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"OUR VERY DEAR FRIEND" we are told by an inspired writer that Jesus would IT was the Morning Watch text that reminded me — have passed through all the suffering and agony and the one found in the sixth from the last verse of heartbreak of Calvary " that one "— just one —" might Paul's first letter to Timothy. be saved in His kingdom." Once more I was in a big, blue Buick, whizzing along Surely, then, since He literally gave His life a ran- the smooth highway that stretched ahead like a silver som for you, for me, since but for Him we would even ribbon in the misty moonlight between fir-trimmed now be dead in trespasses and sins, we should regard Oregon hills; once more I heard the hail as we passed Him as a very dearest friend. But do we? Or is He a service station, and the car, engine throbbing, slid to sometimes — yes, often — disregarded, ignored, forgot- a prompt halt, while we took aboard another pas- ten in thoughtless, but none the less base ingratitude? senger. Once more I heard our gracious hostess say Whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your by way of introduction, " We want you to meet our influence or wealth or social station — or lack of it — friend, Dr. Huntington. In fact, he is our very dear don't ever forget that Jesus died to save you; that friend. You know he saved Betty's life." as a Saviour He is supreme; and that as a friend He And then, since I hadn't happened to hear the story, is incomparable. Truly, sings Horatius Bonar, they told me how ten-year-old Elizabeth, enjoying the " What a friend we have in Jesus, thrills of a community picnic, was wading and splash- All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry ing in the treacherous Columbia River one afternoon. Everything to God in prayer! The tide being out, she ventured quite a distance from 0 what peace we often forfeit, shore, which was safe enough, had she not stepped off 0 what needless pain we bear, a shelf into deep water and promptly disappeared. All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer! The doctor, standing on the bank, saw her go down, realized the danger, and instantly, fully clothed as he Have we trials and temptations? was, plunged in to the rescue. He was just recovering Is there trouble anywhere? from a serious illness, and had come out to enjoy the We should never be discouraged; Take it to the Lord in prayer. merrymaking in a quiet way, but here sounded the Can we find a friend so faithful, clarion call of Duty, and he hesitated not to answer. Who will all our sorrows share? Diving, he finally found the little girl, but was by Jesus knows our every weakness; that time too exhausted to bring her ashore. With a Take it to the Lord in prayer." last conscious thought for her safety he held her high And if you have somehow lost that close touch above his head, and shoved her toward the surface, with Him that sustains this relationship, won't you where providentially she came just above the water. pause a moment just here, and lift your heart to Him Her lusty cries soon brought help, but somehow in the in a word of renewed acceptance, appreciation, and excitement the good doctor was not missed until sev- gratitude? eral minutes had passed. When finally he was found and brought in — and his rescurer nearly paid for her THE PRICE OF SUCCESS brave deed with her life — not the slightest flutter of a heartbeat could be detected. LAST spring, says a writer in a popular farm maga- " You see, he really gave his life for hers," explained zine, my brown Leghorn biddy wanted to sit, so I Betty's mother, with a catch in her voice. " It was set her. For two weeks she was a model; never, I only after about twenty minutes of strenuous life- am sure, did a hen take better care of her eggs. But saving effort that he breathed again. In recognition there came a day when I went to feed her and found of this heroic act he was awarded a Carnegie Medal, her in another nest; her old nest had lost its charms; but you never hear him mention it, and when others she wanted a change. Her eggs were not chilled, so do he always protests that he did nothing ' anybody I put them under her and left her where she was. The wouldn't do under the circumstances.' Do you wonder next day she moved again, and again I changed the that we claim him as our very dear friend? " eggs for her. Two days later she was frolicking around And thinking, I'm reminded again of the memory with the other chickens, her eggs were cold, and no verse of the morning. " This is a faithful saying," it amount of coaxing could induce her to go back to reads. No question about its truth, apparently. And them. She would only toss her tail and flap her wings in addition, 'tis an indisputable fact, " worthy of all in defiance, as if to tell me she had tried sitting for acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to two weeks and no chickens had been hatched, so she save "— whom? " Sinners." And what persons belong was quite disgusted with the whole affair. She wanted to scratch in the straw pile and sing with the bunch. in this classification? " Of whom I am chief." Evidently, then, Jesus did not come to save the world So I let her go, and thought to myself: " Poor biddy! en masse, but rather to save individual sinners. This You've had your last chance. You have only a two makes it a matter of real personal concern to me and weeks' supply of patience, when three weeks is the to you, as we read the text for ourselves. price of success. You lose your enthusiasm and quit It was Jesus who, looking down to earth from the your job just in time to waste your own labor and the safety of His Father's house above, saw you, friend, accumulated labor of others in the treasure intrusted sinking beneath the waves of temptation to eternal to you. You're too nearly human; I can't depend on you! " death. He knew that of yourself you were weak and utterly helpless — even as a little child struggling " A word to the wise is "— or at least ought to be — sufficient! " against a mighty river current. His great heart of love was touched, and leaving all else behind, He came to your rescue, becoming by this act your Saviour. For e - e VOL. 77 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, APRIL 2, 1929 NO. 14 Printed and published every Tuesday by the Review and Herald Publishing Assn., at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., ti 5 A. One year, $1.75. Entered as second-class matter, August 14, 1903. at the post office at Washington, D. 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HYSICAL growth is limited to Joseph and Daniel found activities as youth, but mental growth and growth large as was their faith and courage spiritual growth may and should in the choice of growth. Ruth and go on uninterruptedly as long EDWARD J. URQUHART Esther found opportunities for growth as life shall last; for while the outward and achievement in surroundings that man perishes, the inward man may be renewed day were almost forbidding. Lincoln and Garfield knew by day. no barrier to successful, praiseworthy growth; while Growth is a sign of health. Physical growth is the many a young woman has risen above her surround- heritage of the normal boy or girl. Mental growth ings to be a blessing to home and community. characterizes the normal young man or woman, and The right choice and the continual right choosing spiritual growth blesses the true Christian. But while to follow that choice, have wrought miracles of trans- physical growth comes without conscious effort, mental formation in growth and advancement. Therefore growth and spiritual growth come through pursuit and God is saying to you, young man, young woman, exertion. " Choose you this day whom ye will serve." How are When one has completed physical growth; and mental you answering? He says, " My son, give Me thine and spiritual growth have reached that stage where heart." Are you doing it? The will yielded unto God wider vistas open to the gaze, it is well to take stock for training for service means everything in this life of the present and plan for the future in relation to of growth. Living for God moment by moment, every this matter of growth. hour of every day, morning by morning our will yielded Do you desire to grow rich or influential? Do you to His will, this is the life that will grow in mental desire the growth of the mind to gain the ascendancy alertness and spiritual beauty. over the spiritual nature? or would you grow in grace Some one has pictured the days as coming to us and spiritual attainment, the body and the mind being with their faces veiled; but when they have passed subject to the higher impulses of the spirit? In other beyond our recall, the draped figures become radiant, words, is it not well to check up on values now and be and the gifts we rejected are seen to be treasures fit sure you have made the right choice — a choice of for kings' houses. No day is commonplace, if only which you will not be ashamed later in life, or when we had eyes to see the veiled splendors that lie in its you appear in the last great opportunities, and its plain day before the judgment and dull routine. There is seat of heaven? no duty that comes to our " The aim of life," says One at a Time hand but brings to us the Bishop Spalding, "—at possibility of kingly service, ONE step at a time, and that well placed, least in this way alone can We reach use grandest height; with divine reward. I look at human life — is not One stroke at a time, earth's hidden store " The only way to have a to make rich and successful, Will slowly come to light; year at its close stainless and but noble and enlightened One seed at a time, and the forest grows; beautiful, is to keep the days, men. Hence the final One drop at a time, and the river flows as they pass, all pure and thought in all work is that Into the boundless sea. lovely with the loveliness of we work not to have more, holy, useful living. It is but to be more; not for One word at a time, and the greatest book thus, in little days, that our Is written and is read; higher place, but for greater years come to us, and we One stone at a time, and a palace rears worth; not for fame, but have but the one small frag- Aloft its stately head; for knowledge. In a word, One blow at a time, and the tree's cleft through. ment to fill and beautify at the final thought is that And a city will stand where the forest grew a time. The year is a book, we labor to upbuild the A few short years before. and for each day one fair being which we are, and white page is opened before not merely to build round One foe at a time, and he subdued. us; and we are artists, whose our real self with marble And the conflict will be won; duty it is to put something and g o 1 d and precious One grain at a time, and the sand of life beautiful on the page; or we stones. Will slowly all be run; are poets, and are to write One minute, another, the hours fly; " To have been born to some lovely thought, some One day at a time, and our lives speed by radiant sentence, on each inherited wealth and culture Into eternity. and its extended opportuni- leaf as it lies open before ties, would certainly seem to One grain of knowledge, and that well stored. us; or we are historians, and be a factor in advance over Another. and more on them, must give to the page some that of being born in a log And as time rolls on your mind will shine record of work or duty or cabin, and learning to read With many a garnered gem victory to enshrine and carry by the light of a pine knot. Of thought and wisdom. And time will tell. away." As a matter of record, how- " One thing at a time. and that done well." The secret of living a Is wisdom's well-proved rule. ever, the history of great lives day at a time for God is puts a premium on the hard- — Golden Days. found in the life of Jesus. ships and the pine knot." He came to do His Father's " It is possible to sacrifice many virtues on a cross temper." 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR April 2, 1929 will. Every act of His life, every word that fell from work or by laying us aside for a time, we should not His lips, testified of that fact. And if we would be chafe or fret. The greatest thing any one can do in successful in emulating Him in spiritual growth and this world is what God made him to do, whether it progress into victory, " all our personal ambitions must be to rule a kingdom, or write a nation's songs, or be laid at His feet, all our plans submitted to Him, keep a little home clean and tidy." either to be accepted, and wrought into His plan, or Thus, " as the flower turns to the sun, that the set aside for His better way. If we have truly given bright beams may aid in perfecting its beauty and ourselves to God, we have nothing to say about the symmetry, so should we turn to the Sun of Righteous- disposal of our lives; they are in His hands to do with ness, that heaven's light may shine upon us, that our as He pleases. If He interrupts us in our favorite character may be developed in the likeness of Christ," pursuits, or breaks into our plans with some other and we will be ready to meet Him when He comes. cA Good Cheer Sermon

UST outside one of our cellar windows we had to keep on and never give up its undertaking. So it a big clump of lilies of the valley. Close up to finally won. It went on, as you and I should do. the wall they grew, seeming to like the warmth But back of all was the moisture the flower was con- y of the spring sunshine as it fell along the alley tinually drawing up through its roots, which were between our house and that of the neighbor on the planted deep outside the window. As long as the west; and one day a great joy came to me, when I earth out of which the plant grew was moistened by found that one of the plants had suddenly become dew and rain, just so long there was hope for the more ambitious than the rest and pushed its way lily of the valley. under the window sill, through a crevice between the Where are the roots of your life planted? Forget board and the wall. Why it ever should have started everything else, if you will, but this: The heart must that way, toward the darkness instead of toward the have its nourishment, or we fail. One may tell you light, I do not understand. it may be found here, another there. For the most But there the pretty thing was. After reaching the part we may be sure that very little of real sustenance inner edge of the window frame, the sprig of green can be found in what the world has to bring us. turned straight upward, just as strong, just as bright Deeper must be our trust. Farther into the soil of in its appearance, as any that grew outside. It cheered heaven's blessed truth must we strike our way until my heart every time I looked at it. One day it sent the roots of our lives have reached the Fountain that up a stalk, and from it grew a blossom. The whole never has failed and never will fail. thing is a miracle to me — the slender stem, bending Nor is this all. The lily of the valley did not know in loveliness with its bells of pure white. it, but somebody was helped and cheered and made Brave under difficulties is this little stalk of lily of stronger by reason of the things it had done. Every the valley. It has told me many a story of cheer since time I went to look at my pretty flower, and stopped first I discovered it creeping in at my window. One to think just what it was doing against so great odds, of the best of these, I think, is that we do not need I went back to my work more determined to let nothing to have everything our own way to do fine things. hinder me from being good and true and brave. The fragrant lily of the valley might delight in a good We do not have to go far in these days to find folks location, deep, rich soil, and an abundance of sunshine. who need a bit of comfort. Somehow the shadow falls That is the way with most plants of the kind; and do over many a life. Hurts of various kinds do come to we not all feel happiest when everything seems to be worry and sadden. And there is no more blessed " coming our way," when conditions are favorable, service any of us can do than to keep our hearts when others smile upon us and tell us how proud they strong and steady, always making the best of every- are of us? It is easy then to work hard and endure thing, bearing flowers even in spite of all the hard any adverse experience that may come. and the bitter things that may come to us. But while the lily of the valley might flourish best Creeping under the window sill to make somebody when all was in its favor, it accepted very scanty soil, happy! Smiling that others may catch the gleam and hard and difficult to pierce with rootlets, and little of be made more cheerful and courageous! Here is a sunshine, blossoming as no one ever would expect it ministry that is denied to none. Some doors may be to blossom under such circumstances. So this is our shut to us, but always other doors will stand ajar; lesson. Push on. Bend conditions your way. Do not and if we push hard enough, they will swing wide to be discouraged, whatever comes. let us in that we may help and bless and thus our- Then, too, it was a very narrow way the stalk of selves gain a blessing.— Edgar L. Vincent. lily of the valley had to go before it reached the other side of the window sill. The crevice through which it Jg crept was exceedingly small. It was dark all the way, DURING the last illness of a godly old minister. a for the board of the window sill is at least ten inches friend came to see him, and said: " Doctor, I am sorry wide. In spite of the darkness and the pressure upon to see you on your back. I hope it may be only for a it from every side, the stem of the flower pressed on short time." with courage until at last it came through to light. " Do you know why God puts us on our backs? " Then upward it turned, beautifully bright and fresh asked the sick man. to meet the light. " No," was the reply. Have you never thought, " This is the hardest thing " In order that we may cultivate the habit of look- I have ever been called upon to do! I do not believe ing upward," softly returned the good old man. I can do it! The way is so narrow — I cannot see a It is a great thing to acquire the upward look. The step ahead. I am hampered in all ways possible. I pity is that so often it has to be acquired through am sure I would fail if I undertook such a task." This extreme suffering and sorrow. Most of us are like the is not the way of my lily of the valley. It must not be man Bunyan mentions in his great allegory. We are your way and mine. Things are seldom quite as bad always looking down, concentrating our vision upon as they at first appear to us. I am sure that when the the things below, scratching with a muck rake for outlook seemed most discouraging, there was a faint some glittering prize or bauble of the world, and neg- ray of light at the other end of the crack the plant lecting the satisfying riches that the good Father is was following, and that this kept inviting the stem so eager to bestow upon us. " Where faith begins, anxiety ends; where anxiety begins, faith ends." Vol. 77, No. 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 5 god's Seal Upon the Bible

PEAKING of other gods and ERNST KOTZ genuine. The next logical step graven images of such. God would be to prove the genuineness states in the second corn- " We have also a more sure word of of these statements, should any one e5 mandment, "Thou shalt not prophecy.- 2 Peter 1 : 1 9. express doubt in this respect. And bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the the doubters are usually noisy, especially since doubt Lord thy God am a jealous God." He challenges the has become a modern fad. Thus it would be an end- host of false gods through His prophet Isaiah (41: less controversy. Genuine Christian faith does not 21-23 ) , and requests that in order to prove their need any human proof. But in order to strengthen claims they should " bring forth.. . . and show us us, Jesus Himself counsels, " Search the Scriptures." what shall happen; . . . or declare us things for to In searching we will find so many evidences that it is come." " Behold, the former things are come to pass, God Himself who speaks through the Book that we will and new things do I declare: before they spring forth not mistrust its statements, even where its thoughts I tell you of them." are higher than our thoughts, or, in other words, when Even to-day God speaks to us in answer to our it is above our mental conception. prayers or in personal guidance — experiences that Where is another book whose author has dared to can hardly be described, but may easily be realized by print the story of the rise and fall, not only of his any person longing for them. In addition to this the own nation, but of others, throughout thousands of student of the Bible will most assuredly hear the voice years to come? " Who, as I, shall call, and shall de- of his Maker in the word. clare it, and set it in order for Me, since I appointed But when it comes to this word, modern man is very the ancient people? " Isa. 44:7. Now, we do not in- skeptical. " Why," says some one, " if I had lived in tend to take up here a study of the great lines of those days, if I could have heard Jesus speak to the prophecy found in Daniel and Revelation, since they widow's dead son, or to the daughter of Jairus, if I are fairly well known to all, though their themes are could have heard Him calling Lazarus out of the grave, far from being exhausted. Indeed, we Seventh-day or God's voice on the mount of transfiguration, and Adventists have heard these things so often that I seen His glory there — then I would believe." Listen, wonder whether we do not sometimes fail to appre- doubter! There were quite a number present at all ciate the astounding exactness of predictions, such as those occasions, but they have never referred to these are made, for instance, in Daniel 2:43 and many sim- facts, extraordinary though they were, as pillars of ilar texts. But here we would like to call attention their faith. But the apostle Peter, in refuting the to a few prophecies which may not be so familiar — insinuation that the early Christians had no real basis for instance, Zechariah 11:12, 13. Remember that this for their faith, solemnly declares, " For we have not statement was written about 530 years before Judas followed cunningly devised fables, when we made betrayed his Lord, receiving the thirty pieces of silver known unto you the power and coming of our Lord spoken of in this text, which were finally " cast to the Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty." potter," according to the report in the Gospel. A most Then he goes on to tell about the experience on the striking prophecy indeed! holy mount, where they even heard God's own voice. Or take the life of Jesus as portrayed in the fifty- Then he points the Christian church to even a bet- third chapter of Isaiah. There is more than human ter foundation for their belief by saying, " We have inspiration in that word picture. also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do Now, study these predictions of Ezekiel: " Thus saith well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth the Lord God: Behold, 0 Mount Seir, I am against in a dark place. . . . For the prophecy came not in thee, and I will stretch out Mine hand against thee, old time by the will of man, but holy men of God and I will make thee most desolate. I will lay thy spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt Thus the prophetic word know that I am the Lord." is a seal upon the Bible, The atheist Wolney was the proving that it is God Him- first one who reported that self who speaks throughout HE religion of Jesus softens within an eight-day jour- its pages. It does not prove ney in the country of the truth of every state- whatever is hard and Mount Seir he had found ment in the Bible, nor is rough in the temper, and thirty ruined and abso- this necessary. The trouble smooths whatever is rugged and lutely desolate cities. is that altogether too many sharp in the manners. It makes Again there is the proph- Christians feel that efforts the words gentle and the de- ecy against Tyrus, as found must be made to justify in Ezekiel 26:12, where it the word of God. But meanor winning. Let us learn was predicted that Tyrus either it is the product of from Christ how to combine a should be destroyed and men, and then it is dan- high sense of purity and integrity even its stones, timber, gerous to be guided by it, with sunniness of disposition. A and dust should be laid in or it is God who speaks; kind, courteous Christian is the the midst of the water. then an effort to verify His The continental Tyrus was statements would be blas- most powerful argument that can destroyed a short time phemous. It does, how- be produced in favor of Christian- after this prophecy was ever, strengthen our faith ity.— Mrs. E. G. White. made, by the Babylonian if we become absolutely kings, but its dust and sure that it is God who timber were not thrown speaks. Here the prophetic into the sea; on the con- word helps us, as we read it prayerfully, thoughtfully. trary, its inhabitants began to build up a new Tyrus When we read that " in the beginning God created about a half mile out in the sea on an island. Two the heaven and the earth," we cannot prove it. We hundred fifty years later Alexander the Great laid just have to believe it. We sometimes lay too much siege to this Tyrus and resolved to construct a fill be- emphasis upon proof in connection with God's word. tween the continent and the island. In order to do Statements by Clement of Alexandria and IrenTus of this the ruins that still stood of the pleasant houses Lyon are quoted to prove that the Gospel of John is of what was once the continental Tyrus and the stones " Character is the tine art of giving up." 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR April 2, 1929 and the timber and dust were thrown into " the midst which was at least as large as Paris, surrounded by of the water," thus literally fulfilling the predictions walls hundreds of feet high, on which four four-horse that God had made hundreds of years in advance! chariots could ride abreast — a city that had its beau- Very precise is the word in predicting the destruc- tiful parks, irrigated by clever devices, and palaces, the tion of Babylon and Assyria — two mighty kingdoms ruins of which still fill us with admiration. How could at the height of their power at the very time when such a place be overthrown as Sodom and Gomorrah God's prophets proclaimed their destruction. Their had been? How could it become deserted and an abode land was a garden, irrigated, and so extremely fertile for lions and owls? Never has such a thing been heard that even Herodotus, the Greek historian, writes that of in China or Europe. If we would preach a similar he was afraid of being accused of lying if he stated message to-day in New York or London, who would that he had seen wheat yield two to three hundred- believe us? fold. Now it would have been a less astounding matter But here is the remarkable fulfillment. The traveler if the prophets had merely announced the political Fraser, in describing what he found in those parts of decline of these powers some time in the future. Many the earth, reports, " The whole plain is covered with analogies for such development could be found in his- traces of former habitations, but now the eye does tory. But how ridiculous must it have appeared to not perceive anything save a huge, dry desert, a deso- the contemporaries of the prophets of old when they, late wilderness." Ker Porter says, " Every square foot moved by the Holy Ghost, declared that such a coun- of land, as far as one could see, was absolutely sterile." try, populated by a highly civilized people, would soon When Porter came to what is to-day known as 13irs be desolate and absolutely without inhabitants. How Nimrud (the tower of Nimrod), he reports, " Its ruins impossible must it have appeared to all who listened are inhabited by lions, three of them lying quietly to the statements of Isaiah and Jeremiah when they in the sun when I approached." " Owls," says another, said, " Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty " tried to hide in the scanty, scattered brush, and the of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God over- loathsome jackals slinked in the hollows." Travelers threw Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be in- report that the Arabs do not like to pitch their tents habited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation in the neighborhood of these ruins of Babylon, nor will to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent they take their herds there, because the whole place there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold has a reputation of harboring evil spirits. Even for a there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; good bakshish (tip), which goes a long way in the and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; Orient, Arabs could not be persuaded to stay overnight and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. In view of these facts, should not the greatest there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in skeptic exclaim, " 0 Lord, Thy word is truth! " their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant The foretelling of such a fate for Babylon is a very places: and her time is near to come, and her days convincing proof that the Lord Himself is speaking shall not be prolonged." in His word, but there are many more like predictions Why, they lived in Babylon, a magnificent city (Continued on page 13)

WENT out to Ryan Field the heathen, we must lighten ev- the other day to watch the About Flying erything else to the minimum, or aircraft. All kinds of we will run out of cargo before we cy planes were there, from RICHARD LEWIS get very far. If we are pursuit spads to mighty bombers. The planes, darting here and there on crowds milled to and fro at the edge of the missions of mercy, we must cut down weight to build field; greasy men cranked motors — one man to the up speed, or sometime we will arrive too late, and a smaller ones, and three men in a string to the bigger soul will be lost. ones; greasier boys stood behind planes whose motors Some of the aircraft were equipped with one motor, were being warmed up, just to brace themselves some with three. There were radial motors, rotary mo- against the manufactured wind. Planes taxied across tors, and the straight block type. Each plane had, to the turf, taking off. Planes sidled this way and that the best knowledge of its engineer, the type of motor as they landed, frightening the crowds, although the best adapted to its needs. We have been endowed by motive was to check their speed. Dare-devils flew the Master Mechanic with minds of varying horse- their craft straight for the crowds, in hair-raising power, with varying modes of action. Some start dives, darting up again with a deafening roar. All quickly and are air cooled; others start slowly and was activity, and my mind had to be active too. This must be warmed up well before taking off. Some of us is what I thought: have three sources of power — three talents; others Airplanes must weigh only a limited number of have only one. But we are all going to fly, if the pounds per horsepower, if they are to fly. The maxi- formula is right. mum weight is twenty-five pounds per horsepower. Lindbergh's plane was loaded so heavily with fuel Within that range there is room for a vast variety of that he could scarcely rise from the ground. Yet he types, but they all have this characteristic — they must flew for only thirty-three hours. He is an expert, and do away with all excess weight. No miracles of me- he had the best plane he could get. I know of some chanical invention can change that fact. It is impos- Christians who load up with a bit of spiritual fuel, not sible to fly with more weight per power unit. The even being careful to load to capacity, and then expect pursuit plane is built for speed; consequently it has to fly several days, even a week. They are not flying. much less than twenty-five pounds' weight per horse- They have landed in a swamp, and do not know it. power. The Handley-Page bomber is built for carry- Or maybe they are wrecked and are unaware of it. ing power, so it has much wing surface and less speed, No, the ordinary craft has to stop quite frequently for with carrying capacity determined by the formula fuel. Every morning, at the appointed time for the given. Morning Watch, is none too often. Daniel received You and I are the same in our attempts to fly from a supply three times a day. this carnal world to the spiritual realm. We are all The next time you see an airplane, think of these built differently. We are all adapted to particular jobs, three things: discard the useless load, be contented be it speed or carrying power, but we must all observe with the power equipment you have, and stop often the same law — no excess baggage. If we are built for fuel. And not only think, but put them into prac- for carrying capacity, for transporting the message to tice. It will pay!

" Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself." Vol. //, No. 14 1 Hh YOU 1 H'S INS 1 RUC_ 1 OR 7 Cvangelism ----- The Need of the Hour

HIS is a great subject. It lies CECIL K. MEYERS both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, very near to my heart. We are and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost living in a time when there is a breaking down part of the earth." 9of standards. The worst of any period in Human attainments of themselves are of little or human history is being duplicated in the life of to-day, no value. Oftentimes the church has been best with added sins peculiar to the excesses of our time. equipped for its service through poverty and lack of God must be desperately in earnest to lift His stand- opportunity. In the realization of this lack was found ards even in these exceedingly wicked days. a source of divine power. It is the spirit in the mes- God has only one plan by which He may realize senger and the message that interprets the love of this. It is that men shall go in His name; go that God, for the central theme of the gospel is the love they may " seek and . . . save that which was lost; " of God. There is no limit to the power of this love. go to the broken-hearted and bind up their wounds; " Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors go to the ends of the earth through Him that loved us. with the glad tidings of sal- For I am persuaded, that vation, that from these dis- neither death, nor life, nor tant lands the longing eyes of Come in, Lord Jesus angels, nor principalities, nor lost mankind may turn to God powers, nor things present, and find in Him a Saviour. " Behold, I stand at the door, and n o r things to come, n o r knock: if any man hear My voice, When Jesus was here on and open the door, I will come in height, nor depth, nor any to him, and will sup with him, and earth, by such parables as he with Me." Rev. 3:20. other creature, shall be able that of the lost sheep and to separate us from the love the lost coin, He emphasized COME in, come in, Lord Jesus! of God, which is in Christ the anxiety that lies upon the Come in and dwell with me; Jesus our Lord." heart of God to find those My God, my King, my lifelong Friend. The thing revealed through- My glorious Guest to be. that are lost. The carrying out the gospel is Christ and My heart is very lonely, Lord. out of this plan of evangelism My need is very great; truth. The sinner is brought is dependent upon human 'Tis for Thy love I weary. Lord, face to face with the eternal agency. " Whosoever shall 'Tis for Thyself I wait. realities of the Christian re- call upon the name of the lationship through his ac- Lord shall be saved. How Come in, come in, Lord Jesus! ceptance of Jesus Christ. He then shall they call on Him For dreary is the night; is our life and immortality. in whom they have not be- Bid Thou the shadows flee away, By faith we actually pass lieved? and how shall they And flood my soul with light: from death into life. In this believe in Him of whom they And let it show me what Thou wilt new life, begotten by the Of emptiness and sin; have not heard? and how power of the Son of God, is Only show Thou Thyself to me— shall they hear without a Only come in! come in! victory from sin, and in the preacher? And how shall experience of this victory is a they preach, except they be Come in, come in, Lord Jesus! sweet and satisfying peace sent? as it is written, How And dwell, and rule, and reign; that passeth a 11 under- beautiful are the feet of them Yea, come in peace. " my Lord, my King." standing. that preach the gospel of To Thine own house again. It is impossible for one to peace, and bring glad tidings Thou shalt bring with Thee what Thou wilt. find himself in line with the of good things!" Take what Thou wilt away; great w or k of evangelism It is perfectly clear that the Only come Thou Thyself to me. without having a deep-seated And come, oh. come, to stay! living links must be forged and sincere personal convic- that bind God on one hand to tion. Paul cried, " Necessity Come in, come in, Lord Jesus! the needy, lost soul on the I give the struggle o'er; is laid upon me; yea, woe is other hand. These links must I hinder not Thine entering, unto me, if I preach not the be made on the authority and Nor fear Thy coming more. gospel! " In this overwhelm- support of God's church on I do but whisper through my tears — ing conviction is discovered earth. It is a combination of " Thou knowest what has been; the supremacy of a Christian responsibility between the in- Only forgive the long delay. duty that every man must dividual who is willing to be Only come in, come in! " seek to fulfill in God. Un- sent in God's name, and the doubtedly there is also room church that in all the world Come in, come in, Lord Jesus! for the study of methods in And leave me nevermore; exists to make His name the carrying out of the work Thou bast the keys of all my heart; known. Come in and " shut the door " ! of evangelism. That is not to When Christ was here in Yea. shut the door on what Thou wilt. be depreciated. Yet it must the fulfillment of His great That fits not Thine abode: be understood in considering mission, He saw the necessity And open it to all Thou wilt. methods that they are en- of linking up human agencies That is of heaven. and God. tirely secondary, and that the with Himself, and so He called things already referred to are them, saying, " Come, follow Come in. come in. Lord Jesus! primary. Me." To Paul was given the So wonderful it seems. One of the methods em- call at a later day. In the That Thou shouldst think such thoughts ployed in this evangelism is for me. heavenly vision he heard a Beyond my fairest dreams: to make clear the word of voice saying, " I will send thee That Thou shouldst choose the " foolish God. This calls for deep and far hence unto the Gentiles." things." personal study on the part of The equipment for this serv- The " weak things." and " the base." the evangelist himself. How ice is the gift of the Holy And stoop to humbled. broken hearts. can we make known to others Spirit. " But ye shall receive To find Thy dwelling place. those things we have not per- power, after that the Holy — Edith Gilling Cherry. sonally discovered for our- Ghost is come upon you: and selves? The Bible is so well ye shall be witnesses unto Me 003: (Concluded on page 13) " Worry kills more people than work, because more people tackle it." 8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR April 2, 1929

The Channel Islands of California AVE you ever been to Catalina? " asked my sister Jessie. " No," I acknowledged, " never." vf " Wouldn't you like to go over with us day after A Trip to Santa ( to-morrow? " " I shall be delighted," I answered, for I had long wanted to visit the island of Santa Catalina. Many have heard of this charming " isle of summer," wind swept, and barren, the shifting sands uncovering ar this " isle with a smile," and know that it lies off the coast covering the bones and utensils of long-dead inhabitant of Southern California; but comparatively few are aware Several of the islands belong to the government; others a] that it is one of a chain between two hundred and three private property, whose owners use them as they see fit • hundred miles long, known locally as the Channel Islands. in stock raising, sheep ranching, grape growing, etc. At or So while we wait for " day after to-morrow," I will tell you time Santa Rosa was the property of two young bride something about them, preparatory to our trip. daughters of Don Carlos Carrillo, their dowry from the These islands extend from just south of Point Conception father being joint ownership in the island, a domain to about the latitude of San Diego and Coronado Beach, practically forty-five thousand acres. and appear to be the tops of a submerged mountain range These islands were discovered in 1542 by Juan Rodrigui running parallel with the Sierras of the mainland. Cabrillo, a Portuguese navigator sailing under the flag They " rise suddenly and precipitously," says Charles Spain. For nearly three centuries the Spanish element pr( Frederick Holder, " from exceedingly deep water, often five vailed on this coast, and among the people of Californ thousand feet, and range in size from Santa Barbara Rock to-day are to be found descendants of some of the of of a few acres, Beggs Rock, of less, to Santa Catalina, which Castilian families. is twenty-two miles long, and contains over fifty thousand Cabrillo found the islands inhabited by a superior bai acres. In a general way, the islands extend southeast, and baric race. They were a friendly people, much superior 1 have a northern and southern exposure, with an east and the natives on the mainland. Holder says of them: " Sai a west end. Yet good harbors are rare, most of them being ages the natives doubtless were; yet a savage who cm] mere indentations in the coast, or the mouths of large and make some of the beautiful ollas and spearheads or beat deep canyons, cut by the rains of centuries, against which I have seen, stood high in the ranks of savagery." It is ev the ocean has thrown up sand and pebble beaches, which dent that some of the islands supported a large and vigoroi make eternal music — the castanets of the sea. population three or four centuries ago. But, as has tc " There are about twenty of these islands, or mountain often been the case, they disappeared before the march i tops. Some are but a few hundred feet high; others, like the white man. San Clemente and Santa Catalina, have peaks from five In the early days after the discoveries made on the Pacif. hundred feet to half a mile in height, forming mountains Coast, Russian fur hunters from Ft. Ross visited the islan( of the sea, rising from the abysmal regions about them. If at times, especially Santa Catalina, in quest of seals, otter we could imagine the sea suddenly withdrawn, they would take shape as marvelous mountains rising from the continen- tal slopes that drop down into the depths of the Pa- cific, which average three and a half miles." The chain con- sists of three dis- tinct groups: The Santa Barbara Is- lands; the Santa Catalina group, be- t ween fifty and seventy-five miles farther south; and Los Coronados, op- posite San Diego and Coronado Beach. The islands near- est the mainland seem to be pleasant places in which to live, some of them delightful. Those farthest out in the ocean are sandy,

• For much of the in- formation contained in this article I am in- debted to the works of Charles Frederick Holder, naturalist and sports- man, who spent many years on and around the islands. Taken from a Catalina trip circular. Vol. 77, No. 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 9

" The remains are doubtless nearly all of the fifteenth century; and some possibly thousands of years old. Every " Isle of Summer canyon having a beach on the north coast, I found in 1886, - had its ancient town site — some large, some small — the ma finest being at Cabrillo, or the isthmus, now mostly covered al EUGENIA RALSTON * by stables. In 1887 I trenched this with Mexican Joe and Dr. William Channing of Bdston, and worked down through four or five layers of graves. The upper ones dated in all probability from since Cabrillo's time, as in them I found nd, incidentally, anything else worth while that they could Italian beads, bell clappers, files, mattocks, and copper wire. ay their hands on. The poor islanders fell easy victims to The iron mattocks were evidently highly valued, as they had heir rapacity, yet not without battling for their rights, as been carefully wrapped in cloth and buried with the owners; [umbers of uncovered skeletons in certain localities would the cloth had literally turned to iron. This was by far the adicate. Many times during the centuries that followed most interesting deposit on the island, a typical graveyard. ;abrillo's discovery, the islands were the scene of lawless- The lower graves contained no metal — nothing but stone, Less, adventure, cruelty, and romance. At one time Spain bone, and shell implements, showing that the natives had maintained a penal colony on one of the Santa Barbara had no bartering with the whites, and antedated Cabrillo." Toup. The Channel Islands of California are world-famous fish- Perhaps desperadoes depopulated the islands. Perhaps ing grounds, " the region being, apparently, the meeting he natives melted away before the restrictions of the white ground of many game fishes caught nowhere else and many man. Perhaps the mission fathers took the islanders over indigenous to the locality. Here is the leaping tuna, the o the mainland to Christianize them. But just what finally long-finned tuna,, the yellow fin, the white sea bass, the lecimated them, when it was done, and how — Quien sabe? leaping swordfish, that jumps and outfights the tarpon, the They are gone! yellowtail, and many more, any one of which would make " When a trench is dug in any part of Avalon [on Santa any place famous, and to catch some of which scores of .latalinal to-day," I quote again from Holder, " especially anglers cross the Atlantic and continent yearly." long the north beach, shells, implements, and ancient hu- Some of these fishes are very large, often weighing several nan bones are often found, and black earth crops out, hundred pounds, and it is a matter of pride on the part of elling the story of one of the most interesting ancient the anglers to be able to take them with light tackle. Often archaeological treasure houses in America. Literally tons they play them for hours before the fish finally succumb. if mortars, pestles, and implements of various kinds were aken from here in the seventies. Professor Schumacker, " Isle of Summer " if the Smithsonian Institution, first investigated the island Santa Catalina is twenty-two miles long, and from one- n the early seventies, and with ' Mexican Joe' as skilled quarter to seven and one-half miles wide. It barely escaped excavator, found a vast treasure in stone, shell, and bone. being two islands, as the western end is joined to the main English and Germans followed, and many fine collections body by a narrow isthmus. It is very mountainous, its vere secured. highest peak (Orizaba) reaching an elevation of nearly half a mile. There is little arable land on the island, per- 1 Seal Ifrichs 14 Smugglers Cave haps no more than 2 Pebbly Beach 15 Occidental Point 3 SugarLorif 16 Eagle Rock • about two hundred 4 Golf Club t7 Pirate Ship Nirt9 Po acres in any one 5 Bird Farm t8 Catalina Harbor place. 6 alackJack 19 Little Harbor 7 Whites Lonciin9 20 Middle Ranch The island has 8 14eptuites Cave 21 Middle Hunch Pam. had various own- 9 Empire Landing 22 Silver Canyon ers, one of whom 10 -Isthmus Cove 23 The Palisades 11 bird Rock 24 Church. Rock. was James Lick, 12 Ship Rock 25 Round Top the founder of Lick 13 Arrow Point 26 Orizaba Observatory, on Mt. 27 Preparatory Boys' School Hamilton, near San *Prehistoric litchi:tit t e Sites J o s e, California. For a long time it was given over to cattle and sheep raising; that is, after the aborigi- nes disappeared. It is now a pleasure resort, and is owned by William Wrigley, J r., o f chewing - gum fame. He is a Chicago capitalist, and is sparing no pains to make it one of the most beautiful and de- lightful play- grounds in the world. We are told that he has it in mind to make it an American Riviera. The climate is delightful, with a 10 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR April 2, 1929 variation of only a few degrees between the tempera- silt, shells, etc., were forced from the buttom of the tures of summer and winter. harbor onto the land. As we neared the wharf, this Near the eastern end, on the northern coast, is a became more noticeable; acres and acres of what looked little crescent-shaped bay of rare beauty. Its waters like dry dirt lay spread out before us. We were told are deep, even close up inshore, and small vessels and that two thousand acres of what is now considered very yachts may anchor there in safety. This is the bay valuable land has thus been reclaimed. And the re- of Avalon. It is at the mouth of a deep canyon, and sults to the harbor have been very gratifying. Its following its curving shore, and reaching back into promoters hope to make it one of the finest in the the canyon, is the little city of Avalon. It is not world, and there is every indication that they will suc- large, but it is picturesque, and is visited by hundreds ceed. of thousands of pleasure seekers during the season. We hoped it would be our good fortune to cross The sport of angling draws many to the little city over on the new million-dollar steamer, " Catalina," yearly. but for some reason we were obliged The island was bought by Mr. Wrig- to take the smaller, " Avalon." As ley in 1919. At that time the Catalina soon as we were aboard, we climbed fleet consisted of two little steamers. to the upper deck, for we wanted an To-day, according to a statement made unobstructed view. And we were well by Mr. Wrigley himself, there are rewarded. With nothing overhead but • three modern steamers, twelve the blue sky, the golden sunshine, and ocean-going tugs, and many glass- the wheeling gulls, we could look to bottom boats and pleasure craft, total- our hearts' content. ing a fleet of thirty-two pieces of Slowly we passed out of the harbor; floating equipment." and as we moved along, our attention During the first twenty-six days of was called to various features of in- last August, 146,487 passengers were terest. Over yonder the Ford Motor carried to and from Avalon. Company had begun construction of Another interesting feature of the their new three-million-dollar plant, island's transportation facilities was on a forty-acre tract. There an elec- the arrival in Los Angeles f r o m trical company was founding a plant. the East recently of the amphibian The Pacific Borax Company was newly airplane " Sikorsky," which is to be established in the Wilmington " inner put in service between that city and harbor," on a nine-acre location. Los Avalon. Angeles Harbor is one of the leading Catalina also offers facilities for ports in the world. In all, twenty-five hunting. It is said to contain, roughly estimated, be- million tons of cargo were handled here during the tween twenty thousand and thirty thousand wild goats. past year. Of this amount the greatest percentage in Where they came from originally no one knows, but it tonnage was oil. is quite evident that they followed in the wake of the Just before us lay the long breakwater, which we white man. were told had cost more than three million dollars. Golf, tennis, swimming, fishing, motor boating, rid- A few minutes more and we were out on the great ing, and hiking are year-round sports, and perhaps ocean. Our course was almost due south. Behind lay are most enjoyed when some other parts of the coun- the mainland, with its mountains and snow-covered try are locked in the icy clasp of winter. peaks. Around us was the sparkling blue water of Minerals, too, are found on the islands,— silver, lead, the Pacific, here a bright azure, there a deep indigo, zinc, and copper,— and there are several mines. It as if covering immense depths. And after the lapse is said that even the seals " flop around " on rocks of about an hour, off in the distance ahead, like the rich in silver ore. At the eastern end, not far from rounded back of some huge sea monster, rose Santa Avalon, is a large stone quarry; also another at Em- Catalina, the " Isle of Summer." pire Landing to the west. As we approached, it grew larger and larger, until The Catalina Bird Farm is another of the island's mountains, valleys, and the green of the hillsides were attractions. It covers seven and one-half acres, and clearly defined, and the beautiful little bay and city contains birds from all parts of the world. They are of Avalon lay before us. Travelers speak of the beau- on exhibition, and admission is free. ties of the Mediterranean, but I doubt that its waters The Trip are any bluer than were those of the little sapphire " Day after to-morrow " dawned bright and sunny, bay at which we were looking. The steamer drew up one of the beautiful days that seem indigenous to the wharf, and we went ashore, while from a Span- to Southern California, and that constitute her chief ish tower on the hillside at our right the Catalina Cathedral Chimes rang out a welcome. charm. There were three laps to our journey — from home, We stood for a moment to admire the scene. The by the street car, to the Pacific Electric Station; from soft yellow sunshine, the blue water, the green island. the station, by the Pacific Electric Railway, to Wil- with its flowers and picturesque little city, and the mington, on the " inner harbor; " and from the harbor, atmosphere of peace that enveloped it all, made a picture that we are not likely to forget. by steamer, over to the island. We met at the station, each thoroughly in tune But human nature brought us back to the realities with the lovely day. Our greetings over, we bought of life. It came home to us that we were hungry, and as one cannot dine on scenery, we sought and found our tickets and went to the train. The distance to something more substantial. the harbor is nineteen miles, and is made in fifty minutes. As we rumbled along, I noted the changes We arrived at noon, and were to leave at 3: 30. There were two things that we that had taken place during the last eighteen years. must do, go out in the glass- There was almost one continuous city, where before bottom boat to view the marine gardens, and take the there had been much vacant land. scenic drive. However, the glass-bottom boat would " Look over there," said my sister, pointing to a fine not go out until two o'clock, and that gave us time to look around. bit of meadow; " sixteen years ago that was a swamp." I asked what had made the change, and was told that We first went to the Greek amphitheater, where dur- the efforts of Los Angeles to enlarge and improve its ing the season, the Catalina Marine Band gives nightly harbor had resulted in the reclamation of many acres. concerts in the open air. High above, on Mt. Ada, is Pipes were laid, and by means of suction pumps, mud, (Concluded on page 13) " To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men." 4 Wilrolir407:014141017-04-111P.VAIII*7"Varnir*MIATAIWZA1004.Thr**14.2.0T4110,0;10.11 44,E w WAWA .:$ VNIAAT OUR PLEDGE OUR LAW By the grace of God,— Keep the Morning Watclt. Do my honest part. I will be pure and kind and Care for my body. true, Keep a level eye. Be courteous and obedient. I will keep the Junior Law. Walk softly in the sanctu- I will be a servant of Cod ary. Keep a song in my heart. and a friend to man. Go cm Gods errands.

The Three Brotherhoods

HERE is nothing that makes A. W. SPALDING in knocking a ball around, whether a men brothers so much as work- baseball or a football or a tennis ball ing together. And that is true of boys, who or a golf ball, and never gets in and helps to hustle 9are young men. You can make friends in along this great earth, which is a bigger ball, surely, play, you can find common interests in your studies then, there is something of the simpleton in him. He and exercises at school; but when you have a job in has the stature of a man, but the mind of a child. common, then is when you prove out the qualities of Well, boys must learn to work if they are to be men; this boy and that; and in the successful performance work just enough to exercise and develop the degree of your duties together you feel the keenest sense of of manhood they have gained, and play just enough brotherhood, because as a group you have done a part to satisfy the proportion of childhood they keep. A of the great world's business, you have proved your- Junior Missionary Volunteer — from ten to fifteen — self, and one another, worth while. is not yet a man, but he is growing to be more and There is a place for play in the boy's life, and there more of a man. We expect the fifteen-year-old to is a place for work. And there have to be both play have more muscle than the ten-year-old, and also to and work, or neither will be well done. What is work? have more of a man's mind, and therefore to be able It is a doing of those things that carry along and build to do more of a man's work. But we also expect the up the business of the world. What is play? It is a ten-year-old and the twelve-year-old to have enough doing of things that are imitations or symbols of the of a man's muscle and mind to prove that he is not a business of the world. Men work and boys work just baby, and be able to prove that he has a right in the to the extent that they are able and fit themselves to Junior camp. do the world's business. Little boys can do a very For there's work to do in the Junior camp, and little of the world's business, but they look ahead and there's a joy in the doing of it when we have Junior see what men do, and they want to do the same things; men to do it. Here's a trail to make, or a roadway so, not yet being strong and wise enough to do those down the bank of the creek, so that the truck can pass things, they play at doing them. over with supplies. Here's the wood to get for the eve- The tiny boy, scarcely more than a baby, sees his ning camp fire. Here are the vegetables to prepare, father driving an automobile or the engineer driving so that everybody can eat. There are a dozen things a train; and not being yet big enough to drive an to do — and there every day are the young men to do automobile or a train, he takes some chairs or his own them. two feet and hands, and plays that he is driving car So since you have to organize any work to make It or train. The bigger boy sees men trading and selling go smoothly and rapidly and well, we plan in Junior goods and consignments, or sailing ships or airplanes; Boys' Camp to make three brotherhoods of work. One not being yet big enough or wealthy enough to work of them is the Kitchen Aides, another is the Camp at these things, he sets up a lemonade stand or builds Rangers, and the third is the Fire Wardens. We divide a raft, and plays at doing the bigger things. the bands or tents of boys among these three working The best play is a fitting for work. A boy grows companies. Say there are nine bands — 54 boys — we skillful in flying kites, in paddling a canoe, in shoot- assign, say, Bands 1, 4, and 8 as Company A, Bands ing an arrow, in running, in dodging, in wrestling, in 2, 5, and 9 as Company B, and Bands 3, 6, and 7 as whittling, in judging distances, size, and shape, in Company C — eighteen boys in each company. For building and in selling, and out of these activities he the first day Company A acts as Kitchen Aides, Com- gains some of the skill and power that men must pany B as Camp Rangers, Company C as Fire War- use in the greater activities of life. Now as fast as a dens; then the next day Company C is KA, Company boy grows physically and mentally, he is bound to A is CR, and Company B is FW; and on the third abandon t h e day Company B lesser play for is KA, Company the greater C is CR, and work. If when Company A is he is sixteen FW. Then an- years old, h e other round the should go same way, and around c h o o- that makes six c hooing and days. On the a n automobile Sabbath duties squawking like are light, every- horn, we should t h i n g possible think him an having been idiot; because done on Friday he is big enough i n preparation actually to drive for the Sabbath, a n automobile. so there is only If when he is The Dish-W ashing Place a little KA, and twenty, he uses Here is the dish-washing place, Southeas tern California. Girls are shown in this this is divided most of his time picture, but they came afte r the boys' camp was over. morning, noon, 11 12 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR April 2, 1929

and evening between the three companies. We ro- he aimed; he could erect a shed or pitch a tent four- tate in this way so that every one will get his turn at square; he could build a fire and make it burn; he every kind of duty. The Kitchen Aides help the cook. could wash a black kettle and make it shine; and They get the firewood for the kitchen stove, fetch while he was inclined to peel potatoes with rather the water, prepare the vegetables, scrub the kitchen thick peelings, he could take the cook's corrections pans and kettles, and do what work of setting with good grace; he never shirked and he never cut the tables is not done by each person for himself. corners off his work hours. He was a leader of the They don't wash the boys in work, and they dishes, because that is a liked him. And he was done by every boy for just as much a leader in himself. Just as break- play, and in nature study, fast, dinner, and supper Little Things and in the Sabbath close, the superintendent school. He was a man. or leader in charge calls SUPPOSE the glistening dewdrops But Gawgie—unh! out, " Table 3," and all the Upon the grass should say. First thing when he came boys at Table 3 arise, take What can a little dewdrop do? on the ground, he stood their dishes and march out I'd better roll away." around watching the lines I no running or hustling. The blade on which it rested being run and the stakes or you are sent back to Before the day was done. being driven, and when Without a drop to moisten it the leader gave him a wait until the end) , march Would wither in the sun. out to the dish-washing rope to haul on, he pulled benches. The KA'S have Suppose the little breezes. like a minnow on a haw- placed there several pairs Upon a summer's day. ser, and then said he of tubs with hot water, Should think themselves too small to cool didn't see much fun one, with soap, to be used The traveler on his way; around this dump, and he for washing, and the Who would not miss the smallest guessed he'd go home. other for rinsing. A And softest ones that blow. The leader wanted to en- leader oversees the proc- And think they made a great mistake courage him, so he said, ess, and everybody pushes If they were talking so? " Oh, you're new yet. Stick around a n d get through as quickly as How many deeds of kindness possible, and returns his A little child may do. acquainted, and you'll like dishes to the table. Then Although it has so little strength. it to-morrow. Here, give Table 4 gets its turn, then And little wisdom. too! me a lift on this ridge- Table 5, etc. It needs a loving spirit. pole." The Camp Rangers as- Much more than strength. to prove. Gawgie stuck out a lan- sist the superintendent, How many things a child may do guid paw—one—took who has charge of the For others by its love. hold of the end pole and grounds. They keep the — Selected. with the aid of another grounds clean, attend to boy, who did all the work, the sanitary service, do he got it up in place. errands, and are em- Then he stepped back, ployed as necessary upon s t r u c k an attitude of public works, such as trail making. weary watching, and said, " Naw, I don't think so." The Fire Wardens get the wood for the evening Well, next day Gawgie, with all the other boys, was camp fire, a detail from among them tends the fire assigned to a job, and the next day to another, and for the evening, and at the close they douse it and the next day to another, and so on. But do you know, see that is is thoroughly put out. the leader never could let Gawgie out of his sight The boys learn that work is fun when it is gone at without knowing that either he would sneak off to with a good will and with everybody together. What watch the polliwogs, or else he would bother the rest a joy to find some of these Junior men already devel- of the boys so that they couldn't do anything. Even oping to the point where they can shoulder a great deal when the leader was working with him, Gawgie would of responsibility and do a great deal of the work. And discover in two minutes that he had to have a what a disappointment to find now and then a boy drink, or had lost his pocketknife and must hunt for who has never grown out of his baby mind, whose it, or had a headache and couldn't stay in the sun. So baby mind, in fact, has grown backward instead of for- the leader would have to follow him up and make ward, and who wants to get out of everything that him drink three cups of water (it almost made Gawgie looks like work. What a contrast these men and these drunk), or search in his pocket and find his jackknife babies make! (but Gawgie said it was the other one he lost), or There, for instance, were George and Gawgie — same send him to the nurse with instruction to drink a full opportunity, same camp, same age, same name, but tumbler of salt water to empty his stomach (upward' not the same boy. Oh, no, not at all! George was a and relieve that headache. And Gawgie was always sturdy boy, with square shoulders and frank gray eyes dissatisfied and always trying to stir up trouble and that looked straight into yours, a lusty voice that led rebellion among the boys. Two or three times he was in shouting and singing — and sometimes forgot in almost at the point where the leaders thought best Silent Hour. George had a temper, and more than to send him home — and that is a fearful disgrace, once found its hotness brought him up against other to be sent away from camp. Only one boy in all our boys' wills and wishes and sometimes against the rules camps has had that disgrace, and that one wasn't of the camp; but he kept fairly good control of it. and Gawgie. They were patient with him, and tried to always after a bit of a struggle with himself was ready help him, and he really did get some good, and once to acknowledge when he had been wrong, and like in a while actually seemed to brighten up and think a man beg pardon or forgiveness. And George had life worth living and work worth doing. But he had found out one good thing, which was that he could given himself so bad a training at home that it al- put his temper into hard work and make it pay. most seemed that it would take ten camps, one after That's what temper is for, you know, in a knife as in the other, really to put him right. a man: it is to carve wood, not to cut fingers. The boys all resented Gawgie's shirking and fussing; When " Camp Duties " sounded. George was right on and for all the efforts that every good man and boy the job. He could swing an ax or a pick and hit where put forth to like him and help him, more and more " There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth." Vol. 77, No. 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 13 he felt himself out of harmony and out of friends. intensely interesting. ' We should have seen flying But at the last there was a gleam of light in the dark- fish on the way over, but the first of December must ness, when he said good-by to the superintendent; have been the wrong season of the year for them too. for he unexpectedly declared, " I'm coming back to Once more on land, there remained for us the " high camp next year, if you'll let me, and I'm going to do drive." Our jaunting car, as it was called, wound better. I guess a guy can't be happy unless he works." among the hills until it reached a high point overlook- Now that was fine, wasn't it? I wasn't there the next ing the sea. From there we had a view of long year, but I really hope — and believe — that Gawgie stretches of ocean, wonderfully blue for such an ex- didn't come back — but that there were two young men panse of water. A little to our left, far down, yet in there named George. plain view, lay beautiful little Avalon Bay, asleep in the sunshine, the city's main street, white, sandy, curv- ing with its shore, and its azure surface dotted with A Trip to Santa Catalina small boats. We were loath to leave the spot, but were allowed only a few minutes' stop, as it was nearly 3:30. (Concluded from page 10) When we reached the steamer, we again went to the home of Mr. Wrigley, and I could fancy the strains the upper deck. The homeward trip was even more of music softly floating up to the listeners there. I pleasant than the one out. The sun set while we were could imagine moonlight on the island — the idyllic on the water, and quietly observant, we watched the charm of it all. It was out of season, however, and changing tints on sea and sky. Darkness fell before the place was very quiet, few people moving around. we reached the wharf, but it marked " the end of a This made the scene all the more " heartsome " to the perfect day." lover of nature, and we enjoyed it to the full. 4 The appointed hour found us in the glass-bottom boat, which is just what its name implies. Strips of Evangelism — The Need of the Hour glass about three feet wide and an inch and an eighth in thickness take the place of some of the bottom (Concluded from page 71 boards. Our boat had two strips of this glass running suited to each individual need that within its folds nearly the whole length of the vessel. A partition one seems to find exactly that which fits his own life. went down the center of the craft, dividing it into two I once heard a noted preacher make reply to an compartments, a strip of glass at the bottom of each. inquiry as to what, above all else, satisfied him that Each strip was surrounded by a railing and seats, and the Bible was the word of God. He declared, " I am consisted of a number of panes separated by parti- not so much concerned with what has gone into the tions, making what looked like square boxes with glass Book as what comes out of it. Though I admit that at the bottom. The passengers filed into the seats, the study of the history of the Bible, its compilation, where, with elbows on the railing and heads bent and its acceptance by the church as a divine code is down, they viewed the wonders of the deep as the all very interesting, to me the finest proof is what boat glided along. Some of these boats will accommo- comes out of the Book. When I look into its pages, its date a hundred persons. appeal is to me personally. I know it to be God's voice, The water was very clear. The bottom of the ocean because in my personal study of it I hear God speak- could be distinctly seen at a depth of seventy-five ing to me. I have read all kinds of books, but it is feet; and what was particularly pleasing was the only the Bible for which I can give this testimony." bright, yellow sunshine that filtered through the water We want to present these truths contained in the and lay on the bottom almost as luminous as if it had Bible in such a way that men may hear in its instruc- not passed through anything. There were ridges and tion the voice of God speaking to them individually. hollows and great rocks, all covered with marine vege- Then we must have tact. This is absolutely essen- tation. The giant iodine kelp was particularly notice- tial, for it is only the tactful method that wins us a able, as we passed through great forests of it. It is a place and a hearing. vinelike plant, with large leaves, at the axils of which This theme of evangelism is a stirring one. And it are green balls. The plant grows upright, swaying is to be hoped that many young people will seriously back and forth, rising to the surface but never above and earnestly pray for God to show them the way into it, and the green balls, which are filled with air, serve this line of work. Nothing can bring a man more to keep it perpendicular. We were told that in that quickly to the realization of such a hope than his own place it grows to a height of seventy-five feet, and personal relationship with God. The call for evangel- that in tropical regions it reaches a height of fifteen ism as relates to our Seventh-day Adventist youth is hundred feet. I took that with a grain of salt, though a call for more definite expression from them person- it may be true. Sometimes the kelp forests were so ally as to their own attitude toward the Lord Jesus dense that we could see nothing but the great leaves Christ. brushing the bottom of the boat. It is said to be very J1 J ,A dangerous to capsize in it, as " swimming would be impossible." The Channel Islands are largely sur- God's Seal Upon the Bible rounded by kelp. Incidentally a new industry at the (Continued from page 6) harbor is producing from the iodine kelp, in combina- tion with other materials, a certain type of cattle food. just as miraculous, so that he who has ears to hear There were different kinds of kelp: different kinds may hear. Study, for instance, the detailed descrip- of moss, fern, sea grass, sea lichen. And floating tion of the fate of the Jewish nation as given in through, over, and under this vegetation, as the birds Deuteronomy 28 and 29. fly among the trees, were the finny inhabitants of the The Lord Jesus once said, " If these should hold their deep. peace, the stones would immediately cry out." To-day Many marine animals were there that we could not the stones do cry out. The discoveries of archxologists see. They were out of sight, or were of the kind that in the ruins of the old cities miraculously confirm even could make themselves so like the spot they occupied the historical statements of the Bible. The very stones as to be invisible. There were many sea cucumbers,— of these ruins put a seal upon the Bible, inasmuch as part animal, part vegetable,— which a mischievous they cry out loud, " Here we are — ruins, because the boy at our right always spoke of as " sea pickles." Lord says so." They are a striking fulfillment of the Perhaps we were there at the wrong season of the word. year, for we saw no sharks, octopuses, squids, or any Let us, as Seventh-day Adventists, remember that very large fishes: but the view was wonderful, and there are more prophecies in the Bible than those in " Faith is safe when in danger, and in danger when secure." 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR April 2, 1929

Daniel and Revelation. Let us study those, too, and missionary in working for your neighbors and in building up the more we study, the more we will be convinced the church, but if the one you are thinking of has gone ahead in training and has ambition and qualifications to do that we have a sure word of prophecy that shineth some special line of work in soul winning, it would seem un- in a dark place, and we will exclaim with Peter, " All fortunate that she should be deprived of that privilege by flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower marrying a man who lacks either the ambition or the quali- of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof fications to join her in such an effort. On tne other hand, if you should marry one who has a superior education, and falleth away; but the word of the Lord endureth for- especially if she is more progressive, you would always be ever." at a disadvantage. No young man should be willing to be known in the future as " Mrs. So-and-so's husband." M. E. K. Our Counsel Corner Conducted by the Missionary Volunteer Department of the General Conference The Sabbath School . Questions concerning young people's problems will be an- swered in this column each week by those who have had long and successful experience. You are cordially invited to Young People's Lesson write the Counsel Corner regarding your perplexities. Each inquiry will receive careful attention. Those writing are requested to sign full name and address, so that a personal answer may be given if in our judgment the question should II - The Call of Ancient Israel to the not be printed. Neither names nor initials will be attached to queries appearing in print, and any confidence will be Service of God fully respected. Address all questions to Our Counsel Cor- ner, in care of Youth's Instructor, Takoma Park, D. C. (April 13) MEMORY VERSE: Isa. 43:10. C LESSON HELPS: " Patriarchs and Prophets," pp. 63-73 (new Will Adventist young men be called upon to help fight in ed., pp. 59-71) ; " Prophets and Kings," pp. 367-378. the Armageddon war, or will God hide them away in the mountains? Questions Man's Fall On the question of noncombatancy, see the Counsel Cor- ner in the YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR of March 19 (" Seeing that 1. Before the earth was created, how did God provide the children of Israel in Bible times," etc.). We do not that His purpose for man should not fail? 2 Tim. 1: 9; know much about how the battle of Armageddon will be Eph. 1:4. 2. fought. As a denomination we have taken our position as Instead of rendering obedience to the Creator, whom noncombatants and have refused to bear arms, though we did Adam and Eve obey? Gen. 3:1-6. have willingly helped in the hospital corps to save life, and 3. In what condition were they then? 2 Peter 2:19. in other lines of noncombatant service. Whether in the war 4. How was the earth affected by Adam's sin? What did of Armageddon we will be called to serve, or whether, being man lose by the fall? Gen. 3:17, 18; Rom. 5: 12. under persecution, we will be in banishment, I do not know. 5. What judgment came upon the world as a consequence of man's sins? Gen. 6:5-7. We must live so close to God that He can lead us when the time comes, and whatever comes, God will be with us. He Loyalty to God says, " Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; 6. How did those who were loyal to God, express faith in for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help the coming Redeemer? Gen. 4:3, 4. Note 1. thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My 7. After the flood, how did Noah acknowledge the power righteousness." Isa. 41:10. M. E. KERN. of God to deliver? Gen. 8:20. 8. As men again transgressed against their Maker, what As I have not been an Adventist very long, and so many command did God give Abram? What was God's purpose people, when the meat question is discussed, ask me why in thus calling Abram? Gen. 12:1-5. Note 2. such large herds of swine were kept back in the days when 9. How did Abram acknowledge that God is the owner the Bible was written, if they were not used for food, I am of all things? Gen. 14:17-20. writing you for an answer. 10. What dream came to Jacob on his way to Haran? What did he build as a memorial to God's mercy? What The prohibition of the use of swine's flesh for food, which vow did he make? Gen. 28:10-22. Note 3. the Bible teaches (Lev. 11: 7; Deut. 14: 8), was very probably for two main reasons. The flesh itself is not good food, Witnesses for God especially in hot climates. Many members of the medical 11. What was Israel to be to other nations? Isa. 43:10-12; profession to-day are in agreement with the Bible in recom- 44:8. mending the restriction of the use of pork, because it is the 12. What made Israel separate and distinct from other cause of some diseases, or at least predisposes the eaters to nations? Ex. 33:16. Note 4. certain diseases. Also, the use of swine appears to have been 13. How was Israel to be related to the surrounding connected with some of the religious ceremonies or celebra- peoples? Why? What was to be their relation to the tions of the heathen nations living around the people of stranger? Deut. 7:3, 4; Lev. 19:34. Israel. Isa. 66: 3, 17. It seems that some of the Israelites 14. If the Israelites had followed this instruction, what raised swine, probably excusing their practice on the ground would have been their relation to God? Ex. 19:5, 6. Note 5. that the animal was a scavenger. They could be sold at Notes good profit to the heathen about them. However, it seems clear that Jesus disapproved of the raising of the unclean 1. " Abel grasped the great principles of redemption. He beasts for the sake of gain, when He permitted the herd in saw himself a sinner, and he saw sin, and its penalty death, the country of Gadara to be rushed into the sea. So far standing between his soul and communion with God. He as I know, the children of Israel had no direct permission brought the slain victim, the sacrificed life, thus acknowl- to raise these animals. H. T. ELLIOTT. edging the claims of the law that had been transgressed. Through the shed blood he looked to the future sacrifice, I received my education in a small church school near Christ dying on the cross of Calvary; and trusting in the home. Ever since I have worked on the farm. During the atonement that was there to be made, he had the witness winter 1 have studied, in connection with the " Testimonies," that he was righteous, and his offering accepted."-"Patri- every point of our faith. At present I do not see my way archs and Prophets," p. 72. clear to attend one of our academies for a better education, 2. " It was no light test that was thus brought upon Abra- to prepare to enter God's work. Would it be proper to seek ham, no small sacrifice that was required of him. There the friendship of one who has planned to be a missionary? were strong ties to bind him to his country, his kindred, and his home. But he did not hesitate to obey the call. It is not very easy to answer this question without knowing He had no question to ask concerning the land of promise,- more of you and the one whose friendship you might seek. whether the soil was fertile, and the climate healthful; You seem to have improved your time in home study, and whether the country offered agreeable surroundings, and I judge that your ideal is to become a missionary where would afford opportunities for amassing wealth. God had you are. You do not say why you do not plan to attend spoken, and His servant must obey; the happiest place on school. If it is for financial reasons, that may be overcome. earth for him was the place where God would have him to be. If you have no desire for further education, that is un- " Many are still tested as was Abraham. They do not fortunate; but probably if you would turn your mind to it hear the voice of God speaking directly from the heavens, and pray, that handicap might be overcome. You do not but He calls them by the teachings of His word and the give your age, and that would be a consideration in the events of His providence."- Id., p. 126. advice I would give along this line. There is nothing wrong, 3. " From the earliest times the Lord claimed a tithe as of course, in settling down on a farm to be a real home His; and this claim was recognized and honored. Abraham " Life is a measure to be filled and not a cup to be drained." Vol. 77, No. 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUC TOR 15 paid tithes to Melchizedek, the priest of the most high God. How could so good a man as Samuel have such disappoint- Jacob, when at Bethel, an exile and a wanderer, promised ing sons? (See " Patriarchs and Prophets," p. 604.) the Lord, ' Of all that Thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee' As the Israelites were about to be Notes established as a nation, the law of tithing was reaffirmed, 1. " Since the days of Joshua, the government had never as one of the divinely ordained statutes upon obedience to been conducted with so great wisdom and success as under which their prosperity depended."- Id., P. 525. Samuel's administration. Divinely invested with the three- 4. " No earthly power or skill or learning can supply the fold office of judge, prophet, and priest, he had labored place of God's abiding presence."-Id., p. 328. with untiring and disinterested zeal for the welfare of his 5. " God called Israel, and blessed and exalted them, not people, and the nation had prospered under his wise con- that by obedience to His law they alone might receive His trol."-" Patriarchs and Prophets," pp. 603, 604. favor, and become the exclusive recipients of His blessings, 2. " While Samuel continued the duties of his office at but in order to reveal Himself through them to all the in- Ramah, the young men were stationed at Beersheba, to ad- habitants of the earth. It was for the accomplishment of minister justice among the people near the southern border this very purpose that He commanded them to keep them- of the land. It was with the full assent of the nation that selves distinct from the idolatrous nations around them."- Samuel had appointed his sons to office; but they did not Id., p. 369. prove themselves worthy of their father's choice."- Id., 604. Suggestive Topics for Discussion 3. " The injustice of these judges caused much dissatis- faction, and a pretext was thus furnished for urging the We should render our freewill offerings to God as did 1. change that had long been secretly desired. . . . The cases Noah. of abuse among the people had not been referred to Samuel. The one who is ready to answer God's call, and renounce 2. Had the evil course of his sons been known to him, he would his own plans, has the faith of Abraham. We should guard against being untouched by the needs have removed them without delay; but this was not what 3. the petitioners desired. Samuel saw that their real motive of those about us, lest we sin as did Israel. was discontent and pride, and that their demand was the result of a deliberate and determined purpose."- Ibid. 4. " God does the best He can for us. If we will not seek Junior Lesson His ideals, and accept the best life He has planned for us to live, He will give us the second best blessings. He grants our request, and teaches us by hard experience the better way. The tuition is high in the school of such experience, II-The People Ask for a King but we have to pay it, and blessed is he who is wise enough (April 13) to graduate and take no postgraduate course."- Peloubet. 5. " With deep sadness, Samuel listened to the words of JP.SSON SCRIPTURE: 1 Sam. 7:15-17; 8; 9:1-24. the people; but the Lord said unto him. ' Hearken unto their MEMORY VERSE: " They have rejected Me, that I should voice, and make them a king.' The prophet had done his not reign over them." 1 Sam. 8:7. duty. He had faithfully presented the warning, and it had STUDY HELP: " Patriarchs and Prophets," pp. 603-610 (new been rejected. With a heavy heart he dismissed the people. edition, pp. 629-636). and himself departed to prepare for the great change in the Memory Gem government."-" Patriarchs and Prophets," p. 607. " Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident; " The Lord foresaw that Israel would desire a king, but He It is the very place God meant for thee." did not consent to a change in the principles upon which the State was founded. The king was to be the vicegerent Questions of the Most High. God was to be recognized as the head 1. How long did Samuel act as judge of Israel? What of the nation, and His law was to be enforced as the supreme regular circuit did he make each year? What was at his law of the land."-Id.,p. 603. " headquarters " at Raanah? 1 Sam. 7:15-17. Note 1. 6. " Saul was the son of a powerful and wealthy chief, 2. When Samuel became too old to attend to all these yet in accordance with the simplicity of the times, he was duties himself, whom did he appoint to help him? Where engaged with his father in the humble duties of a bus- were his sons stationed? How did these young men show bandman."-Id., p. 608. themselves unworthy? 1 Sam. 8:1-3. Note 2. 7. It was the custom of those times for a person to offer 3. What did the elders make this an excuse for asking? a present or some money as a token of respect when ap- Whom did they wish to be like? Verses 4. 5. Note 3. proaching one who was a superior in office or in rank. 4. How did Samuel look upon their request? What did 8. This lesson is especially interesting as showing how the Lord say the people had done? What instruction did seemingly small affairs of life are controlled by the Lord, He give to Samuel? Verses 6-9. and made to contribute to the working out of His plan. Saul 5. What would a king demand of them concerning their was guided to Samuel in the most natural way. As a slight sons? their daughters? their fields? their servants? their movement of a railway switch decides the destination of a flocks? Verses 10-17. train, so the little things in life are often of vast importance 6. What experience would they have on account of these when measured by results. It is said that an ax accidentally troubles? Verse 18. placed near the compass of the " Mayflower " changed the 7. After hearing all these things, what did the people still direction of the vessel and caused the landing to be made demand? What three reasons did they give for desiring a at Plymouth instead of New York. king? Verses 19, 20. Note 4. 9. " ' On whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on 8. When Samuel heard the final decision of the people, thee, and on all thy father's house? ' The listener's heart what did he do? What did the Lord tell him to do? In thrilled at the prophet's words. He could not but perceive what way did Samuel dismiss the elders who had come to something of their significance; for the demand for a king him? Verses 21, 22. Note 5. had become a matter of absorbing interest to the whole 9. Who was Saul? Describe his appearance. 1 Sam. 9:1, 2. nation. Yet with modest self-depreciation, Saul replied, 10. In his search for lost animals belonging to his father, ' Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of near whose home did Saul and his servant come? Verses Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the 3-6. Note 6. tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to 11. What conversation did Saul and his servant have me? ' "- Id., p. 609. about the matter of calling on the prophet? What did they decide to do? Verses 7-10. Note 7. 7Ler 2,74742,, 12. How were they further directed on their way? Verses 11-14. cn YOUTHS 13. How had Saul already been introduced to Samuel? That there might be no mistake, what did the Lord now tell Samuel? Verses 15-17. Note 8. INSTRUCTOR 14. When Saul came to Samuel, what did he ask? What was Samuel's reply? Before Saul could inquire for the lost animals, what did Samuel say of them? What other sur- Issued by prising information did Samuel give him? Verses 18-20. REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION 15. How did Saul show surprise and modesty at the proph- et's words? Verse 21. Note 9. Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. 16. What hospitality did Samuel extend to Saul and his LORA E. CLEMENT - servant? What indicates that special preparation had been EDITOR made to show honor to Saul? Verses 22-24. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Lesson Side Lights AGNES LEWIS CAVINESS C. K. MEYERS STELLA PARKER PETERSON Instead of being like EDITORIAL COUNCIL other nations, what far better plan had the Lord for the children of Israel? Deut. 14:2; 26:18, 19. C. A. RUSSELL MRS. L. FLORA PLUMMER H. T. ELLIOTT Was there any need of a battle better fought than the last one by Samuel's prayer and God's thunder? 1 Sam. 7:7-11. SUBSCRIPTIoN RATER : Yearly subscription. $1.75 ; six months. $1. In clubs of five or more. one year, each $1.50; six months, 80 cents. " Energy will do anything that can be done in this world." 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR April 2, 1929

WHAT'S THE NEWS?

FORD freight planes flew 3,198 hours last year. A LOFTY mountain, hidden beneath the waves of the Pa- cific throughout the memory of man, and which no man is It "4 ever likely to see, has been discovered by scientists of the nonmagnetic ship " Carnegie," 660 nautical miles west of the PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S act just before March 4, in signing northern end of Chile. Capt. J. P. Ault, in charge of the a certain bill, insures Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, widow of expedition, has named it Merriam Ridge, in honor of Dr. the late Vice-President, $3,000 annually for the rest of her John C. Merriam. president of Carnegie Institution, of life. She is the only widow of a Vice-President to receive Washington, which owns the ship and is operating it on a government pension as such. a three-year cruise of the oceans of the world. Reporting the discovery, Captain Ault said the ridge was ten miles wide and rose nearly 10,000 feet above the bed of the ocean. WHILE discussion goes on over the question of advertising Its length was not measured, but its top was found to be signs along highways, it remains for one State alone to claim almost 4,000 beneath the waves. The existence and di►nen- the honor of attacking the problem from the point of view sions of this invisible mountain were discovered and checked of preservation of beauty alone. Nevada bars the placing up by three methods. An old-fashioned depth-sounding wire of any sign which would in any way detract from the beauty of ultramodern accuracy provided one set of measurements. of the scenery. Another was obtained by the sonic depth-finding method. A A A getting the distances by measuring the time required for a sound wave to travel from the ship to the bottom and back SHOULD United States housewives who fret over electric again as an echo. A third was provided by the taking of bills move to London, they would find their worries consid- water temperatures at various depths. The " Carnegie " has erably increased. For in Great Britain light costs an average completed its circuit of the North Atlantic and one leg of of 13 cents per kilowatt hour, almost twice the United States its long cruise in the Pacific. It is now proceeding westward, average of 6.8 cents. Electric power, too, is much more north of the equator, beginning a wide circuit of the North expensive in London, costing 4 cents per hour in England, Pacific. Although the trip has encountered much trouble- and 2.16 cents here. some sailing weather, Captain Ault has reported excellent results from observations of compass variations, the elec- trical condition of the air, ocean circulation, the structure RAILS and railway equipment, bridges, steel frames for and shape of ocean basins, the nature of bottom sediments, buildings, pipe lines, automobiles, and ships consume tre- water temperatures and saltiness, deep-sea life, and other mendous amounts of iron and steel. They take well over phenomena of scientific interest. half of the annual output. Where does the remainder of A .4 A it go? You'd be surprised! The New York Times says that sixty thousand tons of steel go into the making of wrenches. CIVILIZATION owes much of its progress to coal, yet it is There are so many things to be tightened and turned and not much more than a century ago that this valuable prod- twisted these days. Four million pipe wrenches are manu- uct was looked upon by many with fear and superstition. factured each year. Then there are mechanic, household. Others considered it a curiosity and kept it exposed on their automobile, and radio wrenches. Millions of them. The mantelpieces. "Black stone " was the name applied to it. hair clipper, fifty years ago, was a horse clipper. It came In 1806 the news spread that " black stone " was found in to be a hair clipper when two boys in the employ of the abundance in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. This discovery inventor had a quarrel and one took after the other with aroused the curiosity of a small-town blacksmith named the horse clippers that belonged to their master and gave Abijah Smith, who decided to investigate that area. Leav- him a trimming. The local barber saw the results of the ing his forge, Smith made his way to Plymouth. It is not scrap. He was inspired. Presently hair clippers were being known whether Smith placed the coal in his landlord's fire- manufactured on the model of the larger horse clipper. place by accident or not, but after finding that it burned To-day, with short hair in style for both sexes, a half million and provided great warmth, he was convinced of its efficacy clippers are produced annually, using sixty-two tons of steel. as a fuel. It was not a simple matter to convince others of Toys require fifteen thousand tons of steel annually. Scis- his discovery. It is said that he invited the leading citizens sors use five hundred tons. Needles use four hundred tons. of the near-by towns to witness a demonstration of the Pen points use three hundred fifty tons. Loose-leaf note- newly discovered fuel. He was given permission to use his books, for their clasps and rings, use three thousand tons. landlord's fireplace for the demonstration. The appointed Pins use one thousand four hundred tons. If you believe day arrived, and the inn where Smith stayed was filled with suspenders have disappeared, think this over: Two hundred curiosity seekers. To Smith's great dismay the coal did not fifty tons of steel are used for suspender buckles every year. catch fire. The irate spectators were about to berate Smith Camp stoves, for the family summer auto trips, require for his folly, but he curbed their annoyance by inviting them seven hundred fifty tons. All-steel vacuum bottles require to dinner in another room. After dinner, when he and his two hundred tons. Ticket punches for stamping such things guests returned to the room where the demonstration was as meal checks and railroad tickets demand two hundred held, the coals had caught fire and were burning brightly. tons. The news spread far and wide, Smith receiving orders from :4 all over the State for shipments of this unique stone. With the aid of his brother John, Smith set out to mine the coal. Ix the fall of the year, after harvests have been gathered, occurs in Old Mexico one of the most curious festivals in the A barge called the " Ark " was constructed to deliver the world. At this time all of the animals who have served their coal to distant points. New York received its first shipment of coal in 1808. masters faithfully during the year, are given a blessing and honored by a great feast. From far and near they come — horses, cows, oxen, sheep, pigs, hens, ducks, geese, cats, and THE dogs. One sees decorations everywhere. Horses have their undignified procedure of sneaking up on the front blankets gaudily trimmed; little rosettes are on the bridles; porch of a residence at night to ascertain the number of cows have wreaths across their horns; sheep have bands of the house, will soon be unnecessary in Stockholm. The ribbon about their bodies; cats and dogs wear collars with doctors and taxi drivers of this commonwealth, which, be- bells and garlands on them, and the fowls bow their heads cause of its long nights, has even greater difficulty in this under the weight of fancy neckwear. Pigs are, perhaps, the line than some of the cities farther south, have agitated the most comical, and look for all the world like circus clowns, matter until the city council finally selected a committee for they will not carry ordinary decorations, but are re- to work out the best means of remedying this inconvenience. warded for their services by having their bodies painted with After hearing suggestions from a number of electric light all kinds of stripes and figures in bright colors. Years ago companies, the committee has decided to install illuminated this custom of blessing the animals was followed throughout numerals on all the houses. Mexico, but now it is mostly confined to the Indian peons, and they make a great day of it. The headman of the town blesses the animals, announces to the multitudes that they " GOLDEN sing " may be an expression warmly poetic, have been faithful to their tasks, and then tells the animals says Dr. Charles E. St. John, of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, that he expects them to be just as faithful as long as they but scientifically, it is not so appropriate. Forty-eight of live. Where some animal has rendered special service, such the ninety-two elements are known to exist in the sun, but as life-saving, an extra honor is heaped upon him, and he gold is not among those discovered. Platinum, said Dr. is told that he will never be butchered for the market, but St. John, who recently completed an exhaustive specto- when his usefulness is past, he will be pensioned by his graphic study of solar materials, is the latest element dis- master. covered in the sun. " God often digs the wells of joy with the spade of sorrow."