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IT only for the scrap heap." And to F the scrap heap it goes. The word of the boss carpenter is law. His judgment decides the disposition of each doubtful piece of lumber. Not only is he boss, but he is the owner as well. He bought the material. The finished building will be his. Since lumber is expensive he is not likely to consign to the scrap heap any usable piece. Now the boss carpenter is up on the roof. I am what you might call "ground man." Selecting boards, squaring the ends, and handing them up is my job. Some- times I have to rip a board to a certain width, sometimes hand up nails or tools. But ever and again down will come a board, usually small, with the order: "Throw that into the scrap heap." In between my other jobs I pick up the small pieces of lumber scattered around on the ground. For some I can find use; others are worthless, and to the scrap heap they go. They are of several kinds: 1. Too short. I pick up a straight- grained piece, and mourn because it is too short for any practical use. In every other respect it will meet all requirements. But it is just a little too short. It makes me think of some folks I know—good neigh- bors, straight, morally sound, but still they fall short of the divine requirements. The T. K. MARTIN. ARTIST Master Carpenter, up above, mourns too when He sees the makings of a Paul, an I Wonder—Did the Youthful Jesus Think Elijah, a Moses, or a John the Baptist in These Thoughts Too as He Toiled in the Humble Carpenter Shop at Nazareth? such a person. For that person is just a bit too short. He lacks faith in God, without which "it is impossible to please him." So, in spite of the fact that he has been purchased at great expense—the precious blood of Christ—to the scrap heap he must go. The rich young ruler is a case in point. He could not believe that following Christ could possibly give him enough soul satis- faction to compensate him for his loss of Take a Look at That wealth and prestige. So he went away from his interview with Jesus sorrowful, and no further mention is made of him. Without doubt he, with many others who allow avarice to crowd Christ out of their hearts, CRAP HEAT will be found in the spiritual scrap heap. 2. Too narrow. Usually the narrow strips that are ripped from the wide boards go into the scrap heap. They do not have the By E. LORENA LOSEY strength we desire for this house of ours. However, if a not-too-narrow scrap is straight grained and otherwise suitable, —Please turn to page 19 VOL. 97, NO. 47 NOVEMBER 22, 1949 OU could have heard a pin drop in next morning took 'honesty' as his sub- before he could bring it to a stop, and a Y the classroom. Every eye was fixed on ject, and when he had finished we were splintered timber struck his windshield. the teacher, who held in his hand a pile about the most completely 'washed up' Fortunately he sat behind shatterproof of examination papers which the students student body you could imagine. He glass, or he would have been badly cut by expected to see returned to them. Instead trotted out a whole row of 'ponies,' and broken fragments. As it was, he didn't of doing this, however, he placed the told us what he and the rest of the faculty receive a scratch. Just so, he pointed out, neatly folded papers on his desk, sat down thought of those who used them. Let me honesty is a shatterproof protection to all before it, began to tear them up one by assure you, it wasn't much! Then he took who have made it a part of their char- one, and toss the pieces into the waste- a crack at the moneyed few who were acter. And in conclusion he quoted the old basket. hiring their math and physics notebooks adage: 'Honesty is the best policy.' A concerted exclamation of surprise kept up to date, or their English themes "There were a few flippant ones among came from the fifty-some young people written for a certain sum. It seemed that the students who tried to make light of who made up the class membership, but a number among us were earning sub- the high standards that had been set be- the professor said not a word of explana- stantial pin money this way. fore us, but they were promptly put in tion until the last paper had been torn to "Others it seems were 'trading off.' That their places by those of us who were really shreds. Then he looked over the top of is the arrangement whereby Mary, who in earnest about making a success in life, his glasses quizzically and spoke on this excelled in English, wrote Pete's themes; and forming a character that would make wise: and Pete, whose forte was science, did us fit for heaven one day. I for one de- "I have been teaching under the mis- Mary's geometry problems for her. It was cided that if I couldn't get through col- apprehension that you young people were `even Stephen,' and no cash passed—just lege by making the best possible use of the grown up, and, as college freshmen, had a good turn for a friend, or so it seemed brains the Lord has been good enough to reached an age where you could appreciate to those involved. give me and by standing on my own two and practice honesty. But I have been "Then he took up 'the family notebooks,' feet, I'd at least fail honestly. surprised—yes, shocked. As a matter of a plan by which the first student in a "How did our surprise Daniel and the fact, I doubt that one of you wrote an family to take a course keeps a full and Revelation examination come out?" Well, honest examination paper. The copying complete notebook with outlines and about a third of the class failed, and had was so boldly done and so almost unani- all requirements worked out in detail. The to repeat the course. About another third' mous in this group that I am announcing next year or two other members of the just squeaked through. And the remain- that the examination will be repeated here family take the same course, and use the ing third found that they knew more than and now—this morning! The question same notebook. This system makes every- they thought they did, and when they sheets I have mimeographed myself, and thing 'easy as pie' for them—so easy in really set themselves to thinking they did' I shall pass them in a moment. fact that they learn little or nothing. all right. "As I hand you the sheet I shall expect "Finally he said, 'Young people, I have "This experience was a severe lesson; each one of you to place on this light come to the conclusion that we need a but we needed it, and at least some of us truck (it is borrowed from the print shop) course in our curriculum in good old- did a rightabout-face and got a new idea your text and your notebook. They will fashioned honesty. It is in some places and of the importance of the old-fashioned be returned at the close of the period. in the experience of some people as ex- honesty that our grandparents counted of "Furthermore, I will ask that each one tinct as the dodo. There is far too much so much consequence, and that our parents of you write at the end of your paper a `just so I get by' spirit, and far too little had tried in vain to teach us in such a statement indicating that you have an- honest, serious study pursued with the way that it would 'stick.' " swered the questions entirely from your idea of learning something. own fund of knowledge. Unless this state- "Then the president took the floor, and ment is signed by your own hand, your told us of the faculty discussion of this It was wartime, and the sugar shortage paper will be added to the pile in the dishonesty problem, which was becoming was a stern reality. So when I stepped into wastebasket. And you will not receive a a veritable plague to our college. These a lunchroom and saw a full bowl on the grade in this course for this semester. earnest men and women, who were in- table with the sign beside it "ON YOUR "Meanwhile, I shall be walking up and terested only in our welfare and in seeing HONOR," I was impressed. Apparently down the aisles, observing. And I assure us develop into successful ministers, farm- nobody was watching to check on those you, young people, that my eyesight is ers, teachers, mechanics, doctors, engineers, who used more than their patriotic quota, excellent!" architects, nurses, or what have you, had but somehow I don't think anybody did. "I certainly didn't get any grade to decided to inaugurate an honor system in There was something about that three- write home about," admitted the young an effort to better things. word sign that challenged every diner man who told me this story, "but I passed, "He impressed upon us the desirability to be honest. which was something! We had thought of having a shatterproof reputation. I shall "On Your Honor," friend o' mine, how the professor was easy and absent-minded, never forget the illustration he used. While about it? Have you been honest today? and that we could 'get by' without much he had been driving just a few days before, work. But did we ever fool ourselves! there had been a blowout in one of his "Furthermore, the chapel speaker the tires. The car shot through a guard rail

Vol. 97, No. 47 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, November 22, 1949 One Year, $3.75. Published by the Seventh-day Adventists. Printed every Tuesday by the Review and Herald Publishing Assn., at Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C., U.S.A . Entered as second-class matter August 14, 1903, at the post office at Washington, D.C., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1949, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington 12, D.C. PAGE 2 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR. Are YOU a BARGAIX?

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have a good-paying job: Review your occupa- tional experience. Examine your educa- tion and training. Consider your apti- tudes and liabilities. H. M. LAMBERT If you decide a change Since Money, or the Lack of It, Plays a Leading Role in the Divorce Courts, should be made, it is What Are Your Talents for Legitimately Acquiring It? much less disrupting be- fore marriage than after. There is a possibility that you might have to 0 YOU are a young man twenty-one actly the approach many men make to mar- start at a much lower wage if you decide S years of age, and want to get mar- riage. Before they have discovered a pat- later to make a change, and this might ried? You are not unique. In fact, you are tern or definite direction for their lives, bring real hardship to a young family. quite normal, in spite of the fact that your they ask some clever and beautiful young What you expect to do determines to a parents are reluctant to admit that you woman to come along. Since she is intel- large degree where you will live. Having are a man or that you are ready for mar- ligent she will not start until she knows settled on a vocation, you can approach riage. something of the set of your sails. the girl of your choice with something All young people have a sincere desire Before going to the store you will find definite. Any girl has a right to know to make their marriage permanent, not that it is a good thing to look in your whether she will be expected to spend the just an experiment from which they can wallet to make sure you have sufficient rest of her life in the Canadian north extricate themselves if the going is hard. money to exchange for the desired goods. woods or in a penthouse in New York They should face the fact, however, that Marriage is a business transaction, actually, City. If she must live in a city apartment in the United States in 1946 divorces in many ways, so instead of starting a near the smartest shopping center and reached the level of six for every ten mar- search for a girl, it might be a good idea drive on the finest boulevards to be happy, riages. The sane young person, then, does to start looking critically at yourself for it would hardly be fair to tell her after well to decide just what he is willing to a man. Are you sure you have much to the wedding that the dream of your life put into marriage to ensure success. offer? is to be a missionary in the heart of Africa. Quite naturally the first thing you have Marriage and a home necessarily bring Jack and Dorothy were two average in mind is to set out in search of just with them a financial obligation often American young people. Jack was in his the right girl. Here is where many men much greater than the unsuspecting youth first year of college; Dorothy had finished make their first mistake. An unknown imagines. Because money, or rather the high school and was a waitress in a restau- wise man has said, "The great essentials lack of it, plays a leading role in the rant in a small town when Jack met her. of happiness are something to do, some- divorce courts, what are your talents for Jack had never formulated a plan for his one to love, and something to hope for." legitimately acquiring it? life, but more important than education or The more I have thought, the more I am "Well," you may say, "I have a good anything else, he was sure he must marry sure these three essentials are in proper job, and can support a wife in reasonable Dorothy forthwith. What promises he order. Something to do comes first. Many comfort." made or plans he outlined I am not sure young men become confused, and think Let us talk about that job for a moment. about, but marry they did. that someone to love comes first, and every- Does it have a future? Are you genuinely College was dropped at the time of thing else will follow, like the seasons. interested in your work aside from the pay the marriage. Jack was far better than You would hardly expect to go to a you receive? You should hesitate a long average as a student; but, finding it neces- friend with the suggestion that he ac- time before entering a trade or a pro- sary to earn a living, he took up the sell- company you on an extended journey, and fession in which you have no deeper in- ing of aluminum ware. Dorothy was a then when he asked where you expected terest than its financial reward. In a few home-loving girl, and wanted a family, to go, answer, "Oh, I don't know exactly, years it is bound to become a deadly bore. but this type of work allowed neither home but let's get started anyway." That is ex- So may I suggest here, even though you nor family. The young couple practically NOVEMBER 22, 1949 PAGE 3 lived in their car, and their work was car- Jack's mother was very proud of her expensive to heat than two. This she did, ried on mostly at night. youngest son's ambition, and was quite and Dorothy felt less and less needed in At first this was a lark, for, as all young upset over Dorothy's attitude. Dorothy Jack's life. couples believe, their being together was knew they would be dependent for all In the spring Dorothy made an extended all that mattered. After a time Dorothy, those years. She knew she would have to visit home. Her mother noticed great being more stable and foresighted than live in the most frugal manner to please changes in her once gay, carefree daughter. Jack, became uneasy. They were making her extremely careful mother-in-law, who She spent hours alone in her room. A few only a day-by-day living, and the future be- would be furnishing the money. shopping trips, some new bright feminine gan to look hazy. To a girl whose roots frocks, summery sandals, and fetching hats had been firmly planted in the soil of a made wonderful exterior changes; but her large ranch, with a comfortable family hard, lifeless state of mind persisted. home and many friends, this sort of ex- The time came for Jack to enter medical istence seemed less and less promising. school. Because all apartments in the vicin- Jack was soon tired of the life of a ity of the school were out of their financial salesman too, and so was easy prey when range, they lived in a two-room upstairs Dorothy suggested a change. Jack had a apartment in another section of the city. brother-in-law who was successfully carry- Jack grew fascinated with his work. He ing on a business as a painter and interior had little time for home and social life, decorator. He and his wife lived a stable much as Dorothy loved it. Jack had stimu- life in a comfortable home, and were lating contacts daily with fellow students, highly respected in the community. Jack teachers, and patients. Dorothy would and Dorothy decided that Jack should be- gladly have gone to school to keep pace gin an apprenticeship with his brother-in- with her husband's interests, but there was law. no money for that. Jack found it very Inasmuch as this would not allow a difficult to understand his wife's discon- home of their own, they moved in with tent and her demands upon his attention. Jack's mother. A baby and a little cottage He could not sense that she was as truly all their own seemed still around several By DARREL D. HOLTZ a prikirier, wastbiVrhe est years of her corners to Dorothy. This business of hav- life, as if she had been behind bars. A girl ing no life pattern before marriage had by of less spirit could have found it tolerable, now introduced a real hazard into an Man, in his poor, weak, mortal state but Dorothy became desperate. Jack, through false pride, had long har- otherwise successful marriage. Close as- goes on his weary way his wife should not sociation with the in-laws was not destined through life. bored the notion that to help matters either. work, and this in spite of the fact that he was in nowise supporting her. Dorothy Toward the end of the next year and But as he goes he sometimes comes now decided that work was all that would a half of apprenticeship, instead of eager to places where the path save her sanity. She would go to night anticipation to be on his own, Dorothy's is dark. young husband revealed to his wife's dis- school, brush up on her typewriting and shorthand, and get a position in the office cerning eye an uneasy attitude. He was For these dark places God has provided of one of the doctors at the medical school. clever enough at his work, but it bored a way by which a man Here she could at least learn to speak her him. Dorothy pushed her worries as far may see. back in her mind as possible, and started husband's language and keep step with him to some extent. In all her plans she hunting for a very small apartment, which We call it faith, this eye of God's should be—after three years—their very was making an honest effort to save their by which we see marriage. However, this decision on first home. She felt that she was really be- the path ahead. ginning to live. She studied homemaking Dorothy's part precipitated a struggle that almost tipped the balance of their teetering magazines and shopped for gay, shaggy Through faith we know, though we rugs and sheer, ruffled curtains. She even marital scales. have never seen Jack was reluctant to make any neces- dared to start a scrapbook of clever nursery or heard. ideas. sary adjustments to his wife's new sched- ule, but Dorothy stood firm. Life took on There was just one thing to cool her 4->>4-34N-->-)3 ardor, and that was a total lack of interest new meaning for her. New sights, new on the part of Jack. She thought back friends, new social contacts—all helped. about her own home. Really, dad had not She now began definitely to reshape her Of course, all her earnings must be used taken too much interest in things about the ideas of marriage. Her dreams were van- to get Jack through medical school, but house. Maybe she expected too much, and ishing one by one, and in their place the sense of independence was like a tonic. men were just like that. bitterness sprang up. There was one re- Time slipped by faster, and she did not The apartment would be available the deeming feature. Dorothy .was ambitious mind so much when her husband was first of May. On April 20 Jack came home to have plenty of money. This aim she inattentive. She assured herself that after with such a strange air about him that could see fulfilled in the distant future, if his graduation they would again have time Dorothy felt that surely some explanation (and this little word had grown very for each other and the children, which was due her. Finally Jack announced that large indeed in her thinking) Jack did were the consuming desire of her heart. he had quit his job and intended at the not change his mind again. Internship finished at last, Jack and beginning of the next quarter to re-enter Unfortunately the college Jack must at- Dorothy moved into a comfortable duplex. college and study to be a doctor. tend because it was cheaper was only a A little son was born. Jack earned a com- Dorothy was stunned. All her plans lay few hundred miles from his mother's fortable living, but kept Dorothy in the around her like wormy apples in the home. Winter arrived, and Jack's mother dark as to their financial standing. orchard after a hard wind. She did some became very lonesome. She reasoned that One day Jack's secretary became ill, and quick calculating before she spoke, and it would be much more economical to Dorothy helped out at the office during then all she could say was, "Seven long close her house and go to live with the chil- the time she was in the hospital. To her years!" before she burst into a torrent of dren in their tiny cabin during the cold horror she found that Jack had been re- tears. winter. One house would certainly be less -Please turn to page 18 PAGE 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Abbott. The doctor was in Nairobi to do special surgery, and very kindly welcomed us to the colony. Nairobi is a very typical colonial fron- tier city with much of the LIPPER TRAVEL glamour of a pioneering en- terprise, and yet in many C ways it is very modern. The atmosphere of the place could be compared with that of Bangalore or Naini Tal of India, or Kuala Lumpur of Malay. Nairobi is one of the centers of our denomina- tional work in East Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika. Some of our largest memberships are found in this part of Africa. Here also we have our larg- est hospital of the Southern From. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, African Division, the Kendu Hospital, 150 miles west of Nairobi, on Lake Victoria, of which Dr. Abbott is medical to CAPE TOWN director. Dr. Abbott is the son of our pioneer surgeon, physical therapist and medi- cal writer, Dr. G. K. Abbott. By T. R. FLAIZ, M.D. Because our plane on to the south was held up in Khartoum, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, with engine trouble N THE good old days the trip from fairly high, begins to break up into can- for twenty-four hours, we had the oppor- I Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, yons, valleys, and mountains. Still farther tunity of visiting near-by points of interest, to South Africa would have required a south and at the lower altitudes these val- including our Karuru Mission Station two-day journey by rail from Addis to leys and mountains are forested, and many out among the beautiful coffee estates Djibouti, the French port on the Red Sea; of the slopes terraced for the beautiful deep west of the city. In the evening we were a two-week trip by boat, if you could get a green coffee plantations. A little to the privileged to be among the group which boat, down the east coast of Africa to west of this line of flight in the headwaters Dr. and Mrs. Abbott took in their sta- Durban; to be followed by a one-day trip of the Nile are some of the wildest jungles tion wagon to the Nairobi wild animal by rail to the gold-mining industrial me- of Africa. Some of the well-known wild reserve, which practically borders the city tropolis of Johannesburg. With good con- animal pictures were filmed in this region. on the east. With commendable fore- nections, the trip probably would have At the airport in Nairobi we were hap- sight the government has placed a high taken three or four weeks at least. Today pily surprised to meet Dr. and Mrs. Don wire fence along the east side to sepa- four hours' flying time takes one to Nairobi in East Africa, and another eight or nine Some of Our Largest Memberships Are to Be Found in East Africa. Below Is Pictured a Camp Meeting hours takes one over some of the world's in Kenya Colony, British East Africa, With Five Thousand Persons Present most interesting and rugged scenery to the same South African destination. On a Monday morning Mrs. Flaiz and I again found our transport to be the familiar DC-3; but this time in place of the bucket seats and cargo of barrels, hides, and bags of Maria Theresa dollars, our ship was a proper, sure-enough passenger plane with all the conveniences and services of modern air travel. It was nearly an hour before our ship broke out of the heavy clouds covering the high plateau around Addis Ababa. This area of Ethiopia is dotted with a number of lakes, for the most part of no particular scenic beauty. The heavy rains higher up brought down their cargoes of red silt, and gave to these bodies of water a dull, muddy appearance. The landscape changed rapidly as we came over a vast and absolutely barren des- ert extending into northern Kenya Colony. Farther south this desert, which is still NOVEMBER 22, 1949 PAGE 5 rate the natural veld with its prolific wild- feet higher than the highest point in the scattered villages, most of them still pagan; life population from the suburban areas of United States. Kilimanjaro, more than and in but a scattered few has the hope of the city. As a matter of safety, visitors are nineteen thousand feet high, shows up a soon-coming Saviour been preached. permitted to enter the reserve only in from the plane as a small range of moun- The vastness of our task in Africa is closed cars. Inside the game area one im- tains dominated by the snow- and glacier- second only to that with which we are mediately sees a surprising variety—ante- covered top of this famous mountain. In faced in India and China. Definitely more lope, zebra, ostrich, giraffe, wildebeest, our journey south we followed a course receptive of Christian teaching than the and lion—all in numbers quite beyond west of the great lakes Tanganyika and people of India, the pagan African is so one's greatest expectation. These animals Nyasa. Among the largest of the world's much lower in his standard of civilization are not the half-tame creatures such as our fresh-water lakes these bodies of water that his transition from paganism to Chris- deer and bear of Yosemite and Yellow- form a portion of the great rift extending tianity is still a very long step and is a stone, but the natural wildlife of the from the southern end of Lake Nyasa process not accomplished in a day. It is African veld. through the four-hundred-mile-long Lake generally regarded as necessary to allow Recently a visitor to the area, anxious Tanganyika and Lake Victoria and down these people not less than two years of in- to obtain a better picture, had scarcely the Nile Valley. This rift is the superficial struction before they are accepted for bap- stepped from the door of his car when he evidence of some great earth movement tism. was snatched up by an unnoticed lion. of the past. Frequent earthquakes of com- Like most mission fields, Africa has been Fearing that these rather numerous lions paratively light force and active volcanoes parceled out to various mission bodies (we saw fourteen in two hours) might remain as vestiges of greater activity of an under what is known as the mission com- develop a dangerous taste for human earlier time. munity plan. Under this arrangement cer- blood, officials have tightened up on the A few years ago a comparatively more tain areas are assigned to specific mission regulations governing visits to the reserve. vigorous earthquake is thought to have boards, which are under agreement to The next day our southbound plane took been the cause of the marked rise in the confine their activities to a particular area. off out over this veld, giving us a bird's- waters of Lake Nyasa. In the largely Because of the belief that their work and eye view of the types of animal life we had rugged two thousand miles of terrain their message are universal, Catholics and seen from the car the evening before. lying between Nairobi on the east and Adventists do not confine their efforts un- Few people realize that Africa boasts Johannesburg, still a thousand miles north der such agreement. Except, however, as mountain heights nearly five thousand of the cape, are to be seen thousands of —Please turn to page 16

of action. Half an hour later the women begin work. So after I have disposed of the "monkeys," I make my way up to the village in time for roll call and to give them their instructions for the day. The rest of the morning is mine—to do as I please? Well, yes, to a certain extent, insofar as I can choose which job to do first. During the last six months I have been busy compiling, typing, and duplicat- ing two reading books in the Motu lan- guage for the first two grades in our schools. This job has taken quite a lot of time but is now nearing completion. HOW MISSIORARIES SPERD THEIR School convenes for three hours each afternoon except Friday and Sabbath. The LEISURE HOURS whole family comes to school, unless mother decides to go for a walk-about By BARBARA WISEMAN instead; and because the babies are very seldom interested in sleeping, there are usually plenty of amusing and distracting VISITOR to Bautama (Morova La- these quiet moments with the Master in interludes. But taking things as a whole, A goon, Solomon Islands), after listen- the early hours strengthen one for the we get along quite well. ing to a discourse on activities in general, trials and difficulties of the day ahead. Each evening one of the senior students finally asked, "And how do you spend So it is with reluctance one emerges from has to report for his practice teaching les- your leisure hours?" He was somewhat the sanctuary of the mosquito net and be- sons for the following day. Besides these surprised when I replied that leisure time gins the activities of another day. regular visitors there are always others— was an unknown quantity on a mission The next bell, at six-fifteen, signifies time some wanting medicine, others help with station; and that if we did chance to have for worship. Being a member of the fair sewing, and so on. Finally the lights-out a few spare minutes some time during the sex, I am excused from duty at this hour bell rings at nine o'clock. Then it is time day, we were glad of an opportunity to of the day, and the men take turns in to go down to the dormitory to see that all catch up with some reading or study. supervising the natives' worship hour. the girls are safe and sound in bed. Yes, that is the position in the mission The intervening period between worship Back home once more, and there are field, but do we complain? No, sir! In and breakfast allows time for planning many odd jobs to finish off, letters to fact, we do not even have time to com- the day's program. Then when the sick write, and innumerable other things to do plain. have received attention we are able to before creeping under the mosquito net The busy day starts with the rising bell eat before the work bell rings at eight once more to dream of the leisure hours at 6 A.M.—and how often one is tempted o'clock. The small boys are my responsi- which may come our way one day. There to steal a few more minutes. But that bility, so my next job is to set them to is just one question which arises in our means a shorter period for personal study work on their tasks for the day, or, if minds—shall we know how to use them and devotion, and experience proves that necessary, to accompany them to the scene when they come? PAGE 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR had. I've been watching her, and when Mrs. Raymond leaves we're going to give her the position. She's from out of the State, some little town in Colorado. Looks sort of lonesome sometimes. Maybe we could have her out to the house once in a while." Mrs. Reese had asked her out to the house. Penny had gone home with them one Sabbath from church, and had en- joyed the visit very much. They had taken her, with several of the other girls, for one or two long rides in their lovely car. The days flew by, and Penny was not a newcomer any more. She sank into the routine of the office, growing more in- dispensable with every passing day. The little group with whom she worked comprised almost every soul she knew in all the big city. They were friendly, but when work hours were over they scat- tered to their widely separated homes. Not many of them were members of the church which Penny attended, the one nearest the office, and on Sabbath she found herself quite unnoticed in the large congregation. At first no one spoke to her at all, but she had a shy friendliness of her own, and she soon found a few others with whom to exchange greetings who seemed as much alone as she. On a rather drear December night Penny stood on the street corner waiting for a streetcar; her spirits were just as dull as the night about her. And that was queer, for she was going home from the Christ- mas party (every year the department H. M. LAMBERT she worked in had a party). It had Mr. Reese Had His Eye on Penny Because She Was the Best Stenographer in the Office, and Also Because She Dressed Most Appropriately been fun too. There had been a short program, and then they had had the tree. She had drawn Cleo's name, and had crocheted for her an attractive white collar-and-cuff set. She herself had received a large box of sweetly scented bath powder. The management had given PENNY PAYS each worker an inspirational book and a nice little bonus check. The Reeses had given each of the girls a tooled leather billfold; and Mrs. Reese had made, espe- cially for Penny, a lovely beribboned bed the Piper jacket. It was the most frivolous thing she possessed; and, being a woman, Penny loved it best of all her new possessions. The employees had had By CHARITY BLYTHE Part I gifts for the Reeses too and many joking little packages for each other. All in all, the party had been a great success. And Mr. Reese had drawn her aside and T WAS only mother who called her classic head, because she did not chew gum told her about her new position. She was Penny. To the girls at the office she or drench herself with perfume or "make to be secretary to Mr. Lucas beginning the was Pen; and to Mr. Reese, the manager, up" her face or paint her fingernails. first of the year. There was no more im- she was Miss Gray—"that little Miss Penny's atmosphere of soap and water, portant position in her line of work, and Gray," to be exact. The card index called sunlight and fresh air, set her rather apart Penny was thrilled with the prospect. She her Edith Penelope Gray, and said, among even in this Christian establishment, where could have hugged herself with delight other things, that she was single and that the cruder vulgarities would not have been when she thought of the difference the she was twenty-six years old. tolerated. She was quick and efficient in higher salary would make in the sum she The girls all said Mr. Reese had his her work; she could spell any word one was able to send home each month. Mr. eye on her. And he did! He had his eye threw at her; and she was never late. Reese had told her only a little while on her because she was the best stenog- Mr. Reese said to his wife: "Give that ago; and yet, as she stood on the corner rapher in the office, because she dressed new girl another month to get to know drawing her coat closely about herself most appropriately, because her shining the place thoroughly, and she will make against the chill of the night, she was very hair was coiled artistically about her Mr. Lucas the best secretary he has ever unhappy indeed. NOVEMBER 22, 1949 PAGE 7 The office force had held the party in It was not a case of "thrice a bridesmaid, There had not been any boy in college the late afternoon and through the sup- never a bride" either. Penny was not the either. Friends, yes, hosts of them, but per hour, in order that those who lived sort of girl who was asked to be brides- no one especially for her. Penny had not miles from the office would not have to maid. She had many friends, and one by minded at first. The school discouraged make an extra trip, and so that they might one they had been married, but it had al- such things anyway, at least among the eat together. It was only about seven- ways worked out something like this: lower classmen. Of course, a number of thirty now. With her arms full of bundles "Lou and Ella are going to be bridesmaids. the young people did find their partners in Penny got on the streetcar and sank into And I had to ask Hattie to be maid of college, but they were among the more de- a seat near the door. She dropped her pack- honor. She's so determined, you know. termined ones. Shy little girls like Penny ages into her lap and felt in her purse for But I do want you to be in the wedding, were very apt to be overlooked. a handkerchief. A treacherous little tear Pen darling! I'll tell you, you can look In her junior year there had been Dan. was threatening to spill over. There— after the gifts!" He was the leader of the Africa Foreign just in time! It was always like that. Penny kept the Mission Band, and she was, next to him- She would have said that she was lonely records faithfully; she cut the cake neatly; self, its most earnest supporter. How she for the home folks, and of course she was. she washed cups and plates in the kitchen had yearned all her life to serve in the Afri- She would not be with them this Christ- efficiently; she could be depended upon to can field! She and Dan had had wonderful mas. But that was not all. She had been help clean up the debris in the silent house talks about the work there. Dan planned away from home before, and this year she after the wedding party had departed, and to go just as soon as he could get ready; had been able to do so much for her and somehow, hidden away in Penny's loved ones that it quite took the sting out heart, was the dear and precious dream of the separation. No—it was something that he would choose her to stand by his else that troubled Penny, something which ) side when that day came. had been troubling her a good deal of She had had one parlor date, if you late. _____, could call it that, with Dan. He had There had been something else on foot 4 - i come over eagerly to tell her about the at the office, an undercurrent of suppressed wonderful prospects which had been sug- excitement. When she had asked Cleo to ,. ..._ 4 gested to him by a visiting representative go home with her for the night, she had 4 S of the General Conference. Then he had said, "Thanks, Pen. I'd love to any other 41Y4, said, "I want to ask you something, Pen. --t i time! But I'm going to the party out at i You know, I won't be going out to Africa i Helen and Bob's. A bunch of us are get- i alone. And I've been thinking—I have the

ting together out there, and we always have i Sow an act and you reap i greatest respect for your judgment—what . such gay times. Bert's taking me." i a habit. Sow a habit and you .i do you think about Leah and me? I know They were all going—that was evident i reap a character. Sow a char- i she hasn't seemed very interested in mis- —all the single folks and the two young sion work, or even in religious things, acter and you reap a destiny. i married couples—everybody but Penny! i but I've talked to her, and I think she i She did not mind so much except that it i —Charles Reade. really wants to be a Christian. I can be a was a sample of what was always happen- big help to her I know, and—" ing. Penny had never had a "boy friend," C.—. ; Dan had married his Leah, but he had not in the sense the girls used that term. not gone to Africa. Leah had seen things She had never had a real date. Here she to offer a comforting shoulder to lonely very differently once they were married was almost an old ma—no almost about mothers who turned back with tears from and the call had actually come. After all, it—she was—she was an old maid! And a last sight of the bridal pair. But al- she never had been very strong, and Dan Penny could not understand how it had though she could not know it, she would should have more consideration than to happened. have her reward for all this. Looking back want to drag her clear to the ends of the She was very modest about her quali- years later, Doris or Sue would say, "Isn't earth. There was plenty for him to do fications, and yet she could not help seeing that funny? I know Hattie was maid of right here in the homeland; or, better that many of the girls all about her who honor because she was so set on it. Lou still, he could go into the business with were marrying were far less qualified for was one of the bridesmaids, and I can't her dad, and they could live right beside homemaking than she. There was Esther, even remember who the other one was. the folks. Dan was a greatly disappointed who could neither cook nor sew, and Pat, But I will never forget how Pen worked and bewildered young man. Why had who said she just could not stand children over my wedding! Why, I really don't things worked out like this, when it had and never intended to have any. And al- see how we could have been married with- been his very best intention to—? most all of them talked continually about out Pen!" Penny gathered herself together. She what marriage was going to bring to Because of low finances Penny had was almost home. One thing she did them. It was all very shocking to Penny, taken her preparatory work in the high have—a pleasant place to live. There had who all her life had had shy little dreams school of her home town. By working hard not been a suitable place near her work, of her own about what she was going to she had made it in three years. Mother and or even an opening anywhere with people contribute to the establishing of a home. she had agreed about the undesirability of her faith. After several weeks spent in And it was not looks! Penny knew that of making too-close friendships with young a dingy little back bedroom in a down- she was no ravishing beauty, but she did people not of her faith; and, indeed, the at-the-heel neighborhood, she had discov- have an attractive face. Her dark hair activities of her school friends had not ered Harmony House. It was a project of curled softly about her brow with no been of such a nature that she could feel the Salvation Army. Not an institution help at all from the beauty parlors, and free to join in many of them. By dint at all, it was just a pleasant home, presided her brown eyes were warm and friendly. of much scrimping at home and a good over by Mrs. Selby, a sweet-faced gentle- Of course, some of the brides she had seen deal of extra work on her part, they had woman, where working girls might enjoy were very lovely indeed, but most of them managed three years in a Seventh-day Ad- collectively the comforts they could not were not one bit better looking than she. ventist school. Then she had had to drop afford individually. Each girl had her own And some of them were downright out and find work. Mother was far from dainty room; and each girl shared in the homely. "But," she told herself kindly, well, and Penny was glad to begin now freedom of the nicely furnished parlors, "they probably have lovely dispositions, to make some small return for all her the recreation room, and the spreading and that is better than good looks." loving care and sacrifice. —Please turn to page 19 PAGE 8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR OIA S

By DON H. SPILLMAN

mured against Moses and Aaron, "and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in the wilderness!" A There have been a lot of giants from that time to this, not only in the Bible but in YOUNG the lives of each one of us as Christians as well. Thank God, we can slay any kind PEOPLE'S of giant if we are on intimate terms with SERMON the Lord. We agree many times with the ten spies, that we are bound for the goodly land, but that there are so many giants in the way we are afraid we shall never cross its borders. One of the giants that I have noticed in my experience in the ministry is bashful- ness. I have seen individuals who have to be coaxed to do anything in the Missionary Volunteer Society or in any church or Sab- bath school activity. Among their friends they seem to be able to talk at a great rate, but to get up and actually do some- thing for the Lord in public in the church is out of the question. This giant of bash- When Elisha Asked the Lord to Open the Eyes of the Young Man, He fulness and timidity can be overcome if we Beheld a Sight That Must Have Thrilled Him will only accept in good grace every oppor- tunity to do something for the Lord and by His help carry out the mission. The matter of gossiping is a great giant THERE were giants in the earth in those in the lives of some people. How much I days." The other day a friend of mine sorrow and misery would be avoided if we was telling of a man whom he had seen could only be kind with our tongues! unlocking his car. He stated that this man was a good land with many of the tem- "When this pen flows too freely," runs the was so tall that he was able to rest his poral comforts of life, and flowing with instruction given with a fountain pen, "it elbow nonchalantly on the top of the low- milk and honey, but they also saw the is a sign that it is nearly empty and should built, modern automobile. Because of this giants. be filled." This is a caution that would fact and also because, as my friend said, These giants made such an impression seem to apply also to us as Christians. "he must have had legs five feet long," he on ten of the men that the wonderful vine- There is the giant of fear that is abroad attracted attention wherever he went. yards, the milk and honey, and the pros- in the world today. Throughout the land These big men in Bible times must have perous landscape were crowded out of men's hearts are failing them for fear— been rather fearsome-looking creatures, their thinking. In fact, the thirty-third fear for lack of food, fear for the future, perhaps ten or eleven feet tall, and they verse tells us, "There we saw the giants, fear of war—almost any kind of fear you were able to inspire awe in the minds and the sons of Anak, which come of the want to mention you will find in the hearts of all who beheld them. giants: and we were in our own sight as hearts of men today. We read in Numbers 13 the story of the grasshoppers, and so we were in their I was coming along in front of the twelve spies who were sent over by Moses sight." Seattle (Washington) General Hospital and the children of Israel to spy out the What a tremendous impression these one day when I noticed a number of Promised Land. We are told in the Spirit big men must have made on the spies for policemen who were questioning a young of prophecy that these men divided into them to have compared themselves to man in a sailor's uniform. Upon inquiry small groups so they would not attract grasshoppers, which, as everyone knows I found that the lad's mother was in the attention to themselves after they crossed who has lived in the Middle West, are car parked by the curb, down between the border into the Promised Land. We very insignificant-looking creatures. Even the front and back seats, dead. She had know that they all must have been of though Caleb and Joshua endeavored to become discouraged and had shot herself, above-average intelligence or they would still the people before Moses, and told them and was dead by the time the young man not have been chosen for this dangerous they were well able to overcome the giants could rush her to the hospital. and exacting task. They saw that the land and possess the land, the people mur- Dear friends, if our hearts are filled with NOVEMBER 22, 1949 PAGE 9 the promises of God and His love, we ably a lack of faith is one of the greatest coming from; or if we lose our job because have access to texts that will enable us to sins of our times. of the Sabbath, how we shall ever live and be constantly without fear. In Isaiah 41:10 I once read of a man who wanted to support our families. How glad we can we find these words: "Fear thou not; for cross the Mississippi River, and as he came be that, if our minds are stayed on Christ, I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I to the bank of the river he found the we may be kept in perfect peace. am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I water coated with ice, as it was winter. Then there is the giant of a bad temper, will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with Not knowing the thickness of the ice, and an ugly disposition. Sometimes an individ- the right hand of my righteousness." fearing mightily for his safety, he debated ual who has this kind of giant in his life Surely if we believe this text, we have a long time, but he had to get across the will say, "It is just one of my faults, and nothing to. fear. Another good text to river; and so at last he got down on his I can't control it." We have all met per- slay the giant of fear is Isaiah 26:3: "Thou hands and knees, for he felt that this sons who are so cross and so crabby that wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose would distribute his weight on four points we get out of their presence just as fast as mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth rather than on two, and he would be less we can. This is certainly not Christianity, in thee." likely to break through. Fearfully he and the man or woman who has a disposi- The reason we fear so many times in inched his way along for perhaps two or tion like this will drive folks away from our Christian experience is that we allow three hundred yards, when he heard a the church and away from Christ faster our minds to stray from Christ and to sound of singing behind him, and as he than ten good people can attract them to become fixed on the petty, insignificant turned and looked, not far away he saw Christ and into the church. things of this life. We may even fix our a man driving a four-horse team over the I remember hearing one of our veteran minds and trust on men. They may be ice, pulling a large load of coal across the ministers tell of preaching in a church on good men, but they are fallible and prone river. the Sabbath and what occurred after the to fail. There are individuals who have We smile, but how many of us live thus service. He said that the elder told him to been baptized into the church by some in our Christian experience. We ask the shake hands with all the people and get evangelist, and when the evangelist has Lord to forgive our sins, and we wonder his visiting over with and then come to left the city they have failed in their whether He has. We ask Him to keep us his house for dinner, that he and his wife Christian experience, because they were from harm and danger, and then take out would go ahead and prepare the meal. Ac- converted to the man and did not keep life insurance policies to be sure every- cordingly, the minister greeted all the con- their minds stayed on Jesus Christ. thing will be all right. We ask Him to gregation and walked slowly through the If we have faith in God, He will carry give us our daily bread, and then worry pasture toward the creek and the elder's us through into the Promised Land. Prob- and fret as to where our next meal is home. Going up on the little bridge across the creek, he heard voices down below on the other side; and looking over, he saw a woman standing there, very red in the face, telling the man who stood beside her all about his past sins, some in the present and perhaps some in the future. She was excited and angry. The minister said he recognized the elder and his wife, and he hardly knew what to do. He did not want to stay and eavesdrop, and he did not want to cause them any embarrassment. As he was standing there in a quandary his foot hit a loose board in the bridge, and the noise attracted the attention of the elder. He looked up, and hurriedly warned his wife, "Sarah, Sarah, here is the minister. Be quiet." And immediately this woman A SPIR A TION put on her Sabbath face, walked quickly forward and said, "0 Pastor , come right into the house. We are so glad to By EUGENE LINCOLN have you." I wonder, friends, if we put on our Sab- bath faces when the minister comes to Dare to aim high! Don't be content see us, why we cannot do it seven days a week for the sake of our friends. To dwell in life's valleys. Thy life has been lent We can slay the giants in just such pro- portion as we are consecrated to Christ. To thee with a purpose—service to God. David was able to slay Goliath, not because he was bigger or better equipped, but Don't tread, then, the paths that the millions have trod because he was fearless and on speaking terms with his Lord. In vain through the ages; climb higher instead You all remember the story found in 2 Kings 6, where the servant of Elisha To heavenly peaks of achievement. Don't dread was worried and fearful because of the army that had come out to take him and The challenge flung at thee to climb toward the sky, his master. When Elisha asked the Lord to open the eyes of the young man, he For successful persons are those who aim high. beheld a sight that must have thrilled his soul, and then he could understand the words of his master, Elisha, when he told him, "Fear not: for they that be with —Please turn to page 20 PAGE 10 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR SOD Prepares the Way

By BETTY BEACH

Seventh-day Adventist I find it impossible to Singapore and take the nurses' course. to report for work on the Sabbath." But she had heard that native girls' train- "You a Seventh-day Adventist?" she ing was not like that of Europeans, that sneered. "Why, that is ridiculous! But just a burden of drudgery was placed upon a minute, Poh Quan. It so happens that we them, and their training was often poor. are revising our schedule, and next Satur- With her many questions and problems day is your day off. Hereafter your week Poh Quan again went to the Martins' ends will alternate, and you must take home. Poh Quan Was Employed as a Telephone Operator by the British Government, and Her Services Were your turn at work." "How would you like to go back to the of High Value Without further word Poh Quan left United States with us, and take your the office. In her heart she carried a great nurses' training there?" the mission direc- deal of faith and courage, and she knew tor asked her. ASTOR MARTIN, director of the that God would prepare the way. She gladly consented, for in another year P Malay States Mission, welcomed Two weeks later, as the Sabbath drew she was to receive a six-hundred-dollar young Poh Quan to church. He was sur- near, the same problem again confronted pension from the government. So a letter prised to see her, for he knew her mother Poh Quan. With God's help and guiding was sent to the Portland (Oregon) Sani- was very much opposed to her coming to care she decided to take her case to the tarium, making application for her en- Sabbath school. The Chinese girl had a officials at the state capital. trance. The answer, however, was slow in Christian background, for her father, now Too often these men looked upon the coming. Overseas girls are seldom ad- dead, had served as a Baptist minister. natives with disfavor, and seldom granted mitted, unless they have had some training Poh Quan's sister, Poh Kin, was away at- any of their requests. But the hand of in the United States. In the meantime Poh tending a Methodist school for girls. The divine Authority took over again, and Poh Quan, still hopeful, kept busy preparing situation was a very trying one since Poh Quan made a favorable impression upon for her next three years in school. Quan now desired so earnestly to be an the officer with whom she spoke. After The mission director and his wife had Adventist. She was frequently invited to hearing her story the man quickly picked booked their reservations on the Empress the Martins' home, where long hours were up the telephone receiver and said, "Please Canada; but when Mr. Martin tried to spent in study of .he Bible and in earnest give me the head supervisor of the tele- secure passage for Poh Quan on the same prayer for guidance. phone company." He told the supervisor liner, he found that all the cabins had Poh Quan was employed as a telephone the girl's, story, and requested that she not been filled. operator by the British Government. Her be asked to work on her Sabbath. Poh In a final last attempt to secure a berth services had been of high value, and it Quan thanked him graciously and went for Poh Quan he learned of a missionary seemed almost impossible to get along her way with a happy heart. who had canceled her reservation because without her. But when she made her im- A few weeks later Poh Quan's rejoicing of illness. This made room for one girl portant decision to be a Seventh-day Ad- came to an end. who could share a cabin with another ventist, it was necessary for her to ask for "You must report for duty next Satur- woman. Poh Quan's friends quickly Sabbaths off. Her supervisor was a stern day!" came the peremptory order from booked the reservation for her. Surely the Catholic woman who was at times almost the supervisor. Lord's hand was again directing the way. unapproachable. With unwavering faith Poh Quan re- Not only had Poh Quan been busy pre- With trembling hand Poh Quan had turned to the British headquarters, and paring herself for her career, but during knocked at the supervisor's door. once more the official picked up the tele- this period of waiting she had also served "Come in!" called Mrs. Mills pleasantly. phone receiver and angrily told the super- as a witness to her family. Her mother's How thankful Poh Quan felt to find visor never again to ask the girl to work heart had been softened and had turned the supervisor in such an agreeable mood. on Saturday. Poh Quan expressed her to the Advent truth. Her brother-in-law, "Thank you," responded Poh Quan; gratitude to the man and hurried home. who was a heathen, gave up his idol ways "I have an important request to ask of There she immediately knelt and thanked after watching her real Christian spirit you." God for preparing her way. and kindness. "Fine," smiled Mrs. Mills, not realizing One day Poh Quan asked herself, "Do The Sabbath before sailing for America what was on Poh Quan's mind. "I'd be I want to be a 'hello' girl all my life, or was indeed a happy one, for on that day glad to hear it." shall I get into the Lord's work?" Along Poh Quan's mother was baptized. As the "Well, Mrs. Mills, now that I am a with these thoughts came the desire to go —Please turn to page 17 NOVEMBER 22, 1949 PAGE 11 MINISTERS of MERCY

By ASHLEY G. EMMER

AVING been brought word by the H native mail carrier that her husband was smitten with fever in the tiger jungles of India, Mrs. John Scudder determined to leave the shelter of the mission com- One "Like the Son of God" Stood With Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the pound in Madras at once and carry quinine Fiery Ordeal; and the Worthies Came Forth From the Fire Without so Much as the to her stricken companion. So, hiring four Smell of Smoke on Their Garments Indian coolies and their palanquin, this pioneer missionary packed an overnight bag and her nursing kit into a sedan gel of the Lord encampeth round about Also, to the rescue of a people suffering the chair, climbed in beside her baggage them that fear him, and delivereth them." deserved consequences of apostasy in the and her little son, and started for the dis- Every child of God is overshadowed by a days of the judges, heavenly comforters tant village where the missionary doctor minister of protecting mercy. Not only in came again and again. Their messages are lay delirious on the floor of a mud hut. the tiger forest, but on the busy city street, an encouragement to us in all our back- The Indians made good time down the in the classroom, on the playing field, and sl idings. jungle trail until nightfall. Then the roars in the dormitory—in fact, everywhere— Once an angel actually touched the of the lions and tigers, which echoed up the angels of heaven hover over their hu- prophet Elijah when he was sleeping the and down the wooded canyons, unnerved man charges. The Good Book assures the sleep of exhaustion, tenderly awakened them. Despite the mem-sahib's entreaties Christian that God "shall give his angels him, directed his gaze to food already pro- on behalf of her sick husband and herself, charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy vided, and advised, "Arise and eat." Note and heedless of all her assurances of con- ways." Through His mighty wardens the particularly the heavenly Father's care for fidence in a God that could bridle the loving Father "will keep thee in all places the needs of any one of his discouraged, jaws of the wild animals, the terrified whither thou goest," even if you are weary servants. coolies laid down the frail box and fled. guilty, helpless, and alone as was Jacob, Going a little further in the Bible story, The lone white woman was thus left to the one to whom the promise was first we find angel ministry revealed when the her own devices in the gathering forest made. lives of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego darkness, with nought but matchwood The pages of Holy Writ are filled with were threatened in Babylon. Cast into a walls between her and the savage beasts. examples of the intervention of angels in fiery furnace for refusing to bend the knee They circled the coffinlike litter all night. the affairs of those who will commit their to a civil mandate invading the sphere of One of the big cats, more enterprising than ways to God. For instance, the angel of conscience, these heroes were not alone. his fellows, even nudged the palanquin as the Lord came to the rescue of discouraged One "like the Son of God" stood with he sniffed the scent of human flesh within. Hagar "by a fountain of water in the wil- them in the ordeal, and the three worthies But though jarred it was not overturned. derness" after she had fled before the harsh "came forth from the midst of the fire" The reason? During the darkness God treatment of her mistress, Sarah. Her ex- without so much as the smell of smoke watched over His praying child inside. perience offers encouragement to all who in their garments. We may be assured that When the shame- are tempted to run away from a hard task angels will be with us in every fiery test faced coolies re- or unfair treatment now. which shall be endured for the sake of turned in the Again, a heavenly messenger restrained principle. morning, the liv- honest Abraham on Mount Moriah when A little later, when Daniel himself was ing evidence of he had fully demonstrated his willingness put to dangerous discomfort for refusing the keeping power to carry out an apparently unreasonable to obey a political dictum that interfered of the white man's command. The same God can keep us with his prayer life, from the lions' den God was a sharp from making sincere blunders, and over- he testified, "My God hath sent his angel, rebuke to their rule for good our honesthearted obedience. and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they heathen coward- Later, an infallible angel-guide went be- have not hurt me." Surely a loving heav- ice. fore the camp of Israel in all its journeys enly Father protects the one who would Surely "the an- through the wilderness for forty years. —Please turn to page 18 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Camp Au Sable The camp was under the direction of a setting that afforded wonderful oppor- As reported in the Lake Union Herald, W. C. Loveless, with Mrs. Felix Mitchell tunity to worship the Creator and study 351 boys and girls attended the three as girls' director and George Rasmussen as nature at first hand. highly successful Michigan Junior camps boys' director. There were fifteen coun- Camp closed with a firm determination held at the new Michigan permanent camp, selors for the girls and ten counselors for on the part of each one to return and bring which includes a whole lake and plenty of the boys. Also on the staff were five craft a friend with him next year. teachers, a doctor, a nurse, and seven wooded acres where there is wide oppor- From North Africa tunity for nature study. Seventy-three of cooks. Nature work was made very practical The North African Union Mission is a the campers, all eleven years of age or portion of the Southern European Divi- older, expressed a desire to be baptized as throughout the entire camp. Birds, trees, butterflies, flowers, and stars were given sion, and we are thrilled by this report soon as possible, and this opportunity will which recently came to Pastor E. W. be afforded them in their home churches. special attention. Camp council and camp- fire were high spots in the day. The music, Dunbar of the General Conference Mis- The physical needs of the camps were well sionary Volunteer Department: taken care of by Dr. E. L. Garrett, of under the direction of Pete Kostenko, added much to the success and interest of "Our youth in North Africa have Niles, and Dr. R. W. Spalding. Excellent launched out in a new Missionary Volun- food was provided under the supervision the camp. A youth's choir was organized and gave special music many times during teer plan of attracting their comrades to of Mrs. C. W. Mayor, matron of Adel- the truths of the third angel's message. phian Academy. During one week of the camp. Mrs. Ellsworth Reile played her marimba to furnish accompaniment in the During our camp meeting, aside from our camping one boy gained fourteen pounds own Missionary Volunteers who have sub- and another eleven. In addition to seeing chapel as well as out under the pines at campfire. The Juniors sang with all their scribed to Jeunesse, our young people the wonders of nature and wildlife on the hearts, and the neighbors and friends in placed an order for 600 yearly subscrip- campsite, the campers were taken on a the community were attracted by their tions to Jeunesse, which they will use thirty-mile canoe trip down the Au Sable during the coming year in a systematic River, or on an overnight hike in the State gospel melodies, and remarked over and over that it was the most beautiful music youth evangelistic program. Each Mis- and National forest area surrounding the they had ever heard. sionary Volunteer is taking as his goal the camp. Requests are already coming in The Sabbath services were conducted regular monthly contacting of ten of his for camp dates and camp costs for 1950, non-Adventist comrades. In giving feu- and indications are that there will not be out of doors under the great pine trees overlooking the beautiful lake and stream, room for all who wish to attend. -Please turn to page 22

Colorado Junior Camp Ivy Jo Larsen, Reporting At beautiful Camp Beulah in the heart of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado 240 Junior campers and counselors gathered from July 25 to 31 for one of the most successful Junior camps Colorado has ever held. They came from five States, and a special coach was added to the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad train at Grand Junction to bring the Juniors from the Western Slope. On this ride they vis- ited the famous Royal Gorge and were met at the station in Pueblo by busses and cars which carried them out to the pine- crested campsite. This camp made history, for it was the largest camp ever conducted in the Rocky Mountain Empire. Sixty-five Juniors worked at odd jobs and errands to earn their entire way to camp. Sixty-eight boys and girls joined the baptismal class, thus signifying that they wish to unite with the Seventh-day Ad- ventist Church.

Above: The Group of Juniors Who Attended Beu- lah Junior Camp in the Heart of the Rocky Moun- tains of Colorado

Below: Pictured Are the Staff and Counselors Who Supervised the Beulah (Colorado) Junior Camp RAY LEE PHOTO NOVEMBER 22, 1949 PAGE 13 "Now," said Mrs. Hardrock, "what are you going to do with your find?" "Why, eat it, of course. I have always wanted to taste antelope meat; people say it is fine eating, dear," replied the young miner. "Oh! you couldn't kill her," shivered the little lady. "Look at her eyes. Aren't they beautiful and large, and she is hurt too." "Kill her? Oh, yes, that would be easy. Hardrock—that's me; I can do anything that is necessary." "Oh, yes?" laughed Louise. "You were calling her sweet names when you band- aged her foot." "Well, I wouldn't be mean, of course," replied her husband. "But just to kill an animal, quickly and painlessly, that would be different, and in order to eat the meat! I've never tasted it, you know." "Well, you can't eat it even if you are Hardrock. I couldn't taste it, and I wouldn't speak to you if you did. So there!" "Wait a minute!" warned the driver. "Don't let's have a separation so soon after the wedding; besides, it is against the law to kill an antelope at any time in this State." "I suppose it would have been more hu- mane to let the coyotes tear her to pieces," mocked the young man. "Let me tell you what to do with the Rosemarie antelope," I suggested. "Take her to the museum, and those Government men will doctor her foot and then turn her loose By EVANGELINE H. CARR to join the herd again." "Those 'polished boots' take care of a wounded animal!" snorted Hardrock. "I guess not! They would turn it over to the THE grass rippled across the unending Suddenly Hardrock shouted, "Hold it! C.C.C. boys, and I know more about nurs- I hills and hollows of the cattle country There's one now. And in a trap," he added ing that foot than they do. The antelope that stretched away toward the blue bad- as both men leaped from the car. is mine, isn't she? I saved her life. I am lands, beyond which were the picture- The bleating cries of the animal brought going to get a permit to keep her." wood flats. a sharp exclamation from little Mrs. Hard- "Oh!" sighed Louise, "I feel better now. "There," I pointed out to our guests, rock. "Oh, don't hurt it, please," she I just knew you wouldn't kill her." "is the hill where our keen-eyed driver called as they reached the trapped and "And so peace is restored," calmly stated saw two 'girls' climbing over those large frightened creature. Hardrock; and taking his bride in his petrified logs, 'girls' that suddenly got "Sit on her head," directed Hardrock, arms, he began to sing softly "Rosemarie." down on all fours and loped away— "while I get this trap off her foot. The "That is just what we will name you," antelope." coyotes would have had a fine feast after Louise told the antelope. And Rosemarie "That's a good one," laughed our young dark if we had not happened along. it was. miner friend Hardrock, who with his There, girl," he soothed, stroking the At first the wild creature refused all bride of a month was finishing up the of- graceful neck, but holding the antelope food and water, but the young keeper ficial honeymoon by visiting us. firmly all the while. "Now, Louise, bring gently forced dainty bits of hay between "Let's have a look at those logs," sug- me something to bind up this injured foot, the clinched teeth and murmured endear- gested Hardrock, and he and my husband please. I'll need a rope too, but find some- ing words as he stroked the graceful neck strode away to have a close look at those thing right away quick! She is losing a lot or treated the injured foot. In less than one-time monarchs of a tropical forest, of blood." thirty-six hours he had the antelope eating whose remains now lie crumbling on the "I'm afraid I don't have a thing that eagerly from his hand, and from that time hills of the desert. "These are just as fine would do," answered Louise. on she preferred hand feeding to helping rainbow logs as any we saw in the petri- Then I thought of the clean polishing herself from the generous pile of hay in fied forest." I heard Hardrock tell his cloths in the trunk of the car, and soon front of her. bride as we drove on. Hardrock had the animal's hind foot The neighbors had fallen into the habit "So you sometimes see wild antelope bandaged and both front feet tied together of coming right over to see "What now?" out here," mused Hardrock dreamily as with a stout rag. every time we returned from one of our he looked out across one of Arizona's wide- "Take it easy, now," coaxed Hardrock trips out. Word traveled rapidly that we open spaces. as he carried the nearly grown antelope had brought in an antelope this time, so "Why, yes," I answered; "we do nearly and gently laid her in the car at Mrs. I wore myself out going to the door and every time we go to the forest." Hardrock's feet. He held the frightened answering the request, "May we see the "Hmm," he said, "that is one animal animal firmly as the motor started and antelope?" I never saw in the wild in all my travels." the car got under way. —Please turn to page 22 PAGE 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR W. D. MEDVEE. ARTIST

Little swirls of savory steam came up at him as he put it on the seat beside him. He wanted very much to taste the johnny- cake right then, but he also wanted to be "Mail Buggy" Ben in front of the agent's office in plenty of time. The agent was waiting for Ben with a mailbag in each hand. "This is the through By MARIE LARSEN bag, Ben. You take it straight on to Still Flats." He dumped that bag into the buggy then held up the other. "This way bag will have to be opened at Leon's ranch, at Cutters', and for them new folks A! I'm takin' the mail! I'm takin' the could have a five-dollar gold piece!" Ben just below Dry Hill. I'll get the news- M mail to Still Flats!" danced his mother around the room. papers." Ben climbed over the poles that fenced Then Ben's mother stopped him with a When everything was loaded the agent in the little plot of ground before his serious face. "Son, yesterday you was sayin' warned, "Be sure you get to Still Flats mother's log cabin. He sent his long legs somethin' about the neckyoke bein"most before sundown, Ben." over the sagebrush along the sandy path worn in two. And our buggy, Ben. Still "I'll make it," Ben said confidently, and leaped through the cabin door. Flats is a long way for somethin' that's flipping the lines to send Old Pepper and "They picked me to get the mail nigh fallin' apart as it is." Clod on the way. through to Still Flats, Ma!" Ben's hands dropped. Some of the light But he held his breath when the wheels Ben's eyes were bright with excitement. went out of his eyes, and he said, "I creaked and groaned at the starting. He His red hair was tousled from running. thought of all that when I asked to take did not glance back, for he was afraid the The sight of her son, lanky in jeans that the mail. They're sendin' out newspapers agent would change his mind and motion were too short, brought a smile to the little today. Lem's horse can't carry all the him to stop. woman's sun-browned face. mail they'll send out from now on. They Just as Ben was having this thought, the "The johnnycake is still steamin', son. needed a buggy, and Lem didn't have one. agent gave a shout. "Wait up, Ben!" Have you forgot your birthday breakfast?" He wanted to plow up his land away. Ma, Ben gulped and pulled Old Pepper and "'Course not, Ma, but I can't eat now. the buggy will have to hold! It's my real Clod in. For no reason at all his hands I told the mail agent I'd be back with Old chance!" began to tremble on the lines. Then he Pepper and Clod and our buggy. Look at Ben's mother smiled, and she turned saw someone running along behind him— me, Ma! I'm sixteen since morning, and toward the stove. "Do you reckon johnny- a tall man with a big mustache and a long I've got a job!" cake and molasses might taste better 'long store coat that flapped in back as he ran. Ben put his arm about his little mother. about noon?" Without waiting for his Only a passenger. "I'll get 50 cents a trip. In ten days I answer she told Ben, "I'll bring some Ben almost laughed with relief, until down to the harness he thought what a load the big man might shed before you go, make for the weak old buggy. He could son." only grin a halfhearted grin when the big Ben had Old Pepper man swung up beside him. and Clod in the harness "We'll be ridin' long, mister," he said, and a generous feeding and down inside he hoped the outfit and of hay and oats behind the horses could make it. Old Pepper and the buggy seat by the Clod stood it very well with a breather at time his mother came Leon's ranch and a good long rest at Cut- with the lunch to say ters'. Ben fed and watered the horses. He good-by. shared his johnnycake with the passenger The lunch felt warm while Mrs. Cutter finished wrapping her inside the cloth bag. garden sage for the general store in Still Flats. Ben Had Old Pepper and The sun was well over the heavens when Clod in the Harness and a Ben urged the horses along the upgrade to Generous Feeding of Hay and Oats Behind the Buggy Seat Dry Hill. Everything had been going by the Time Mother Came Out With His Lunch to Say smoothly. Ben had even decided to be Good-by glad that the man had come along. The NOVEMBER 22, 1949 PAGE 15 gold piece looked more real in Ben's imagi- the buggy. His long coat waved, and so From Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, nation than it had all day. did his mustache, as they bounced down- to Cape Town Then they topped Dry Hill and started hill. down. Ben set the wooden brakes. Old "Jump, mister! Jump!" Ben shouted. (Continued from page 6) Pepper and Clod strained back against Even as he did so, the buggy tongue hit there may be indication of special provi- the neckyoke, going slowly. a rock in the road and bounced, turning dence pointing otherwise, we do plan our Ben could see the fences that hemmed the carriage down the hillside toward the work for as little overlapping with other in the freshly turned land at the bottom fence. The pole fence reached right out at societies as possible. In the large protector- of the hill. There was a new log house off them. There was an awful, splintering ate of Bechuanaland in Central South across the little valley, with smoke curling crash. Ben felt his nose plow along in the Africa, through early agreements, mission from its chimney. newly turned land before he came to a work was confined to one society. In the "Our last stop, mister," Ben whooped. stomach landing in the field. early twenties Pastor W. H. Anderson and With a grin he finished the whoop with, Ben sat up, almost afraid to open his Dr. A. H. Kretschmar worked out arrange- "Still Flats, here we come!" eyes. He saw Old Pepper and Clod ments with the ruling chief whereby we The whoop ended in a sort of groan, for together beyond the fence, still snorting a were permitted to open medical work in at that moment there was a cracking little. A dust cloud hung over the spot the protectorate at a place called Kanye. sound too. Ben stared at the neckyoke. It where the buggy rested. Ben found him- It was to visit this Kanye Hospital that dropped apart before his eyes. The buggy self listening for the big man's groans. we terminated our air journey at Jo- tongue fell heavily into the dust between Then the man came out of the dust hannesburg, where we were joined by Dr. the two horses. Clod shied over into Old cloud, whipping at his clothes. Ben saw Paul Bringle, medical secretary of the Pepper, snorting. that the long coattail was missing, but he Southern African Division. A dusty two- Ben jerked the lines, yelling, "Whoa, drew a relieved breath. hundred-mile journey to the west by rail whoa there!" He grabbed at the brake and The big man's long mustache bobbed. through some typical Central States farm- put his weight against it. It could not stop "Mail driver, indeed! Don't you know, my ing country brought us to the little town the downward rush of the buggy. The boy, that the mail must go through?" of Zeerust, obviously a Dutch name from vehicle fairly jumped ahead, plowing into "I know it, mister," Ben said. "And I the early Boer settlers. the team The unexpected shnvr cent theaitn to_do somethin' about -it."--But -right When we waited ft mu five till eight in animals leaping and kicking down the then he was not sure just what he intended the evening for Dr. Jack Hay to bring us hill. to do. The buggy was completely smashed. to the mission station sixty miles away, The brakes were useless. Ben could see Then he looked off across the fields we had justifiable doubt as to whether our that now. The buggy lurched and wobbled toward the new log house, and decided. telegram of the day before had been de- and plunged on even with locked wheels. Ben jumped over the broken pole fence livered. Often in these frontier areas com- It plowed into the horses again. This time and brought the mailbags out of the wreck- munications are in the hands of people their terrified rearing tore the wooden pins age of the buggy. He drove Old Pepper with less appreciation for promptness and from the framework of the doubletrees, and Clod through the break in the fence, efficiency than most of us are inclined to freeing the harness. Old Pepper and Clod calming them with soft commands. Piling require. In India I used the device of add- dashed wildly off the dirt road and on the dusty, battered bundle of newspapers ing to my telegrams the words: "Please down the hillside, away from the runaway and Mrs. Cutter's sage into the arms of the note time of delivery of this wire." Each buggy. big man, he started the mail across the operator along the line, thinking he was The big man was clinging frantically to fields. being checked up on, hurried the message The sun was close to the hills when Ben along, with the result that delivery of these got the mail to Still Flats. The shadows wires was usually made in record time. were crawling up swiftly behind the At eight o'clock Dr. Hay arrived in his wagon he had rented from the new family speedy three-quarter-ton pickup, and the for his first day's pay. He had given night ride to the Kanye Medical Mission another part of his yet-unearned gold piece Station proved to be very comfortable to pay for the broken pole fence. Maybe though chilly. The trip was made more he would never get that gold piece. There interesting by the presence of many spring was no carriage now. Ben did not feel like hares, or kangaroo rabbits, which per- smiling at the postmaster as he greeted sisted in bounding along with their kan- the boy. There was little comfort in garoo gait in the light of the car. knowing he had got the mail through in It has been the policy of the British Original puzzles, acrostics, anagrams, cryptograms, word transformations, quizzes, short lists of unusual questions— time. Government, wherever it directs the des- anything that will add interest to this feature corner—will The postmaster fairly beamed at Ben. tinies of backward peoples, to intedere as be considered for publication. Subjects limited to Bible, denominational history, nature, and geography. All ma- "You the new mail driver?" he asked. little as possible in tribal administration or terial must be typewritten. Address Editor, Yount's IN- "Well, sir," Ben wet his lips, "I don't sraucroa, Takoma Park 12, D.C. national customs, if these are compatible know." with good government, and do not work Bible Quotations? The postmaster looked at the big man, hardships on individuals or minority who had followed Ben into Still Flats. groups. By MRS. RALPH SAGE "What's the matter, Bill? Couldn't you The various British protectorates of Which of these sayings are from the Bible? find anyone we could depend on?" Africa are administered on the higher 1. We brought nothing into this world, and The big man's grin only half showed levels by a high commissioner and his it is certain we can carry nothing out. beneath his long mustache. "Mike, you staff and on the lower levels by the para- 2. God helps them that help themselves. 3. As the apple of the eye. want an outfit you can depend on I suggest mount chief and his underchiefs. The 4. Words smoother than butter. you unhire me as a driver hunter and hire southern portion of Bechuanaland Pro- 5. A snake in the grass. me to look up a good outfit. With a rig tectorate is under Chief Bathoen, with 6. A time to keep silence, and a time to that'll stay under him, nothing can stop headquarters at Kanye. The chief is Eng- speak. 7. Silence is golden. this boy!" He gave his tailless coat a lish educated, wears Western clothing, and 8. At their wit's end. meaningful swish. drives a 1948 sedan. His stipulated salary 9. With the skin of my teeth. The postmaster beamed again. "You're is three thousand dollars a year, but he is 10. Cleanliness is next to godliness. hired—both of you." And this time Ben allowed to keep the fines imposed upon —Key on page 23 beamed too. his 'subjects who happen to run afoul of PAGE 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR tribal law. Probably his larger income is the plateau breaks up into deep canyons Mr. Ling at Northwestern University. from his personally owned lands and his and some higher mountains with scenery With the letter was a proposal of mar- herds of cattle. With a view to maintaining comparable in some respects to Bryce or riage! greater unity among his people, he in- Zion national parks. We saw snow on the "What am I to do?" she thought. Again sists that each family among his subjects higher ridges. the answer came as she sought counsel maintain a home of some sort in the head- We arrived in Cape Town at sea level from God on her knees. After a diligent quarters village. The result is that Kanye, in the midst of the rainy season but minus study of the Bible she knew that a Chris- far from being the usual compact little vil- the rains. The Cape Town area was shar- tian should not marry a heathen. So she lage generally seen, is a sprawling array ing the general drought, which has made her decision, sent back the gift, and of huts, groups of huts, cattle kraals, brought famine and suffering to con- enclosed several Signs of the Times in gardens, and small mud-walled com- siderable portions of Southern Africa in the package. pounds scattered over an area of perhaps the past eighteen months. (The little lake Then a period of discouragement set in two square miles. It is to serve the twenty boat on which we are at present traveling for Poh Quan. The anatomy and physi- thousand people of this village and the up Lake Tanganyika, on its way down ology courses seemed much too difficult many thousands in the adjacent area that unloaded nine hundred bags of dried for her, and she found that her secondary our Kanye Hospital has been established. tapioca root at one distribution point to education did not serve as a background Since originally established by Dr. Kretsch- bring relief to famine-stricken natives of for these technical subjects. The teachers mar in 1923, this hospital has been staffed the area.) began to wonder whether they had made by many of our African medical workers. Cape Town is the headquarters of our a mistake in accepting her. But Poh Quan In 1946 Dr. Bringle turned the charge of Southern African Division, and it was was not to be outdone. She spent a whole the institution over to Dr. R. W. Royer, from here that we had to make our prep- night in prayer, and then it seemed that and in July of this year the direction of arations for the trip which would take us the major difficulties in her life became as the institution was assumed by Dr. Jack to visit the hospitals and dispensaries of nothing. Within a few days she had mas- Hay. He and his wife are the characters this large mission field. tered the technical names and the words mentioned in the book Judy Steps Out. as if she had the gift of tongues. Other foreign personnel on this station In three years Poh Quan finished her are Myrtle Sather in charge of nurs- God Prepares the Way training, and she began to do special nurs- ing training and Gertrude Gerarty, her ing. She worked for various people, and assistant. (Continued from page 11) let her light shine wherever she went. One Our converts in this Kanye mission in- time for departure came the mother said to day she received a call from the General clude a good representation from all Mr. Martin through her tears of joy, "I Conference asking her to become the su- classes, from members of the chief's family don't suppose we will see Poh Quan again, perintendent of nurses at Penang Mission to the most humble family of this Bong- but we will give her to you. She is your Hospital. waketse tribe. The small group of nurses in daughter. Take good care of her. May it But all this time, back at Northwestern training are giving a good account of be our privilege to meet in heaven." University, was a man who would not themselves, and on graduation will doubt- Poh Quan became quite attached to her forget, and Mr. Ling managed to learn of less be assigned to responsible positions cabin mate. They studied the Bible to- Poh Quan's whereabouts. One day as he here and in other institutions. gether and spent many hours getting ac- was sitting in a class he happened to notice Kanye is not far from the eastern edge quainted. But the girl was unaware of of the famous Kalahari Desert. This desert the plot that was forming behind her back. is actually a desert in the making. Early Her cabin mate was thinking, "What a settlers, in the days when there was ap- good wife she would make for Mr. Ling." parently more rainfall, made efforts to Mr. Ling was a heathen friend of hers at- establish themselves, and many have per- tending Northwestern University in the sisted in their attempts with dry farming United States, where he was working for and sheep and cattle raising. Extending a doctor's degree in chemistry. He its arid boundaries year by year, this Kala- planned to return to Nanking to head the hari Desert threatens to engulf some of chemistry department in the university. Central South Africa's formerly prosperous Her cabin mate did not stop with just REID SHEPARD Address all correspondence to the Stamp Corner, YotrrH's agricultural areas. Some people feel that thinking, but secured a picture of Poh INsTaucroa, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C., And be Africa is definitely undergoing a major Quan and mailed it with a letter to Mr. sure to enclose a self•addressed, stamped envelope for reply. Please use commemorative stamps on all your Stamp climatic change, because of the wholesale Ling. Corner correspondence whenever possible. denuding of forests, with the consequent The boat docked at Vancouver, British drying of watersheds and streams. Columbia; and the Martin party continued Stamp Exchange Some rather ambitious programs of re- to Seattle, Washington, and then on to The persons whose names appear in this exchange list habilitation have been suggested, such as Portland, Oregon. Even the most common are serious stamp collectors, and are not at all interested bringing the waters of the upper Zambezi things in America seemed a luxury to in hearing from young people who are looking for pen pals. Please do not waste either your stationery, your River down over this desert. We are re- Poh Quan. She was indeed a happy girl. stamps, or your time if it is not your primary purpose to minded of the words of the prophet when When she arrived at the Portland Sani- trade stamps. A word to the wise is sufficient! he speaks of the earth waxing old like tarium the staff members welcomed her Frank Adams (junior, beginner), 109 a garment. Little better than the Kalahari warmly. Valley Street, Salem, West Virginia, wishes Desert did we find the Karroo as we Pastor Martin and his family, who fre- to exchange stamps from France, Jamaica, Nigeria, or Canada for those from New traveled on south to Cape Town. A high, quently visited Poh Quan, found that she Guinea, Cuba, Egypt, or Albania. dry plateau four to six thousand feet high, was continually striving to be an earnest Donald Crane (junior, beginner), Vincent this sparsely settled cattle and sheep coun- Christian. The matron said that the girl's Hill College, Mussoorie, United Province, try extends for hundreds of miles before life was so exemplary that she became the India, has stamps from Ceylon and India to dropping down to the near-sea-level fruit topic of conversation, and other students trade for worldwide stamps. and general farming area a hundred miles looked to her for advice. Rosalina Dirige (senior, 500 stamps), Cen- from Cape Town. July, which seasonably Poh Quan had been in training only a tral Luzon Mission of Seventh-day Adventists, Box 2494, Manila, Philippines, has stamps is comparable to our January in the few weeks when she received a beautiful from the United States, the Philippines, Northern Hemisphere, is raw, windy, and gift through the mail. An explanation fol- Malay, and Australia, for which she wishes cold on the Karroo. The southern end of lowed in a letter that she received from worldwide stamps. NOVEMBER 22, 1949 PAGE 17 that the man beside him was reading a hands." Are you bound by circumstances What a joy it will be to commune with religious paper. from going about God's errands? Do you our guardian angels when sin is forever "That looks familiar," he said. "It's the feel weighed down by the bands of some a thing of the past! In the better land same Signs of the Times that I have been besetment? Take heart. Heed the words "every redeemed one will understand the getting from a strait-laced Seventh-day of Peter's mighty guardian angel: "Gird ministry of angels in his own life. The Adventist girl named Poh Quan, who is thyself. . . . And follow me." angel who was his guardian from his taking the nurses' training at the Portland All the Biblical instances of supernat- earliest moment; the angel who watched Sanitarium." ural deliverance are "written for our learn- his steps, and covered his head in the day "That is interesting," replied the man. ing, that we through patience and comfort of peril; the angel who was with him in "I came here from Walla Walla College. of the scriptures might have hope." The the valley of the shadow of death, who It just so happens that I know her too." Christian student may find courage in be- marked his resting-place, who was the first After this their meetings were frequent, lieving that he is the constant object of to greet him in the resurrection-morning, and Mr. Ling began to take interest in the angel watchcare. "Under the inspecting —what will it be to hold converse with Seventh-day Adventist doctrine. He often eye of God and holy angels, many take him, and to learn the history of divine attended church on Sabbath. liberties of which they would not be interposition in the individual life, of When Mr. Ling had completed his guilty in the presence of their fellow-men"; heavenly co-operation in every work for graduate work he began to lay plans for but if these individuals "were to cherish humanity!" his return to China. But instead of leaving an habitual impression that God sees and Take heart, then, fearful one! In a from San Francisco, he decided to leave hears all that we do and say," not only civilization so complex, in a society so from Los Angeles, so that he could stop by would they fear to sin, but they would dangerous, an age so ominous, we do have the Loma Linda Sanitarium, where Poh have more courage to do right. Then they a source of security that earth cannot offer. Quan was now taking postgraduate work. would have the peace that comes from Peace and poise may be yours in this vale The afternoon he arrived in Loma conscious innocence, and they would trust of tears. "Casting all your care upon him," Linda he found Poh Quan's address, and all their troubles to our God to solve. As you may not only trust Jesus for forgive- introduced himself. He told her of his one writer has depicted, God "would ness of all your past but also resign your- intentions of becoming a Seventh-day Ad- sooner send every angel out of glory to the self to the angel of the Lord who encamps ventist. The minister of the local church relief of faithful souls,_ to make a hedge about you. _The promise of God is still — and Poh Qiian spent a great deal of time about them, than have them deceived and true: "Behold, I send an Angel before studying the Bible with him. Before long led away by the lying wonders of Satan." thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring he gave his heart to God, was baptized, Who are these mighty ministers of God's thee into the place which I have prepared." and the happy couple were married soon mercy? It is already obvious that angels afterward. are not just good thoughts, as potent as Mr. Ling enrolled in the College of these may be. For who would care to rely Are You a Bargain? Medical Evangelists to prepare for the upon the power of thought alone when medical profession, and four years later confronted by tigers, lions, a howling (Continued from page 4) he completed his training. Then he and wilderness, infuriated soldiers bent on Poh Quan sailed back to China. vengeance, or crafty politicians eager to ceiving bills from all over the city. They Today both are on the medical staff of entangle their victim? seemed to have been coming with increas- a Seventh-day Adventist sanitarium in the These supernatural beings could not be ing urgency too. She learned with dismay Orient, and are leading many influential spirits of the departed dead. True, there that even the fine automobile they drove people to everlasting life. are evil spirits that frighten superstitious was not really theirs at all. people and afflict the weak-minded. But With money a sustaining hope all even these are not the spirits of the wicked through the years, now Dorothy was Ministers of Mercy who have gone before us to death's cham- obliged to admit she was beaten. Jack, at thirty-two, had never managed his own (Continued from page 12) bers. We are definitely told that the dead know nothing, and that good and bad money. He was extravagant and irrespon- rather die than surrender the regularity of alike await in the tomb their respective sible. A new, fresh love might have weath- his prayer program. resurrections. Also we are definitely told ered this shock; but an old, tired, practi- When Jesus was on earth "angels min- in Genesis 3:24 and Job 38:1-7 that angels cally extinct affection gave way, and the istered unto him" in the wilderness of were in existence before a single human divorce court was the final answer to the temptation. They will be by your side and being died, and that they witnessed the situation. mine when we are tempted to indulge creation of this world. Now Dorothy's two children spend their appetite, vanity, or pride. In His Geth- Angels are created beings, but of a days in a nursery school. A tired working semane experience, when Christ's soul was higher order than men. Yet they are real. mother for a few evening hours is all they torn between the horrors of the cross and They have faces, feet, and wings. They know of home. On a recent visit to this the responsibility of His mission to die eat. They are able to assume materiality broken home I saw a tragic sight—a for sinners, "there appeared an angel unto or remain invisible, as their duties may lounging chair, reading light, and a small him from heaven, strengthening him." So demand. Their might is atomic—one angel table. The book on the table was Peace we also may be strengthened in our hours smote 185,000 Assyrians in the days of of Mind. A life planned by two intelligent of agonizing decision when we are called Hezekiah. young people before their marriage could upon to choose between duty and inclina- How securely, then, may we rest in their have avoided this disaster. tion. care! You, reader, may believe without Life is becoming more and more com- Angel ministry in the earthly life of question, if your life is hidden with Christ plex. Specialists are increasingly in de- Jesus is a pledge to us of the same help in God, that in the time of terror, pesti- mand. More and more education is re- in our struggles. In proof of this fact, lence, darkness, and plague, "there shall quired to reach the top. Often the time for take for example the experience of Peter no evil befall thee." Even when life's successful marriage arrives before the long when unjustly cast behind armed guards journey is ended, and we lie cold in the educational period is over. and prison bars: "The angel of the Lord tomb, angel watchcare does not cease. For Perhaps at the moment you are follow- came upon him, and a light shined in the on the grand morning of the resurrection ing a line of work simply because your prison: and he smote Peter on the side, they will gather each one of their charges father, uncle, or some well-meaning friend and raised him up, saying, Arise up from their musty vaults and present them offered you a start. Perhaps at your age quickly. And his chains fell off from his to Jesus, the great Life-giver. the offer was a bit flattering, and without PAGE 18 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR considering your real aptitudes and capa- a sense of triumph when I succeed in sal- other in line with far more severity than bilities you accepted. Sometimes in this vaging something from these worm-eaten Mrs. Selby would have shown. way young men are drawn into lines of scraps. How like the spiritual world! Sev- Penny liked them all. And they liked work for which their ability is only average eral years of Christian service may some- her too. Some of them were very much or perhaps inferior. You may even be quite times be salvaged from a life that has been interested in what she told them of her interested in the work as such. Interest, worm-eaten by sin, if it is yielded to the religious faith. She was happy among however, will not compensate for lack of power that can cut away the defects. And them, except that she sometimes felt a ability. oh, the joy among the celestial beings when little guilty at occupying space in Harmony Maybe you are one of those young men they see a life rescued from the scrap heap! House. It was such a perfect setup for a who have an overfond, well-meaning Is the Spirit even now asking for what girl who had a man friend to entertain. mother, whose ambition outweighs her is left of your life? Do not resist Him. Since she never had that sort of company, good sense in helping you find your place Turn yourself over to Him. Let Him cut maybe she ought not to— in life. She is determined that her son shall and plane and polish and fit you into the Mrs. Selby smiled at Penny as the young not toil so arduously as his father did. She one place in the building that was planned woman came up the steps. She was one imagines that the life of the professional especially for you. of her favorite girls. man is far more desirable than that of the 4. Knots. Trees have limbs, so there are "You have had a guest, dear. Such a farmer or the mechanic. So instead of be- many knotty boards. Some people like the very persistent young man. He was here coming the competent mechanic you could knotty effect. It seems to be stylish just about five o'clock, and he has phoned twice have been, you have allowed yourself to now. But give me the beautiful effect pro- since then to ask whether you had come be crammed into the mold of a teacher. duced by number one lumber, planed and in yet." You might even come across a girl you sanded and stained and varnished until "Yes, Pen," chimed in Polly and Grace. would like to marry who would feel that you can almost see your face in it. Yes, "You've been holding out on us! Who's soiled hands and face and dirty overalls sometimes we pick up a board from the the good-looking soldier? Here we thought are not for her. This attitude springs from scrap heap, cut a knot off this end, another you were a dyed-in-the-wool bachelor girl false pride, and betrays a character weak- off that side, and finally find a place to like us, and all the time you've a man ness. If she loves you supremely, she will use it. And I think, as I rejoice over the hidden away—look at her blush, girls!" want you to do what you can be happy rescued material, I must let Jesus cut off Penny was blushing. "Why, really, girls, doing. If she loves herself supremely, she from my character this knot of selfishness, I can't imagine who it could be! A sol- will want you to humor her pride at all that knot of dishonesty; yes, and here is dier?" costs. That is too big a risk to take, how- a big knot of laziness that must come off. "Well, you'll soon know. Here he comes ever. Far better be a successful farmer than And I say, "Take them all off, dear Jesus, now! Come on, Grace, let's get out of a mediocre lawyer. So by all means, have no matter how it hurts! Make me into a here and give her a clear field. Now, be an understanding before you marry. thing of beauty that will reflect Thy glori- careful, Pen!" One of the greatest strides education has ous image." Penny was embarrassed at the girls' non- made in recent years is in the field of ac- 5. Owner built. That is an expression sense, and yet she was rather pleased too. quainting young people with themselves that gives us to understand that the build- She really did not know this young man and the world of opportunity in which ing in question has been built honestly, who was striding so purposefully toward they live, and in guiding them in finding carefully, and will stand the test of time. her. Or—was there something vaguely their particular field of service. It would The heavenly temple will be built that familiar about him? Why, it was only be well for you to seek this help also in way. Good material will go into its every Jerry Conway! She had not seen him or finding the particular field in which your part. Some of it has been rescued from even thought of him for years, but she had God-given talents and capabilities can func- the scrap heap, it is true, but fashioned by gone to school with him through her high tion best. the Master Workman into something school days. How in the world could she straight, strong, true, and fine. entertain him? What could they talk Take a Look at That Scrap These are the thoughts that come to me about? Maybe he would be hungry—serv- Heap as I plane, square, cut, and sand—and oc- icemen were always hungry. Although casionally throw a piece into the scrap dinner was over she could fix him some- (Continued from page 1) heap. I wonder—did the youthful Jesus thing. She gave herself an impatient little think these thoughts too as He toiled in shake. When she had not been expecting it can be used in a place where a stronger the humble carpenter shop at Nazareth? anybody, why should she feel so disap- board will give it support. There are I am quite sure He did; and, if I am right, pointed? She would be really friendly to places in every building where these nar- we have simply been thinking His Jerry—his folks were near neighbors back row pieces can be used, sometimes for thoughts after Him. home—and she would write to his mother utility, sometimes for ornamentation. And and tell her that she had seen him, and just so in the Christian life, we that are how well he looked. strong "ought to bear the infirmities of "Well, little Penelope Gray! And what the weak," remembering that they have a Penny Pays the Piper a time I've had finding you! Mother place in God's great scheme of things, (Continued from page 8) wrote that you were out here, and told that even in their weakness they may me where you worked. I phoned there and beautify God's temple. lawn and garden. There was a small snack got this address. And then you were out. 3. Worm-eaten. This is a fault almost bar where they could do a little cooking, Don't you ever stay home?" certain to consign a board to the scrap and Mrs. Selby furnished one meal a day, "Oh, yes, I do, Jerry! Almost all the heap. Once in a while, I find a piece that, a delicious home-cooked dinner. It was a time—but tonight was a party." by dint of much ripping, will yield a nar- real home away from home, and the girls "A party? Well, it certainly didn't last row strip of sound material. I always feel were free to entertain their friends as much very long, and I'm glad of that. No, I as they pleased. There were no rules as won't come in. That dame in there looks such, but any girl who fell below Mrs. at me cross-eyed. Get your war paint on, NOT for one single day can I discern my Selby's standard of decorum was soon re- and let's go places!" way, but this I surely know,— quested to find other accommodations. The Penny felt more ill at ease with this Who gives the day, will show the way, so girls appreciated the confidence reposed in home-town boy than she had expected. I securely go. them, and were jealous of the good name There was something about his casual fa- -JOHN OXENHAM. of their establishment. They kept each miliarity that was faintly distasteful. But NOVEMBER 22, 1949 PAGE 19 this was a date! She was not in a mood to What had Helen said to her only last Giants be overcritical. week? Penny had remarked about what (Continued from page 10) "War paint! Why, I never—" good friends Harry and Bob, her husband, The man laughed. "That's right. I for- seemed to be, and Helen confided: "It's us are more than they that be with them." got what a queer little duck you always me Harry really likes, I guess. Back home We must remember that God never sets were. But it's all right with me. just grab when Bob was in the service Harry hung a man a task that he cannot perform. He your coat, and let's go eat. I'm as hungry around me a lot. Why, he even asked me never gives him a work that is impossible as a wolf." to go with him on his vacation!" for him to do. Probably nowhere in the "Give me just ten minutes." As she Penny had been aghast. "And you never Bible is this illustrated more definitely started to speed past Mrs. Selby in the hall, told your husband! You let him go on— than in the story of Shamgar, as found in the older woman put out a hand and thinking of Harry as his friend—having Judges 3:31. In reading back in the history stopped her. him out to the house!" of Israel, we find that God's people were "This young man, Pen. How well do "Of course, you little ninny! Why should being oppressed by the various nations you know him?" I make trouble between them? Pen, the around them, and at this particular time "Oh, ever so well, Mrs. Selby! He's a trouble with you is you're just not a bit so- the Philistines were overpowering them, neighbor from back home." phisticated. Things are different nowa- and had taken their weapons. They, of But somehow she felt as if she did not days, and you need to wake up to it. I course, deserved some of this treatment, know him at all as he tucked her arm could say no, couldn't I? Harry's really for we read in Judges 2 that they forsook through his and they set off down the not a bad sort. You can't blame a man for the Lord and followed the false gods of street. Was it just because he was grown trying." the people around them and served Baal up, or was it the Army? "The girls would laugh," thought and Ashtaroth. Therefore, the Lord "de- They went into a good restaurant. Penny, "if they knew how frightened I livered them into the hands of spoilers" Penny ordered lightly, but Jerry ordered am. I mustn't rush home alone from this and "sold them into the hands of their a prodigious meal. While they were wait- date, and give everybody a chance to enemies." ing for it to be served, he left the table and make fun of me. I can take care of my- After this sad story we find a cheering was gone for some time, coming back self as well as the other girls. It is ridicu- note in the thirty-first verse of the third with his cheeks slightly flushed, and in a lous to be afraid of Jerry Conway." chapter which tells us, "After him was very talkative mood. He laughed long "Look, Pen. We're just a block or two Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of and loud at all her little sallies. Penny was from my room. Let's stop around and pick the Philistines six hundred men with an rather bewildered. Surely she was not be- up my coat, and then I'll take you home. ox goad: and he also delivered Israel." ing that witty! From time to time he I'm sorry I scared you so. You won't have What a lesson for us in this short story! caught at her hand and pressed it fervently. a very good opinion of me, I'm afraid. I An oxgoad in the hands of a consecrated That was all part of a date, according to guess some of us get pretty lousy in the man, with the blessing of God upon it, is the girls, but Penny decided that it was service. I wouldn't want the folks to mightier than Goliath's sword. a greatly overrated experience. know." The Lord can help you even as He When they finally left the table it was Penny went with him with no misgiv- helped Shamgar. All of us have as much as well after ten o'clock, and Penny hoped ings. He did need his overcoat. The light an oxgoad with which to do our work. If that Jerry would take her home now, and tunic was altogether inadequate against we will only trust in God and go out after not suggest any further entertainment. the raw night. She was still horrified at our giants, the Lord will certainly help She was relieved when he seemed content the thing he had suggested, still anxious us slay them. to saunter down the street and look into to get away from him, but she was not In Judges 6 and 7 we have the wonder- the lighted windows. He would soon get afraid. ful story of Gideon and how he delivered tired of that, and they could get their car The lobby was full of servicemen, who the children of Israel from the giant hosts from a little farther down the street as greeted Penny's entrance with several of Midian, not because he had a larger well as not. She was beginning to feel long, low whistles, and eyed her with army of men and equipment, but because more comfortable, and to rather enjoy interest. Jerry scowled at them. God was on his side. God reduced his this novel sensation of being beaued about "You'd better come up with me, Pen. army to three hundred men, a pitifully by an attentive man. And then Jerry said It won't take a minute." small, meager force with which to meet that dreadful thing! Penny was to wonder sometimes just the great armies of Midian who were as Penny stopped in her tracks. Her face what Jerry's intentions had been. She was numerous, figuratively speaking, as grass- went dead white, and her mouth was as standing in his opened door, and he had hoppers in their encampment. Gideon dry as if it were filled with cotton. Jerry walked into the room and was picking up slew the giants, not because of his wisdom, was asking her to go with him to a hotel his coat from the bed, when the blow not because of the size of his army, but and spend the night! She felt as if she were fell. Too many of the boys had brought because God was with him. And, young going to faint. girls to their rooms. The police had been people, you and I may have the same kind The sight of her shocked face sobered watching the place all evening, and now of Christian experience Gideon had, that the man. He shook her roughly by the they closed in. A couple of husky military Shamgar had, that these other men of the arm. "Get hold of yourself! I didn't know police pushed rudely by her, and fell upon Bible had, if we allow Christ to come into a girl could be so shocked." Jerry. She heard his frantic call, "Run, our lives and be on our side. Penny pushed him away. She had found Pen! Run!" I have seen a few elephants in parks and her voice now. But it was too late. She was pushed by in zoos, and I know they are tremendously "Jerry Conway, take your hands off me! strong black-shirted arms of the city police large creatures. They are able to uproot You are the wickedest, the most fil into the struggling group of hysterical trees, to pull logs, and to do great tasks. "Don't be a fool, Pen. You just need to girls. She fought down her terror. If they I understand, however, from what I have say no. After all, you can't blame a fellow would only listen to her, let her explain! read about them, that they are afraid of for trying." Relentlessly they were forced down the one of the smallest of God's creatures, the And then Penny made her big mistake. stairs, out of the doors, and into the wait- humble little mouse. We feel that this is Every instinct urged her to get away from ing police car. impossible, that it should not be; but how this man at once. Her home training told "But, listen, officer. I was just many of us who are able to be far stronger, her that she had been foully insulted, and "No, in you go, sister! You can tell it to with the help of God, than any elephant, she resented it with every fiber of her be- the judge in the morning." are afraid of giants in our experience that ing. But memory rang a bell at his words. 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NOVEMBER 22, 1949 PAGE 21 Each year we have an Ingathering cam- verance, but let us remember that the New wouldn't eat out of my hand. I didn't see paign for mission funds, and there are Jerusalem will be worth all the effort we her eat at all, and I don't think she drank hundreds, perhaps thousands, of our peo- can put forth to enter its portals. either. I did the best I could, sir, but she ple who refuse to go out in this campaign There was once a woman who was just wouldn't live for me. I am sorry." because of their bashfulness or their timid- noted for her faith. A man traveled quite "That's all right, Red. Thank you," said ity. To them it is their mouse, and there a distance to see her, and asked her this Hardrock in a husky voice. are thousands of dollars that lie ungathered question: "Are you the woman with the "Maybe you will find another antelope," because of this giant of fear that folks have great faith?" "No," she answered, "I am I said as we were going toward the cabin. in this particular phase of God's work. the woman with a little faith in a great "No, I guess not," replied Hardrock; I remember when I was doing Ingath- God." "that was once in a lifetime. All these fel- ering with a dear little woman in a far Let us each one take hope and courage, lows set traps and not even one ever Western community many years ago dur- and slay "all our giants, so that we may caught one before, and only two men in ing the depression. It was just a small vil- be ready when Jesus comes. this little town have ever seen an antelope lage, and we started out with fear and close enough to know what it looks like. perhaps some trembling, because the No, I don't think I will ever find another woman lived there, and did not anticipate Rosemarie one. Besides, I have to be on the job as much return for our efforts. As I remem- soon as I can get home now. I am glad that (Continued from page 14) ber it, the first man we met gave us a "Shorty" took a picture of Rosemarie last quarter, and we went along gathering in "Couldn't you just tell them to look week. I hope it turns out to be a good small offerings of 25 or 50 cents. I noticed through the cracks in the shed, and you one." that we passed by a small concrete build- stay and eat your dinner?" suggested ing; and upon looking at the name on Louise. the door, I saw it was a bank. I asked my "Oh, I could, Louise, but the poor thing The Cony companion, "When are we going in is afraid of strangers, and I must humor By VIRGINIA B. WEDDLE here?" and she said, "Oh, that's the bank. her until her foot is better," I replied. They never give us anything. It would not In a few days Rosemarie was following I N THE rugged Rocky Mountains high do any good to go in there." It seemed to Hardrock about the yard, even to the above the timber line lives a peculiar, me that this was our giant, so I said, "It cabin door, sniffing at his hands and at his soft little animal that is known as the looks as if this is the only place in town pocket openings. Her foot was nearly well cony. He is a very remarkable little crea- with any money. Let's go in." So we went when we persuaded our young friend to ture, and even wise King Solomon men- in, and as we spoke to the man at the leave her in the care of "Red," who was tions the peculiar traits of this animal in window it seemed I hardly finished my to look after Chief, our collie, and go with Proverbs 30:26. little canvass when he very easily gave us us to the city for Christmas. At first glance the cony looks like a a five-dollar bill. I can assure you that the We had a jolly, snowy trip through the combination of guinea pig and mouse, little woman was very much astonished. pine-clad mountains, and the holiday although his ears are large and rounded, It was not because I. was a super solicitor, season with friends and relatives was de- resembling those of a rabbit. His beady because I had not been doing Ingathering lightful. But on the way back to higher eyes almost twinkle with mischievousness very long at that time, but it was God's altitudes the clouds began to look like as he fearlessly scampers over the rugged work. He knew the money was there, and more snow, so we were glad to see camp rocks searching for food, while preying impressed us to go in. again. hawks and eagles soar watchfully above Many other experiences could be told of Hardrock scarcely waited for the car to him. how God has assisted in a temporal way come to a full stop before he got out— Suddenly, the sharp eyes of the eagle in the Ingathering campaign and in other forgetting his little bride—and ran to the sight the little rodent nibbling grass on a efforts put forth for the furthering of His shed to see how Rosemarie had fared dur- ledge of a cliff. Down, down swoops the work. ing his absence. great bird, his claws extended ready to Jesus said, "Go ye . . . , and preach the Presently he returned. The sag of his tear the tiny, soft little body! Just in time gospel." He also said, "Go work to day broad shoulders and a defeated look told the cony scurries into a crevice barely large in my vineyard." But He adds that sweet- me that all was not well. enough to hide him, secure in knowing est of all promises: "Lo, I am with you "How is Rosemarie?" I ventured. that Mother Nature will come to his alway, even unto the end of the world." "Dead," he answered. "I wish I had rescue! And so, whether your giant be gossip- not gone to the city. Of course, it was nice Just as the huge bird nears the ground ing, bad temper, bashfulness, fear, or the of you folks to take us, but I have lost my there are terrified squeals coming from Ingathering campaign, take Jesus along as antelope. Gone only three days, and her several different rocks. The eagle darts your giant killer. It takes faith and perse- foot was almost well, but she depended on from one rock to another in an effort to me; I shouldn't have left her." find the animals he hears, while screams Red saw us drive in, and brought the echo and re-echo among the rocks! Finally, Advent Youth in Action happy collie home to camp. "Chief came a rather confused and disgusted bird soars (Continued from page 13) to the door and whined for me just as soon away, wondering where his dinner dis- as he heard your car," said Red as he appeared to. nesse to his comrades, he has a wonderful handed me the dog's leash, and turned to Yes, the cony is an accomplished ven- opportunity to point his friends to the Hardrock. "I am sorry, mister, about your triloquist; that is, he is able to throw his Source of all true joy, Jesus Christ. antelope. Didn't you tell me that she would voice from several directions at once! "The members of the North African eat out of your hand? Well, sir, she This clever little creature is also an in- Union Mission committee have manifested dustrious and intelligent provider. In the their confidence in these young people, fall of the year he works hard gathering who are ready to make real soul-winning LIKE as a star that maketh not haste, grass, twigs, herbs, and wild berries, which sacrifices, and they have aided in this That taketh not rest, he stores in his rock home for winter. And program with funds from their evan- Be each one fulfilling his God-given best. when the snow is piled high about his gelistic budget. This is certainly a step -GOETHE. snug quarters, he can live comfortably in the right direction to save and and securely till spring comes again! strengthen the hope of the church in its HE who has conquered doubt and fear Though "the conies are but a feeble folk" youth." has conquered failure.—JAMES ALLEN. they are exceeding wise! PAGE 22 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR

the influence of Babylon, and the evil that has 7. How did she sin toward God's true follow- resulted and will result from her course, and ers? Verse 6. hence the justness of her punishment. The mer- NOTE.-A long roll of deadly crimes is chants of the earth are waxed rich through the Rome's record. She caused the governments of abundance of her delicacies. Who take the lead every country in Europe to persecute true in all extravagances of the age? . . . Are not Christians, among them the Albigenses, the church members in the very forefront of those Waldenses, the Huguenots, and others. She who seek after the material and prideful things caused brave and honest men, who were bold of life ?"-Daniel and the Revelation, p. 723. enough to warn people against her teachings, 13. What punishment will spiritual Babylon to be put to death. Huss and Jerome in finally receive? Rev. 18:6-10, 15-18, 21. Hungary ; Tyndale, Ridley, and Latimer in England, lost their lives at her hands. Senior Youth Lesson ASSIGNMENT 5 Junior Lesson Her Influence X-The Sins and Doom of 8. How widespread was her influence? Rev. X-The Woman on the Red Beast 17:18, 12-14. Spiritual Babylon 9. How many nations will be drunk with her (December 3) wine? Rev. 18:3, first part. (December 3) NoTE.-The wine of Babylon represents the LESSON TEXTS : Revelation 17 and 18. doctrines of confusion. In every country of the LESSON SCRIPTURES : Revelation 17 and 18. MEMORY VERSE: "These shall make war with world we see churches that are confused in MEMORY VERSE: Revelation 17 :14. the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: what they believe and teach, because their LESSON HELP: Daniel and the Revelation, for He is Lord of lords, and King of kings : doctrines are not wholly founded on God's PP. 707-729. and they that are with Him are called, and Word. They teach many things that come down 1. What did the prophet John see when be was chosen, and faithful." Rev. 17:14. as an inheritance from the papacy, things that carried away by an angel? Upon what did the she has learned from pagan customs. woman sit? Describe the beast. Rev. 17:3. Guiding Thought ASSIGNMENT 6 2. What are the seven heads? Rev. 17:9, 10, For centuries spiritual Babylon, as the Pa- Her Downfall first part. pacy is called, has held sway, dominating kings NOTE.-"The seven heads are explained to and rulers and governments, displaying great 10. Whom does John see coming from heaven be, first, seven mountains, and then seven kings. wealth before the world, oppressing the poor, with a message concerning this mighty Babylon? The expression in verse Io, 'and there are seven and persecuting God's true followers. But not What is the message? Rev. 18:1, 2. kings,' reads in the original, 'and are seven forever can she continue her proud and wicked 11. Describe the utter desolation that will kings.' This makes the sentence read: 'The course. God allows nations and people a certain overtake proud Babylon. Verses 8-10, 21-23. seven heads are seven mountains . . . and are time in which to repent, and when they fail, He NOTE.-Just as the prophecies that ancient seven kings,' thus identifying heads, mountains, takes from them His mercy and protection, and Babylon should become a dwelling place of and kings."-Ibid., p. 711. they reap the harvest of their wrongful sowing. "wild beasts," "owls," and "doleful creatures" 3. What is said concerning the duration of the These two chapters show Babylon in her glory, came true, so also will this desolate picture of seventh head or kingdom? Rev. 17:10. and Babylon in her inglorious fall. modern spiritual Babylon become a reality. 4. What description is given of the short op- ASSIGNMENT 1 12. Who is it that overcomes the beast and his eration (one hour) of Satan's warfare against God rider? Rev. 17:14. through His remnant church? Rev. 17:12-14, 17. Read the lesson texts and the Guiding NOTE.-In contrast to the centuries of pagan Thought. ASSIGNMENT 7 and papal persecution the final warfare against ASSIGNMENT 2 In the description of the fall of great Baby- the saints is here spoken of as "a short space," The Woman and the Beast lon some strange things are mentioned. Can you or "one hour." During this time the "ten kings" find these (chapter 18) : of earth are united under the leadership of "the 1. With an angel messenger as his guide, Cinnamon. beast," or Satan, in declaring war against God whom did John see in vision? Rev. 17:3, first part. Pipers. in the person of His remnant church. A candle. Pearls. NOTE.-In Revelation -12 :x John also saw Sailors. Thyine wood. S. What statement is made about the destiny of a vision of a woman, but a good woman, clothed A cage. Smoke. the "eighth" or last phase of the beast? Rev. with the sun (Christ's righteousness). This A millstone. Vessels of ivory. 17:11. good woman is the symbol of Christ's church. 6. How was the woman clothed who was The wicked woman of chapter 17 symbolizes seated on the leopard beast? Rev. 17:4. the church that bears Christ's name, but dis- regards His commandments and takes His name KEY TO "BIBLE QUOTATIONS?" 7. In the vision what names did John see in vain. written on the woman's forehead? Rev. 17:5. (I) 1 Timothy 6:7. (3) Psalms 17:8. (4) Psalms 8. How would she relate herself to the princes 2. What strange color was the beast on which 55:21. (6) Ecclesiastes 3:7. (8) Psalms 107:27. and peoples of earth? Rev. 17:2. the woman was seated? What does this signify? (9) Job 19:20. Verse 3, second part. NorE.-In this chapter this apostate woman is a symbol of the papal power church. This NOTE.-In Isaiah :18 we read, "Though power and the kings of earth have had improper your sins be as scarlet." Scarlet is the color of connections, and with the wine of her fornica- sin. The beast also is a symbol of Satan. tion, or her false doctrines, the people of the 3. Describe her adornment Verse 4. What did earth have been deceived and made drunk. John see written in her forehead? Verse 5. 9. As this woman gained power, what was her 1AV".474fiiiirTOR attitude toward the kings of earth? Rev. 17:18. ASSIGNMENT 3 Her Identity 10. With what did the woman, or church, be- Issued by come intoxicated? Rev. 17:6. 4. What features of the beast are described? Review and Herald Publishing Association NOTE.-"Why should John 'wonder with Rev. 17:3, last part. Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. NOTE. great wonder,' as it reads in the original, when -The beast with the seven heads and he saw the woman drunken with the blood of ten horns refers to the same power, papal Rome, LORA E. CLEMENT EDITOR that is mentioned in Revelation 12 :3. The wo- saints ? . . . The secret of his wonder was this : FREDERICK LEE ASSOCIATE EDITOR All the persecution he had witnessed had been man riding the beast represents the church from pagan Rome, the open enemy of Christ. using the state to enforce its laws. CONSULTING EDITORS It was not strange that pagans should persecute 5. What other clue is given John as to the E. W. DUNBAR K. J. REYNOLDS Christ's followers. But when he looked forward identity of the beast? Verses 9, 10. L. L. MOFFITT and saw a church professedly Christian perse- NOTE.-The term mountain is used in the cuting the followers of the Lamb, and drunk Scripture to symbolize a nation. (Jer. MARY CASTOR - - EDITORIAL SECRETARY with their blood, he could but wonder with great 31 :23. ) In order that there may be no misunderstand- R. J. CHRISTIAN - - CIRCULATION MANAGER amazement."-Ibid., pp. 708, 709. ing, however, the prophet gives also the literal 11. In her fallen state what would Babylon meaning. They are "seven kings," or kingdoms, This paper does not pay for unsolicited material. Con- become? Rev. 18:2. that throughout history oppose and oppress the tributions, both prose and poetry, are always welcomed, NOTE.-"In its largest sense, Babylon includes people of God, which may be listed as Egypt, and receive every consideration; but we do not return all false religions-all apostasy. The gospel Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Grecia, and manuscript for which return postage is not supplied. message announcing her final overthrow should Rome-first pagan and then papal. In the days SUBSCRIPTION RATES be a cause of rejoicing to every lover of truth of the prophet John, the first five of these had and righteousness."-Bible 9 5 ed.), fallen. The sixth, or the Roman Empire, then Yearly subscription, $3.75; six months, $2.10; in clubs Readings ( of five or more, one year, each, $3.25; six months, $1.85. p. 181. Some of spiritual Babylon's false doc- ruled the world. trines are : The virgin Mary is presented as the Foreign countries where extra postage is required: "mediatress" between God and man ; penance is ASSIGNMENT 4 Yearly subscription, $4.35; six months, $2.40; in clubs of required as an expiation for sin; prayer to the Her Sins five or more, one year, each, $3.85; six months, $2.15. Monthly color edition, available overseas only, one year, saints is commanded as a means of grace and 6. What are the crimes of which this woman is $1.40. assistance; and confession to a priest is a req- accused? Verse 2. uisite for faithful church fellowship. ARE YOU MOVING? NOTE.-The false church, instead of follow- You should notify us in advance of any change of ad- 12. To what extent is this fall, or apostasy, to ing the meek and lowly Jesus, sought the dress, as Me post office will not forward your papers to you be carried? Rev. 18:3. friendship of rulers and kings, and gave up even though you leave a forwarding address. Your com- NOTE.-This verse "shows the wide extent of her pure doctrines to gain their friendship. pliance in this matter will save delay and expense. NOVEMBER 22, 1949 PAGE 23 O A SIX-POINT code of minimum editorial O THE Czechoslovak Cabinet has abolished standards has been adopted by the publishers —as no longer needed—capital punishment. of about 15,000,000 of the 50,000,000 comic O THE soybean has been pronounced the O SURPRISE! Genuine Panama hats come from books sold monthly in the United States. It greatest addition to American staple crops Ecuador, not from Panama, as many sup- is frankly stated that this self-policing in an since Colonial days. pose. industry that has been meeting a growing criticism from educators and parents' groups, A COLLECTION of 120 letters written by O ASTRONOMERS tell us that though the path O marks only the first step in a plan for raising Robert Lewis Stevenson to his friend Sir of a total eclipse of the sun may be thousands the moral tone of comic magazines. Included Sidney Colvin was recently sold in London of miles in length, it is only about 65 miles in the six points are the following: Crime for $2,200. wide. shall not be presented in such a way as to O EARLY in 1949 a B-47 plane crossed the O THE Indian Constituent Assembly has de- throw sympathy against law and justice or North American Continent from Moses Lake, cided, according to the New Delhi radio, to inspire others with the desire for imita- Washington, to Andrews Air Force base, that the English language will continue to be tion. No comics shall show the details and just outside Washington, D.C., in three hours used as the official language of India for a methods of a crime committed by a youth. and 46 minutes, at an average speed of 607.8 period of 15 years. Policemen, judges, Government officials, and respected institutions shall not be portrayed miles an hour. O JOHN CHAPIN, manager of a Chicago travel as stupid or ineffective, or represented in O A REVOLUTIONARY type of "glass" bandage, bureau, thinks he has sold the longest bus such a way as to weaken respect for estab- asserted to be stronger than plaster of Paris ticket on record. It was 31 feet long, bought lished authority. No scenes of sadistic torture and about one sixth as heavy, is being used by a salesman who planned a round trip to shall be shown. Sexy, wanton comics shall by the South African medical profession. New York with stopovers in 56 towns. not be published. Vulgar and obscene lan- Composed of glass and plastic, the new guage shall never be used, and slang shall bandages look like spun silk. When treated O EQUAL rights between men and women be kept at minimum. Divorce shall not be with a special solution they become rigid and have not yet been brought to a common treated humorously or represented as glam- capable of supporting heavy weights. Their level in the United States, as far as income orous or alluring. Ridicule or attack on any chief use is as casts for broken limbs. is concerned. The median earnings of full- religious or racial group shall never be per- time women workers amount to approxi- missible. O WHY not farm the sea? This is a question mately $1,661; the corresponding figure for facing the British Ministry of Supply in Lon- men is $2,588. O SHORN of all but one small swastika, though still bearing her original name in don after a national survey of coast line re- O NOT new, but worth repeating is the best large Gothic letters, the glittering white-and- sources. The survey shows that seaweed alone description of a billion dollars which has yet buff Grille, once the proud yacht of Adolf could produce a home industry worth millions been offered. "If one had been born in the Hitler, has arrived in New York harbor. She of pounds. "By seaweed alone Britain could year 1 A.D., and from birth had been paid was flying the Union Jack and dipped her make an enormous contribution to world one dollar a minute, had never spent a cent, colors in salute to the Statue of Liberty be- trade," a research chemist says. "All around and was now living, he would about now, fore proceeding to her berth on East River. the coasts we have millions of tons of it, 1,949 years later, have accumulated a billion The only passenger on the craft during her yet it is largely ignored while we import dollars." 15-day crossing from Gibraltar was George thousands of tons, mainly from Norway and Arida, Jr., whose father purchased the ship Eire." Cellulose, pharmaceutical goods, plas- • HAVE you seen the newest thing in the at auction from the British Admiralty in 1946. tics, manures, building materials, polishes, steel world—black steel? It is rustless; and Aboard also was a crew of 60 men, under commercial gums, and certain types of foods for military purposes, where a glint of light command of Captain Herbert E. Byng, whose are some of the products Britain could derive might reveal the position of troops or de- 40 years at sea have included service in both from her seaweed. fenses to an enemy, it has obvious advantages. the British and the United States merchant Also it is being used for novel jewelry, which O MANY of the 500 doctors who attended marines. The ship is for sale, and Mr. Arida is gaining in popularity even though it is the recent Aero Medical Association meeting has said that he "will not refuse any reason- dark and somber in contrast to more gaudy in New York City were interested in an in- able bid." metals. flatable quonset hut made of rubberized cloth. This novel house is roughly ten feet O IN contrast with the general practice in O PAUL EDWIN KEEN, who lives in Naper- long and six feet wide. But when deflated most medical schools, where the curriculums ville, Illinois, is ready and eager to vouch it folds into a package two by two by three are usually limited to required courses, the for the worth-whileness of the hobby of col- feet which weighs only 125 pounds, includ- University of Buffalo (New York) Medical lecting Bibles. Mr. Keen has been riding this ing two bicycle pumps. The Air Force plans School has introduced elective work for the hobby for five years, now, and has a collec- to drop such huts to crash sur- first time in its history. The Buffalo program tion of 500 volumes. There are on his vivors in Arctic regions. Tests has been so revised that students taking shelves Bibles that are big and small, fat and have shown that four men can mandatory work may also develop special thin, old and new, well preserved and bat- keep fairly comfortable in such interests in the field of medicine. "These tered, typographically poor and top-notch a shelter when the outside tem- elective opportunities consist of individual re- specimens of the printers' art. Also he has perature is 65° below zero. search projects, special study in certain de- a wide variety of bindings. Mr. Keen's latest Their body-generated heat is re- partments, and group seminars. They are listing notes that "he has 86 Bibles of the tained by insulating air layers in available in the sophomore, junior, and senior sixteenth century to the twentieth, plus three the walls and floor. Dr. George years." Greek New Testaments." He was fortunate W. Mellinger, an Areo Medical in securing some important items at the fa- O COMPULSORY teaching of religion in Hun- Laboratory nutrition expert, as- mous auction of the magnificent Rare Bible garian public schools was ended recently by tounded many doctors when he Collection of Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth in a decree of the country's presidential council. reported experiments proving London, and a few rare volumes at the auc- The decree referred to the new constitution that a man in the Arctic can tion of the fine Deardon Bible Collection in of Hungary, which calls for separation of survive on only 3%2 ounces of the United States. church and state. food a day.