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Walking Alone Railroading

Bible Lesson for October 6 WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS

RAILROADING The Royal Gorge, in Colo- rado, shown in the cover photo, illustrates one of the reasons that railroading has held such fascination for so many over the years. This spectacular scene should be enjoyed along with Edward Geary's first installment on railroading in the Hobby section. Photo, courtesy of the Denver and Rio Grande West- ern Railroad.

TERMINAL The picture accompanying our editorial shows a portion of the railway ter- minal in Tokyo, Japan. It was in such a place that the event recorded in the editorial took place. Raymond S. Moore, formerly pres- ident of Japan Missionary College, is now president of Philippine Union College. A GILLIAMS SERVICE thumbnail biography of Mr. Moore appeared in this column in the February 16, 1954, issue.

SERGEANT Top sergeants do not always Who Is Leading You ? carry top ratings among the soldiers who have had to serve under them. How one By RAYMOND S. MOORE such noncom demonstrated his own brand of behavior makes good reading next week in Bill Templeton's "Top Sergeant." Watch We have been given the most solemn responsibility too for such titles as "The Day of the Earth- ever committed to created beings—leading the one fallen world quake," "Hungriest Man," "Special Exam- back into the fraternity of heaven. Yet, while leaders all, our ination," and "Fifteen Minutes From the vision in these dangerous times is such that we must never trust Remnant Church." our own eyes, but ever keep our hands in the hand of God— AUSTRALIA "Yes" votes continue to come powerful, ever-present, but so often in vanity refused! in for the occasional long story complete in Recently at central Japan's Chiba station I was watching a one issue. Our last checkup showed between storybook mixture of shoppers, commuters, newspaper hawkers, eight and nine hundred replies. A letter from and just plain loafers when there emerged two high-stepping M. Murdoch, of Australasian Missionary Col- boys, one leading the other. Heads up, proud, they made their lege, Cooranbong, N.S.W., Australia, was on practiced way toward the station turnstiles and the waiting 5:15 a letterhead of Young Ladies' Hall. It car- express. ried the names of fifty-three girls. These were only a few the author found time to secure They walked, posture rigid, the hand of one secured tightly before sending the message, "Our vote is on the other's arm. It looked as if they knew where they were Yes." "We all eagerly look forward to re- going and confidently expected to get there—until suddenly the ceiving our copies of this valuable magazine," follower, misled, thudded into a concrete pillar, then against the she wrote, "and believe it contains wonder- turnstile. Made curious by these antics, I stepped ahead fast to ful instruction and guidance for the youth see why. of today." My brazen heart melted into a well of sympathy. The leader's TENNESSEE Another letter from a girl's res- eyes were frosted windows, painted with heavy, white cataracts. idence hall came from Highland Academy at His trusting friend had but deep, vacant sockets—no eyes at all. Fountain Head, Tennessee. Dean of Girls The blind was leading the blind! Vivian L. Johnson wrote: "I am enjoying so My proffered hand was refused. They knew their way—they much the story by Virginia I. Shull, "Life thought. But what unnecessary risks they were taking on that Certificate" [July 17 through August 21, station platform, the kind that oftentimes has witnessed tragedies 1956]. It is so vivid and colorful, giving a history of our educational work, with so many in Japan. helps for all of us. Have been reading THE As I turned away the thought overwhelmed me, "You, too, YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR every week for many are leading others. But who is leading you?" years. It never grows old and helps to keep us all young. My girls in the dormitory look forward to reading THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR every Friday evening."

THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Vol. 104, No. 39 September 25, 1956

WALTER T. CRANDALL Writers' original contributions, both prose and poetry, are always welcome and receive careful evaluation. The material Editor should be typewritten, double spaced, and return postage should accompany each manuscript. Queries to the editor on Associate Editor FREDERICK LEE the suitability of proposed articles will receive prompt attention. Do not submit fiction. Action pictures rather than portraits are desired with manuscripts. Black and white prints or color transparencies are usable. Assistant Editor DON YOST Published by the Seventh-day Adventists. Printed every Tuesday by the Review and Herald Publishing Assn., at Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C., U.S.A. Entered as second-class matter August 14, 1903, at the post office at Washington, D.C., Consulting Editors under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1956, Review and Herald Publishing Assn., Washington 12, D.C. GEORGE W. CHAMBERS, RICHARD HAMMILL Subscription rates: one year, $5.25; two years, $9.50; six months, $2.75; in clubs of three or more, one year, each $4.25; THEODORE LUCAS, E. LENNARD MINCHIN six months, $2.25. Foreign countries where extra postage is required: one year, $5.75; six months, $3.00; in clubs of three L. L. MoFFITT or more, one year, each $4.75; six months, $2.50. Monthly color edition, available overseas only, one year, $1.50. The post office will not forward second-class matter even though you leave a forwarding address. Send both the old Circulation Manager R. J. CHRISTIAN and the new address to THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR before you move. 2 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR "Companion" and "together" are such beautiful words. both had to walk alone so long. He is the only Seventh-day Adventist in his home, too, you know." Almost twenty years later Ned and Selma, as their custom was, were reading the Review to each other. They had just finished an article on "The Glories of Walking Alone Heaven" when Selma quoted, " 'Happi- ness unalloyed!' " then added, "We'll know what that means over there. It seems that here even the sunniest day has some clouds. Haven't you noticed that By HELENE SUCHE WOLLSCHLAEGER often even our moments of greatest happi- ness are shadowed by some disappoint- ment or trial?" "There is one great happiness in my S YOUR fiance a Seventh-day Ad- out my portion before she seasoned the life that has never been shadowed by any ventist?" rest, and occasionally she even cooked disappointment," Ned answered emphati- "Why, Pastor Harris!" exclaimed special dishes for me. My parents were cally, "and that is the happiness of living 0 Selma. "Do you think I would very kind, and my sisters and brothers with the wife God gave me." wait this long to get married and then never criticized or ridiculed my religion. A wave of gratitude surged over Selma's take a man who isn't?" But even so, it was not easy to live in a heart. Home seemed more precious than "I hoped you would not," the pastor divided home, all the more so because I ever before. How sweet and peaceful her answered, "but I wanted to be sure. When realized that I was the cause of its divi- life had been compared, for instance, people fall in love, they sometimes forget sion. with Wanda's. all about Paul's injunction not to be un- "After years of this experience, do you They had known Wanda only a short equally yoked, and Ellen G. White's think I need a written warning? Don't time. In a roundabout way they had heard warning about a home 'where the shad- you think that just plain common sense that a Seventh-day Adventist had moved ows are never lifted.' " would tell me not to jump from the fry- to town, and after some searching they "So far as I am concerned," Selma ing pan into the fire?" had found her and invited her to come to replied, "these warnings need never have "I am glad you see the matter so Sabbath school with her three little chil- been written." clearly," Pastor Harris responded. dren. During subsequent visits they had "Why, what do you mean?" "I do," Selma said emphatically. prayed with her, urged her to study her "I was a college freshman when I " 'Companion' and 'together' are such Bible, and suggested that she conduct joined the remnant church," Selma be- lovely words. I believe Ned and I will family worship with the children after her gan, "and I suppose I liked the boys appreciate them all the more because we husband left for work. But always there about as well as the average girl of my age. But the rest of my family did not ac- cept the third angel's message. So I soon learned what it was like to have family worship alone. Many times I wrapped myself up in a blanket while I sang, studied, and prayed in a cold room be- cause others would be eating, dressing, or working in those that were heated. "I knew what it was to say No when my parents or sisters went to dances and urged me to go along. Not that the dancing tempted me, but I hated to be so contrary. I disliked to see Papa leave alone for the music club meetings we had formerly attended together. Although he never invited me again after I ex- plained to him that I could not go on Friday nights, the wistfulness in his eyes and voice hurt me when he stopped be- side my chair to say good-by. "I learned to concentrate my mind on a chapter in the Bible or the Testimonies while others around the table were read- ing and discussing the newspapers and magazines. I found out that it takes courage to kneel by your bedside when your bedfellow crawls in and out without this little formality. And three times a day I had to pick enough to satisfy my hearty appetite from among the foods that were not seasoned with pork or fried in bacon grease. "Don't misunderstand me, or get a EWING GALLOWAY wrong impression. Mother cooperated in Because he did not quite approve of her religion, she dreaded argument and feared criticism. Even every way. Whenever possible, she took a casual observer could not help seeing that Wanda was the helpless victim of circumstances. SEPTEMBER 25, 1956

was some excuse. The oldest one had school, had received all her education "We must pray for her," Selma told started to school, and she had to get him under Christian teachers. "Be ye not" was her husband, "and help her all we can. off in the morning. Her husband was a in its rightful place in her Bible, and right Blaming her for past mistakes will not salesman and needed the car. His hours there in the Testimonies on the library remedy the situation now. She needs our of work were irregular, and there was no shelf were the words "home where the sympathy and all the encouragement we fixed schedule for meals, or anything else shadows are never lifted." can give." for that matter. He did not exactly ap- But while she was still in her teens Then looking fondly at her husband, prove of her religion; she dreaded argu- Wanda fell in love. In quick succession she she added, "I am glad that we waited ment and feared criticism. Even a casual also fell into marriage, a divided home, until we found each other. 'Companion' observer could not help seeing that Wanda hindrances to church attendance, paren- and 'together' are such beautiful words. was the helpless victim of unpleasant cir- tal responsibilities, lukewarmness, discour- Poor Wanda, she has never tasted their cumstances. agement. sweetness. Walking alone when you are And yet she had no one but herself to "I haven't given up entirely though," single may seem a bit lonesome at times. blame. She had known Bible truth all she stoutly maintained. "I still claim to But what is that in comparison with her life, had grown up attending Sabbath be a Seventh-day Adventist." walking alone when you are married?"

skill is lowered, and you are likely to have more accidents with low blood sugar. Symptoms appear to be more severe when the blood sugar makes a rapid drop pt..afeyt to a low level. Even though you eat break- fast, if it consists mostly of carbohydrates you may still get symptoms of hypogly- c awder.,,ea ccmia. Carbohydrates produce a rapid rise in the blood sugar level, which is followed by a rapid fall. It is important to eat foods that contain plenty of protein along with the carbohydrates. The protein is digested and absorbed more slowly, Hearty Breakfasts preventing this rapid rise and fall. It is normal for the blood sugar level to be somewhat low on arising in the morn- Health subjects of general interest will be discussed in this twice-monthly department. ing. If you do not eat to replenish the There will be no diagnosis or treatment of disease by mail, and no letters will be answered blood with sugar, it continues to drop until hypoglycemic symptoms develop. personally. If you would like to suggest a subject for discussion, you may send your sug- These usually appear in the midmorning gestion to Dr. Saxon, The Youth's Instructor, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. and progress until relieved by eating. But you say, "I'm not hungry in the morning!" This is not too surprising if you follow the fashion of eating a fairly R. SMITH, I feel so nervous and because their parents usually expect them large evening meal. You will have no tired that I can't concentrate on to get their own meal. trouble eating a hearty breakfast if you D my school lessons." A special study done recently with stu- take a light supper or no food at all in the "Do you feel this way through dents in their teens shows conclusively evening. Eliminating the evening meal the entire day, John?" that they are making a big mistake when entirely may make you sleep better, and "No, it seems to be mostly in the morn- they skip breakfast. In this experiment feel more rested on awakening. It will ing and becomes worse one or two hours students who habitually missed their also help keep your weight under control. before dinner. I always feel much better morning meal made lower grades than Actually you will feel better the entire day after eating." those who had a good breakfast. In fact if you make breakfast your largest meal. the difference was frequently as much as a Your stomach is in better condition to "What do you eat for breakfast?" whole grade level. When those who omit- digest more food after a good night's "I'm usually in such a hurry to get to ted breakfast began to eat a hearty morn- rest. class, Dr. Smith, that I seldom eat break- ing meal nearly all of them raised their Why not decide today to start eating a fast." grades one whole level, and some im- balanced breakfast of milk, cereal, bread, "It sounds to me, John, as if you may proved two grade levels. This means and fruit in varied amounts? Then you be having difficulty with low blood sugar skipping a good breakfast can keep you in can be certain that a low blood sugar is or what we call hypoglycemia. Let's run the "C" class when you should really be not robbing you of the physical and men- a few blood sugar tests, and then we can in the "B" or "A" class in your school- tal efficiency you need to do your best. be certain." work. You will also discover that a hearty break- Many people develop hypoglycemia Hypoglycemia not only affects your fast every day will take you through your from the lack of a good morning meal. ability to do brain work, but it also makes teens with pep and energy to spare. This condition occurs in all age groups, you feel miserable physically. It can cause though it is usually more severe in chil- you to be chronically tired, and you may dren and teen-agers. It seems that young have many types of aches and pains. people in their teens are more prone to Headaches, dizzy spells, nervousness neglect eating a good breakfast, because with marked irritability, frequently oc- they are anxious to be on their way, and cur. Other tests show that your motor JACKSON A. SAXON, M.D. 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR UR family had moved to 4 com- munity south of Los Angeles O and were eager to stay in good standing with the neighbors. Thinking that perhaps it would be best not to mention our religion until we knew them better, we decided to remain silent. Little But not little Billy. The first morning, after the last of the things had been unpacked and we settled down to our breakfast, Billy was talking with the neighbor next door. She was friendly, and when he spoke to her, she listened interestedly. MISSIONARY "We are Adventists!" we heard him almost shout. "Oh?" the woman moved the water hose to her left hand and glanced up. By T. A. TUCKER "Uh-huh," he nodded enthusiastically. "My Sabbath school teacher said that we can all be missionaries," he added, smil- ing a little now and squinting against the bright sunshine. "So since we moved here I—" he paused. "That's what I'm smiled at him, patted him lightly on the She seated herself, and then continued: now—a little missionary!" shoulder. "Well, I'll sure think it over, "Well, he was talking to me the other day, and he said that you folks were Advent- The woman smiled kindly. Billy." He grinned back at her and dashed off. ists. Seventh-day Adventists. I was just Billy, encouraged to continue, added: wondering. I have a sister-in-law who is "We go to church on Saturday 'stead of She returned to her watering and we ate in silence. an Adventist." She smiled. "You are Ad- Sunday, and we believe in the second ventists?" coming of Christ too." The following day in the afternoon, Billy was talking to another neighbor. I "Oh, yes. Billy attended Sabbath school "You do?" she asked. "Are you those in the town we moved from, and ap- people that—" her voice trailed off didn't hear what they said, but Billy ap- parently left the other neighbor interested parently the teacher has made him very and then she straightened a little: "Why enthusiastic about being a 'missionary.' I believe my brother—who's been East too. Friday afternoon the doorbell rang. "Well," she said. "I think that's won- for years—married an Adventist! I didn't derful! I mean—to see a little boy so It was the woman Billy had spoken to get to the wedding—never met the girl in eager to do so much good." my life. But I'm pretty sure she's just like on the first day. you folks—an Adventist." As it turned out, the woman wanted "Hello, I'm Mrs. Mons from next door. to visit our church the following Sabbath. Billy smiled. "You want to come to Your son Billy—he was talking to me the church with us next Sabbath?" other day—" After several weeks, another neighbor —this time a man—turned up with a I invited her in. "Well, I—" she frowned a little, then similar interest. He too is now attending church regularly. Though it may be that Billy's words will not make them Adventists, I'm quite certain that they lighted the spark of interest in their hearts that is so impor- tant. I was thinking what a shame it is that we, as adults, cannot take a more active part in our church. Certainly we believe its teachings; we honestly plan on the Lord's second coming; we all want to be good mem- bers, and plan on our life in heaven; but all too often we are, as the Bible has pointed out, lukewarm. It seems to me if we could take another glance at the teachings in the Bible, think a little more about Christ's coming, we'd be out spreading the word to our friends. When we moved to this new neighbor- hood, we were a littly shy and extremely careful about saying anything about our religion. We didn't want to be dubbed "those funny people." But how much better it would be to be

H. A. IMBFRTS "funny people" and have kindled a spark Squinting at the bright sunshine, Billy was smiling and talking to another neighbor the next day. of interest in others, than to be "fine Although I didn't hear what they said, I knew that apparently Billy had interested this one too. people" and have failed our Lord!

SEPTEMBER 25, 1956 nary friend. Apparently my expression was satisfying, for in soft, sincere tones he told me of the doings of the Indian boy. Little John Deer• Foot was having On Wings of Cheer trouble with Old Charley the bear. Old Charley didn't want to go to bed. Like many children he was using every excuse he could to stay up, Hi-Bub revealed seriously. Every day it was the same By SAM CAMPBELL thing. Little John would say to him, "Charley, you mutht go to thleep." Then Old Charley would say, "I'm thirthty. I'll go to the creek and get a drink, then Chapter VII I'll go to thleep." Old Charley would be gone so long the Indian boy would have to go after him. Maybe he would find the A LECTURE FOR TONY bear miles away, trying to get in a cabin. On the side, Hi-Bub's daddy told me that very thing was happening. Old Charley was not in hibernation as yet, and almost every day some new kind of bear capers were reported, all of which were charged to him. During the lecture Hi-Bub and his daddy sat in the front row. I could hear the boy laughing at the scenes and mak- ing his own comments. In the midst of the lecture the film broke. "I 'thpect Old T WAS early December when our I turned around and there stood Hi- Charley did that," I heard him say. lecture schedule brought us back Bub in person! Beside him was his daddy, Afterward Hi-Bub stood right beside to a Wisconsin city. I had been and both of them looked at us as if they me until the usual conversation and U looking forward particularly to my expected us to faint with surprise. I comments were over. I could see there lecture in this town. There was a certain wasn't far from doing that very thing. was something special on his mind. Pre- sentiment attached to the place, for here For a moment I couldn't say a word. I sently it came out. we had first met Hi-Bub. He was just shook my head and rubbed my eyes in "Tham Cammel," he said. beginning his education then, and I gave bewilderment, while Hi-Bub let little "Yes, Hi-Bub," said I, bending down to a program at his grade school. I remem- giggles slip past the hand that partially his level. ber how his beaming face stood out amid covered his mouth. "Well—Tony couldn't come." all the hundreds who thronged the as- "Hi-Bub, Hi-Bub!" I finally burst out. "Tony couldn't come? Who in the sembly hall. There is a reason for such "You old lumberjack! You timber cruiser! world is Tony?" experiences. Our friendships in the You woodsman! You pioneer! You are "That is the little friend who wrote world are not accidental. Emerson, who the biggest surprise I ever saw. How did you were to be here," explained Hi-Bub's lived so close to the heart and purpose of this happen?" daddy. "The youngster is in a bad way. things, tells us it is "not for nothing one "Happen?" put in his daddy, casting a He is in bed and may have to remain face, one character, one fact, makes much wise look at his boy. "Whenever that there for a long time. It happened sud- impression on [us], another none." Our fellow wants anything, it always happens. denly. Pretty tough on him. What hurts lives had need of Hi-Bub's friendship, He's been planning this for a long time. him worst of all is that he can't see your pictures." and I like to believe he had need of ours. A friend of his here wrote him you were Now this city was more important to us coming. So I had to drive over two hun- "Tony feelth awful, Tham Cammel," because in it this blessing had begun. dred miles to bring him to your lecture!" added Hi-Bub, a distressed look in his My lecture was to be given in the audi- By this time Giny had her arms about eyes where joy was so natural. "He torium of a large church not far from the happy Hi-Bub. We were discourteous duthn't laugh any more." Hi-Bub's former school. We arrived early to our other friends, I fear, though I am "He is a sad little tyke," said the daddy. to see that the motion-picture equipment sure they understood. Hi-Bub was the "We saw him for a while today." was properly prepared. Among the first center of things for the moment. We "Yeth." Hi-Bub picked up the lead to enter the auditorium were some people plied him with questions. again. "An' hith mom theth he mutht who knew and loved the northwoods. The lecture was late starting that night laugh and be happy if he want-th to be Giny and I were soon in earnest conversa- because our conversation was not finished well. But he duthn't. He jutht lie-th th-till tion with them. We talked enthusiasti- in time. We sat at one side of the audito- and lookth thad." cally about certain lakes, streams and rium hearing about Hobo, the new dog, "That's too bad," I said sympatheti- wooded areas we all knew. the cats, the rabbit, school and many cally. "Couldn't you make him happy, In the midst of this conversation I other important things. Hobo was a Hi-Bub? You are so happy yourself." heard, or thought I did, a thin voice say, "thwell dog," we were informed. He "No," said the boy, quite dejectedly. "Hello, Tham Cammel." Couldn't be, of didn't like to take a bath, but he took "I tried to be funny but I gueth I didn't course, so I kept on talking. one when he had to and then immediately do very well. He theth he duthn't feel "Hello, Tham Cammel," came the hunted up some dirt to roll in. He fol- like being happy. He wanted . . . " words again in such a strong tone that lowed Hi-Bub to school almost every day Hi-Bub hesitated and looked at me there was no doubt of their reality. and waited outside until school was over. with that appeal that, as his father says, "But how about Little John Deer always gets him what he wants. On Wings of Cheer: a Red-winged Blackbird Shares His Happy Heart, by Sam Campbell. Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Foot?" I asked. "I with he could have come tonight," Merrill Company, $2.50. Copyright, 1948, by the Bobbs- Hi-Bub shot a glance at me to see if I he added. Merrill Company. Serialization made from the special Seventh-day Adventist edition. was making sport of him and his 'magi- There was an idea developing in my 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR thought. "Hi-Bub," I said. "I wonder if kling my forehead. "You mean that you "What's Patty?" asked Tony, the first we can't do something for Tony to help had already planned this and made the full words he had said. him be happy." arrangements?" "He'th a woodchuck, Tony," said Hi- "What?" asked the boy, looking up "Yeth," exclaimed Hi-Bub. "I told Bub. "He'th tho funny. Look at 'im eat expectantly. Tony you would come. Thankth lot-th!" a carrot." "Well—you say he wanted to see my He went dancing away in high glee. "Uh-huh!" said Tony with increasing pictures. Now I have tomorrow morning I looked up understandingly at his interest. free. If you think Tony would like it, daddy. "Lookut, lookut!" shouted the excited suppose we take our pictures over and "You see what I mean?" he asked. Hi-Bub, grabbing Tony by the ear and show them to him right in his own room. "When that fellow sets his mind on some- jerking his head. "That'th Noothanth the We could arrange it so he would just sit thing, he gets it." red thquirrel. Watch him run out on that up in bed to see them. What do you rope. Lookut, he'th gonna fall off." Nuisance the red squirrel did fall off, think of that plan?" At promptly ten o'clock the next morn- a tiny tumble that hurt him not one bit, There was no question about what Hi- ing we were at Tony's house. His mother Bub thought of it. With a "Whe-e-e-e" he was expecting us all right, just as Hi- and yet accomplished a miracle. Tony laughed—a real, spontaneous, giggly ran over and threw his arms around me, Bub had said. "You are kind to come," his eyes again flashing happiness. she commented as she admitted us. "Hi- laugh. "That will be thwell!" he cried. "Tony Bub asked if it would be all right if you "An,' Tony, Tony!" ranted the irrepres- ith gonna be happy—he'th gonna laugh." did. There couldn't be anything better sible Hi-Bub. "Here come-th Cheer. "Yes, Hi-Bub," I said. "But first you for Tony. He has been discouraged, and He'th a thwell bird. Lookut hith wingth. must find out if it is the right thing to do. felt so bad when he couldn't go to your Lookut him th-trut." You must ask his mother if she wants us, program." By this time Tony wasn't missing a and if she does, what would be the best "Tony is going to be the smallest thing. He was leaning forward, not even time." audience I ever had," I said, "and maybe using the support of his pillows. His own "Oh, yeth—she want-th uth!" affirmed the greatest." thin little hand was raised again and Hi-Bub. "Th-he thed about ten o'clock." Tony proved to be a sad-looking little again as he pointed to things in the pic- tures. Repeatedly he laughed outright. "Now wait a minute," I said, wrin- fellow. He shook hands with me with- out comment, though For our part, we were watching the there was a look of inter- pictures but little. The two children be- est in his eyes. "Tony is fore us were our principal interest, tired of his bed," said his though we stole side glances at Tony's mother, as she braced him mother to see her wiping away sly tears up on pillows. "He's go- as Tony rose to the occasion. Hi-Bub's ing to get well and play daddy spent his time looking at his son again the way he used to with unrestrained pride. with Hi-Bub. But he must Hi-Bub had all admiration coming. I be very quiet for a while, know that I never have and never will and he must be—he sim- sway an audience as he did that day. ply must be happy and Tony was completely carried away. He cheerful." She flashed a forgot himself, forgot his confinement, meaningful glance at the forgot his discomfort and gave himself youngster, but Tony cer- up to natural joy. He was calling all the tainly didn't look happy. animals by name and watching excitedly We set up our equip- for each new stunt they did. ment, darkened the room When the film was finished and the and began to show the last scene had flickered off the screen, pictures. The audience Tony was laughing as loudly as Hi-Bub. consisted of Tony, his He even found the energy to engage in a mother, Hi-Bub and his brief boxing match with his former play- daddy, Giny and me. It mate. We had to interrupt this, however, wasn't long before I for Hi-Bub's enthusiasm knew no learned that I was simply bounds. He imagined that now that the the operator of the ma- laugh had come to Tony, there was noth- chine. Hi-Bub was the nar- ing left to do but dress him and start him rator. It was his show and in a football game. should be, for he knew "That was wonderful medicine for what had to be done. him," said his mother. "You have no idea how we've tried to awaken his spirit. "That'th Th-tubby the It seemed he didn't want to get well. chipmunk, Tony," he Now—well, if this will only last!" cried, pointing a stiff little finger. "Look at 'im, look "I have another idea," I said. "Tony, at 'im." did you like the pictures?" "Yes!" said Tony, in a way that left Tony did look at 'im. no doubt. His comment was a gasp. "Did you like the animals?" "There come-th Patty," "Yes!" exclaimed Hi-Bub. "Look at 'im. Look at 'im." "And did you like the woods?" Tony just looked his affirmative an- swer. "What do you suppose we would "Well, then," I continued, "here is my find up there in those hills?" idea. If you will keep happy and help

SEPTEMBER 25, 1956 7 yourself get well—if you will try to be "Yes, Hi-Bub." you love a lot, then everyone was a friend, like Cheer, the red-winged blackbird, and "Would you be comin' home at Chrith- for he had no notion that there could give out joy to everyone around you— muth?" be anyone he didn't love. then when you are strong enough, Giny "Oh, it would be fun to do that, Hi- "Yes, that is right, Hi-Bub," I said. I and I will invite you to come up and stay Bub," I exclaimed, "but I am afraid we searched for some way to pursue the with us so you can play with those ani- can't. You see, we wouldn't have any definition without destroying his admir- mals. That is, if your mother approves." place to stay." able attitude. "Friendliness is found every- There was no question that both "Couldn't you th-tay at the Thane- where when one keeps his heart right as mother and Tony highly approved. "Hi- tuary ?" asked Hi-Bub. He had practiced you do. But friends as we usually think of Bub told us of your generous offer," she a long time to say that last word. them are just a little different. Friends said. "I didn't know for sure that you "No, our cabin isn't built for winter. are people who are close to us." meant it, since we were strangers to you. We would be very cold there." I hadn't said anything convincing or But I am sure it gives Tony a reason to "Couldn't you th-tay with uth?" he important yet, and by the puzzled look be happy and to get well." on the lad's face I knew it. Trying to persisted. I looked at Hi-Bub. "You mean that shift the burden of explanation I suggested I laughed. "You know your cabin is Hi-Bub had already told you we wanted we look in the dictionary. It didn't help already filled with your family. I am Tony?" I asked. much, for its words were too cold. It afraid we would have to sleep with "Why, yes, he did—yesterday." just said, "One attached to another by Hobo." "Splendid!" I said, trying to save the esteem, respect, affection." Hi-Bub didn't situation. "Thank you, Hi-Bub." "He'th a thwell dog," commented Hi- care about that. While I read it, he I glanced over at his daddy. "You see Bub. fingered through an animal picture book what I mean?" said he. "Yes—but I think he wouldn't want us and didn't have to hear a word I said. I to crowd him. No, Hi-Bub I guess tried some poetic lines from a book of We stood beside our cars saying Giny and I can't get up there for Christ- quotations, but he still looked at animal good-by. Hi-Bub and his daddy would be mas, though we would like to, if our pictures. driving north to their home. We were cabin were the right kind." "Come on out in the woods, Hi-Bub," going south. We said our good-bys, promising to I said, rising and leading the way. "I "Tham Cammel," said Hi-Bub, who see one another in the spring. But there believe we can understand this friendship was trying to drag out the farewell as was a funny little look in Hi-Bub's eyes business there." long as possible. that Giny and I both noticed. He always wanted to go into the woods, so out we went. We followed the trail that circles the island, Hi-Bub carefully picking his steps so he made little noise. Chapter VIII Indians walked that way, he had been told, and he would too. DESIGN FOR CHRISTMAS—A LA HI-BUB "Now, see those hills in the distance?" I asked when we had reached the right point. BOUT a week later Giny and I re- Questions about chipmunks, skunks, red- He did. A ceived a very welcome letter. The backed mice, flowers, trees, and such "What do you suppose we would find postmark was our own home town, the things were expected and I had most up there among the trees?" handwriting that of a friend. answers ready. In response to the queries Well, he was sure there were deer What a wealth of heavenly good is of Hi-Bub I had delivered long disserta- there. There would be chipmunks, por- wrapped up in that one word friend. It tions on both the real and fanciful things cupines, squirrels, rabbits, woodchucks gets interwoven one way or another with of the world, but I had never before been and birds too. everything that is right and desirable in asked anything so challenging as to de- "Do you love them all, Hi-Bub?" life. fine a friend. In fact, I guess I had thought "Yeth." It is rather hard to define, though. I you didn't define one. You can be a "Even though you never saw those discovered that one day early in our ex- friend, or have one—but to get it into a particular animals, you love them any- perience with Hi-Bub. He had come to formula hadn't occurred to me. way?" the island for one of his visits that were "Well, Hi-Bub," I said stalling for time "Yeth," he said with a little emphasis then just assuming some degree of reg- and thought, "I guess we can say it this born of impatience. ularity. way: a friend is someone you love a lot." "That is right, you love them just the "Well, well—here is our little friend," He looked up very seriously, his little same as you love Stubby, or Nuisance, or I exclaimed by way of welcome, then forehead wrinkled and his eyes half closed. Patty. You love them all. But these ani- partly to myself I added, "There is no "But—ithn't that everyone?" he asked. mals on the island, you can play with— more beautiful adventure in life than just Now there is one that will stop you. they come up to you and you like to have the coming of a real, enduring friend." His new question was a revelation of his them around. The animals on our island, The statements did not escape Hi-Bub. unspoiled view of life. With him the then, are just the same as the others, only He was busy about the woods for a while vision was still clear that creation is na- they are not afraid of you. They come to greeting the creatures who had now turally good and lovable. He lived at that you for food and they make you laugh learned that his coming was the signal point in Scripture that declares, "God and be happy. Friends do things for one that a feast would begin. Presently he was created man in His own image . . . and another. So these island animals are your back at my side. God saw every thing that He had made, friends. Do you see?" "Tham Cammel," he said, in the tone and, behold, it was very good." He had Hi-Bub nodded his head, at the same and manner which always began a dis- not learned that people sometimes take time tugging at my hand. Illustrated with cussion of some sort. on themselves unnatural traits, and be- the ever-interesting parable of animals, "Yes." come dishonest, selfish and unfriendly. the definition of a friend was becoming "Wh-wh-what ith a friend?" If he was He had not learned that this race of man clear to him. Besides, the mere mention one of them, he wanted to know why and created in God's image had in error of his island pals excited him. "Let-th go what made him that way. separated itself into races, nationalities, and find a friend," he said with a laugh. I was taken aback for a moment. creeds and colors. If a friend was someone To page 20 8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR If we don't hurry, I'll need to be more than diplomatic to get you back in the dormitory on time!" On the short ride from Betty's home to the campus Jean managed to say, "Do you know what I'd like, Betty? I wish you would talk to Francene, the assistant dean; you admire her, and you'll find her easy to talk to, I know, and very helpful. Could you meet a tomorrow- noon appointment if I make one?" Betty assured her she could, and that was how she began to get a better un- derstanding of her strange little problem. She came to realize that she was a very normal sixteen-year-old girl, after all. Betty found Francene to be a wonder- ful Christian girl. They exchanged ideas for a while and then had prayer together for guidance that Betty might know and be willing to do God's will for her. This contact really set Betty to thinking, and she resolved to keep faithfully the prom- ise she had made as they rose from prayer. "Francene, for a few days, any- way, I am going to try it your way— maybe it's God's way too; I'm not just sure about that yet, I guess." For a while Betty remained true to her promise, and each morning at her first- period class, she was rewarded by Jean's happy smile of approval. Francene and I don't wear too much lipstick, just enough to help my looks a little. I think it's necessary. others lent their share of encouragement too, but still she was not convinced or convicted, and soon was using lipstick and rouge again with the ready excuse, "I think it is all right." The Sabbath before the spring Week of Prayer Betty met with a group to go Stupendous Trifles to the jail of a nearby town. They had just started when the dean of men, who was their sponsor, turned, looked straight at Betty, and said, "Betty, do you have make-up on?" By ALFREDA Y. W ALLEN Her head fell; she stammered help- lessly her old defense, but this time her little speech fell flat somehow. The dean's look, as well as his clear logic, exposed the pitiful flabbiness of her care- "TROUBLE is, Jean, est duckling or something to hear you fully constructed excuse. To make the dear, we weren't all talk!" matter worse the boys in the band teased born naturally pretty "No, but seriously," Betty protested, her the rest of the afternoon. Betty was and adorable like you!" "you don't need any more color; you al- hurt. The dean had seen her on the Betty gave her friend ways look attractive—so just right! I campus all year; why should he bring a teasing but affection- have to have just a little bit of lipstick this problem up now, of all times? she ate grin, then turned and rouge; and just a little bit isn't thought. back to her reflection wrong. I don't wear too much, just Sunday, the Week of Prayer began, and in the shining mirror enough to help my looks a little—if they one of the local conference ministers was above her dainty dress- can be helped." With an experienced in charge. Betty only half heard what he ing table. hand she applied the finishing touch and said, for there seemed to be an insur- "Now if that isn't a diplomatic, Betty- faced Jean again with a half-apologetic mountable wall between God and her. like way of getting around an issue!" laugh. "At least it covers some of my But what was it? Surely not her make-up, Jean chuckled as she made a comical freckles, and I think it is necessary." she thought. All week she sat in her face at her chum's reflection. "I'd sup- "But Betty, don't you believe even lit- chapel seat, turning, squirming, sighing, pose you think you are the world's ugli- tle things like make-up can become and sometimes crying. Jean, her chapel something of an idol, or at least a weight mate, leaned toward her many times to [The author was a freshman English student at South- western Junior College when this story was written. Not in one's Christian experience? Not to say whisper, "What is wrong? Is there some- only have four years of work in the registrar's office helped you aren't a Christian! But what do you thing I can do?" her meet the expenses of academy and college, but they have inspired her to plan on registrar's work as a career. think?" "Nothing. Leave me alone!" Her accounting experience may prevail, however, in guid- ing her toward a lifework. She has been a secretary and "Well, maybe—I guess," Betty said, Friday the still small voice seemed no vice-president of her student association; a teacher and then turning toward the clock she ex- longer still or small. Betty's restlessness secretary of the Sabbath school; a club and class secretary. When she has time, sewing and cooking are her hobbies.] claimed, "Oh, dear, look at that clock! intensified; maybe she shouldn't wear SEPTEMBER 25, 1956 9 any make-up; why should it seem so hard gether, he asked her how she had en- pose some other young person looks at to quit using it? Yet maybe that was joyed the Week of Prayer. Betty stalled me and says, "There's Betty; she's a good the spiritual wall between Christ and in answering him. Had he noticed dur- Christian and she wears make-up. Why her. Then she must tear it down. At ing the chapel hours that something was can't I?" Would I like that? Hardly. noon she confided her new determina- bothering her? Betty was never sure after- And once she starts she may not know tion to a close friend. There was an ward exactly what he said; she only where to stop. "Just a little more" leads awkward silence—not one word of en- knew that as they talked a veil was to still more, and lipstick isn't the stop- couragement. lifted. Though her problem surely could ping place. Poor Betty ate dinner in no conversa- not be said to fall in the field of mathe- Falling on her knees in the quietness tional mood, but with much reflection. matics, this wise Christian teacher un- of her bedroom, Betty prayed most sin- She went to her last class, but she fum- derstood very well the obstacle that even cerely for God's help, for the courage bled in her typing. Her shattered thoughts one small tube of lipstick could be. His and stamina to give up this foolish and tried to build up their old defense: "Just a illustrations were so apt. Her self-im- sinful idol. Rising with a new purpose, little make-up is all right. God doesn't posed barrier seemed so needless. Why she washed her face thoroughly. It was care about little things like that." Finally, couldn't she have seen it before? • surprising how clean through and trying to ease her conscience, she said Betty was ready now to face herself through that one simple act could make to herself, "Well, one of my dearest squarely. Would I put on lipstick and her feel. And inside, there was an in- friends on earth didn't say a word. She rouge if Christ were watching over my describable harmony of joy. Her heart doesn't care; how do I know God does? shoulder? If I had an appointment with fairly sang. She felt a sense of compan- I am not going to give it up." God, would I wear it to meet Him? No, ionship with heaven, a rightness, and the After class Betty got her things to- I wouldn't. Yet, if I hang on to one deep content so long hoped for, but so gether to leave, for her mother was wait- little sin, it will keep me from seeing completely inaccessible until she had ing outside. At the door of the admin- Christ. Is it worth it? And what about cleared the way for it. Now, she would istration building, her algebra teacher my influence? Am I willing to be the not feel like a stumbling block to any- met her. As they walked to the gate to- big If in anyone else's experience? Sup- one! Now, she could feel free to help and encourage others to give their whole hearts to Christ and not to hold anything back! That Friday evening as Betty walked in the door of the administration build- ing for vespers, the first person she met was Dean Grew. His first glance toward her told him that the victory had been won. The unadorned face and the ra- Sea-4404 awl qewtett diant joy shining through the dark eyes told the story. He walked to her eagerly. "Congratulations!" he said, and shook By BETTY GARVIN DAVENPORT her hand. Unhampered by her accustomed sense of guilt, Betty thoroughly enjoyed the last short sermon of the Week of Prayer. BOVE my fireplace hangs a golden. 0 how nature flings her colors At the close when a call was made for picture. From the window I with wild abandon! Then as if a call goes those who wished to testify, Betty was can see a maple tree. out to tune up the instruments, the wind one of the first to stand and make her way to the microphone on the rostrum. G The picture above the (old maestro that he is) arises, bows to his audience, and nods to his orchestra to Impulsively she blurted out her un- fireplace must always remain just as it studied confession: "Oh, how I have was painted, but the maple tree, which play. Such a variety of dancing, merry tunes they play! The leaves are so in- twisted and turned in my chapel seat is framed by my window, changes with this week. Some of you know what my every season of the year. It is a beautiful tent on keeping time to the music that they turn and twist and finally fling big hurdle has been. To myself and to tree, large and symmetrical and lovely, others, I have insisted that it was all with its branches lifting heavenward into themselves loose from the branches that have held them so long. Whirling and right for me to wear a little bit of lip- the ever-changing panorama of clouds stick and rouge. I don't know why I've and sky. sailing they dip and float to the rhythmic tempo—and fall from sheer exhaustion clung to it so loyally, but now I know In early spring the red buds appear. to the ground. I was wrong. By the grace of God I will These swell and open, and almost over- never wear it again. Please pray for me." Finally every tired leaf has gone, and night they are transformed into pale- She went back to her seat in tears, but only the great gaunt framework of the green loveliness. So delicate and lacy is they were tears of deep joy. the green in which Mother Nature robes tree is left. It stands bare and naked to the winter wind and storm. When, at the close of the meeting, her children each new growing season! Professor Head, Betty's algebra teacher, By summer the leaves are in such pro- The tree is no longer beautiful, you found her near the front of the chapel, fusion that they completely cover the se- say? Still, somehow, there is beauty Betty reached into her pocket, took out crets hidden there—secrets of robins, and there. If it were not for this tree skel- a gold metal tube of lipstick and her nests, and pale-blue eggs. Many are the eton, there could be no leaves. It holds rouge compact and thrust them toward sun-browned, happy children who play the heart of the tree. him. "Here," she said impulsively, and beneath the spreading branches—a ha- "Man looketh on the outward appear- the radiant light of her eyes made a rain- -yen from the summer's heat. ance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." bow through her tears, "I have no more Then one night autumn tiptoes in, Should you lay aside the outward ap- use for these. You'll know what to do and as if by some wonderful magic the pearance with which you seek to hide with them!" lush green leaves have been splashed your innermost thoughts and feelings, Light words, maybe; but no more were with color from a thousand bright paint- how would your heart appear? Could needed. They knew—God knew—how Ibrushes—red and yellow, brown and God see some beauty there? much those few words meant. 10 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 4 up the launch until our arrival. So the guide's wife came into our canoe, and my husband was off into the darkness with the two boys. We imagined how they were shooting ahead of us, out in the strong current in the middle of the river, while we were hugging the shore with a heavy load. After some time we heard the fa- miliar plop, plop, plop of oars cutting the water. It gave us a weird feeling to realize another canoe must be near us, and we felt a moment of fear. It came nearer and nearer, and then we heard familiar voices calling us. It - was my husband and the Indians! He laughed We wanted the Indians to rest, for they had rowed all the night before, but they realized how much and said he had the impression that they it meant for us to meet that launch, and insisted that they could spend another sleepless night. were just flying down the river. Then they heard us singing and knew that we were near them. The Piro knew the best way after all, knew just where the cur- rents were that helped us most—some- times on one side of the river, some- times on the other, rarely out in the PILOTS center. It was an object lesson that impressed us deeply. Our heavenly Father is our pilot. He knows the way better than we, By BARBARA 0. WESTPHAL and chooses the currents wisely for us, though it often seems to us that another course would be more direct and more pleasant. S I look back over many years of curve that way," motioning with his The first time I saw a harbor pilot thrills and strange experiences hand, "then two sharp curves this way, come aboard ship is another moment I in mission lands, one night seems then a long straight stretch, then three shall never forget. We had traveled three to stand out most clearly in my loops that way, and," he would add, weeks across the Atlantic on a little Eng- mind. We were floating down the Ama- "the sun will be over there by that time," lish freighter. I was the only woman zon in a dugout canoe. Already Pastor pointing to the time in the sky. on board. It was a happy moment when Westphal and I had traveled four days We marveled at his memory of the we caught the first gleam of the light- since leaving a mission station up on the turns in the river. He was our pilot, house at Pari, at the mouth of the Ama- Ucayali River. We were very eager to our compass, our clock. So when the old zon. Eagerly we watched the wavering make connections with the monthly Piro said we might overtake the launch line that separated the dark-blue waters launch, in order to return to our home we believed him. We wanted the In- of the ocean from the muddy water of and our work in the town of Iquitos. dians to rest, for they had rowed all the the Amazon. The jungles on the distant We had reached the village of Masisea night before, but they realized how much shore came nearer. three days before the launch was ex- it meant for us to meet that launch and Then we stopped and dropped an- pected, only to learn that it had already insisted that they could spend another chor. I asked one of the officers why come and gone down-river again—four night without sleep. we were waiting. "The pilot boat has to days ahead of its usual time. We had Down the river we glided. The sun set come out," he told me. "We never go been away from Iquitos two months, and behind the jungle. We talked of the into the harbor without having the pilot the prospect of waiting four weeks in that things of God with the Indians, and we aboard." little clump of bamboo huts—no store, sang the hymns they were learning to When the tug came alongside our no market, no restaurant, no rooms to love. One of the Indians suddenly broke steamer I was leaning over the rail rent—wasn't a very cheerful one. a silence by asking, "How did you come watching for that pilot. He climbed the The launch would be stopping in the down from heaven?" An awful feeling rope ladder, was greeted by an officer next town down-river to load. The peo- of unworthiness came over us as we ex- in white who could speak no more ple in the village told us that just across plained that only Jesus came down from Portuguese than the pilot could English. the river was a short-cut trail. They said heaven. I noted the respect with which the Eng- • it took half an hour to go by land to a As the night wore on, our progress lish officers treated the Brazilian. The place that the launch reached only after was slow. The old Piro guided the canoe young pilot was shabby and uneducated, nine hours of winding around the curves from one side of the river to the other, but he was an expert, a specialist, and of the river. But we couldn't find any- now following a current near the shore, he was indispensable for our safety. On one to carry our canoes and cargo over- now one far out on the river. Even the bridge he took the wheel and guided land, so we gave up that plan. three thousand miles from its mouth us to the dock at Para. Even the captain Then the old Piro Indian who was our the Amazon was enormously wide and was at his command. guide said he thought he could get us deep. Our canoe was large and heavily Another pilot guided our ship up the to the village by canoe and overtake the loaded. The Indian's wife and sons had river for 2,400 miles, avoiding the chang- launch before it left. He had been a come along in a smaller canoe. Pastor ing sand bars that couldn't be mapped regular prophet all the way coming Westphal said he would take the light on a chart. down the river. We would say to him, canoe and the two younger boys and Then one cold July—for the seasons "How far is it to Floresta?" and he shoot ahead of us. He would reach are just the opposite in the Southern would answer, "Well, we make a big Pucalpa first and ask the captain to hold To page 22 SEPTEMBER 25, 1956 11 HE efficient click of high heels echoed along the deserted halls T of Mason City's newest office building. The tired young sec- retary quickened her steps perceptibly, for the reverberating emptiness of the long corridor suddenly made the cheery, warm-toned walls seem confining. With a parting shrug of well-tailored shoul- ders, Roberta Winters stepped through the revolving exit into the sunlight and shadow of the early August evening. Beyond the Park Street intersection she slowed her steps to a more leisurely pace, satisfied that her escape was sure, now that the dark shadow of the massive building no longer towered above her. With a sigh she allowed her mind to wander back over the events of the day, a habit formed in early childhood. She felt a bright glow of satisfaction over the day's accomplishments. "It is good to work hard at something you enjoy," she murmured defiantly. A proud smile warmed the curve of her set lips, but her blue-gray eyes refused to be influ- enced, and the smile died half formed. Ahead of her lay a dreary supper hour, which she realized she could not easily avoid this evening. Usually she managed to slip with her evening meal into her special garden nook beneath the gnarled, old apple tree. But tonight her elderly aunt would surely be waiting worriedly for her. How her life had changed within six short months! Less than a year ago she had delighted in coming home to Aunt Edna's smiling face and long chats around the kitchen table and the cooky jar. Roberta's mind rambled on, ever re-

turning to the events of a day she could CHARLES CAREY never forget despite her most determined efforts. On her porch was someone supposed to be miles away. "Penny!" she cried. "How did you get here?" It had been a beautiful Sabbath morn- ing, filled with the sound of birds chirp- ing and the sight of buds blossoming. "You have been highly recommended mounted the long flight of stairs, ignor- She remembered so distinctly that she to fill a vacancy recently created in our ing the elevator. Hesitantly she had en- had been near to yielding to an im- staff by an emergency," came the precise tered that spacious office, now her own. pulse to wear her new spring suit to reply. It had truly been the beginning as well church. Contemplation along this line Roberta's eyes had grown wide with as the end. had been rudely interrupted by the de- surprise. Since that Sabbath evening when Ro- manding ring of the telephone. Startled "Can you be in our office for an in- berta Winters, newly appointed secre- at a sound that seldom invaded the quiet terview by ten this morning?" the voice tary to the firm Dolan and Jackson, had of the Sabbath breakfast hour, Roberta had inquired. returned from a long day's work to had lifted the receiver to her ear with tt "Why, I—I don't know. You see catch the indistinct sound of muffled misgivings. Roberta's own voice had trailed off in sobs coming from her aunt's bedroom, "This is the Dolan and Jackson Manu- indecision. Then, setting her lips reso- facturing, Inc., calling, Miss Winters. We a wall of resistance had slowly built it- lutely, though her eyes were filled to self around her and her new world. Yet, understand that you are interested in a overflowing with tears, she had replied the sight of her aunt's stricken face was secretarial position with our firm." quickly. "Yes. Yes, I'll be there at ten, still the worst reminder of all. There The line fairly bristled with the star- and—and thank you." were times when the girl felt again that tling crispness of the caller's voice: Scarcely had she replaced the receiver knife of regret for the way of life she Roberta had gulped, "Wh—why, yes. on the hook when a strange sickening had rejected and the anguish she had That is, I did answer one of your ads feeling grabbed the pit of her stomach. brought to the heart of her aunt. It several months ago, but I was told the She dropped weakly into a nearby chair might have been easier if Aunt Edna job had already been taken." and tried to think coherently what she had tried to interfere, denounced her [Gloria Trick is not a newcomer to ItstrritucTort readers. would do next. niece for the things she had done, or Her picture and a biographical sketch appeared with her She had worn her new spring suit that even treated her less kindly, but there article, "He Opened His Mouth and Taught Them" in the January 25, 1955, issue. She wrote it while attending morning, but not to the little white was only her silence, the silence that had South Lancaster Academy. Her story in this issue was written last school year while a freshman English student church across town. With throbbing become a symbol of disappointment and at Atlantic Union College.] heart and feet that felt like lead, she grief over a wayward loved one. 12 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR She wasn't a little girl any longer. She told herself she didn't need Christianizing. She had made her decision and she wanted to stick to it. September Replacement

By GLORIA TRICK

Approaching the neat white cottage ing for. I'm honestly glad for you, Rob- Glancing up into her aunt's face, Ro- on Elm Street, Roberta observed that bie, if it's what you want, but how about berta was stricken by the wounded ex- Aunt Edna was indeed seated patiently the plans we made last summer? pression and tear-dimmed eyes turned in her rocker on the ivy-shaded front "I'm enjoying a wonderful vacation toward her. porch. With the realization of an in- with the folks, but an ex-college fresh- She buried her face in the aproned evitable encounter, she increased her man just isn't happy until she's a sopho- lap beside her. Memories of childhood, pace to a lilting walk, squared her droop- more. Have you really decided to forget when she had found comforting relief ing shoulders, and feigned a cheery greet- the college education we dreamed about in just such a way, flooded her mind. ing. all the wAy through academy? Of course, "I'm really sorry, Aunt Edna. The last "You're late, Robbie." The words it won't be the same with you a year thing on earth I want to do is hurt you." came solicitously. behind me, but I'm sure we could man- Roberta bit her lip in an effort to over- "I know, Aunt Edna. I'm sorry, but age to room together. come the shuddering sobs that filled her something came up at the office." At "I don't want to force you into any- throat and smothered her every word. sight of the familiar figure, Roberta felt thing, Robbie; you know that. I do un- "Please try to understand. It isn't that again a pang of regret for the bond that derstand how you feel about landing a I don't love you and appreciate the won- had formerly linked her so closely to her real job. You've always wanted to make derful way you have guided and cared aging aunt ever since the death of her your own decisions, and you should for me. And I do still need you, Aunt own parents. No girl could ask for a know your own mind. I just don't want Edna, but as an understanding friend. more loving, Christian mother, she you to make a choice you may spend If you could just forget that you're re- thought, but I'm not a little girl any the rest of your life regretting. If only sponsible for my actions. You really longer, and I don't need Christianizing. we could find some way to talk it out aren't any more, you know." I've made my decision, and I'll stick the way we used to, but I'm afraid New Aunt Edna's workworn fingers caressed with it. Haven is just too many miles from Mason the blond head. "There, there, honey. As she mounted the porch steps, Aunt City. The best substitute I can think of Of course we still need each other. But Edna's gentle voice broke in on her rev- is an honest letter. I have a feeling you seem to have forgotten something erie. "Supper's on the table, Robbie there's something seriously wrong. I'll be important that I thought you would al- dear. Oh, by the way, there's a letter for waiting for your letter anxiously. ways remember. We both need Him you on the telephone table. From Penny, too." I believe." "Lovingly, With wisdom born of years of experi- "Thanks, Aunt Edna, but I really "PENNY" ence, the understanding aunt said no don't feel very hungry. I think I'll just more, but that night Roberta's thoughts "P.S. The folks send their love; Jim too. go on up to my room tonight." were more troubled than ever. Her mind Say 'hello' to Aunt Edna for me. Tell Edna Saunders shut her lips tightly and heart struggled bitterly until she her I haven't forgotten those cherry against the plea formulating there, and dropped into a sleep of exhaustion. pies." followed her niece's tired movements up The long summer days and weeks the carpeted stairs with worried eyes. A timid knock at the bedroom door passed in a fever of activity. Her in- The chintz bedspread offered soft, cool caused Roberta to start involuntarily. creased devotion to her work resulted in release for an aching body. Roberta She wiped her eyes hastily at the sound a promotion and the attentions of a buried her face deeply in its sweet fresh- of her aunt's voice. handsome young man whom she had met ness, as though in so doing she might "May I come in, dear? I've brought at the office. Gradually, she succeeded in escape from her own thoughts. Beside you a pitcher of iced lemonade." quieting the mental torment that had her lay the unopened envelope bearing Despite the lump in her throat, Ro- been so painfully aroused. She pushed the postmark, New Haven, Connecticut, berta drank eagerly and admitted it was from her mind determinedly all recol- and Penny's flowing script. just what she needed. Aunt Edna al- lection of the climactic episode that had Minutes ticked by on the bedside ways seemed to know just what was best occurred after the fateful arrival of clock. Finally, with trembling fingers, for a person physically, but mentally Penny's letter, still lying unanswered in and emotions a strange mixture of re- she would never be able to understand. the far corner of a discarded jewelry box. luctance and anticipation, she tore open "Why don't you try me, Robbie dear? Meanwhile, in a distant Connecticut the envelope. Maybe we could help each other if you'd city, Penny Randall's thoughts bridged "DEAR ROBBIE, give me a chance." For a moment the the miles between herself and her friend "How about it, career girl? Your en- girl was stunned. She surely hadn't daily. After hours of prayerful considera- thusiastic letter was a little incoherent, spoken aloud, yet the dear little woman tion and pleading with her Saviour in but I gather that you've found yourself seated on the bed beside her seemed to the behalf of her dear friend, Penny the secretarial position you've been wait- have read her thoughts to the very word. made a momentous decision. Carefully

SEPTEMBER 25, 1956 13 she discussed the plan with her parents; it, if you'll let me in," Penny giggled. a far more serious vein. "Believe me, and, obtaining their permission, she laid "Do give the child a chance to catch Robbie, college life is the answer to your aside her busy preparations for the com- her breath, Robbie," came Aunt Edna's problem. Oh, I suppose you'll tell me ing school year and began packing for a voice from behind them. it's too late, but it's never too late to hurried trip to Mason City. "Let her catch her breath! What about do the right thing. You haven't been able Roberta was totally unprepared for the me?" Roberta insisted. to hide the fact that you're not really sight that met her eyes as she answered "Come in and sit down, girls, before happy, despite your wonderful job and the summons of the doorbell three days you wake up the whole neighborhood. new acquaintances. The trouble with you later. There on her own front porch Once you get started you'll be on the is that you're trying to escape from re- stood someone she had supposed to be doorstep all night, if I know you," Aunt striction and are bewildered to find that miles away. "Penny!" she cried excitedly. Edna reminded. you're no happier doing as you please. "How did you get here?" The wee hours of the morning found Running farther and trying to pretend "I might consider telling you all about Penny and Roberta still talking, but in you're content with what you have isn't the answer. If you'd stop long enough to face the situation squarely, you'd realize that you can have the chance to make important decisions and prove that you're needed, in addition to find- ing the peace you once knew in Jesus." Penny's eyes grew wet with tears as she P'0104 •Te d ad de 7/to,utia9 pleaded with her friend. "Do you re- call a memory verse we learned way back By NELLIE MILLER in church school? Isaiah 26:3, if I re- member the text correctly. 'Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in LL is quiet in the small As the light progresses, the birds sing thee.' " hospital room except for louder and sweeter, and then they all Reaching into her handbag for the the soft sound of regular swell to a crescendo to welcome the pocket Bible that Roberta had presented G breathing as I sit in the light of another day. They seem to be to her on the occasion of her sixteenth darkened room with a little light in the saying, "Wake up. Do not miss this event, birthday, Penny asked, "Do you remem- corner. The flowers and cards on the for it will draw your heart into closer ber the verse you copied onto the flyleaf dresser show that many friends and rela- communion with your Creator as you be- of this Bible so long ago?" tives have wished my patient speedy re- hold it." " 'And the peace of God, which passeth covery. The dawn brings with it the promise all understanding, shall keep your hearts She has been very sick, and I am as- of a new day. What lies before us during and minds through Christ Jesus,' " Ro- signed the duty of specialing her from this day, only God knows. But some- berta quoted absently. She turned a re- 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. how as the sun begins to come over the flective face toward her friend. "It all The long night slowly passes and hill in the distance we do not worry sounds so simple, Penny, but it's a big then-- Listen! there is the sound of about what is before us because as our step. You don't realize how far I've gone the crickets. hearts are lifted up and we say, "My since the day I penned those words." Listen again! It is the first sweet song voice shalt thou hear in the morning, 0 "That isn't important, Robbie. You're of a bird. Lord; in the morning will I direct my right in one thing though; it does mean Now the birds are quiet again, and prayer unto thee, and will look up," we a complete about-face. This is your de- only the faint sound of some of the crick- seem to hear the calm assurance: "Fear cision, perhaps the most important one ets can be heard. thou not; for I am with thee: be not dis- you'll ever have to make." mayed; for I am thy God: I will "I'll have to think it over, Penny." Oh, but now you must listen again. strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; In the distance the cocks are heralding yea, I will uphold thee with the right "All right, but let's pray about it to- the dawn with their majestic crow. hand of my righteousness." gether before we go to bed." Do I hear the faint song of a bird The dawn experience helps me to un- For the first time in many a month, again? Yes, I do. Over there is another, derstand the text concerning Jesus that Roberta yielded to the impulse that she and here, and then over there again. says, "His going forth is prepared as the had been fighting so long and fell to It is still dark out, but it seems that I morning." Jesus does not push Himself her knees at the bedside. Penny's arm can see a faint light in the east, and upon us. But slowly, patiently, unhur- was strong and comforting around her. above the hills is the outline of a few riedly, He seeks to find entrance in In that moment a barrier was broken clouds. Below a white mist wraps the our hearts. After He has gained that en- down in the depths of her heart, which mysteries of the valley in a blanket of ob- trance His light breaks forth in abun- she had striven vainly to barricade scurity. dance in deeds of love and mercy through against the gentle knock. There seems to be no hurry about the us. Penny's prayer of supplication turned dawn. No rush of life to push it along at How many patients there are in hos- to gratitude and thanksgiving. When the our modern speed. To those asleep the pitals over the land who will not awaken girls finally slept, the first faint rays of dawn comes unnoticed, but to those to see the dawn! A sad picture? Yes, but the dawn were appearing in the east. awake it can be beautiful—a time for just as sad is the thought that millions Hours later, sunlight streaming fully meditation and prayer. of people whose life cord has not through the blinds cast a note of ra- Now I begin to see the faint outline of snapped during the night actually diance into the same bedroom. Aunt a tree. The variety I could not tell you, awaken without seeing the dawn. So Edna opened the door cautiously. A but I know it is there. Slowly, slowly the many of us do not train ourselves to see smile flitted across her kindly face at light is appearing. In the distance the what we are looking at, and therefore we sight of the peaceful expressions on the light has an orange-red hue. Objects are miss much that God designed to be a faces of the sleeping girls. "Bless their taking on clearer form moment by mo- blessing in our lives morning by hearts," she murmured tenderly; then ment. morning. reverently, "Thank You, Father." 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR The saying that "two can live cheaper than one" is an exploded myth. Many marriages go on the rocks over financial difficulties. Note this: "Many who can but barely live when they are single, choose to marry and raise a family when MARRIAGE they know they have nothing with which to support them." In the fourth place, teen-agers have not By TAYLOR G. BUNCH yet formed a large enough circle of friends from which to make the choice. It is tragic indeed when one of them in later years thinks he has met the true mate, as sometimes happens. On the sub- IRTH, conversion, marriage, and tion and experience prove that it isn't ject of early marriages the following death are the four greatest events best for teen-agers to marry. In the first divinely given counsel is very timely: of life. We have absolutely no place, they are not mature enough in "Before assuming the responsibilities in- control over the first and last, experience and judgment to make such volved in marriage young men and young but the other two depend on our own an important decision, or to assume such women should have such an experience decisions. As free moral agents with the heavy responsibilities. In the second in practical life as will prepare them for power of choice we can decide for or place, their education is incomplete and its duties and its burdens. Early marriages against conversion, and we can determine plans for future scholastic training are are not to be encouraged. A relation so largely whether marriage will be a suc- difficult to carry out when unexpected important as marriage and so far-reach- cess or failure. things interfere, including financial diffi- ing in its results should not be entered The importance of marriage is empha- culties and the arrival of children. upon hastily, without sufficient prepara- sized in these words: "There is not one In the third place, financial stability tion, and before the mental and physical marriage in one hundred that results and security are not yet established. The powers are well developed." happily, and bears the sanction of God, operating of a home is always expensive. Quick marriages are also dangerous, as and places the parties in a position better In fact, it is an important business insti- they often are based on mere infatuation. to glorify Him. The evil consequences of tution requiring careful management. There has not been proper time for friend- poor marriages are numberless. They are contracted from impulse. A candid re- view of the matter is scarcely thought of, and consultation with those of experience is considered old-fashioned." Therefore it is of the utmost importance that young people obtain all the wisdom and counsel they can get, and they especially need divine guidance. Conversion and marriage should be closely related, for the chances for a happy married life are far greater when the contracting parties are both genuine Christians. Recently compiled statistics show that the ratio of divorces in non- Christian homes is more than seven times greater than in Christian homes. In other words, the Christian home is seven times more likely to succeed. Con- version and a deep spiritual experience are therefore vitally important in mar- riage. No husband or wife can possibly love each other as they love themselves until they first love God supremely. The lesser love flourishes best in the atmos- phere of the greater love. The proper age for marriage has been pretty well established by experience and research. "The highest percentage of happy marriages result when the groom is not less than twenty-four and the bride not less than twenty-two years of age," writes Dr. Harold Shryock. In my judg- ment the man should be from two to six years older than the woman. Many un- happy marriages have resulted when the wife is a great deal older than the hus- band, especially in the later years. Of course there have been exceptions to this rule. A. DEVANEY There are several reasons why early Solemn as is the betrothal promise, the marriage vow is even more sacred. It is far better to marriages are unwise. Years of observa- break an engagement promise, in the fear of God, than to keep it, and thereby dishonor your Maker. SEPTEMBER 25, 1956 l5 ship and acquaintance. Two years for the Young people of integrity will not de- dulged in by those who can least afford periods of friendship and courtship mand or yield to premature privileges, it. We must not forget that it is a reli- should be the minimum. Experience for such persons are poor risks in terms gious service, especially when conducted shows that a large percentage of prema- of future fidelity—an essential to a happy in a church, and should therefor be ture marriages result in unhappy homes. home. Premarital indiscretions are sure characterized by simplicity and reverence. We should never forget that there can be to raise questions that will affect trust "There is no reason why we should make no love at sight, for love is based on and confidence, even for years to come. great parade or display, even if the parties acquaintanceship, and acquaintanceship And remember not to begin even good were perfectly suited to each other: but requires time. and proper things during courtship if that remains to be tested." "In consequence of hasty marriages, you cannot or will not keep them up In a church wedding only religious even among the professed people of God, after marriage, or your companion may music is appropriate. Love songs should there are separations, divorces, and great conclude that your love is waning. be reserved for the reception. The follow- confusion in the church. This kind of The wedding should be planned and ing are a few appropriate hymns: "The marrying and giving in marriage is one announced so as to be known by others Lord's Prayer," "Bless This House," of Satan's special devices, and he succeeds "Happy Home," "0 Perfect Love," "0 in his plans almost every time. . . . When Happy Home," "The Pledge," "The Voice it is too late, they [those who refuse That Breathed O'er Eden." counsel] find that they have made a mis- Seventh-day Adventists do not use the take, and have imperiled their happiness Deat 4c ,% 7 Zteet ring ceremony, because the ring has no in this life and the salvation of their value whatever in binding or holding the souls. . . . If counsel had been received, By INEZ BRASIER couple together. We are told that "not they might have saved themselves years one penny should be spent for a circlet of anxiety and sorrow. But advice is only Dear Lord, I kneel of gold to testify that we are married." thrown away on those who are deter- This applies not only at the wedding but mined to have their own way. Passion To spend this hour with Thee; also during married life. In most coun- carries such individuals over every bar- Seal Thou my heart tries it has ceased to be a protection, even rier that reason and judgment can inter- Forever Thine to be. to the wife. pose. Love is a plant of heavenly origin. No pictures should be taken in the It is not unreasonable; it is not blind. It So weary, Lord, church or any place else during the mar- is pure and holy." With all life's care and stress, riage ceremony to mar its beauty and According to Numbers 36:6, the Lord sacredness. In some denominations it is I come apart gave command concerning the daughters not permitted in a church. Pastor 0. A. of Zelophehad, saying, "Let them marry To know Thy tenderness. Geisman, of the Grace Lutheran church, to whom they think best; only to the of River Forest, Illinois, wrote: "It is family of the tribe of their father shall I need Thee near; probable that every pastor with some they marry." This is also good counsel to The day has weary been. years of experience has been terribly the sons and daughters in modern Israel, Grant I may know tempted to commit homicide by some to marry within their own tribes in spirit- of the photographers who carry on as Thy wondrous peace within. ual Israel, because the chances for happi- though a marriage were particularly ness are greater when the likes and dis- staged for their benefit to give them a likes and dispositions and characteristics 0 speak the word! chance to strut as prima donnas and to of the couple are similar. This can easily My soul is troubled still. convert a solemn occasion into a com- be determined during friendship and I need Thy calm, mercial field day. If a close-up of the bridal courtship days. Thy love, Thy holy will. couple is desired, they may arrange How long should be the period of en- with the pastor beforehand to pose for gagement? Remember that Webster de- the special purpose of taking a picture fines courtship as "the relations of wooer after the service is concluded and the and wooed prior to a formal betrothal." guests have passed the receiving line in This indicates that the engagement far enough in advance so as to prevent the narthex of the church." should be delayed till near the end of the the suspicions and gossip that sometimes Also at church weddings the throwing courtship period, or just before marriage. result from a quick, sudden, or secret of confetti or rice, labeling the car, or Authorities vary in their counsel as to marriage, or an elopement. Such situa- tying to it old shoes or tin cans, together the proper length of the engagement tions have caused regrets that marred the with shivarees, is out of place and be- from six months to two years. Personally future happiness of the home. You can- neath the dignity of Christians. The kid- I believe it should be short. not afford to run such a risk. naping of the bride of course is unthink- Many a person has reluctantly gone The wedding is one of the most impor- able and should be considered a criminal through with an unwise marriage be- tant events of life, especially to the bride, act. After a simple, beautiful, and digni- cause he or she did not know how to who should have the most to say in its fied church wedding, the remark was escape from such an engagement prom- planning. She should be able to look overheard: "What a beautiful wedding. ise. Of course it is far better to break an back upon a church or home wedding All of it was in keeping with the best engagement than to be married to the with great satisfaction and pleasure. The social and church standards." Thus wrong person. Solemn as is the betrothal relatives and close friends should be pres- should it ever be. promise, the marriage vow is even more ent. In fact, the wedding should be such The honeymoon is the transition sacred. Says the Lord's messenger: "Far an important and memorable event that period between the wedding and the set- better take back such a promise, in the the couple will find delight in celebrating ting up of the home, at which time friend- fear of God, than keep it, and thereby the anniversary through life. ship and love reach their highest state and dishonor your Maker." The wedding service is sacred, and home life its beginning. It is the pro- Courtship is not a trial marriage, and should be characterized by a dignified logue and introduction to married life. It even though engaged, both man and simplicity that is the very essence of largely sets the pattern for the home, and woman should maintain a "thus far and culture and good taste. Extravagance and should be characterized by courtesy, re- no farther" attitude toward intimacies display should be avoided. It is interest- spect, and self-restraint, and the many that belong alone to the marriage state. ing to note that extravagance is often in- To page 22 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR work we are placed, He desires to control our minds, that we may do perfect work. "Religion and business are not two separate things; they are SABBATH one. Bible religion is to be interwoven with all we do or say. Divine and human agencies are to combine in temporal as well as in spiritual achievements. They are to be united in all human SCHOOL pursuits, in mechanical and agricultural labors, in mercantile and scientific enterprises."—Christ's Object Lessons, pp. 349, 350.

Prepared for Publication by the General Conference Sabbath School Department Notes The Lord appointed and sent. He did it personally ("I send you"). Seventh-day Adventist youth of the mid-twentieth cen- The Seventy Sent Forth tury may share in every aspect of this commissioning experience. Jesus has a work for you to perform. LESSON FOR OCTOBER 6 That he would send forth labourers. Their first concern was to be for the encompassing of the great task before them. He LESSON SCRIPTURE: Luke 10:1-16. asked them at the very outset of this great adventure in soul MEMORY GEM: "The harvest truly is great, but the labourers winning to petition heaven for help in reaching the multitudes. are few" (Luke 10:2). Go your ways. They were to go out fearlessly, boldly, acting The Desire of Ages, pp. 485-496. OUTSIDE READING: independently, not subject to one another, answering only to Him, exercising their God-given talents and facilities, and all by Inspiration His grace. "The seventy returned with joy, saying, 'Lord, even the demons Lambs among wolves. They could expect trouble, attack, death. are subject to us in your name!' And he said to them, 'I saw But they were to follow His lamblike example, nevertheless. Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you There could be no exigency strong enough to change or affect authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the their connection with Him. But there is no premium here on power of the enemy; and nothing shall hurt you. . . . But rejoice weakness or stupidity or subserviency. that your names are written in heaven' " (Luke 10:17-20, RSV). Carry neither purse, nor scrip. There is no mandate here for "Now is the judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of beggary. It does not say they were to have nothing to do with this world be cast out; and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, money either in getting, giving, or spending. will draw all men to myself" ( John 12:31, RSV). Salute no man. They were to work without fear or favor, im- "So each of us shall give account of himself to God" (Rom. partially, without placing themselves under obligation to any man 14:12, RSV). of the world, or being "unequally yoked." "Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation" (2 Cor. 6:2, RSV). Peace be to this house. Here is a greeting to be cultivated "Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that instead of the so often meaningless "How are you?" or "How do I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come you do?" to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, In the same house remain. There is much to be said for the he will convince the world . . . of judgment, because the ruler of cultivation of an atmosphere of permanence in the development this world is judged" ( John 16:7-11, RSV). of the Christian mission. Christians are to be occupiers, not "Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he grasshoppers. himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death Go not from house to house. Instead of rattling around as he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the noise and sensation makers, Christian disciples are to settle down devil" ( Heb. 2:14, RSV). and develop a strong and effective witness. This is not in any sense a reflection on the house-to-house techniques of the mis- Spirit of Prophecy sionary worker. Eat such things as are set before you. This is not an authoriza- "If we would develop a character that God can accept, we must form correct habits in our religious life. Daily prayer is as es- tion to "water down" any of the health principles set forth else- sential to growth in grace, and even to spiritual life itself, as is where in the Bible, such as "If any man defile the temple of God, temporal food to physical well-being. We should accustom our- him shall God destroy." selves to lift the thoughts often to God in prayer. If the mind Heal the sick. Disciples are sent by the Divine Healer. They wanders, we must bring it back; by persevering effort, habit will are to share His concern for the physical welfare of those for finally make it easy. We cannot for one moment separate our- whom they work. selves from Christ with safety. We may have His presence to Say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. attend us at every step, but only by observing the conditions that This is first, last, and always the gospel of the kingdom. The He Himself has laid down. principal business of the disciple every day is kingdom business. "Religion must be made the great business of life. Everything Go your ways. For the second time this expression is used. else should be held subordinate to this. All our powers, of soul, This time it is followed by the word "out." The Christian message body, and spirit, must be engaged in the Christian warfare. We is always an outreach. There is and can be no retreat. The traffic must look to Christ for strength and grace, and we shall gain the is one way, always toward the coming kingdom. us."—The Sanctified Life, pp. 66, victory as surely as Jesus died for He that heareth you heareth me. These are the identifying 67. credentials. Every worker is assured of the backing and enabling "All right inventions and improvements have their source in of the Master Himself. Him who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working. The Even the devils are subject unto us. skillful touch of the physician's hand, his power over nerve and This is good, of course. But muscle, his knowledge of the delicate organism of the body, is there is something that is of far greater importance and signifi- the wisdom of divine power, to be used in behalf of the suffering. cance. The skill with which the carpenter uses the hammer, the strength I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Jesus Himself with which the blacksmith makes the anvil ring, comes from God. had vanquished Satan and cast him out of heaven. He is ready to He has entrusted men with talents, and expects them to look to share that victory with every follower. Him for counsel. Whatever we do, in whatever department of the Behold, I give unto you power . . . over all the power of the

SEPTEMBER 25, 1956 17 enemy. This divine enabling is all sufficient, but only for him 5. What results attended their first mission? who will accept and use it. 6. Do you think this first mission was a success? Rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. Now here is that all-important thing. How do you value your connection 7. What shift in emphasis did Jesus call for? with heaven? 8. What current emphasis in the church can be equally Quizangles mistaken? 1. To what does the word "other" refer in Luke 10:1?

2. Where did Jesus send the seventy? NEXT WEEK, October 13, lesson title: "The Cost of Discipleship." Scripture Reference: Matthew 3. What eating-and-drinking principle is set forth in this 19:16-30. Memory Gem: Matthew 19:26. Outside Reading: The Desire of Ages (1940), pp. 518-523; lesson? Christ's Object Lessons (CHL), pp. 390.395. 4. What was the burden of their message?

In several instances the disappearance of the woodpeckers coincided with the cut- Toolv-gdied 2Voodotectee4 ting of the forests. The real cause was probably the indirect destruction of their food supply, for the young trees left in By JAMES T. TANNER a cut-over forest provide much less food for woodpeckers than do the mature trees of a virgin or old forest. HE ivory-billed woodpecker was never dead. The bark in this stage is still hard Ta common bird in North America, and tight, but the big woodpeckers hack By 1885 the birds had disappeared from but it has long been famous. Its large and scale it loose by powerful side blows the northern part of their original range. size and imposing appearance captured with their bills. This manner of feeding The greatest decrease occurred between the imagination of both Indians and early leaves characteristic signs—bare and bark- 1885 and 1900, when the Southern log- naturalists. It is the largest woodpecker less areas on dead limbs and trunks of trees ging industry grew most rapidly. By 1915 in the continent, larger than a crow. too sound to be attacked in the same way the species was confined to about a dozen The male ivory-bill's shining black-and- by lesser woodpeckers. scattered localities in South Carolina, white plumage, scarlet crest, and large The preferred insect foods are often Louisiana, and especially Florida. By 1926 white bill combine with its vigorous and very abundant, but they are present for many naturalists believed that the ivory- graceful actions and far-carrying voice to a relatively short time, disappearing when billed woodpecker was extinct. But a few impress any observer. It differs from its the bark loosens in the process of decay. years later some were found living in the Singer Tract in northern Louisiana, and relative, the pileated woodpecker, in be- Thus, the ivory-bills' food is likely to be ing larger, showing more white in its irregularly distributed, varying from place then some were seen in the Santee River plumage, especially on the back when to place and from time to time. To find swamp of South Carolina. An intensive perched, and having a voice that sounds an adequate supply they range farther and study of the species was carried on in the years 1937-1939, at the end of which time like a nasal tin trumpet. require more area than do other wood- Originally ivory-billed woodpeckers peckers. ivory-bills were believed to be living in those two localities, plus about three areas lived in the large river swamps from Ivory-bills nest in cavities they dig in in Florida. Since then, however, there southeastern North Carolina to eastern trees. From one to four eggs, two being have been no reports from the Santee Texas, inhabiting forests of oak, gum, usual, are laid in early spring. Both par- River. and other hardwoods and cypress. In the ents incubate the eggs and care for the Mississippi bottomlands they extended young. One brood is raised each year. The Singer Tract in Louisiana, where northward at least to the mouth of the These large, colorful birds began to dis- ivory-bills were best known and where Ohio, preferring the first bottom forest of appear from their original range as soon practically all of the life history studies sweet gum, oaks, and ash. Throughout as loggers invaded the southern swamps. were performed, was cut over during Florida they inhabited cypress swamps, World War II. Apparently the last bird frequently moving into the surrounding to be seen there was a lone female ob- pine woods for feeding. served in January, 1944. The only recent Their habitats are also the favored reliable reports of this species have come homes of other kinds of woodpeckers, from northern Florida, but there have which are more abundant in these forested been no authentic reports since 1952. swamps than in upland forests and which Ivory-billed woodpeckers were originally always have been more abundant than most abundant, judging from a study of ivory-bills. To illustrate this, a tract of six all the old records, in the area between miles can be cited that supported one pair the Suwannee and Apalachicola rivers of of ivory-bills in addition to an estimated northern Florida, where the flat pine 36 pairs of pileated and 126 pairs of red- woods are intersected and dotted with bellied woodpeckers. many swamps. This great woodpecker Ivory-bills feed upon wood-boring in- may now be making its last stand in the sects, particularly those kinds that live in region that even years ago was the center the inner bark and between the bark and of its abundance.—National Wildlife Fed- sapwood of trees or limbs not too long NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION PHOTO eration. 18 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR are caused by automobiles running into the side of trains. Of the 57,000 communities supplied with freight service by the nation's rail- roads, Chicago is the greatest rail center, with more than 7,000 miles of trackage in the metropolitan area. Daily, 1,700 passenger trains and more than 2,000 freight trains operate in the district. At all times there are approximately 1,000 locomotives, 3,600 passenger cars, and 50,000 freight cars in metropolitan Chi- cago. RAILROADING: By Edward Geary Aside from block signals and other systems protecting the trains, the roads are made more secure and safer by bal- FELT PICTURES: By Rosa Claridge last—the gravel, crushed rock, slag, or cinders firmly packed along the roadbed. Ballast holds the ties more securely in Despite increasing air and highway trans- sachusetts, carrying the Boston and Maine place, keeps water drained away from port, the railroads continue as America's tracks under Hoosac Mountain. Its con- them, and discourages the growth of life line. All the way from Keegan, Maine, struction was begun in 1851 and was weeds and grass. It is constantly cleaned to Chula Vista Junction, California; from completed in 1875, covering a distance of and replaced. Of all modes of travel, the Florida City, railroads are the most thoroughly pro- RAILROADING Florida, to tected and safest. In 563 billion passen- Blaine, Wash- ger-milts of service, there were 850 pas- ington, railroads are woven in an intri- senger fatalities, caused chiefly by col- cate pattern across the nation and into lisions and derailments. the farthest reaches of its four corners. All but a few miles of American rail- Although luxurious passenger trains con- roads are of standard gauge-4 feet 81/2 tinue to speed between great metropoli- inches. Only 584 miles are of narrow tan centers, the highways have captured gauge, which is a 3-foot width. the bulk of the passenger business. But should all freight carried by the rail- roads be transferred to the highways, a The first articles I made of felt, thus start- transportation nightmare could be the ing a hobby I have pursued for years, were only result. The wisdom to construct a pair of simple pictures. Making these railways comprises one of God's greatest taught me the joy of gifts to mankind. Without the rails, pri- FELT working with felt and vation would be our lot, modern civili- gave me the idea to try zation would be no more than a dream. BALTIMORI 0 0010 RAIL1,1101 PICTURES other pictures. Gradu- Top: No. 1 in a track display series, showing the ally the pictures have A little more than 394,000 miles of old-type track; note thin metal strip laid on log track, laid on about 991,859,107 cross- over the ties. Bottom: No. 10, a modern track. become more complex and more inter- ties, accommodate American trains. A Note the greater amount of ballast and ties. esting, and they are completely different train traveling a mile a minute would from any others I have seen. Would you take about 270 days to cover all this 4 miles 3,961 feet. But not all grades are like to know how to make one? track. These tracks are laid on 222,508 cut through tunnels. In hilly southern I find felt particularly suited for miles of right of way, and, of all this Indiana, Pennsylvania Railroad trains nursery pictures. I search coloring books mileage, 79 miles between Wilmington are obliged to climb a 5.89 per cent for designs that are not too intricate, and and Hamlet, North Carolina, is the long- grade, or a height of 413 feet, in a when I find the right picture the work est stretch without a curve. Topography, stretch of track extending more than begins. the location of communities, and the 7,000 feet. This occurs at Madison, In- First, I trace off the picture, drawing problems of land purchase prevent rail- diana. each piece individually, like a picture road right of ways from holding to a In achieving their network across the puzzle. For instance, for Little Miss straight course for very many miles at nation, the railroads are required to cross Muffet I traced the face and hands a stretch. The longest curve negotiated by about 170,000 bridges, the longest one individually, using those tracings as an American railroad is the Pontchar- being the 12-mile stretch across Great patterns from which I cut the hands and train on the Illinois Central, between Salt Lake on the Lucin Cutoff of the face. The hair pattern was cut out of Ruddock and Tunity, Louisiana, where Southern Pacific Railroad. Although the yellow, the dress and bonnet pattern out it sweeps a little more than 9.45 miles bridges and tunnels and curves afford of bright blue. around the shore of Lake Pontchartrain, spectacular sights along railroad right And so the cutting went until I had a just north of New Orleans. The most of ways, the engineer's greatest concern collection of different-colored odd-shaped famous curve is the Horseshoe Bend at lies in the 227,415 highway grade cross- pieces. These pieces were laid out on a Altoona on the Pennsylvania Railroad. ings. His greatest danger lurks there de- pale-blue felt background and pinned The longest tunnel through which spite all the efforts made at crossing in place. Then I sewed each piece from American railway tracks must pass is the protection. He always takes a deep the back, so that the stitches did not Cascade Tunnel on the Great Northern breath of relief when the crossing is show. Next came the embroidery of all Railroad, between Berne and Scenic, behind him. With the highway swarm- the features and lines of the clothes with Washington, in the Cascade Mountains ing with automobiles, it is a wonder that suitable colors of embroidery cotton. —a distance of 7% miles. The oldest the crossing toll does not far exceed its Up in the corner a spider web was tunnel encountered is the Hoosac Tun- present figure. About 33 of every 100 embroidered, and I made a jolly pipe- nel in the northwestern corner of Mas- motor vehicle accidents at grade crossings cleaner spider lifting his hat. Real lace SEPTEMBER 25, 1956 19 struction; thus the seeds of truth fell on MY Share Your Faith her heart one by one. By the time she was ready to return home, Irmgard had resolved to become a member of the Adventist MV Society in her home town in order to become FRAwNTIERS better acquainted with them. Soon after this she requested Bible studies, and be- fore a year had slipped by, Irmgard was among the happy baptismal candidates in her home church. In the meantime she Canadian Youth Rally together they learned that the language had also been bringing her brother to of God is the language of love. the meetings. By M. E. Erickson In addition to Mr. Turansky's speech, How good it is that in his enthusiasm the Canadian Union College group, Peter invited this neighbor girl to attend INNISFREE, ALBERTA, CANADA. directed by Dieter Hain, presented other the MV camp. He was determined to bring at least one soul to God, and he —Canadian Union College's Temperance features that led the youth to become chapter provided the high light for the determined to fight the alcohol problem succeeded. recent MV rally held here. Edward and to serve God faithfully. Turansky won first prize in the school's oratorical contest and was given an Greater New York Riverside opportunity to participate in the North Non-SDA Girl Goes to Church Youth Festival American contest at Kansas City. Adventist Youth Camp By Lee Taylor By W. Raecker NEW YORK.—The world-famous Translated by Eugene Utley Riverside church was host recently to the Greater New York Conference youth Peter wanted to go to the SDA Youth festival, with an attendance of five hun- camp in Germany. Yet, to his surprise, dred. when he invited other young people in A musical feast by the Atlantic Union his small MV Society no one showed College Symphonic Choir, Men's Glee any real interest in going. Not easily Club, three male quartets, and two discouraged, however, he invited a neigh- women's trios, under the direction of Lyle bor girl of his own age who had never Jewell, was conducted from 3:30 to 9:30 been among Adventist young people. on this Sabbath afternoon and evening. Since it happened to be vacation time, G. H. Minchin, college Bible depart- Irmgard said that she would be glad to ment head, delivered an inspirational aft- J. M. Hnatyshyn, Canadian Union Conference go. ernoon sermon and assisted in the ves- temperance secretary, points to the first-prize jingle won by Edward Turansky (right) in 1955. In the scenic forest retreat, 2,500 feet per service. above sea level, she spent twelve d4s There are many reports of those who among one hundred Adventist youth. So received spiritual and inspirational Most of the three hundred youth who much did she enjoy being with these help, and a number of college-age youth attended this rally were bilingual—Eng- young people that she eagerly antici- signified their intention of attending lish and Ukrainian—but in their worship pated the hours of devotion and in- Atlantic Union College.

was stitched to the bottom of the skirt. and a small cowboy throwing a string ing thing responded. Then suddenly out When the picture was complete, the felt lariat. I have also made bunnies with of a hole almost at our feet popped Patty background was glued onto cardboard real bunny-fur tails, and yellow ducklings the woodchuck. His coming was so quick and placed in an inexpensive frame and with orange beaks and feet. So they go, and unexpected it startled us. fastened with brads. I put no glass over each one different from the other, each "There you are, Hi-Bub," I exclaimed this, so it looked almost three dimen- a challenge to make something unusual. as he held out a peanut to reward the sional. They make good gifts, for nothing quite creature for his devotion. "Now do you The other pictures I have done were like them can be bought anywhere. Try understand what a friend is?" made in much the same order. A particu- it some time if you like to sew. You will "Yeth, I know," said the delighted larly successful one was of a small Indian have many ideas of your own to make youngster. "It ith thomeone who popth boy. The background of this was a pale the pictures completely individual. up when you need 'im." green cotton since it was quite a large Not a bad definition of a friend at picture and I wanted to save on the ex- that—just someone who pops up when pense of felt. His bright green clothes you need him. were embroidered with beads and deco- rated with bright felt designs. The band On Wings of Cheer The letter we received came from of his headdress was of felt, and the friends who fit that definition perfectly. feathers were real, bright-red feathers From page 8 Through many years of acquaintance bought in a sporting goods store. Since they have always "popped up" when it had no glass, I sewed each piece on Our quest was not so easy. It was mid- there was a service to perform. Their carefully and well, so the picture may day and the animals had hidden from the cozy forest home lies but a few miles from be dusted with a vacuum cleaner when strong sun. We looked for Stubby, but our Sanctuary. Their letter bore three necessary. he was nowhere around. We looked for signatures: Ray, Ada and June. Ray was Other favorites are a girl with lace- Nuisance, but he was missing. We called a forest ranger, strong, capable, fearless, trimmed nightgown with real buttons, and coaxed, but for a long time not a liv- knowing the woods as few men do. 20 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR YOU can have these valuable reference books at your finger tips for only $2.50 each.

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The perfect book to • • place in the hands of friends. • ADDRESS • • CITY STATE • • II II • M N • I I II ■ • • 14 Ada was the wife and mother, in love is an animal which alone among the what discouraged, even tempted to give with family, home and the wildwood in animals refuses to be satisfied by the ful- up his work. As he was riding past a which they lived. June was their dark- fillment of animal desires." This should small house by the road the large window eyed, dark-haired daughter slightly older be remembered not only during honey- revealed a father and mother and a large than our Hi-Bub, who had such beauty moon days but also through married life. family of children seated around a table. of feature and character that she was the In many cases the honeymoon virtually He stopped his horse and discovered that center of attention wherever she went. kills the love that brought the couple to the father was reading from the Bible These fine people had been our compan- the altar. If it is what it ought to be, and conducting family worship. They all ions on many wilderness adventures. "marriage, instead of being the end of kneeled around the table and each in Their letter reflected considerable ex- love, will be only its beginning." turn offered prayer. With a happy heart citement. It disposed of the greeting, and In the ideal honeymoon, the bride and the circuit rider said aloud, "There is then got down to its purpose. "A little groom are absolutely alone and none of hope, glorious hope for man," and with bird has been telling us a secret," the the time is spent visiting relatives or a smile on his face rode on into the night. letter ran. "It is a nice little bird, and we friends. All by themselves they can best There is glorious hope for happiness in won't tell you what kind it is. The secret adjust themselves to a new and almost the home where the family gathers daily is that your schedule is such you could revolutionary experience in life. If they at the altar of prayer and keeps the home come to the northwoods for Christmas. are wise, they will avoid long and tire- fires burning. The same bird says that you would come some trips, which produce fatigue or Next Week: The Home. if you had a place to stay. We told the strain. The period should never be less bird you do have a place to stay. Our than a week and from two to four weeks home is just yearning for you, and so is better for such an important adjust- are our hearts. We have a guest room, and ment. The wedding if necessary should we have plans for the happiest Christmas be postponed until it and the honeymoon Pilots we ever knew. Will you come, and make can be made a real success, for the future From page 11 these plans come true?" happiness is involved. "Blessed Ray and Ada," I said as One of the first acts of the couple, even Hemisphere—we went on an Argentine Giny finished reading the letter aloud. on the first day of their honeymoon, boat to the southern tip of South Amer- "They would be the ones to suggest that." should be the setting up of the family ica and through the Straits of Magellan "We can do it, can't we?" asked Giny in order to sail up the west coast, reach- anxiously. ing California just six weeks after leav- "Well, I had planned to do some writ- ing Buenos Aires. ing at that time," I said cautiously. He who serves his brother best gets I noticed a very nondescript, unim- "But if we go up there, you'll have nearer God than all the rest.—Ruskin. pressive man in plain clothes who ate more to write about," she declared. at the officers' table. "Who is he?" I Our letter went back on the first mail. asked, and was told, "He is the Chilean We would be glad to come, we said. We pilot who will take us through the could arrive the day before Christmas Straits." and stay for several days. We re- altar as the center of home life. One When we entered the Straits the sun quested an old-fashioned Christmas. "Just writer said: "There should be three was rising every morning at nine and one question we want to ask," our letter parties to the marriage bond—the man, setting at five in the afternoon. The said. "That little bird that has been the woman, and Christ. Christ should be glaciers came right down to the edge of whispering so much—by any chance did the head, the guide, the mediator, the the black waters. Icicles hung from the it lisp somewhat, and pronounce my name unseen partner at all times." If they deck where we would soon be swimming Tham Cammel?" need Christ to prepare each for the other and taking sun baths. It was then that "It will be an old-fashioned Christmas," and bring them together, they also need the pilot took over. For seventy-two read the reply that came immediately. Him to hold them together in a happy hours he stayed on the bridge, guiding There will be dinner, a Christmas love relationship. our ship through the puzzling labyrinth tree, a grab bag—fun, food and friends. A study of twenty-two thousand mar- of the Straits. We were grateful to him We will meet you at the train." A post- riages showed that although there is one for a safe trip through dangerous wa- script added, "Yes, the little bird did divorce to every six marriages in this ters. He had boarded ship in Buenos lisp, and he called you Tham Cammel. If country, among active Christians there is Aires and would disembark in Valpa- you see him, don't you dare scold him. less than one divorce to every fifty mar- raiso, Chile. He made the long trip and He did this in a way that was all too cute. riages. Another survey showed that mar- was paid for all those days of travel Besides, if you had just written us as you riages without religious ceremonies are just to guide us during a relatively small should that you wanted to come, the little more than twice as likely to end in part of the voyage. Again I realized the bird could have saved his whispering. divorce as those performed by ministers. importance of the pilot and his work. Incidentally, we believe this same whisper- A young Christian husband said: "Pray- We have a heavenly Pilot who prom- ing, lisping bird is quite smitten with ing out loud together is the thing that ises us, "I will instruct thee and teach our June!" means most in our marriage. When we thee in the way which thou shalt go: I Next week: Chapters IX and X. do this at night, we just can't go to bed will guide thee with mine eye." The angry." dark flood waters may threaten to over- Since each person has an individuality flow me. The swift currents of life may all his own, and no two persons are alike sweep me far from my intended route. or ever can be, there are bound to be The night may seem hopelessly dark. Marriage differences of opinion between husband I may feel alone in a friendless world. From page 16 and wife, but these cannot divide or But He will guide me if I only let Him. disrupt in the atmosphere of prayer. "Jesus, Saviour, pilot me other things that have to do with the Years ago a circuit rider was on his way Over life's tempestuous sea; highest form of happiness between hu- home on horseback one Sunday night Unknown waves before me roll, man beings. after meeting two or three preaching ap- Hiding rock and treacherous shoal; Speaking of marital intimacies during pointments on the plains of Montana. His Chart and compass come from Thee; this period, Dr. Bernard Bell said: "Man audiences were small and he was some- Jesus, Saviour, pilot me." 22 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR

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SEPTEMBER 25, 1956 23 AN artificial heart-lung can be used to A RARE autograph of one of the signers take over the work of these organs during of the Declaration of Independence, Button major heart surgery. This new and efficient Gwinnett, was given by accident to the Yale device consists of a series of plastic bags University Library concealed in a packet of used in connection with special electric family papers dating back to the Revolu- pumps. The heart-lung removes carbon di- tionary period. Gwinnett's signature is said oxide and adds oxygen to the blood, by-pass- to be the rarest of all the Declaration sign- ing the heart so that surgeons can work in- ers. Fewer than fifty specimens of his hand- side the heart chambers. Four out of five pa- writing, only four of them more than sig- tients have been successfully operated on natures, have been found. The paper was a with this device, and the fifth patient, a two- receipt reading: "Recd. october 12th 1762 of month-old baby, survived, but its defect (an Mr. Ben. Davies One hundred and seven abnormality involving all the major blood pounds fourteen shillings & seven pence in vessels entering and leaving the heart) Ballance of all Accounts as witness my hand could not be remedied surgically. —New York—Button Gwinnett." it. THE typical long-lived dog, according to I°. FIFTY years ago in THE YOUTH'S IN- a recent survey of 200 aging dogs, is male, STRUCTOR: "There are to-day one hundred not particularly big, of mixed breed, and and fifty thousand kinds of postal cards was born in a city or suburb. He sleeps in- extant in the United States. To-morrow there doors all his life and gets exercise by run- may be two hundred thousand, and next ning around the back yard and going for week three, if "postalcarditis" becomes more walks on a leash. He does not get regular epidemic. It certainly is on the increase. physical checkups, but occasionally requires Valentine postal cards, Christmas postal veterinary care. The recipe for canine lon- cards, foreign postal cards, city postal cards, sentimental postal cards, comic postal cards, gevity includes a happy home, a regular diet BEFORE eating a scorpion, the baboon is ▪ art postal cards, leather, wooden, and papier- of dog food and meat, plenty of fresh air, always careful to remove the "sting." and a "good mental outlook." mache postal cards—the list is endless, and THE average housewife walks about six new additions appear every day." BY the use of a mechanical kidney, bar- I.. miles a day, and the average nurse, ten miles. biturates in poisonous doses can be success- OF 600 million people living in malarial fully washed from the human body, reports zones, 486 million can and should have ab- ▪ AFTER all the years man has exploited a group of Washington, D.C., researchers. A the honeybee, some bees have found a way solute protection against malaria in the next tube from the machine is attached to an ar- to outwit him. From certain species of rho- ten years, the World Health Organization tery and the blood is circulated through the dodendron they produce a honey on which estimates. WHO is planning total eradica- machine, where it is washed by a solution bees thrive—but it is poisonous to people. tion of the Anopheles mosquito, because, for that removes the drug before the blood re- one reason, one species has already developed turns to the body. W.' CHILDREN under fourteen can actually high resistance to certain insecticides. pet and play with the animals at a unique TWENTY-FIVE years ago in THE YOUTH'S children's zoo at the Bronx Zoo. Adults are "" LIGHTNING flashing between the earth and INSTRUCTOR: "Fourteen employees of the admitted to the "zoo within a zoo" only if the clouds continuously recharges nature's Census Bureau at Washington, D.C., in- accompanied by a child, which is sure to electrical system, scientists believe. It also cluding several young women, have been make youngsters feel like rather important combines nitrogen and oxygen in the air to dismissed for leaving their desks to smoke visitors. provide an estimated 100 million tons of plant outside the bureau building. Smoking in of- food each year. fice hours is forbidden, and the rule is being FOLSOM DAM, a $62 million project on the strictly enforced." American River in California, which has A THREE-YEAR-OLD pony was presented as taken almost seven years to build, was dedi- a gift to Prince Charles of England by ▪ HELL GATE, a channel between the bor- cated early in May. Flooding of the Ameri- Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and ough of Queens and Ward's Island in New can River caused an estimated average dam- Nikita S. Khrushchev during their recent York's East River, has been a ship's grave- age of $14 million annually. During the ex- visit to Britain. yard for many years. Yet, strangely enough, tensive floods in California in December, 1955, the name Hell Gate is the English version M.' NORWEGIAN whaling companies lost 8 fac- Folsom Dam saved the city of Sacramento of the Dutch Hellegat, which means "beau- tory ships and 36 catcher vessels during from disaster. tiful passage." World War II. By 1948 the fleet had been A NEW world record blue marlin, 796 fully restored. THE first degree in music was awarded ▪ pounds, 15 feet in length, and 64 inches in I.' ABOUT 26 million families in the U.S. take by Spain's University of Salamanca, founded girth, has been landed near Honolulu by in 1243, claims one authority. It proclaimed upward of 500 million photographs a year, Pablo Libero, first mate on the charter fishing an increasing number of them in full color. a student "Master of the Organ." Cambridge boat Kumu. It is the first record-size blue University in Britain conferred its first de- marlin caught in that portion of the Pacific THE green turtle of the West Indies some- gree in music in 1463. Ocean. Two former blue marlin record hold- times reaches a weight of 600 pounds. IN the Chinese language only one symbol ers, weighing 742 pounds and 756 pounds, is used to convey the meaning of our two were caught off Bimini, Bahamas, and San 11".• MORE than 2.25 million patents have been words "serenity" and "music." In their an- Juan, Puerto Rico, respectively. issued in the United States since 1899. cient wisdom, the Chinese knew that the two go hand in hand.

▪ THE Wren Building of the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, If you have ever raised tropical fish, you know how important a is the oldest academic building standing in yew balanced aquarium is. Getting just enough light, warmth, plant life, the United States. and scavengers has probably led you to marvel at the wonders of the sea—how an infinite variety of living creatures and plants each contribute something HOUSEFLIES are proven carriers of hu- ▪ to an ever-living, never-changing cycle. man diseases, such as dysentery, diarrhea, typhoid fever, cholera, and severe eye inflam- All nature contains marvels just as great. Even thunderstorms have their place in mation. maintaining the water table and nurturing the vegetation through the rain they bring, as well as balancing earth's electrical account and fertilizing the soil by means of the A BABY hippopotamus often rides on his lightning. mother's back, even when she is submerged. Who but God Himself could plan such an interlocking order of things? "He causeth I.. THE average American will eat his weight the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; in food every six to eight weeks. he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries." DON YOST