ELL, Doctor, I guess your is no sanction in the Scriptures for motion with which they were favor- practice of medicine will have carrying on routine work on Sabbath. ing him. Conscience reminded him Wto stop for a while." These The voice of conscience whispered that "we ought to obey God rather than were the words of a major a few that in order to keep the Sabbath holy men," but human reasoning told him weeks ago as he unexpectedly came he must refuse the new assignment. that in the Army insubordination is into the ward of a large Army hos- But human reasoning suggested that punishable. So while the colonel was pital in which a Seventh-day Advent- he was now in the Army and would still talking he prayed silently for ist physician was on duty. The young lose the respect of his superior officers wisdom to make a right decision and doctor wondered if he had done some- if he did not gratefully accept the pro- courage to carry it through. And the thing wrong, and, realizing same heavenly influ- that things happen suddenly ence which prompted in the Army, he braced him- Joseph to say, "How self for whatever might fol- can I do this great low. Then the major smiled wickedness, and sin and explained that the colo- against God ?" gave nel in charge of the hos- Have You him the courage to ask pital had just appointed the the colonel for an extra young doctor his new adju- minute of his time, so tant. He was at once ush- that he might mention ered into the colonel's office, REFUSED? a problem which made where his duties and re- it difficult for him to sponsibilities were briefly accept the new assign- explained to him. ment. As he listened to the out- 14zoldi __C2Aryod, AO He explained that line of his new work, his he was a Seventh-day mind was in a state of pro- Adventist and would found conflict. He realized therefore be unable on that it was no small thing Saturdays to carry out for him to be suddenly pro- rou- (Turn to page 13) moted to such an important position as that of the colonel's adju- tant. He knew that this promotion implied that his superior officers had been favorably impressed by his past record. He knew that the only reply he was expected to make to the colo- nel's remarks was, "Yes, sir; thank you, sir," and that any objection which he might make would logically be in- terpreted to mean that he was unap- preciative of the honor that had been extended to him. Yet he knew that the duties of an adjutant were such as to require a great deal of routine executive work on the Sabbath as well eft as on other days of the week. The new work would be quite different from his previous work of caring for the sick. The needs of the sick must be supplied on all days of the week, and Jesus Himself, on the occasion of healing the man with a withered hand, expressed the truth that "it is lawful to do well on the Sab- bath days." But there

•-irussilar/o/z__ As He Listened to the Out. line of His New Work, His Mind Was in a State of Conflict VOL. 90, NO. 9 MARCH 3, 1942

LET'S TALK IT OVER

FOUR-corners highwd cross- three orphan lads were buried beneath meeting continued until late in the A ing—a top-blacked-out street the bricks and mortar. afternoon. light—four bicycles—four boys with The raiders passed. As quickly as At sunset the congregation visited eyes fixed on the star-studded heavens help could be summoned, missionaries their fields and gardens. As they —an airplane roaring overhead— and workmen hurried to the spot and looked, the locusts arose in a cloud and lights streaking across the skyscape. worked with desperate haste to re- disappeared ! Behold ! what a won- The conversation was of bombers, move the mass of debris, hoping der God had wrought. Not a green bombs, air raids, shelters, blackouts, against almost vain hope to reach the leaf had been eaten, not a stem de- guns, ships, submarines, and whether boys before life should become extinct. stroyed ! the Air, the Army, the Navy, or the At last the bodies were discovered, The heathen neighbors crowded Marine branch of Uncle Sam's armed gradually uncovered, and lifted out— around in open-eyed astonishment. services offers the most desirable con- alive ! They were hurried to the mis- Eagerly they asked the reason for this nection when these "younger fry" sion hospital for examination and miracle. The promise was repeated shall have grown up. medical care. Then the fact was re- to them, and the message of a prayer- Finally one lad finished his ice- vealed that the children not only were hearing, prayer-answering God was cream cone, drew his "bike" out of the unharmed, but were unscratched. repeated. An old pagan, wrinkled huddle, and prepared to mount it for When questioned separately about with age, stepped forward. "If this his homeward ride, with the assuring what had happened, each lad told the is the way your God helps you," he promise : same story. When the bomb struck said "we want to know Him. Our "Well, fellows, no old enemy planes and the building was falling, they saw hearts are ready to hear His words." are going to bomb us tonight, 'cause standing beside them a beautiful per- my father's watching, he is ! So long !" son clothed in white, who said : "Lie "Watching?" It set me to wonder- down quickly. on your faces, and ing. Upon inquiry I learned that de- will cover you." They did as they HE evangelist in the Philippines spite the confusion-upon-confusion in were told. Thad baptized a woman whose hus- national Civilian Defense direction, That was all ! But how verily was band was very angry because his wife calm, far-sighted men and women in fulfilled to them the promise of the had become a Christian, and swore local communities along this section Inspired Word : "He shall cover thee that he would kill the evangelist, come of the Eastern seaboard have set up a with His feathers, and under His next prayer meeting. For he knew twenty-four-hour day-and-night watch wings shalt thou trust." the custom—how after the singing all system which is maintained by patri- knelt with bowed heads and closed otic volunteers who stand guard two eyes to pray. The preacher would be by two at established stations. And I TT was Sabbath morning. The sun in front, near the door. It would be am assured that "tests have proved shone down upon a clean, orderly easy to slip in and take off his head. that not a plane of any kind can fly African Christian village. The wav- And so on prayer meeting night this over the city of Washington or its ing grain in the fields that surrounded man stood outside the hall in which environs without being spotted and in- it gave promise of a bountiful har- the service was being held. His bolo stantly reported to headquarters in vest. The bell atop the mud-brick was in his hand, and it was sharp ! Baltimore." church was sending out its call to As the people knelt in prayer, he "No bombs tonight ! My father's Sabbath school. stepped in silently. All heads were watching! An enemy plane can't get Suddenly the sun was darkened. bowed. Not an eye saw him. Then through his guard !" A strange sound filled the air. suddenly he dropped his bolo and What a lesson in quiet trustfulness Anxious eyes scanned the heavens. turned and fled as for his life. Later this lad left on record for you, for Locusts! The air was soon alive with he told why. me! flying insect forms, and the ground As he approached the kneeling For our Father is on guard, too. was covered with creeping things! leader an angel with wings outspread, He is Ruler of the universe, the King Their growing crops ! What would stood facing him, piercing eyes fixed of earth and sea and sky ; He is all- become of them? The specter of upon him ! He could not lift his wise, all-merciful, all-powerful; fur- famine suddenly stared the villagers knife, and, terrified, he ran away. thermore, He loves us with an ever- in the face. "Let us shout and beat Oh, yes, today even as in the olden lasting love, and His concern about empty tins to drive off the locusts," time, the angel of the Lord encamps the smallest details of our lives is sym- cried some. But above the noise and round about those who fear and bolically expressed in His assurance confusion could be heard the steady honor Him, and delivers them. that the very hairs of our head are tones of the bell, bidding them to come numbered and are precious in His to worship, reminding them to "re- sight. member the Sabbath day, to keep it O, friend o'mine, "be not dismayed You ask for proof? It is at hand on holy." C what'er betide, God will take care every side ! And they remembered ! The church of you ; beneath His wings of love was filled. Following the Sabbath abide, God will take care of you"— school the minister led a study of the yes, "through ev'ry day, o'er all the HERE had been an air raid on third chapter of Malachi. "I will re- way, He will take care of you." TChengchow, a great city in the buke the devourer," is the promise And remember that our Father Chinese province of Honan. Among that God makes to His faithful chil- never slumbers nor sleeps ! other places struck by the bombs was dren. Had they been faithful in their one of the units of a mission com- tithe? Hearts were examined and pound. When the buildings fell in, earnest prayers were offered. The / 6-r

VOL. 90, NO. 9 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, MARCH 3, 1942 ONE YEAR, $2.15 Published by the Seventh-day Adventists. Printed every Tuesday by the Review and Herald Publishing Assn., at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., U. S. A. Entered as second-class matter, August 14, 1903, at the post office at Washington, D. C., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. "THE word we had not sense to say— Who knows how grandly it had rung !" FEW weeks ago I quoted this passage from Sill's "The A Fool's Prayer" to my English students and asked them to memorize this "one more literary gem." The period bell rang. The class filed out. I yawned. Another day's schoolwork was over.

Dad has been dead two weeks. The fact is slowly beating itself through the atmosphere of unreality that has engulfed me. The last words have been spoken over his still form, the last respects have been paid. I have looked for the last time on his dear, familiar face. Snow now covers the newly made grave. "The word we had not sense to say— Who knows how grandly it had rung !" Dad wasn't much of a man for ex- pressing sentiment. If someone at- tempted to put appreciation for some kindness into words, he seemed gen- uinely embarrassed. I cannot remem- ber that I ever sat down and told him that I thought he was wonderful— how I wish I had !—but I thought so. Dad will never read this, my tribute to him, but if someone read- ing it shall resolve to give his or her tributes to the living, not the dead, I'm sure dad would be satisfied. I'll always remember dad's last good-by. I'd reached home for the Christmas holi- Itibute to Pad LAM BERT days the previous night, and a friend and I were going to in our "younger set." All my a neighboring city to catch a little friends were invited. bus to the college town where By A DAUGHTER Most of them lived in large, I was to spend the first two important-looking houses, and days of my vacation. Dad their fathers were lawyers or agreed to take us. It had bankers. My dad was just a rained steadily all morning common dad—but that party As we drove along, we talked became a roaring success be- of inconsequential happenings: the always packed into the car five or six cause he took charge. We played neighbor boy who had joined the R. other youngsters from our town who blindman's buff ; he was always "it," A. F., the barn that needed rebuilding would not have been able to go other- and pretended that the chairs he en- on his farm, the scratch on the fender wise. circled in his long arms were little of the new car. (I hadn't been home No one else in the automobile girls. We took turns riding horse- to drive it—how could it have got was badly injured. Dad would have back—dad with his tie awry and there ?) When we arrived at the busy wanted it that way. If anyone had hair ruffled was the glorious buck- station, it was still pouring rain and to die, he would have asked that he ing horse. We played "Billy Goat we could find no parking space. Fi- be the one. He loved children—any Gruff," with the troll under the nally dad double parked on the busy and all of them: clean faced, dirty bridge. Dad was the troll. For days street, seized our suitcases, and hus- faced, good and bad. His pockets and afterward at recesstime I basked in tled us into the station. With the the storage shelf in the car were al- the reflected glory of that wonderful warning that fathers have given their ways a hopeless jumble of whistles, dad of mine. The lawyer and banker sons or daughters for centuries, "Be candy bars, popguns, and jackknives fathers did not play with their chil- good and be careful," he planted a for any neighbor boy he might happen dren like that even if there was not a quick kiss on my rain-cold cheek, and to pick up on his journey along the bare spot in their parlor rug over dashed out, calling back, "I'd better eight blocks to town. which a throw rug was carefully not get a ticket out there. I'm in 'a He is dead now. As I sit here try- placed. (Our parlor rug was like hurry !" ing to sort things out into orderly ar- that.) I never saw him alive again. The ray, my mind is flooded with a host There was the time when in the accident happened when he was bring- of unimportant little memories which blind faith of childhood, even though ing a group of students home from had been hidden in odd corners for I knew there was no Santa Claus, I the academy. Dad always brought years and which came to light only wrote him a letter, and it was pub- students home. He ran a cross-coun- when I realized that such incidents lished in our small-town weekly. I try taxi service for friends and rela- were at an end. But how vividly announced to the world in that first tives. When my sister and I attended things can linger in memory ! published article of mine that I the academy, he frequently came to I remember my fifth birthday. I wanted a doll. I got two of them. take us home for week ends, and he had a party—it was the accepted thing I had a cousin who didn't have any PAGE 3 dolls, and dad suggested that I give car. In fact, I do not believe anyone Dad was not a philanthropist. I one to her. I agreed—but not to his has stayed overnight in our home dur- understand that to acquire that title next proposition: that I give her the ing the four years since that "event" one must possess more cash than the prettier of the two. He told me to occurred without being subjected to a average person, and dispense it liber- think it over ; and I can remember detailed description of it. ally. But if he had a dollar you could distinctly his happy smile when I Dad was all boy. We always went be certain that before nightfall some finally pushed that cherished dolly to all the county, State, and world poor neighbor who had a sick baby or into his lap and told him to "mail fairs that we possibly could. Once wanted to buy his child a tricycle it quick before I change my mind." there, he would grasp us girls by the would have fifty cents of it. We did Once when my grandmother be- hand and head for the rodeo—osten- not have all the luxuries of life at our came sick, mother left us there, my sibly to "give the children a good house—and now that I can look back sister, my father, and me, to "batch." time." But I've noticed during the in perspective I'm thankful for that— What fun we had ! Dad's specialties years we've been away from home but I do not think there is anyone liv- were sour-milk pancakes and eggs that he still kept on going to them, ing who can say that dad refused to cooked in milk. We never tired of although he usually managed to trump lend him a helping hand when he those two dishes, which was probably up the excuse that he had to be there needed it. With a smile he would a lucky thing, for I'm not sure how on business anyway, so might as well postpone the date when rent was due, far his culinary knowledge extended. "look over" the fair. wink at an overdue note, defend the It was only on those few occasions Dad loved to drive a car. Sitting town's "bad boys," or offer his free when mother was absent that he would in the driver's seat, he was a man taxi service to neighbors in need of it. consent to don an apron, flourish a enthroned, master of the situation, a It was dad who volunteered to open spoon, and advance on the stove with gentleman of fortune. I can remember his home to the church school teacher, that daring gleam in his eye. that when I was four we had a shiny dad who made the fires in our little Then there was the time when new Overland. (It always "shimmied" church and saw that there was enough mother and I both had the flu. The when we went over bridges, and for coal, dad who made up the deficit in nurse took care of mother, and dad years I had a horror of bridges.) He church expense, dad who paid for the looked after me. He sympathized invented innumerable trips to town poor children's Little Friends, dad with me when the nurse made me during the first weeks of its newness, who cut the grass and pulled the take castor oil. She mixed it with driving straight and unbending behind weeds on the church lawn and wa- orange juice, and I have never par- that straight-up-and-down windshield tered the shrubbery. ticularly liked orange juice since. and the radiator cap with a thermome- Dad was not a letter-writing man. Dad brought me a little glass auto- ter in it. It was irony that he should I think I could count on my fingers mobile filled with tiny candies, he told have met his death in a car—the thing the letters I received from him in the me stories, and he put his cool hand he so enjoyed. seven and a half years since I left upon my hot forehead. The home. Only a few weeks ago, day when I felt the worst, he while mother was away, he sent slyly slid a small package under me a card which said, "I'll write the covers. That package con- more when mom gets back"— tamed a pencil box—THE pen- meaning, of course, that mother cil box. It had sat enthroned would write. But his checks in all its splendor in the dime- were often more generous than store window for weeks, but he could afford, and once when dad had heretofore been deaf to his Presidential candidate was my pleadings that I just could re-elected, he celebrated by not go to school without that sending me a big box of candy pencil box. and a five-dollar bill. Dad was always our cham- Above all else, dad was deter- pion when mother's plain com- mined to give his girls a Chris- mon sense indicated certain re- tian education. When I was straints. Once while visiting taken out of public school in the grandmother, we went shop- eighth grade and sent to our ping. Mother left him in charge march, Wind tiny church school, I rebelled of sister and me. Somehow or bitterly, but dad remained un- other—he never knew just how moved. When my sister pleaded —we wandered into toyland, By LAL IA MITCHELL THORNTON to attend a non-Christian col- and he was persuaded against lege, he said nothing, but when his better judgment to buy a fall came he packed her in the dazzlingly beautiful doll for us. car and took her to Union Col- The wind blew cold, the wind blew long, I can still see the sheepish, lege. By some miracle, he al- small-boy look on his face as But always in the March wind's song ways was able to meet our he explained to mother in a There rang the promise, good to hear, school bills. I can distinctly rather incoherent manner that Of April sun and April cheer. remember not going to a ban- he had bought us "another doll." quet when I was an academy Mother's better judgment re- freshman because I did not have The wind blew hard, the wind blew all belled also when on my thir- a silk dress—not one ! For teenth birthday dad taught me The day, but in the March wind's call years I wore a camel's-hair coat how to drive. (Our cars ever There was a note that seemed to say: that I despised because my since have suffered numerous After me April, and then May. friends called me "Teddy Bear," cuts and bruises.) Mother, and new shoes were quite an tense and tight lipped, would sit earth-moving event at our The wind blew keen, the wind blew sharp, grimly with an eye on the road house. But there was always and a hand on the car door, but Its fingers touched the bleak world's harp, money for our education. he stuck to his guns. I would And there was music in that rune, Sometimes during those years be a wonderful driver someday, A song of April, May, and June! I envied my neighbors who were he said. He always gloried in not carrying so heavy a load of telling the tale of how I once work and study as I (I worked jumped over a culvert with the all that was (Turn to page 12) PAGE 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR . ifj f f

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By M. L. ANDREA SEN

II—The Origin of Sin

IOWI dlidthLuc,,ito-er, tfhethbeautiful that the "respectable" sin of pride was morn- fundamental in the first sin that ever ing," become Satan? What entered the universe of God. Satan's were the factors that led him to de- heart was "lifted up." To him much cide to turn from his allegiance to God had been given, but instead of being and attempt to set himself up as a god humbly thankful, he became "puffed to be worshiped? We have already up" over his attainments, taking to observed that we cannot peer into himself the glory which should be the secret springs that motivated and given only to God. Lucifer had noth- teacher better; one preacher can be caused the first sin. All we can do is ing which he had not received from jealous of another because people for to note its first appearance as it is re- God. Why, then, should he be proud? some unaccountable reason think that vealed in Scripture. Beyond that we The first chapter of Romans con- the other is a better speaker; one cannot go. tains a list of sins which you will musician can be jealous of another The Bible records pride as the cause agree are very heinous indeed. Of because the audience responds more of the fall of Lucifer. Three things them Paul says, "They which commit heartily to his performance, when the of which he was proud are specifically such things are worthy of death." people should know that what he plays mentioned in the twenty-eighth chap- Verse 32. That we may know just is "cheap stuff." One doctor . . . , ter of Ezekiel. They are stated as what the list is, we quote: "Being and so on. All this envy and jealousy follows: "Thine heart is lifted up be- filled with all unrighteousness, for- is bad in other people. Might it not cause of thy riches," "thine heart was nication, wickedness, covetousness, be bad in us also? We are all guilty. lifted up because of thy beauty," "thou maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, We need to repent. bast corrupted thy wisdom by reason debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Deceit. To deceive is to mislead, of thy brightness." Verses 5, 17. backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, to appear to be what one is not, to Riches, beauty, brightness—these three proud, boasters, inventors of evil dissimulate, delude, fabricate. Syno- —the pride of their possession was the things, disobedient to parents, with- nyms are: craft, deceitfulness, double cause of Lucifer's fall. out understanding, covenant breakers, dealing, duplicity, fabrication, false- "There is nothing so offensive to without natural affection, implacable, hood, fraud, hypocrisy, imposition, lie, God, or so dangerous to the human unmerciful: who knowing the judg- trickery. Quite a list. Deceit must soul, as pride and self-sufficiency. Of ment of God, that they which commit be very bad. all sins it is the most hopeless, the such things are worthy of death, not But is it really so bad? Isn't a most incurable."—"Christ's Object only do the same, but have pleasure little hypocrisy justifiable? Can't I Lessons," p. 154. in them that do them." Rom. I :29-32. dissimulate just a little? Is it really Pride is considered by many people Glancing through the list, we can bad to sneak into some forbidden a respectable sin, if. indeed. they con- but agree with the conclusion that amusement place if nobody sees you sider it a sin at all. It is not to be death is a just punishment for such and never finds out about it? Is it classed with hatred, murder, or im- as commit these sins. And yet, when really bad to steal just a little some- morality. Even church people look we take a second glance we are not thing, when it really belongs to no- upon it with tolerance. We have sure that many would agree that all body in particular, but is only school never heard of anyone's being dis- the sins mentioned are deserving of property? Is it really bad to cheat fellowshiped because of pride. And capital punishment. Some appear just a little in examinations when no- yet we are told that it is the most quite respectable. Let us take a close body sees ? Is it really bad to be a hopeless and incurable of sins. The look at some of the less objectionable little hypocritical and attempt to make habitual drunkard may be considered ones. yourself appear better than you really hopeless. The habitual prevaricator Envy. Bad, very bad indeed, espe- are? Is it really bad to appear in- seems almost impossible of reforma- cially when someone else is at fault. dustrious when the "boss" is around, tion. But these cases, according to But to be a little envious ourselves is and soldier as soon as he is gone? the quotation cited, are not the most not so bad. I can be envious of my Is it really bad to fail to correct the hopeless. Yet some who are deeply fellow student because he gets a better mistake when we have received too affected by this "most incurable" and grade than I do. That is not so bad, much change for a purchase? Is it "hopeless" of sins are holding offices especially if I say nothing about it. really bad to lie just a little when we in the church and are regarded as I can be jealous of my friend because do it with moderation ? Let whoever members in good standing. Some of he was chosen for an office in the Sab- reads this judge his own acts and us will have to change our opinion of bath school, when within myself I motives. what constitutes "bad" sins. We are know that I am much better fitted for Whisperers. If I were speaking to too apt to think that our own sins are it than he. Jane can be envious be- students, I might tell them that this respectable while those of other peo- cause Mary was asked to sing at has reference to whispering in class ple are much worse. a public function, when "everybody and chapel exercises. That might be To have a lively and correct con- knows that Mary can't sing." One true, but this is not its first or primary ception of what constitutes sin be- teacher can be jealous of another meaning. It has reference to whis- comes important in view of the fact because the students like the other pering about others, circulating false- MARCH 3, 1942 PAGE 5 hoods—or even truths with unworthy damaged, officials unjustly dismissed, this particular sin is a feminine motives—about our fellow men or families broken up, because of evil weakness, and that Paul had girls in comrades, to hurt one's reputation, to reports. Let young people beware of mind when he wrote down "proud." speak evil. the unlovely habit of talking evil of To that I agreed. I think Paul had Too many of us are not as careful anyone. It does not pay. Paul lists women in mind, for too many of them as we should be about our speech. this sin among those that are worthy are afflicted with pride. But while Most of us talk too much and pray of death. Paul had women in mind, I think he too little. We may not do it with evil Proud. In a school which I visited also had men in mind. And men have intent, and yet the results may be very some time ago I was speaking of this less reason—if there be any reason— serious indeed. Many reputations list of sins which I am here reviewing. for pride than have women. It has have been ruined by a whispering When I came to "proud," one of the always seemed to me that women are campaign. Institutions have been young men expressed the opinion that made of a little finer stuff than men. But then, perhaps, I am mistaken. I suppose they are about the same. How little it takes to make a man proud. I remember the first long trousers I had. How proud I was ! I was now a real man. I was sixteen. 0W tO Xt I dressed up in the best fashion of the 1 day, which at that time included a stiff "stand-up" collar and tie. It was 11 Sunday afternoon, at which time all the young people paraded around 2on town and down the main thorough-. fare to be admired of the opposite sex. Winnipeg (in Canada) was a com- By D. E. REBOK paratively small town in those days, yet it affected a metropolitan air. Though years have passed, to this day NE hot day in August, 1940, the whole event is clear in my mind. a group of Bible and history As I walked down Maid Street, I 0 teachers were sitting in the 3. "Let him roam where he wills on thought I was the subject of much Ellen G. White Estate office in the Sabbath. favorable comment and smiles, and I General Conference office building at 4. "Give him full access to wicked smiled back the best I knew. I was Takoma Park, D. C. As book after companions. definitely pleased with myself. Then book was passed around and each of 5. "Call him to no account of his a horrible thought struck me. Had us had the rare opportunity of han- evenings. the young women I had just passed dling and seeing for ourselves some 6. "Furnish him with no stated em- smiled at me, or had they laughed ? of the old manuscripts and looking ployment." Was there anything in my appearance into the original first copies of advent Some wise, observing father or that amused them? I turned the cor- magazines, periodicals, and leaflets, mother must have penned those lines. ner, and there in one of the show the writer's eye chanced to fall upon It may have been out of a personal windows was a mirror which revealed these startling words in the YOUTH'S and perhaps sad experience that they myself to me as I really was. They INSTRUCTOR of February, 1853, Volume came. Whatever prompted them, they had laughed and not smiled pleas- I, Number 5, "How to Ruin a Son." are well stated for parents and their antly. I discovered that my tie, on That started several streams of children of today. which I had spent so much time to be thought racing through my mind. To the youth they should be a sort sure that it was knotted just right, had Evidently the sons, and perhaps the of thermometer to indicate the tem- crawled up above my high, stiff collar daughters, of a hundred years ago perature of your bearings, your prox- —an unforgivable sartorial mistake were subject to the same or similar imity to the fires of evil which first in those days! I lost no time in impulses and influences which work scorch, then burn, then char. getting home by way of the side upon the sons and daughters of 1942. To the parents of today they might street. Not that sons and daughters of today serve as a sort of barometer to indi- Boasters. Ordinarily not consid- or yesterday should find any comfort cate fair weather and foul—or the ered a great sin, yet placed among in the thought that one group was as mere fact that your pressure is get- those sins on which the wrath of God good or as bad as the other, but rather ting too low or too high, and that a is pronounced. that the conditions which affect the change of vital importance is about to Disobedient. To God ; to parents ; goodness or badness of boys and girls take place. to those in authority. of this and all other ages are about No son down deep in his heart Covenant breakers. Such as do not the same. wants to plunge into ruin, and cer- keep their promises, whose word can- That "old serpent, called the devil, tainly no parent will knowingly ruin not be relied upon, unreliable. and Satan," the wily enemy of youth his son. Then, in order to avoid and Read the list again. Here are and adults alike; has not greatly escape that inexorable result, a large named small sins and great sins, as changed his methods of attack. Per- measure of co-operation between par- men count them; but in the sight of haps experience has made him a bit ent and son is needed today as it was God all great. We repeat: it may be more clever and certainly more zeal- needed then. necessary for us to revise our opinion ous, because he knows that his time is Stop, young man ! young woman! of sin. Some sins that we have not getting very short. Nevertheless, his Look over that list prepared for your thought of as great, God considers so. plans and policies are just the same— companions of yesteryear ! Six ways We should do the same. but more streamlined and dazzling to to ruin, or six equally good ways to We doubt that Lucifer fully real- keep up with our faster-moving age avoid it. Don't wait for your father ized what he was doing when he took of today. and mother to check you on each of the first step in sin. Few of us do, Be that as it may, here is the list of these items. Just begin today and and it may have been the same with six items as they appeared in the arti- check yourself. him. Riches, beauty, wisdom beck- cle referred to : "There is a way that seemeth right oned him, and little by little he was T. "Let him have his own way. unto a man, but the end thereof are drawn away from his allegiance to 2. "Allow him free use of money. the ways of death." God, and in a (Turn to page r2) PAGE 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR call to our back yard as they jour- neyed north. Bobolinks, goldfinches, nuthatches, catbirds, a yellow-headed lilematies blackbird, and a black-and-white war- bler were among other species that we By HELEN WELLS HAWLEY particularly enjoyed observing and adding to our list. Killdeers, king- fishers, various ducks, and other water birds swelled the total until, when our NE spring my husband's work The public library unexpectedly of- "finds" numbered nearly sixty, it really took us for a few months to fered two fine volumes of "Birds of seemed that we had discovered as a small town in southwestern Minnesota," with detailed descriptions many as we had the opportunity and Minnesota. Among strangers and and excellent colored plates which knowledge to distinguish. surrounded by little ready-made en- helped us a great deal, particularly in Finally, when our interest was be- tertainment, we at first found leisure distinguishing the tiny warblers and ginning to wane, we started on a long time hanging a bit heavy upon our the many sparrows which all looked motor trip. Enthusiasm flamed anew hands. As we drove rather aimlessly more or less the same to my inexperi- as we glimpsed summer tanagers in along a country road one Sunday enced eye. eastern Minnesota; cardinals, Balti- afternoon, we noticed a great number Our enthusiasm skyrocketed on the more orioles, and a mocking bird in and variety of birds. morning when three beautiful male southern Kansas; Steller's jays in "Let's see, just for fun," I sug- rose-breasted grosbeaks paid a brief New Mexico ; blue-crested quail and gested, "how many different lazuli buntings in Arizona; and kinds we can find." a new variety of hummingbird I found a pencil and a note in the flower beds that sur- pad in the car-door pocket, and rounded El Tovar on the rim we started a list, our interest of the Grand Canyon. We fed gathering momentum as it grew. numerous gulls on the shores of A copy of that list before me Great Salt Lake, feeling a new now shows the following com- respect for them since we had mon birds listed on that date : viewed the statue erected to robin, flicker, red-winged black- their honor in Salt Lake City. bird, meadow lark, pigeon, Idaho to me means sagebrush- blackbird (Brewer's), Chinese mottled hills, beautiful Lom- pheasant, blue jay, English bardy poplars in the watered sparrow, crow, Hungarian par- valleys, and magpies every- tridge, chicken hawk, house where. wren, brown thrasher, and red- During a winter and early headed woodpecker. We saw spring spent near Seattle, Wash- several other kinds, but, to our ington, our list was lengthened chagrin, we had no idea what to with red-shafted flickers, tow- call them. We determined to hees, chickadees, ruby-crowned learn more about birds and how and golden-crowned kinglets, to identify them, and to keep a varied thrushes, and violet- permanent bird list, giving the green swallows. date when and place where each When we moved to the Tuala- new species was seen. I tin Valley, west of Portland, The next Sunday was spent Oregon, we saw our first speci- at the farm home of my hus- mens of the rosy little house band's sister, just across the finch. Here we also made the South Dakota line. Always a acquaintance of water ouzels, nature lover, Maurine had taken black-headed grosbeaks, West- a special interest in bird study ern tanagers, cedar waxwings, for the sake of her two small and parula warblers, besides sons. After dinner the three of a number of more common them accompanied us on a tour and less colorful species. One of the farm and countryside. afternoon near The Dalles we With their help we added to our glimpsed an indigo bunting— list purple martin, barn swallow, our only sight of this beautiful, kingbird, Arkansas kingbird, vividly blue bird. cowbird, lark bunting, orchard The list of the birds we have oriole, and loggerhead shrike. seen, with the date and place of A few days after we returned observation, has first place in home, we received from Mau- what we call our bird scrapbook. rine a packet that contained Next is a poetry and quotations three pocket-sized bird guides. section. Poems about birds are Armed with these, an old pair of plentiful and interesting in their field glasses, and a fair supply variety. If you take a glance of patience, we found it surpris- through the index of one or two ing how many discoveries could good anthologies, you will be be made by even such complete surprised that so many titles novices as we were. contain, or are, bird names. Matthew Arnold's "Philomela," Keats' "To a Nightingale," W. 0. FLOING Shelley's "To a Skylark," Ten- The Beautiful Singing Tower in the Bird nyson's "0 Swallow, Swallow" Sanctuary Established- by Edward Bok in South•Central Florida, Is a Symbol of and "The Throstle," Words- Beauty Comparable Only to the Taj Mahal, in India worth's "To (Turn to. page ro) MARCH 3, 1942 PAGE 7 UST a minute, please. This is an important meeting and a J special occasion ; so we would like to ask Pastor Mote to pray for us before this picture is taken." This request was made by a young man who was a prisoner in a large provincial prison in which we had just conducted another service for the un- fortunate inmates. The prison warden had permitted a photographer to enter within the prison walls, at the request of the prisoners, for they wanted so much to have their picture taken on that miffed the crime which day. The camera was set up will follow him through- and the men were posed, out the rest of his life. ready for the shutter to be Although he was earn- snapped. Yes, it was a spe- ing a fairly good wage, cial event, indeed, and a sol- it was necessary that he emn occasion, for several of have a considerable sum these prisoners were not the of money to pay the fee same men they had been which is required of when we started to hold those who desire to be- and would allow Antonio gospel meetings with them. only a meager supply of raw They had found in Jesus a potatoes and a little water personal Saviour, and some each day. The whole expe- of them, including the spokes- rience was most trying, and man, were to be baptized that poor Antonio thought he afternoon. All of the men, Silaphati `Kam surely would die before he about seventy in number, would ever get off the ship! stood reverently with bowed It so happened, however, heads while a special prayer the 7-at ecot that there was a prominent was offered in their behalf. Filipino provincial governor Then the picture was taken. By F. A. MOTE on board, and when he heard I regret that I do not have the story of this fellow coun- a print to show you. tryman who had stowed away But perhaps you would like below decks and had been to know more about this young man come monks; so he accepted cash discovered, and who was now in the who asked that a prayer be offered bribes. Antonio was caught in his little prison on board, he appealed to before the photographer took the pic- wrongdoing and was summoned to the captain for mercy in behalf of the ture. His story is a most interesting appear before the court for trial. He young man. Fortunately, as a result one, and should bring to us a new was young and afraid—afraid to face of this appeal Antonio was given bet- realization of the fact that God works the court and afraid to meet his par- ter food and received much better in many and wondrous ways to find ents. In his dilemma and discourage- treatment for the remainder of the lost men and women in this wicked, ment he went to the city of Manila, voyage. sinful world. wondering what he might do to get On and on the great ship plowed its This prisoner, Antonio by name, away from all his troubles. way through the rough waters, pass- came from a well-respected, high-class One day while he was walking ing Singapore, Bombay, Aden, and Filipino family. His mother was for- along the water front, where the great Suez. Finally, when it reached Port merly a public school teacher, and his passenger and merchant ships from all Said, Antonio was turned over to the father had served the Philippine gov- parts of the world dock, he saw a American consul. For six long months ernment for more than thirty years beautiful large white Italian liner, he was in Egypt, where he not only and was still a high-ranking officer in and he thought, "Oh, if I could only heard strange sounds and languages one of the federal bureaus in Manila. get on that ship, I could get away and saw strange sights, but also had Antonio had a good school record be- from these islands and away from the time and opportunity to meditate upon hind him and, like so many of the court and my troubles." He failed his mistakes and sins. At last the day Filipinos, had a talent for public to realize that his sins and troubles came when he was placed aboard an- speaking. He was an eloquent orator, would follow him wherever he might other ship, which took him back to and had been chosen as the valedic- go. He watched and waited, and the Philippines. He was arrested as torian of his class at the close of his finally his chance came to slip aboard soon as he reached the port of Manila. high-school career. More than that, the ship without being noticed. He and was placed in the prison where he had won a scholarship to a Catholic stowed away in the baggage room. we found him at the beginning of our college. He was energetic, and was It was much more difficult than he had story. filled with a determination to do that anticipated, but he managed to keep It was while he was serving his which seemed most honorable to him out of sight for three days and nights, sentence that a group of our Mission- as well as to thousands of other young during which time he went without ary Volunteers visited the prison reg- men of his country—enter a monas- food and water. ularly and preached the gospel mes- tery. Although his parents had some But he could not live indefinitely sage and the soon coming of Jesus to money, he felt that he should be as without eating and drinking, and to the prisoners. This was something independent as possible ; so he decided be hiding in the stuffy baggage room new ; Antonio fairly drank it all in, to take the civil-service examination. was not conducive to pleasant sailing and soon it was very noticeable that After passing this test with a high as the huge ocean liner rolled and his life was being changed. He looked grade, he was employed by the Bureau tossed over the waves. He was finally forward to each visit of the young of Civil Service. discovered and, after receiving a se- people, for he had learned to respect It was while he was working there vere beating, was locked up in the them, and as each new truth was pre- that he was greatly tempted and com- ship's prison. The captain was angry sented, he studied it and accepted it. PAGE 8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR a man and his wife and their own three children, and the sister with her four children. Then one day the mother of the fatherless children died. Soon after- ward an influenza epidemic snatched away the husband of the surviving sister. This left the one woman with her own three children and her late sister's four children to struggle along as best they could. This was the situ- ation when the priest appeared on the scene, and when our Mission- ary Volunteers also came OUR husband is into the picture. in purgatory. You In their visiting in the vil- ywill have to give lages our native Missionary me sixty francs to pray Volunteers had discovered him out." this poor woman. They be- Thus spoke the "White gan to help her in every way Father" to a poverty- they could. They brought stricken heathen widow food and clothing for the whose Catholic husband children. And as the rainy After the Sabbath was pre- had just died. In de- season was approaching, they sented, he realized that he helped her repair her hut. should keep the seventh day They went to the swamps and of the week and not the first. gathered grass and put on a He became a faithful mis- new thatched roof. sionary among his fellow The priest continued his prisoners, and several of knee-air in demands for the money to them soon joined him in ob- say the masses to get the serving the seventh-day Sab- widow's husband out of pur- bath. Antonio became one Putfatoty gatory. ' of the most trustworthy in- "But I have no money," mates of the prison, and dur- By L. L. MOFFITT she reiterated. "I am a poor ing the last few months of widow. I have my own three his sentence he worked in the children and my dead sister's office of the provincial treas- four children to care for, urer, which was near the penitentiary. spair she viewed her possessions: a and I have no income." But let us go back to the scene with hut in ill repair, one milch goat "Is that your goat?" the priest in- which our story opens. The sermon browsing near by, and seven father- quired. for that day had been presented, the less children playing in the yard. "Yes," she replied, "that is my goat picture had been taken, and the candi- "I can't give you sixty francs. I —the only animal I have to give a dates had been given a final examina- have no money," she said. little milk for these seven children." tion for baptism. Just as the sun was "But you must," the priest rejoined, "You sell that goat," commanded sinking in the west, Antonio and three "or your husband will continue to the priest. "I think it will fetch about other prisoners were baptized in a suffer the pains of purgatory." sixty francs." large water tank within the prison The background of this scene and The goat was sold. But unfortu- walls. Ten others were still studying, the unusual sequel to this harsh de- nately it brought only forty francs. preparing for a future baptism. The mand are revealed in the following When the money was turned over to Missionary Volunteers who had held story from the Missionary Volunteer the priest, he began to pray the man the meetings were present, of course. lore of Africa. out of purgatory. But he could pray The mission director and I were there Two sisters were married. One only forty francs' worth. With the to officiate. We all praised God for lived in a central village. She had man still knee-deep in purgatory, the what we had seen and heard, realizing a family of three small children. The priest came back to demand the other more fully what Jesus meant when other lived in a village a few miles twenty francs. Unable, however, to He said, "I was in prison, and ye distant. She had a family of four extort any more money from the came unto Me." small children. The husband of the woman, he finally came with this Many stories could be told of young latter was taken sick and died. Ac- proposition : men and young (Turn to page ro) cording to the native custom in that "I'll tell you what I'll do. If you part of Africa, will drive those Missionary Volun- the bereaved teers away, and promise never to let mother with her them come back, I'll say the rest of four fatherless the prayers for nothing." children went "What ! drive the Missionary Vol- over to live with unteers away? No, indeed," she re- her sister in the torted. "From the time those young central village. people discovered me in my need, they So, in the meager have not ceased to help me. They have quarters of that brought food and clothing for my native home lived children, and they have put new thatch on my roof. They have done much for me. You have robbed A Group of Mission. me. Indeed, I will not drive them ary Volunteers of away." West Africa, Bibles and Lanterns in Hand, "Then you will have to pay me the Starting Out for a Night Meeting other twenty francs," said the priest, MARCH 3, 1942 PAGE 9 "or your husband will remain in purga- daughter was much better than she and said, "No, Pastor Mote, we do not tory." had been before baptism, since she had wish to stop. It is hard to work here, Upon the next visit of our Missionary stopped dancing and attending the movies but we must warn these people and help Volunteers they were told of the con- and did not use bad language any more, them to get ready to meet Jesus." The tinued harassing demands of the priest. he listened silently. Then tears filled his Bible tells us that in the new earth "God Then a strange thought came to those eyes and he asked for their forgiveness shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; African Missionary Volunteers. Strange, for all the harm he had done them by and there shall be no more death, neither we may say, yet obviously the hand of word and act, and later he asked Maria sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there God was guiding them. They dipped to forgive him for the way he had mis- be any more pain : for the former things down into their meager treasury of treated her. The visitors prayed with are passed away." "Oh," they assured funds for helping the poor, and took out this man, and when their prayer season me, "we are willing to suffer for Jesus, twenty francs. They gave the twenty was ended, he asked for Bible studies, because He has done so much for us." francs to the poor widow. She gave the so that he might learn more about the Yes, the Missionary Volunteers in the twenty francs to the priest. After that religion which had done so much for his Far East are loyal to the Master, and he left the poor woman alone. daughter. they understand that they have been As a result of this friendly contact and Because of this experience and the "saved to serve." Surely they will re- this unusual use of Seventh-day Advent- faithfulness of this young woman, many ceive their reward both in the joy of ist poor funds, the woman was delivered persons became interested in the Bible, service here and in the everlasting joy from the clutches of the priest and the and in due time a church of thirty-five of the heavenly kingdom so soon to children were placed in a Seventh-day members was organized in the village. come. Adventist school. The woman herself Many others who were interested at- joined the baptismal class in preparation tended services, regularly as they pre- for admission to the church whose faith pared for baptism. had inspired the kindly interest of her Our faithful Missionary Volunteers in Bird Memories friends in time of need—the Missionary the Far East make good colporteurs, too. Volunteers. Hundreds of them have responded to the (Continued from page 7) Saviour's call to "go out into the high- ways and hedges, and compel them to the Skylark" and "The Green Linnet" come in, that My house may be filled." and "To the Cuckoo," Celia Thaxter's These young men and young women "The Sandpiper," Van Dyke's "The Snapshots From the Far East have been taught from the Spirit of Maryland Yellowthroat," and Bryant's prophecy that "the things of this world "Robert of Lincoln" and "To a Water- (Continued from page 9) are soon to perish. This is not discerned fowl" are a few of the poems which by those who have not been divinely en- have been addressed directly to our lightened, who have not kept pace with women in the different countries of the feathered friends. Many other poems the work of God. Consecrated men and have charming allusions to them. Favo- Far East who have responded to the call women must go forth to sound the warn- of the Saviour and have endured hard- rite with me, as one example of these, ing in the highways and byways." is Browning's "Home Thoughts From ness, as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. I remember that some of our young I think of Maria, a young woman about Abroad." women Missionary Volunteer colpor- I have found it a fascinating pastime seventeen years of age who lived with teurs hiked over mountain trails, through her father several kilometers from a to collect these poems and quotations and mud and water, across rice fields, and to illustrate them with a great variety of town. In this town, one of our national even along jungle trails to find those who evangelists was holding a tent meeting pictures cut from magazines or gleaned would buy the truth-filled papers and from other sources. This section of the which was well attended, and many peo- books which lead those who read them ple were becoming interested in the truth scrapbook, with a little ingenuity and from darkness to light. taste, can truly be made a thing of of the third angel's message. Maria One day while I was traveling through heard about the meetings one day while beauty. a part of their territory, I met some of A third section is devoted to clippings she was in town; so she decided that she these girls. They had just arrived at the would stay all night and attend the eve- of prose articles on birdlore and to pic- little village along the highway after tures and descriptions of places of spe- ning service. When she returned home having walked many miles over rough, the next morning, she did not tell her cial interest to bird lovers. Of the latter treacherous trails. They were very I will mention three : father why she had remained in town, tired, and their bare feet and legs were for fear that he would not permit her to The aviary in Forest Park, St. Louis, bruised and bleeding. They told me of has been intriguing to me since the time attend the meetings again. In one way their work and something of the hard- and another she managed to attend the in my early childhood when a favorite ships along the way. While they related aunt visited the park and sent me picture services quite regularly until someone their experiences, tears flowed down their told her father what she was doing. postcards of the great cages and their cheeks. I asked them if they felt that they colorful inmates. I found my own visit Then he became enraged and did every- should go home and rest for a while and thing he could to prevent her from be- to the aviary many years later a thrilling let some other colporteurs work in that event in spite of the fact that the mer- coming a Seventh-day Adventist. difficult territory. They looked at me However, the evangelist arranged for cury must have been standing at 95 de- Bible studies to be given to Maria, and grees in the shade. after several months of study and test- The Sea Gull Monument in Salt Lake ing, she was ready for baptism. During City, already alluded to, is a graceful the baptismal service, her father heard column that stands in a landscaped bit what was taking place and hurried to the of garden close to the Mormon Temple. river, but he arrived too late. She had It commemorates the arrival in May of already been baptized and was on her 1848 of a cloud of gulls in time to save way home with the church members. the young crops of the new settlers, Her father found her and snatched her which had been attacked by a host of away from her friends. He beat his grasshoppers or "Mormon crickets." daughter and kicked her and then, not The Bok Singing Tower is a beautiful satisfied with the punishment he had in- 205-foot tower of combined steel, rose- flicted in his anger, drew his long knife colored Georgia marble, and native Flor- from its sheath and was about to kill her ida stone. It stands on Iron Mountain, when she managed to escape and hide. the highest point in the State of Florida. That night she did not go to her home, Exquisitely carved, the upper part of the but she did go to the meeting place. tower contains a superb carillon. The During the meeting her father came to grounds around the tower, with their drive her out of the service, but when he wealth of tropical beauty, are in them- entered the place of worship, something selves enough to repay the hosts of tour- changed his mind. What was it? Well, ists who visit this famous bird sanctuary. Maria and the advent believers present The National Geographic Magazine had been praying most earnestly for this has made another highly prized contri- father, and the Spirit of God impressed bution to my bird-study hobby. Begin- him that he should go away and leave If you believe in the Lord, ning with the issue for July, 1932, it the girl unharmed. published, over a period of four years, The church members continued to pray He will do half the work— a series of more than a dozen articles on that God would protect Maria. She also bird life, all written by eminent author- prayed, as she shed many tears, that but the last half. He helps ities, and each generously illustrated with Jesus would bless her father and help portraits in color from paintings by him to see the truth of the third angel's those who help themselves. Major Allen Brooks. When I have com- message. Heaven heard and answered pleted my collection of these articles, I these prayers, for sometime later, when —Cyrus H. B. Curtis. intend to have them bound into a volumq a group of Maria's church friends went that would be a really valuable addition to visit him and pointed out that his to the library of any bird lover. PAGE 10 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR GALLOWAY AND ROBERTS

ID you ever trap for game? If Thus the earnest admonition, "Take so, then you know that much heed." But in spite of the many exam- D depends on the kind of bait and ples given in God's word of men and the type of trap used. Any book TRAPS women who were ensnared by Satan, we on trapping will give you full informa- still seem intent on walking into the tion regarding whether the animal you devil's traps. are endeavoring to snare will be hard or It might be interesting to note how easy prey, and just how much caution well some of those old traps still func- and skill it will take to catch it. and tion and how stupidly we still walk into How does the hunter know what kind them. Wrong influence and a question- of bait and trap should be used? By able environment were the two traps into experience, of course. Trappers have which young Eve walked, and she was learned that a certain type of bait has an not the last or the only one whom the almost irresistible appeal to certain ani- devil ever caught by this means. We mals, and that they will almost instinc- BAIT can picture Eve, like many young people tively walk into a certain type of trap. today, when she got into questionable Once the proper trap and bait have been company and forbidden indulgences were found, there is little need for changing, By MARENUS H. JENSEN suggested, giving a careless toss of her for animals are almost certain to con- head and saying, "I'll try anything once." tinue getting into the same trap after the You know the result. There are many same bait. things we dare not try even once. Per- It seems to make no difference how who dared to do right, the devotion bf haps that is what Mr. Fox thinks. He'll many get caught or how few escape Queen Esther to her people and their take that enticing bite only this once. death. Just put a bit of bright tinsel on cause—and well may we take courage But that is all the hunter asks. That the trigger of the trap lowered in shal- from these examples. "once" is usually fatal. low water near the bank, and even Mr. But in this particular chapter the great Next to get caught was Cain. He Raccoon, who is ordinarily so cautious, apostle Paul is not calling the roll of thought that he could improve on the throws all caution to the wind. Or put heroes for truth. It is not their virtues Lord's way of sacrificing, and fell out a crowing rooster in a tree, and Mr. Fox, and victories that he is holding up for with his brother and began to fight be- who is reputed to be very cautious and our consideration or warning, but the cause Abel would not accept his im- cunning, almost invariably lets down the snares and traps of Lucifer into which proved plan. So poor Cain was caught bars long enough to get beneath the tree they so fatally fell. Well did the apostle in that very excellent trap of Lucifer's and into the trap. He never seems to know that this shrewd hunter of human deception—selfishness. learn. souls is too wise to continue using a Esau, that vain person, was caught in So the hunters continue to set the same trap in which he has never succeeded in the trap of appetite. He sold his birth- old traps in the same old way. It would ensnaring a soul, but that he will be free right, a home in the land "flowing with be foolish to use a bait or seta trap that in his use of those with which he suc- milk and honey," for one mess of pot- never enticed or caught anything. When ceeded in ensnaring mighty men of old. tage. This old trap still works. Many considering dumb animals, we today are selling their inher- say, "How stupid and foolish itance in the Land of Promise to continue walking into the ..111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111g..1 for something to eat, chew, same trap after the same bait drink, or smoke. set in the same way by the Aaron was once caught in same hunter." But just a mo- the trap of popularity. He was ment. Let us not say too much M-A-R-C-H too weak to take his stand on about the stupidity of the brute the side he knew to be right; kingdom. so he joined the majority and Lucifer, a cunning hunter, has M "Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he set up the golden calf, a monu- been using the same bait in the that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass ment to popularity. Millions to- same traps in the same way for day are stupidly dancing about six thousand years. And the him about." Psalms 32:10. this same golden calf. They human race is still nibbling on have been deluded into believ- the same bait, still walking into "All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit ing that worldly praise and pop- the same traps, in the same A ularity will bring more peace way. of God is in my nostrils; my lips shall not speak and enjoyment and satisfaction As God was leading His peo- wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit." Job than obedience to the will of ple out of Egyptian bondage God; so they are willing to into the Promised Land, Satan 27:3, 4. throw the fine gold of purity, set many traps along the wil- innocence, faith, and obedience derness path. The apostle Paul R "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, all into the fire. And what tells us that their experiences comes out ! Death finally. But were written for our admoni- Rejoice. Philippians 4:4. they carelessly dance into one tion, "upon whom the ends of of the devil's most successful the world are come." C "Cease from anger, and forsake wrath,: fret not traps. There is danger of our read- Miriam, the sister of Moses, ing this verse and immediately thyself in any wise to do evil." Psalms 37:8. got into the trap of bigotry. launching into a discourse in She refused to co-operate in which we eulogize the mighty "Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy the work of God and willingly men of old for their unfaltering H hindered the cause of God be- fidelity to God in moments of days may be long upon the land which the Lord cause there was someone in the crisis. We are likely to enlarge thy God giveth thee." Exodus 20:12. congregation of Israel whom upon the meekness manifested she did not like, a relative at by Moses, the patience shown by that, her own sister-in-law. Job, the courage exhibited by The devil baited his trap with the three Hebrews and Daniel, 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111I gold and goodly garments and MARCH 3, 1942 PAGE 11 caught Achan. Millions have reached to dad. I know that he was glad that he "In the Beginning God—" into this trap after the glistening tinsel lived to see the culmination of his dear- of wealth. It works most efficiently. est wish. I realize now that Christian (Continued from page 6) Pride was the trap which caught Nebu- education is the greatest gift he could chadnezzar, and into the same trap mil- have given me, and he lived long enough short time had gone too far to turn back. lions are walking today. You need not to know that I realize it. Riches. What a hold they have on be beautiful, wealthy, or educated, or As I look back over those seven years, many. Some are willing to sell their soul hold a high position, or accomplish any- the big thing seems to be that I accom- —and do sell it—for filthy lucre. Many a thing of worth to fall into this trap. plished something—although at various man has left God and the path of rectitude Some even become proud of their sup- early stages it was necessary for dad to and stultified his own soul to gain a little posed humility and are thus caught. tell me in no uncertain terms just what of this world's goods. The pleasures and And so the story might be continued. he expected of me. And the tone in riches of the world beckon a young man, The devil's most successful traps are not which he delivered those ultimatums was and he yields. He could have had a place new ones, but those which are old and always a sufficient incentive to me not in the work of God, but the call of money tried—bad company, appetite, popularity, to make the same mistake twice. is too much for him. Once the call of the bigotry, wealth, pride, and so forth. Those material things I had to do with- mission field sounded loudly in his ears. There are no newly invented traps in out seem very trivial now. The experi- His heart responded. But then he heard this list, no patents pending. Let us be ence has given me a sense of values I another call. And the world took him admonished by the apostle Paul, "Take highly prize. It has helped me to realize away. Now he - has money—but more heed," lest we become snared in one of that clothes do not make a man, al- often he has not. In either case there is the devil's old reliable traps and lose our though how he cares for the clothes he a wasted life if not a lost soul. Beware souls. has reveals his character; that one can of the call of wealth. It is a deceiver. do wonders with old scraps from the There is no lasting satisfaction but in "ribbon box" and an old dress or two ; God and His service. that one who works for something ap- Beauty. How many have been be- preciates it far more than if it were guiled by the vanities of this world ! Tribute to Dad thrust upon him. Lucifer decked himself with "every pre- I have learned to some extent the value cious stone, . . . the sardius, topaz, and (Continued from page 4) of time. A college student who carries the diamond; the beryl, the onyx, and the sixteen hours of schoolwork, the same jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the possible and always carried a full class amount of labor, and various extra- carbuncle, and gold." Eze. 28:13. He load), or made sidelong glances at new curricular duties has very little time to outshone Solomon, and was doubtless of fur coats, beauty-shop finger waves, or fritter away. Sometimes I bemoaned the beautiful appearance. But there was expensively tailored clothes. I loved necessity of always rushing about—hop- something lacking. When the test came, pretty clothes, and sometimes I became ing that somehow my letters would write he failed. weary of the made-over-from-grandma's themselves and clothes would wash them- There is no objection to young people's black skirt, the big-sister-cast-off dress, selves—but now I would not have had it —or those older grown—making every the service-weight hose, and the four- otherwise. legitimate effort to appear at their best. winters-old coat. But as years went by We cannot believe that God is pleased I noticed that while I steadily advanced Dad's dead, but all my vivid memories with anything that is slovenly or untidy. along my chosen course, some of these of him are as alive as ever. Let our young women dress with neat- more "fortunate"(?) friends of mine had He did his best for me. And I know ness and taste. Let the young men avoid to drop out because of finances or be- he ,died confident of the fact that he had that which is merely foppish or the cur- cause they made an unwise use of their given me the opportunity to do my ap- rent rage. But let all, men and women, too many spare moments. pointed task in this last hour of earth's remember that God expects us to repre- Last spring I was graduated from col- history. The rest of it is up to me. sent Him in all that we do, and that we lege. I left the institution not owing a And with God's help I shall not break are not true representatives if we are cent. My education is paid for, thanks faith with—my dad. careless and unattractive. Polished shoes and a well-pressed suit are part of re- ligion. So are clean fingernails, attrac- tively arranged hair, and appropriate brownish or greenish in color, and I feminine apparel. But let all outward found them to be small cocoons filled adorning, everything put on for mere with smaller eggs. In some species of show, be shunned. Lucifer decked him- earthworm there are only one or two self out with all manner of jewels and eggs in each cocoon. finery. We need not follow his example. Earthworms are not insects, and while Wisdom. "Do you think I would some of them have what are called marry that girl?" said a young man. cocoons, they do not pass through the "She doesn't even have an A. B. !" Too four stages, egg, larva, cocoon, and bad. "Doesn't even have an A. B." How imagoes, as the Lepidoptera do. When dreadful ! I think the young man will the eggs of earthworms hatch, they are live long enough to know that there are perfect little earthworms, and just "grow things in this life more important than up." These little egg cocoons are usually an A. B. God forbid that I should speak deposited in a manure heap, or under disparagingly of an A. B. But I am Earthworms stones. In the specimen I examined we afraid that there are some who place too found a short, trowel-shaped tail. May much emphasis on degrees. An A. B. is, BY MRS. G. M. PRICE or June is the time for earthworm egg after all, only the beginning of the alpha- laying in the Temperate Zones, and in bet, and the occasion on which it is be- E are told that there are fifty other parts of the world egg depositing stowed is rightly called a "commence- W thousand earthworms to an acre varies with the temperature. ment," for that is all it is. But too many of ground in the places where In winter angleworms or earthworms consider it the end. A little modesty they thrive best, the Temperate Zones. crowd together in large numbers, and would be a very fitting accompaniment to In arid districts and some places in the hibernate or bury themselves deep in the educational attainment. tropics, very few are found. We are earth below the frost line, although cold "The world by wisdom knew not God." also told that several tons of earth pass and frost do not seem to do them much 1 Cor. 1 :21. How true that is. We have through the body of each worm every harm. come to a time when science is worshiped year. No wonder the soil which contains The Creator must have planned that, as verily as were heathen idols of old. many earthworms is rich and fertile. after sin entered the world, this small And much of the science thus worshiped The earthworm I examined had a creature of the dust should assist man in is "falsely so called." Whenever knowl- short probosis protruding from its his struggle with the stubborn soil. The edge is sought for its own sake, it be- mouth parts and a pharynx canal near earth is not only enriched by this worm, comes a vice and a snare. Knowledge the esophagus. I found two sets of but the stirring of the soil makes it acquired for the purpose of impartation muscles under the skin. A nervous sys- easier to cultivate. to others, that it might bless mankind, tem seemed to be centered in the head, Millions of these little worms are de- is to be highly esteemed. and branched along the ventral parts. stroyed annually by being pushed over Brightness. Lucifer's wisdom was cor- The alimentary canal is a straight line a barbed fishhook to hide the cruel rupted by reason of his brightness. While through the worm's body. Under the instrument, which destroys two lives at "brightness" here does not have the same microscope a row of bristles, or hairs, once—the worm's and the fish's. meaning as when we speak of a person's could be seen. A thick band of tissue It has been found that in West Africa being "bright," there is some of that con- which naturalists call the "clitellum" disease germs mixed with the soil have notation in the word. Lucifer thought extended around the body. This band been brought to the surface by earth- himself a little too bright; he lacked mod- is filled with eggs, and the worm even- worms, where they are killed by the esty, and was impressed with the light tually casts it over her head, as she backs sun's rays. Thus certain tropical dis- and knowledge he possessed. There is out of it. These so-called eggs were eases have been eliminated. Let us re- the same danger now. We cannot have about the size of wheat grains, and spect this little aristocrat of the soil. too much knowledge, but there is definite PAGE 12 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR danger in mere brightness. Let us ac- dente over a military assignment; it was quire the one and shun the other. hard to continue to draw the same old This experience of Lucifer's is all that salary when the promotion would have we know of the origin of sin. In the be- led to a higher salary. But none of these ginning it was not any great sin that he (fulfilled ambition, favor with associates, contemplated. He was merely proud of higher income) can bring the peace of his riches, his beauty, and his knowledge. mind that results from a clear conscience. He thought too much of himself. When And so the young doctor, although still we see in the world today the conse- filling a humble place in an Army hos- quences of what appeared to be quite in- pital, enjoys the satisfaction of knowing ig11111STER TEOCHER/7 nocent in the beginning, it should teach that he remained true to principle even us to watch out for small sins. For at the cost of personal gain. seemingly small sins are mighty in their This young doctor is not the first per- "The Desire of Ages," Chapters consequences. son who has had to refuse worldly honor 25 and 26 in order to remain true to his conscience. Pages This form of loyalty has been evident at Sunday 244.245 least as far back as the time of Moses, Monday 245.249 Have You Refused? for we read that he "refused to be called Tuesday 249-251 the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing Wednesday 252.254 (Continued from page 1) rather to suffer affliction with the people Thursday 254.256 of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin Friday 256.259 tine duties of a nonmedical nature. It for a season." Sabbath 259.261 , seems that in answer to his prayer the But you say, Who would want to be- Lord fulfilled His promise that "it shall come the adopted son of an Egyptian THINK ON THESE THINGS be given you in that same hour what ye woman even though she had rescued him shall speak." At first the colonel was when a baby? Let us not forget that this "They were humble and unlearned quite disturbed to think that the young adoption was more of a political pro- men, those fishers of Galilee; but doctor would even hesitate to accept his cedure than a gesture of affection. The Christ, the light of the world, was new appointment, but when he saw that adoption would have made Moses eligi- abundantly able to qualify them for the youth would rather forgo the pro- ble to be the next king of Egypt—at that the position for which He had chosen motion than violate his conscience, he time the greatest nation on earth. So the them. The Saviour did not despise made arrangements to release him from choice that he made involved refusing the education; for when controlled by the the assignment. best that the world could offer in posi- love of God, and devoted to His serv- Of course it was hard to go back to tion and influence and wealth. In other ice, intellectual culture is a blessing. the same type of work that he had been words, Moses turned down more oppor- But He passed by the wise men of His doing, with no prospects of promotion ; tunities for personal gain than you and I time, because they were so self-confi- it was hard to meet the criticism of offi- would probably ever have a chance to dent that they could not sympathize cers who could not understand how the turn down. And he did it emphatically with suffering humanity, and become dictates of conscience could take prece- —he "refused." colaborers with the Man of Nazareth." "Refused" is a strong word. The text —"The Desire of Ages," p. 249. could have said that Moses preferred not or declined to be called the son of Pha- "Jesus sought to break the spell of raoh's daughter. Such words would have infatuation which keeps men absorbed implied a more gentle objection. But in earthly things. He placed the things the use of the word "refused" implies an of this life in their true relation, as sub- emphatic, active decision to be carried ordinate to those of eternal interest; out regardless of consequences. It is the but He did not ignore their importance. only word which adequately describes He taught that heaven and earth are the proper attitude of the Christian to- linked together, and that a knowledge ward possibilities which are inconsistent of divine truth prepares men better to with the principles of the word of God. perform the duties of everyday life."— The text also tells us how Moses de- Id., pp. 253, 254. veloped the courage necessary to turn his "The means by which we can over- back on all that the world could offer come the wicked one is that by which "AND every virtue we possess, and humbly cast his lot with God's pe- Christ overcame,—the power of the And every victory won, culiar people. It tells us that it was "by word. God does not control our minds And every thought of holiness, faith ; . . . for he had respect unto the without our consent; but if we desire Are His alone." recompense of the reward." From this to know and to do His will, His prom- we understand that he looked far into the ises are ours: 'Ye shall know the truth, "PRAYER is the radio of the universe." future before making the decision to re- and the truth shall make you free.' "— "OPPORTUNITIES, like clouds, pass fuse the throne of Egypt. And by way of Id., p. 258. away." this imaginary preview of his own life, he realized that the pleasures and honors "IF you cannot do great things, you that would be attendant upon his ascend- can do small things in a great way." ing the Egyptian throne would be limited to the span of his earthly life, whereas if Answers to Current Events "I ONCE complained that I had no he chose to humbly cast his lot "with the Quiz shoes ; then I met a man who had no people of God," his reward, although it feet." would be postponed until he had entered 1. The island comprising England, heaven, would so far exceed anything Scotland, and Wales; and Iceland. "WHILE praying to be delivered from that this world could offer as to make 2. It comes from the Indian words temptation do not peep at it through your the throne of Egypt appear undesirable. "ossine ossine," which mean "stone upon fingers." If you and I would do as Moses did stone." "MEN who try to do something and and adopt the practice of looking into 3. "I pledge allegiance to the flag of fail are infinitely better than those who the future each time before we make a the United States of America, and to the try to do nothing and succeed." decision, we would be kept from making Republic for which it stands, one nation, many mistakes. This would be true espe- indivisible, with liberty and justice for "HE who cannot forgive others breaks pecially if we were to look as far ahead all." The pledge was written by Francis the bridge over which he himself must as Moses did—even as far as eternity. M. Bellamy in 1892. pass, for every man hath need to be At best the attractions of the world last 4. True. forgiven." only "for a season," but in heaven there 5. Lake Ladoga. will be no time limits. "There . . . the 6. Texas. NATIONS have no existence apart from grandest enterprises will be carried for- 7. Anton Dvorak (1841-1904). their people. If every person in the ward, the loftiest aspirations will be 8. "All men are created equal ;" "life, world loved peace, every nation would reached, the highest ambitions realized. liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." love peace. If all men refused to fight And still there will arise new heights to 9. Quinine. one another, nations could not fight one surmount, new wonders to admire, new 10. Because the Secretary of the Treas- another.—J. Sherman Wallace. truths to comprehend, fresh objects to ury by law is forbidden to own or to sell call forth the powers of body and mind any Government securities. GOD grant that I may live upon this and soul." 11. A victory which costs too much. earth If we would allow our imaginations to 12. In the East, according to legend, And face the tasks which every morning dwell more on the rewards of eternal princes who wished to accomplish the brings, life, the pleasures and rewards of this ruin of some person sent him a white And never lose the glory and the worth present life would fade into such insig- elephant, which was expensive to keep, Of humble service and the simple things. nificance that we, too, would "refuse" useless, and, since it was sacred, could —Edgar A. Guest. them gladly. not be destroyed or given away. MARCH 3, 1942 PAGE 13 12. How does John the revelator describe 5. How did the people of Athens spend these people? Rev. 14:1-5. their time? Verse 21. 13. What does the apostle Paul say of the 6. How did Paul begin his sermon on purfied church? Eph. 5:27. Mars' Hill? Verse 22. SABBATH SCHOOL 14. With what will the redeemed be clothed at the marriage supper of the Lamb? Rev. NOTE.-This text is sometimes translated 19:8. to read, "Bear witness to your carefulness in religion." The thought seems to be, not LESSONS NOTE.-"May we all have on the wedding that the Athenians were more superstitious garment, 'the fine linen, clean and white,' than others or had too much religion, but the garment of righteousness which is that their devotions were bestowed upon without 'spot, or wrinkle, or any such too many objects. thing.' Now is the time to let Jesus take SENIOR YOUTH away the filthy rags of our sins and clothe 7. What inscription had he noticed? What us with a change of raiment. Christ must use did he make of it? Verse 23. not only be on us as a robe, but in us as a NOTE. -The people sacrificed to gods to XI-The Gathering of the Remnant life."-"Bible Lessons," Peck, pp. 483, 484. keep them from sending trouble upon them. They built altars to all the gods known ( March 14 ) among them, and then, fearing that some JUNIOR deity might punish them for neglecting : Isaiah 42 :4. his worship, they erected still another MEMORY VERSE altar to any god of whom they might not LESSON HELP : "The Desire of Ages," XI-Paul at Athens know. pp. 818-828. ( March 14 ) 8. Who is the God they did not know? THE LESSON Of what is He the Lord? Where does He LESSON SCRIPTURE : Acts 17 :16-34. not dwell? Verse 24. 1. Who are included in Christ's commission MEMORY VERSE : "He giveth to all life, NOTE.-In the Bible the true God is set to proclaim the gospel to all the world? and breath, and all things." Acts 17 :25. forth as the Creator of the heavens and Matt. 28:18-20. LESSON HELP : "Acts of the Apostles," the earth, in contrast to the false gods NOTE.-"The Saviour's commission to pp. 233-242. who created nothing. (See Jer. 1 o :to-t2.) the disciples included all the believers. It "It was death for any private person to includes all believers in Christ to the end PLACES : City of Athens-the market, and disturb the religion of the state by the of time. It is a fatal mistake to suppose Mars' Hill. introduction of any foreign god that had that the work of saving souls depends PERSONS : Paul and the Jews and devout not been publicly recognized. But how alone on the ordained minister. All to persons; Greek philosophers; Dionysius admirably does Paul avail himself of the whom the heavenly inspiration has come, the Areopagite; a woman named Damaris. inscription on the altar! Who could accuse are put in trust with the gospel. All who him of innovation, when he only expounded receive the life of Christ are ordained to Setting of the Lesson to the Athenians the attributes of the God work for the salvation of their fellow men. whom they unknowingly worshiped ?"- Paul had been driven from Berea by the Lewin. For this work the church was established, Jews who opposed his work at Thessalonica. and all who take upon themselves its sacred He was conducted by friends to Athens, 9. Why does the true God. need nothing vows are thereby pledged to be co-workers one of the most renowned cities in the that we can give? What does He give to with Christ."-"The Desire of Ages," p. world. It is said that Athens contained all? Verse 25. 822. more than three thousand public statues, 10. How did Paul make known the great truth that all men are brothers? What has 2. What is the nature of the work that the the majority of which were of heathen gods. God determined? Verse 26. followers of Jesus will do? Matt. 10:16-20. In one street there stood before every house a square pillar, upon the top of which 11. What should this lead all to do? What 3. In Christ's day what did He say regard- is said of the Father's nearness to us? ing the great need of the world? Matt. 9: was a statue of the god Hermes, regarded Verse 27. 36-38. as the herald, or messenger, of the gods. Every gateway and every porch carried its 12. How dependent are we upon God? NOTE.-"Today the same needs exist. What quotation did Paul give from a Grecian protecting god. A Roman poet sarcas- poet? Verse 28. The world is in need of workers who will tically said, "In Athens it is easier to find labor as Christ did for the suffering and gods than men." 13. Why can no idol be a god? Verse 29. the sinful. There is indeed a multitude NOTE.-Children generally take the form to be reached. The world is full of sick- QUESTIONS and the features of their parents. So Paul ness, suffering, distress, and sin. It is full argued that if we are the children of God, of those who need to be ministered unto,- 1. While Paul waited in the city of Athens it is plainly to be seen that He is not the weak, the helpless, the ignorant, the for Silas and Timothy, what stirred his made of gold, silver, or marble, as are degraded."-"Testimonies," Vol. VI, p. spirit? Acts 17:16. images formed by men's hands. 254. 2. Where did he begin his labors in the 14. What did Paul say of this time of 4. What definite statement did He make city? In what other place did he teach? ignorance? But what are all now commanded concerning His own work? John 4:34. Verse 17. to do? Verse 30. God winks at ignorance in the NOTE.-"Christ counted no sacrifice too NOTE.-As was his custom, Paul began NOTE- great, no toil too hard, in order to accom- to preach in the synagogues on the Sabbath. sense that He overlooks it, unless it is plish the work which He came to do. At Then he went into the market place and willful ignorance. He is so loving and the age of twelve He said, 'Wist ye not talked with any who were willing to listen. merciful that He bears with the sins of that I must be about My Father's business?' The market was the busy central square of men while He tries to send them the light He had heard the call, and had taken up the city. Around it were grouped the which would turn them away from their the work. 'My meat,' He said, 'is to do public buildings, shops, and bazaars. sins. the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish "Within the square beat the heart of the 15. What is one reason why all should His work.' city." repent? What assurance is given to all? "Thus we are to serve God. He only Verse 31. philosophers did serves who acts up to the highest standard 3. What he meet? What As soon as Paul spoke of the resurrec- did some lightly ask? What did others say? 16. of obedience. All who would be sons and Why did they think this? Verse 18. tion, what did some do? What did others daughters of God must prove themselves say? Verse 32. co-workers with God and Christ and the NOTE.-The Epicureans were disciples of 17. Believing that it was useless to work heavenly angels. This is the test for every Epicurus, a famous teacher. They be- for the people of Athens, what did Paul do? soul."-"Christ's Object Lessons," pp. 282, lieved that pleasure was the true object Name some who believed. Verses 33, 34. 283. of life, and their chief joy was to indulge the senses and the appetite. 5. When there is great spiritual darkness The Stoics were indifferent alike to pain in the world, what are God's people to do? and pleasure. They believed that the su- Isa. 60:1-5. preme good was attained in living virtu- 6. Through the prophet Ezekiel, wkere does ously and in accordance with what they God say His flock is scattered? Eze. 34:6. thought was in harmony with reason and INSTRUCTOR 7. What interest does God have in His nature. A man who thus lived was con- sheep? Verses 11-13. sidered perfect. Issued by 8. How will God provide for His lost sheep? Review and Herald Publishing Association Who are this flock? Verses 14-16, 31. 4. To what place did these philosophers Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. take Paul? What did they say to him? 9. How definitely does God express His de- LORA E. CLEMENT termination to see the gospel work finished? Verses 19, 20. EDITOR Isa. 42:4. NOTE.-On the summit of the rugged, ASSOCIATE EDITORS Norm-Through the ministry of His stony hill of Areopagus was a temple of C. L. BOND S. A. WELLMAN Holy Spirit, of His word, and of heavenly Mars, the god of war, and the hilltop was J. E. WEAVER FREDERICK LEE angels, as well as through human instru- the meeting place of the Athenian Council, This paper does not pay for unsolicited ma- mentalities, Christ will continue the work which investigated all new teaching. terial. 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O LocusT swarms have appeared in the tankers the twelve-day round trip around Middle East because last winter was par- Nova Scotia and down the St. Lawrence O SWIVEL chairs top a list of office haz- ticularly suitable for them, and because River. ards released by the Virginia State the war made it impossible to take the usual precautions against them. O THE use of flimsier cartons for ship- Health Department. The report pointed ping—the result of defense restrictions out that office workers would move O SEA water contains about 50 known in material—is giving rail and truck lines about more while at work if they were elements. a major headache. They estimate that not satisfied with the comfort of swivel the fragile packaging may result in a chairs. doubling, or even tripling, of damage claims. O ORANGE juice is a standard food for infants and children, but is too costly O UNION SQUARE, in the heart of San for many family budgets, particularly .0fIgfET(sm Francisco, has been dug up by a non- if there are several who need it. Dr. profit corporation organized by business W. Catel of Leipzig, Germany, announces 1Evenala and professional men, to provide a the successful use of potato juice as a four-floor-deep garage to house 1,700 substitute. automobiles, the world's largest under- ground garage. O THE "big worry" of automobile manu- facturers is not over the prospective 20 O THE General Hospital in Los Angeles, or 40 per cent cut in production which said to be the world's largest, has re- is being suggested, but over chances of 1. What are the two largest islands of placed all chinaware with fiber dishes. getting enough zinc, aluminum, magne- Europe? It is claimed that the cost of fiber dishes sium, steel, etc., for making the cars for feeding 3,000 patients and the staff is called for within the restricted schedule. 2. Sing Sing is New York's famous less than two cents a meal, much lower prison. What does "sing sing" mean? than the cost of crockery breakage. • CAODAISM is a combination religion. 3. Can you recite the full pledge of alle- Its leaders not only include in its worship giance to the flag as given in the United O A PRICE ceiling on automobile tires Buddha, Confucius, Laotsze, and Jesus States? was recently fixed. Nearly 60,000,000 Christ, but have taken quotations from tires are sold in the United States every many religious books, including the 4. Is this statement true or false: "Japan year. They are valued at more than Bible, to make up their liturgy, and there is the only country in the world which, $450,000,000. Of this country's annual is a strong spiritistic element in their cult. within recorded history, has never been imports of 675,000 tons of crude rubber, subjugated by foreign conquerors"? some 80 per cent goes into tires. O THE soldier in the American Army 5. Within recent months fighting has today is getting twice as much milk as been raging around the waters of Europe's O ONE day several weeks ago an aviator his World War predecessor, for his ra- largest lake. What is it called? rose in England, breakfasted at the new tions include one pint of milk daily. This air field, flew with a number of brother is divided equally between milk served 6. Which State—Louisiana, Oklahoma, "ferry pilots" to Canada, had lunch here, in natural form and milk served in cook- Texas, or California—is the leading pro- flew an American-made bomber back to ed foods or in processed foods such as ducer of crude petroleum in the United England, and arrived in time for a late cheese. States? dinner—all in 191/2 hours. 7. Music lovers recently marked the O A BLIND man, fifty-eight-year-old 100th anniversary of a Bohemian composer O WHAT is the most universally used George J. Harter, has been elected mayor who often used American themes in his plant that grows? It is the bamboo. of Akron, Ohio. The Democratic State works. What was his name? There is not a category of human needs legislator entered politics after becoming which cannot be supplied by some form blind ten years ago. Mr. Harter was 8. Fill in the blanks in the following or product of bamboo, declares Dr. formerly a newspaper managing editor, quotation from the Declaration of Inde- William M. Porterfield of the U. S. Soil and blames his blindness on "long hours pendence: "We hold these truths to be Conservation Service. Food, weapons, of copy reading." His wife has been his self-evident, that —, that they are en- shelter, baskets and containers, bridges, "eyes" since he lost his sight. He was dowed by their Creator with certain inalien- conduction pipes, paper, cable, ornaments, first elected to the State legislature in able rights, that among these are —." and many very specialized articles are 1932, a year after he became blind. 9. The United States depends on the among the things made from it. Netherlands East Indies for its supply of O NORMAN W. TRADD, assistant physical- , a bitter white crystalline substance O INDUSTRIAL workers have discovered education director of Harvard Univer- which is the specific drug used in the treat- that night-flying insects, including the sity, is starting classes which will give ment of malaria. Fill in the blank with the mosquito, are color-conscious. If you every student an opportunity for body- drug's name. use an orange-yellow light bulb on your building exercises, and will give him a unscreened porch at night, you will not fine physical bearing instead of the round 10. United States Secretary of the Treas- be bothered by insects nearly as much as shoulders and forward carriage of the ury Henry Morgenthau has purchased no if the light is bluish. The insects are head of the average student who receives defense bonds or stamps. Why is this? most attracted by a bright-blue light, his diploma. It is promised that these 11. What is a "Pyrrhic victory"? and least attracted by red lights. To. courses of training will prevent "the determine this, investigators carried on bulging curves common to many middle- 12. How did the white elephant become experiments by stringing up colored bulbs aged persons." a symbol of things large and useless? to which insect traps were attached. PAGE 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR