The Youth's Instructor for 1953
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WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS CONTRIBUTORS Readers have seen our notice to writers that regularly appears at the bottom of this column. Have they wondered 3 how the INSTRUCTOR secures the materials that furnish its weekly menu for 150,000 readers? This week we give a first install- ment on how it is done: MARRIAGE The "Good Husbands" story reached our office in April, submitted from an author new to the INSTRUCTOR. "The en- closed is true," she wrote. "The occasionally plainly tragic results are admitted by all, but I the many apparently happy mixed marriages encourage others to try, sure that theirs will be one of the happy ones. To show that those apparently happy marriages are not so happy is my theme?' GRADUATION From South Africa in March came the story of "That Box in the Closet?' Jean Cripps is a regular INSTRUCTOR author. It may have been that as she thought of our schedule, she remembered that we begin laying out June issues in April. That would be the month for graduation stories. She knew a good story, so she sent it. AFRICA In mid-February we wrote Pas- tor W. R. Beach, president of ,the Southern European Division, asking for an up-to-the- Always the Same minute story on Algiers and Tunis. We knew that our Sabbath school missions program "It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other." for second quarter would include considera- Most of us have heard the expression, and most of us have found tion of these areas, and felt our readers would it to be unalterably true. Figured any way, you get six. enjoy the added information. Pastor Beach How strange it is, therefore, that every once in a while a pro- passed the assignment on to another of our authors, Pastor J. J. Aitken, and his account fessing Christian will try to make the figures add to something reached us in good time. different. For instance, our lead story in this issue points up an age-old problem that has grown immeasurably more grave in NORTH Donald Webster wrote us Jan- our generation. Yet the penetrating question of Amos in the uary 1, enclosing the story of his colporteur Old Testament, "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" adventures "Into the North for God." He has the unequivocable answer in the New Testament as Paul was enrolled as a senior ministerial student admonishes, "Be ye not unequally yoked together with un- at Emmanuel Missionary College, having spent three years as a student at Helderberg believers." College, South Africa. He was currently edi- Why, why, why will otherwise careful, prayerful, sober, tor of the Emmanuel Missionary College sensible youth deny their faith in the mathematics of God's student paper, the Student Movement. Word, hoping to find the perfect seven, when the numbers will add up to only six? SAHARA Our cover shows a water hole in a Tunisian oasis in the Sahara Desert. Photo by Landrock, from Ewing Galloway. Writers' contributions, both prose and poetry, are al- ways welcome and receive careful evaluation. The ma- terial should be typewritten, double spaced, and return postage should accompany each manuscript. Queries to the editor on the suitability of proposed articles will re- ceive prompt attention. Action pictures rather than portraits are desired with manuscripts. Black and white prints or color transparen- cies are usable. No pictures will be returned unless spe- cifically requested. Vol. 101, No. 25 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR June 23, 1953 WALTER T. CRANDALL, Editor FREDERICK LEE, Associate Editor DON YOST, Assistant Editor Consulting Editors, E. W. DUNBAR, K. J. REYNOLDS, L. L. MOFFITT R. J. CHRISTIAN, Circulation Manager 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, 1953, Review and Herald Publishing Assn., Washington 12, D.C. Subscription rates: one year, $4.75; six months, $2.50; in clubs of three or more, one year, each, $3.75; six months, $2.00. Foreign countries where extra postage is required: one year, $5.25; six months, $2.75; in clubs of three or more, one year, each, $4.25; six months, $2.25. Monthly color edition, available overseas only, one year, $1.50. The post office will not forward second-class matter even though you leave a forwarding address. Send both the old and the new address to THE YOUTH'S 1Nsraucroa be/ore you move. 2 THE elet,t4:2 INSTRUCTOR HE looked •like a queen as she stood there, tall and slender, chat- S ting on the church steps. The soft blue of her smartly tailored suit • contrasted with the delicate pink of her dainty blouse and gloves and her blue hat set pertly on her beautifully coifed silver hair. Mrs. Van Roessler was the When we planned our happy homes, we three, ideal of most young women in the church, and of girls of academy and college age. Even more unusual than her beauty and we thought we needed nothing more than her perfect grooming was her poise. She always had a pleasant expression on her face, kindling into warmth and vivacity as she greeted her friends. Always pleasant and witty, with such splendid judgment in business affairs, she was president of GOOD HUSBANDS this and chairman of that. No wonder she was the pattern for the girls and young women! One of her close friends, Greta Allenby, had been a nurse. Married now to one of By ROBERTA WHITE her former patients, a busy executive in an oil company, she had one of those lovely homes we see pictured in magazines on home decoration. Greta was a tiny little thing with red hair and a vivid personality, bubbling over with fun. And as though that wasn't enough, she was also a famous cook. Her cakes would melt wonderful evangelistic meetings, and he it is the same. He goes to shows, and I in your mouth, and make you forget all sits home alone. Then he goes out to a stay home; I go to prayer meeting, and about your waistline! show, and I sit home alone. There is no he stays home. Of course once in a while I remember one luncheon when there companionship. That's no way to live. we go out together, but not often. were five of us, an awkward number for Lately he even resents my having my I could make a list of irritating things setting the table. A large, beautifully ar- Adventist friends and their husbands that would fill a double page of this ranged centerpiece of gladioluses was come for dinner in the evening. He says magazine, things that would not come up placed at the end of the table where the he has nothing in common with them. at all if we belonged to the same church. sixth place setting would have been. The So now I have my table was beautifully balanced, and we friends in for a noon didn't have to look through or around luncheon when he is the flowers to visit. away." Mrs. Van Roessler drove away in her I was thinking of new, low car, taking Greta and me home my own life too, as with her for lunch. We three had one we sped across the thing in common—we were married to city. I am married to unbelievers. Our husbands were fine men, a stanch Lutheran— upright and clean, good providers, holding a fine, clean, upright positions of esteem in the community. man, a leader in our I'm sure we looked like three very happy, community. At first prosperous wives. there was a barrier only when religious And yet, if you could have heard our topics came up—just conversation on the way home, you might like a brick wall be- have wondered. tween us. There was "Wasn't that a wonderful sermon this no way I could reach morning? Real food for thought." through it or over it. "And that prayer given by the young Gradually the barrier ministerial intern. You couldn't help feel- became greater, until ing that he was face to face with God. there are no more Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could long, chummy talks. I kneel in prayer with our husbands, and go to church on Sab- pray together for the things our souls long bath, and he stays for?" "Yes, and to be able to share some home; he goes to beautiful thought you come across. Some- church on Sunday, times when I'm just thrilled with some and I stay home. beautiful sentence in Thoughts From the Through the week Mount of Blessing that I'm reading now, I read it out loud to my husband, and he EVA LUOMA just listens politely." In Our Six Years of Mar- Mrs. Van Roessler and Greta did most ried Life, My Husband of the talking. I was remembering once Has Been Inside an Ad- ventist Church With Me when I was alone with Greta, and she Just Twice, and on Both said, "Here I am on my way to those Visits He Was Critical JUNE 23, 1953 3 And no doubt my dear husband feels the in the kingdom—well, I don't dare envy with the proper amount of pride and self-- same way. It could all be summed up in them, but I do think how wonderful it respect do not go about complaining of what Greta said, "No companionship." would be to have my husband with me.