in front of fireplaces. Factory- There are no tourist camps at Telluride, teacher verify her assertion to a group of made rugs, purported to be Indian, do nor has it escaped the problems connected skeptical adolescents that "even in the fast- not fool the natives. They proudly indicate with housing shortage. The Sheridan nesses of purple mountain majesties the the earmarks of the genuine. Hotel has forty rooms with rates from long arm of the Government will reach "See," and they point to a design woven $1.50 to $3.00. The Sheridan has long to uphold law and order." in red, white, and black; "this is not sym- lived up to its reputation of serving "the The• man with the dark glasses, whom metrically perfect. That shows it is real best meals west of Denver." For good the waitress directs, is the blind bootblack. tribal workmanship of the Indians that measure it throws in surprising opportuni- He fools newcomers to his shop by his sure live just over the mountain." ties for the study 'of human nature. The touch and reach, until he asks whether you Mineral specimens in many shapes and rustic setting of the dining room could be prefer brown or black polish. You forget sizes and colors are crowded into cabinets, duplicated throughout the West, but it to feel sorry for him as you listen to "Poet into corners, and onto tables. You are takes a flourishing mining camp to show and Peasant" and like recordings on his shown a shining little streak in a piece of you a cross section of humanity. Let us victrola. quartz. "That is gold," you are told, "and draw a page from the not-too-distant past That sweet-faced little woman, who is is worth at least ten dollars." Your host and note some of the people at an evening remindful of your favorite aunt, is the wife usually donates at least one piece of ore meal in the Sheridan. of a British mining man. Her apartment • as a souvenir if you are a stranger. That tanned, booted man in ordinary is loaded with priceless lace and World's Coffee is considered a necessary adjunct working clothes, dropping wearily into Fair prize-winning lamps. When she in- to a successful afternoon or evening gather- his chair at the table in the corner, is a vites a group to a musicale, featuring her ing. If you refuse it, particularly in the millionaire mining man (with homes in three-thousand-dollar player piano, the homes of "old country" people, urgent Hawaii, New York, and Florida) who blind bootblack is not overlooked. persuasion is exercised. If you continue to has stopped over a few weeks to inspect The lanky man with the thin crop of hold but, a "slab" of angel-food cake or his mining interests. sandy hair, who offers his newspaper, is some other pastry confection, dripping in That noisy young man with the tooth- a Virginian who lingers in Telluride for icing the like of which you have not some grin directed toward the business his health, filling the hours with light tasted since the days of Thanksgiving and girls is lately from South America, where clerical work and better-than-light poetry the Andean mines claimed his which is reprinted all over the country. brilliant services. The affable salesman seated with him is The pale woman at the next a former principal of an American school table is the high school teacher in the Philippines. from the West Indies, who Yes, many types from scattered points prefers Telluride and her peo- can always be observed in the dining room ple to any you could name. at the Sheridan Hotel. The man just entering, the But you have undoubtedly come to this one with the slight stoop and vicinity to view its scenic grandeur rather furtive glance, is the one who than its natives and visitors, so hiking and deserted wife and children horseback trips will be the order of the "back East" for the prominent day. If you are not accustomed to a high

Below, Left: Three Trips Encompassing Special Loveliness Will Lead You to the Alta Mine and Lakes, and to the Top of the Range Where You Obtain a Breath. taking View of Red Mountain. Below, Right: One Visit to Beautiful Trout Lake, 9,750 Feet High, and You Acclaim It an Unsurpassed Camping Location

PAGE 13 elevation, take your hiking gradually. how can your horse understand that his On the return trip from Blue Lake you When neighboring athletic teams from hurried gait homeward causes an excruci- will wish to visit Pandora Mill in spite outside are drawn like a magnet to Tell- ating ache all over your body! of its cyanide odors. You will learn that uride, "to whip the elevation as much as Blue Lake is also nine miles from town. much work is entailed before a gold brick the local team," and find defeats usually You follow the steep and pebbly trail past is a reality! chalked against them, it would be well for the Pandora Mill, and rest a few minutes A favorite trail leads to the Smuggler you to use caution until you are a seasoned at the powerhouse which supplies Tell- and Tomboy Mines, five miles from hiker and climber. uride and the mines. Telluride, and thence to the top of the A favorite hiking goal within easy I made the trip to Blue Lake the middle range. If your horse is the prancing kind, distance is Bear Creek Canyon, where sup- of October with a party of less than a do not concentrate on the stories (which pers and songs around the campfire have dozen, though the upper portion of the may be exaggerated) of the number who a flavor all their own. Another short hike trail was covered with ice. have gone over the cliffs. It is quite pos- will take you past Pandora Mill for a view Long before we reached the top, our sible no rider would have met his untimely of Bridal Veil Falls, tumbling like a shat- appetites had begun to gnaw as we thought death if he had been sober, unless a blind- tered rainbow from a ing storm or mud slide height of three hundred overtook him. The scenery feet. should cause you to lift But for real mountain your eyes higher than a climbing, Mount Sneffels ravine with bleaching horse and Uncompahgre Peak in bones. Console yourself the San Juan Range, and with the thought that there El Diente and Mount Wil- is a tunnel on the route son (seventh highest in Col- that will make you feel mo- orado and one of the high- mentarily safe. est in the United States) The Smuggler Mine teet- in the San Miguel Range ers high on the slope of are the favorites in this im- the mountain shoulder that mediate vicinity. All tower overshadows Pandora Mill. above fourteen thousand It contains one of the long- feet and are listed in the est continuous shoots ever "Who's Who" among opened. When the smug- peaks in the Colorado gler first held the limelight, Mountain Club's booklet, a vein assaying twelve hun- A Climber's Guide to the dred dollars a ton was un- High Peaks. These places earthed. are recommended largely to Visitors are permitted to initiated climbers with com- enter the mine, but if they petent guides. desire to ride the aerial If at all possible, take For Real Mountain Climbing, Wilson Peak Affords the Climbing En- tramline, which 'makes time for horseback trips, thusiast the Greatest Pleasure twenty-minute trips be- otherwise you will miss tween the mine and Pan- some of the most thrilling scenic attrac- of the light lunch each person had pro- dora with ore and supplies, they do so at tions. The day has passed when you could vided for himself. Our surprise knew no their own risk. telephone a Telluride stable for Topsy, bounds when we found two lone men up The mine guide may offer you extra or Monitor, or Beauty, or some other de- there preparing a feast of such food as was wraps, such as leather jackets or raincoats, pendable horse for an all-day trip. Now available in their crude cabin of one long flannel shirts, and rubber boots. After a you have to obtain horses from private room near the edge of the lake, which is lengthy ride in a muddy little car operated parties. Summer is by no means the only thirteen thousand feet high. Someone at by electricity, you change cars for "a skip," season for horseback trips in this area. the power plant had telephoned that or mine elevator, and you are warned to Early fall is an ideal time too. Three trips twenty-five people were coming up. hold your head "just so," or your neck is encompassing special loveliness will lead We caught the odors from their kitchen endangered as you go to another level. you to the Alta Mine and lakes, to Blue before we could dismount, so the cabin You need sunglasses after stepping from Lake, and to the top of the range where rather than the lake drew us first. Both the mine into the blinding sunlight to re- you obtain a breath-taking view of Red the men and women in our party crowded sume the trail to the top of the range. Mountain. The Alta Mine is nine miles inside and helped with the dinner prepara- You pass the Tomboy Mine, and soon your from Telluride. It is in a setting that dude tions. The red-checked tablecloth glowed horse loses his friskiness, pausing to rest ranchers would envy. The trail leads up- warmly as we looked out at the ice patches every few feet. When you reach the snow ward through incense-laden evergreens, and snow around bottomless Blue Lake. line, you ponder on whether this is the and I will guarantee that the autumn gold Smiling self-consciously, our hosts said, temperature Alaskans bask in throughout of aspen and the flame of scrub oak will "Food markets are out of reach here, but their long winters. make you ignore the chasm on one side see if you can find anything here that ap- The topmost point is more than thirteen of your trail. Cloud-draped peaks, dew- peals to you." With that, we chose from thousand feet high, and the view renders jeweled spider webs, and gleaming par- this menu: creamed potatoes, beans, tur- you wordless! The peaks paint indelible ticles of weathered rock grip the attention. nips, cheese, crackers, preserves, gravy, memories. On one side is an immense val- Nature's expansive palette is running over bread, raspberry pie, plums, and three ley rimmed with purple- and blue-shaded with color pigments here. warm drinks. New Orleans may have the mountains stretching into Utah. In an- You are welcome to enter the Alta Mine edge on food advertising, but I doubt other direction you see jagged mountains if you do not mind the dampness and chill, that turnips down there could ever taste shoving their snow-shrouded heads against but you will probably choose to stay on as they did in this rare atmosphere! Even a vivid blue sky, while ghost mining towns the lawn in order to gaze at the view of now thoughts of our keen appetites on that are decaying in their arms. The most views! You may not enjoy the ride back occasion almost eclipse the memory of the startling view centers upon a great moun- because darkness will overtake you, and view of the high lake. -Please turn to page 17 PAGE 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR

L. M. QUADE. ARTIST

ing the best you could with your hydro- therapy. To a Wonderful MOTHER It was three weeks before the child could be taken to a doctor, but when he looked at the arm he exclaimed in sur- By ROSE BUDD prise, "It is a miracle!" The task of caring for Lyle was not easy. Every day you gave him treatments and changed his bandages, OMEHOW as I sit here tonight and angry fire was being blown back in its which was the most painful of all. He was S think of you, Mother, I realize, at least own devastating path. so small, and it did hurt so, each time the in part, what you really mean to me. Another experience I recall was when wound was dressed! At an early stage you Whenever I look into your face I see re- you especially endeared yorself to the insisted that he try to use his arm, inas- flected the beauty of one who has followed family by your tender nursing. Most of us much as the bruise was on the inside of the footsteps of Jesus. Yes, you are tired, children were sick, and it was not possible the elbow, because you felt he might lose I know, you have worked hard, you have to get to a doctor out in the country in the use of his muscles. It was painful, but always had problems, but you have always the winter because of the extreme cold and you would not give in or allow him to give met them with a smile. the deep snow. But you patiently prayed up. Each day he would bend his arm a Many times you have sacrificed your and labored until all the sick were re- little farther until finally he could hold it own desires and wishes so that you might stored to health. out straight. please your children. You have been pa- Then there was the time that little Your life has not been all worry and tient and trusting all these years. You have brother had an accident with the wringer hardship, and I know that you would not had worries, but you know where to go of the washing machine. Again you and have me paint such a picture. When we for strength. the youngsters were home alone. A neigh- were little, you were always giving us a I think of the time of the fire. I can still bor had called you over to her house for a good time. You had a real sense of humor see you calling us children into the house few minutes, and you had cautioned us too. I remember once when I disobeyed and forming a circle as you had us kneel children not to go near the machine while and deserved punishment. As you came down and ask God for protection.* it was running. Upon returning, however, near me, I protested, saying that I was The neighbors had been helping us to you found little Lyle tugging, pulling, and "most terribly sorry" and that I did "love fight the fire, but because it involved their screaming as he own homes too, we finally had to look out endeavored to ex- for ourselves. Many times we went out of tract himself from the house to look at the raging blaze, and the powerful fright practically froze us to the spot. But wringer. You you would drop to your knees and plead quickly released for God's protection. the spring and It was Friday, and it looked as if the stopped the motor. fight would continue into the Sabbath His clothes had hours. I remember so well the critical mo- been torn from ment when the grass about the house be- his shoulders, and , gan to burn. There was little you could his arm was badly do to help us then, Mother. Once more burned and you asked God to stop the fire so that your bruised. Your home and dear ones might be spared. I heart sank, but not knew that you had faith, Mother, because for long, as you never once did you prepare to move out. realized you had You trusted God to the utmost, and when no time to lose. you arose from your knees that time and You sent up a looked out of doors, just as you had ex- brief prayer that pected, a high wind had come up and the God would help

• [Our family lived in northern Minnesota at the time. you again. Then About the house was a dense forest composed of tall elm you set about do- trees that towered into the heavens. We had just moved into a new community, and father was away on a business trip, leaving mother and us children alone. The fire H. IL LAMBERT started ten miles from our house. At first we were not concerned about it, but as the day passed, the blaze came closer and closer and grew more furious. I remember that Many Times You my mother took every precaution that was possible and Have Sacrificed Your insisted that the roof and the grass about the house be Own Desires and kept wet. The surrounding forest came to within a hun- Wishes So That You dred yards of the house, and the fire was already raging Might Please Your in the tops of the trees that were along the road in front.] Children APRIL 26, 1949 you so much." You did not spank me, that perhaps he would not have to go right wait long to weigh the matter. In the but rather, you fled to the adjoining room away because he was in school, but, alas, spring of 1931 he and mother were bap- to hide your laughter. Several days later his call came. At first you thought you tized. I tried the same method of evading punish- could never stand it; but when you prayed How fitting to be baptized in the spring! ment only to learn the scheme did not it through with God, you were reconciled All nature awakes, born to a new life work. to his going. Three times a day during the after a cold, dark winter. Even so, the I recall another time I wanted a new two and a half years that Joe was in serv- newborn child of God begins a new dress for a school program. You did not ice, you never failed to pray for his wel- growth unlike a bleak life without Christ. have the money to buy good material, and fare and protection. You waited eagerly As expected, dad lost his job. To make I was so disappointed to think that I for his letters, and they never failed to such a transition was hard, especially for would not have a new garment. But bring courage and strength to you. one who had never been in want, but Mother, you were so unselfish and thought- I want to tell you that I think I have God provides for His chosen ones, and ful of childish needs and desires. You took the most wonderful mother in the whole gives them no greater burden than they your wedding dress of lovely sky-blue silk, world! I appreciate your guidance and are able to bear. dyed it red, and made one of the most counsel; they have meant so much to me. One of dad's new ventures was that of beautiful dresses I have ever owned. I was I sincerely hope that I may fulfill your selling folding lawn chairs from door to so proud of it! desires for me. door. They were guaranteed not to tip Then came the day that I first left Mother, I love you with all my heart, over, but one day while demonstrating home. You knew that it was for my best and I want you to know that I do. this special feature, dad found himself in that I go to the academy, but, oh, it was humiliation and surprise lying at the feet hard to leave. You were so brave. You of his prospective purchaser! never let me think for a minute that you An Appreciation of My Parents For three weeks he made no sales, and would miss me. After the last bag had the family savings shriveled to a dime! (Continued from page 1) been packed and I still pleaded to stay One dime would 'not buy food and clothes home, you would not listen. You and so much like our old home church folks. and pay the rent, but God had promised father did not know when you would see I wonder what denomination is sponsoring to care for His own. me again, but you committed me to God, these meetings. That minister said some- One morning the ringing of the bell and I was off. thing about Christ's soon return, and that summoned dad to the door, and a well- Time went rapidly, and the family grew, we should always so live that we would dressed woman addressed him, "Are you, and you were completely occupied. A hap- be in readiness to meet Him. I want to be Mr. Hendricks, the man who sells chairs?" pier and more contented group than ours ready, but I am barely started in life." "I am. Won't you come in?" never existed, I am sure. It was you who Dad was deep in thought on his way "No, I'm in a hurry, thank you; but I'd made that possible. home. like to order and pay for three of those Then came the war, and your heart was "I wish you could have heard that min- chairs, and here are the addresses of two wrung again. You had a son that would ister preach!" he exclaimed when he burst friends who also would like to see them." have to go to serve his God and his into the house. "You've been moaning She handed dad a note and a check for country. You tried to make yourself think about what an unfriendly crowd these the sum and was gone. Easterners are; well, these folk would shat- This one little incident was only the ter that notion. Of course—" beginning of the miracles that God per- "Well, I wouldn't mind meeting some formed for our family. It increased my friendly people, but I'm not entirely per- parents' faith in His promises and led them suaded that your way of getting acquainted to a deeper sense of the power of prayer. is best," mother complained. During the .next few years we moved "The preacher really made me think; several times. Mother and dad wanted to he spoke about the nearness of Christ's live in the outskirts of the city, where the coming, about wars and trouble, and how influence of evil would not harm their necessary it is for us—" children, and where they could learn to "Don't talk about it any more," mother know God through His own creation. interrupted. "I don't want you to go again. For days dad traced advertisements of Original puzzles, acrostics, anagrams, cryptograms, word transformations, quizzes, short lists of unusual questions— Why, that kind of talk scares me!" houses to rent, and walked up one street anything that will add interest to this feature corner—will and down another. Finally he came to be considered for publication. Subjects limited to Bible, "Well, Jane, if it's truth we're search- denominational history, nature, and geography. All ma- ing for, it may well scare us at first. I'm the last rocky road inside the city limits. terial must be typewritten. Address Editor, YOUTH'S IN- STRUCTOR, Takoma Park 12, D.C. going back tomorrow night." It bumped up a torturous hill to where a He did go, and gradually brought home lone house sat. A Word Triangle the story of the love and saving power of "I'll not waste time going up there," Jesus. Mother's curiosity soon got the better dad thought, a bit discouraged. By CLYDE ROSSER of her, and one night she declared her- He started back to town, but something self ready to go with dad. This presented urged him to go back and up that stony a difficulty, for I was a three-year-old road to the top of the hill. One more squirmer, and had never been to church lonely house could be seen on the right, so except for my christening. I did not know on he trudged. Just after he passed the how to be quiet, but mother took the last clump of woods, there, directly op- chance, and what little she heard that posite the lonely house, was a little green, night impressed her. painted one! Something said, "This is it!" After the series of meetings was over, Sure enough, it was for rent! Bible studies further convinced my parents What happy years of my life were spent 1. One of the Western States. that the Seventh-day Adventist Church there! It was there that the experiences 2. A horseman; a bicyclist. was the one for which they had been which strengthened my childish faith in 3. To prepare for publication. searching. But • that seventh-day Sabbath God were most abundant. 4. To secure; to obtain. 5. A coordinate conjunction. question! No boss would grant a request One day dad was busy chopping wood 6. A consonant. for another day off! Suppose dad lost his for the kitchen stove. I loved to watch —Key on page 23 job, what then? However, he did not the chips fly as the sharp, glistening blade PAGE 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR • of the ax wounded each chunk of wood. Often in the winter months when snow ister now looks after the Community An airplane was soaring overhead. Dad lay deep and silent, we had skiing and Presbyterian church, while a Catholic was picking up another chunk, and I sledding parties. After we had spent the priest comes over from Ouray once a brushed the chips from the block. Sud- afternoon playing outdoors, mother would week. denly, I looked at dad; he had the queerest cheerily call her hungry ones in to dinner. Drunken miners, careening up the steep expression on his face. There a delicious meal of stew, warm bis- slopes to the Smuggler Mine by horseback "Shirley"—his voice shook—"I was go- cuits with butter and honey, and cold in the wee sma' hours, firing reckless fare- ing to put the ax in the block, but some- milk satisfied our ravenous appetites. well shots along the street intersecting the thing held my arms in the air." Here on a frosty autumn night I often mountain trail, belong to a past era—to Then he looked down, and resting play- looked up and saw the shimmering cur- the great relief of the present peace-loving fully on the block were my hands. tains of the northern lights, the star-sprin- population! At this time dad's salary was approxi- kled sky, and the solemn stare of the moon. mately twenty dollars a week. There was a Then was I convinced that a Master Mind Though Telluride is off the beaten track, little sister now, and every cent was spent was in control, one who had a work for me it is worth considering when making your carefully. Sometimes we wondered where to do for Him. vacation plans. If photography is your our food for the day would come from, It was late one summer evening several hobby, this vicinity offers the utmost from but God never neglected us. years later that I sat alone on the window fragile flower to the alpine glow that sets I vividly recall one day in early summer seat listening to the whisper of the poplar artists on fire. before our garden produce was ready. We trees! "You are going to leave home to- No part of Colorado has more big game. prayed earnestly for our daily bread, for morrow. Your carefree childhood is gone." Elk, deer, bear, mountain lion, wild sheep, there was none in the house. The morning And then I thought I heard a fainter and goats abound. The mountain sheep passed as usual, but just as the twelve murmur. It seemed to say, "Your mother are often seen near the town limits when o'clock whistle blew, the neighbor from and dad are precious, Shirley. Don't ever winter sets in. across the road brought over a large pan forget to appreciate them." Predominant among the hardy birds are of green string beans! They were delicious; That was five years ago. As I think of prairie chickens, pheasants, ptarmigan, and no meal ever tasted better to me. I won- the joyous and inspiring experiences eagles. dered why mother's eyes were wet, but through the years, I am truly grateful to The botanists have a wide field to choose with such a direct answer to prayer, how God for such wonderful parents who are from. This area boasts of twenty-three could anyone deny God's promises? still praying, planning, and sacrificing for varieties of evergreen and broadleaf trees. The years sped past, and at the age of me, because they put their trust in the One visit to beautiful Trout Lake, 9,750 seven I was ready to start school. From Lord. feet high, and you acclaim it an unsur- their reading, mother and dad had be- passed camping location. Boats are avail- come impressed that Christian training able, and ranchers in the vicinity can fur- • was just as important in the school as it "Postage Stamp Town" and nish you supplies. was in the home. There was no church Vicinity If your taste runs to winter sports, you school in our city, and the nearest one was will find many opportunities for them at fifteen miles away. To dad, that seemed (Continued from page 14) Telluride. Heavy snows—and you have like a hundred miles for a seven-year-old. tain range, which has the appearance of ski runs on all sides. The community is The bus fare was not a small matter either. having been brushed carelessly with bright a natural for tobogganing. Husky miners However, again God provided, and each paint as scarlet as the lips of a jester. Ptar- think nothing of webfooting on snow- month when ticket-buying time came, migan Lake, shining like an emerald, shoes from their work to the town below. there was enough money. But I know nestles among the red giants—the con- When time presses, they sometimes ski mother and dad went without things they trast as definite as the red and green of to their destination. needed, just for me—so that I might gain holly sprigs. Cutters for sleigh rides are scarce. An a Christian education. Higher and yet higher, snow-encrusted old-timer will tell you the last durable I spent two years in this school before peaks rear their sparkling heads in the cutter was spoiled by teachers who thought my parents moved to another State. Dad distance. Your field glasses catch spots shot lively mountain horses were as easy to was to have a permanent job at last, with with the colors of an opal. You distinguish handle as a team on the plains of Texas. a salary! The place to which we moved tiny blue and green lakes remindful of Carefully tucking in their big fur robes, was literally heaven on earth to me. From dragonflies poised above California pop- the five women set out joyously for a the side of an old dirt road, our eight pies. jingling sleigh ride. The determined team acres looked up to rolling mountains After such views you are quiet on the wanted to sail ahead at full steam. The armored with verdant pines. trip homeward, thinking all the while frail driver wanted to turn right. The re- At the bottom of the hill a bubbling about the lines of South Dakota's poet, sult was an undignified landing in a deep • brook played leapfrog over the rocks, and Badger Clark: snowbank in the center of Telluride be- brought lusty shouts from happy children fore three blocks had been negotiated. The "God meets me in the mountains when the ice grew thick and swallowed its frightened team, then on its own, led the When I miss Him in the town." gentle murmurings. emptied cutter on a zigzag course through Though we had no livestock, I loved the There were times in her history when the residential section, and finally came to old barn with its high loft, and the odd Telluride nearly missed God. Those were a halt on the outskirts after becoming en- trunks filled with treasures of old-fash- the rough and hectic days when selfishness tangled with a big family wash frozen to ioned days. There were horse stalls to in- and greed held sway. Under such condi- the line. No one bothered to retrieve all vestigate and the roof to climb. tions churches did not flourish. There were the splintered wreckage. Best of all I loved the woods with its children in their teens who had never That two-seated cutter has not been re- thousand secrets. Where else could one opened a Bible. placed, though inquiry will aid you in lo- find a showy orchis growing wild, than Until fairly recent years the attendance cating one in the farming communities. in a moist, shady nook beside a stream? at the community Protestant church varied, The dainty yellow violets were the first and the adults were composed mostly of Before leaving southwestern Colorado, heralds of the spring, with their purple the teachers who had come from outside. visits to Ouray and Silverton should be cousins, the lady's-slippers; trilliums and Today the unsavory vice district is not listed among your musts. High, scenic, hepaticas followed close behind. It was a operating, and the people are resuming a and interesting, they continue to attract paradise of beautiful wild flowers. more normal way of life. A full-time min- the tourist as well as the prospector who APRIL 26, 1949 PAGE 17 knows all the gold and silver have not the teachings of the Seventh-day Adventist The stars but sleep, and in a moment nearing been extracted from the hills. Many seek Church. Their forms will shine against the dark'ning the healing properties of the mineral Dolores Flemmer and Wayne Holland blue; were George's special friends, and his As will the precious dust at our life's ap- springs at Ouray. Few depart without a pearing glimpse of Box Canyon. Others are drawn death has left a great emptiness and lone- Awake to beauty—so, beloved, will you. to Bear Creek Falls which leaps from its liness in their hearts. In his memory they narrow girth to a point 227 feet below, have formed a soul-winning club and have Till then—till then! We cannot ease our griev- seemingly changing to silver lace and asked those of his classmates and friends ing shooting stars. who wish to do so to become members. Nor dry the tears that start, and start anew, If it is ruggedness you wish, Silverton, The pledge to be taken on becoming a Except as we have comfort in believing— a county seat more than nine thousand feet member is, "I shall try to save souls by We see death's Victor, and the light breaks high, points you to her San Juan County living a better Christian life, so that when through. which is one of the few counties in the people see me they will see Christ in me." There are now thirty who have expressed For you, dear one, your form so stilly lying, United States that does not have an acre Half seen through mists of emptiness and their desire to live and work for the salva- of tillable soil. pain, If you go southward toward Mesa Verde tion of others. They have asked me to You're not the you for whom my heart is Park, look for Lizard Head Peak, a sharp teach them how to give Bible studies. I crying, upthrust stopping at 13,800 feet. It will not believe that the Lord is going to use these The you I know and know I'll hold again; take much of a stretch of the imagination young people in a mighty way this year. to find the Sleeping Ute, a formation of They are so earnest and sincere, I am sure The love, the glow, that warmed me at your mountains making this silhouette on the that God will bless their efforts. being, horizon: The one thing that made George sad The understanding, tenderness and grace, was that his family, particularly his dad, The quick discernment, eagerness and seeing, toe knees chest head did not love Jesus. How he prayed each The changeful lights and shadows of your morning and night that his father might face— read the papers sent him, and that he These do not lie here; these we cannot cover, If ever there is any indication that the would study the Bible. Now that George As this poor flesh, caressed with flowers and commonplace is closing in on you, why is gone, his dad is studying and praying, sod; not visit Telluride and vicinity for a lift? and George's prayer is being answered. These things of light and fire and spirit, Thereafter you are sure to live in the A sincere prayer never goes unanswered, lover, shadow of precious memories. and my son's prayers certainly were sin- Are gathered back and have their home in cere. Countless people have given their God! hearts to God, all because of this boy, my son. In his death he has done more, per- From His own heart of wondrous love, up- A Tribute to My Son haps, than he could have done in his life. yielded, They came into His likeness—you, my son; It was the life he lived that has brought (Continued from page 4) Now in that same great bosom, safely shielded, these results in his death. They wait to grace your being rebegun. the edge of a little clearing, and overlooks Those who attended the funeral said the river. In the distance can be seen the that it was the most beautiful service they In Him, with Christ, your precious life is snow-clad mountains, and on every hand had ever seen. They said that the very air hidden, are the beauties of nature. Here he often breathed peace, quiet, love, and beauty; All that I loved is guarded by the throne; went to talk with the Lord. Now, I go and that it was as though they had stepped And when you wake again, by Jesus bidden, alone to the point of inspiration. out of a dark, cold, cruel world into the You will be you, and even more my own! He loved to play the piano. He did not very presence of God. play in public; but at night when his chores Pastor Adlai Esteb, from the Southern 0 blessed hope, blest life, thrice blessed California Conference; Pastor Walter Jesus! were done for the day, he would shut I. look from earth and fix my eyes above; himself in that he might play from the Lind, from the Northern California Con- My life, with yours, is in the Name that frees depths of his soul. Schubert's "Serenade" ference; Pastor A. V. Bentz, our own us: will never be played again just as he pastor; and Pastor Chester Holt, George's I know that He is goodness, He is love. played it, for into it he put all the inner- friend from Texas, were all present to take most stirrings of his young heart. part in the service. The Lord was good to When the news came to me of George's When at last we reach heaven, I shall be send so many of his faithful servants to death, the shock affected my heart. The a star in George's crown, for it was he help me in my sorrow. Pastor Holt was doctor did not think I could live. During who led me to Christ. When he was just not only a minister to George but his pal. the moments I regained consciousness, I a little boy he wanted me to repeat for As soon as he heard of George's death, would speak of George's prayer, how beau- him the stories of Jesus which he was he came to preach the funeral service. tiful it was. You see, George prayed with learning at church school. I was not a The following poem, written as though me the night before he was killed, and Seventh-day Adventist then, but I sent I, George's mother, had composed it, was I wanted to remember that prayer. I him to an Adventist school, because it was penned by Pastor Holt for me. told him afterward that it was the most near our home. He wanted me to live as beautiful one I had ever heard him pray, Sleep Sweetly, Son God taught in the Bible that His chil- and he said, "Mother, I meant every word dren should live. The earnestness - with Sleep sweetly, son, while still the day is of it." which he told me the stories and the joy making, The minister asked me to give the prayer and happiness that shone in his face as he Aglow with promised bounty and delight; to him that he might read it at the funeral, listened when I reread them instilled in For you no afternoon of slow forsaking but I could not remember it word for my heart a deep yearning for a close, per- And painful footsteps falt'ring into night. word. Only parts of it would come to me, sonal acquaintance with the Jesus of the and then I would fall into unconsciousness For you upbearing wings and strength in- Bible. I began to study the Bible for the creasing again. One morning as the day of the first time in my life, and later I became Along bright ways, assured, for here begun; funeral came nearer, I asked everyone to a Seventh-day Adventist. George and I You drank the water of the life unceasing; leave the room so that I might talk with walked together into the baptismal pool, The stars sleep now; sleep sweetly, too, my God. As I prayed He came close to me and since that time, we had both followed son. and helped me recall many wonderful PAGE 18 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR things. I had one of my friends come in, he was exhausted; he was getting warmer and I was able to dictate every word of now; a peaceful sleep was overtaking him, George's prayer. Nothing was left out. Cheek Vole 1 e" such a comfortable sleep. He was so tired! At its close I slipped back into uncon- It seemed that his mother had tucked the sciousness, but how I thank God that I covers in around him! have a true recording of my son's last The next morning his boys found the prayer. Here it is: stalled truck. They saw the tracks in the "Dear God in heaven, mother and I are snow. Anxiously they noted the footprints kneeling before Thee. And, God, I want leading into the wilderness. Also they to talk to Thee. Listen to me. Keep my By FREDRIK W. EDWARDY noted the backtracking, and the story was mother always faithful. Bring my dad and left in the snow, of his stumbling and fall- It is always fun to learn something new, so Dorothy to Thee. I want them to know even if you cannot answer all these questions, look ing and floundering. Bloodstains from his up the answers and add to your store of knowledge. Thee, Lord, as I know Thee. Help them, A score of 50 should indicate that your informa- hands at the last, and around the corner God, to read that which I send them. tion quotient is about average. they came upon the body of their beloved Open Thou their eyes. I. What bird has an egg which has a captain. "0 God, I want my dad in heaven with capacity of two gallons? "Liquor did it!" was their unanimous me. I want my mamma in heaven with Ostrich Giant Condor decision. me. I want my daddy and my mamma Elephant bird New Zealand Moa The body was prepared and sent down with me, and 0 God, you know those 2. Where is the only chapter in the Bible on the train to be put on the boat and who are the burden of mother's heart in that is believed to have been written by a carried on its way back to the Deep South the office. God, I pray for them because woman about women? and his sorrowing family. Proverbs Ruth Tragedy had cut short a brilliant career they are a burden upon mother's heart. Judges Esther I ask Thee to answer this prayer. Speak and left barren the later years of a doting 3. Where is the longest dam in the world father and mother. Had they taught their to their hearts. located? boy the evils of drinking? Had they "Lord, time is short. Am I ready? Look Argentina Egypt into my heart, God. Any evil within me, Brazil Russia pointed their son to the Son of God? Or wash away. had they allowed "sociable drinks" to be 4. What people have eaten octopus pie "I pray for my teachers, for my class- as a delicacy for centuries? served in their home? Had they felt that mates, for my neighbors, for Gar, for Japanese Filipinos they should teach their boy to "drink as a grandma, and for all my relatives. 0 God, Greeks Eskimos gentleman?" Thou knowest their individual needs. 5. Which mountain has the greatest area How true are the wise man's words re- • Have I named them all? These, Lord, are of any in the world? corded in Inspired Writ: "Wine is a the ones I want to be with me in heaven. Mauna Loa Aconcagua mocker, strong drink is raging: and who- I ask it in Thy name, because I love Thee. Mount Everest Mount McKinley soever is deceived thereby is not wise." Amen." 6. Seventy years ago the most severe cold Already most of this prayer has been wave hit the United States that has ever answered. Many of those he prayed for been recorded. Which State had the lowest temperature-66 degrees below zero? have now given their hearts to the Master. Crested Friends Montana Wyoming Again I say, "The Lord blessed me abun- North Dakota Wisconsin (Continued from page 10) dantly when He gave me a son like 7. Which was Thomas A. Edison's first prac- side one day, but he fluffed up and shivered George." May He grant that his mother tical invention? in only a few minutes. will remain a faithful Christian. Electric motor Electric light Stock ticker Telegraph machine On the ranch our breakfast mainstay was 8. Russia must regret that she ever sold Alaska to the United States for a paltry sour-dough pancakes. We had them every Liquor Did It! $7,200,000. About how much mineral wealth day, because sour dough becomes too sour has the territory produced since 1867? if it is not in constant use, so we had (Continued from page 9) $100,000,000 $600,000,000 quantities for ourselves, the cats, the dog, $300,000,000 $900,000,000 around this next curve. There ought to be and the birds. a bridge! 9. Paper was first manufactured about two There was a long carpenter's bench out centuries before Christ. What people are More numb grew his feet. He stumbled. usually credited with the discovery? under the trees near the kitchen door. Something must be wrong. He raised his When breakfast was over for the ranch Chinese Moors head and looked about him. His mind Egyptians Indians family, what remained was taken there. seemed clearer than it had been before. 10. The death toll from auto accidents in "Jay! Jay!" we would scream, imitating He looked at the stars overhead. They the United States dropped last year to 32,000, as nearly as we could the squall of our were not where they should be. Wide or 697 less than the total for 1947. In what feathered neighbors. It did not need to be awake now, and a little frightened, he saw year were more lives lost (39,969) in motor- a very close imitation. They were not par- vehicle accidents than in any other? that he was heading into the wilderness. ticular about anything except that there 1938 1943 No help was near. 1941 1946 were plenty of pancakes. These were stellar jays. This species is almost black on its About-face he turned and retraced his —Key on page 23 steps. He stumbled often now, hurrying on head, crest, and neck, shading into blue at top speed. Time meant everything! He wings and tail. raced for the town. If only his feet were There was one big fellow who fancied not so numb! Stumbling again, he fell; fused by all the liquor he had drunk, himself the chief, and he always had to his feet must be freezing. He could not that he had not had good use of his senses. subdue some ambitious youngster. The handle them. He lifted himself with his If he could just get to his hotel! He had trouble was that the others just would not hands and knees, and stumbled on. Again learned a lesson! stay subdued! The big jay would seize the and again he fell. His hands were freezing He picked himself up once more with largest piece of pancake he could find, and now from lifting himself again and again great effort. There just ahead were the spend minutes bristling like a cock, spar- out of the snow. How could he have made lights of the town! Soon he could call and ring with the others, calling them, "Thief! such a simple mistake? Sober for the mo- someone would hear! Again he fell. He Thief!" as loudly as he could with his bill ment, he realized that he had been con- tried and tried to raise himself; he crawled; full. APRIL 26, 1949 PAGE 19 In the meanwhile, some wiser and less vested in those young persons who would' Captain Jones was greatly encouraged belligerent jays were making off with load like a wider appreciation of the finer treas- and started out to round up more students after load of pancakes, hiding them in ures of the out-of-doors but do not know among the Koiari people living higher up near-by trees, or any place they could find; exactly "how to come at these enchant- in the Astrolabe Mountains. With Mitieli, then they would come back for more. It ments." a Fijian worker, and three school boys, he ended by the big fellow getting fewer pan- called at twenty-seven villages. None of 1 Birds of America, The Macmillan Company. cakes than any of the rest. Perhaps a per- 2 A Field Guide to Me Birds, by Roger Tory Peterson, the villages were large, for each contained son could find a lesson in that if he tried. Houghton Mifflin Company. only four to twelve homes. Some of the The little chickadees would dive in and settlements were very clean and some very snatch crumbs, then flee with a big blue dirty. No white person had ever been seen jay after them, but they always found The World's Second Largest in some—not even a patrol officer. The plenty of remains, when the jays had tired Island little captain tells this experience: of trying to carry off the tiniest bits. One "How we climbed and climbed to reach day I tied a large chunk of suet with a (Continued from page 11) those villages! Some of them seemed in- accessible, and we were gasping every few string and hung it on a branch of the learn to read and write. They listened, tree. The jays tried a few times to perch steps for more breath. I am sure that when they believed, and promised to send their we got to the top the people could easily on it to eat, but it was too unstable for children. It was then that he made a them. However, the chickadees could man- have killed us had we been warriors, for marvelous discovery—they were not nearly we had little strength left for anything. age very nicely, thank you—and did that so hardened as they were thought to be. ever irk the jays! They just could not bear They had learned by experience the best He describes this pathetic little scene on place for safety from any marauding party. to see the little birds enjoying that suet. the first day the new pupils left their homes Finally, after dive bombing them unsuc- Some of the villages were hidden in dense for the mission school: forests, practically impossible to locate, but cessfully a few times, one of the jays lit "I had supposed they were a thought- on the branch above the suet. He surveyed always on hills. less, unloving people, but am now con- "A few we found alongside the rippling the situation carefully, then reached as far vinced to the contrary. It pained me to down as he could, caught the string in his and musical brooks that reminded me of ask them to part with their children and long ago in my dear home country, where bill, pulled it up, and put his foot on it. allow them to come with us to our school. After another long reach, and another birds filled the air with their song; but It was touching to see the boys, not all the sweet nightingale and the thrush and length of string was under his foot, he had small ones either, clinging to their moth- lark are not to be heard here. I looked the suet all to himself. The rest of the jays ers, that they might not go. Some were shrieked in frustration, because they had around and saw lovely green, waving, braver and came, but with tears. Their grasslike fields of grain, but it was only not thought of it first. Of course, the poor fathers were broad-shouldered naked men, rough, unfriendly grass through which we little chickadees were left out again, but we with their faces painted and savage look- tried to make it up to them later. had to make our way under difficulties; so ing, but great tears ran down their cheeks different from the green meadows and as they parted with their boys for the first cool, bracing air filled with the sweet time. scent of flowers in our homeland, which "But they did part with them. Here Forty Feathered Jewels we left more than twenty years ago. We were men and women and children with are glad, however, that we are still privi- (Continued from page 6) tender hearts, and I felt I was surely leged to be actively and literally hunting among a most impressionable people. for the souls of men." What was all this we had heard of the Josephine Lake in Glacier National Park. • It was not difficult to see that Captain Last of all, on a showery day in August, Koiari's blood-thirsty nature? Could it all Jones was getting homesick. It had been 1947, in Portland, Oregon, I came upon a be true? I know not, but I do know the nearly twenty-five years since he and his flock of cheerful black-throated grays. Now Spirit of Christ was present in the villages wife had sailed from England for Amer- I have only fourteen more to learn, unless —certainly the evidence was not lacking. ica and later to the South Seas; no wonder we find occasion to go to Central America, We have now more than thirty of these he was now looking with longing toward in which case there will be scores more of Koiari young people staying with us in the homeland. New Guinea was anything such strangers. Perhaps next summer we our mission school, and soon hope to have but cool and friendly. Its miseries were be- can go over to Michigan to search for the over forty." ginning to pall on the little captain, and he Kirtland's warbler. looked with farseeing eyes through the What was my astonishment a few days sweat and tears of his labors toward the ago to find how easy it really is (for some Sunset sea that could take him back to his be- people) to win warbler friends and influ- By Virginia G. Rhudy loved country where the parrots and ence the woods people. In editing the big screaming cockatoos would no longer grate volume of Audubon portraits, Dr. William The Creator painted a sunset on his nerves, where there was no rough, On the canopy of the sky, Vogt notes the supposed difficulty of my And every man who looked was thrilled saw-toothed grass, but only pleasant places long quest and blithely remarks that "vir- With glory that met his eye. and friendly people. tually all of them can be learned by two Captain Jones was no longer a young hours of study." 1 Unfortunately, he does Someone asked, what can this beauty mean— man to be engaged in such arduous pio- This crimson and blue and gold, not trouble to reveal his short-cut method. In skies where sheep clouds romp and play— neering. He was now just short of his I am more inclined to agree with Roger T. The answer: God's love is told! sixty-first birthday, and although he was Peterson, who after doing his best in pic- still doing his best among these rough, un- turing the "confusing fall warblers"—the An artist painted a sunset couth peoples, the letters and reports which On a canopy of doth, immature and adult birds in fall plumage A beautiful piece of colored sky; he sent back to the Australasian Union —says, "If at the end of ten years of field But the heart of man was wroth. headquarters must have given some hint work you can say you know the fall war- of his wish to see England once more be- blers you are doing very well." a Even so, He looked at the sky in the evening; fore he grew too old to enjoy such a long He looked at the green on the sod. my face is still a deep shade of red. Oh, who can portray such scenes as these voyage. As for the hours spent going over the But love in the hand of God! 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APRIL 26, 1949 PAGE 21 spurred him on, although he was then He said, 'I want everyone to look at this with her children, and thus eats the spir- in the slough of despond. The natives near table and see what a poor offering has been itual food and drinks the milk of the Word the mission had for the most part been given today to the Sabbath school. Is this with them. However, it is good to read confused by the efforts of several different all you can give to thank God for His again the stories of the Bible and accept denominations to swell their lists of con- mercies for the week? If Jonesy saw this, their lessons from an adult viewpoint. verts. They did not know what they be- he would be disgusted; what must Christ Mother may receive benefit for herself lieved, and soon repelled all efforts for think of us when we give so little? Never while teaching simple lessons to her chil- them by any Christian worker. Captain again do I want to see such a poor offering dren. Jones declared in disgust, "Put me among on this table!' Although I attended that Never along the walk of life will Ida head-hunting cannibals, and I know what church off and on for about two years, I pray so much as when she is a mother. to do; I am at home with them and can noticed that thereafter the offerings were Never will she so eagerly partake of com- win them for Christ, but these half-con- always liberal, as requested by Willie." munion. No matter how much the prepara- verted, half-civilized people are the hard- • If Captain Jones could have been there, tion, she will realize her own fearful in- est to reach." I am sure he would have smiled in ap- adequacy in guiding her children to the Nevertheless, while he was here he had proval! Land of God. Many times daily, as she to do what he could. That love in his (To be continued) - meets with childhood's quarrels and dis- heart could not be stifled, and it had a way obedience and careless ways, she will com- of reaching his hearers no matter how mune in spirit while at her washing, hardened they were. Some years later, after ironing, or cleaning, seeking some assur- Captain Jones had been returned to Eng- Ideals for Ida ance that her efforts have not been in vain. land on furlough, one of the missionaries (Continued from page 8) came to visit a little village church and Mrs. Ellen G. White has made the state- found there a most enthusiastic native average of quiet and even pace. There is ment: "She [mother] cannot, in her turn, worker. After the service he went to this no place like home for the growing child boast of what she has done. It seems to leader and asked him how he had first or the baby, provided mother is there too. her as though she has accomplished noth- learned of Seventh-day Adventists. This To be left with this one and that one is ing. . . . Her name . . . is immortalized is the story he told: almost as bad as being bundled off on in the book of God." "I was walking along the road to the frequent jaunts. For the period of pre- village one day. Passing through a coco- school years at least mother had best forgo nut plantation, I met a little old man with her social visits. She must cut them to the 'grass' on his face who said, 'Good morn- minimum. ing, what's your name?' I said, 'Willie.' More than that, home will not remain 'Are you in a hurry?' I said, `No!' Will the quiet, calm, and enjoyable place of you sit down on this coconut log and talk the freedom-loving child if mother con- to me for a while?' I said, 'Yes.' So the tinues to open her home to an abundant little old man and I sat on the log and social life. Her energies and thought will talked about New Guinea. Finally the be so taken up in planning entertainment little man asked me to what mission I and pleasure for others that she may neg- Senior Youth Lesson belonged, and I told him that I was not lect the charges God has given her. Not interested in any mission. He said, 'Can only will she deprive them of her teach- VI—Deliverance From the Den you read the Bible?' I said, 'Yes, the Bible ing and attention, but she actually is apt of Lions that is translated by the Methodists.' He to become annoyed by them and develop (May 7) asked whether I had read in the Bible that in herself a state of irritability. LESSON SCRIPTURE : Daniel 6. Jesus is coming again, and that Jesus is This principle applies likewise to the MEMORY VERSE : Daniel 6 :10. going to take His people home, and that field of missionary activity. Mother's great- LESSON HELPS : Daniel and the Revelation, Prophets and Kings, pp. 539-548. in the new home there would be no sick- est field lies next to her in the home. This PP. 97-103 ; 1. When Darius became ruler of Medo-Persia, ness or sorrow or death. Also he said, should never be slighted in order to do how did he organize the empire? Dan. 6:1, 2. 'Do you know that the Bible tells you that other types of church activity. Most com- NOTE.—"Babylon was taken by the Persians, and Darius the Median was placed upon the you must not work on Saturday, for it is munities house the familiar missionary throne in 538 B.C. When Darius died two years the sacred day of the Big Masta on top?' bustler who in her haste to do great things later, Cyrus took the throne. Somewhere, there- He invited me to go to church the follow- for God leaves the sink full of dirty fore, between these two dates the event occurred which is narrated in this chapter. . . . ing Sabbath, and to hear more about the dishes, the beds unmade, meals unplanned "Darius set over the kingdom one hundred Bible. The next Sabbath I went to church, and hastily prepared, the children untaught twenty princes, there being at that time, as is supposed, one hundred twenty provinces in the I heard more about the Bible, and I have and unmothered. What does one's contri- empire, each one having its prince, or governor. been going to that church ever since." bution to church office or the church mis- By the victories of Cambyses and Darius Hystaspes, it was afterward enlarged to one This boy Willie was the first real convert sionary program avail if one's own chil- hundred twenty-seven provinces. (Esther r in New Guinea, and still is a loyal church dren lose their souls? Over these princes were set three presidents, and member. For the task of motherhood Ida will of these Daniel was chief."—Daniel and the Revelation, pp. 97, 98. In this village, as well as in the others, need the fortification of all life's ideals. 2. For what characteristic was Daniel honored money is a_ rare commodity, even today; She will need health and an attitude of fair by the king? Dan. 8:3. therefore, the offerings are taken up in play. She will need a sound mind and all 3. How did Daniel's jealous associates seek to injure him? What made it impossible for them to whatever the people have available to give, the knowledge and wisdom Christian do so successfully? Dan. 6:4. such as eggs, bananas, pineapples, to- schools can offer. She will value a back- 4. To what conclusion did his enemies finally matoes, or nuts. A few months after the ground of friendships and abundant ac- come? Dan. 6:5. arrival of the missionary previously men- tivity, for the years of child rearing will 5. How did the presidents and princes then tioned, he again visited Willie's church, ask of her a sacrifice. She will depend endeavor to trap Daniel? Dan. 6:6-8. NoTE.—"They came together to the king— and tells of this experience: much upon the strength and love of a kind came tumultuously, says the margin. They "Owing to the lack of rain, the natives and understanding husband. She will trust came as if some urgent matter had suddenly sprung up, and they had come to present it before were short of food and the Sabbath school a heavenly Father who, she is thankful, him. They claimed that all were agreed. This offering was very poor. But after the offer- early became her Guide, for children al- was false, for Daniel, the chief of them all, was of course not consulted in the matter. The ing had been taken and the meeting low less time for concentrating on sermons decree they presented was designed to increase closed, Willie asked to speak to the people. or extensive Bible study. A mother lives honor and respect for the royal will. No prayer PAGE 22 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR or petition, they declared, was to be addressed to Darius. So trustworthy has Daniel proved him- ASSIGNMENT B any man or god, save the king, for thirty days. self that he is given a high position. It matters By this flattering approach the princes hid their not to Daniel which king is on the throne, or The Decree .to Honor God evil design against Daniel."-Ibid., pp. 98, 99. what laws they make regarding worship. Daniel 14. What decree did the emperor make to all the world? V o 6. What was King Darius led to do? What shows is a faithful servant of God at all times and 25-27. that Daniel was not affected by the decree? Dan. in all places. And God dares to deliver such 15. What is said of Daniel during the rest of 6:9, 10. a one even if He must work a miracle. the reign of Darius and during the reign of NOTE.-"The king signed the decree, and it "From the story of Daniel's deliverance, we Cyrus? Verse 28. became an unalterable law of the Medes and may learn that in seasons of trial and gloom, ASSIGNMENT 7 p. 99. God's children should be just what they were In this lesson- 7. What course of action did the enemies of when their prospects were bright with hope and Daniel then pursue? Dan. 6:11-13. and their surroundings all that they could de- How many princes are mentioned? sire. Daniel in the lions' den was the same How many presidents? 8. What shows that the king had been unaware How many decrees are made? of the plot against Daniel? What command was Daniel who stood before the king as chief the king finally compelled to give? How did he among the ministers of state and as a prophet How many times a day did Daniel pray ? encourage Daniel? Dan. 6:14-16. of the Most High. A man whose heart is stayed Where do you find mention of- 9. What unusual care was taken that Daniel upon God will be the same in the hour of his musical instruments? should not escape? Dan. 6:17. greatest trial as he is in prosperity, when the broken bones? 10. How did King Darius pass the night? What light and favor of God and of man beam upon a stone? did he do early in the morning? What did he cry him."-Prophets and Kings, p. 545. windows? out when he came to the den? Dan. 6:18-20. ASSIGNMENT 1 DANIEL NOTE. "The course of the king after Daniel Imperial Persia bowed to his wise sway- had been cast into the den of lions attests Read the lesson text and the Guiding Thought. A hundred provinces his daily care ; his genuine interest in the prophet's behalf, ASSIGNMENT 2 A queenly city with its gardens fair and the severe condemnation he felt for his Smiled round him-but his heart was far away own course in the matter. At dawn he repaired Jealousy Among the Statesmen Forsaking pomp and power "three times a day" to the den of hungry and ravenous beasts. 1. What plan did Darius have for the govern- For chamber lone, he seeks his solace there ; Daniel was alive, and his response to the mon- ment of the Medo-Persian Empire? What position Through windows opening westward floats arch's salutation was no reproach for his having did Daniel hold in it? Dan. 6:1-3. yielded to his evil counselors."-Ibid., p. 102. his prayer 2. Because of their jealousy, what did the Towards the dear distance where Jerusalem lay. 11. What reason did Daniel give for God's presidents and princes unsuccessfully seek to So let me morn, noon, evening, steal aside, protection? What command did the king then give? do? Verse 4. Dan. 6:21-23. And shutting my heart's door to earth's vain NOTE. "The honors bestowed upon Daniel pleasure NOTE.-Daniel "reminded the king, in a excited the jealousy of the leading men of the And manifold solicitudes, find leisure manner which he must have keenly felt, but to kingdom, and they sought for occasion of com- The windows of my soul to open wide which he could take no exception, that before plaint against him. But they could find none, Towards that blest city and that heavenly him he had done no wrong. Because of his 'forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there treasure, innocency, God, whom he served continually, any error or fault found in him.' "-Ibid., p. had sent His angel and had shut the lions' Which past these visable horizons hide. mouths."-Ibid. 539. -RICHARD WILTON. 3. In what one thing did they think they could 12. How were the accusers of the prophet pun- bring an accusation against him? Verse 5. ished? Dan 6:24. 4. What subtle plot did they make? V 13. How did Daniel's faithfulness result in mak- 6-9. KEY TO "A WORD TRIANGLE" ing the true God known to many people? Dan. O REGON 6:25-27. ASSIGNMENT 3 R IDER a NOTE.-"Daniel's deliverance resulted in Daniel Remains Firm another proclamation's being sent out through 5. What shows that this decree did not affect E DI T the empire in favor of the true God, the God Daniel's custom? Verse 10. of Israel. All men were commanded to fear and G E T tremble before Him. The plot which Daniel's NOTE.-"The prophet's enemies counted on enemies had designed to prove his ruin, resulted Daniel's firm adherence to principle for the O R only in his advancement. In this case, and in the success of their plan. And they were not experience of the three Hebrews in the fiery mistaken in their estimate of his character. N furnace, the approval of God is placed on two . . . Why should he cease to pray now, when great lines of duty-the refusal to yield to any he most needed to pray? Rather would he re- KEY TO "CHECK YOUR I.Q." known sin, and the refusal to omit any known linquish life itself, than his hope of help in God. (1) Elephant bird of Madagascar, recently ex- duty. From these instances the people of God in With calmness he performed his duties as tinct. (2) Proverbs 31. (3) Gabel Awlia Dam all ages may derive encouragement."-Ibid., chief of the princes ; and at the hour of prayer in Egypt is 16,700 feet long. (4) Greeks. (5) p. 103. he went to his chamber, and with his windows Mauna Loa, in Hawaii. (6) Yellowstone Park open toward Jerusalem, in accordance with his in Wyoming. (7) Stock ticker. (8) $900,000,000. 14. During what time did Daniel's service as a (9) Chinese. (10) In 1941. statesman prosper? Dan. 6:28. usual custom, he offered his petition to the Nors.-Through association with Daniel, God of heaven. He did not try to conceal his "these heathen monarchs [Darius and Cyrus] act." Ibid, pp. 540-542. were constrained to acknowledge his God as 6. What changeless principle of right has "7(ii !loud, 'the living God, and steadfast forever, and His always guided God's servants? Acts 5:29; 4:19, 20. kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.' . . . Was Daniel guided by this principle? Read note. "From the story of Daniel's deliverance, we NOTE.-"In all cases where the king had a I MITR rTO It may learn that in seasons of trial and gloom, right to command, Daniel would obey ; but God's children should be just what they were neither the king nor his decree could make Issued by when their prospects were bright with hope him swerve from allegiance to the King of Review and Herald Publishing Association and their surroundings all that they could de- kings. Thus the prophet boldly yet quietly and Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. sire."-Prophets and Kings, p. 545. humbly declared that no earthly power has a right to interpose between the soul and God." LORA E. CLEMENT . EDITOR -Ibid., p. 542. "'Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think FREDERICK LEE ASSOCIATE EDITOR ▪ ye have eternal life.' To search means to look 7. How did his enemies spy oa Daniel? Dan. diligently for something which has been lost. 6:11-13. CONSULTING EDITORS Search for the hidden treasures in God's word. 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Guiding Thought You should notify us in advance of any change of ad- NOTE.-Once again it was found true that dress, as the post office will not forward your papers to you The empire of Babylon has given way to the those who assist Satan in laying his traps are even though you leave a forwarding address. Your com- rulership of the Medes and Persians under themselves entrapped. pliance in this matter will save delay and expense. APRIL 26, 1949 PAGE 23 O UNIVERSITY of California's College of Phar- O NEW ZEALAND is said to have the highest macy scientists have discovered that vitamin proportion of old people of any country in the K, which has proved so useful in preventing world. More than one in eight of its in- O A TRANSPORTATION convention held re- hemorrhage, also has a property which pro- habitants is 60 years of age or older. cently at Bolzano in the Italian Alps paid tects food from spoiling. The derivative, desig- O tribute to the first cog railway in the world nated as K-5, when used in concentrations of ANNA JARVIS, who originated Mother's Day which is still in operation. It is a steam- one part in 10,000, stops the growth of molds in 1914, died recently, at the age of 84. The operated line which first chugged to the 6,288- on foodstuffs, and prevents sugar from fer- spinster lobbied Congress and President Woodrow Wilson into designating the second foot summit of Mount Washington in New menting. The substance has also been found Sunday in May as the day to be venerated Hampshire back in 1869. effective in the treatment of ringworm, ath- lete's foot, and other fungus infections. for mothers, and spent the rest of her life • NErr time you view a picture of Niagara trying to keep business houses from com- Falls or see the real thing, think of America's O A NEW door lock has been perfected by an mercializing the date. coffee-drinking habit. Last year its citizens American concern which requires no keys. O FASHIONABLE restaurants in Madrid, Spain, drank enough to keep the falls flowing for All you have to do is slide back a protective have the distinction of serving the latest din- 66 minutes, more than 8,000,000,000 gallons, cover and press three of eight buttons in a ners in the world. During the hot summer according to figures compiled by the North- preselected combination that actuates an months if one orders a meal at 8 P.M., he will western Life Insurance Company. electrical mechanism. The lock has 336 pos- sible combinations, and is equipped with an eat alone under the disapproving stare of the O How long must neighbors be patient and alarm which goes off if a wrong button is headwaiter, for few people eat before 10:30 listen to a youngster practice his music lessons? pushed. P.M. and most of the better-known dining When sleepy people in Crewe, England, com- spots do not fill up until after eleven o'clock! plained to the town council that 14-year-old O FORMER Dictator Hideko Tojo and his fel- Willie Nixon could not be induced to give his low war criminals gave clippings of their hair O Esximos are now being vaccinated for the blaring cornet a rest, the magistrate ordered and parings of their fingernails to their fam- control of tuberculosis, according to a recent the boy's parents to restrict his practice to 15 ilies as memorials before they were hanged announcement by the United States Secretary minutes each evening and an hour on Sun- recently. According to Japanese custom, these of the Interior J. A. Krug. The inauguration days. will be put in the family shrines and wor- of the program is probably the most important shiped as ancestor tokens. single step yet taken by the United States in O ALTHOUGH automobiles are still taking a its efforts to combat the dread disease, which high toll of lives in the United States, the O NEW 20-dollar bills now being minted in took an average of 688 in 100,000 lives dur- figures for fatalities were 3 per cent lower in the United States have already been altered ing the last seven-year period. 1948 than they were in 1947. More than to picture President Harry S. Truman's new 34,000 paid the supreme penalty in auto- balcony on the south portico of the White O BANK checks for the blind are being pro- mobile accidents in 1947, with 1,500,000 badly House. vided by an Omaha, Nebraska, bank which injured, and 100,000 left permanently dis- features a special design of raised lines to abled. Last year's report dropped to approxi- O OF the 10,000 "clippies" (woman bus con- guide the fingers of the sightless to a box mately 32,400 but property damage rose to ductors) employed in London during the war in the lower right corner where he places his $1,100,000,000, and additional medical ex- years, about 4,000 have refused to go home thumbprint. Along the borders are raised penses reached $1,550,000. to their housework, and are still employed. numbers of $5, $10, $25, and $100 where the blind check writer may mark the maximum O HALF a million rubber jar rings were ex- O HENRY K. KAISER, Oakland, California, amount he wishes to use. shipbuilder and automobile manufacturer, ported last year from America to African has announced plans to enter a new field at natives who use them instead of hard-to-get O FIVE former coastguardmen who were in- least as a hobby. The industrialist has ordered• brass rings to adorn their legs and arms. spired by the restoration of colonial Williams- three speedboats constructed, one of which burg, Virginia, to its pre-Revolutionary charm, will be .driven by Guy Lombardo, former have sought to restore the quaint old "ghost winner of the Gold Cup. Mr. Kaiser is plan- Youth's Congress town" of Georgetown, Colorado, which has ning on entering the Harmsworth races in been uninhabited for 40 years. The veterans Great Britain next summer, an event usually The Pacific Union Conference young peo- have restored one block of the rugged town, restricted to millionaires, because each entry ple never have had a union-wide congress of which includes a restaurant, hotel, and a will entail a cost of at least $100,000 for con- their very own since the great North Amer- silent movie house. More than 30,000 visitors ican Youth's Congress, which was held in struction and preparation. have been attracted to the settlement in the San Francisco more than two years ago. But last three summers. O So many churches in Great Britain are now they are looking forward to such a get- together at Lynwood, June 8.12, with an all • DID you know that spiders are aviators showing religious motion pictures as part of day meeting in the Hollywood Bowl on Sab- their services that local theaters are complain- bath, June 11. Pastor J. R. Nelson and his whose aeronautic ability is surpassed by few ing that the attractions are seriously compet- conference Missionary Volunteer leaders are winged creatures? Newly hatched spiders ing with their regular features. It all began planning and working and sparing no effort possess an instinct for flight as the means of when a London minister found most of his to make this congress a real uplift and in- dispersing from their overpopulated birth- members who used to sit in the church pews spiration to the youth of this great union con- place in order to survive. They climb to a high standing in line down the street, waiting to ference. They anticipate an attendance of point on a bush or blade of grass, spin a thin see the latest movie. He decided to win over twenty-five thousand, and wish to extend a gossamer strand, and feed it into the warm cordial welcome to young people from every- air rising from the ground, until there is these parishioners by installing a screen and where who may find it possible to attend to projector, and began showing pictures on join them in this great meeting. Remember enough upward pull to carry them off. If Bible subjects. The experiment was such a the date—June 8-12—and be one of this great they catch a trade wind, they may travel for success that it was soon copied by other pas- audience of Seventh-day Adventist youth if days before coming to earth; and if a number tors, and as a result the supply of religious you possibly can. of them happen to meet, they form silken films is increasing phenomenally from both scarfs which sometimes float hundreds of British and American motion picture studios. miles. PAGE 24 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR