T all happened in an instant. (As a matter of fact, that is the way I most of the things that change the course of our lives do happen, I have found.) The digit was caught; there was a crunching sound, and then it was gone. I joined the great army of the permanently disabled. For many days there came to me a sickening realization of certain things which I would never be able to do again. Even the condolence of my friends was bittersweet, for they in- variably said, "How fortunate that it is your left hand"—and I am left- handed ! There was some small com- fort in the fact that "it could have been worse." I had lost only a thumb ; I had the other four digits left. There are many things I can do, yet. But it is not to record the mental agonies of a partial cripple that I write, but to tell you the wonderful facts of the mental reaction that fol- lowed my accident. Man is a creature of habit—too much a creature of habit for the good of his mental health. I began to dis- cover for myself how little of my brain power I was actually using, how easily possible it is to learn a new and better way to do what you formerly did as a matter of habit. Left-handedness proved no serious handicap in writing when I put my mind to it and forced the right hand Sometimes God's Best Gifts Are What Seem to Be Our Worst Troubles to do better what the left hand had been doing. Since the small acci- dent, life has been one continual thrill of learning to do another way, gen- erally a better way, what was formerly done with the trusty left 41 -Occident and -Oa hand. I began to look around me at other cripples. No longer do I pity the By G. H. JEYS man with only one arm or one leg. I actually find myself envying him the new things he has learned which told me in all earnestness that the truly, for I wa hed him dress, and I could not and would not learn be- accident that had deprived him of eat, and in all rry him cause I had not the necessity to know ! one hand and almost all of the other, with an assurance sAfTorail,p, A whole new world of investigation was the best thing that could have that are not often foun inAmerippTed opened to my astonished mind. I met happened to him. Before the accident people. a young man en route from San he was a "bum." Now he is a self- I met another man who, like my- Francisco to Chicago. We were respecting citizen, an industrial chem- self, was a printer. He had no hands traveling companions for two days. ist, earning a good salary, and he at all, only the stubs of his arms, and His left hand was completely gone. was on his way to a promotion in yet he is the best typesetter in the There remained but the index finger Chicago. He told me with some pride rather large city in which he lives and thumb of the other hand. Surely that he could perform delicate experi- and works. The wonderful fact of this man was handicapped. But I ments that men with two hands would mental adaptability came to his rescue. was prepared to believe him when he not undertake. I knew that he spoke From the almost (Turn to page I2) VOL. 88. NO. 24 JUNE 11, 1940 At13 Ida gt Ova"'

BARGAIN ! A bargain ! and that function. Music wasn't his would not listen. She was getting a A Who isn't thrilled at the pros- major, nor yet his minor, but it was bargain ! But she had only glanced pect, whether its enticing invitation much more interesting than chemistry at the price tag! comes to us over the ether waves or and bacteriology. He was president After she had said the final "I do," by way of newspaper advertisements? of this club and vice-president of and the mist of glamour which had 'Tis so very human—this tendency that. He had an active part in the surrounded him had been dispelled toward bargain hunting—this "hope subscription campaign for the school by the bright sunlight of reality, she that springs eternal" that somehow, paper, in the drive to raise money for was appalled at what she had done. someday we can get something desir- a swimming pool, and in campus ac- Why, she didn't even know this man able for nothing—or at least for a tivities generally. she had married ! But she couldn't small part of its real worth. No one of these things took much exchange him—not then ! All sales Without a second look at the price time, as advertised, but as lie ac- had been final. tag, without stopping to carefully and cepted more and more extracurricular She never says anything about the thoughtfully examine the quality of responsibilities, he "fell off the honor misery of the two years she tried to the merchandise on the bargain coun- roll ;" and when the senior class was make the best of a bad bargain, but ter. we cry: "I'll take it," only to ready to organize, he was dismayed she asks me to warn the young peo- discover how more than true it is at the array of "incompletes" and ple who read this page not to let that—well—"a fool and his money" grades in the "c" and "d" brackets their good sense mire in the sands of —or whatever he may have used for which stood on his record. Also there sentiment when it comes to things money—"are soon parted." was an "f" or two that he had all but matrimonial. Be sure that the man I know ! Once upon a time I forgotten. or the girl who is your "one and bought a pair of bargain shoes. They Frantically he went to work to only" is genuine through and through. were of excellent quality, in good clear them off. But he found himself "Listen to advice and warnings," she style, just the color I wanted, and so mired in the welter of bargain- pleads, "and before you invest, in- not a thing in the world was wrong counter activities that he had a hard vestigate." with them except—they were just a time extricating himself to concen- trifle too short. But couldn't one trate on plain, unadorned lessons. stand a little distress for five dollars? His class graduated the other night _TACK had a good position, was well What a saving! With an ever-so- —but without Albert. thought of in the community, and thrifty feeling I started off on a va- He has learned to his dismay that in a few months was to establish his cation, wearing my new shoes. Oh ! no worth-while school offers mental own home. All things considered, no The chiropodist charged me many furniture at bargain prices. young man ever had brighter pros- times five dollars ! I had to discard Examine the price tag of the next pects. But one evening he had op- the shoes while they were still per- activity that is glibly advertised. "It portunity to get what he considered, fectly good ! And I am still paying will take only a few minutes," prom- at first glance, a bargain. plenty for my folly in the coin of dis- ises the enthusiastic salesman. Make A girl with a lurid complexion and comfort. sure of that ! Most things, to be a glib tongue, whom he would have Yes, the most expensive things are worth while, need and demand solid been ashamed to introduce to his sometimes the cheapest in the end. time. Look past the bargain price, fiancee ! A glass of liquor—his first ! And the cheapest things are some- and don't let anybody fool you! The An automobile ride ! An accident ! times the most expensive in the end. bargain may be highly expensive in And the youth who prided himself For when one sets out to acquire the coin that you can't afford to spend on his shrewdness in getting real needfuls of a successful life, there that way. value for his money when he bought are more factors to be considered clothing or real estate, discovered that than the mere first cost. he had paid a tremendous price for his first drink. LARA LEE thought she was If he had only studied the price tag C getting a bargain. She met her before he took it ! AKE an education for instance. prince charming several times casu- TAA Thinking back over the school ally, went out with him twice, listened year, have you been willing to pay when he declared that he had "fallen" the price for the best—which alone in love, promised to marry him, know- HAT will you have ?' quoth is worth having—or have you been ing nothing save what he chose to WGod ; 'take it, and pay for it.' " looking for, and investing in, so- tell her of his circumstances, his What a pity that we humans so oft,.n called bargains? family, his background. Work which forget this sage observation of Ralph Albert is popular—one of these neither could leave separated them for Waldo Emerson. For perhaps there genial boys who always has a smile, the better part of a year, and during is no other fact that is so hard for ready wit, abundant self-assurance, that time she idealized him and made us to accept as that life runs no free who loves the limelight, and is a all preparations for their marriage. accounts; that there is a price tag natural leader. But scholarship— Friends who knew the man, and knew on all of our desires, with nothing somehow he considered that second- that he was a poor risk not only free to be had; and that soon or late ary among the benefits to be derived financially, but as to ability, as to we must pay it—just as sure as sure! from college. integrity, as to health, and as to So Albert sang in the glee club, and future possibilities, warned her, urged took on solo and quartet work for this her, reasoned with her—but she ( ayfr,-ae

VOL. 88. NO. 24 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, JUNE II, 1940 ONE YEAR, $1.95 Published by the Seventh-day Adventists. Printed every Tuesday by the Review and Herald Publishing Assn., at Takoma Park, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Entered as second-class matter, August 14, 1903, at the post office at Washington, D.C., under the. Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. with the tail of hi 141t1( C)44starch$ turban. At the sleepy ation of Rawalpindi, The eat' is Paw Sheru helped star cffiith-assenible- - the luggage, a i then do-nay _boAr9r , 1 two was free to roam aroana---'add. investigate sole of the new- and - By MILDRED A. R. SMITH strange sights.e was shy, and did not go far from the station, but he4 , noticed the jungle ti t,-crept up (.o\ ''' the very buildings, at&-coti4&ed it HERU, how would you like to Sheru, proudly arrayed in clean white with the undulating desert sand dunes go with us tomorrow when we clothing with a stiffly starched tur- with their sagebrush and scarlet- S leave for Kashmir ?" ban on his head, came to the bunga- flowering thorn bushes which he "Sahib ! Surely you could not low. Soon a procession of white- knew so well at home. Sprays of the mean to take me, your humble serv- robed servants was silhouetted against fragrant yellow jasmine growing over ant ! Ah, but I would be the happi- the brilliant sunrise as they plodded the station building he plucked and est lad in the whole of the Punjab. single file across the plowed field thrust into his straight black hair, and you could trust me to be faithful carrying suitcases, boxes, and trunks which was cut straight across in a and loyal, for this honor overwhelms to the silent little station. Sheru long bob after the Punjabi fashion. me." stepped along proudly, leading Doonie, The other Indian passengers were all Bowing low, Sheru walked sedately a tail-wagging Airedale. Puffing and squatting around the station eating, for a few yards, and then, with a yawning, the stationmaster hoisted gossiping, sleeping, and smoking sudden realization of the pleasures in the luggage up and stowed it away, hookahs in lazy comfort in the after- store for him, he cast dignity to the while an anxious Punjabi father asked noon sun. Sheru alone, of all the winds and streaked across the com- the missionary for assurance of the Indian group, wandered about, curious pound to his father's house in the safekeeping of his son. Sheru smiled, and half-frightened. Although he servants' quarters. with a trembling at the corners of hesitated to admit it, he was glad to Sheru was a Punjabi lad about his mouth, and quickly turned away be put to work again loading luggage eighteen years old. He worked as his head as the procession started and dog into the lorry hired to take gardener and general handy man on toward the mission across fields now the missionary family from Rawal- a mission station in North India. The shimmering under the fierce rays of pindi to Kashmir. younger son of one of the most the morning sun. Mile after mile the lorry chugged, trusted workers at the mission, he No one could have been more help- all upgrade into the foothills of the had lived all his life in an atmosphere ful than Sheru. He shoved the bags Himalaya Mountains. Sheru gazed of Christianity. He had never gone back onto the overhead shelves as wide-eyed over the sheer precipices, many miles from home, and knew they slid down, kept an eye on the and shuddered as he looked down into very little of the vice and evil with dog, spun long and fantastic tales to the roaring waters of the Jhelum River which most Indian boys of his age amuse the girls, and made himself as far below the road. When the lorry are well acquainted. Tall, like the agreeable as possible. As the train finally wheezed over the io,000 foot average Punjabi, Sheru had a pleas- passed station after station, his eyes pass with its radiator steaming and ant face and an even disposition grew bigger and bigger. He drank its engine laboring, Kashmir scenery, which was seldom upset. Sheru had in the new sights, sounds, and odors legendary for beauty, began with the had very little education, for he much so eagerly that Pastor Smith felt graceful Lombardy poplars in double preferred struggling with a hoe or a amply repaid for his decision. rows, fields of waving red poppies, shovel to guiding a stubborn pen over The hot plains were left far be- and the white-capped mountains form- paper that would get blotted and hind, and hills began to rise on either ing a rim around green valleys with smeared with ink. side of the track. They were over- their meadows and huge sycamore On this unbearably hot summer grown with tall jungle trees smothered trees. Sheru was speechless with the day, plump, brown-eyed Pastor Smith in luxuriant flower-laden vines. Oc- majesty of it. was roping trunks and boxes in readi- casionally a bear lumbered off into When the city of Srinagar, with ness for a much-needed vacation in the jungle, or a black buck ran from its many canals and waterways—the Kashmir. One stubborn lid would the sound of the locomotive whistle. Venice of India—was reached, Pastor not close, and the perspiration stood Sheru, with his eyes full of cinders Smith rented a houseboat and a cook in beads on his forehead as his two —owing to the fact that he kept his boat. Sheru helped with all the mov- little girls, blonde and brunette, stood head out of the window almost con- ing in of luggage and the settling of on the lid to force it down. There stantly—smiled all over his honest furniture, and then went to the cook was no use; something else must be brown face, and wiped away cinders boat while the job of towing the done. So Sheru was called in, and as he securely fastened the lock and tied the ropes, the look on his face was so wistful that Mrs. Smith, coming out of the kitchen with her hands and apron covered with flour, to see how the packing was pro- gressing, caught her hus- band's eye and said softly, "Surely we could make room for him." Early the next morning

It Was in a Houseboat Like One of These That the Mission Family Spent This Memorable Vacation PAGE 3 houseboat to Chanar Bhag began. It not anxious, for he was old enough and linen had been taken the night be- was Sheru's first boat ride. Fright- to take care of himself. They finished fore, and witnesses had seen Sheru ened at first, he clung desperately to the packing, and on the evening be- entering the boat very unceremoni- the door frame, but soon became used fore they were to leave, everything ously through a window, and leaving to the slight motion, and settled his was in readiness for an early start. with a sack packed full. Pastor few belongings in the dark and Sitting on the porch on the roof of Smith was greatly perturbed, and smoke-begrimed corner assigned to the houseboat, Mrs. Smith was rest- gave the officer his word that Sheru him. ing quietly and the girls were drop- was a Christian boy who would not Sheru's first real vacation had be- ping crumbs to the fish, while the do such a thing. But Sheru said gun, and as the days passed, with new scratching of a pen on paper showed nothing. sights and scenes and acquaintances, that Pastor Smith was busy. Sud- His appearance, however, was so he enjoyed more freedom than he had denly, aboard the cook boat, a fierce guilty that the officer dragged him ever been allowed before. For two or storm of sound arose. Sharp words away, stumbling and resisting, to the three weeks he never left the house- and curses were thrown back and city jail. Pastor Smith worked hour boat without the knowledge of either forth between the servants of a after hour and late into the night Pastor or Mrs. Smith, but as he be- neighboring houseboat and those pleading to have Sheru set free. He gan to get acquainted with young working for Pastor Smith. Hearing cajoled and reasoned with the angry Kashmiri men of his own age, he was the sounds of angry dispute, Pastor mob until after midnight. Then the away more and more. Pastor Smith Smith rushed down the flimsy stairs officer came back to tell him that the did not worry, but told Sheru that he to the ground, and seeing Sheru be- boy had confessed and told the whole might go, just so he kept out of tween the two groups, pale and story. trouble. frightened, he asked the reason for In deep humiliation, and with Sheru was having a good time. this disturbance. Sheru only stam- righteous indignation seething within Away from his father and the mis- mered and tried to push his way him, Pastor Smith returned to the sion station, he felt that he was at through the crowd. houseboat to tell his wife what had last seeing the world, and he reveled A policeman on his beat heard the happened. Sheru, it seemed, had be- in the freedom of his days. He swelling murmur of angry voices, and, come acquainted with some young bought bright new shirts, and wore coming to the mob, caught sight of men from the town who took him his turban starched so stiffly that the Sheru between the two opposing around with them to have a good tail spread fanshape and fairly crowds. Taking him by the shoulder time. He had been flattered by their creaked when he turned his head. He and shaking him roughly, he asked attentions, and pleased with the gay learned to go about Srinagar by him- what the matter was. Before Sheru life he was leading. When his com- self, and visited the shops and the could answer, the mob began scream- rades felt that they had him com- flower-filled gardens where his friends ing and shouting a story which grew pletely won, they told him a "trick" spent their time. Sheru was being as it passed from mouth to mouth. they were going to play on the serv- polished and refined. His crude vil- "He is a wicked man !" "He stole ants of the next houseboat. Sheru lage manners did not fit in with his our master's belongings in the dark was to go in quietly and remove the comrades' city-bred airs, and a new of the night." "Away with the plains- best china, silver, and linen, "just to feeling of self-possession took the man; he brings dishonor to our city !" give them a fright." Poor Sheru, place of his old diffidence and sim- "To the jail with the country thief !" blinded by flattery, unused to the plicity. By main force, the mob was finally wiles of city thieves, fell into the The six weeks passed rapidly, and quieted, and the police officer de- trap set for him, and promised to be Pastor Smith and his family began to manded an explanation. Sheru, it the innocent cat's paw in the sup- prepare for the journey home. They appeared, was being accused of a posed joke. He had removed the had noticed that Sheru was gone a theft which had occurred in the loot, and given it to his comrades, great deal of the time, but they were neighboring houseboat. Silver, china, who laughed exultantly in his face and then sped away into the moon- less night, where, he could not tell. And Sheru, who had been seen enter- ing and leaving the houseboat, was left to pay the penalty. "Evil associates !" groaned Mrs. By OPALOPAL HOOVER YOUNG Smith. "We must get the boy borne to his father, for we promised to keep him safe." ABOUT SHOE BOXES Early the next morning Pastor Smith went again to the officer and AVE you forgotten the thrill you had when as a child you trudged begged for Sheru's release. He H along the sidewalk in front of your home at dusk, proudly dragging finally had to appeal to the chief of behind you a glorified shoe box that glowed from the light of a candle the police force in Srinagar; and at shining through colored windows, a creation you called a streetcar? last, on promising that the prisoner Shoe boxes are interesting. Besides the use for which they were would leave immediately and would originally intended, that of holding shoes, they can be used for such never set foot in Kashmir again, practical things as carrying lunches; for exciting things like bonfires; Pastor Smith was given permission or for works of art, such as May baskets, all frilled up with crepe- to go to the jail and get him, after paper ruffles and decked with stars. paying a heavy fine. "Give her a shoe box, a pair of scissors, and paste, and she can The long trip to the jail was made, make anything," said a man admiring the artistic ability of his wife. and a pale, humble, ashamed, and Of course, a shoe box may just sit empty on a shelf; and that's bedraggled Sheru, with downcast face, really what started my train of thoughts on shoe boxes. I was think- came out and climbed into the back ing of some persons who remind me very much of an empty shoe box of the lorry without a word. Mile on a shelf. Nothing seems to happen to liven up their existence; no after mile he sat looking at the floor ; imaginative power seems to awaken them to usefulness or to beauty. occasionally he wiped his eyes sur- What a• great thing is this life of ours! How it can glow and glisten reptitiously on the limp tail of his and thrill when once the vision of service shines into the soul. Given sorry-looking turban. Pastor Smith that vision, what a myriad of useful, beautiful things will emanate sat with his wife in silence, letting from the simplest of us! the lesson go (Turn to page 13) PAGE 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Have you decided just what you are going to do this summer? Whatever your plans are, they are not to interfere with your being my bridesmaid, of course," chatted Gretly as the two girls seated themselves on a bench under a linden tree on the campus. "I'm going to work in the hos- pital here. You know how I enjoy nursing; so while you are taking care of your husband and his par- ish, I'll be taking care of the sick, and we shall both be happy," Bertha went on blithely. "But there is one thing," Gretly continued, "that haunts me. You know there is continual talk about war. It doesn't seem possible that in 1914 people could talk about Happy Times These Young People Had Together in the Seminary at Friedensau, Germany war, does it? How could I bear to see Albert go to war? You know how sensitive and fine he is. He can hardly bear to kill an insect, and his whole heart is set on being an evangelist. He's all afire with enthusiasm for his work. I do qtanye nee tie War hope there will be no war ! Oh, there he is now, going into the boys' wing," Gretly broke off, and both girls looked up to see a tall, fair-haired young Nordic giant Ao-vihnce going up the steps of the boys' dormitory. He saw them, and waved his hand as he passed into the building. As Bertha saw the By GLADYS BEACH happiness in the faces of her friends, she wished in her heart that they could ever keep this HE warm spring sunshine -But liebe Bertha, I shall always youthful joy born of young love. filtered through the lacy tree- love you, too, as you well know. How Ttops, casting mosaic shadows on could I help it when you have sweet- It was 1916. The first World War the old gray stone walls of the semi- ened my life more than you can im- was raging. Who can forget that nary. A few rays were caught in agine these years we've been com- year, or those that preceded and fol- the blond tresses of the two young rades? But hasn't it all come out lowed it? For two years that gi- girls who were coming down the like a beautiful dream? I have to gantic struggle that was rapidly steps, and rested lovingly for a mo- pinch myself sometimes to actually drawing all the great nations of the ment on each golden head before fall- believe it. I'm going to be a min- world into its embrace had been going ing into little pools of sunlight on the ister's wife. You know my father on. Millions had already fallen on pavement. and mother dedicated me to the Lord the fields of battle. How many youth- "Oh, Bertha, it just doesn't seem when they first accepted the truth of ful dreams were crushed and de- possible that school will close tomor- the third angel's message, and that's stroyed during those frightful years row. How swiftly the time has why they sent me to Friedensau. between 1914 and 1918 ! Who can flown ! Why, I've been here four They wanted me to find a place to estimate the sorrow and the number years, but it seems only yesterday that work for the Saviour. Oh, I'm so of broken hearts? Not only were I first came from Bavaria, so shy and glad for the things I've learned here. men's lives being snuffed out by ruth- timid, with my hair in two long I want to help Albert in his work all less war machines, but disease and braids down my back. Where have I can. He is going to be a successful pestilence were taking their toll of the years gone? I shall miss you so evangelist someday, I'm sure. That human lives. much ; but you'll write often, won't is his great dream. But you, Bertha, Word came that thousands of Ger- you?" Thus spoke the taller of the you aren't marrying just yet, for your man soldiers in Russia were dying of two girls as she put her arm across Hans has another year or so in school. dys,entery, and that a siege of the shoulder of her companion. "But, Gretly, you know you will not miss me at all," teased her chum. "Albert will occupy all your thoughts, and you will be embroidering every spare minute on your trousseau, as do all good German girls who are plan- ning to be married in three months' time." Bertha squeezed her arm lovingly as if she was happy for her friend in spite of the fact that some- one else had first place in her affec- tions now. A shy blush transfused Gretly's fair skin, and her eyes were 1 9 1 6 ! The First World bright with happiness as she answered, War Was Raging! JUNE 11, 1940 PAGE 5 cholera was raging. The call came the futility and horrors of war under- for volunteer German nurses to go to went a change. She was filled with Russia for service. righteous indignation when she One of the young women who thought of Albert and Gretly, at responded to the call was Bertha, who whose wedding she had been present. had received her training in the sani- beginning life together with such tarium at Friedensau. From the clean great hopes and dreams of high en- and well-ordered corridors of a Sev- deavors for the Prince of peace, but enth-day Adventist hospital, she went having their dreams crushed and to Russia to become a nurse among brqken by the decrees of wicked men, unforgettable scenes of horror. Hun- who will ever offer the young as dreds of sick soldiers everywhere, sacrifices to the gods of war. No, no, with few doctors and nurses to care it was wrong! Cruel ! Here was for them, limited supplies of medi- this noble minister forced to fight on cine, and a great scarcity of food ! battlefields from which his soul re- How could a young nurse cope with coiled, made to leave his wife and such a situation? But Bertha worked -acceptance child and the work he loved. Now untiringly and displayed skill and perhaps he would die, for she knew courage. She readily gained the favor he was desperately ill from this dis- of the supervisors and the doctors, By VELMA DAVIES ease which rarely loosens its grasp and many responsibilities were placed upon a victim. upon her young shoulders. She be- "No, no !" she would not let him came a favorite among the sick and ITH weary feet I stumbled on die ! God would help her. He should wounded because of her quiet, re- W a darkened path: go back to Gretly yet. She prayed fined influence. Many called for her I needed help and strength, as she never had prayed before in but knew not how when the fear of death was upon To find it. Peace and comfort were her life. And God heard her cry of them. unknown to me; anguish. There on the bleak steppes One night when Bertha had been Thy love was not the stronghold of Russia, thousands of miles from assigned to night duty, word came it is now. home, the heavenly Father's all-seeing that hundreds of new soldiers were eye of love looked down upon His At night my heart and mind were arriving, ill and dying with the fatal troubled and oppressed. children—and heard their cry for cholera. Orders were given that she They dwelt on problems that I help. should go down the rows between the feared to meet. Bertha obtained special permission cots and stretchers and blankets on But that is past since I have heard to nurse her friend during the day. those blessed words, the floor which held those who .were "Come, loved one, cast thy bur- Sleep, fatigue, weariness, were all not fortunate enough to have a more dens at My feet." forgotten. She did not spare herself comfortable bed, and obtain the name in her ministration. Every treatment and address of each soldier. And so, Thy word is now a lamp unto my which her skill and knowledge could like the "Lady With the Lamp," who darkened path. conceive, she employed. It was with Thou art my shield and strength had been an angel of mercy to sick when fears assail. great relief that she heard the doctor soldiers in the century before her, I put my trust in Thee with simple, say that Albert had not had the Bertha took her flashlight, pen, and childlike faith, cholera, but an unusually hard case paper, and began her task. And know I have a Friend who of dysentery. This gave her cour- Her soul was sick, and her deep- will not fail. age and hope. and new determination est pity was aroused, despite the fact My loving Shepherd clasps me to save him with God's help. Her that she had witnessed similar scenes closely to His breast— labor was not in vain. A few days for weeks. The faces of the soldiers I, His lost sheep, who once the later the pain and fever had sub- were pinched and drawn with pain wrong way trod. sided, and her patient was on the and suffering. Some were moaning For Jesus, who once left His throne road to recovery. to die for me, in agony. Others were unconscious. I raise my heart in thankfulness, Many pleasant hours were passed Then she would reach for the chain dear God. recalling happy memories, and letters around their necks which held the were dispatched to Gretly, who was piece of wood on which were written overcome with joy that her husband their names and addresses. (The e was well, having been nursed back were called the "death disks" by the to health by her dearest friend of soldiers. How many were the many, are you? Your voice seems college days. mothers, . wives, and other relatives familiar." He spoke slowly and More than a score of years have who, during those "years of tears," painfully. passed since Albert and Bertha met received these disks "with regrets" Bertha flashed the light closer for in a field hospital on the steppes of from the war department—instead of a better view of his features. Was Russia. God has abundantly blesse I the boy who never came back.) it possible? Could it be? Why, yes, both of them. Albert was finally Others were able to tell their names it was Albert—her dear Gretly's hus- able to return to his wife and family. between gasps; still others were able band ! Friend of her happy school and they have done a noble work in to speak more distinctly. days! the service of the heavenly Father. On the young nurse went until she "Albert, it is you ! Yes, I am After the war, Bertha married her came to a cot near the end of a row. Bertha. How strange are the ways Hans, who also became a minister. She bent to catch the words of its of Providence ! You and I meet in and she has labored untiringly by his occupant. He was praying. Some- a field hospital in Russia. How side for many years in a Spanish thing in the way the hair fell back utterly overwhelming !" mission field. Two charming daugh- from his forehead seemed strangely The rest of the evening was like ters have come into their home, of familiar. She bent closer. "I am a dream to Bertha. She mechanically whom one was recently married to a Schwester Bertha. Can you tell me fulfilled her duties, but all the time young Frenchman and has gone with your name, bitte, and where you live?" her thoughts were with Albert and him in response to a mission call to Then a voice slightly eager came their singular meeting after two years. Madagascar. How true it is that from the sick soldier. "Schwester That night something just seemed to there is no room for enmities and Bertha? You aren't Bertha—who snap inside of Bertha. Her quiet national hatreds when God's love is went to school in Friedensau, in Ger- reserve and inevitable acceptance of in the heart. PAGE 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR town of Gary, Indiana, we came out into the dune country. Here the Indiana State dune park is located, a beautiful region set aside to pre- serve the native vegetation which has been almost destroyed by the growth of the cities in this region. Not many miles farther east the highway runs out into more rounding hills, which are covered with oaks and other hardwood trees, the beginnings of the northern forests. Little lakes be- gan to appear, oftentimes dotted with pure-white water lilies, as well as with yellow lilies. Bird life began to be abundant. Before we had traveled many miles we crossed the Michigan in the qteat State line and found a suitable camp- ing spot beside one of these lakes. The next day we visited Emmanuel By H. W. CLARK Missionary College at Berrien PHOTOGRAPH BY THE AUTHOR Springs, and then we rolled on east- ward through a beautiful countryside. HE Lake of the Ozarks is ar- dinosaurs which once roamed the For many miles the highways are tificial, but it is one of the most earth. The great brontosaurus is lined with beautiful groves of beech, Tbeautiful lakes in America. It more than eighty feet long and stands oak, and maple. The trees are often sprawls out over central Missouri so high that a person could easily as much as two feet in diameter and like a gigantic Chinese dragon, and walk underneath him without diffi- from seventy-five to one hundred feet is 13o miles long and from one to culty. Other creatures of the past tall. In open fields great masses of five miles wide and has thirteen hun- filled one great room of the museum, daisies were in bloom, and creek dog- dred miles of shore line. The dam and as we studied them we were wood was covered with blossoms. was built by the United States Gov- thankful that they were not permitted Many other wild flowers were noted ernment at a cost of over $3o,000,000, to continue to roam the earth after as we drove along. and required the labor of twenty the flood, because it would be difficult The day in which we crossed Mich- thousand men day and night for two for puny man in his present condi- igan was full of incidents which re- years. It is over half a mile long and tion to defend himself against them. minded us of the twenty-third psalm. rises 148 feet above the bedrock. Be- In one large room the plants of It seemed truly as if the Lord must low the dam are gigantic generators the world are seen in beautiful wax have directed our movements so as which furnish electric power for St. models, with leaves, flowers, and fruit to lead us to green pastures. In the Louis and other Missouri cities. We attractively displayed. It is impos- first place, early in the afternoon we visited the powerhouse and saw the sible to give any' detail regarding the found some rather rough pavements twelve great spillways which were enormous numbers of exhibits which just before we reached the city of pouring yellow water down like a one may see here. A great deal of Marshall. As we were driving down great Niagara. time could be spent in going through the smooth streets of this city we This has become one of the most this interesting collection. heard a thumping which apparently famous resort regions in the central The route from Chicago took us came from a tire. An examination west, where lakes and mountain va- around the south end of Lake Michi- showed that the left rear rim was cation retreats are not very common. gan, where for about twenty-five split for about a foot. Very carefully A great many hotels and cottages have miles the city traffic was heavy and we pulled to the side of the street and been built on the promontories which the streets were rough. After pass- replaced the tire with a spare and run out into the lake. All kinds of ing through the steel-manufacturing drove on. Had this split occurred sports are carried on, such as boating, swimming, fishing, hunting, and the like. The trip from central Missouri across to Chicago was uneventful, and when we reached the Windy City, we stayed for only a day or two in order to visit the Field Museum. Hav- ing parked our trailer at a trailer park in south Chicago, we were able to easily reach the site of the Century of Progress Exposition by driving up the boulevard along the lake shore. The Field Museum, which is one of the largest in America, has a great many interesting exhibits. Among the most remarkable of these are the ones devoted to natural history. The animal life of the world is well rep- resented by mounted specimens, and ancient life by skeletons of all kinds. Here we saw some of the enormous

The Stately Field Museum in Chicago

JUNE 11, 1940 PAGE 7 while we were on the rough road, it would have blown out and made a very uncomfortable situation, prob- 'The MaJtet ilecon20 ably ruining the tire and the tube com- pletely. As it happened, this was the only tire change which we had to make on the car during the whole Set van summer. As we drove along the Kalamazoo River we found it to be flooded by By C. LESTER BOND the heavy rains that had just pre- ceded us. One camp was completely under water, and the trailers were RILE Christ and His dis- of the followers of Christ. It grieved pulled up on high ridges to escape the ciples were on that last jour- the great heart of Christ, in which flood. We drove through Battle Nvney to Jerusalem, there arose just the opposite principle ruled— Creek about three o'clock in the among the disciples a strife over the principle of humility, of self- afternoon, and began to look for auto which person should be the greatest abnegation, of service and ministry camps; but not until darkness was in the kingdom which they believed for others. So He who the dis- approaching did we find a good camp Jesus was about to establish. ciples thought was about to become at Ypsilanti. That night we were They were looking forward to the king, did the lowly service. As He interested in watching the swarms of earthly glory which they thought was washed their feet He tried to im- small insects that danced around the about to become theirs in the exalted press upon their hearts again the street lights in the warm evening air. positions they hoped to obtain when central lesson of His teachings. Hundreds of May flies were seen this kingdom was set up. Jesus was Their thoughts of pride, self-exalta- under one lamp. looking forward to the great sacrifice tion, and self-seeking began to give When we reached Detroit we were of His life. He was anxious to im- way before the wonderful condescen- undecided whether to stop at Ford's print on the minds of His disciples sion of the Lord. Their hard hearts Greenwich Village or at the Rouge the heart of all His teachings—that were melted by this demonstration River Plant. We did not have time the purpose and glory of life lie in of the love of Christ for them. They for both, but finally decided to visit sacrificial service. Often during the began to see the ugliness of their the Ford plant. For an hour we last few weeks He had been telling obstinacy and stubbornness in a clear were taken on a tour of the grounds them this in parable, word picture, light. By this one gracious act of and through the steel mills. We and bold figure. Still they failed to humility performed by Jesus, a com- were somewhat disappointed, however, get His meaning and were thinking of plete transformation was effected in because on account of the shortage of glory, honor, and power. As they these men. work the assembly line was not in entered the upper room they were "Then cometh He to Simon Peter: operation. wrangling over who should be great- and Peter saith unto Him, Lord, That afternoon we crossed the Am- est in the kingdom. They blindly in- dost Thou wash my feet? Jesus an- bassador Bridge into Canada. The sisted that He would set up a king- swered and said unto Him, What I do customs officers were very courteous. dom. Then they quarreled hotly. thou knowest not now; but thou shalt Only a few minutes were necessary The great heart of Christ was know hereafter. Peter saith unto for inspection, and then we were pained that these men had not learned Him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. free to go on our way. As we drove better the principles of the gospel, Jesus answered him, If I wash thee on over the low, flat country of and He sought for some method by not, thou hast no part with Me. southern Ontario, we ran into the which He might purify their proud, Simon Peter saith unto Him, Lord, rainstorm which we had been follow- selfish hearts, and make them see not my feet only, but also my hands ing, and in some towns we drove in themselves as they really were. He and my head. Jesus saith to him, He water clear to the hubs. But we sought some means by which He that is washed needeth not save to missed the heaviest of the storm and might accomplish in the short time wash his feet, but is clean every whit : were able to reach our destination be- left Him to be with them, the great and ye are clean, but not all. For fore night. On the north shore of work of cleansing the hearts of these He knew who should betray Him: Lake Erie we found a beautiful camp- men upon whom the great burdens therefore said He, Ye are not all ground at Rondeau Provincial Park. of the church were about to rest; and clean. So after He had washed their The camp was a large, partly cleared in the upper room in Jerusalem He feet, and had taken His garments. area among the rolling dunes near found the opportunity for which He and was set down again, He said the lake. Here we spent a very was looking. unto them, Know ye what I have done pleasant Sabbath day. When Christ and His disciples en- to you? Ye call Me Master and It was early in the season for this tered, after their journey along the Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. northern country, but the grass was dusty road, all the arrangements had If I then, your Lord and Master, heavy and wet, and we were greeted evidently been made for a servant to have washed your feet; ye also ought by swarms of large, hungry mos- wash their feet. The water was there, to wash one another's feet. For I quitoes. We were thankful to have and the basin and the towels. But have given you an example, that ye our trailer, so that we could go in- for some reason the servant was not should do as I have done to you. side and shut out our attackers. We present. All that was necessary for Verily, verily, I say unto you, The spent most of the day by the lake, the performance of this hospitable servant is not greater than his lord; which was as quiet as a millpond. service was in readiness, but there neither he that is sent greater than The water was so shallow that the was no one to do it. In the absence he that sent him. If ye know these children could wade out for fifty feet of a servant one of the disciples things, happy are ye if ye do them." or more without getting into water should have volunteered; but all re- It is evident from the words of the above their knees. fused to do this humble service for Master on this occasion that there After dinner we drove around the their fellows. What ! Men about to is a hidden significance in this or- point, which extends into the lake at become chief lords in a great empire dinance. It means far more than this place. The road runs through a wash feet like a slave? Never! mere physical cleansing. The phys- beautiful virgin forest of maple, The same principle which ruled the ical cleansing is a type of a far higher beech, oak, and walnut, one of the heart of Lucifer when he sought the cleansing, that of the heart. It typi- small remnants of virgin timber that highest place of power in the uni- fies not only conversion, but also the once covered the (Turn to page 13) verse, was now ruling in the hearts work of sanctifi- (Turn to page 12) PAGE 8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR question is with importance ! The world-wide anxiety of six thousand years is compressed within it. Will the Divine Oracle, which cannot err, and which will not lie, respond to the eager query of the truth seeker who waits with such yearning at the portal of the eternal temple? Our all hangs upon the response. The very current of our lives may be changed by it. Into the darkest re- cesses of the sorrowing heart it may send a flood of brilliant hope, or it may overcast with darkest shadow the remnant of our fleeting years. We need not fear. "He revealeth the deep and secret things." The God of truth has spoken. "He giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding." By inspiration of the mighty God His servants have been given knowledge and understanding. The veil of the future has been torn aside and its secrets have been revealed by men who have spoken "as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." The sole occurrence of the term "immortal" in the Bible is in i Timo- thy I :17, which reads : "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever." Here the eternal King, "the only wise God," is said to be immortal. He is the only being who is ever said in the Bible to be immortal, for the Scriptures do not use this word again. The words "soul" and "spirit" oc- cur in the Bible approximately nine hundred fifteen times, and never once is the term "immortal" connected with either of them. The writers of the Bible had nine hundred fifteen opportunities to inform us that the "I Am the Resurrection and the Life" soul is immortal, but they never did so. Surely this is significant. The teaching of the verse just quoted will be accepted by all. No one will question the immortality of God. All admit this. He is "eternal, When Peath &ow immortal, invisible, the only wise God." These are the attributes of God. The word "immortal" is used with reference to no other being. We Are Not Alive Somewhere Else Man is never called immortal in the Bible. The soul of man is never called immortal. The spirit of man By CARLYLE B. HAYNES is never said to be immortal. Indeed. the exact opposite is constantly af- firmed throughout the Scriptures. HE whole scope of human for ages, but we shall find not one Instead of the Bible's being "full vision is bounded by death. ray of certain light which will il- of the teaching of the immortality of TDeath brings to a close ail hu- luminate that untraveled path before the soul," as the adherents of that man plans, hopes, and joys. Huhian us and upon which our feet may doctrine confidently assert, God has reasoning cannot pierce its blackness enter at any time. thought it of more importance to set or bring its secrets to light. Its im- Nevertheless there is light for the forth to men His own immortality. penetrable darkness is not lightened earnest seeker for truth on this sub- Wherever in the universe life is mani- by any of the innumerable philoso- ject. It is found in the "oracles of fested, of whatever kind, He is the phies of men. It is an enigma, a mys- God." God understands this matter. fountain of it. "In Him we live, and tery, a black and forbidding cloud "He knoweth what is in the dark- move, and have our being." Acts which will reveal its secrets to no ness, and the light dwelleth with 17:28. Absolute and essential exist- one. We may wander through all Him." Eternity discloses its vast ex- ence, and therefore absolute and the mazes of human knowledge, and tent to His glance. "In Him is no essential immortality, is the attribute explore the very depths of thought of darkness at all." He can solve the of God, and of God alone. More than the wisest of men, and travel over problem and remove the obscurity. all other attributes, essential being all the paths which men have trodden But will He do it f How big this belongs to Jehovah _alone. JUNE 11, 1940 PAGE 9 It is this, indeed, that He claims as His And so death is not a modification she dies her love "is now perished:" name—"I AM"—the self-existing One, of life. It is not a continuation of life nor does she, or her spirit, return to "the first and the last," "the beginning in changed conditions. It is not a re- hover over the object of her affections, and the ending," "which is, and which lease into a fuller life. It is not life in for in death there is no love. Nor does was, and which is to come, the Al- misery.. It is not life in happiness. hatred continue in death. Hatred also mighty." He is uncreated, self-existent, Death is not life at all, in any condition, perishes there, as does envy. eternal, immortal. His existence had no whether good or bad. To die is not to And with anything that is occurring in beginning. Neither will it have any live. To die is to stop living. Death all the earth the dead have nothing at ending. He is absolute life, absolute is a complete cessation of life. all to do. "Neither have they any being, absolute existence, absolute im- To die does not mean to go to heaven; more a portion forever in anything mortality. And there is no other. it does not mean to go to hell; it does that is done under the sun." They are The most exalted angel is a creature. not mean to go to purgatory. It does unconscious of all that is taking place. We are all creatures, from the highest to not mean to go anywhere. Death means This is surely sufficient to settle this the lowest. Our existence had a definite an end of life. whole question for every soul who is beginning. It will have, or may have, a When a person dies he does not live willing to take the plain words of the definite ending at any time when He somewhere else, in heaven, hell, or pur- Bible rather than the theories of men. who gave it sees fit to take it away. We gatory. He does not live at all, in any No words could have been chosen by continue to live only because He con- condition whatsoever. He is dead. And the inspired writer to make the truth of tinues to give us life. The power to when a person is dead he is not alive. man's unconsciousness in death any take life away is implied in the power to In death there is no life. The soul plainer than those which are used in create. We are dependent creatures. does not live. The spirit does not live. this passage. God has never made any independent, There is no intelligence, no conscious- How impossible it would be for any self-existing beings. God is immortal. ness, no memory. All that composed the of God's people ever to be deluded by We are not. man is gone. the lying claims of Spiritualism if these It is just on this point of His eternity Nothing that is here said is to be plain statements of truth were believed! and self-existence that God contrasts interpreted as meaning that there will How impossible for any to be deceived Himself with man whose life is but "a be no future life. There will be a by so-called spirits of the dead if the vapor, that appeareth for a little time, future life. But this future life is not great truth of man's unconsciousness in and then vanisheth away." "I, even I, a continuation of the life that now is. death, so plainly stated in this passage, am He, and there is no god with Me : I It is entirely a new life, another life. were confidently accepted! kill, and I make alive; . . . neither is And it begins, not at the time of death, Nothing is known by the dead of the there any that can deliver out of My but at the time of the resurrection from passing of the years or of the condi- hand. For I lift up My hand to heaven, death. tion and circumstances of loved ones. and say, I live forever." Deut. 32:39, 40. That death is an absolute cessation of "His [the dead man's] sons come to He is Jehovah, "the Everliving," "the conscious existence is taught by the honor, and lie knoweth it not; and they eternal God," "the everlasting Father," wise man in Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6. are brought low, but he perceiveth it not or "Father of eternity," whose years Analyze the fifth verse carefully. Note of them." Job 14:21. "have no end," who "liveth forever and the brief but clear statements. "The In the Bible death is given a name ever." "The Lord shall endure for- living know" something—"that they shall which stands for unconsciousness. It ever." die." There is intelligence, knowledge, is called a "sleep." Thus in Psalms 13: Is weak and puny man also able with those who are alive; and this is 3: "Consider and hear me, 0 Lord my to say, "I, too, live forever"? The im- just the opposite of death. "But the God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the mortality and eternity of God is af- dead know not anything." There is no sleep of death." Death is a period of firmed in every Dart of the Bible. The intelligence or knowledge in death. unconsciousness, a sleep, from which all immortality of man is not mentioned or Death is the exact opposite of life. And will be awakened at the resurrection. even hinted at. Now is the immortality "the memory of them is forgotten." In The process of dying is not death. of man so much more obvious than that death they do not recall the scenes of The loss of purity is not death. The loss of God that there is no need of men- life, as the Spiritualist medium seeks to of joy is not death. The loss of heaven tioning it, while God's immortality must teach. is not death. That is, it is not any of be constantly affirmed? Or is not this And their love, has ceased. While in these things that is meant in the Scrip- constant assertion of the immortality of life the love of a mother may have tures when death is spoken of. Noth- God and the absence of all similar asser- centered in an only child ; yet when ing but the loss of life constitutes death. tion of the immortality of man in the This will be seen in a passage contained Bible rather for the specific purpose of in the book of Job, the seventh chapter showing a contrast between God and and the twenty-first verse: "Why dost man in respect to immortality? God is Thou not pardon my transgression, and infinite. Man is finite. God is immortal. take away mine iniquity? for now shall Man is mortal. God is eternal. Man I sleep in the dust ; and Thou shalt seek is transitory. God has immortality in me in the morning, but I shall not be." Himself. Man has none in himself, and Surely no more forceful expression could his only hope of living forever is de- possibly be used to show an utter cessa- pendent, therefore, or conditional, upon tion of existence than this. In death union with God through Christ our "I shall not be." Saviour, who has promised eternal life In the fourteenth chanter of Job to all who believe on Him. this question of death. is discussed, and One of the chief objects of the Bible, the conclusions there set forth are indeed, seems to be to reveal to men worthy of our study. In verses seven that their life is brief, vapory, shadowy, through nine Job declares that "there is transitory. It does this in the very plain- hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that est terms. Not only does the Bible it will sprout again, and that the tender not call man immortal, or ever-living, branch thereof will not cease. Though or eternal, but it emphatically declares the root thereof wax old in the earth, him to be the opposite. He is said to and the stock thereof die in the ground ; be "mortal" in Job 4:17; Romans 6:12; yet through the scent of water it will Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 15: 53, 54; The initials of the following names bud, and bring forth boughs like a and 2 Corinthians 4:11. In James 4:14 give the name of one of the New Testa- plant." And now man is contrasted with his life is said to be "even a vapor, that ment prophets: the tree: "But man dieth, and wasteth appeareth for a little time, and then 1. The name of one of whom it was away : yea, man giveth up the ghost. vanisheth away." His life is said to be said, "As thy days, so shall thy and where is he?" And Job answers a "wind" in Job 7:7; and Psalms 78: strength be." his ' own question by saying, "As the 39 says that "they were but flesh ; a 2. Moses' oldest son. waters fail from the sea, and the flood wind that passeth away, and cometh not 3. A man of the tribe of Dan, who decayeth and drieth up : so man lieth again." In Psalms 90:5, 6 men are Was one of the twelve spies sent out down and riseth not: till the heavens be said to be "as a sleep: in the morning by Moses to see and report on the no more, they shall not awake, nor be they are like grass which groweth up. land of Canaan. raised out of their sleep." In the morning it flourisheth, and grow- 4. One who prophesied of Christ in From this it is plain that until the eth up ; in the evening it is cut down, the words, "There shall come a Star day of the resurrection, the day whe and withereth." "He cometh forth like out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall the heavens shall depart as a scroll a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also rise out of Israel." (Rev. 6:14), those who are dead will as a shadow, and continueth not." Job 5. The birthplace of Haran, Lot's continue in unconscious sleep. 14:2. "All flesh is grass, and all the father. Job then exclaims, "Oh that Thou goodliness thereof is as the flower of the 6. A king of Egypt who made war wouldst hide me in the grave, that Thou field : the grass withereth, the flower upon Judah in the reign of Reho- wouldst keep me secret, until Thy wrIth fadeth : . . . surely the people is grass." boam. be past, that thou wouldst appoint me Isa. 40:6. 7. (Answers on page 12) (Turn to page 13) PAGE 10 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR when Chippy was in the kitchen, mother would call him from her bedroom. He would appear in the doorway and sit up as if waiting for her instructions. Chippy loved to have my brother lie down on the bed and read, for then he had someone to play with. He would run all over Ned's body, even into his shirt or up a sleeve, and when he grew tired he would curl un on the pillow by Ned's face, or on his shoulder, and go to sleep. After a few days on a mild diet, he learned to eat other things, such as raw carrots, bananas, apples, cookies, and even grasshoppers and millers. Sweet corn on the cob was also a favorite food. Of course he was only a little ground squirrel, and it required only small amounts to satisfy his appetite, but he

CY I.A TOUR AND E. J. HALL liked a variety. He would take a piece of cooky in his little hands, or front paws, and sit up holding his food and taking dainty bites just as a child would. He liked to eat his food behind the kitchen range, for he seemed to think that this was his own territory. 1-le iftft y would often take naps there on a st)ft eh cloth which we placed for him. One day when the cloth had been removed, mother saw him drag one of her pot holders, that had fallen on the floor, By MARY BESS JOHNSON back of the range and then curl up on it for a nap. Chippy seemed very happy with us, and we came to love him dearly. My OTHER had always wanted to little fellow he was when we put him brother was his favorite playmate, but tame some little wild animal in his cage. We had clean litter and if he became hungry, he would go to just to see if she could do it. some clean feathers on the floor, which mother and sit up looking at her with M his wistful black eyes begging for food. We had tried taming baby he proceeded to carry into the card- rabbits, but they always died or escaped. board box. He worked until he had Chippy knew a few little tricks that Finally she succeeded in taming one a comfortable little nest, and there he were very amusing. He loved to chase little wild animal. This is the story : slept at night. We would lift up the the broom back and forth when we swept cardboard box to peep at him and would the floor. He would stand up and take My younger brother, Ned, went to the telephone cord in his mouth and the pasture to get our cow. It was July. find him snugly curled up, with a cover of feathers over him. This cage and swing on it. Sometimes he would play A rain had fallen, and the ground was with Ned, and, feigning anger, would cold and the grass wet. Ned soon re- bed were his home at night, but each morning when he awoke we would bring bite his hand and hold on so tightly that turned with the cow, and, after putting Ned could turn his hand over and raise her in the barn, he came to the room him from the basement and let him loose in the house. Chippy off the floor. He would not in which mother was sewing and held really bite, but only hold on for fun. out his hand so that she could see what His favorite resting place was on my brother's bed. He learned to get up When September came we noticed he was carrying. It was a wet, cold, that Chippy was getting extremely fat ; hungry baby ground squirrel whose there alone, and would frolic about, dashing under a pillow occasionally all his head and neck were so changed that mother had evidently been killed. Be- we hardly recognized him. In addition coming hungry, the baby had apparently for fun. We named our little friend Chippy be- to his room back of the range, he had left its home in the ground in search of made a den •in one of our bookcase food. He was very small, about the cause he reminded us of a little chip- munk we had seen in the mountains, drawers. Because he was such an in- size of a common mouse, and he was teresting little pet, mother moved her too cold or too hungry to be very wild. and he learned to know his name and to come when we called. Sometimes, things out and let him play there. Now He was not the common thirteen-stripe with the days getting shorter and the squirrel, but was gray, with small dots nights colder, he began to prepare for on his back. These dots seemed to be the long winter sleep which many bur- raised a little, the fur of each of them rowing animals take. One day the urge being a little longer than the fur on to prepare for winter was very strong. the rest of his body. In the clothes closet he found a large Mother quickly warmed some milk roll of gray paper which seemed to meet and put it into a medicine dropper. She his needs perfectly, and so the work held the squirrel in one hand and put began. Mother let him have the paper the open end of the dropper in his and said she was well repaid by what mouth. At the first taste of the milk she saw. He would tear off a strip of Chippy became a tame squirrel. He sat it and dash from the closet through the up in her hand and held the dropper bedroom to the living room and into with his two front paws, just as a baby his drawer in the bookcase with the holds a bottle. While he drew the paper in his mouth. Back and forth he milk from the dropper, or tried to, hurried as if this task had to be done mother gently squeezed the bulb so that in a limited length of time. Once when the liquid would flow just fast enough he had dashed through the bedroom to for him to swallow. How he enjoyed get more paper, mother slipped a piece his milk, and what fun it was to feed of cardboard across the entrance to the him every two or three hours! Even bookcase just to see what he would do visitors enjoyed holding him and giving about it. Soon he came hurrying with him his "bottle." his supply of shredded paper to where But now that we had found what he his way was blocked. He hesitated an would eat and that he was happy and instant, and then, turning to mother, comfortable, what were we going to d) scolded her severely in his hard little with him? squirrel language until she removed the My brother soon solved that problem. cardboard so that he could continue his He found a box and a screen, and work. made a neat little pen, or cage, with After about two hours he had the the screen for a front, so that we could drawer full of paper, and when we watch our pet when he was in it. In- side this cage we placed a cardboard box with a small opening in it, so that he could go into his private sleeping Our Chippy Was an Interesting Little room and feel at home. What a busy Ground Squirrel JUNE 11, 1940 PAGE 11 couldn't see Chippy anywhere, we looked cause us mental discouragement, is not in the drawer and found him at the bot- MINUTES allowed by God so that we may learn tom with the paper on top of him. We to know ourselves, to understand the always carried him at night to his cage measure of mind that lies within us, to in the basement; he would go imme- recognize our weaknesses and the power diately to his little bedroom, but was READ WITH PROFIT of the Almighty One to uphold us. always awake and at the door of the One of the most precious promises in cage to be carried back in the morning. the Book is : He "giveth to all men When October came he began to He is an unusual person who has not liberally, and upbraideth not." Some- sleep later, and one day he refused to puzzled over some strange combination of times His best gifts are what seem to awaken at all. Lifting the box in his circumstances at some time or other in us to be our worst troubles. cage, we found him curled up with his his life. Perhaps Chapter 31 of "The 14lessed be adversity! It teaches us head under his body and the feathers Great Controversy," has the answer to the true source of our strength. It over him. We touched him gently, and your question. At any rate, which of reveals to us the fact that indeed we he was cold and we could not see him the following are true and which are can learn to bless the hour in which breathe, but if we moved him a bit, he false? trouble comes to us ! would scold. 1. None are in greater danger from When you see a cripple, the chances We learned that during this period the influence of evil spirits than those who are that you are seeing a man who is of hibernation the heart of an animal deny the existence and agency of the strong and better equipped because of barely beats and that sudden disturbance devil and his angels. that experience. Do not pity such a may cause death; so we left him alone 2. Satan cannot readily control the one. Instead; covet for yourself the and only looked at him occasionally to minds of those who are unconscious of blessing that has come to him from his see if he might have awakened and his influence.. trouble. And when disaster strikes, wanted food or water. 3. Many give heed to the suggestions remember, it is how you meet trouble We wondered how h would look in of evil angels while they suppose them- that counts. the spring. Would he be afraid of us selves to be following the dictates of and forget that he was a tame squirrel? their own wisdom. Would he still want his bottle of warm 4. Evil spirits were created sinless in milk? These things we were curious the beginning, but because they were in- The Master Becomes Servant about all winter. ferior in nature, power, and glory to the (Continued from page 8) As the days grew warmer in April, holy beings that are now God's mes- mother watched more closely, and one sengers, they rebelled. cation—the cleansing of the life from day he heard her and came to the door 5. Man was created before angels were sin, which we are told is a daily mat- of his cage to be taken out. He stretched in existence. ter, the work of a lifetime. A recog- and stretched his legs and body, and 6. It was during the time when Christ nition, on the part of the sinner, of his drank a little water, but he would not was upon the earth that evil spirits mani- constant need of the purifying blood of eat. He seemed a bit lazy that first day, fested their power in the most striking Christ, is necessary; and this need is but after that he was just the same busy manner. acknowledged through the celebration little squirrel that he had been the sum- 7. A guardian angel is appointed to of this ordinance of humility, or foot mer before. Only now he was a year every follower of Christ. washing. old, and so grown up that he would never 8. God has also appointed an evil It also beautifully and emphatically drink milk any more, even in an open angel to try every follower of Christ. sets forth the lesson that if you wish to dish. We regretted this, for it had 9. When Christ came to live among be truly great, you must be servant of always been a pleasant task to give him men, Satan had succeeded in establishing all. The greatest is not he who has his bottle. idolatry in every part of the earth except the most people waiting upon him, but he He learned to do some things that the land of Palestine. who waits upon the most people. The were rather destructive. such as chew- 10. Satan does not follow the policy greatest is he who serves most. He ing clothes or getting into the beds and of carefully concealing himself and his who would be greatest must become chewing the sheets. manner of work. servant of all. He would stand at the screen door When Christ washed the disciples' and look through it as if he longed to feet, He instituted an ordinance which be out in the world and sunshine. Some- phenomenon and illustrate the dominance all Christians should celebrate by actual times Ned would bring in a large piece participation until the end of the world. of sod, and we would put Chippy in a of mind over matter ; and still more, that illustrate impressively the real rea- For Jesus said, "If I then, your Lord tub with it. He would dig frantically and Master,, have washed your feet; for a while, making tunnels through the son for this narrative, the provision of ye also ought to wash one another's feet. sod, and when he was tired he would our all-wise Maker who gave us a mind For I have given you an example, that jump over the edge of the tub and which is indeed "fearfully and wonder- ye should do as I have done to you." perhaps lie in the sunlight on the floor fully made," and which enables us to for a sun bath. rise to every occasion ; to meet and The owner of a pet store wanted to conquer difficulties as they come to us. buy Chippy, but we refused to sell him, He made us so like Himself that we for we had become so attached to our actually do have our own destiny largely Answers in our own hands. friend that we could not bear to think Treasure Trove: of his being locked in a cage. Many, many stories have been told So Chippy had the freedom of house of the heroism of the handicapped, blind A-sher—Deut. 33 :25. and yard during his second summer. He men who see better than those with G-ershom—Ex. 2 :22. is sleeping now, and we are waiting for eyes; deaf and dumb people who speak A-mmiel—Num. 13 :12. him to awaken again. When spring better than their more fortunate( ?) B-alaam—Num. 24 :17. comes he will be ready to start his third neighbors, only because force of circum- U-r of the Chaldees—Gen. 11:28. summer. stances has revealed to them the tre- S-hishak-2 Chron. 12 :2. mendous secret power of their own (Acts 11:27, 28) mental make-up! May we not properly consider this resiliency of mind one of Current Events: God's most important gifts to us? I 1. Deputy ministers appointed to as- An Accident—and fervently believe that we should. sist members of the British war cabinet. Afterward There are, unquestionably, handi- 2. (a) Italy; (b) the Netherlands; (c) capped persons who take advantage of Rumania. 3. President Roosevelt in (Continued from page 1) their misfortune to ask charity. It is January estimated 1940-41 expenditures my opinion that these people would be at $8,400,000,000; in May he called for limitless reserve force of the mind this even worse off if they were sound an additional appropriation of $1,182,- man has been able to draw much more physically! We should not pity the 000,000 to strengthen the country's de- than he needed to compensate for his cripple; if anything, we should envy fenses, making a total of $9,582,000,000. physical handicap. There was a very him. The opportunity to know his own 4. Submarines ; about 120 of them. 5. real sparkle in his eye as he told of mental power in a way which men with Japan first declined because of her diffi- his struggles and how he has earned the full use of physical powers can never culties in China; they were then trans- his way. He says there is nothing that do is his. ferred to Finland, which country recently a man with two hands can do .which he But all this would not suffice as a declined because of war in Europe. 6. cannot learn to do better, given three reason for writing this story if there Italy. 7. The Sosua Settlement is in the weeks of time, and I now know that he were not a great spiritual lesson in it. Dominican Republic. About 500 Euro- means what he says. In this matter of physical disability I pean refugees will live there. 8. The Examples like this could be multiplied am thankful indeed for the little acci- National Labor Relations Act, 1935 ; almost endlessly. Unquestionably, you dent which set me to thinking. I won- and the Wages and Hours Act, 1938. can think of many other instances to the der, friends, if other adversity which 9. Forty thousand. 10. The Greek gov- point which have come under your own comes to us, even though it may take ernment. 11. Winston Churchill. 12. observation that corroborate this strange away any of our physical members, and In Vatican City. PAGE 12 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR be able to see anything of the display of I felt that I was truly becoming a fash- colored lights which play over this ionable man who could go home and scenic spot every evening. To our de- boast to his friends of the great deeds light the wind turned somewhat and he had done. But I committed a great carried the mist away so that we were sin, and I admit it freely. Forgive me, able to enjoy this beautiful illumina- Sahib, but do not tell my poor old tion. father, for it would break his heart. Not only is this country interesting Forgive me, and all my work will be to because of the falls themselves, but it is pay for this inconvenience to you, and full of historic interest. Just a few for the sin I have done. Sahib, the miles away we crossed the Welland jail was so damp and cold, the prisoners Canal through which the ships pass from were so vulgar and dirty—and my con- Lake Ontario to Lake Erie. A mile science was eating away so earnestly— out of the city of Niagara Falls is that I will never forget this bitter les- Lundy's Lane, famous for a battle in son." the War of 1812. Wild life is abundant And Sheru kept his word. NATURE CALLS, in this region also. In the oak trees we saw many redheaded woodpeckers, and robins sang a great deal more than Phoebe they do in the West. Vegetation is When Death Comes rank and heavy in its growth ; every- (Continued from page so) BY VERA BEALL thing is green and saturated with water. Water stands in the fields so, that we a set time, and remember me !" Notice ](PHOEBE, phoebe, phoebe," the expressions "hide me in the grave," Yes, we hear your gentle call. began to wonder how anything could grow. The air was so damp that it was and "keep me secret." They are de- Of the early birds of springtime scriptive of death. You're about the first of all. hard to dry anything. The doors in the trailer swelled so that they would hardly Having answered this question, Job now propounds another: "If a man die; Since you sit and watch for insects, shut, and the glue which held the covers of my notebook became loosened so that shall he live again?" And again he re- You're a welcome friend indeed, plies : "All the days of my appointed There are more bugs than we're want- it almost fell to pieces. Certainly this climate is different from any which we time will I wait, till my change come. ing— Thou shalt call, and I will answer Thee; Catch as many as you need. found down in Texas and New Mexico, where the wooden spokes on the car Thou wilt have a desire to the work of wheels dried so that they squeaked. Thine hands." Carry hundreds to your babies Attention is directed to the expres- In your nest of mud and hair, sion, "All the days of my appointed Underneath the bridge they're waiting, time will I wait." In what place he Hoping you will soon be there. would wait we are told in Job 17:13. "If I wait, the grave is mine house : I Eggs of white you've finished hatching, have made my bed in the darkness." And though busy as a bee This change for which Job waits in the I am glad you took a minute grave is that spoken of in 1 Corinthians Just to sing your song for me. 15:51-54: "Behold, I show you a mys- I never tire of watching the various tery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall flycatchers chase and capture insects. all be changed, in a moment, in the They are so persistent in the chase that twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: they sometimes seem to eclipse our mod- for the trumpet shall sound, and the ern stunt aviators. As a rule, however, Address all correspondence to the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and the efficiency of the bird makes the chase Stamp Corner, Youth's Instructor, we shall be changed. For this corrupt- a very short one. Takoma Park, D.C. ible must put on incorruption, and this Although this bird was named for its mortal must put on immortality. So call note, you cannot be sure of identi- Exchange when this corruptible shall have put on fying him by this means. Chickadees Use Commemoratives on Your incorruption, and this mortal shall have also sing the same notes, and you must Exchange Letters put on immortality, then shall be brought actually see the bird to be sure which to pass the saying that is written, Death (In sending requests to this corner, please is swallowed up in victory." The change one it is. It is not endowed with any give your age—junior or senior—and the size of bright colors. Its color is a grayish your collection. Collectors must have at least for which Job still waits is that from brown, with an olive-green coat. The 50o stamps, with duplicates far trade, before they "corruptible" to "incorruption." While may enter their names here. To beginners we he waits for this change, "the grave" is crown is distinctly darker and the will send FREE a small package of stamps, and wings and tail are fuscous. instructions for starting a collection. A penny his house. This change will not be ac- The Phoebe builds its nest of mud, postcard will start your package on the way.) complished at death, as many are teach- ing, but "at the last trump," when "the vegetable fiber, and moss ; or it may James S. Groves, Route 2, Box 211A, decide to use an old nest of a robin dead shall be raised incorruptible." Fredericksburg, Virginia, (850 stamps), This same blessed awakening from the or a swallow. Frequently a pair raises offers stamps from Germany, France, two broods a year. The first nesting tomb is spoken of in 1 Thessalonians .4: China, Denmark, and Great Britain, for 13-17. Notice how clearly this text season begins in April, earlier than that stamps from Czecho-Slovakia, Persia, of most birds. sets forth the truth of this subject. "But We can well profit by developing in Poland, Russia, Salvador, and Straits I would not have you to be ignorant, our own lives the patient alertness that Settlements. brethren, concerning them which are characterizes this very helpful little crea- CANADA.—Miss Rosalie Van Dusen, asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others ture. Tamworth, Ontario, Canada, (500 which have no hope." And then Paul stamps), offers Canadian stamps, in- shows that they are not in heaven, but cluding commemoratives, for stamps are in their graves awaiting the resurrec- from Africa, British North Borneo, tion. "For this we say unto you by In the Great Midwest Latvia, Iceland, Bahamas, Luxemburg, the word of the Lord, that we which are (Continued from page 8) Vatican City, and Mexico. She also has alive and remain unto the coming of the • stamps from United States, France, Lord shall not prevent ("precede," R.V.] whole Ohio Valley. Some places were Germany, Australia, and England. them which are asleep. For the Lord low and swampy, and the luxuriant Himself shall descend from heaven with growth of ferns and grasses made a a shout, with the voice of the Arch- beautiful picture as they were reflected angel, and with the trump of God : and in the quiet pools. However, we did The Cat's Paw the dead in Christ shall rise first: then not care to get out of the car because of (Continued from page 4) we which are alive and remain shall be the mosquitoes. As long as we stayed caught up together with them in the on the beach or in the moving car the home as thoroughly as possible to the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and breeze kept them from tormenting us. chastened boy. so shall we ever be with the Lord." Another day's travel through the beau- When the lorry stopped at Rawal- This was the time to which Paul was tiful farming land of Ontario brought pindi, Sheru sat squirming a moment in looking for his reward, not to death. us to Niagara Falls. As we approached indecision; then he jumped up, squared He declares in 2 Timothy 4:8: "Hence- the falls the clouds gathered thicker his shoulders, and approached Pastor forth there is laid up for me a crown of and thicker, and with the wind coming Smith. Looking straight into his face, righteousness, which the Lord, the from the east the heavy mist was blown he said brokenly, "Sahib ji, I am but a righteous judge, shall give me," not at in our direction. We found a camp poor country lad, unused to the evils of death, but "at that day [the day of on the edge of the town overlooking a city. I meant no harm, but evil com- judgment] : and not to me only, but the falls, and as night approached we panions led me astray. I listened to their unto all them also that love His appear- began to wonder if we were going to flattery; went with them to gay places. ing." JUNE 11. 1940 PAGE 13 Death is an enemy of the human race, NOTE.-"II is the love of God that draws were drying out, the reapers could pull out not a friend. "The last enemy that us unto Him, and that love cannot touch the tares and make piles and bundles of shall 'be destroyed is death." But many our hearts without creating love for our them. What were they good for? To brethren."-Id., p. 166. make bonfires, just as you might burn up have had their eyes so blinded by the weeds or rubbish."-Mary Foster Bryant. subtle teachings of a false philosophy, 12. By what name are we called when we are born again? 1 John 3:1-3. born of the "ye-shall-not-surely-die" 7. How long should they let the wheat and NOTE.-"The sons of God, the children the tares grow together? What would the utterance of the father of lies, that they householder say to the feapers in the time of of God, are those who receive Jesus Christ the harvest? Verse 30. have had their hopes centered on death for all He gave Himself to be unto them- as the culmination of all their expecta- a Saviour from sin, a guide in the truth, 8. After Jesus had sent the multitude away, tions of a future life. This is a grievous our only hope of life eternal."-"Studies in what did the disciples ask Him to do? Verse 36. error. Let us fix our eyes and center Romans," p. 77. NoTE.-For "declare." the Revised Ver- our hopes on that great hope of the 13. When we are sons of God, of what are we heirs? Rom. 8:17, first part; Heb. 1:2. sion has "explain." The meaning of the church, the resurrection from the dead, parable was not clear to the disciples, es- and the fulfillment of all our joys, the NOTE.-"I am His son; I am therefore pecially the feature of the tares. As upon entrance into that "life everlasting" His heir. Jesus Christ is His [God's] other occasions, they asked for an explana- which the gospel of Christ holds out to Son, and therefore His Heir. Jesus, His tion in private. only begotten, and I by adoption, are His every repentant sinner. sons, and, marvelous privilege and honor, 9. Who is the sower of the good seed? we are joint heirs."-Id., p. 80. Verse 37. 10. What is the field? Who are the good 14. When we consider the greatness of God's seed? Who are the tares? Verse 38. love, what will we say? Rom. 11:33. NOTE.-"Neither God nor His angels NOTE.-"We can so far comprehend His ever sowed a seed that would produce a dealing with us, and the motives by which tare. The tares are always sown by Satan, Sa666th _C1641001 He is actuated, that we may discern bound- the enemy of God and man."-"Christ's less love and mercy united to infinite power. Object Lessons," p. 71. W e can understand as much of His pur- 11. Who is the enemy that sowed the tares? poses as it is for our good to know ; and What is the harvest? Who are the reapers? beyond this we must still trust the hand Verse 39. that is omnipotent, the heart that is full of NOTE.-"So it is from enmity to Christ love."-"Steps to Christ," p. 111. that Satan scatters his evil seed among SENIOR YOUTH the good grain of the kingdom."-Ibid. JUNIOR 12. What is usually done with the tares? XII-God's Love Leads to When will this be done with the tares of the parable? Verse 40. Repentance XII-The Parable of the Tares 13. What will the angel reapers gather out of the kingdom of God? V 41, 42. (June 22) (June 22) 14. What will become of the children of God at the harvesttime? Verse 43. MEMORY VERSE: Romans 2:4. LESSON SCRIPTURE: Matthew 13 :24-30, 15. How is the teaching of this parable il- LESSON HELPS : "Testimonies," Vol. V, 36-43. lustrated? PP. 629-635 ; "Steps to Christ," pp. 26-41. MEMORY VERSE: "The field is the world; Answer.-"The teaching of this parable the good seed are the children of the king- is illustrated in God's own dealing with THE LESSON dom; but the tares are the children of the men and angels. Satan is a deceiver. wicked one." Matt. 13 :38. When he sinned in heaven, even the loyal 1. How are men drawn to God? Jer. 31:3. STUDY HELP: "Christ's Object Lessons," angels did not fully discern his character. NOTE.-"While the sinner is yet far from pp. 70-75 (new edition, pp. 69-73). This was why God did not at once destroy the Father's house, wasting his substance Satan. Had He done so, the holy angels in a strange country, the Father's heart is PLACE: By the Sea of Galilee. would not have perceived the justice and yearning over him; and every longing PERSONS : Jesus; the disciples; the mul- titude. love of God. A doubt of God's goodness awakened in the soul to return to God, is would have been as evil seed, that would but the tender pleading of His Spirit, woo- Setting of the Lesson yield the bitter fruit of sin and woe. ing, entreating, drawing the wanderer to Sitting in the boat on the Sea of Galilee, Therefore the author of evil was spared, his Father's heart of love."-"Steps to fully to develop his character. Through Christ," p. 59. Jesus continued to teach the people by parables. The chief incident in the par- long ages God has borne the anguish of 2. What leads the sinner to repent of his able of the tares was a familiar one to beholding the work of evil. He has given sin? Rom. 2:4, last part. the people. "In the East, men sometimes the infinite gift of Calvary, rather than NoTE.-"Christ must be revealed to the took revenge upon an enemy by strewing leave any to be deceived by the misrep- sinner as the Saviour dying for the sins his newly sown fields with the seeds of resentations of the wicked one; for the of the world; and as we behold the Lamb some noxious weed that, while growing, tares could not be plucked up without of God upon the cross of Calvary, the closely resembled wheat. Springing up danger of uprooting the precious grain. mystery of redemption begins to unfold with the wheat, it injured the crop, and And shall we not be as forbearing toward to our minds, and the goodness of God leads brought trouble and loss to the owner of our fellow men as the Lord of heaven and us to repentance. In dying for sinners, the field."-"Christ's Object Lessons," p, 71. earth is toward Satan ?"-Id., p. 72. Christ manifested a love that is incompre- hensible ; and as the sinner beholds this Can You- love, it softens the heart, impresses the QUESTIONS Define the word "parable"? Name two mind, and inspires contrition in the soul." 1. After telling the parable of the sower, to illustrations of that form of teaching. -Id., pp. 30, 31. what else did Jesus liken the kingdom of heaven? Matt. 13:24. Tell what words of admonition given in 3. What is the result of godly sorrow for a former parable were repeated by Jesus in sin? To what does insincere repentance lead? 2. What took place while men slept? this parable? Verse 25. 2 Cor. 7:9, 10. Tell how completely all sin will be de- NOTE.-"Repentance is turning from self NOTE.-Bearded darnel, or tares, is "a stroyed in the last great fire? Ps. 37 :zo ; to Christ ; and when we receive Christ, so grass sometimes found in our own grain Mal. 4:1. that, through faith, He can live His life fields, but very common in Eastern coun- in us, good works will be manifest."- tries. Until the head appears, its resem- "Mount of Blessing," p. 13r. blance to wheat is very close." The seed "Repentance includes sorrow for sin, and is poisonous, and even when it is ground a turning away from it. We shall not re- with wheat in small quantities, it produces nounce sin unless we see its sinfulness ; dizziness, "and in larger proportions, con- until we turn away from it in heart, there vulsions and death. Owing to its smaller will be no real change in the life."-"Steps size, the grain of tares is readily separated to Christ," p. 26. from wheat by winnowing."-Schaff's Bible Dictionary. 4. What constrains one to do right? 2 Cor. 5:14. 3. When was the work of the enemy re- Issued by 5. If we dwell in Christ, what should we vealed? Verse 26. Review and Herald Publishing Association have? 1 John 4:16, first part. 4. What questions did the servants ask the Takoana Park, Washington, D.C. NOTE.-"The very first step in approach- householder? Verse 27. LORA E. CLEMENT EDITOR ing God is to know and believe the love 5. How did the householder answer them? that He has to us; for it is through the What did the servants offer to do? Verse 28. ASSOCIATE EDITORS drawing of His love that we are led to C. L. BOND S. A. WELLMAN 6. Why did he bid them not gather out the J. E. WEAVER FREDERICK LEE come to Him."-"Mount of Blessing," tares? Verse 29. This paper does not pay for unsolicited ma- P. 155. NOTE.-"This is the way they grew to- 6. How should we respond to God's love? terial. Contributions, both prose and poetry, 1 John 4:19. gether: The seeds of both sprouted and are always welcomed, and receive every con- pushed their tiny green blades through the sideration; but we do not return manuscript 7. What does perfect love for God do for for which return postage is not supplied. us? 1 John 4:17, 18. ground. The roots of each pushed down- 8. What is God ready to do for all who seek ward, turning and twisting until the roots SUBSCRIPTION RATES for forgiveness? Ps. 86:5. of wheat and tares were almost tied to- United States and Canada: Yearly subscrip- gether. If one was pulled up, the other tion, $1.95; six months, $1.15; two to four 9. What is the measure of the greatness of would come up, too. They looked much copies to one address, one year, each $1.75; in God's mercy? Ps. 103:11, 12. alike as they grew taller and taller, but clubs of five or more, one year, each $1.70; six months, 95 cents. 10. When the sinner returns to God, how after a while there was a difference. As Foreign countries where extra postage is re- generous is God toward him? Isa. 55:7. they ripened, the heavy heads of wheat quired : Yearly subscription, $2.55; six months, 11. 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O THE world's annual catch of fish is O IN some coal mines water is taking O THE telephone bill of one of Holly- estimated at 35,000,000,000 pounds, and the place of explosives. Tubes covered wood's major studios is $40,000 a month. is worth about $761,000,000. with metallic braid are inserted in drill holes, filled with water, and expanded in O MADAME LUISA TETRAZZINI died in O THE modern marathon race, named diameter from five inches to eight inches. Milan, Italy, recently, at the age of sixty- for the Greek city in which Pheidippides Then off comes the face of coal. The six. She was a famous coloratura started on his historic run to Athens in tubes are good for breaking 2,500 tons of soprano, who earned $5,000,000 in opera 490 B.c., is calculated at 26 miles and coal before they burst. with her voice. 385 yards. The Olympic record for this distance was set at Berlin, Germany, in O THE desert scorpion, centipede, taran- O THE sixty-six-year-old Earl of Ath- 1936 by a Japanese who ran the mara- tula, and sulpugid are not so dangerous lone, who is a brother to Queen Mary, thon in 2 hours, 29 minutes, 19.2 seconds. as most people suppose. According to a and King George VI's uncle, was re- researcher at the University of Califor- cently appointed governor general of O By shooting a 15,000-volt current nia, they are only slightly poisonous. A Canada to succeed Lord Tweedsmuir, through a four-foot glass tube, scientists scorpion's sting, for example, is no who died in Montreal last February. have succeeded in creating an artificial more harmful than a bee's. The new post will mark Lord Athlone's display of the colorful aurora borealis. second experience as a governor gen- In the experiment as much air as pos- O WITH an average altitude of 6,000 eral; he held that position in South sible was extracted from the test tube feet, Antarctica is the highest continent Africa from 1923 to 1930. in an effort to duplicate the conditions in the world, as well as the coldest. It existing in the rarefied upper atmosphere is known as the earth's biggest natural O MAN'S normal life span ranges from iii the polar regions. icebox. fifty to eighty years, but his longevity chances vary from country to country. O FROM Kuming, China, comes the re- O DURING the year 1939, 5,928 merchant According to the Statistical Year Book port that three physicians have achieved vessels passed through the Panama of the League of Nations, a man may almost complete cures of leprosy by in- Canal. This was 302 more than in the expect to live longer in Australia and jections of diphtheria toxoid. Also, for preceding year. New Zealand than in any other country the first time in history, they have suc- on earth. In those two countries a boy ceeded in giving animals leprosy, or a may expect to live 65 years ; a girl, disease that has all its characteristics, 68. The next best place seems to be by feeding them colocasia root and in- the United States, where life expectancy jecting leprosy bacillus. is 63.8 for girls and 60.72 for boys. euttant Events The most unfavorable country of all in O THE Bank of England is issuing new this respect is India, where male infants bank notes—blue for one pound and • may expect to live only twenty-seven mauve for ten shillings, to replace the years. green and rust-colored issues that, have been in circulation. Instead of being L O THE science of chemistry instead of plate printed, the new ones will be pro- • the art of cooking will be responsible duced by a lithographic process which for the "golden brown" potato chip of is cheaper and quicker; and a thread the future, if the recent discovery that about one fifteenth of an inch wide, of the amount and type of sugar in potatoes special composition, woven uniformly 1. "Stand-ins" has come to be a familiar term in Great Britain. What are they? explains the color of chips is interpreted into the paper during manufacture, will correctly. So accurately have scientists create a new problem for counterfeiters. 2. With what nations do you associate worked out the necessary percentages these currently ruling families: (a) The and varieties of sugars that it is possible O AMONG recent patents granted by the House of Savoy. (b) House of Orange. to soak ordinary filter paper in differ- United -States patent office was one for (c) House of Hohenzollern. ent solutions and cook it so that it will a flexible toy railway track. In the 3. The British government now at war fool anyone into taking a bite. It can past toy tracks have been made of stiff now be ascertained what kind of chip lengths of metal joined end to end. expects to spend about $9,334,500,000 in the next fiscal year. How much does the a potato will give by a process of Since the lengths could be fitted to- chemical analysis. gether in only a few ways, a child soon United States, at peace, expect to spend wearied of playing with a toy train. during that time period? O IN the last few years the process for This new track comes in a roll of metal 4. Italy's naval strength is said to lie liquefying coal in order to convert it ribbon, and a child can make a track chiefly in (a) submarines: (b) battleships; into gasoline has attained importance, of almost any length and bend it into (c) mine-laying devices. Which? but now comes a process for liquefying ever so many new curves. Spacers 5. Two countries have now declined to wood by treatment with hydrogen gas at corresponding to ties maintain the gauge. play host to the 1940 Olympic games. high pressures. The wood is trans- formed into water-white liquids which O A NATIVE of Turkey, writing for a What are the countries and what was the reason for each refusal? can be separated by distillation without Paris paper, holds up his country as a decomposition and which may become model for all nations. He says : "The 6. What neutral European nation has the raw materials of a new synthetic words 'unemployed' and 'unemployment' adopted as its national slogan: "Work organic chemical industry. In particular, do not exist in the Turkish language. A and arm." one of them, the chemical name of man without work is said to be 'changing 7. Where is the Sosua Settlement? which is 4-n-propylcyclohexanol-1, is jobs,' which is not at all the same thing. Who will live there? closely related to the raw material from The 'change of jobs' cannot last more which the new fiber nylon is made. Per- than three weeks at the maximum. Dur- 8. Efforts are being made to amend the two best known New Deal acts of Con- haps something like nylon will be made ing those three weeks the persons 'chang- from wood. ing jobs' have to apply every morn- gress which affect conditions of labor in ing at a special bureau, where tempo- the United States. What are these acts O SINCE the arrival of the first troops rary work is found while they are wait- and approximately when did each be- from India the war has become much ing for a permanent post. The modern come a law? more complicated in France, for these Turk is neither lazy nor idle. Statistics 9. Approximately how many patents troops represent dozens of religions, each prove that 2,000 to 3,000 Turks used to are granted by the United States Patent one observing a peculiar diet. Hindus die of hunger each year. During the Office each year? eat no beef, Moslems, no pork. The last five years no Turk has ever gone 10. What government recently ordered British commissary department is making hungry." In Turkey the diet of each the dissolution of the Y.M.C.A.? every effort to respect these beliefs and family is medically inspected every two 11. Name the new British prime min- needs, and every English soldier in months, and a father has to present a ister who has succeeded Neville Chamber. France who may come into contact with card of good health for all his family to lain. them is given a booklet on the religious the authorities every month. Turkish diet and is required to study and re- girls from the age of twelve years are 12. The "Ossevatore Romano" is said spect it. He must not offer a Hindu required to follow courses in hygiene and to be the only independent Italian lan- any cooked food, for a Hindu's meals child welfare, and neither they nor their guage newspaper available to readers in must be cooked by a member of his own brothers can marry without producing a Italy. Where is it published? caste, and the containers are sacred and medical certificate. (Answers on page 12) must not be used by others. PAGE 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR