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One Man's Idol With penetrating skill Paul Gibbs searches out the • ~NI motives that made time's greatest traitor. One Man's Idol MAY 3, 1960, k :1./Lbath School Lesson for May 143 CHRISTI/VAT HOME tst.LSSAGI.S. IAIIECIMAILME •-,1 VII G.AI.1 SERIE SS mom 1 WORTH-WHILE GIFTS BASIC BOOKS Each book going into this series was good yesterday, is good today, and will be equally good tomorrow. Each is worthy of a permanent place on your library shelves. This is a growing series. Other fundamental vol- (V, umes will be built into this group as fast as manufacturing schedules permit. Watch for announcement of new titles: Adventist Home, The — Mrs. E. G. White Fundamentals of Christian Education—Mrs. E. G. White Answers — Charles D. Utt God Speaks to Modern Man — A. E. Lickey Bible Readings — Compiled Gospel Workers — Mrs. E. G. White Believe His Prophets — D. E. Rebok I Love Books — J. D. Snider Book of All Nations, The — C. B. Haynes In Defense of the Faith — W. H. 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White Story of Redemption, The — Mrs. E. G. White Evangelism — Mrs. E. G. White Temperance — Mrs. E. G. White Evolution, Creation, and Science — Frank L. Marsh Testimony Treasures ( 3 vols.) — Mrs. E. G. White Faith of Jesus, The — M. L. Andreasen Welfare Ministry — Mrs. E. G. White • Faith to Live By, A — M. L. Andreasen What Can a Man Believe? — M. L. Andreasen NOTE: Spirit of Prophecy volumes are paged to agree with the Index and larger volumes. De luxe with colorful jacket ORDER Church Missionary Secretary or 3314.13.AT3FE Price, $3.50 Book and Bible House Please send me volumes as checked above—De luxe @ $3.50 each. Add mailing and insurance-15c first book —5c each additional volume. Total for books $ Mailing and insurance, sales tax where necessary Total enclosed NAME STREET WASHINGTON 12. D.C. CITY ZONE STATE ORDER FROM YOUR BOOK AND BIBLE HOUSE 9 The Youth's Instructor, May 3, 1960 • AT • _ill OW • How does he do it? A foolish question, How much knowledge does he put really. He doesn't do it. He knows noth- into all this? None. He doesn't even 01 ing of what goes on in his body. know the A B C's or the time of day. The two-year-old wakes, eats, drinks, He does not need knowledge. His physi- runs, shouts, is gotten out of bed, is ology and chemistry go on even though by dressed (or neglects it altogether—he his knowledge is nil. doesn't care), plays, sleeps when he But one thing he does know (al- feels like it, cries when hurt, laughs though "thing" is perhaps not the tact- when amused, and knows not one whit ful word here) and that is mamma. • CARROL S. of the mechanisms in physiology and Mamma is to him the source of food, chemistry that permit all this. clothing, shelter, guidance, protection, This future citizen swallows his nursing when ill, supervision in every breakfast by a very complex sequence of detail of the day. She is at his call every muscular contractions and relaxations minute day and night. She kisses his SMALL, M.D. in throat and esophagus, but he knows bumps, dries his tears, bandages his • and cares nothing regarding such mech- wounds. When, out in the yard, he anisms. Food makes his saliva flow, but cuts his finger, his first utterance is he does not notice the fact, or under- "Mamma!" and half blinded by tears stand its reasons. His stomach secretes he heads like a homing pigeon in the pepsin and acid, churns its food con- direction where he last remembers see- tents, and passes them on to the intes- ing her. He never doubts her all-suffi- tine, where they are almost completely cient wisdom and strength. She is to • f OW that mine are grown, and disintegrated and absorbed. His liver him everything he needs, and all his no longer wail in my ear at cells do amazing and complex feats in problems go to her. His daily survival 2:00 A.M. or spill milk on my processing the digested foodstuffs, depends not on what he knows, but on N lap, I can attest the charms which are eventually used for energy whom. And mamma is the "whom." of children. They are sincere, enthusi- and tissue repair. astic, and truthful in most cases. Almost Ask Tommy how many cells his liver In some ways, Christians resemble • without exception beautiful, they are contains. Ask him the functions of two-year-olds. How important are facts also helpless enough to stir our protec- hemoglobin. Try to get him to say to a child of God? A few, perhaps, are tive instincts. The normal response to where his pituitary gland is. To all of vital significance. But how much do seeing a healthy, skipping, innocent, these questions he will give you merely you know of the details of your body happy child is joy and admiration. a blank stare. To tell the truth, Tommy physiology? Can you exercise conscious How do the physical features of a two- knows almost nothing of "facts." He is control of the chemistry of your liver year-old body operate? The two-year-old tenderly cared for, fed, washed, spanked, cells, or bone marrow, or your kidneys? doesn't know, and earth's wisest men taken to Sabbath school and home No, it all proceeds, as we say, "automat- know little enough about the marvel again, nursed in illness—his every need ically," as God's power operates in cells of physiology that is concentrated in is supplied, yes, anticipated, before he as well as in constellations. that little thirty-pound bundle of energy. even knows he has a need. We need know a minimum of facts The Youth's Instructor, May 3,1960 3 for the functions of life. Jesus dictates we say, when He asks us to work for the operation of all these things. "He is Him, "No, Lord, I can't go there. The before all things, and by him all things circumstances are unfavorable, and I THE consist." But one item of knowledge is and my family will starve" ? Or shall we of supreme importance to the Christian say with Isaiah, "Here am I; send me" ? who is a child in God's eyes—he must The little child never doubts his moth- know Jesus. A person's spiritual welfare er's ability to care for details. So he depends on knowing Him. Not theol- blissfully goes on to what are to him ogy. Not philosophy. Jesus. more important matters. Should we He is the source of life. Every breath then doubt Jesus' ability to make good THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR iS a non- • fiction weekly designed to meet the spir- is a gift from Him. The pulse beat, the His promises? Should we not, free from itual, social, physical, and mental inter- movement of hand or foot, the electric anxieties, turn our attention to Chris- ests of Christian youth in their teens and energy of nerve action, the ripple of tian living, to Christian service, and to twenties. It adheres to the fundamental recall or synthesis in the brain—each is the ultimate purposes of life? Jesus concepts of Sacred Scripture. These con• wants us to be, not worriers, but cheer- cepts it holds essential' in man's true re- dependent upon His power and mo- lationship to his heavenly Father, to his mentary care. Just as little Susan needs ful, carefree, happy children of His Saviour, Jesus Christ, and to his fellow not to worry about her supper being kingdom—a joy to ourselves and to • men. ready for her, so Christians need not those who know us. A continually changing world is re- worry about life and food and clothes. Such an attitude will not make Chris- flected in its pages as it has expanded Knowing Jesus, we may safely put tians lazy and slovenly. They will not from 1852 to 1960. Then it was essen- tially a medium for providing youth aside anxiety over our personal for- neglect wife, home, children, neighbors, Sabbath school lessons. Now it also tunes. Since Jesus thinks of these de- the church. But their minds will be supplies many added services meaning- tails before we do, we may accept them free to attend properly to these concerns ful to twentieth-century Christians. as already provided. We must make in peace and confidence. This confidence • efforts to gather what He provides, but will not ignore facts and their practical He is the one who provides everything.
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