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structure, but up there on top of the hill, near a great bull pine, there was such a pleasant, flat place, and down by the brook a knoll especially prepared by nature for a red-and-blue Chinese summerhouse. Then there was that grove of sweet bay trees. A brook ran through it. What a delightful outdoor living room it would make ! The manzanitas formed a pretty hedge, just as they stood. The old dean rather liked the gnarly bushes. In her mind she had already planted flowers and placed rural seats all along the hillside beneath the shining red madrofia trees. "For students who want to get out of the turmoil of school life, you know," she would say. And then she thought the boys were going to build there. That was good. That would mean more young people to pass along the road before her house. Two new homes, good sensible Chris- tian homes, too, they would be. Then suddenly it all stopped. The boys didn't come any more. "Depression." That was what they said. "But we will find a way to build T.--; A H. A. ROBERTS 7-$ somewhere !" they resolved earnestly. "If not now, sometime !" She Had a Blueprint in Her Once a slip of a girl had stopped M Hands and Evidently Was Cre• and looked at the lot with happy eyes. C. ating a Home From the Material keep the ‘'") • Before Her She had a blueprint in her hands and PARK' was evidently creating a home from the material before her. That passed, too ! The depression had killed it. "Gone to wattles !" sighed the old dean. "Just gone to wattles !" DREAM in lAy #eatt Then out of the past crept the pic- ture of a white, green-shuttered New By MAY COLE KUHN England house, set back from the road among a wealth of elms and maples, pink and white dogwood and snowy "Across the fields of yesterday three weeks they had been measuring apple blossoms, and the clean, dainty He sometimes comes to me, and remeasuring a little hilly patch of fragrance of arbutus. The dean rang A little lad just back from play— The lad I used to be. timber across from her home. the curtain down on that ! It was her "Two hundred feet this way and first dreain• house, and the negative "And yet he smiles so wistfully eight hundred fifty feet that way. had been buried down beneath whole Once he has crept within, Room enough for two houses on the buildings full of schoolrooms teeming I wonder if he hopes to see The man I might have been." hill and space for two gardens on the with children and young people of level land across the creek; wood various ages and nationalities. They HOSE aspirations ! What has enough to build a rustic bridge and to we.re no dream ! become of them? What has keep a fireplace going for at least two On her lap lay a Bible. She opened Tgrown out of all the dreams you years." That was what the boys had it to 2 Chronicles 6:7-9. "Now it was had ?" the old dean had questioned, said. in the heart of David my father to build looking wistfully at the two boys— H-m-m ! thought the dean. She had a house for the name of the Lord God well, they weren't boys either, any built several houses on that land al- of Israel. But the Lord said to David more. They must have been between ready—dream houses. Not that she my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine twenty-five and thirty. For two or ever expected to build a sure-enough heart to build a (Turn to page 13) VOL. 91, NO. 49 DECEMBER 7, 1943 E had come out of one of the slowly. I went to the bank of a river plained that she was making' no sac- West Coast relocation centers, some distance away and sat down there rifice at all, because her "good con- this smiling Japanese minister who, to think. I was only twelve years old, science" more than repaid her, they at the request of the General Con- but there by the river that day I made still could not understand, but their re- ference, was attending the recent my decision for life. I would be a spect for her grew apace. Autumn Council. "I am very for- Christian. Soon afterward I was bap- Many times in the three years that tunate," he said, "in being the first tized and united with the Seventh-day followed, this young woman had op- Japanese child born of Seventh-day Adventist Church. I have never been portunity to witness for her Master. Adventist parents." Then he went on sorry for that decision." Not once did she compromise principle, to tell that when he was a boy growing As I listened to this experience I and experiences proved again and up there were no church schools in his thought of three young men of Hebrew again that a firm statement of her country, even as there are none today, parentage—Shadrach, Meshach, and standards at the outset of the course and that he had been obliged to attend Abednego—who, by order of their had done much to solve her problems. the state schools, which are very differ- king, stood before a great golden image In her Junior-A year she was one of ent from even the public schools in the set up on the plain of Dura, just out- the few elected to the Honor Society United States. From the time that he side the city of Babylon, and said, in of that great high school. Membership was a very small boy he had to meet answer to his command that they bow in this group was based on superiority the problem of school activities on the before the image or face death in a in leadership, scholarship, character, Sabbath and endure the taunts and fiery furnace: "We are not careful to and service. The faculty did careful abuse of the other boys, who pointed answer thee in this matter. If so be, work in making the selections, and at him and shouted the Japanese equiv- our God whom we serve is able to when the announcement was made, the alent of "little Advent !" when they saw deliver us from the burning fiery fur- honor which came to this Seventh-day him on the playground or on the street. nace, and He will deliver us out of Adventist girl was more than an honor But childish feelings are resilient, thine hand, 0 king." All of which He —it was a sacrament. Again, near the and he managed to have a rather good did, gloriously ! end of her senior year, when the four time, notwithstanding the fact that he senior students best qualified to ex- was so very "different" from the rank emplify the various virtues that con- and file of his schoolmates. T is not easy to be numbered with stitute the four prerequisites for mem- How he did love a picnic ! And his I the unpopular minority. Only bership were selected, she was chosen school had many picnics—but always young people with real backbone and to represent "character." on Saturday. Therefore he could the courage of their convictions will Then came the greatest test—gradu- never attend. This was a great sorrow dare to face the finger of scorn with ation was set for a Friday evening that in his young life. But one Saturday it head up and eyes looking straight year instead of Thursday evening as rained, and so the picnic was post- ahead, "as seeing Him who is invis- was customary. For a brief moment poned ! What joy welled up and ible." she questioned whether or not God had brimmed over in one little lad's heart ! A young Seventh-day Adventist girl forgotten her. Not graduate with her When he went to bed on Sunday night found herself in a great city high school class ? Disappointment of disappoint- he placed his clothes and the lunch with an enrollment of approximately ments ! It was the end toward which which his mother had prepared care- two thousand. With all her loyal heart she had striven diligently for four fully, by his bedside, so that come she longed to attend a Christian acad- years ! Then came the thought that morning he could dress without delay emy, but this privilege being denied her very absence would preach a more and be off for a grand, good time. her, she determined to accept the situ- eloquent, sermon than words could ever The happy boys and their teachers ation as a real challenge and so faith- express, on loyalty to her Saviour and started out for the long climb gp a fully live her religion that she could be to the peculiar truths of the third an- mountain. Arriving at their destina- a real witness for God before all with gel's message, which motivated her life. tion, they had merry games until hinch whom she had to do. The principal urged her to put aside hour, and then this lad's teacher or- The stakes she set were high. She her scruples for once, argued that com- dered his class to "line up" ! In front took her mother into her confidence, mencement was "a sort of" religious of them was a shrine ! "I had for- and they agreed that to accomplish her service ; but she did not attend, and gotten all about shrines," said this purpose she must be an outstanding called for her diploma later, following Japanese boy-now-grown-tall, in tell- student and scholar ; a fountain of good to the end of her high-school experi- ing the story, "and that was strange, cheer, friendliness, and helpfulness to ence the straight course she had set for because in Japan there are shrines for both teachers and fellow students ; an herself when she entered. Shinto worship everywhere. When the example of true Christian womanhood "Did it pay ?" someone asked her teacher gave the command to bow I in dress, deportment, and speech ; and after it was all over, and she was regis- stood upright. He came to me and that her daily life must radiate the true tering as a freshman in the Christian said : 'You did not bow.' No,' I ,an- joy and satisfaction that come from college of her choice. "Oh, yes," she swered, 'I 'am a Christian and I cannot being an all-the-way Christian. answered with conviction in her voice, bow before a Shinto shrin'e.' Then During her first year she was con- "it paid a hundredfold." he said to me : 'I will' give you one stantly invited and urged to attend var- more chance.' Again he gave the com- ious social functions and school activ- H, no, it is never easy to be in the mand to bow and all the other boys ities in which she could not as a O minority; but in the end the hard bowed, but I did not. Then the teacher Seventh-day Adventist participate. It way proves to be the easy way—the told me that I could not stay at the was difficult for her friends—and she way that brings Heaven's blessing and picnic ; that I must take my lunch and made many of them—to understand untold satisfaction. go home. how she could "give up so much" for "I was very sad as I walked away principle's sake. And when she ex- 04.4il e a-4e VOL. 91, NO. 49 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, DECEMBER 7, 1943 ONE YEAR, $2.15 Published by the Seventh-day Adventists. Printed every Tuesday by the Review and Herald Publishing Assn., at Takoma Park, Washington 12, D. C., U. S. A. Entered as second-class matter, August 14, 1903, at the post office at Washington, D. C., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. What would they think if she should start weeping in church ! The minister continued : "Now let k_C) \ER OA us turn to Matthew, the nineteenth chapter, and read from the sixteenth S to the twenty-second verse." That's the story of the rich young Out eountPq and Cut King ruler, mused Norma. It was money By A SOLDIER'S WIFE that he didn't want to give up. That was too bad. I would give up money if I had it. "But, Norma," a voice seemed to say to her, "are you sure you would ? ORMA sat in the church pew, and take up his cross daily, and follow Was not his money the most precious with her eyes fastened upon the Me.' Then in the fourteenth chapter possession the young ruler had? Yours N speaker. Her attention, how- again, the twenty-seventh verse : 'Who- is not money, but are you willing to ever, kept shifting between his words soever doth not bear his cross, and give up all that you do have for Him ?" and her own thoughts. come after Me, cannot be My dis- "In 'Christ's Object Lessons,' " said "We need more faith," Pastor New- ciple.' "' the minister, "we read that selfishness man was saying. Then, to illustrate "Dear God," she prayed, "you know keeps us from finding the precious what faith really means in our lives, that I am willing to deny myself of all pearl. Are your lives, my brothers and he wrote "faith" out on the blackboard, luxuries—yes, even of necessities—for sisters, freed from all selfishness ? Can placing each letter below the preceding Thy work. But this cross is so much you say with me this morning, 'For- one. Then he wrote a word after each greater than that. How can I give up saking all, I take Him' ?" letter, the result being : the most precious possession you have A call was being made. Norma had Forsaking given me—my husband—for a cause always stood when there was a call to All such as this ? If you were asking me express thanks to God for His good- I to give him up for Thy work, that ness or an opportunity to reconsecrate Take would not be so hard, but to give him her life to Him .and His service. But Him up for that which is evil and dreadful today it was different. Today it seemed and horrible—that is different! I just that she was being asked to give up "This all may mean everything can't let him go !" something which God would not ask we possess," the minister explained, Her lips quivered. She bit them her to give up. God had given the two "wealth, home, friends, dear ones— firmly. She could not permit the peo- of them to each other such a little while even life itself. We must be willing ple in the other seats to see her cry. before. 'How could He be asking that to give up everything for Him." He told of the loyalty displayed by soldiers who volunteer as members of suicide squads or as members of ex- peditions in which they know they can- not hope to escape death. They will drive through barricades, facing cer- tain death, or blow themselves to bits with the dynamite which they use tp destroy certain enemy strongholds. This they will do for their country and their leaders. "If men will give up their lives so freely and so bravely for their earthly leaders, how much more freely and willingly should the Christian give up his life for his Leader—the Ruler of the universe !" he continued. Norma was listening to the words, but even as she heard them a struggle was continuing within her heart, the struggle which had been going on for many days. "Yes, Lord," she was saying, "I would be willing to give up all' I have for Thee and for Thy work, but this is different." Pastor Newman was speaking again : "Let me direct your thoughts to a few texts of Scripture on this subject. First, to Luke 14 :33 : 'So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be My disciple.' And in the ninth chapter, the twenty-third verse, 'If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself,

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God Never Leads His Children Otherwise Than They Would Choose to Be Led, if They Could See the End From the Beginning, and Discern the Glory of the Purpose Which They Are Fulfilling as Co•workers With Him. —Ellen Gould White DECEMBER 7, 1943 PAGE 3 they be torn apart now? that Gilbert her ? But was it really God who was but he picked up the prayer where she go off to war—to some place where she calling for him ? How could she left off and carried it on to completion. could not follow ? know ? His letters were full of courage. "Is it selfishness, Lord, which makes "Dear Lord," she prayed, "if it is •It is true that when he called her me refuse to give him up ?" she asked. Thy will that Gilbert serve in the by, long distance and said that he was "Tell me that it isn't selfishness. There Army, please take selfishness out of being sent farther away—he had no are other men who can go to war, but my life and make me willing to give idea where—his voice had an unusual he could do so much in Thy service him up. I know it is in Thy power to huskiness, but his words were re- here at home. Surely it can't be Thy hinder his going. Help me to be will- assuring. will for him to go. It couldn't be, ing for Thy will to be done. Help me Throughout the many months which could it, that by tryihg to withhold him to trust that, however it goes, it is Thy have followed—for• it was soon after I would be attempting to thwart Thy will." Pearl Harbor that he was draf ted— plans for him ?" From the organ poured strains of Gilbert's daily letters have been a stim- Then her mind picked up examples music, and soon the words of a song ulation to Norma's hope and courage. of the mysterious ways in which God continued the question which had been There was the evening he wrote that works. Daniel's family must have felt pounding in her heart he had been out on maneuvers with his that no possible good could come when company, and after supper he had left those fine young men—he and hia three "You have longed for sweet peace, and for faith to increase, the mess tent alone and kept walking special friends—were taken as captives And have earnestly, fervently prayed; until he came to the edge of a wood to Babylon, she thought. The world But you cannot have rest, or be perfectly near the camp. Here he sat down must have seemed very dark to them at blest and thought awhile, added a few more the time, but how wonderfully the Lord Until all on the altar is laid. words to the letter he was writing her, changed this catastrophe into a great "Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid? then knelt in prayer. After he rose he blessing ! He permitted Daniel and his Your heart, does the Spirit control? pulled his little khaki-bound New Tes- God-fearing companions to witness for You can only be blest and have peace tatnent from his pocket and began to Him as few persons have ever wit- • and sweet rest, As you yield Him your body and soul. read. He had in mind no particular nessed. "Ye shall be witnesses unto scripture, but somehow as he turned Me . . . unto the uttermost part of "Would you walk with the Lord, in the the pages he seemed to be guided to the earth." light of His word, one of the chapters in Revelation which Could it be that our Seventh-day And have peace and contentment al- way, contains a special message for today. Adventist boys today may be called to You must do His sweet will, to be free He reviewed that prophecy carefully, witness for God as was Daniel of old, from all ill, then closed the word, rose, and hurried while they serve in Army camps and On the altar your all you must lay. back to camp. on battlefields and in hospitals ? Is it When he reached camp he wondered possible that they are being called into "Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid? . . ." why he had hurried, for there seemed our country's service for a special pur- to be nothing special there for him pose ? Could it be that they actually "Oh, Father in heaven," breathed to do. A large crowd was gathered may be going as ambassadors ,for Norma, "Thy la be done. I thank around a circle where a boxing match God ? Thee for the victory. was taking place. He decided that that "I wish to call your attention to two was not the place for him; so he more texts," the minister was saying, Yes, my all's on the altar of sacrifice strolled back to his little "pup tent." "found in Matthew to :39 and Matthew laid, My heart will Thy Spirit control. As he approached, a fellow soldier, 28:20. 'He that findeth his life shall I thank Thee, Thou Blest, for Thy peace a fellow believer in the third angel's lose it: and he that loseth his life for and sweet rest message, met him and said, "Oh, I'm My sake shall find it."And, lo, I am As I yield Thee my body and soul." glad you're here at last. I've been over with you alway, even unto the end of to your tent twice to find you." the world.' " The tears would not stay back any "Why, what do you want with me ?" longer, but dropped in big splashes in Then, if our boys go into our na- Gilbert asked. Norma's lap. She did not want to tion's service, not only as good soldiers "I want you to come over to my of our country, but as soldiers of our draw attention to herself by wiping tent and help me out with my tent- King, willing to give up life itself for them away. She moved a little closer mate. He has been asking me so many to the one beside her—her husband, Him, they have the divine promise of Bible questions I can't keep up with with whom she would not sit in church His companionship even to the far him." again for a long time—and, putting her corners of the earth 1 Norma faced • When they had walked a considerable this thought squarely. hand in his, smiled up at him through distance between rows and rows of Pastor Newman's question was being the tears. Yes, she would give him up tiny tents, they came upon the soldier- repeated : "Are you willing to forsake for God's service. questioner sitting cross-legged on the all and take Him?" Understanding the cause of her emo- ground, with his Bible opened before The words kept resounding in Nor- tion, Gilbert squeezed her hand, and as him. ma's ears. Was she willing? Did she they were passing out of the church, ' After a few brief words of introduc- even want to be willing? whispered, "Courage, dear." tion the inquirer turned to Gilbert for No, she was not willing to give Gilbert always inspired courage. The an explanation of some passages he up her husband. How could she be? last night before he left for the induc- had just been reading. Imagine Gil- And yet, how could she refuse to give tion center, Norma's voice broke as she bert's surprise to find that they were to her Lord that which He asked of was praying in their evening worship, the very ones he had felt impressed to read out under the trees only a few minutes before. Now he was ready to explain them clearly, for he had just reviewed them carefully step by step. The word "discouragement" is not found in the Surely God directs our thoughts and dictionary of the kingdom of heaven. Never let yourself our actions if we allow Him to do so. As Job says, "He knoweth the way use the word if you have God's work to do. that I take : when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." —MELINDA RANKIN Then there were the two young men with whom he had held Bible studies in the hospital library (Turn to page 13) PAGE 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR CK

13? MARGARET YOUNGBERG

she invited her visitor to the back porch just off the kitchen, and sat down with her there. Eileen felt sure of the woman's con- fidence and plunged at once into her canvass. Experience had taught her that the beginning and the end must be cut short and the middle set afire with enthusiasm, if the presentation was to be a success, when husbands were scheduled home from work and children were hungry. But scarcely had she begun showing the prospectus when Mrs. Schuster said reflectively, "No, that isn't the same book, but somehow it reminds me of one my . w. ..ARi. AM husband and I got three or four years ago from a man who came, through here. There was something in that book that convinced Herbie and me HE girl stood in the center of way Mrs. Westcoat said quietly, "I that we are keeping the wrong day. the street wondering which way wish you would come back and study He works in the barber shop seven Tshe should go. The summer was the Bible with me some more. I have days a week, but since we began to nearly over, and she had not many been praying that God would send me study that book I have managed to more calls to make. At that moment someone to help me understand His get the house cleaning done before she chanced to glance at the corner word. I do earnestly long for some- Saturday. I am keeping two days house on another street two blocks dis- thing better than I have in the matter now." tant. A woman was just knocking at of religion." Eileen promised to do this, Then as if by a sudden impulse she its door. Something said to the hesi- and returned to that home many times turned to Eileen. "Tell me," she cl!- tant girl, "Go to that home." to discuss Bible truths with her new manded, "which day do you keep ?'t "But company is them now. No one friend. When she could no longer con- With delight illumining her face, will have time to listen," Eileen tried tinue the studies, she introduced Mrs. Eileen answered promptly, " 'The sev- to excuse herself. Nevertheless, she Westcoat to the Seventh-day Adventist enth day is the Sabbath of the Lord had learned that God's biddings are minister and his wife who were located thy God.' I observe Saturday, since also His enablings ; therefore, she made in that town. it is the only day God has blessed, her way to this house and knocked on The next summer found Eileen still sanctified, and rested upon." its front door. knocking, still listening, eager for the There was the sound of shoes scrap- A pleasant-faced woman answered voice to, guide her to someone who ing the metal mat outside the door, the timid rap, and before Eileen could might be looking for light, longing for and Mr. Schuster entered. explain her call she was comfortably something better. "Oh, Herbie," his wife exclaimed at seated in the living room. As soon as She was far from town, and it was once, "here's a woman who knows all she had introduced herself, Mrs. West- dinnertime. With a prayer accompany- about that book we bought so long ago. coat turned to her first visitor and ex- ing each rap, she knocked, and knocked She keeps Saturday, too." claimed, "Perhaps this young woman again. It had become a part of her At the dinner table Eileen learned would like to join us in our study this now, this knocking and praying, hop- of the discoveries these two students afternoon." Eileen was in a quandary, ing and working. She had learned to had made in the book. She listened but only for a moment. "It is our cus- trust God completely, to know that eagerly, for she had been reared in the tom to meet and study God's word," dinner would follow some knock, and third angel's message and had never the hostess explained. "Whenever Mrs. that after the delivery in the fall there experienced the joy of finding the Turner and I are together we compare would be college for her, because He solution to such problems for her- ideas about what the Bible teaches and would answer her prayers. self. how its prophecies are being fulfilled." The woman who answered one par- Soon her host and hostess began to Eileen gladly joined the two older ticular knock brought with her the ply her with questions about the organ- women in their study, and as soon as aroma of the kitchen. "My husband ization the book represented, her work, their discussion reached the right point, will soon be in for dinner ; so if it's all and whether there was a group of peo- she drew from her purse a black- right with you, come in, and I'll work ple who keep the Saturday Sabbath. covered book with golden letters. The while we talk." The first topic under Mr. Schuster had evidently considered two Bible students listened attentively discussion was, of course, the burning the problem often and wanted to know to her presentation of the book she was heat, which led to a freshly pumped "how they do it." selling, and when Eileen asked for an drink from the well. Then as they Unconscious of the passing of time, order Mrs. Westcoat signed her "auto- talked of the cotton crop Mrs. Schuster Eileen graphically described the world- graph album" without delay. filled a bowl with steaming beans and wide organization of Seventh-day Ad- Before the colporteur went on her placed them on the table, after which ventists and the work being carried DECEMBER 7, 1943 • PAGE 5 forward, then explained the blessings "Little Bobby was crossing one of " 'But I couldn't talk to a big man that are theirs for remembering to London's busy streets when a big like that,' said Bobby. 'He wouldn't keep holy the day all the rest of the motorcar came round a corner and listen to a little boy like me.' world seems to have forgotten. knocked him down. He was badly " 'Oh, yes, He would,' said Tommy, Before she left, Mr. Schuster as- hurt, and some kind people hurried `but you don't have to talk to Him even. sured her that there might be two new him away to a hospital. Just put up your hand—like we do at recruits in the colporteur field as soon "In the hospital Bobby found him- school—when He comes through the as he and his wife had studied the self on a cot alongside a boy named hospital. They say He comes through Bible further. Tommy. Now Tommy knew some- every ,evening just as the lights are A few days later Eileen was calling thing about Jesus, but Bobby, it seems, turned down.' at a home where a mother and her knew almost nothing at all about Him. "Evening came. Nurse went around little son lived alone. Since she was "Poor Bobby was in great pain, and the ward and turned out some of the presenting a set of volumes containing it was feared that he would die. Pres- lights. 'I think it's nearly time,' said character stories for children, she often ently Tommy said, 'I say, Bobby, I Tommy. 'Put your hand up, Bobby.' told a story, for she had learned that have heard that someday, after we are when the children got the idea, they dead, Jesus will come and take us to "Bobby tried to do this, but he was could sell the book to their mothers heaven where there is plenty of bread so weak he couldn't manage it. Every time he put up his hand, it fell down. much better than she could. She fol- and butter, with lots of jam, and every- Then Tommy crept (Turn to page 12) lowed this plan now, and as she told body is happy. At the mission they about Bobby, Alvin's eyes never left told us that you have only to ask Him, her face. and He will do it.'

-Acient COVERED BRIDGES

By MARIE WIDMER

HE covered wooden bridges which one en- - counters in Switzer- land add a touch of beauty and poetry to both rivers and towns. Long ago the Above: The Medieval Kapell Bridge and number of these spans was the Octagonal Water necessarily considerably Tower Add Greatly to the Fascinating Pic. greater than it is at the ture Presented by present time. However, the Lucerne, Switzerland Below: The Medieval beauty of these venerable Spreuer Bridge, Also structures is now fully ap- at Lucerne, Is Noted for the Frescoes De. preciated, and those that pitting the Dance of Death, Which Adorn remain are being preserved the Ceiling for posterity. OFFICIAL INFORMATION BUREAU OF SWITZERLAND PHOTOS BY FRANZ SCHNEIDER Jewels of this kind are undoubtedly the Kapell Bridge and roof. A series of seventy-seven tri- visited the country, it was deemed the Spreuer Bridge in Lucerne. The angular tablets, adorned wth colorful proper to portray the uncertainty of Kapell Bridge crosses the river Reuss scenes from Swiss history and from human life in this way. Sixty-four diagonally. Dating back to the year the lives of the patron saints of Lu- individual frescoes were ordered and 1333 A. D., it is reminiscent of the days cerne, St. Leodegar and St. Maurice, paid for by the patrician families of when this fair town did not possess a most of them painted by H. Wligmann Lucerne. The coat of arms of the single house of stone, a feature which of Zurich, was subsequently placed at head of the house usually appeared at caused it to be nicknamed "the wooden regular intervals beneath the roof of the bottom at the left, and that of his stork's nest." Almost in midstream the bridge. Since these tablets show wife at the right. Occasionally the there adjoins the Kapell Bridge an paintings on both sides, there are two designs were combined. octagonal tower, known as the Wasser- 154 scenes in all. They have been During the earlier renovations it turm, which originally formed part of carefully renovated on several occa- sometimes happened that the verses the city fortifications. Once the safe sions. underneath the pictures were changed deposit of the municipal treasury, it The Spreuer Bridge is also a wooden and that the persons at whose expense is now the storehouse for the town structure throughout. It was built in the restoration was made added their archives and documents. 1408 A. D. and became famous for its coats of arms to those of the found- No attempt at decoration of the tablets depicting the "Dance of Death," ers. The most recent renovations bridge seems to have been made until which Caspar Meglinger, a noted artist on both bridges have been executed 1611, but in that year the town council of those days, painted in 1652. Since strictly on the basis of historical decided to beautify the rafters of the war and pestilence had shortly before records. PAGE 6 • THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR CHRISTMAS EVE 12y Potothy `oteman

MY GENIE DEAR, wondered pettishly if you were look- so vigorously and absorbingly that I As I am writing this I hear the ing for a kissable spot. Then . you would forget all this "foolishness" in distant midnight Christmas chimes made me ashamed by saying, "You the back of my mind. Even mother pealing out the glad notes of "peace know, Catherine dear, that real happi- was surprised at the sudden energy on earth" through the crisp, frosty air, ness for you, and real beauty, are I put into enjoying life and thrills. I over the fields of snow, shining and among the chief desires of my heart." nearly wore her out insisting that she glinting in the moonlight. And the As I looked over your shoulder into accompany me in a perfect orgy of tones are finding an echoing joy in my the mirror, suddenly my finery and Christmas shopping and that she plan heart, for at last I have found the peace sham looked so tawdry, and cheap, and with me for a whirlwind of a holiday. which angels heralded to the earth so —and—unbeautiful that the words I Finally, I discovered dad was looking many centuries ago; I have made room had heard so often came to me, "The at me rather wonderingly. I have in my heart for the divine presence of king's daughter is all glorious within." wondered if he suspected anything Jesus. I can sing the song, "Glory to And right there the change in me of the tumult that persisted in my God in the highest." • began. heart. • You know, dear, I wrote you that I I went home with just a wee bit But after the fun was over, oh, was coming out here in the country to less satisfaction than I had anticipated. Genie, it seemed ashes in my mouth, grandfather's for Christmas. It must And what did I find ? I found myself and I was tired—tired of myself and have surprised you to hear that I was in a holiday atmosphere utterly differ- everything else. Spasmodically I re- coming to the solitudes, for always you ent from the true Christmas spirit so vived an apparent interest in social have known me as "the gayest lassie beautifully manifested in the Week of life, but each relapse found my mind of them all." Mother planned many Sacrifice which we had just had at still more confused and bewildered. brilliant and frivolous affairs for the school, and from the mutual, sweet Sc this holiday season I astonished holidays ; but, strange as it may seem, kindliness and little, unobtrusive atten- mother by solemnly insisting that I I just had to come out here in the tions which characterized the girls in must come here to grandfather's. quietness and peace of the country Conwell Hall. There was a mad Grandmother and grandfather are piti- to be alone, and to think. You scramble at home to buy last-minute fully pleased to have me, for I have are still more surprised now, aren't presents for relatives, friends, and ac- honored them with only occasional fly- you ? quaintances whose existence had been ing visits in recent years. Genie dear, for the past two Christ- unexpectedly remembered, and many Out here we have morning and eve- mases, since we were at school together, remarks like these were heard : "I won- ning worship—so like those worship I've felt a growing lack of something der how much this cost." "Stingy— peziods at Conwell Hall ; and yet so in my life. I couldn't be contented that's what she is ! She could have different, with just two old people and after living in Conwell Hall with all given me something much better and a very silent young person present. you girls for four months and seeing never felt it." "I wish I had given Wise grandparents that they are, they your kind of contentment. I have been her a cheaper gift; just see what she ask no questions ; but they let me know utterly miserable. When I left the old sent me." Really, it was so different of their affection in little kindnesses, college two years ago this very holiday from the unselfish thinking—always of and encourage me with their love and season, I breathed a sigh of relief, for others—at the Hall that I was dis- trust. I thought I was escaping a bondage— gusted. For our worship lesson tonight, that at least I would have a short Then when dad let me go to Rushton grandfather read the story of the Christ respite from the "ridiculous, narrow" the remainder of the year, I didn't child. It meant infinitely more to me notions, rules, and standards upheld know whether to be glad or sorry. I than it ever had meant before—this there. Do you recall how I dressed believe I really regretted that I had sweetest story ever told. I went off for the train? I remember the mist said so much about not wishing to re- alone and imagined the scenes on the of tears in your eyes as you, dear turn to Haven. But then it was too hills of Bethlehem and in the stable roommate o' mine, watched me put on late to change. The girls I left behind with the wise men at the manger. some things I had been leaving off— me have all been dear about writ- Genie, I've decided to make a change of necessity—which I had worn and ing me lovely letters, and yours have in my life, and I have asked Jesus to which had shocked you when I first been the joy of my life. I have felt come into my heart in spite of the fact came to college. I remarked, as I something refreshing, sweet, and tran- that it is little, shrunken, and selfish. added the finishing touches, that now quil in each one, something that made He consented to enter a stable once, I could be happy and decently dressed, me want to be with you that I and I know He has come into my heart at least until New Year's, even if dad might absorb some of your peace of this blessed Christmas Eve, for I'm still insisted that I return to Haven. mind. happy now—happy for the first time in You took my face between your hands Last Christmas I was determined to my life, Genie dear. and looked at me long and deeply. I enter into the spirit, of things at home CATHERINE. DECEMBER 7, 1943 PAGE 7 hem. Of Him it was prophesied, "Tinto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder : and His name shall By X. be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there REMEMBER how, when I was Grammar, history—neither had any shall, be no end." little, I regarded my father with a terrors for her. He left His beautiful home to come I feeling almost akin to worship. As I grew older, I realized that my to this sin-cursed earth to purchase ow To begin with, he was my daddy, and estimation of the abilities of my "he- redemption. The Son of God ! Be- baddy could do wonderful things. If roes" decreased as my mind developed. cause of His love for us He left the I wanted something to play with, I could see they were not perfect, but companionship of His Father and the Daddy could make half a dozen tops were just like other people—they had holy angels to face scorn, hatred, from empty spools in just a little while; faults and sometimes made mistakes. abuse, and finally death at the hands of Daddy could make a better sled than I experienced a sense of disappoint- those He came to save. Rejected by Johnnie's father could make; Daddy ment. Then—I found another hero; those for whom He gave His lifeblood ! could jump farther, whistle louder, and or, rather, He found me, and through Yet, when His anguish was greatest, sing better than anyone else. Daddy the years since I first knew Him, He being separated from the Father by was wonderful—more wonderful than has proved true. He measures up to their sins, He cried, "Father, forgive Abraham Lincoln. my standard, and above—where the them." Surely, He was a Hero of When I started school, I regarded others failed. heroes. my teachers in a similar light. Teacher Who is He? I will tell you. A little His invitation to you is, "Come unto knew everything. No mathematical less than two thousand years ago a Me." Won't you let Him be your problem was too hard for her to solve. babe was born in a manger in Bethle- Hero ?

for an example of the truly poetic pas- sages in the book the statement in de- fense of God's love of the beautiful: "A FAITH TO LIVE BY" "God must be a lover of beauty. On A Book Chat by MARY JANE DYBDAHL what other ground can we account for the beauty of a sunset ? There is no reason why God should tint the heav- HOUGH it uses an abstract life with Christ Jesus based on an im- ens with all the glory of Paradise, just word, the title of this book prom- plicit faith in the providences and lead- to have the sun go down. He could Tises to give us something tangible ings of our heavenly Father if he finds have merged light into darkness as and solid to hang to—a faith to live the life eternal. For such especially is prosaically as we do when we turn off by. Faith—it is that something which "A Faith to Live By," from the pen of an electric light. But instead of doing we all must have if eventually we M. L. Andreasen. this, He causes the light gradually to achieve the satisfaction for which all It is a reasonable explanation of our fade, paints an ever-changing display of Christians hope. We have read so beliefs, presented in the manner of a most gorgeous cloud formations, illu- many times, "by faith," and we know man who has long worked with young mines the heavens with His glory, and that the achievement paramount hinges people. sends man to sleep filled with awe at on this "substance of things hoped for," Pastor Andreasen is well known the wonderful artistry and love of his this "evidence of things not seen." by Seventh-day Adventists as a deep Creator. Only a lover of beauty would But faith is not a commodity— scholar and a fearless defender of the ever conceive of doing such a simple though it might be devoutly wished so hope that is within him. His keen in- thing in such an exquisitely beautiful —that can be purchased at any counter terest in young folk, his sheer enjoy- way. Only a lover of beauty would in the land. Nor can it be demanded ment of matching wits with them, his think of having a million flowers bloom from the wealthiest man alive. It must evident pleasure in their activities, unseen, of putting pearls in the ocean come from within the individual soul make him peculiarly fitted to present and amethysts among the rocks. God enhanced by the Spirit of God. And it to them this well-thought-out discus- loves beauty. God loves flowers. And must grow ; otherwise, it is worthless. sion of our beliefs. The book is an God loves men." To the average young person grow- application of the framed motto hang- Read that passage and you will not ing up in the church, religion is a ing in his classroom at the Seventh- stop there. Farther in the book you heritage. A precious privilege, to be day Adventist Theological Seminary— will find his extremely human reaction sure, but to that young person there is a motto now becoming fa;nous among to a thirteenth Sabbath program. Read not the thrill of accepting glorious new former Seminary students—"Think on • and find this description of the light and walking therein that comes Things Through." Saviour. to the convert from the world. Yet he Yet we must not emphasize too much "Jesus was a man ; and though gen- must find this thrilling experience of a the "thought" angle in discussing this tle and considerate, He was in no sense book, lest you think it is a cold intel- effeminate. How do we account for To young people who are eager to broaden their acquaintance with books, we introduce the publi- lectual work. The author is no ama- the fact that men of all kinds and sta- cations reviewed from time to time in this column. teur in using words, and his choice of tions in life were drawn to Him, ex- Beyond the suggestion that they are well worth your while, we assume no responsibility and offer words and style of writing in this book cept on the supposition that there was no guaranty, for they are written by men and women of many different viewpoints and varied make it far from being merely a trea- something in Him which appealed to religious beliefs. But once you have made their tise pointing out the reasonableness of them? No rough soldier, no man with acquaintance, you will prize them as friends for the vast amount of instructive and inspirational the Seventh-day Adventist belief. He the position and authority of a Roman matter they contain. They may be ordered from the Review and Herald Publishing Association, has not neglected the appeal to the centurion, no .stern prophet such as Takoma Park, Washington 12, D. C. • heart through beautiftil language. Take John the Baptist, (Turn to page 13) PAGE 8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Have you ever longed for the privilege of sitting down with some man or woman of good sense and experience, and asking counsel about the perplexities which you are meeting in the day-by-day effort to live a worthy, satisfactory life? We are offering you that fyie3 Xiyht privilege. Send in your questions. They will be answered frankly, sympathetically, and helpfully by those whom the INSTRUCTOR editors consider qualified to give advice on the sublect, those who A Page Devoted to have had experience in dealing with young people and are sym- pathetic with their problems. Each answer will appear over the Your Personal Problems signature of an individual, but in no case is any reply to be taken as a denominational pronouncement. Rather each answer will Illustrated by Vernon Nye reflect the personal convictions of the writer, though it will be in harmony with accepted principles and practices of the Seventh- day Adventist Church. Please sign your questions with your full name and address, but we assure you that neither names nor ini- tials will be attached to queries appearing in print, and that every confidence will be fully respected. Send all communications to Editor, YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D. C.

Parental authority, if necessary, must establish the facts. "It is natural for boys and girls to want to do as the grown-up people do. But social conditions being what they are today, the children cannot have their own way about this. The hazards are too great for the girl. The dangers of the automobile after nightfall are too much for the responsibility of a boy. The answer must be no. "When a sixteen-year-old girl begins to fuss because she is not allowed to go out with boys at night, there is only one thing for her parents to do, and that is to say no and stick to it. "Girls of this age are entitled to the protection of their parents. They do not understand what this going out with boys implies for them. They talk lightly about petting and necking and parking, if they had the chance. Most of this is froth, smartness, the expres- Shall We "Go Steady"? youth not out of his teens is a poor sions of their innocent ignorance. They judge of the fitness of a person as have to live long enough for meaning Do you think it is right for young young as himself to be his companion to penetrate the words. When they people around the age of seventeen or for life." have acquired wisdom through living eighteen to "go steady"! The writings of the Spirit of proph- they will not talk flippantly about this Young people of seventeen or eight- ecy are not alone in this contention. nor behave that way. Meantime, they een are in the middle adolescent period Psychologists are generally of the opin- should stay within the safety of their of their lives, a period in which they ion that the middle adolescent years are home circle. generally manifest the greatest fickle- not the time for specialized association "It is time for parents to speak out ness and changeability of their entire and courtship. The following statement as plainly as their children speak. Call experience. The average young man from the pen of a noted psychologist a spade a spade and spare nobody's does not leave adolescence until he is and syndicate writer, Angelo Patri, is feelings. The sixteen-:year-old girl is from twenty-two to twenty-five years an example of others : a child and entitled to the protection of age, and young women do not gen- "Girls of sixteen should be sweet. she needs. Also she is entitled to be erally leave that period until they are They are at the bud stage of their told, in the plainest words, just what from twenty-one to twenty-four years growth, when their beauty is begin- these night rides usually mean in terms of age. Consequently, at the age of ning to show through their childish of good times. And she is entitled to seventeen or eighteen they are not suf- growth. They are standing with one be told that her family have too much ficiently developed physically or men- foot in childhood, the other almost over regard for her to stand by and allow tally to enter upon specialized friend- the line of young womanhood. Of her to be sacrificed for any such fool- ships with safety. It would be far course, they are attractive to boys, and ishness. Sweet sixteen is entitled to better for them during the teen age to this makes a problem for .them and stay sweet."—Washington Star, May enjoy fine, wholesome group associa- their parents. 22, 1'038. tion than to enter upon specialized "The fashion today seems to be for In the chapter on love, 1 Corinthians friendships and go steady with one in- boys to borrow the family car ; invite a 13, the apostle Paul by inspiration dividual. Such early attachments often girl to the show ; take her to an ice- makes clear that love does not behave lead to early engagements and untimely cream parlor for a sandwich and soda, itself unseemly. Consequently, the one marriages. then for a ride, and arrive home any- who is actuated by true love will be Speaking of this in the book, "Mes- where between midnight and morning. governed accordingly in all his actions, sages to Young People," Mrs. White The parents of the girl always object, and will not do anything that would says : "Attachments formed in child- and, as a usual thing, the boy's parents be improper or that would make it hood have often resulted in very are far from pleased. Both houses feel embarrassing for himself or those with wretched unions, or in disgraceful sep- helpless. whom he is associated. He will be arations. Early connections, if 'formed "This parental helplessness in the proper in all his conduct. This will without the consent of parents, have face of difficulty, or delicacy, is too bad always be so of the genuine Christian. seldom proved happy. The young af- for the children. Let us agree in the Therefore, the youth who are actuated fections should be restrained until the beginning that a girl of sixteen is by true love will wait until they are of period arrives when sufficient age and too young to receive the attentions of the proper age before they enter upon experience will make it honorable and young men, that a boy of that age is those friendships which may easily lead safe to unfetter them. Those who will too young to take a girl out in the to engagement and marriage. not he restrained will be in danger of evenings in a car. Common sense dic- C. LESTER BOND, Assoc. Sec., dragging out an unhappy existence. A tates the truth of these contentions. Gen. Conf. Y. P. M. V. Dept. DECEMBER 7, 1943 PAGE 9 for every talent Christian young people possess. Are you preparing for some part, however small, in God's great mis- sionary enterprise? /bead SUPERIORITY Think of William Carey, the father of modern missions, who as a shoe cobbler in England was asked as he worked in his shoe shop, "What is your business?" A LttAelien His reply was : "My business is to preach 4 the gospel ; I cobble shoes to pay ex- penses." This man, whose name is a synonym for modern missions in India, LMOST every normal boy and girl masonry, plumbing, woodwork, business, had a correct vision of the possibilities has ambition, a desire to excel in engineering, painting, decorating, cook- life holds for the true Christian and his A something. But whether this "some- ing, domestic science, dietetics, sewing, motto was : "Expect great things from thing" is a matter of profitable or un- printing, to mention only a few. These God; attempt great things for God." profitable excellence frequently receives are all useful arts, legitimate fields of Think of the great things he accom- very little consideration. They often endeavor. There is dignity in labor. If plished for God. As a missionary he pride themselves in outdoing others in rightly pursued, .it has an uplifting, en- certainly attained to useful superiority. ways that are unimportant and useless. nobling influence upon the life. Many His literary labors were enormous and Occasionally older folk have this same neglect a practical training of this kind, invaluable. He gave the Scriptures to experience. and in doing this they miss that which three hundred million human beings. In the world about us one does not would give them strength and nobility of Yes, he truly was "a consecrated cob- have to go far to find examples of use- character and a fitness for the sterner bler." less superiority. Some are more glaring realities of life. "He who came from If you are seeking to attain to useful than others, some ridiculous, void of heaven to be our example spent nearly superiority in some vocational endeavor, common sense. There are champion cof- thirty years of His life in common, me- do not as a Christian let the end of that fee drinkers, tree sitters, pie eaters, prize chanical labor; but during this time He endeavor be selfish, the mere matter of fighters, marathon dancers, and, strange was studying the word and works of making a living. Many people become as it may seem, marathon preachers. This God, and helping, teaching, all whom His so preoccupied in this that they neglect list of "excellers" is growing constantly. influence could reach. When His public to look higher. A living is necessary to Some of their accomplishments have a ministry began, He went about healing life, but it is not primary. Eternal inter- slight semblance of usefulness ; others the sick, comforting the sorrowful, and ests are. In some way make your attain- seem harmless; but in general they are preaching the gospel to the poor. This ments useful in gospel service. The detrimental to body, mind, and soul. is the work of all His followers." higher, your attainments, the greater is They give the individual a false sense of We are told that multitudes of our also your responsibility before God for having achieved worth-while distinction, youth will be called to "a wider minis- the use you make of them in soul win- and the world looks on and applauds, but try." This wider ministry includes the ning. The suffering, sad, war-torn world in reality he is unqualified to meet the whole world—the home field and far- needs your ministry. That is true, useful sterner realities of life and accomplish flung missionary fields. There is room superiority. the things that really matter. Our minds go out to the young people of the advent movement. Some of them are in Christian schools ; others are not. Like other young people they have ambi- tion; many of them in their teens have as will come many deductions. For in- yet no definite aim in life. It is rather a stance, first, there is the Social Security dull boy or girl who does not foster a de- of twenty cents; second, Victory Tax of sire to excel in something, but what is forty cents; third, War Savings Bonds that something? It is well for each of of $5.25 each week; and last, Group us to Consider carefully the object of our Insurance of sixteen cents. This leaves ambition. Is it good or evil? Is it im- a balance of $17.99. When I cash my portant or unimportant? useful or use- check for $17.99 I shall pay my father less? Will it tear down or build up? $7 and my school expenses will amount Will it have a helpful or harmful influ- to approximately $2.50 a week, with the ence on others? Will it injure me, my purchase of needed supplies increasing reputation, and my character? Conducted by the Missionary Volunteer this amount. This will leave about $8.49 It is certainly all right for us to rise, Department of the General Conference as an "increase," in my opinion. I also to forge ahead, to progress, to excel in have a doctor bill about once a month. things that are important, just, and right. Questions concerning young people's problems as I have been under the doctor's care will be answered in this column under the super- for two years. How shall I calculate my There is plenty of room at the top. We vision of the Young People's Department. The should aim to be the "head and not the answers are not to be taken as a denominational tithe in view of this problem? tail, to be above and not beneath." We pronouncement, but rather as good, sound advice in harmony with the principles and practices of should be a "wise and understanding the church. While each answer appears over the As a basis for that which is to follow, people." In God's great advent move- signature of an individual it has been carefully please read the three Bible references ment in the earth there is room for the considered and approved in, the Counsel Corner indicated below. Committee. You are cordially invited to write the talents of our young people. The organ- Counsel Corner regarding your problems. When 1. Deut. 26:12; 14:22. A tithe is to be ized work needs pastors, evangelists, writing, please sign full name and address, so that paid upon the increase. Bible instructors, colporteurs, physicians, a personal answer may be given if in our judgment the question should not be printed. Neither names 2. Lev. 27 :30. The tithe is to be paid nurses, teachers, editors, and stenogra- nor initials will be attached to queries appearing in upon whatever kind of increase the Lord phers. In any of these vocations—if they print, and arty confidence will be fully respected. gives us. parallel your interests—aim at efficiency, Address all questions to the Counsel Corner, in care of the YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, Takoma Park, 3. Mal. 3 :8-11. God has made certain useful superiority. Do not be merely a Washington 12, D. C. very definite and precious promises to professional nurse ; in addition be a mis- those who are faithful in the payment of sionary nurse. You will thus minister to their tithe. My problem is one that I have been both the body and the soul of your pa- From your letter it is clear that your tients. It will widen greatly the sphere wondering about for a long time. I am question is about the meaning of the of your influence, and your work will be eighteen years of age and was graduated term "increase." The word "increase" altruistic; it will be blessed of Heaven from high school about nine months ago. refers to the increment on capital. For and be successful. The same thing is I took up the secretarial course in school example, a, merchant doing business in a true of the other avenues of service. It and now have a fine o ffice position. My rented store would figure his increase as is not primarily a salary you seek. Souls problem deals largely with the tithe. I that which remains after he has paid his won for the Master's kingdom are far have heard so many different ideas from rent, cost of stock, maintenance of the more important. so many different people that it only store, and whatever other expense it If you are interested in music, you will tends to make 'me become more bewil- took to produce the "increase." He aim at proAciency, at the very best. But dered. Of course, I want to pay to the would then tithe the remainder, or "in- sacred music—music with a soul-winning Lord every cent that is His. The Bible crease." message—will be in the foreground. Mu- tells us that we are to pay tithe on our sic, both vocal and instrumental, is a "increase." I would like to know the The farmer cultivating rented land great factor in soul winning. meaning of "increase" in this instance. would figure his increase to be the Early in life every young person should I have heard it said that it is right to amount remaining after he had paid his learn to work with his hands at useful deduct all expenses and just tithe what rent, the cost of his seed, the cost of employment. In order to make a living is left, but I am afraid to do that unless planting, cultivating, harvesting, and any some choose to follow a vocation, or I am definitely sure that is the correct other expense necessary to the produc- trade. Many such lines are open to procedure to follow. Supposing I make tion of his crop. "Increase" is the gain young people: agriculture, mechanics, $20 a week. Out of that weekly salary (Continued on page 12) PAGE 10 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR her hind legs and whine; but she dared its eyes shut. Brownie watched me and not bark. Once in a while she did get so her precious puppy constantly just to see BROWNIE excited that she forgot herself and let out that nothing happened, and when I laid a little bark. Then she would run and it down beside her she licked it as if she hide under the bed. Another thing that were saying in her own language, "Now, delighted Brownie was riding in the car. there, don't be afraid. You're back with No matter where she was, if she thought mother again, and I won't let anyone RETURNS she heard the rattle of keys or the door hurt you." open, she was right there ready to go. It is not easy to care for a mother dog My playmates and I would sometimes and her puppies while making a trip, but ily Matther 1Qan iyayas dress Brownie all up in our best doll we couldn't go away and leave them at clothes, put her in my doll buggy, and home alone. One of the last things daddy wheel her up and down the street with did the morning we started off for our our heads held high, just like proud vacation was to place Brownie and her "'FAKE your choice; you may have mothers. Brownie didn't seem to mind puppies in the back seat with me. This I any dog you wish." This was the much ; in fact, I think she rather liked it. he did with great care. Mother took startling statement father made to Whenever we had company, I always en- along a baby's nursing bottle, and when mother while they were attending a dog joyed showing off my favorite pet. I we stopped at a restaurant, she would show in St. Louis. would get a piece of candy or something ask the waitress if she would mind Excitedly mother hurried from kennel sweet and have Brownie walk across the warming a little milk. Of course, she to kennel, looking at dogs of all sizes, floor on her hind feet for it. thought it was for a baby and was willing shapes, colors, and breeds. I was not yet If you have ever been so happy and to do it for her. The puppies enjoyed a year old, and she wanted to choose the excited that you just couldn't think of the warm milk and did not mind the trip proper playmate and guardian for me. • anything else, you know how I felt when at all. We arrived safely without any In one kennel was a beautiful Chinese I awoke one morning to find that Brownie casualties. chow, and next door to him was a snow- had three fat little puppies curled up be- Many happy times we had with white spitz. Down a little farther paced side her in her box. She looked up at us Brownie in the years that followed. She a sleek great Dane. There were the proudly, as if to say, "Well, how do you lived a full "doggie" life. We planned shaggy Scotty, the kinky-haired poodle, like my big family?" I was so happy for her as if she were one of the family, lengthy Mr. Dachshund, and the beauti- that all I could do was stand there with and regretted to see her getting old. One ful shepherd on his first visit to the big my mouth open. Finally, I asked daddy day we were shocked to find a tumorous city. What a task to make a choice from if I might hold one of the babies, and growth on her abdomen. Father con- such a varied group! Mother implored added, "I'll be ever so careful not to sulted a veterinarian about having it father to help het decide which would hurt it." It was so soft and cute, with removed, but he said that because of best fit into our home surroundings and which would be the most companionable for their baby girl. Not one seemed to answer their purpose. They were about to leave the building when their attention was attracted to a small kennel near the entrance. In it By EDITH PETERSON were three toy Boston terriers, romping /he Sloth ileat and frisking about under the careful eye of their mother. That was the end of my parents' search. When the manager HE sloth bear is an ugly, comical- He then scrapes away with his forefeet was found and the details concerning the looking beast with elongated snout until he reaches the nest, blows away the pedigree papers were attended to, one of Tand powerful claws. He wears a dust and debris with violent puffs, and the little puppies became ours. coat of long, coarse, dirty hair, which sucks out the ants and larvae. His in- Since the puppy mother chose was looks as if it had never been trimmed. halations are so powerful as to be heard brown with only a few white spots, which Paradoxically, his paws are white, his two hundred yards distant. formed a perfect "H" from the top of her sharp pointed toenail; glistening with However, the sloth bear's bill of are eyes to the tip of her nose, we decided to good grooming. is by.no means limited to ants and larvae. name her Brownie. Brownie was a real The antics of the uncouth creature are His is a varied, well-balanced diet, con- lady; she had four white feet, and how as comical as his appearance. Indeed, sisting of fruits, flowers, and honey, as she did dislike to get them dirty! swaggering along with a funny, rollick- well as ants and larvae, beetles, termites, Our new pet was. very friendly. If ing motion, he might be taken for a bees. Favorite fruits are jujube, plums, anyone called her name, she would run circus performer. When hurried or figs, the long pods of the cassia, and the right up to him as if she had known him alarmed, he breaks into a curious gallop fruit of the ebony tree. He is very fond all her life. Brownie was very obedient. which makes him look as if he were of the night-blooming flowers of the We never had to speak to her twice. All rolling over and over. In going down- mahua tree. dogs have a few bad habits, though, and hill, he actually does roll head over heels. In fact, night is the feeding time of Brownie was no exception. One of her He climbs trees with great difficulty, his the sloth bear. Solitary, or in a company favorite pastimes was to jump up on the feet slipping back from time to time. of two or three (occasionally four or bed, paw down the spread, and curl up He is also nearsighted and hard of five), he roams the bush, forest, jungle, on the soft white pillow for a long nap. hearing. or hill of the Himalayan foothills in If someone happened to find her, she The sloth bear, however, is not to be search of food once the dark, star- would get up slowly and jump down, judged solely by his handicaps. He may studded curtain of night has rolled across walking quietly away with her stubby be homely, awkward of gait, partly deaf the sky. little tail as far between her legs as it and blind, but as an excavator of ants Sun, monsoon, stars, and seasons regu- would go. Spanking was of no avail ; and larvae he has no peer in the animal late the activities of the sloth bear. Dur- in a little while she was right back on kingdom. His mobile snout, strong claws, ing the monsoons and in hot seasons a the bed again. powerful lung force, and uncanny sense cave in which to drowse away the sunny While still a small puppy, she was of smell are tools especially adapted to hours or escape the rain is just the ticket. taught never to bark in the apartment detecting, digging out, and devouring When days grow cold he inhabits the where we lived. When Brownie would these delicious titbits. His acute sense long grasses, bushes, ravines, or holes. hear other dogs barking outside, she of smell enables him to scent their nests He is rarely seen in the daytime and would run to the window and stand on from great depths underneath the soil. shuns the noonday sun. DECEMBER 7, 1943 PAGE 11 Brownie's advanced age she would prob- a week. This is protection, and if acci- ably not survive an operation. We did Counsel Corner dent were to befall you, you would realize not wish to take a chance; so the matter (Continued from page ro) on that. I have made an analysis of was dropped and never spoken of unless these expenditures for you as I have it was absolutely necessary. upon the capital invested, and this in- analyzed them for myself. A few months later her condition be- crease is to be tithed. But after all, the payment of tithe is a came critical ; so we carried her in the Now regarding your own practical matter between your own conscience and car, in which she had taken so many problem. One's life is not reckoned as God. Tithe is a mathematical ratio of happy rides, to the dog hospital. With our "increase," which God desires us to heavy hearts we turned her over to the capital invested. Life is a gift from God and is not something that we have worked pay as a token of our recognition of His veterinarian, who would mercifully put ownership of all things. Thus we recoz- an end to her suffering. We left the to gain. We do not deduct the cost of nize that "it is He that giveth thee power office with tears in our eyes, because our food or the rent of the home in which to get wealth." Deut. 8 :18. The tithe is Brownie had been in our home for more we live. The farmer or the merchant sacred because it belongs to God, and we than• eleven years and had grown very figures his tithe upon the increase of his are to return it to Him faithfully. capital invested. He does not deduct the dear to us. Offerings, on the other hand, are tokens On a cold, blustery day two weeks cost of his own personal food or clothing. They are not considered a part of his of our gratitude and praise to Him. later, our doorbell rang. Upon answer- They are gifts given in appreciation of ing it, mother was greeted with a cheery, invested capital. Therefore the general plan is that wage earners pay tithe upon what God has done for us, and how much "Are you Mrs. Hayes? If you are, I we give depends entirely upon our own have something in the car for you." their full salary or wages. That is the plan that I follow. sense of gratitude or appreciation of His Before mother could answer, the stranger gifts, and, of course, on our ability to had stepped to the car and returned, hold- Now let us reason a little about your give. ALFRED W. PETERSON. ing something very carefully wrapped in salary of $20 a week. I shall not discuss a blanket. As he climbed the steps, he your Victory Tax of forty cents, which is threw back the blanket and said with a a matter that you would need to settle big smile on his face, "Lady, here's your with your own conscience. However, dog." your Social Security expense of twenty Words failed both mother and me, for cents is paid upon the theory that it is an Knock, Knock it seemed that the impossible was happen- investment. If time were to go on and ing. Here was our little Brownie frisk- you should live to the age when you could (Continued from page 6) ing about in sheer delight at being home benefit by the Social Security Act, the again. The veterinarian explained that amount that you would put into the So- out of bed, and with the aid of a pillow the experiment of such an operation as cial Security would really be an invest- and the bedclothes managed to prop up she needed was worth a great deal to ment upon which you would draw. The Bobby's hand so that it wouldn't fall same is true of war bonds. Your $1.25 down. him, to say nothing of the possibility of " 'Thank you, Tommy,' murmured restoring our pet to us. We thanked a week is an investment, and if you live and the war closes, you will cash those Bobby. 'Do you think Jesus will see it?' him again and again for what seemed to "'I am sure He will,' said Tommy. us a miracle. bonds and get your money. The same So ends my story of Brownie, a dog reasoning might be made regarding group "In the morning the little hand was insurance, which costs you sixteen cents still upraised. Bobby was dead, but I'm greatly beloved by all who know her. sure Jesus understood his desire, aren't you ?" When the story was completed, neither mother nor son said anything for a mo- these operations I receive several coats ment or two. Then the silence was of flexible glue, which makes me both broken by Alvin, "Mother, I think we strong and flexible. should have those books. I am willing Just after I am trimmed on a large to help pay for them myself. I have ten OCATIO cutter, I, with other books, am taken to nickels in my bank." Mrs. Kater smiled a shallow marbling pan filled with sizing as he ran for the bank, and Eileen smiled, made from hog gum cooked in water. too, as Alvin signed his name in big let- HONORS Then this sizing is sprinkled with differ- ters on the order pad. She showed him ent colors and my edges are dipped into on the calendar the date when she would the pattern formed. Thus the colors are return with his books, and he showed her transferred from the pan to my edges. his bank. Bookbinding I am proud of these brilliant colors, and A colporteur's life is so interesting others seem to be proud of me, too. "I AM A BooK" and varied that these incidents slipped Next, some binder's board is cut to fit from Eileen's mind until the day she BY L. M. SPEAR me like this— walked up the front steps of that house • AM a book. My cover is the house with the books. Then she suddenly re- I I live in. The latchstring is out, so called that Alvin Kater lived here, and come in and examine my construction. (I that he was the little man who kept a I am made up of signatures of sixteen bank of nickels for just such occasions. pages each. When the flat sheets come Eileen had the wrapper torn off the from the printing press they look like A beautiful cover is made from a piece books, and placed them in Mrs. Kater's this- of book cloth and stamped in a large hand as soon as she opened the door. embossing press heated with electricity The mother accepted them and paid so hot that it really hurts for a few mo- Eileen, but the girl sensed at once that ments. But when the pain subsides, my something was wrong. With apprehen- cover is decorated with leaf of gold and sion in her voice she inquired, "Where C1 -17 various bright colors. All who see me is Alvin today?" 1 91 exclaim, "What a beautiful piece of work- "That is what I want to tell you about." manship !" The words came slowly and with extreme Last of all, I am "cased in" with paste, effort. "A week ago he was taken with put in a heavy standing press under an attack of appendicitis, and before we 8 9 12 5 pressure, and left overnight and now— could determine what the trouble was, his appendix had burst. Alvin h's been saving his nickels ever since you were here, and he often asked when the girl Folded, sewn, end-sheeted, rounded, would come with his books. I always and backed, I look like this— said, 'She won't be long now, son. Just be patient a few days more.' He was very restless the night he died and turned to me in an agony of despair. `Mother! do you think the girl will ever bring me my books?' he asked. `Yes, dear, I know she will bring them any day now,' I assured him, trying to quiet him. " 'Well, Mother,' he said at length, Open me and read. Wise men. may `since the girl hasn't come with my books speak into the air and their words may yet, will you please tell me the story be forgotten, but I remain and speak to about the little bov who put his hand up you and your friends over and over for Jesus to see?'" Then my back is lined with super, again. I am your friend, and wisdom is Fortunately his mother remembered headbands, and tough paper. During within my pages. the story, and she told Alvin of another PAGE 12 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR boy, who while dying had reached his A Soldier of Our Country to the better home, where partings will hand across the dark valley of the shadow be no more and there will be no more and found the hand of his heavenly and Our King war. We hope and pray for that day. Father. When she finished the story, To us, nothing else seems really worth Alvin was satisfied and went to rest (Continued from page 4) while. Day by day we are encouraged quietly. to know that 'God never leads His chil- "So Alvin isn't here to get his books," regularly. These studies continued for dren otherwise than they would choose Eileen's voice broke. "I wish I had several months, until the boys were all to be led, if they could see the end from known that he was so eager for them. transferred to different locations. Gil- the beginning, and discern the glory of I would have had them here sooner." bert has heard from one of these boys the purpose which they are fulfilling as Hugging the little books to her heart, from a distant land, and his letters al- co-workers with Him. " Mrs. Kater sobbed quietly. "I will read ways tell of his faith in God and of his them for him," she promised. happy memories of the many pleasant hours they spent together in Bible study. Why had Eileen told that story in the Gilbert had other interesting experi- Kater home three weeks before? Cer- ences while he was assisting the chaplain Answers to How Keen Are You? tainly she does not know, unless God, as librarian in a cantonment hospital. who foresees all things, knew that a As he wheeled the little book cart from 1. No. The figure refers to the diam- little boy would be wanting a bedtime ward to ward he always saw to it that eter of the base of the shell. story before he went to the last long there was a supply of truth-filled litera- 2. Yes, two, according to latest reports. sleep. ture, which he could recommend to offi- 3. Three times. cers and enlisted men as worth-while 4. Six cents, which is all the postage reading. Somehow he became known as necessary for an air-mail letter to any the "preacher," and although he never member of the American armed forces. reproved the men for their swearing and 5. The Pentagon Building in Arlington, Keep the Dream in Thy vulgar talking, they would apologize to Virginia. him for indulging in it in his presence. 6. "E Pluribus Unum." Heart When Gilbert was sent to a camp for 7. No, it is of Portuguese origin. alien prisoners of war, he was com- 8. The Romany language, which is (Continued from page .r) manded to carry a gun while on guard comprised of approximately 5,000 words. duty. His refusal angered the noncom- 9. Victoria River Downs on the Wick- house for My name, thou didst well in missioned officer, who tried to humiliate ham River in Australia. It is owned by that it was in thine heart : notwithstand- him before his whole company. To the Alfred Martin and covers 16,000 square ing thou shalt not build the house." surprise of both Gilbert and the first ser- miles, which is twice the size of the State Poor old David How bitterly dis- geant, the men's sympathy went out to of Massachusetts. appointed he was. How eagerly he this God-fearing soldier, and when the 10. A person who is totally color blind. wanted to build that house. But God word came that no conscientious objector said No, she mused. should be required to carry a gun, the That's what happens to a good many sergeant, rather than Gilbert, was the one of our plans. We don't realize them, but who felt humiliated. From that time on- we may gather material, as David did, ward, Gilbert, who had been practically for someone else who can build, perhaps unknown before, had the respect and for someone who can build better than friendship of his fellows throughout the we could. entire internment camp, and even of the Now again across the street two figures officers themselves. • could be ' seen walking slowly through patches of golden poppies. Norma never ceases to wish for her , Perhaps after all someone will build husband's return, but she finds comfort there, thought the old dean hopefully. in the belief that he is in God's hands. "One could put up such a cozy little Her prayers are continually with him. colonial-type house there, or a log cabin The anxious days of waiting for word with a big fireplace. Thou doest well to from him when she knows he is in transit SENIOR YOUTH keep the dream in thine heart," she whis- to a secret destination are filled with less pered softly. "Keep the dream in thy uneasiness because of the strength and 3E11—Samuel Called to Be a heart." peace God gives as she relies on Him. Prophet; the Ark of God Taken "It is a wonderful privilege," she says, "for my husband to be able to give double (December 18) service—for God and for our country— with rich opportunities for bringing not MEMORY VERSE: Proverbs 29 :18. only physical help, but hope and courage, LESSON HELP : "Patriarchs and Proph- Have You Read This? to those who are in need." ets," pp. 581-591. Two texts have become very dear to (Continued from page 8) both Norma and Gilbert through this ex- THE LESSON perience. One is Romans 8:28: "We no Pharisee such as Nicodemus, no know that all things work together for 1. Why was the word of the Lord precious rough-and-ready fishermen such as His good to them that love God, to them who in the days when Samuel ministered in the disciples, no personage such as Judas, are the called according to His purpose." temple? 1 Sam. 3:1. NOTE.—" 'The word of the Lord was would ever have been influenced by or The other, a text neither of them thought precious.' There were but few revelations led to follow Jesus had He been less than of much before, is so precious now that from God ; and because the word was a man in every sense of the word. . . . Gilbert has had it printed neatly at the scarce, therefore it was valuable. . . . Jesus was a man among men, or He top of each sheet of a package of station- 'There was no open vision.' There was no could never have had such influence over ery which he sent to his wife. It is public accredited prophet ; one with whom men." Genesis 31 :49: "The Lord watch between the Lord was known to dwell, and to whom me and thee, when we are absent one all might have recourse in cases of doubt The book will hold your attention to or public emergency."—Adam Clarke. the end, through the chapter on heaven from another." Sometimes when Norma is in the com- 2. One night after Samuel had lain down —a heaven to which the best are called, to sleep, who called him? To whom did he a place where "we shall find there a real pany of friends who still have their hus- hasten? What did Eli say? What occurred God and Saviour, a real home—the earth bands with them, she almost feels a pang a second time? V 2-7. • ./(/ 7-.- made new and even more glorious than of resentment; this does not last, how- 3. When a third call came to Samuel, of it was in the beginning—real people, real ever, for even though it may emphasize what was Eli convinced? What did he tell work, real life." her loneliness, she is happy for them that Samuel to do? Verses 8, 9. When you have read to the end, your they have not had to be separated from 4. When God called again, how did Sam- their dear ones. In fact, as she sees how uel answer? What did the Lord say He mind and your heart will know that we would do in Israel? What message did He have a "faith to live by"—a faith to die easy it is for them to plan for the future give regarding Eli and his house? Verses for. You will be convinced that though and for the material things of this world, 10-14. the word of God is truly "sharper than she almost feels sorry for them, for there NOTE.—" 'The ears . . . shall tingle.' It any two-edged sword," "how sweet are is such a thing as being too happy and shall be a piercing word to all Israel ; it Thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter contented with this life. shall astound them all ; and, after having than honey to my mouth!" More than "As well as being willing to give up heard it, it will still continue to resound that, you will have discovered how to all," Norma says, "we must be willing in their ears."—Adam Clarke. begin to build the foundation upon which to accept what Christ gives us. It is 5. What did Samuel fear to do? How ur- gently did Ell request Samuel to toll him all to base this faith by which you must live. through grief in having to give up some- the Lord had said? By what answer did Eli (Andreasen, M. L., "A Faith to Live one who is very near and dear to us," show confidence in God? Versos IS-18. By," Review and Herald Publishing As- she explains, "that we are brought closer Nozz.—"Samuel was filled with fear and sociation, Takoma Park, Washington 12, to our Lord. Both Gilbert and 'I long for amazement at the thought of hiving so D. C., 1943.) the day when He will come and take us terrible a message committed to him. In

THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR PAGE 13 the morning he went about his duties as LESSON OUTLINE 4. Samuel proved himself worthy of usual, but with a heavy burden upon his God's trust by young heart. The Lord had not com- LESSON SCRIPTURES: I Samuel 3:1, 4-8, (a) His courage in delivering the sol- manded him to reveal the fearful denunci- 11-21; 4:3, 5, ro, II, 17, 18; 7:3-12; emn message to Eli ; (b) his quiet atten- ation, hence he remained silent, avoiding, 8:4, 5, 19, 20 ; 9 :1, 2. tion to God's message. as far as possible, the presence of Eli. He LESSON HELP : "Patriarchs and Proph- 5. God chose Saul to be Israel's king be- trembled, lest some question should com- ets," pp. 581-583, 585, 589-591, 604, 607, cause 6o8. pel him to declare the divine judgments (a) He was a good man; (b) he was against one whom he loved and reverenced. kingly in appearance. Eli was confident that the message foretold STUDY PLAN FOR THE WEEK some great calamity to him and his house. LESSON NOTES He called Samuel, and charged him to re- Sabbath afternoon: Read carefully the late faithfully what the Lord had revealed. lesson scriptures and the Guiding Thought. r. (a) We are told in I Samuel 3:1 that The youth obeyed, and the aged man bowed Be able to answer : Why did God choose Samuel was still a child and that he still in humble submission to the appalling the child Samuel to be a prophet? Sun- ministered unto the Lord. (b) The Lord sentence."—"Patriarchs and Prophets," p. day: Study Assignments 1 and 2. Mon- made special mention again of the faithful 582. day: Assignments 3 and 4. Tuesday: ministry of this child in order to explain Assignment 5 and learn memory verse. why He called him to be His trusted 6. How is Samuel's relation to the Lord Wednesday: Assignment 6. Thursday: As- prophet. expressed? What did all Israel know con- signments 7 and 8. Friday: cerning him? Verses 19-21. Review Assign- 2. (a) The Lord knew Samuel, for He ments 1-8. called him by name. God knows your name 7. When defeated by the Philistines, what did the Israelites plan in the hope of being Assignment 1 also, and He is calling you today to serve delivered from their enemies? 1 Sam. 4:2, 3. Him. (b) Think of being called in the (a) What two things are we told about dead of the night when one is tired and 8. When the ark was brought to the camp, Samuel in I Samuel 3 :1 ? (b) Why do sleepy ! A temptation surely to decide, I've what did the Israelites do? How were the you think the story of this chapter was in- done my day's work ' Philistines affected by this demonstration? • why should I get up What appeal did they make to their armies? troduced with this verse? Consult Lesson and answer this call? But not so with a Verses 4-9. Notes. child who had learned to be prompt. Each time he heard his name he obeyed the call. 9. What were the serious results of the Assignment 2 battle? V 10, 11. 3. (a) God would never have entrusted (a) The Lord knew this child who min- so solemn a message to a little child had NOTE.—"The most terrifying calamity it not been for His full confidence in Sam- that could occur had befallen Israel. The istered unto Him. Prove this statement. Study r Samuel 3:4. (b) What part of uel. (b) Samuel proved himself worthy of ark of God had been captured,. and was in this confidence by his courage in telling Eli the possession of the enemy. The glory the story shows that Samuel's obedience was severely tested at this time? Study all that the Lord had said against him and had indeed departed from Israel when the his sons. symbol of the abiding presence and power Samuel 3 :4-8 ; also "Patriarchs and of Jehovah was removed from the midst of Prophets," page 58i, paragraphs 1-3. Con- 4. The sure result of faithfulness to them. With this sacred chest were asso- sult Lesson Notes. duty is expressed in the word "grew" in ciated 'the most wonderful revelations of Samuel 3:19. Samuel grew in all those God's truth and power. . . . But when they Assignment 3 things that made him a trustworthy boy looked upon the ark, and did not associate (a) How did the God of heaven show and later a trusted prophet. it with God, nor honor His revealed will by His full confidence in a little child? Study 5. (a) Whatever Samuel said as a obedience to His law, it could avail them Samuel 3 (b) How did Samuel prophet came true. This is expressed in little mdre than a common box. They show himself worthy of this confidence? verse 19 by the statement, "And did let looked to the ark as the idolatrous nations Study 1 Samuel 3:15-18; also "Patriarchs none of his words [his prophetic messages] looked to their gods, as if it possessed in and Prophets," page 582, paragraph 2. fall to the ground [remain unfulfilled]." (b) itself the elements of power and salvation." Consult Lesson Notes. God's prophecies for today will as surely —Id., p. 584. come to pass as did the prophecy concern- Assignment 4 ing Eli and his wicked sons in Samuel's 10. How was the news of the battle brought day. to Eli? When he heard that the ark had been (a) The sure result of faithfulness to taken, how did it affect him? V 12-18. 6. (a) Only a backslidden Israel would duty is expressed in one word in I Sam- have removed the sacred ark from the 11. When the Philistines thought to care `uel 3:19. What is this word? (b) How sacred tabernacle without God's permission, for the ark by placing it in the temple of was the promise, "Them that honor Me I Dagen, what resulted? 1 Sam. 5:2-6. will honor," fulfilled to Samuel? Study In the past the ark had brought success to r Samuel 3 :19-21 ; also "Patriarchs and an obedient Israel, but to a disobedient NOTE.—"It was the custom of both the Israel it brought failure. (b) By leading Hebrews and the Philistines to place war Prophets," page 589, paragraph 4. Con- sult Lesson Notes. the people to confess their sins, the trusted trophies in their sanctuaries; therefore prophet opened the way for a defeated after the capture of the ark the sacred Assignment 5 Israel to become a victorious Israel. chest was taken to Ashdod, the chief city 7. (a) There is a difference between an of the Philistines, and placed there in the (a) What statement in 1 Samuel 3:19 excuse and a reason. The people's excuse temple of their principal god, Dalton.. . . tells us that all which the Lord prophesied far wanting a king was the failure of Sam- The ark was placed before Dagon to indi- through the prophet Samuel came to pass? uel's sons as judges. (b) Their real rea- cate the triumph of the Philistines' god (b) Show that this was true in the proph- son was their desire to be like the other over that of the Hebrews; but the next ecy concerning Eli and his sons. Study nations. This was displeasing to the Lord. morning the reverse was proved, for Da- Samuel 4 :10, I r, 17, 18 ; also "Patri- gon was flat on his face on the temple (c) God chose Saul to be Israel's king, not archs and Prophets," page 583, paragraph because he was kingly at heart but because floor. They set him up again, and the next 3; page 585, paragraph 3. Consult Lesson morning he lay across the threshold, his he was kingly in appearance, for it was Notes. such a man as this that the people were head and hands broken off."—Peloubet's demanding, and God gave them what they Select Notes. Assignment 6 "Let Jesus enter and the dearest idols wanted. you have known will yield before Him. (a) Why had Israel failed in their battle . . . Dare to admit the Saviour into the with the Philistines? Study I Samuel secret place of your heart. He will drive 4 :3, 5. (b) Show that God used the trusted out the evil things that have too long in- prophet Samuel to bring success again to fested it."—F. B. Meyer. Israel. Study 1 Samuel 7:3-12 ; also "Patriarchs and Prophets," page 583, para- 12. After suffering God's judgments for graph i; page 59o, paragraph 3; page 591, seven months, what plan did the Philistines devise to return the ark to Israel? 1 Sam. paragraph r. Consult Lesson Notes. Issued by 6:1-6. Assignment 7 Review and Herald Publishing Association 13. What reformation was seen in Israel Takoma Park, Washington 12, D. C. after years of apostasy? 1 Sam. 7:3-6. (a) What was Israel's excuse for de- LORA E. CLEMENT • manding a king? Study I Samuel 8:4, 5. EDITOR (b) What was their real reason for want- ASSOCIATE EDITORS JUNIOR ing a king? Study I Samuel 8:19, 20. (c) C. L. BOND S. A. WELLMAN Why did God choose Saul to be Israel's .1. E. WEAVER FREDERICK LEE first king? Study r Samuel 9:1, 2; also This paper does not pay for unsolicited material. XII—A Trustworthy Child Became "Patriarchs and Prophets," page 604, para- Contributions, both prose and poetry, are always graphs 1, 2; page 607, paragraph ; page welcomed, and receive every consideration; but we do not return manuscript for which return postage a Trusted Prophet 6o8, paragraph 2. Consult Lesson Notes. is not supplied. (December 18) Assignment 8 and Summary Sunscnirriox RATES Yearly subscription, $2.15; six months, $1.25; Check the best answer in each case: two to four copies to one address, one year, each, Guiding Thought I. Samuel was chosen to be God's $1.95; in clubs of five or more, one year, each, prophet because $1.85; six months $1.05. Higher in Canada. The sure result of faithfulness to duty Foreign countries where extra postage is re- is growth. Samuel ministered and "grew." (a) He was very intelligent; (b) he was very faithful. quired: Yearly subscription, $2.75; six months, He grew more and more trustworthy in his $1.55; two to four copies to one address, one year, little duties in the temple until God knew 2. Samuel's "Here am I" in the dead of each, $2.55; in clubs of five or more, one year, that He could trust him with the greater night showed that each, $2.45; six months, $1.35. (a) He was very obedient; (b) he was duties of a prophet. very alert. ARE YOU MOVING? Verse to Be Remembered 3. God showed His full confidence in a You should notify us in advance of any change little child by of address, as the post office will not forward your "Samuel grew, and the Lord was with (a) Allowing him to minister in the papers to you even if you leave a forwarding ad- him, and did let none of his words fall to temple; (b) by entrusting him with a sol- dress. Your compliance in this matter will save the ground." I Sam. 3:i9. emn message. delay and expense. 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ORDER FROM YOUR BOOK and BIBLE HOUSE OOLS of fish, sighted by Navy O ONE of General Electric's newest O PROGRESS has already been made in the hilinps on the lookout for enemy sub- achievements in sound-recording equip- development of motor vehicles that will marines, are reported to fishermen by ment is a reel no larger than an average- run without gasoline, says the Universal rhdio. sized doughnut, that can carry sixty-six Oil Products Company. minutes of continuous speech on 11,500 O HOME-CANNED and commercially canned feet of hairlike steel wire. The steel O SHOES with corrugated soles may, be- tomatoes will supplyalmost twice as much wire sound "track" is unbreakable, its come common after the war. Soles with vitamin C as the fresh ones on the market re-use is practically unlimited, and the ridges running crosswise are extremely in late winter and early spring. wire can be cleared magnetically for a flexible and provide nonskid qualities. new recording. Recently a flying fortress O A gEw disease, believed transmitted O THE BETTER VISION INSTITUTE says by a tick, has been discovered among a carried one of these devices on a bomb- ing expedition over occupied France. that a considerable part of the retina of group of soldiers in Texas. It is known every human eye is color blind, that all as "Bullis fever" and is similar to many The spool of fine wire records sound waves magnetically, and when transcribed the colors are seen only near the center other fever sicknesses. of the retina. there was more than an hour of oral • ISIDOR GREENFIELD, Brooklyn, New description of air war on a single spool. O "HORSEPLAY and practical jokes cause York, has invented a modified wind- There was almost perfect recording of as much damage to the war effort as sab- shield wiper for eyeglasses, and received battle sounds and conversation of crew otage," declares FBI Director J. Edgar a patent on this inexpensive device, which members. Hoover. While actual sabotage has kept is quickly attached to and removed from at a low rate, thoughtless pranks through- the frames. Both sides of a lense may O ONE of the large aircraft corporations reports that by the end of 1943 the United out the country have resulted in fires, be cleaned in one operation as the appli- delays, and loss of labor, thus seriously ance rotates. States will have 865 airports equipped hindering production. with paved runways 3,500 feet or more in O BEFORE the war the chief use for bees- length. This is almost nine times as O THE highest rate of tooth decay in wax was as a base for cold cream and many as there were in 1940. any group of persons in America is other cosmetics ; now it is used chiefly found among teen-age youth who are tall O BECAUSE they constitute a health haz- for waterproofing and protective coatings and thin, so reported Dr. Maury Massler for belts, shells, coils, and machinery. ard, U. S. Department of Agriculture warns home canners against the use of to the American Dental Association. The need of beeswax for war materials Doctor Massler's study revealed that the has necessitated a 50 per cent reduction canning powders and chemical preserva- tives. most extreme form of tooth decay occurs in its use by the cosmetic trade and a while boys and girls are undergoing conservation of candles used in church O their most rapid spurt of growth, from services. A MIXTURE now being successfully used on cattle to destroy lice is com- twelve to eighteen years of age. posed of one part wheat flour, one part O DR DONALD E. BOWMAN, of the Uni- O U. S. ARMY forces have solved the versity of Indiana Medical School, has phenothiazine, and two parts sodium fluosilicate. tough problem of preserving perishable discovered the reason that people find foods in sections of India where there are dried navy beans hard to digest. He few facilities for the manufacture of ice says the bean oil slows digestion to O ANNUAL imports to the United States of more than a billion pounds of coconut and protection of fresh foods. The re- forty-eight hours and then it is not com- frigeration units they turned out were plete. Treating the bean with yeast is oil and other fats have been cut off since the occupation of the the East Indies. odd-looking contraptions, but they did the remedy suggested by Doctor Bowman the work, and several are now in service. for overcoming the digestion difficulty. • CHURCHVELTS is a newly coined word Old plane crates were lined with cork. Doctor Bowman is studying other beans, bolted to a flat truck, and an ingenious particularly soybeans, to learn how their recently used by a Berlin radio an- nouncer. device drew the cool air from the cold- digestibility is affected by the oil in them. storage room of the ice plant.

O WHOLE milk powder will stay fresh O THE American Red Cross recently nearly twice as long if it contains small completed an interesting report of dis- portions of wheat-germ oil and edible asters which have occurred in the last acids. The amount of wheat-germ for- twenty years. The study reveals that mula homogenized into skim milk and the heaviest damage from floods, storms, added to the liquid whole milk, which is and fires has occurred in the month of then dried, is so slight that no change in May ; that tornadoes head the list of dis- taste or color can be detected. The germ asters, with fires next as a cause of de- oil helps to retain the vitamin A content, struction; that of the 617 tornadoes re- delays rancidity, and thus doubles the corded for the period the largest number life of milk powder, which heretofore has —seventy-nine—occurred in Texas; that been limited in its use in war zones. the Red Cross spent $96,616,961 for relief This research was made at MacDonald work during the years from 1920 to 1940 College laboratories, Quebec. 1. Speaking of, say, an eight-inch shell, does this mean that it is eight inches long? covered by the report. • WORLD WAR II is the safest war in 2. Has Germany any airplane carriers? O CORK is a versatile natural material history as far as disease and the chances which does a number of jobs well, and of surviving battle wounds are concerned. 9. Approximately how many times would for which there is no single acceptable Soldiers in the present war are free from Europe fit into the continent of Africa? substitute. Various forms of cork are many plague perils which threatened used for hundreds of purposes—life belts, armies in early wars. In medieval times 4. If you wish to send an air-mail letter fishing-net floats, insulation in refrigera- red-hot irons and boiling oil were ap- to a soldier in Australia, how much postage tors and house walls, heavy-duty lino- plied to wounds. Often the gunshot will you put on the envelope? leum—and since the war has taken a wounds themselves were less dangerous 5. What is the largest office building la large part of the cork crop out of our than the method of treatment. During the world? reach, plans are being made to provide the Civil War three out of four deaths for America's future supply. To make were traced directly to disease, and in the 6. You should have seen enough United the United States self-sufficient in cork, Spanish-American War one of every States Army caps by now to be able to at least to a great extent, is the object of seven soldiers came down with typhoid. say whether the inscription on their shield the drive in which Federal and State Disease was responsible for more deaths reads "E Pluribus Unum." "In God We forestry departments, civic organizations, than all battle actions. In the first World Trust," or "United States Army." Can you? and thousands of young people in school War also disease was the chief cause of science clubs and Scout troops are par- death. Now our soldiers may go to ter- 7. Did the ukulele originate in Hawaii? ticipating. In the last three seasons one rible typhus sections, but their chances of hundred thousand seedling cork oak contracting the disease are few. Prompt 8. What is the language of the gypsies called? trees have been set out, and double this and potent medical treatment at the time number will be added soon. These trees and place a wound is received has re- 9. Where is the largest ranch in the now being planted will yield their first sulted in the survival of ninety-seven world? crop of cork bark in from fifteen to per cent of American battle-wounded sol- twenty years, depending, of course, on diers—a miraculous record ! 10. What is an achromatopsiac? soil and climatic conditions. PAGE 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR