1852 Centennial Special 1952 STRUrT011 C I VE score years ago the pioneers of the And fought, unyielding, on the field, sustained not only patriarchs and prophets IF great Second Advent Movement began To win an everlasting crown. but the rank and file of God's chosen peo- the publication of a new journal on the Though worn with toil, oppressed by foes, ple all through the centuries. Exiled, im- North American Continent—a journal No murmur from his heart arose; prisoned, pursued by relentless enemies, I asked what buoyed his spirits up, conceived in poverty and unselfish devo- '0 this!' said he—`the blessed hope.' " persecuted, burned at the stake, thrown to tion to a great cause. It was dedicated to wild beasts in Rome's Colosseum, they the interests of the youth of the Advent The third stanza speaks of the experi- have looked forward with the eyes of faith Movement, young men and women who ence of Uriah Smith, early editor of our to the Second Advent of the King of kings, in the long ago were, even as they are church paper The Advent Review and and have stood unmoved. Shall we be less today, one with their elders in accepting as faithful now, when, if we listen closely we a personal obligation the divine commis- can almost hear the wing beats of the ten sion to carry the glad story of a soon- thousand times ten thousands of angels coming Saviour to all the world. who will accompany Him on that glorious OUR COVER One hundred years have passed, and we journey from heaven to earth? are still engaged in this great undertaking. Picture Copyrighted 1952 by Review & Herald True enough, this culmination of "the Publishing Association It is well that we pause a moment at this blessed hope" has been long delayed. A century point and take a backward look For this centenary issue of the YOUTH'S very modern young man said in my hear- that cannot fail to confirm our faith as we INSTRUCTOR our own Harry Anderson, ing not so long ago, "Oh, sure, Jesus is one of the top illustrators in the American coming, but as for soon—well, I don't be- see how the prophecies of the Inspired art field today, has painted a special cover Word have been and are being fulfilled. picture that appropriately and graphically lieve He will come in your day or in And with this backward look it also is symbolizes the spirit of the great Second Ad- mine!" His pastor, to whom he had well that we take a forward look to check vent Movement to which Seventh-day Ad- spoken, replied, " 'Knowing this first, that ventist youth are dedicated. Portrayed are the the prophetic waymarks still to come along three angels of Revelation flying in the midst there shall come in the last days scoffers, our journey from earth to heaven. How of heaven, two young people of the pioneer walking after their own lusts, and saying, comparatively few they are! We know that days of the Advent Movement just below Where is the promise of his coming? for tense, dramatic, glorious experiences are them, and three young people of this day since the fathers fell asleep, all things con- and generation, representing the Missionary just before us as the scroll of earth's his- Volunteers around the wide cirde of the tinue as they were from the beginning of tory unrolls. But also we have the assur- world who are sharing their faith and doing creation.' And then the Apostle Peter goes ance of God's special messenger that "we their part to acquaint every nation, kindred, on to point out," he added, "that those have nothing to fear for the future, except tongue, and people with the sweet old story who take this attitude you have expressed of redeeming love. as we shall forget the way the Lord has `willingly are ignorant' of the import of led us." the signs of the. Second Advent that are We salute the courageous pioneers who -1( taking place all around them, and thus faced the bitter disappointment of 1844, they themselves become one of the most corrected their prophetic reckoning as Sabbath Herald, but from his own re- convincing signs of the end of the world." heaven opened to them additional light, corded testimony we know that anything "So I'm a sign of the end," mused Bill. and marched forward with undaunted he gave up for the truth and cause he "I don't quite like the sound of that. Can zeal, facing a world that jeered and bear- loved was as nothing, compared with the you—I mean will you have time—to give ing aloft the banner inscribed "The Com- satisfactions that came to a heart full to me some help, Pastor?" Of course the mandments of God and the Faith of overflowing with love for God, and to a pastor found time, and the studies the two Jesus." Sang a poet of those early days: keen, versatile mind that had only one of them had together sent Bill off to college "I saw one weary, sad, and worn, aim—to write and speak so persuasively to change his major to theology, deter- With eager steps press on the way, that all who read and all who listened mined to help other young people who Who long the hallowed cross had borne, might be won to the service of God with mistakenly share his philosophy "to see Still looking for the promised day; the same wholeheartedness that motivated things in the right light." While many a line of grief and care, Upon his brow was furrowed there; him. Listen! "And there was one who left behind I asked what buoyed his spirits up, Without the shadow of a doubt, friend `0 this!' said he—`the blessed hope.' " The cherished friends of early years, And honor, pleasure, wealth resigned, o' mine, Jesus not only is coming again Denominational tradition has it that this To tread the path bedewed with tears. but He is coming soon. Oh, let's be faith- first stanza of the well-loved and still oft- Through trials deep and conflicts sore, ful, that we may be among those who will sung hymn refers to James White. The Yet still a smile of joy he wore; welcome Him with joy in that glad day, second stanza draws a stirring pen picture I asked what buoyed his spirits up, when "the blessed hope" we have cherished of Joseph Bates, sea captain and fearless '0 this!' said he—`the blessed hope.' " becomes a reality. exponent of the seventh-day Sabbath. And what a "blessed" hope it is! Given "And one I saw, with sword and shield, first to Adam and Eve after they had been Who boldly braved the world's cold frown, driven from their garden home, it has

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PAGE 2 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR I AMES WHITE was a young man of thirty-one years that summer day in 1852 when he began to write for THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR. There iS still a copy of that first number in the files. It looks somewhat old-fashioned, but the type is plain, the paper is still quite strong, and the message that it bore to the youth of Hitherto and nceforth those bygone days still breathes the same f word of courage and inspiration as when it came off the press a century ago. The By W. H. BRANSON journal was supposed to have been printed President of the General Conference once a month, but only three issues came of Seventh-day Adventists out in 1852: the first in August, then one in October, and the last in December. Beginning with January of 1853, publica- 4->)-->>34->) >>) tion was regular each month. There were eight pages, each about half the size of the present INSTRUCTOR. Four pages were devoted to the Sabbath school lessons and vincing as it was when the great Second martyrs of other ages. Joseph Bates, James four to material of a general nature. The Advent Movement began. Those who were White, Hiram Edson, John Andrews, with edition was not large. A note in one of young people forty or fifty years ago can many another stalwart soul who bore the the very early issues says that one thousand well remember how few we were in num- heat of battle, still wait for the promise to five hundred copies would cost twenty dol- ber and how scanty our resources were, be fulfilled. They lived to see the prophetic lars altogether. It was hoped that each one even though the message had already been messages of Daniel and the Revelation who received a copy would send in twenty- preached for more than fifty years. And heralded to the world. They witnessed the five cents to cover the cost of a year's sub- now as we read the reports and realize that proclamation of the seventh-day Sabbath. scription. a million souls believe this truth of Christ's They rejoiced in the precious truth of the That was quite a humble beginning for soon return and are letting their light shine sanctuary, which sets forth the priestly a paper that is now at least four times the in nearly every corner of the earth, we work of the risen Saviour, ministering His size and published more than four times surely have every reason to be like Abra- atoning blood on behalf of repentant sin- as frequently and is circulated by the ham, "strong in faith, giving glory to God; ners. They knew the Second Advent could scores of thousands, reaching our English- and being fully persuaded that, what he not long be delayed. Ardently they prayed speaking youth in every land. What an had promised, he was able ' also to per- and worked for it. Earnestly they hoped it outstanding evidence of the truth of God's form." might be in their day. But their lives closed Word and the reliability of prophecy, to It was but a few years before the IN- before the work of God on earth was done. realize that the Advent message has grown STRUCTOR was first published that the rem- We look back over the road we have even more rapidly than has the INSTRUC- nant people began to appear in fulfillment traveled, and it gives us courage to jour- TOR, and that it is still as vital and con- of Bible prophecy. Mighty preaching ney on to the end. Someone once said, stirred hearts in many "We take off our hats to the past, but we lands, awakening the must take off our coats to the future." The hope of seeing Jesus task of the Advent people of God is not descend from heaven to finished. There were great men in our receive His people. "Lift early days. They performed brave and up your heads; for your noble deeds. But they did not complete the redemption draweth work. They laid the foundation in poverty, nigh," was the word on a toil, and tears. Well and truly were the thousand lips. "He is even stones and pillars set in place on the bed- at the door." Brave, godly rock of eternal truth, squared by prophecy, men went forth to preach leveled by Scripture, firm and steadfast. the Second Advent. The But they were not able to finish the work Holy Spirit gave irresist- so well begun. They had to lay down their ible power to their minis- tools and rest. Younger hands took up the try. The sure word of burden, and the Advent message contin- prophecy presented argu- ued to be proclaimed in a loud voice in ments which proved that the home field and in distant lands. And the end of all things was now the youth of 1952, looking back on very near. the accomplishments already made in 1852 The noble pioneers of by the young leaders in the Advent Move- those early days have been ment in that day, surely must give thanks called to rest. Their dust to God for His marvelous guidance of the is mingled with that of remnant church. the host of prophets and But they must do far more than that. While rejoicing over what has been done, @ Review and Herald, 1944 they must lay hold of the task that yet Harry Anderson, Artist remains. Every young man and young woman who has heard the voice of Jesus The Pioneers of Early Days calling to consecration and service in the Have Been Called co Rest, and Their Dust Is Mingled With Advent faith today is under the most sol- That of the Host of Witnesses emn and thrilling responsibility. Every for God and Truth Who Faced Persecution and Even Death It- ounce of energy, every faculty of mind self for Their Faith and body, is to be put to use. The precious

SEPTEMBER 2, 1952 PAGE 3 heritage handed down by the faithful of a bygone century must not be lost, but cherished and developed under God until the triumph of the judgment-hour message and its glorious climax in the second com- ing of Christ. #Acee Sewice With complete confidence we can place our trust in the One who has led His peo- By EUGENE ROWELL ple thus far, knowing that He will guide them safely to the end of the pilgrim journey. And we may also, without the The postman in weather dark or fair least hesitation, place our own personal Brings a paper neatly rolled— The Youth's Instructor it is—and there lives, with all their hopes and fears, in the A marvelous tale is told. unfailing clasp of the same almighty hand. Not only in print on the pages white We live in times of difficulty and spirit- For the outward eye to see, ual peril. Of ourselves we have neither the But in living scrolls for the inmost sight strength to travel nor the skill to keep the The story is told to me. road. "It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." He needs a guide. The Yes, it seems to speak in the calm, sure tone young child must be helped over the Of one whom the years make strong, stones and up the steep places. The aged Who down in the depths of his heart has known come to depend upon a stronger arm and Sore trial and grief—and song; a keener eye when the going is rough_ Who knows of the dread foes. soon or late, and difficult. Throughout the entire jour- That lurk by life's upward way, And the cares of those who must work and wait, ney of life the prudent person listens to And thus can it truly say— advice, seeks the help of those who are wiser, submits himself to their direction. "I began a century gone today, As we journey along the highway we When, under the wayside trees, watch for the signs, the names, and the Brave Pastor White, as the records say, numbers. We study the map. But if it is Spread his notebook on his knees new country, we do not really know the And wrote the message he felt should go road. The more complicated the way be- To the young of the Master's fold; comes, the more uncertain we feel. Should And the old, old story that all might know, a storm arise, should darkness fall unex- In his earnest words he told. pectedly, should a detour have been re- cently posted, our anxiety increases. We "Throughout the many long years since then, slow down, peering out of the car win- In my ever-widening round, I have answered the waiting hearts of men dows, hoping for the best, but quite un- Wherever they could be found. certain. We finally get out and ask some- I have given counsel in homes of ease body who is passing by. He begins to Where the great and the wealthy dwell; gesture and tell of all the turns and way- I have strengthened the sailor on stormy seas, marks, concluding by saying, "You can't I have brightened the prison cell. miss it." He does not know how easy-it is for us to go wrong. But if he gets in the "In the midst of the battle's crimson roll car with us and says, "Now go right I have spoken of love and peace, ahead. I'll tell you when to turn; in fact, And have wakened a song in the strife-worn soul I'm going your way," what a relief and Of the time when war shall cease. a sense of security that brings! He is our I have pointed the way to the friendly door That swings to the one who tries; guide. I have cheered the desponding, helped once more We need a guide like that in our spirit- The downfallen ones to rise. ual journey. Of ourselves we shall surely come to grief. When the traveler goes to "I have counseled all in their time of need Switzerland and climbs the Alps he hires To trust Him who loveth all, a guide. A strong rope fastens the members Who gently restoreth the broken reed of the party each to the other, with the And heareth the helpless call. guide in the lead. Should the traveler And though all my serving must soon be done stumble, the guide will hold him fast. As the end of all things nears, Solomon says, "To him that is joined to I am glad for whatever my toil has won, Though it's taken a hundred years. all the living there is hope." Our God is the one who ever liveth. He knows the "And I would say unto all and each, way we take. Joined unto Him, we are Work on though reward seem slow; sure of reaching the end of the journey. There's a good to gain, there's a goal to reach, "So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it In the way God would have you go. still will lead me on Yes, work with a purpose nobly true, O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, For, as bread on the waters cast, 'till the night is gone." The good you do will come back to you • Our Guide will see us through. The In our Lord's 'Well done' at last." Lord Jesus knows the way. The toils may be many, the wounds may be severe, the tests may seem overwhelming, but His promise is, "They shall never perish, —Please turn to page 28' PAGE 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR oung Man Looks Back!

By LAWRENCE MAXWELL

FORGE strode purposefully to the cal- that their parents or friends had refused 6 endar. With d pencil he marked heav- to believe, glad that at last the day had The Author ily through the figure "22." Turning to come, and the world would know they his younger sister, Mary, he half-whis- were right. pered, half-shouted, "This is the day!" In many places the faithful gathered in spect for your parents' judgment." His He had tried to say it solemnly, for the churches to sing and. pray and testify tone was one of benevolent contempt. "Let the day held awful consequences for many till the grand event should be realized. this be the end of all talk about the sec- people. But when you have been looking We all know how it turned out. Jesus ond coming of Christ. Christ coming in forward to an exciting event, and you have did not come in the morning, or at noon. our day! Tomfoolery! Nonsense! This is been counting the months and the weeks The sun went down in a blaze of glory, to be the end of all such talk and plan- and the days until it would happen, and and still He had not appeared. When the ning. Do you hear me?" now the day has arrived, and you know bells of midnight tolled out the closing The end. Think of it! This father it is going to be the greatest in all your moments of the day, as they reckoned it, thought the message of the soon return life—how can you be solemn? the heavens still remained sealed and shut. of Jesus would come to an end that night! "Yes," said Mary. "Just think! This is George and Mary made their way home, The end—when it was just the begin- the day the prophets looked forward to, disappointed, bewildered, but not uncon- ning! the one the apostles talked about—and vinced. Hope had gone. A little faith re- In the first place, there were so few here we are, alive to see it. How wonder- mained. Their parents met them. "Well, people who knew about it, only a few thou- ful!" children," said father, "perhaps this ex- sand in a handful of seaboard States. Here George always had thought that Mary perience will teach you to have more re- was a world message, and only a smatter- was attractive. Now, in anticipation of the excitement they would surely have that day, her eyes sparkled and her cheeks flushed with a beauty he had not seen before. "You're right, dear," he said, "and am I proud to have a sister like you. There aren't many sisters made of the stuff you're made of." He had reason for saying this. Mother and dad had scoffed at the idea of the world coming to an end on October 22. Worse, they had threatened and punished. But, as George remembered, through it all Mary had remained true. She had kept on "going to the evangelistic meetings and getting herself ready for Jesus' return. Now it was the day. "We had better be moving along, Mary," George cautioned. "You hurry with the breakfast things. I'll get the cows milked. We must go over to the church right away. I wonder when He'll come. Do you sup- pose it'll be in the morning? or at noon?" "Too bad about mother and dad," Mary mused when George had gone out. "I just don't think there is any more we can say. They won't listen anyway. Today will prove that we were right. But who wants to be proved right"—her eyes clouded over John C. Karr Photo —"at such a cost?" Through His Messenger, Ellen G. White, God Sent Special Messages to His People Until That morning so spoke many young Today Seventh-day Adventists Are a People Set Apart, Known and Honored for Steadfast men and women eager to see Jesus, sad Purpose and High Standards SEPTEMBER 2, 1952 PAGE 5 rickshaw; in cars, trains, steamships, and airplanes; by radio and television, until it has been established in 228 of the 282 countries of the world. And the early Advent believers thought they were finished in 1844! 7ote% 7teed But the end is not yet. It is to go to every nation, kindred, and tongue. Only By ELMER P. DAVIS when God's people and their message are known everywhere will the end come. We are ready for the ending. George and Torch of truth!—Oh, hold it high! Mary, alive today, might yet live to see it. Hold it high! And what things they would behold! Never let its light grow dim; What fame and ignominy, what humility Let its light God's banner limn! and greatness await us! Hold it high, ye Advent youth! For this message will not end in a Hold the torch of truth on high! corner. God will emblazon it in every pub- Send its rays to earth's far rim— lic place. It will become the most-talked- Light that's blest by seraphim— about issue in the world. Newspaper edi- Hold it high! tors, radio commentators, and public Dark these days of sin and sorrow; speakers will be devoting extensive time Far the feet of men have strayed! and space to the discussion of the truths the You, ye Advent youth, remember, Adventists teach. 'Twas for such the Saviour prayed. Imagine it! Adventist leaders more Hold it high, ye Advent youth! important than Churchill, Stalin, or the Hold the torch of truth on high! President of the United States! Discussion Hold it high, ye Advent youth! of the Sabbath more vital than a forth- Hold it high! coming general election! Yet such is the destiny of this people. Torch of truth!—Oh, hold it high! Nor is this all. This one-time insignifi- Higher still! cant group is to be so important to God's Crown with light earth's templed hills, plan that the one purpose toward which Gild with hope her blood-stained rills— all the forces of the devil are going to Higher, still, ye Advent youth! be directed will be the extermination of Hold the torch of truth on high! Adventists. Adventists will be so identified Every twice-born spirit thrills with God that the devil will think that As its flame its glory spills by destroying the Adventists he can ruin Higher still! the plan of salvation. High within our hearts, my brothers, To this end he will stir up all the peo- Love of truth must ever burn! ples of the earth to persecute them, to We must live for God and others, torture them, and if possible, to annihilate And the tide of error turn! them. Hold it high, ye Advent youth! There is something to think about! The Hold the torch of truth on high! whole world, and all the unseen forces Higher still, ye Advent youth! of evil, directing their attention to Sev- Higher still! enth-day Adventists. A far cry this, from. the days of 1844! At last God's people will have reached the place God wants them to attain in this earth. At last the end can come. Let George mark off the dates on the calendar now, and Mary rejoice to see ing of people had heard it. Christ could Now, certainly, God's commandment the day. For suddenly, as evil men rush not come then. His chosen ones had to was fully obeyed. forward to slay those who are identified realize that their story was important But no, not great enough yet. Hesitantly with the Advent Movement, the heavens to all people everywhere. work began among the heathen. depart as a scroll, and the Lord of eternity They woke up to it after a while. They When would God's people realize their comes riding down the skies in clouds of read the great commission again, and sud- possibilities? He had designed them for immeasurable glory. The wicked are ter- denly realized that the gospel had not greatness. rified, and even the righteous are afraid. gone to every kindred and tongue. Surely, Gradually the vision enlarged: in 1874, Then Jesus says to His chosen people, they thought, God did not mean they had one missionary; in 1905, 60; in 1915, 76; "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit to evangelize the whole world! Not all of in 1930, 183; and in 1946, 370. But this the kingdom." it. That would be too great a task, much was not to be all. So this is the final destiny of the Ad- too great for such humble folks. The Advent message took to the radio. ventists—heirs of God—caught up to the However, thirty years later they did On two giant networks it saturates a con- clouds, to sit down on the throne of God, send out one missionary—to a friendly, tinent, and through carefully selected sta- to live and reign with Him through the Protestant country. tions of highest power it reaches four fifths unending ages of eternity. This, they reasoned, would satisfy the of the world's inhabitants. Then came Glorious prospect! May the Lord, who command. television, and God put His message and has led this people through all the years, But the Lord had greater things in His messengers on that. help us to be faithful to the end, and mind. Fearfully a missionary went to Rus- So today the Adventist story is being give us a part in the wonders He has sia, a non-Protestant country. carried on foot; by bicycle, horseback, and prepared for us. PAGE 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR The BUILDING of the 65HIP

By ARTHUR W. SPALDING

IF YOU were a boy in the 1880's, you flood your house with the million-candled a flip of fortune's lever, or it may be the lived in a different world from that of lights and the warm breezes that sprang guidance of the Almighty Hand, to de- the boy of the 1950's. So different a world out of the spray of a cribbed and har- termine whether his roving romance shall was it that the children and youth of nessed river; you struck a sulfurous lucifer plow the waters of the sevep seas or chain today, if some "faerie ship" could sail match and lighted your little coal-oil lamp the lightnings for the service of man. What them over misty seas to its shores, would to guide your feet up the cold stairs to if a rummaging in the attic shall discover think themselves another Mayflower com- your quilted bed. The magic wings that among the relics of a bygone age that dog- pany uprooted from their highly civilized were to soar from the dunes of Kitty eared history of America that Grandfather native land and set down in the raw wil- Hawk lived only in the poesy pages of a Jenkins studied in his schoolboy days, derness of an unfamiliar America. Tennyson or in the robust verse of a Trow- reaching even to 1815, and padding its In those days you did not tune in on bridge with his "Darius Green and His thin pages with an alluring appendix of a radio to hear the voice of a British Flying-Machine." A thousand and one ac- West Indian pirates! What if the more monarch thousands of miles away; you cessories of life, which seem so indispen- hallowed afternoons of rainy Sabbaths be felt much nearer to a king known as sable to us now, were hidden as yet in illumined by the sanctioned sea adventures George the Third who lived in the still the mists of the uncharted seas of inven- of a Joseph Bates, from cabin boy to cap- thundering tones of a Patrick Henry. You tion of a twentieth century. tain to saint! did not float on cushions of air over smooth But yet, a boy is a boy; and who can clip Oh, to be a cabin boy! A life on the roads of asphalt and cement to spend a his wings of fancy, whether he live in briny deep! With tarry heels and ribboned week end with your cousins on the Rio George Washington's day or in George cap to tread the decks of a brigantine, with Grande; you dug your bare toes into the Washington Carver's? "There are more its "Heave ho!" and its "Belay there!" and sandy road or at best followed behind the things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than its "Man the tops'l gallants!" and its shore bobbing head of old Dobbin on your are dreamed of in your philosophy." A leaves at a hundred foreign ports! weekly visit to the village post office. You Christopher Columbus or a Thomas Edi- And lo! the vision opened, the fancy did not push a button in the dark to son lives in every boy; and it takes only materialized. At least, if it was only a mirage, it was a beautiful and inspiring sight; and somewhere over the hori- zon there must be the real- ity. There came into our Seventh-day Adventist boy life, hidden away in an in- land State, the romance of the sea, the building of a ship, on which certainly there must be a cabin boy! And why, queried a thou- sand eager lads, why not 1? There was a certain man, a follower of the sea, who, like another Joseph Bates, had shipped before the mast when he was but six- teen years old. John I. Tay too had been a cabin boy, and from that lowly but glorious sphere had risen to be a seaman and a ship's carpenter. Moreover, he had become a consecrated man, a Christian and a

Gordon Grant, Artist

The Ship Pitcairn Sailed Under Captain J. M. Marsh, With J. Christiansen as Mate, on Later Voyages to Be Captain, Three Worthy Seamen as Sailors, and an Indispensable Cook

SEPTEMBER 2, 1952 PAGE 7 weeks he so won the hearts of Pitcairn's people, and so convinced their minds of the truth of the last gospel message, that they resolved unanimously to accept the faith of the remnant church of God. They asked for baptism, but Tay, being only a deacon, could not administer that or re- ceive them into the church. When he left he promised he would do all in his power to send them official help from his church. The weary wait! The long months and \ ears that intervened! Communication was slow and uncertain. There was no radio then to waft the word through the air. There was no regular packet or mail serv- ice to Pitcairn. Only by chance could let- ters come and go. Yet word did finally reach the waiting ones there that in Amer- ica Seventh-day Adventists were awake to their need and their plea. and help would come. Dedication Service on the Deck of the Pitcairn Help started soon. Tay reached Tahiti; and Cudney, Hawaii. But the schooner Seventh-day Adventist, burning to carry So it was on wretched, crime-drenched Phoebe Chapman was lost at sea, and the the message of Bible truth to a dying Pitcairn. John Adams, sole survivor of the hope of succor to Pitcairn faded. Tay re- world. Bounty mutineers, was left alone with a turned to America, and the flickering fire Now in his sea chest the cabin boy had society of women and children who had flamed up again. Let the Seventh-day Ad- found, packed away by his devoted mother, never known God, women from a heathen ventist Church build a ship and send a a .Bible, and by his father, a romantic land and offspring knowing no God. John corps of workers, not only to Pitcairn, but Mutiny on the Bounty. That was a tale for Adams dug from his sea chest a long- to all the islands of the South Seas! you! On the one hand, men against the neglected and forgotten Word of God. He This was the electrifying news that sea, the desperate, heroic cutter voyage read, and he remembered the dim scenes reached us boys, and with us all the little of Captain Bligh and -his companions to of his English boyhood and of a mother church of fifty thousand souls. Gradually reach a distant shore; but, more devilish who had taught him the story of redemp- the story of Pitcairn had made its way but entrancing, the flight of the Bounty tion. He wept. He repented of his sins. among us, and now the fire was kindled mutineers to Tahiti, .and then to that lone He prayed. And born anew, he determined in our hearts. The Sabbath schools un- rock in the southern seas, Pitcairn. to redeem the years that were evil by dertook to raise the money for the enter- Pitcairn lived in the imagination of teaching his children and the children prise. Come, men and women! Come, boys John Tay through the years, renewed and of his fellows the way of Christ. and girls! Put your pennies in, your fed once again by a meeting with a sailor Thus was Pitcairn reformed. And when nickels, your dimes, your dollars. Raise the and then with a sea captain who had ac- in his old age John Adams saw the British money, build the ship, and sail away on tually visited that storied isle. Tay longed flag waving from the masthead of Her a new crusade to carry the gospel to the to follow in their trail; but Pitcairn was Majesty's man-of-war, the discoverer of isles of the sea. out of the world, far off the ship routes, the hidden isle and its inhabitants, he We raised the money, and the ship was lying to the southeast, a distant and lonely could present to their queen a commu- a-building. There in the shipyards at Beni- outpost of the South Sea Islands. It was nity, not of blood-stained criminals, but cia, California, in the upper bay of San only by chance that any merchant ship of orderly, law-abiding Christian men, Francisco, the timbers were sawed, the might pass that way, or else a British man- women, and children. hammers rang, the hull was fashioned, the of-war, on government orders, came once This was the Christian romance that masts were stepped. And on the evening a year. came to possess the soul of John I. Tay. of July 28, 1890, the schooner Pitcairn was It was this isolation that had made Pit- And when he had accepted the Seventh- launched upon the waters. Herald of the cairn the safe hideaway of the mutineers. day Adventist faith, he longed more than Advent to Pitcairn and the South Seas! Plagued by their lawless natures and ever to set his foot upon that glamorous And now the crew—there must, of haunted by their guilty consciences, here isle, and lift its 'inhabitants higher still course, be a captain, a mate, some seamen, in a little lonely paradise with their Ta- into the knowledge and the love of a re- a ship's carpenter, and a cabin boy! Mis- hitian wives, plotting against one another, turning Christ, Saviour, and King. sionaries besides, of course! We boys knew and in their drunken frenzies quarreling At last he succeeded. It was the year some of the answers. John I. Tay for ship's and murdering, they had at last reduced 1886 when, after diligent effort and the carpenter, as well as missionary. Of sea themselves to a single survivor, besides favoring hand of God, he was set down captains we at Battle Creek, Michigan, the women and children. by a British man-of-war upon the little knew but one. That was Captain C. El- But then, the Book! Oh, what a beacon island. Dire experience had taught the dridge, and he was manager of the Review light to wretched humanity is the Bible! men of Pitcairn not to allow strangers to and Herald Publishing Association. We To many a roving lad, to many a be- stay with them between uncertain visits of felt sure that Captain Eldridge's experi- deviled mariner, to many a castaway on chance ships. And that was their law. This ence and worth must recommend him to the shores of life, the Bible has come as was the barrier that met Tay when he the authorities as commander of the ship. a rescuer, a restorer, a guide back to a asked permission to remain. But his saintly And now for cabin boy! Regretfully I loving Father God. Its sweet, gentle in- appearance and demeanor during the few agreed that I must resign my candidacy; fluence has wrapped many a despairing days of the ship's stay won the hearts of for I was only thirteen, and the cabin soul in robes of grace; it has restored the the islanders, and in a mass meeting they boy, according to precedent, must be fif- fainting and the famished to life; it has voted to invite him to remain. teen or sixteen. But my older brother, transformed men and nations from crim- Remain he did for the five weeks, until Verne, could qualify, and qualify he did— inals and savages into the children of God. another ship came by. And in that five in his and our opinion. Of nautical expe- PAGE 8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR rience he, like the rest of us, was innocent; Pastor and Mrs. A. J. Read. And every one the good ship Pitcairn make before it but he had one thing in his favor. He knew of the seamen too was a Seventh-day Ad- ended its mission. Now its successors are Captain Eldridge, and Captain Eldridge ventist missionary. Swallowing our little numbered by the score. Over the sea, over knew him. It matteoed not that there were personal disappointments, we all lustily the land, through the air, the message of half a hundred other boys in Battle Creek cheered them on their mission. So, the Jesus' salvation and of His coming is fly- who held the same enviable acquaintance, compact and gallant little company of ing with the angels. In ways then un- and that there were almost countless other heralds of the Second Advent, in a snug known, with media of transport and com- boys throughout the land, and even other little ship, 93 feet long, 27 broad, 10 deep, munication then undreamed of, with captains, who yearned to tread the decks sailed away, on the twentieth of October, power and great glory sounds the final and the soil of Pitcairn. We would get be- 1890, and in a month stood off from the gospel call: "Fear God, and give glory to hind our candidate, and he would win. shores of that crag in the sea, Pitcairn. him; for the hour of his judgment is Alas! The mirage faded. Captain El- Joyous was the welcome they received. come: and worship him that made heaven, dridge was left in his highly important Four years of patient waiting had brought and earth, and the sea, and the fountains position as manager of the Review and at last its reward! Help was come from of waters." Herald. And as for cabin boy—why, who America! And not only to Pitcairn, gallant The ship is built. The message of warn- ever had heard of Nicholas Garthoiner? volunteer and pioneer in the march of the ing and of invitation has gone forth, and Our candidate for ship's carpenter, how- isles toward Christ and His kingdom; is going, with the sound of the hammers ever, won; John I. Tay would go. Well, this was the beginning of the great cam- and the saws. The hundred and twenty why not? Could you leave behind the man paign that flowers today over the whole years of the Spirit's striving with men is who had opened to the church the way South Seas, over the wide Pacific and all almost finished. The ark of salvation is to Pitcairn and all the South Seas? its shores, over the world, the last cam- still open. Enter, 0 men of the last gen- Captain J. M. Marsh sailed the ship, paign of the wars of God. eration, and find your refuge here! And with J. Christiansen as mate—on later voy- The ship Pitcairn sailed on to Tahiti, when the storms of the last convulsion of ages to be captain—three worthy seamen as to Fiji, to New Zealand. In this its first earth are over, you shall step forth upon sailors, and an indispensable cook. Besides voyage it penetrated into the heart of a new world, wrought afresh by the hand Mr. and Mrs. Tay, there were the mis- the South Sea Islands. Another voyage, of God, an everlasting Eden in its purity sionaries Pastor and Mrs. E. H. Gates and and another, and another, six in all, did and beauty and glory, the Paradise of God.

The nstructor—loo Years Young

By DON YOST

NE hundred years ago this summer a of national and international unrest threat- monthly paper, containing matter for the 0 very earnest young man and his wife ened to touch off world conflagration at benefit of the youth. . . . The children set out from their home in Rochester, New any moment. should have a paper of their own, one that York, to meet speaking appointments all Yet, with the assurance of God's bless- will interest and instruct them. . . . We the way to Bangor, Maine. They were ing, James White announced in the col- intend to give four or five lessons, in the James and Ellen White, courageous, daunt- umns of the Review, of which he was form of questions and answers, in each less warriors in the cause of righteousness. editor: "We design publishing a small number, one for each week for Sabbath- Their hearts were aflame with zeal to bind together the small groups of believers in the Second Advent of Christ and to protect N N them from enemies who sought to weaken j$CX nsisnnn the ranks. As they traveled, James White's con- viction that more should be done to teach 7Pted'ctee the children "present truth" ripened into an idea, and the idea became a plan. Bible NIIL6RED WOOD HARRIS lessons seemed the ideal means of in- struction, and a small printed sheet the It was a hundred years ago This year we pause in gratitude ideal vehicle. On their journey, as they He sat beneath a tree, For those already gone, stopped by the roadside for lunch, he This dear old faithful pioneer, The Advent army that has kept would use the bottom of the lunch basket Lunch basket on his knee Our paper marching on or the top of his hat on which to write For table while he wrote them down, To cheer and bless the hearts of all articles for the Review and for the forth- Those precious themes of truth, The world around. In truth, coming children's paper. And built the paper we all love— All those who make the columns of But how could such a venture succeed? Instructor for the youth. Instructor for the youth. As with the first numbers of Present Truth, forerunner of the Review and Herald, it had no visible means of support. 441Ts Nje 4 4 X ifs VS And those were days of uncertainty. Fires 7 ('W SEPTEMBER 2, 1952 PAGE ,9 editorial offices were moved to Battle Creek, Michigan. In January, 1858, the editorial responsi- bility was placed in thebhands of a publish- ing committee, but the paper was actually under the care of G. W. Amadon for nearly three years before his name ap-

ReelteeYNIS. at d peared as editor in the June, 1861, issue. His editorship during the six years he was AN ADDRESS T1100.1 alto aatt inusextrue•awens TOC -ilee /wfie.r eye. connected with the paper molded the Wow happy to mad yen dm Ind mustier d they need net tta..- mach bluer on their aladdrac appearance and contents of the INSTRUCTOR th, hub paper. Fee elan rise vet Wee ham Me Tine ix A vicious nor, *OS-tent Io dawn die premed that we had • wane apnea work to do foe frown of neaten We do not tar that pm. for some years to come. it, youth, but ham omt. bat. alit Meommermo Ie *hada &mow later em their children Mot canine, amd the mrama Wan WI now cheerfully ow. are benefit to them which would

This Eight-Page Paper Measuring About Six and One Half by he feel could he see the trains of today Ten Inches Carne From a Little Hand Press Under the Direc- streaking over the rails at speeds nearing tion of Its First Editor, James White one hundred miles an hour? Prof. G. H. Bell, who is well known School lessons. . . . The paper will cost, rect understanding of the Holy Scrip- for his Sabbath school and educational including postage, only about three cents tures." Subscription rate: twenty-five cents work, became editor in 1869. Soon after- a month. Many little boys and girls spend a year; free to those who could not other- ward the subscription price rose from 25 enough for candies and toys, that are of no wise afford it. cents to 50 cents a year, and there was real value, to pay for five or six such pa- As a vehicle for Sabbath school lessons, some talk of making the INSTRUCTOR semi- pers. We mean that all the children that the first INSTRUCTOR carried two lessons monthly. Under Professor Bell's hand the cannot pay for it, who wish to read it, shall on "The Sabbath," one each on "The Law INSTRUCTOR did become a semimonthly in have it free." It was to be named THE of God," and "The Ark of the Testi- January, 1870. It returned to a monthly YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR. mony." There was a poem entitled in 1872. The first issue of this monthly paper "Heaven," by "A. R. S.," whom we know During the next thirty years the editor- went to press August 9, 1852. James White to be Uriah Smith's sister Annie. Ellen ship, the subscription price, page size, and vividly portrays the conditions in the G. White writes a letter to her "Dear the appearance changed many times. The world that were leading the young away Young Friends" concerning the hopeless somber, pensive tone of the contents was from God. He speaks courageously of the condition of lost man and the great love gradually brightened. Editors were Miss success of the venture, placing upon the of Christ in redeeming us. Other com- J. R. Trembley, Jennie A. Merriam, Mrs. parents the burden of sustaining it. After munications, as they were called in those M. J. Chapman, Miss V. A. Merriam, Mrs. urging writers to send in appropriate days, in later issues came from such per- M. K. White, Eva Bell Giles, Winnie articles and inviting the "young friends" sons as Josephine M. Farnsworth, of Loughborough Kelsea, M. B. Duffle, also to write, he says, "We design that Washington, New Hampshire, and John Norris W. Lawrence, J. H. Durland, the INSTRUCTOR shall be filled with sensible Byington, of Buck's Bridge, New York, M. E. Kellogg, and J. C. Bartholf. matter, not only for the benefit of small who later became the first president of the Suggestions for many interesting ex- children, but for the instruction of the General Conference. periments and innovations appeared dur- youth from sixteen to twenty years of At the beginning of volume 2 James ing this time. The weekly edition began age." White turned over the editorship to his in 1879 and appeared along with the This eight-page paper, measuring about sister Anna, but she continued only eleven monthly until the close of 1880, when the six and a half by ten inches, came from a months, then had to withdraw because of monthly was discontinued. The INSTRUC- little hand press, the first press owned by an illness that led shortly to her death. The TOR has been a weekly paper ever since. the people of the Advent Movement, at work again fell upon his shoulders, and Woodcuts became more numerous with 124 Mount Hope Avenue, Rochester, New weighted down with other cares, he de- the passing years, and the first photograph York, and continued to be published spaired for the future of the paper. But appeared in .1892. there for three years. Its purpose, as stated soon the believers rallied, and success The editorial terms of Professor Bell in the masthead, was "to teach the young attended the paper during the three years and his sister, Mrs. Giles, brought further the commandments of God and the faith that he continued as editor. During this emphasis to the Sabbath school work, of Jesus, and thereby help them to a cor- time, in the fall of 1855 to be exact, the —Please turn to page 31 PAGE 10 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR HE month of August, 1852, witnessed T the birth of two great ideas that have had a marked influence upon the Seventh- day Adventist denomination. In the Review and Herald of July 8, 1852, James White set forth his plans for the youth of the church in the following words: The jwins of 1852 "We design publishing a small monthly paper, containing matter for the benefit of the youth. And we are satisfied that our brethren and sisters will agree with us, By L. L. MOFFITT that something of the kind is very much needed. . . . Secretary, Sabbath School Department of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists "We intend to give four or five lessons, in the form of questions and answers, in each number, one for each week for Sabbath-School lessons. These Schools can century now closing, but to me falls the Association was formed. This association be held where there are but two or three welcome task of sketching for our youth had the general oversight of all the Sab- children as well as where there are more." a century of Sabbath school progress. bath schools until 1886, when, because of No time was wasted in putting this two- In 1852 the Sabbath school idea was the beginnings of Sabbath school work in fold purpose into operation, for the very making its first infant cry. The publishing other lands, the name and scope of the next month an eight-page paper appeared of printed lessons especially for the chil- organization was changed. The word entitled THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, volume dren and youth to be studied in the International was substituted for General, 1, number 1 published in Rochester, New homes of the believers in Sabbath schools and for the next fifteen years the Inter- York. In this very first issue of the IN- bound the youth and the Sabbath school national Sabbath School Association fos- STRUCTOR appeared the first Sabbath school closely together from the very beginning. tered the expanding work of the Sabbath lesson prepared by James White. The It was not until the next year that the first school. caption runs, "Sabbath School Lessons, Sabbath school was organized in Roches- At another General Conference in Battle Number 1. The Sabbath." Then follow ter, New York, the center of our work Creek in 1901, known as the reorganiza- three other lessons, one on the Sabbath, in those days, and where THE YOUTH'S tion conference, the Sabbath school along one on the law of God, and one on the INSTRUCTOR was being printed. In 1855 with other branches of the work was or- Ark in which the tables of the law were our publishing work was moved to Battle ganized into a department of the General kept. Thus the denominational twins— Creek, Michigan, and this place soon de- Conference, and the name changed from the youth's paper and the Sabbath school veloped into the denominational head- International Sabbath School Association lessons—were born in the month of quarters. Here the Sabbath school work to Sabbath School Department of the August, 1852. That makes these twins one grew and strengthened under the leader- General Conference. In 1903 the General hundred years old. It is fitting, therefore, ship of M. G. Kellogg and others. Grad- Conference headquarters was transferred that THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR and the ually Sabbath schools began springing up to Washington, D.C. In 1904, G. B. Sabbath school should have a joint birth- in the East, West, and South. By 1878 Thompson was called to the General Con- day commemoration in this special issue there were approximately six hundred ference for the Sabbath school work, in of our denominational youth's paper. Sabbath schools in the United States. In which he led out until the General Con- It will fall to other hands to trace the that year, at the General Conference, held ference of 1913. At that session Mrs. L. progress of this periodical through the in Battle Creek, a General Sabbath School Flora Plummer, who had served since 1901 as corresponding secretary, was elected as secretary of the General Con- ference Sabbath School Department, a position she filled with distinction for more than thirty years. At the General GREETINGS FROM THE SABBATH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT Conference in 1936 J. A. Stevens was OF THE WEST NORDIC UNION elected secretary of the department and gave it vigorous leadership until his re- tirement at the San Francisco General By 0. JORDAHL Conference in 1950. Sabbath School Secretary, West Nordic Union From small and humble beginnings the Sabbath school work has expanded in The Sabbath school in Denmark and The Sabbath school is the university of ever-widening circles beyond America, Norway has been organized since 1887. Bible study for the Advent people. We across the seas to Europe, Africa, Aus- Thus the Sabbath school here in this will not mention any reports or figures in tralia, and on and on, until today there union has already celebrated its first jubi- this little greeting, but we want our Ad- are more than one million Sabbath school lee. From an insignificant start it has vent believers everywhere to know that members around the world. Thousands of developed into a strong branch on the big we are marching along with our great youth in many lands are making the Sab- world tree. What the Sabbath school has world organization quite determined to meant to the children and the church fulfill the task God has given to us. With bath school meaningful in their own lives members will be revealed only in the wholehearted interest we are linked with and, by their devotion, an ever-increasing great Second Advent Day. our great world Sabbath school this cen- power for good in all the world. During these years thousands and thou- tenary year. Perhaps one of the most obvious evi- sands of kroner have gone to the mission On behalf of all the Sabbath school dences of the Sabbath school's growing fields. Souls have been won among the members of the West Nordic Union, I influence is the progress made in its sup- heathen as well as in the homelands. send our greetings, with thanks to God port of foreign missions. Beginning with Souls have been kept in the love of God for the Sabbath school. May God bless penny collections, the offerings have and in obedience to His commandments. this institution. climbed through increasing weekly per capitas until today the Sabbath school —Please turn to page 30 SEPTEMBER 2, 1952 PAGE 11 I Heard the EPERS SING!

By ERIC B. HARE Associate Secretary, Sabbath School Department of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

the mother had been taking treatments for two years, all the tests were negative, and she was told that she could go home! In joy she bathed, dressed in new clothes, and went to her village twelve miles away. But when she got there she found that the little baby boy she had only seen once had sickened and died of pneumonia just six weeks before. Heartbroken, she sat down and wrote me a letter, and after telling me all about her sadness and disappoint- ment, she said, 'just to think, I didn't even cuddle him once! I didn't even cuddle him once!'" Nurse Long turned away to hide her own tears, and I took out my handker- chief. Neither of us spoke for a few minutes. Then Nurse Long said, "I think they do feel just as we do!" "The patients want to sing for you before we go back," announced Nurse Harris as he completed his inspection for the day and came up to where we were Photo Courtesy of the Author talking. They gathered in front of the The Lepers Gathered in Front of the Little Bamboo Church and Sang. How They Sang! little bamboo church, and what do you The Hymn They Chose Was "Sunlight in the Heart" think they sang? I had heard the song before! I had sung it hundreds of times BOUT a mile away from our Amyes women's houses to the left, all beautifully myself, but I never knew what the words A hospital, connected with the Kukudu arranged around a lovely green carpet of really meant till I heard the lepers singing Mission Station in the Solomon Islands, grass. They almost seemed happy—so the words written by Mrs. M. T. Haughey: we have a leper hospital. At the time of happy that I turned to Nurse Long and "There is sunlight on the hilltop, my recent visit David Harris and Miss said, "Nurse, I think these islanders can't There is sunlight on the sea; Gwen M. Long, both nurses from the feel as we do, or the sadness, the tragedy, And the golden beams are sleeping, Sydney Sanitarium, were in charge. and the loneliness of the isolation while On the soft and verdant lea; Of course I had seen lepers before. I had taking the treatments would be unen- But a richer light is filling seen them begging on the streets of our durable." All the chambers of my heart; cities in Burma, but this was the first time "Don't feel as we do?" echoed Nurse For Thou dwellest there, my Saviour, And 'tis sunlight where Thou art. I had ever visited a leper hospital and had Long. "Listen! Just two years ago in a seen a group of about twenty-two lepers village about twelve miles inland an ex- "In the dust I leave my sadness, all together. Some had no fingers. Some pectant mother noticed a spot on the back As the garb of other days; had no toes. One had no nose. Everyone of her hand one day. 'What do you think it For thou robest me with gladness, was disfigured in some way with this is?' she said to her husband. His face paled And thou fillest me with praise; dread disease, and when Nurse Harris as he gasped, 'It's leprosy!' and trembling And to that bright home of glory said, "Please talk to them, Pastor Hare," added, 'but go to the mission hospital, and Which Thy love hath won for me, In my heart and mind ascending, in a year or two you will come back well. a feeling something like panic seized me. My glad spirit follows Thee." What could I say to those poor people! I Go right away! I will take care of the turned to Nurse Harris. He saw my look house and the children!' I find it difficult to describe my feelings of helplessness and whispered, "Tell them "She came to the hospital, and we as I listened to that sweet song. But there about the progress of the work and the began her treatments. After about six was one feeling very easy to recognize. I nearness of Christ's second coming. That is months her baby was born—a lovely little was glad, glad, GLAD that my Sabbath what they want to hear about." boy. We let her see him, but would not school offerings had helped to establish So I told them of the wonderful way in let her touch him. He was taken to the these mission hospitals and mission sta- which the work of God is progressing Amyes hospital and cared for till he was tions and had supported the brave men in all the world, and they were glad. Then about a year old and could eat sweet and women who serve mankind there. we inspected the buildings. We saw the potatoes and yams. Then the father took And on behalf of those who have found almost completed modern dispensary. We him back to his village to live with the the sunlight I want to pass on to you saw the clean bamboo church. We saw rest of the family and await the return of their word of thanks—"Thank you, thank the men's houses to the right and the the mother. In six more months, after you, THANK YOU TOO TvIUCH!" PAGE 12 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR ANY years ago I lived under ideal M conditions for mental stagnation. I was a missionary in a sleepy little village among a backward little African tribe. in a steamy tropical forest, and down al most at sea level not far from the equator. In addition to this, the people were laze. superstitious, unresponsive, and all the The finest Free Course energy and enthusiasm of a new, young missionary seemed to produce no visible results. It dawned on me that I was buried in in Mental Culture the right place for a man to settle down and become absorbed in the stagnation of his surroundings. I found it easier to By HARRY W. LOWE work with my hands than to study with Associate Secretary, Sabbath School Department of the my mind, but I knew that the end of that General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists would be disastrous to me intellectually. I read such statements as this penned K-E-EC-E-K-E-K-C—Ca by God's special messenger: "The mind must not remain dormant. If it is not exercised in the acquisition of knowledge, study of the Word of God would improve catch a vision of divine action in human there will be a sinking into ignorance, the mind beyond any other study and at life. superstition, and fancy." much less cost. I knew that, of course, When we carefully study the lives of In almost desperate determination I de- but the personal testimony of an eminently the patriarchs, we get the outlines of an- cided to enroll for a course of study with cultured mind impressed me greatly. In cient and Biblical history. And in the story a well-known institution in the homeland. fact, I felt that my friend was almost say- of the Israelites we obtain a background It cost me more than I felt I could really ing to me, "Young man, you could have that enables us to grasp the findings of afford, but the psychology of it worked. had a better course in mind training quite archaeology. The lives of Jesus and the When we pay for something we seek to free of charge!" apostles bring us to fascinating periods of get the utmost out of it. I worked hard Here in this Book of God we have an Roman history, law, and sociology in con- to get my money's worth, and I think it intimately coordinated study of many flict with Jewish social customs and juris- kept me alive, at least more so than other- branches of knowledge, and this coordina- prudence. wise might have been the case. tion is focused always upon human uplift Spread all over this long history is the Some years later I was recounting this and redemption. story of God's dealings with human na- experience to an elderly man back home Some time in the not-distant future our ture, which brings us to the study of the in England. He was, I think, the most Sabbath school lessons will deal with the science of salvation. Theology becomes at- truly cultured man I have ever met. When book of Acts. A diligent student of these tractive when it is translated into the I finished he smiled and said, "Do you lessons will be repaid with a knowledge terms of changed lives and heroic actions. know the best source for the culture of the of the geography of Bible lands and of Doctrine, which is otherwise meaningless, mind?" Then he told me that systematic parts of the Roman Empire. He will also becomes alive as God gives men the power to translate it into everyday life. True, the Bible is not a complete text- book on all these branches of study, but the man or woman who regularly and systematically studies the Bible will gain an immense fund of knowledge in all these fields, together with an exalted con- ception of man's place in God's plans and an enlarged vision of the meaning of life. Beyond all this, the indefinable grace of God will enter the life. "When you search the Scriptures with an earnest desire to learn the truth, God will breathe His Spirit into your heart and impress your mind with the light of His word. . . . There is no other book whose perusal strengthens and enlarges, elevates and ennobles the mind, as does the pe- rusal of this Book of books." "God has provided in His word the means for men- tal and spiritual development." At no cost, except in time and deter- mination, we have at our hand the best means of self-improvement, the path to progress, the avenue of endless develop- ment. During this centennial year of the Sab- bath school, why not determine to study, the lessons faithfully each day, and in this Ranker study we shall grow, we shall see a plain Young Sabbath School Members of the Central European Division Dressed in South German Costumes path, we shall achieve! SEPTEMBER 2, 1952 PAGE 13 "Mother, you will come and hear me, won't you?" she pleaded, and her mother came. .Soon both mother and daughter were regular Sabbath school members. What a happy day it was when both en- tered the waters of baptism together! But there was dad—he should be a Sabbath- abbath School keeper! Unitedly they prayed for him. At last the happy day came when he kept his first Sabbath. How their hearts re- joiced! And so would yours if you could Evangelism see that little family gathered in Sabbath school. In one of the West Country churches in the South England Conference is a lit- By E. R. WARLAND tle girl who loves the Sabbath school. She Sabbath School Secretary, British Union persuaded a non-Adventist school friend to accompany her to Sabbath school instead of going to the matinee performance at the cinema. Her little friend came, and IN THE British Union there is a grow- He was pleased to find there were two she enjoyed the special children's Sabbath ing spirit of evangelism and personal others in his class attending our school, school so much that she came again. Her witness indicated by the following expe- and he got them to sing to the other lads enthusiasm led her to beg her mother to riences. some of the choruses they had learned at come along to the Adventist church and Among a class of boys in a Sunday Sunday school. They were indeed happy see for herself how interesting the services -school conducted by Seventh-day Advent- to give their witness in this way. were. Finally the unwilling mother gave in ists in Wales there were three boys who At the same place the parents were in- to the importunings of her little daughter, attended the same day school. One day, vited to a service at which various chil- and when she also came to church she during the Scripture lesson at the day dren gave a specially prepared program. enjoyed it! She began to attend regularly, school, one of these boys questioned his One of the mothers was so impressed that and after a while asked her husband to teacher concerning certain things he was she began to attend Sabbath school with accompany her! He did. He found his spir- teaching and for which there was no Bibli- her boy. She is now a baptized member itual home too. Now father and mother cal authority. This caused the master to of the church. are baptized, and the little daughter has investigate the matter, and finding that A member in one of the north England been invested in one of the Missionary the boy was correct, he asked where he churches invited a young girl to attend Volunteer classes. She is enthusiastic as she could obtain such good instruction in the Sabbath school. She learned so many beau- studies for more MV honors. Bible. tiful stories there that she asked her mother All this was the result of one little Ad- "From the Adventist Sunday school that to come as well. At first the invitations ventist girl's love of her Sabbath school I attend," was the ready answer. were refused. Then came thirteenth Sab- and her faithful witnessing. Who can "Are there any other boys here who bath, and this girl had a part on the pro- doubt the truly evangelistic character of go to that school?" asked the teacher. gram. the Sabbath school?

Ranker School Director Holding His Young People's Class in the Open, a Scene in the Central European Division PAGE 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR -

The Children Pictured Above Have Just Received Presents at a Christmas Program Spon- sored by a Group of Church School Children

Right: Youth Leaders of the Portland, Maine, Sunday School Project

Photos Courtesy of the Author

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;ortland Branch Sunday School, U.S.A.

By S. B. OLNEY Sabbath School Secretary, Northern New England Conference

NE of the most effective efforts in also taught to be clean and to observe and ill will in the community. We faced O branch Sabbath school work in the health rules. a crisis in our welfare and Sunday school Northern New England Conference has The children as shown in the picture work when liquor interests made arrange- been carried on by the Portland, Maine, had just received presents at the Christmas ments to buy the building we had rented, White Memorial church. This effort is program sponsored by the church school with the plan of opening a liquor store in the form of a Sunday school for under- children. Interest in the project was so for that vicinity. Before the deal had been privileged children in the slum area of great that the children decided to give completed, however, we learned that the the city of Portland, and is held in the presents to these unfortunates instead of city had refused to grant a liquor license health and welfare center. exchanging gifts among themselves. The for that particular location, and thus the Stewart Berkley, the junior academy junior academy youth chose one family work of the center was saved. teacher, has led a group of young people with a dozen or more children and pro- We learned that this crisis to our work in this project during the past school year. vided a complete Christmas dinner. was averted by a protest from the com- It was begun about two years ago as a Many of the mothers attended this munity. A Catholic woman living in the young people's project. Christmas program on that Sunday morn- apartment above the center said that it Most of the children shown in the pic- ing and were deeply touched by what they would be a shame for the city to stop such ture are dressed in clothes provided by saw. Some sat there and wept as they a work. She said: "I was down there and the welfare workers at the center. Both saw their own children take part, reciting saw with my own eyes that room filled Catholic and Protestant as well as non- memory verses, as well as praying to Jesus. with street urchins, many of whom never church families are represented. The chil- The Sunday school has been an instru- attend a Sunday school. It is a wonderful dren are taught to pray, and they take mentality along with the health and wel- work, and the- city must not allow it to part in this phase of the service. They are fare work in breaking down prejudice be stopped." SEPTEMBER 2, 1952 PAGE 15 Professor Bell who directed the first of- ficial Seventh-day Adventist school, which opened in 1872. He wrote our first text- books, and he labored earnestly and faith- fully to put into practice the educational program which, through the years, was progressively given by the Lord to His ducation FOR LIFE servant and special messenger. In 1872 appeared Ellen G. White's first By KELD J. REYNOLDS comprehensive statement on the subject of Christian education. This was entitled l‘soi itste Secretary, Department of Education, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists "Proper Education," and is now found in volume 3 of Testimonies for the Church. In this initial statement are revealed the basic principles that we call the blueprint HE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR was a year old still keeping separate the church and Twhen Martha Byington gathered a few state. of Christian education, principles that later children around her in 1853 at Buck's The Adventists, like other denomina- found fuller and more perfect expression Bridge, New York, and taught them in tions that desired a spiritual atmosphere in such great books as Education, Coun- what was the first Seventh-day Adventist and content in education, found it neces- sels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, church school of which we have any sary to establish their own Christian and Fundamentals of Christian Education. knowledge. The school was short-lived. schools. As early as 1854 the Lord, through As Adventists view it, education is for The Lord had not yet given the instruc- the Spirit of prophecy, had instructed the the whole person and for the life span, tion concerning Christian education that Adventists to watch over their children here and hereafter. Its highest aim is "to was later to light the pathway of the rem- and to provide them with suitable Chris- restore in man the image of his Maker," nant church. tian instruction and companionship. Grad- and "to bring him back to the perfection The denomination's formative period co- ually conviction grew among the leaders in which he was created." Through the incided with the years of development of that not only must they shield the chil- school program it seeks to develop rever- the American public school system under dren, but if the growing church were to ence toward God and a sense of respon- the direction and inspiration of the great be properly staffed, they would have to sibility toward the church and society. Horace Mann and others. This system find a way to train and educate their Study and activity are combined for men- pushed back the darkness of illiteracy, and workers. So far they lacked the leadership tal and phOcal health, for balance of did much to create the American way of of an experienced educational administra- theory and practice, as well as for prac- life. Americans are justly proud of their tor who could build into a course of study tice teaching. It sees the good teacher as system of public, tax-supported education and into a general school program the one who is professionally competent and for all; but because the leaders of that principles of Christian education as they who sets an attractive example of spiritual day saw no hope of distinguishing between were to come to our church. integrity, moral stamina, sound judgment, Christianity and sectarianism, the religious Providentially the Lord brought such self-discipline, and practical intelligence. instruction, which in early American an educational leader to Battle Creek in Viewed in this light, the process of Chris- schools had been an integral part of educa- 1867 as a patient in the Health Reform tian education and the process of redemp- tion, was taken out. Institute. It was really the neighborhood tion are identical. Thus education was secularized, and boys who discovered Goodloe H. Bell. Battle Creek College was opened in the way was opened for the teaching of One day Edson and Willie, sons of James 1875. At first about the only difference ideas and philosophies that were the en- and Ellen White, reported at home that between this school and others was that emies of faith, against which Christianity they had found a patient working on the here the teachers were Adventists. The was not allowed to defend itself. Yet boys sanitarium grounds who gave them bet- principal course of study was a five-year and girls and their parents were taught ter help with arithmetic and grammar classical curriculum in which the major that the new system of education and the than did their regular teacher. This para- studies were Latin, classical Greek, sci- new curriculum included everything es- gon was invited to the White home, and a ence, mathematics, rhetoric, and logic. In- sential for life. Many church leaders and friendship began that was to give the struction in French, German, Swedish, and many Christian public school teachers, Adventist Movement its first professional Danish constituted a sort of ultra-curricula then and now, and many young people educator. side line for which extra tuition was who wished to serve God have found this Professor Bell was quick to appreciate charged. Religious instruction was given situation discouraging. They cannot recog- the singling out of the Spirit of prophecy in the first hour in the morning in a nize the wisdom of leaving out of educa- of those values and practices in education comprehensive series of Bible lectures by tion for a good life the elements that are that were most suited to the needs of the Uriah Smith, with examinations. Appar- essential for a godly life. So far no satis- expanding Adventist Movement and best ently everyone took the same course. factory solution has been found for this calculated to educate the head, heart, Student life in the first years of Battle problem in tax-supported schools while and hand of the Adventist child. It was Creek College was somewhat different from what it is today in the Adventist boarding academy or college. Classes began at eight in the morning and ran until four in the afternoon. Assignments were so heavy that few students had time or energy for work to meet their school expenses. Fortunately the expenses were not high. Tuition was ten dollars for the school year. Board and room ranged from six to ten dollars a month. There were no dormi-

Times Have Changed. Flimsy Pioneer Buildings Have Been Replaced by Substantial Structures, Many of Them Well Equipped and Beautiful PAGE 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR stood a cabinet organ, used for morning devotions and the singing lessons. Except for grammar, reading, and arith- metic, there were no denominational text- books. The teacher improvised rather than use books that lacked proper religious em- phasis, and because the Bible had been given first place in her training in the college, she made it the foundation of her instruction. The wage in this early school was fifteen dollars a month and board. The money paid as wage was not always collectible, but the bread was sure, for the teacher boarded with the family that supplied most of her pupils, so she could help the chil- dren in the evenings with their homework. Here she had a room that was simply furnished and papered with sheets from THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR. By the turn of the century the pattern of Christian education in the Adventist schools had become somewhat standard- ized. Latin had disappeared for the most part from the secondary curriculum, but was still taught in the colleges. Classical Through the Years the North American Colleges Have Trained a Steady Stream of Denominational Greek was no longer generally offered. Workers for Both Field and Institutional Work. Southern Missionary College Library Shown Here New Testament Greek had taken its place in the colleges, which also taught Hebrew. tories, and students boarded themselves or frowned upon, and the faculty hired burly In the secondary grades the customary lived with private families as best they proctors to roam the streets at night to Bible classes were Old and New Testament could. prevent it, until one fateful winter night history and doctrines. In the colleges moral A typical student room contained a dou- when a particularly obnoxious proctor, science, psychology, and the history of ble bed with a straw-tick mattress, straight himself a violator of the rules he was philosophy were closely linked with the chairs, a small table, a washstand, bowl hired to enforce, was dumped, in his heavy religion courses. History was taught by and pitcher, a kerosene lamp, and an iron buffalo coat, into a ditch filled with slush. periods, with empires of prophecy to tie stove for heating and cooking, with a This ended the proctoring system. up with the Bible. The sciences and math- wood box behind it. If there was a rug Teachers and students worked together ematics went by the modern classifications. on the floor, the quarters were considered in Christian service. The students were Instruction was offered in cooking and luxurious. In this case a thin layer of given part in the Sabbath school and sewing for the girls and in agriculture for straw was put down first to catch the dust, church work. When the Adventist com- the boys. Commonplace as this sounds and the rug laid over it. munity was districted for cottage meetings, today, much of it was a revolutionary de- The food was cheap, plain, and easily a student from the college was put in parture from the classical tradition. prepared. The evening study period, when charge of each-district. It was not unusual Every school was expected to carry a the stove was going, was the time to cook for girls to stay out of school for a few vocational arts program suited to its lo- the food for the next day. The standard days to nurse some sick person. The boys cation and the needs of the students. The breakfast was graham crackers and oat- were given lists of ailing folks whose wood plan was to tie classroom or shop instruc- meal, the old-fashioned kind of oatmeal boxes they were to keep filled during the tion in the practical arts with the produc- that had to cook a long time. It is said winter, and in the spring they were given tion of goods for sale. Though students that Battle Creek students could recog- names of widows whose vegetable gardens were offered work to assist them in meet- nize one another in the dark by the oat- they were to plant and tend. Older students ing expenses, and by this means most of meal odor clinging to their clothes. were encouraged to work for the conver- the work of the school was done, every Laundry arrangements were simple, sion of the younger ones. Then, as now, job was primarily intended to be a learn- each student doing his or her own. The the teachers sought the salvation of every ing experience, by which the student was boys' shirts presented no great problem. student. to become proficient in some craft or They had stiff, detachable, celluloid fronts The first two academies were opened in trade. and collars. Sunday was the regular wash- 1882: Healdsburg in California on April The standard lines of training for de- day, except for the celluloid collar and 11, and eight days later South Lancaster nominational work prepared the student breastplate. These were wiped clean with Academy in Massachusetts. In 1897, in for the ministry, teaching, accounting and . a damp cloth on Friday in preparation for direct response to instruction from Ellen management, colporteuring, and the print- the Sabbath. Since they dried immediately G. White, then in Australia, and in an- ing trades. In several of these lines super- and lasted indefinitely, no spares were swer to the demands of parents, the church vised cadet training was provided to give needed. school was revived almost a half century the student practical experience in actual The social life of the students, as ar- after its first beginnings at Buck's Bridge. work situations. Future ministers and col- ranged by the faculty, centered around two Within the first year fifteen church schools porteurs were expected to spend a part literary societies: the Young Men's Lit- were established. of each year in field work. Business stu- erary Group and the Young Ladies' Hes- We have a description of one of these dents kept the books in the school office. perian Society. The weekly meetings were pioneer church schools. A farmhouse par- Cadet teachers practiced under experi- devoted to discussions of literary and his- lor was the schoolroom. The thirteen pu- enced supervision. torical subjects and the reading of orig- pils sat on benches at rough-hewn tables. This philosophy and basic pattern of inal essays. The student-arranged boy- The blackboard was a planed pine board education in Adventist schools has for meets-girl type of social activity was painted black. In the corner of the room fifty years been the standard. It has been SEPTEMBER 2, 1952 PAGE 17 broadened but never changed. Within the Through the years the North American three overseas converts are baptized for framework of national systems of educa- colleges have supplied a steady stream of every one baptized in North America. tion, it is the plan followed around the workers for the ministry and for the de- The church schools are among the great- world. Keeping pace with the develop- nomination's institutions at home and est evangelistic enterprises of the church. ment of education as a science, the de- overseas. More than one thousand degree Of the 15,305 baptisms from all efforts nominational educational system has ef- graduates leave these schools each year, recorded for the North American Divi- fected improvements in organization, in most of them to enter the organized work sion for 1950, 2,197 (or 14.2 per cent) the methods of instruction, and in the sooner or later. Nearly all who have en- were church school children, whose teach- textbook construction. Great advancement tered the ministry in North America in ers shared with the parents and the pastor has been made in the art and science of recent years are college graduates, many the responsibility of bringing these chil- personal work by the teacher for the maxi- of them with advanced training at the dren into the church. mum development of the student as a per- Seminary in Washington. Of the last thou- In a recent survey it was found that of son, as a Christian, and as a working mem- sand workers sent overseas, not only were the children from Seventh-day Adventist ber of the church and society. they practically without exception the homes in the United States who joined the The church has set up an organization product of the church's system of schools, church, 70 per cent had been baptized by to manage its educational enterprise. The but approximately two hundred of them the time they reached the age of eighteen, Department of Education of the General went as educational workers to carry the normal year for entering college. Al- Conference was created fifty years ago to Christian education and worker training though the home and the church share serve the world field. The plan .is to have into other lands. in the winning of these young people to in each division, union, and local confer- Important as the North American Christ, it is largely the influence of the ence, or mission an educational representa- schools are to the young people of the Christian teacher and of the total spiritual tive whose business it is to promote and United States and Canada, they represent environment and program of the Chris- foster Christian education and to hold a diminishing proportion of the total tian school that brings about these impres- the school to its objectives. In conferences worldwide endeavor of the church. More sive results. We know this because the there is an educational committee, and in than three fourths of the elementary story is very different for the children in unions an educational board—the first to schools are in overseas divisions, and the Adventist homes who do not attend the advise the conference officers on educa- enrollment of these schools is five times denomination's schools. tional matters, the second to shape the that of the North American schools. The Times have changed. Flimsy pioneer educational policies for the union in har- secondary school enrollment overseas is buildings have been replaced by substan- mony with the general educational policies about equal to that in North America. tial structures, many of them well of the denomination. On the General Con- Only on the advanced or college level does equipped and beautiful. In secondary and ference level there is a secretary, an associ- North America have a significant lead. higher education the curriculum has been ate, and an assistant to handle various Here the enrollment is roughly six times broadened to include many courses un- parts of the work, and a board of regents to the enrollment of the overseas institutions. known to the founding fathers. Profes- accredit academies and schools of nursing From the schools of all grades more than sional schools have been added for medi- in North America and to assist in main- twice as many young people in the over- cine, dentistry, nursing, physical therapy, taining educational standards. seas divisions enter the organized work of dietetics, and for the medical technician Frequent educational councils, confer- the church in a year as compared with the and X-ray technician. Several Adventist ences, and workshops provide communica- annual North American placement. This is colleges are offering work above the bac- tion within the Adventist teaching profes- understandable when we remember that calaureate degree. There is a seminary for sion and educational administration for the overseas church membership is double the advanced training of ministers. In this the double purpose of improving profes- that of North America, and each year —Please turn to page 30 sional competence and keeping spiritual aims uppermost. Teachers of Tomorrow clubs in schools and colleges hold the pro- fession of teaching before the students in our institutions as one of the highest vo- cations and one of the most satisfying forms of Christian service within the reach of Seventh-day Adventists. The membership of the infant church was only 5,000 in 1872, when the first of- ficial Adventist school was started. Now the membership in the world field has risen to 756,712, and the number of schools to 4,438. There are 4,155 elementary schools, with enrollments totaling 166,793, and 6,108 teachers. There are 283 sec- ondary schools, secondary training schools, and colleges, with a total of 35,884 stu- dents and 3,481 teachers. The money value assets of our secondary schools and colleges around the world amount to more than the total value of all our church buildings. One in four of the denominationally em- ployed workers in all categories and nearly one half of the employees of church-con- trolled institutions are teachers in Seventh- day Adventist colleges and schools. From the small beginnings at Battle Creek our Nearly All Young Adventist Men in North America Who Have Entered the Gospel Ministry in Recent Years Have Been College Graduates, and Many of Them Have Had Advanced educational work has grown into one of Training at the Theological Seminary Maintained by the General Conference of Seventh- the great enterprises of the church. day Adventists at Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. 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NE hundred years old! And still in O its youthhood! What a paradox! Yet by serving and associating with younglings for SO long a time THE YOUTH'S INSTRUC- TOR has itself acquired a strong hold upon the golden season of life. On to LORY Ride! Alive with this spirit, it has contributed immeasurably to the expanded and grow- ing needs of Seventh-day Adventist youth. Through the wise counsel of its inspired By E. W. DUNBAR leadership, the thrilling accounts of youth Secretary, Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department crusades, the ever-moving panorama of General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Adventist missions, the superb reporting of great youth congresses and rallies, and the heart-warming stories of Share Your Faith in life and teaching, it has shaped destinies. And so as Adventist youth we rise to salute you in this your shining hour. Your contribution to our high ideals, our vows of consecration, our visions of education and service, and our organized efforts in evangelism has been very great. On the occasion of this anniversary we would like to rededicate ourselves to those features in our Missionary Volunteer movement that are so vitally important. These are the basic habits and practices that cause young men and young women to reach out for the better things in life and to make steady spiritual growth. We refer to the personal devotional features- the Morning Watch and the Bible Year. We do not all attain at once and to- gether to the perfect discipline of Christ. And unless we build according to the di- vine blueprint, the enemy and the critic will find many a crevice in our al-mor wherein to thrust their spears. We deter- mine, therefore, to build strong devotional T. E. Lucas structures. Dedicatory Prayer at the Passing of the Torch at the Youth Congress Held in Brazil, In this one-hundredth anniversary year South America we would like also to resolve to be better comrades to our fellow youth. As young has a regular attendance of more than accompanied him. Their business dealing soldiers of Christ we pledge to give more three hundred. Should this not be so every- with this young woman was so pleasant of that supporting fellowship, the kind where? The Share Your Faith spirit be- that they invited her to dinner. Near the that we ourselves so much appreciate. comes a way of daily living—of unselfish close of the meal the host turned to the Blessed is the strong and sturdy marcher service and of a kindly interest in those guest and asked, "Are you by any chance who puts out his hand in help to his lag- about us—and as it does it will draw with a Seventh-day Adventist?" ging companion. a magnetic power honest hearts to the "Why," she said, "that's exactly what The success of the battle is not always Christ whom we serve. I am! But what caused you to think that?" determined at the front lines. Standing for For the advance guard of youth in every "For some time," he explained, "my God and the right just where you are is land who are standing shoulder to shoul- wife and I had an Adventist young woman just as important as standing for God in der in the finishing work of God we give in our home, assisting with the work and a faraway, difficult mission field. It is well heartfelt thanks. We sense a new and looking after our little girl; but now she expressed in the words of our esteemed timely enthusiasm in the far-flung ranks has left to be married. Our home can youth leader, A. W. Spalding, "A stum- of the Missionary Volunteer army. This never again be the same, since her sweet bling comrade lifted to his feet, revived mighty battalion, daily growing stronger, influence is gone. She did not drink tea, from the spiritual canteen and knapsack, now numbers one third of a million youth. coffee, or liquor; nor did she smoke or given a supporting shoulder for a time, is Such is the great reservoir of energy and wear jewelry or flashy clothes, though she not only another rescue but an accession initiative that is being poured out to main- dressed neatly and becomingly. And when and power." Share Your Faith evangelism tain God's cause and to wage His crusades. I saw that you did none of these things is far more than preaching and teaching Across the sea, in the Emerald Isle, there and noticed how you talk, I felt sure you the way of the doctrine. It is a way of life is a young woman, a Seventh-day Advent- must be an Adventist too." to be experienced and radiated to our ist, and in the business world a represent- Hands across the sea! A faithful Volun- associates along the way. ative of the American Linen Buyers' Asso- teer in America, another in Ireland, un- This spiritual fervor working in us will ciation. Ireland has not been too receptive known to each other, yet holding to the do for our Missionary Volunteer Societies to the Second Advent message; but of the same high standards, speaking the same what it is doing for one of our socities in few members there, this girl was one of language, presenting the same truth, the island of Puerto Rico. Here, with a the most faithful and earnest. known and esteemed for their common church membership of approximately one There came to Belfast a buyer for a testimony of modesty, grace, and service! hundred, the Missionary Volunteer Society large firm in Washington, D.C. His wife —Please tarn to page 28 SEPTEMBER 2, 1952 PAGE 19 and said, "That is just like all Christians. They always have reasons for wanting vacations." The young lad appealed to be allowed to prove himself, and this chance was grudgingly granted. In the early morning Share OUR Faith hours he would pick tea, and in the even- ings he worked until dark. Every day the master weighed each man's pickings, and found that the youth of our story picked By T. E. LUCAS three times more tea than the heathen Associate Secretary, Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department were picking. General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Not many months afterward the manager asked him whether he could not somehow teach the heathen to be as faith- ful and loyal in their tasks. The young UMMERTIME in Michigan is a glori- Battle Creek, Michigan. Here for many man said he would teach them the way S ous season. The gold and green of •the years the presses of a great young people's of Christ; then, perhaps, they would give land are everywhere. Fruit weighs heav- journal were to roll. In this State too up their drink and their dance and be ily upon the boughs, and cattle roam was to begin the work of Missionary as strong as he was. The manager pro- the soft, warm earth. In this setting near Volunteers. The columns of THE YOUTH'S moted the lad to overseer, so that the Hazelton was born a great idea, which was INSTRUCTOR have echoed many times the Christian could help the heathen become to fill the whole earth. Two boys, Luther thrilling story. faithful workers. When he attended the Warren and Harry Fenner, were walking The fall of 1947 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUC- next camp meeting the Adventist youth along a country road together when the TOR brilliantly reported the first North brought with him many interested fellow thought came to them of starting a mis- American Youth Congress. With that workmen, men to whom he had taught sionary band—and so it all began. meeting came a renewal of evangelistic the Bible truth at the tea estate and who From that little group formed in 1879 fervor and spirit. The great Share Your were interested in baptism. the work grew rapidly, and thumbing Faith slogan became the directing force of Europe reports that the Paris Youth the pages of THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, Missionary Volunteers the world around. Congress was really a red-letter day for we follow it to Wisconsin (1901), to Aus- Today from earth's remotest bounds the that continent. Since last November there tralia (1893), to Germany (the third year advance guard of youth relays to THE have been Missionary Volunteer crusades of the twentieth century), to South YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR word of superior suc- almost every week end. The young people America (1912)—until in 1918 we see the cess in the cause of God, and then passes have gone out to cover whole cities and evidence of missionary zeal around the the word along to cheer and encourage villages in France, Italy, Switzerland, and world, almost a million pieces of literature listening youth everywhere. Austria with third-angel's-message-filled given away, nearly two hundred thousand As the decades have rolled by, stories literature and to make personal contacts hours spent in Christian help work. Then like the following have sparkled in print ford God. This missionary zeal has come came the years between 1920 and 1946. in our hundred-year-old journal. They are about as a result of the inspiration gained These were years of promise and progress. as up to date as THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR at the congress held in Paris in the sum- Societies grew and multiplied, and the itself. mer of 1951. worldwide organization of the missionary From Nyasaland comes the story of a The young people in Florence, Italy, idea caught, held, and strengthened. young lad who for some years had been were holding a series of meetings. The The first permanent home of THE attending the Seventh-day Adventist second lecture in the series was entitled YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR was built in 1855 in school at Malamulo. He was eager to "Springtime and the Spirit of Youth." earn some cash so that he could con- The platform was loaded with the blos- tinue his education. During summer soms from the almond trees of Italy. vacation he decided to look for a job. Many extra chairs had to be brought in to He went to one of the many farms supply seats for the people who came to and made an appeal for work. The hear what Adventist youth had to say. manager of one, a European, im- Southern Mindanao in the Philippines mediately inquired whether he was sends this experience of a courageous a heathen or a Christian. young man who shared his faith among "I am a Christian," said the youth. the heathen Bilaans of southern Cotabato The man refused to hire him, say- by means of public evangelism. The house ing that he never would have Chris- wherein he was preaching unfortunately tians work on his farm. "Christians collapsed, because of the large number of are lazy," he said. "They always bring people in attendance. Sultan Tambo Piang 'trouble, and I cannot beat them as I then ordered his subjects to build a chapel, beat the heathen." where at present forty-seven Bilaans and The young man urged that he be a Moro are regularly attending Ad- given trial employment, stating that ventist meetings. he was a different type of Christian. In a far outpost in Alaska, Miss He was hired temporarily. He then Margaret Iredale, lone missionary nurse, explained that he could work only is sharing her faith. Sixteen children have five days a week, for Saturday was been coming to her Sabbath school. She the Sabbath. The manager was upset has spent much time and money on the little chapel and Share Your Faith litera- Two Boys, Luther Warren and Harry Fenner, ture. As the only Sabbathkeeper in this Were Walking Along a Country Road One outpost, she has a real burden on her heart Day When the Thought Came to Them of Starting a Prayer Band—and That Is the for the natives who come to the hospital, Way the Missionary Volunteer Work Began —Please turn to page 28

PAGE 20 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Prayer Bands in Progress at the Junior Camp in the Kansas Conference

The hildren LOVED HIM Too

By L. A. SKINNER Associate Secretary, Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

THE gospel story attracts children and The editor printed this reply: "That is "Allegan, Mich. II its simplicity captivates their loyalty. right, Charlie. Do not be ashamed to own "DEAR EDITORS: This was true in Jesus' time, and it was your Lord by keeping his holy day. We "This is the first letter I ever wrote for true when James White and Joseph Bates read, in Mark 8:38, that 'whosoever there- the INSTRUCTOR. I like the paper very proclaimed the prophecies and the com- fore shall be ashamed of me and my words much, especially the 'Letter Budget.' I am mandments of God. Among the honest . . . of him also shall the Son of Man be nine years of age. I keep the Sabbath with hearts responding were boys and girls who ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of any father and mother. . . . joined their parents in worship and obe- his Father with the holy angels.' The time "Yours truly, is soon coming when our love for the dience. "CLIFFORD A. RUSSELL." Their minds stretched to comprehend Lord's Sabbath will be more severely tried the preaching. But they were overjoyed than ever before. We hope that you will As the youth membership grew there to learn, in 1852, that a magazine was to prove faithful when that time comes." were evidences of God's Spirit stirring be published "especially for young people Junior youth have participated in each them to prepare to act their full .part in and children." Eagerly they watched for major step of denominational progress. proclaiming the Advent message to all the the first issue in August with the title In 1874 the foreign mission enterprise world. It was in 1879 that Luther Warren, THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR. Stories, coun- was launched. John Nevins Andrews took age fourteen, and Harry A. Fenner, age sel, poetry, and Bible lessons were de- ship September 15 at Boston for Switzer- seventeen, members of the Hazelton voured within a few days, leaving a keen land. He was not alone, however. Though (Michigan) Sabbath school proposed a wish that the journal could be a weekly Mrs. Andrews had died two years before, young people's society. This was a daring instead of a monthly. he was accompanied by his daughter, step, but Providence was in it, and an im- These hardy pioneer children met with Mary, age thirteen, and his son, Charles, pressive stone memorial with metal plaque ridicule and mockery at school and on the age seventeen. This great adventure on the telling the story now marks the spot where streets. It was a source of encouragement S.S. Atlas, taking eleven and a half days these two boys knelt and prayed for guid- to be able to write to the editor of this to Liverpool, England, was experienced ance. Teen-agers were bearing responsi- new paper. Such a thrill came to Charlie by wide-eyed youth who represented thou- bility even in those early days. The Michi- Ray Garvin as he wrote to Prof. G. H. sands who were later to dedicate their lives gan Sabbath School Association report for Bell in January, 1871. to foreign missions. quarter ending June 30, 1880, lists Harry "I am a little boy, ten years old. I love The sons and daughters of Sabbath- A. Fenner as superintendent of the Hazel- to read the INSTRUCTOR. We have no Sab- keeping families were the leaders of the ton Sabbath school. This report was bath-school, nor any meetings nearer than future. Fortunate it was that THE YOUTH'S printed in the August 25 issue of THE eighteen miles; so we can not go very INSTRUCTOR provided a medium by which YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR the same year. often. I am trying to be a good boy. The these young people were encouraged to be There is another lad whose name ap- school-children sneer at us because we loyal to the Word of God. One such letter pears in the columns of the INSTRUCTOR keep the seventh-day; but we are not was printed in the "Letter Budget" dur- during 1879. He was destined to be a ashamed of our Lord or his holy sabbath." ing 1879. leader of youth, home counselor, poet, and SEPTEMBER 2, 1952 PAGE 21 About this time in different parts of the country experiments were being carried forward with junior groups. In one place the organization was known as the Wood- land Clan, pledged to Christian help work, healthful recreation, and practical hobbies. In another it was the MV Recruits, whose members promised to practice chivalry, courage, faith, generosity, obedience, and Christian helpfulness. In another place there were the Mission Scouts, divided into Little Brothers (Sisters) and Big Brothers (Sisters). These members were encour- aged to take up fieldcraft, woodcraft, watercraft, signaling, first aid, elementary nursing, cooking, farm industries, and household arts. The degrees of member- ship were New, Regular, and Veteran. These ideas have been the basis for the MV Pathfinder Clubs authorized by the General Conference of 1950. The purpose of this new phase of JMV activity as listed in How to Start an MV Pathfinder Club are: (1) to provide a positive church-cen- tered recreational program; (2) to develop Each Day at Junior Camp Is a Practical Demonstration of How a Young Christian Can good character and citizenship; (3) to pro- Live to Please God and Have the Best Time of His Life mote the MV class activity; (4) to give guidance in physical, mental, social, and editor, though quite unaware of all this Michigan, in the year 1901 recommended spiritual growth; (5) to demonstrate the when referred to in the following letter a simple organization and that a depart- attractiveness of Christian ideals in an printed in THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR: ment in THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR be de- activity program; (6) to interest parents voted to these young people's societies. A and senior youth in organized church-cen- "Napoleon, Mich. tered social and recreational plans for boys "DEAR EDITORS: series of studies for the groups based on Steps to Christ was begun in this same and girls; (7) to guide our boys and girls "I am a little boy six years old. I have issue. On April 11, 1905, THE YOUTH'S into active missionary service. two sisters older, and one brother younger, INSTRUCTOR contained the first published It was in the 1920's too that Summer than myself. Little Arthur and I get our summary of society activities. Training Camps were introduced. The lessons in "Bible Lessons for the Little The Young People's Department of location was Town Line Lake, Michigan. Ones," and recite each Sabbath to our Missionary Volunteers was officially The few tents were from camp meeting teacher, Mrs. Thayer. Arthur was two formed in 1907, and two years later the equipment. The camp was pioneer style. years old last January. . . . General Conference passed an action call- There were no fancy gadgets or luxuries. "Pray for your little friend, ing for the organization of Junior Mis- But this was the way the boys liked it. "VERNIE A. SPAULDING." sionary Volunteer Societies in church They were making history on those July Ellen G. White wrote very little in THE schools and larger churches where suitable days in 1926. YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR until 1893 and 1894'. leadership could be provided. Through the The men whose vision and courage During these years very earnest appeals years that followed, the Junior Standard planned this new venture in MV activities were written to our children and youth. of Attainment, the Junior Bible Year, and were Gordon Smith, Lake Union Confer- The call was for the young men and Junior Reading Courses made their ap- ence MV secretary; G. R. Fattic, East women to enlist in the work of soul win- pearance. But it was at the General Con- Michigan Conference MV secretary; and ning and "unite together upon some plan ference of 1922 that the most significant Roy McKenzie, West Michigan Confer- and order of action." This paragraph from progress was made, when the Missionary ence MV secretary. There was not much the issue of August 9, 1894, is typical: Volunteer classes were adopted, enabling encouragement from any official source, "Even though pastors, evangelists, and the boys and girls to proceed from the but these men knew that such a program teachers should neglect the seeking of the less difficult to the more difficult, with would help to build stronger characters lost, let not the children and youth neg- suitable recognition at each advance step. and bodies. They knew that boys and girls lect to be doers of the word.... Let young These steps were named MV Friend, MV love adventure and the outdoor life that men, and women, and children go to work Companion, MV Comrade (later changed camping provides. in the name of Jesus. Let them unite to- to Guide). Each day at camp demonstrated how a gether upon some. plan and order of The distinctive needs and characteristics Christian may live to please God and have action." of the junior age were being recognized the best time of his life: Morning Watch At Antigo, Wisconsin, the Spirit of the during the 1920's. Mrs. Flora Plummer, and worship first thing in the morning, Lord stirred a young man to initiate a Matilda Erickson Andross, Mrs. Harriet good healthful meals, equal sharing of the plan and order of action. In 1891 Meade Holt, C. A. Russell, and A. W. Spalding work, discussion of qualities of successful McGuire suggested a young people's developed a Pledge and Law that set up men and women, woodcraft, nature lore, meeting. The group met at regular times. a code of conduct. Then activities were hiking, swimming, and the climax of the They testified for God and practiced pub- outlined that involved physical and tech- day in the campfire story hour when hope- lic speaking as well as engaging in prayer , nical training. A program was being built ful and radiant faces reveal thoughtful and missionary work. around the active physical nature of the minds dreaming of the future as mission- This new movement was first recog- budding youth, their curiosity, their reach- aries, teachers, farmers, ministers, doctors, nized in THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Of June ing for the ideal, their love of order and or builders, helping to give "the Advent 27, 1901. A committee appointed by the ritual, and their easily enlisted sympathies message to all the world in this genera- General Conference held in Battle Creek, and group cooperation. tion." —Please turn to page 31 PAGE 22 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR The oice of Youth Bible Crusade

By WELLESLEY MUIR

GROUP of California young people and during this time the local newspaper After each meeting the young people A recently united in conducting the contributed ninety-two-column inches of met in a prayer circle, asking God to bless VOICE OF YOUTH Bible Crusade at free publicity. each one who had attended and asking Palo Alto, California. This effort was Teen-age speakers and musicians were also for a special blessing upon those who sponsored jointly by the Palo Alto Mis- featured every evening. Eleinor Marsh were under conviction as to what was sionary Volunteer Society, Howard Vogel, opened each program with a fifteen- right for them to do, and were striving for leader; and the Mountain View Academy minute organ concert during which time victory. This time spent together in prayer Seminar, Bill Williams, president. John the audience was invited to meditate and proved to be the great source of inspiration Auman, George Burton, Joan Dirksen, pray. Faith Heald was the pianist. Next and strength during the entire series of Brainard Duncan, Raleigh Heald, Bill came the song service, conducted by meetings. Muir, Mary Nocera, and Lenore Rice Wellesley Muir, and a story for the chil- The theme song, "Jesus Is Real to Me," served as heads of the various youth com- dren, told by Malcolm Maxwell. Raleigh expressed the heartfelt conviction of each mittees that planned each program. Heald showed a sound color nature pic- youth taking part in the effort. The one H. A. Crawford, assisted by C. R. Har- ture each night. And one of the high great purpose was to make Jesus real to rison and Arthur Mitchell, led the youth lights was the Bible quiz in which the others. On the closing night of the crusade in this successful Share Your Faith ven- audience participated. Many received Pastor H. A. Crawford baptized eight ture. Pastor Henry Bergh and Mrs. prizes for correct answers. adults. Twelve others have joined bap- Maxine Friederich prepared the sermon Some of the topics discussed by the tismal classes, and still others are receiving outlines the youth followed. youth were "Why I Believe in Jesus," "Do Bible studies. Follow-up meetings are be- Three nights a week for six thrilling Dreams Come True?" "Teen-age and ing held each Wednesday and Friday weeks capacity crowds attended the youth Atomic Age," "Secret Weapons of a Chris- evening. crusade. Eighty persons received free tian," "Seven Marks of Conversion," and The youth who have worked and Bibles for attending at least fifteen pro- others. Direct personal appeals were made, prayed and sacrificed in order to carry on grams, and more than thirty individuals many decision cards were signed, and a these programs in Palo Alto are deter- did not miss a meeting. Printed an- large number of prayer requests were mined to march forward, sharing their nouncements were distributed each week, presented. faith, until Jesus comes-

Upper Right: Group of Youth Speakers at the Palo Alto, California. Youth Bible Crusade

Far Right: The Palo Alto Evangelistic Team in Action

Lower Left to Right: Eleinor Marsh (Vibra Harp); Paul Marsh (Marimba); Faith Heald (Marimba); Doris Ann Beltz (Flute); Peggy Gleason (Speaking); and the Five Trumpeteers

I. Byron Logan, Photos SEPTEMBER 2, 1952 PAGE 23 Charles Cook, Artist

OHN, John, please open the door," J cried Marian Stowell as she and her brother Oswald hurriedly knocked on the kitchen door of her neighbor, Edward Andrews. "Come in, Marian; what is the big news?" inquired John, the sixteen-year- John Nevins nclretus old son of the family, as he greeted his i excited guests. "The news is wonderful," Marian con- tinued. "Read this tract and see for your- By MIRIAM GILBERT TYMESON self." She handed John a small tract that she and her brother had recently received in the mail. Bible close beside him. I am sure that he that if the New Testament were to be "What is it all about?" John asked in compared the words of the fourth com- destroyed, he thought he could reproduce his calm manner. "At our house we receive mandment with the instruction written in it word for word. John Andrews was able papers like this all the time." the tract. John shared this reading with to read the Bible in seven languages. "But," whispered Marian, "this is his parents, and together they all studied He traveled around and preached in different, John! This tells us that the further into this important subject. many of the small meetinghouses in New seventh day of the week, Saturday, and The Spirit of the Lord guided these England where the little Advent com- not Sunday, is the Sabbath, and that we honest hearts, and the next Sabbath the panies met to worship on the Sabbath. He should keep it holy!" Andrews and the Stowell families both preached many times in Washington, New John fingered the pages of the leaflet kept the seventh-day Sabbath. They lived Hampshire. It was there, you know, that and looked more serious as he asked, in Paris, Maine; and in 1845, when this the very first Sabbathkeeping Adventists "Marian, have your father and mother story begins, there were very few Sabbath- had their church. This little white church read this tract?" keepers. These few families had passed still nestles in among the trees, near the "No," Marian replied, "but I have, and through the great disappointment of 1844. end of a woodsy road. In the churchyard Brother Oswald and I kept lagt Sabbath. You remember how at that time many nearby lie buried many of these early We'll be glad to have you join us." people had expected Jesus to come, and Adventists, who await that great day when John took the small pamphlet, carefully He had not appeared. The Stowell family Jesus will come again to take His children turned the pages, and sat down with his were so sure of this event that they had home. sold their home and had made every One day when J. N. Andrews went to preparation to leave this earth. So after Washington, New Hampshire, to visit the disappointment they had no place to some of the believers, he stopped at the live, and the Andrews family had shared home of William Farnsworth. A son, their double house with them. Eugene, knew that the preacher was com- The Lord showed these disappointed ing to visit, and so he went out into the people that they had made a great mis- field to get away from him. Pastor take in setting a time for His return. They Andrews was very much interested in the had misunderstood the prophecies of the young people of the church, and was Bible. The true prophecy showed that anxious that they all become faithful mem- Jesus had, in 1844, entered into the most bers. As he visited with the family he holy place of the heavenly sanctuary, and realized that Eugene was not present. He was there pleading for our salvation. made inquiry, and was told that the The Andrews family consisted of the missing boy was out in the field. So he parents and two sons. John was the older. went out and picked up a hoe, walked He had an uncle who was a Congressman, over to where Eugene was working, and and John hoped someday to follow in his started to hoe in the next row. uncle's footsteps. But after he was con- After the usual greetings the conversa- verted and gave his heart and talents to tion went something like this: the Lord, his life plan was changed. "Well, Eugene," said Pastor Andrews, He determined to become a preacher, "What are you going to make of your- and he studied the Bible very diligently. self?" Photo Courtesy of the Author In fact, through the years that he was per- "I intend to get an education first of The Future Mrs. F. C. Gilbert Attended the mitted to live and work in the Seventh- all." Farewell Given for J. N. Andrews, the First Seventh-day Advehtist Missionary, Accom- day Adventist Church, he studied the "Good! That will be the best thing you panied by the Dolly You See in the Picture Bible so much that he told a friend of his can do. And what then?" PAGE 24 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR "I think I shall study law." "You might do worse," observed Pastor Andrews with wise tact. "And what then?" "I intend to be the best lawyer in the State." "And what then?" "I hope to make a lot of money, and then I may visit other countries." "And what then?" "I suppose I shall get married, and have a nice home. . . ." "And what then?" came the question that was leading to an unpleasant con- clusion. "Oh, I suppose I shall grow old and die, like other men do." Fixing a searching eye on the boy in the cornfield, the questioner asked, "Eugene, what then?" Soon after this conversation Pastor Andrews journeyed on his way, but I am sure that he prayed God to help Eugene decide for Him. The boy did think seriously about this conversation, and in- asmuch as he was an honest and sincere lad and wanted to be guided by the Lord, he felt very serious as he gave these ques- tions consideration. "A little later, in a meeting where Harry Anderson, Artist Pastor and Mrs. James White and Pastor To Cross the Ocean in Those Long Ago Days Was a Real Undertaking. J. N. Andrews Was Andrews were present during a time of Accompanied by His Two Children, Charles, Age Seventeen, and Mary, Age Thirteen deep heart searching, Pastor Andrews went to the side of the boy and said, Pastor Andrews, with other preachers, properly introduce him. He also had a `Eugene, isn't it time for you to make met and studied many names. Finally they pamphlet entitled "The Draft," which your decision now?' At this meeting the decided to call this new church Seventh- explained the position of Seventh-day Ad- boy gave himself wholly to the Lord." He day Adventist. "Seventh-day" shows the ventists. This pamphlet had been read grew to be a mighty preacher and worked Sabbath part of our message. "Adventist" and approved by Austin Blair, who was for many years encouraging others, both reminds us that Jesus is coming again the governor of Michigan. Pastor Andrews young and old, to come to Christ. soon. also carried with him recommendations Before the General Conference offices In 1860 the United States was on the from the Michigan Military Agency, a were moved to Takoma Park, D.C., they very edge of the Civil War. Our Adventist provost marshal in Rochester, New York, used to be in Battle Creek, Michigan. Church was small, and we were known and a former member of Congress from Pastor Andrews worked there doing a only in a few Eastern States in the U.S.A. New York. These men were acquainted great deal of writing. He was one of the We did not have our name, so that it was with Pastor Andrews and were willing to editors of our church paper The Advent difficult to try to explain to the Govern- help him in this great task. Review and Sabbath Herald in its first edi- ment officials in Washington that if Just imagine J. N. Andrews on this tion. You must remember, at that time we Seventh-day Adventist boys were drafted trip! I am sure that he spent many hours had only a few books and papers, for our into the Army, they could not work on in earnest prayer asking God to put the denomination was very young. It grew the Sabbath. Also we hardly knew how right words into his mouth, to impress the stronger because of the faithful help of to tell these same officials that the boys hearts of the Government officials, and to men like John Nevins Andrews. His did not want to kill but would willingly guide him every step of the way. greatest work was the writing of a book, care for the wounded on the battlefield. He arrived safely, was kindly received, History of the Sabbath and of the First This was a very serious time. Our and was introduced to Brigadier General Day of the Week. church members were loyal to the United James Fry, the Provost Marshal General Before sunset each Friday evening we States Government, and wanted to do of the United States. After carefully ex- put our regular work aside and prepare what they conscientiously could to assist plaining our situation to the general, to meet the Sabbath. But you know some- in every way. War was declared, and in Pastor Andrews was told that an exemp- one had to read the Bible very carefully the summer of 1864 it was decided to tion clause would be given to any religious to find the instruction that told us to keep send someone to Washington to present body that held noncombatant views. the Sabbath from "even to even." In the case of our little church to the Orders were issued to all deputy marshals Pastor Andrews' study he found this authorities. Naturally a man must be in the Union concerning Seventh-day Ad- truth, and the Lord used him to guide all chosen who would be a fit representative. ventists. Pastor Andrews' papers were the rest of the Advent believers in proper He must have the wisdom to say the right placed on file, and Seventh-day Adventists Sabbath observance. His book had many words. He must have tact, so that he were placed in noncombatant services. editions and was published in foreign would not cause hard feelings. He must From that day—the day of Abraham languages as well as English. understand all the beliefs of the church, Lincoln in the White House—until the Pastor Andrews also helped to propose so that he could explain them clearly. The present time the principles of Seventh-day a name for our denomination. You know man chosen was John Nevins Andrews. Adventist youth have been respected by when you were a baby the family had to He left Battle Creek for Washington on Government officials. How wonderfully gather around and decide what to name the last day of August, 1864. He carried the Lord used John Nevins Andrews to you. So it was with our baby church. with him his credentials, which would help bring about such an agreement. SEPTEMBER 2, 1952 PAGE 25 It seems that Pastor Andrews had some South Lancaster, Massachusetts, .at the individual needs as he knew each one of part in nearly every activity of this church time of this departure. Different church us personally. Finally the prayer was over, in its earliest days. He attended the first members had assisted with the packing and we rose from our knees. As Pastor camp meeting, which was held in Michi- and travel preparations. As they were Andrews looked around the entire circle gan in 1868. He preached many times about ready to leave, the entire church he realized that he had missed one brother during the meeting, but he also demon- decided to go to their home for a final as he had prayed for us one by one. He strated his thoughtfulness in another way. evening together. felt very sorry for this, and so we all knelt The history of those early days says that My mother, Mrs. F. C. Gilbert, attended the second time while he asked the Lord "one feature of the preparation for the this farewell with her mother. Mother was to bless Brother D." night's rest was long remembered by those nine years old at the time and carried with On September 15, 1874, the Andrews who attended the first camp meeting. her the doll that you see in the picture. family and Mr. Vuilleumier, the messen- After all others had gone to their tents, The description of the farewell evening ger who had come from Europe to get around the whole encampment there together came to me from my grand- the missionary, set sail from Boston walked a tall, brown-bearded man, and harbor. As this ship sailed out into the before each tent he stopped to ask in his blue waters the friends on the shore waved pleasant voice, 'Are you all comfortable UAd UAIL UA.d W1,d UAd W\e farewell. Their hearts and minds were tr—"N%e for the night?' And if any one wanted P\PC R\f‘ N'N/R R\ / % RIP% PIPN filled with gratitude as they saw the first anything, the tall man was sure to see step in the fulfillment in the great proph- that it was supplied. He was one of the ecy, "Go ye into all the world." principal speakers of the meeting, with Pastor Andrews was very anxious to Mr. and Mrs. White, but he found time Clad 2Vateltea /41€ master the French language so that he to look after the comfort of others. His could not only preach but publish in name was J. N. Andrews." By MARY GUSTAFSON French. He worked even more diligently In the year 1867 John Nevins Andrews abroad than he had at home. Within two was elected to be the president of the years he was able to print the Signs of the General Conference, which position he God watches over sparrows Times in French. This first publishing held for two years. And all the wings that fly; house was at Basel, Switzerland. This One of the most interesting parts of our city became the headquarters for the He watches over all the stars Sabbath school and church service is the European mission. From this center mission story that the returned missionary That dot the evening sky. Pastor Andrews visited among the other often brings to us in reports of how God is countries of Europe, and as the different working in other lands and for other He keeps the oceans in their shores groups of Advent believers sprang up, he peoples. It was just seventy-eight years And sends the cooling showers was of great help to them. ago that our first foreign missionary left To water all the waiting earth, It is interesting to note that when the the shores of the United States in 1874, to Andrews family first arrived in France The trees and grass and flowers. sail to Europe. His name was John Nevins they signed a covenant together promising Andrews. that they would speak only the French A small company of Sabbathkeepers He knows His children all by name language. had been raised up in Europe by a Polish And loves them equally, In October, 1878, it was necessary for minister who had come across the Atlantic And hears the prayers that they say Pastor Andrews to return to America to and had heard about the seventh-day When night blots out the see. talk over many important European de- Sabbathkeepers. He did not know too velopments with the officers at the General Conference headquarters. Daughter Mary, much about this truth himself, but he He watches all the little ones started some of the people in Europe who had become ill in Europe, returned thinking about it. They became so in- Who need His loving arm, with her father; and although she received terested that they sent one of their mem- And He will bless and keep them safe good medical care, her condition became bers to the General Conference head- From all the world of harm. worse. On November 27, 1878, she passed quarters to request a worker be sent to away. This sad experience contributed to them. the failing health of Pastor Andrews him- Now, the General Conference Com- udw 1\d S1/\d S1/\d Ul\O self. But he remained in America only a —• •-•-• short, time and returned to his work in mittee did not have any workers to spare. M\l‘ 0\AC •• OV, A M\fR OVF X1PR They knew that any man who was to be Basel before he was physically able to sent to Europe must be able to meet the do so. European statesmen and the scholars of mother: "It was a beautiful fall evening, For only nine years was John Nevins that part of the world. So the committee and the leaves were beginning to drop Andrews permitted to labor with tongue made search for the man best fitted for from the trees. There were just eight and pen in Europe. At the age of fifty-four these unusual requirements. He must be families of us in the South Lancaster he died on the twenty-first day of October, a good Bible student. He must be well church, and we all went to the home of 1883, and was laid to rest in Basel, where educated. He must be an eloquent speaker. Brother Andrews. As we entered the he was making his home. In the cemetery He must be able to rightly represent the parlor of this humble home there was no a simple shaft marks the resting place of church in every phase of its teachings. He laughing or idle visiting. Our minds were this great pioneer. From these humble must be deeply consecrated. All these filled with the importance of this great beginnings in Europe a great missionary qualities they found in John Nevins journey, which was about to take Pastor program was begun that now reaches Andrews. An-lrews from us. around the world. To cross the ocean in those days was "He came in and greeted us. The chil- We who are members of the great not an easy trip. J. N. Andrews had two dren soon joined him, and one by one Second Advent Movement today stand children, a son Charles, age seventeen, and we expressed our hopes and wishes for with bowed heads in silent tribute to the a daughter Mary, age thirteen. The little the safe journey ahead. Pastor Andrews wonderful example set before us by John family faced the hardship of travel with- said 'Farewell' much as Paul did when he Nevins Andrews. His works do follow out the wife and mother, who had passed left Rome. Then we all knelt reverently him, and great is the opportunity provided to her rest a few years before. to pray. 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SEPTEMBER 2, 1952 PAGE 27 They are to be the subject of our earnest longings and of our dearest dreams, but before they can be realized we must finish Faithfu:ness Necessary Today our work. Jesus cannot come until we do. All the prophets and martyrs as well as the If the law required tithes and offerings thousands of years ago, how much more pioneers of the Advent Movement must essential are they now! If the rich and poor were to give a sum pro-ortionate to their pro;erty in the Jewish economy, it is doubly essential now.—"Testimonies," wait in their graves until the young people vol. 4, p. 474. of this day, with zeal and determination and complete devotion no less earnest than that shown by their comrades of a hun- dred years ago, go forth in the strength of Heaven and fulfill the duty laid upon them Hitherto and Henceforth several years, there was no end to the in this solemn hour. Through every ex- admiration of the hills, the foliage of the perience we may trust our Guide. He will (Continued from page 4) trees, and even the rocks which skirted the lead us on safely through storm and sun- neither shall any man pluck them out of shore, covered with weeds and mosses. The shine, until we find our way at last to our my hand." church spires of the villages where they Father's house on the banks of the river We are one hundred years nearer the were born, which they distinguished at a of life. end of the journey than we were on that distance up the country, and which they summer day of long ago when James named one after another, filled them with White began to plan for the publication of transports of delight. On to Glory Ride! It this paper and to write for it. The time is "But when the vessel entered the port, (Continued from page 19) growing short. The heavenly land is near. and when they saw on the quays their We must press on and faint not. fathers, their mothers, their wives, their My fellow youth, shall we not right now In THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR of October, children, and their friends, stretching out determine that with the grace of Christ 1854, there is a short article describing the their arms with tears of joy, and calling in our hearts and the sword of His Spirit feelings of some French sailors who were them by their names, it was no longer pos- in our grasp we will unite wholly and approaching their home after an absence sible to retain a man on board; they all unreservedly with God's great last-day of several years. The style of writing seems sprang on shore, and it became necessary, youth movement? old-fashioned to us now, but there is a according to the custom of the port, to "The Captain Calls for You." Thou- flavor to the language that is not often employ another set of mariners to bring sands of youthful voices have taken up found today. Here are the words, written the vessel to her mooring. the theme. From the great North Ameri- by an unknown pen, copied from the "What then would be the case were we can Youth Congress in San Francisco, small, yellowed page with the close, hand- indulged with a display of that heavenly from Australia, from Paris, from Hawaii, set type, printed by hands long since at country? The laborious and vain cares of from India, and from all the world rings rest: this life would be forsaken, and all our out the vow of enlistment— "I remember that on my return to powers and feelings would be lost in per- "Christ before us, Christ behind, France in a vessel which had been on a petual rapture. it is wisdom, therefore, Christ on ev'ry side! voyage to India, as soon as the sailors had that a vail is spread over the glories of For the rescue of mankind, perfectly distinguished the land of their futurity. Let us enjoy the hope that the On to glory ride! Volunteers! Volunteers! Volunteers!" native country, they became, in a great happy land awaits us, and in the mean measure, incapable of attending to the time let us fulfill with cheerfulness and duties of the ship. Some looked at it wist- patience what belongs to our present con- fully, without the power of minding any- dition." Share Your Faith thing else; others dressed themselves in "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nei- (Continued from page 20) their best clothes, as if they were going to ther have entered into the heart of man," disembark; some talked to themselves, and the things which await us at the end of and always tries to have prayer with them. others wept. our voyage. We could not bear the sight The story of Tino Carrasco, of Cali- "As we approached, the disorder of their of those glories now. We are not ready for fornia, presents another interesting Share minds increased. As they had been absent them. We are to set our hopes upon them. Your Faith story. As a young lad he be-

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1. In spring Furry and the other seals 2. Year-old youngsters like Furry were 3. Here among the sand dunes the 4. Occasionally they would waddle came back to the Pribylofs. The older completely ignored. Aisles were left bachelor seals had an enjoyable vaca- down the trails to the sea to fish. It bulls were there waiting for the in various places between the bulls' tion time climbing up and sliding down was a carefree life the young seals mother seals. As they came the bulls territories, so that young bulls could the soft sand or sunning themselves in lived, and they grew fat and con- fought one another to get them all. get to the fields farther inland. wild wheat fields or among boulders. tented, with nothing to worry them!

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But there Herald and Signs of Times Reporter, vol. 8, forter, the Holy Spirit, through whom wonder- is a limit beyond which Satan cannot go, and no. 23, quoted in The Great Controversy, p. 397. ful miracles were performed, and we have the here he calls deception to his aid and counter- 3. To what lengths will these false teachers go promise of still greater wonders to be wrought feits the work which he has not power actually with their deceptions? 2 Cor. 11:13. through the outpouring of the latter rain of the to perform. In the last days he will appear in 4. Against what particular deceptions did Jesus Holy Spirit. So it is only to be expected that such a manner as to make men believe him to be warn His followers? Matt. 24:23, 24. Satan is making a counterfeit of the Holy Christ come the second time into the world." Spirit's work in these last days. The Scriptures -Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 6g8. NOTE.-"Only those who have been diligent warn us about these counterfeit spirits and their "Satan is not permitted to counterfeit the students of the Scriptures, and who have work so that we can distinguish between the manner of Christ's advent. The Saviour has received the love of the truth, will be shielded true gifts of the Spirit and the false manifesta- warned His people against deception upon this from the powerful delusion that takes the world captive."-The Great Controversy, p. 625. tions of the power of the wicked one. point, and has clearly foretold the manner of His second coming."-The Great Controversy, -p. Masterly Deceptions of the Last Days ASSIGNMENT 1 625. 5. What is one of the masterpieces of Satan's Read the lesson texts and the Guiding Thought. 9. Who are in danger of being deceived? Matt. deceptions? Isa. 8:19. 24:24. NOTE.-"If men had been willing to receive ASSIGNMENT 2 NoTE.--The only safety now is to search for the truth so plainly stated in the Scriptures, the truth as revealed in the word of God, as for concerning the nature of man and the state of Satan's Counterfeits Foretold in the Bible hid treasure. The subjects of the Sabbath, the the dead, they would see in the claims and 1. God has promised the latter rain, a great nature of man, and the testimony of Jesus are manifestations of Spiritualism the working of outpouring of His Spirit, in the last days, so that the great and important truths to be understood ; Satan with power and signs and lying wonders." all may see the power of God and seek to be these will prove as an anchor to hold God's peo- -Ibid., p. 559. saved. So we can expect to see great miracles ple in these perilous times."-Testimonies, vol. and many wonders worked in the name of God. 1, p. 300. 6. What does Satan have power to do? Rev. But not every miracle will be of heavenly origin. 13:13, 14. Christ warns of a deception that Satan will bring ASSIGNMENT 6 NoTE.-"It was by the display of super- about. Read this warning in Matthew 24:4, 5. The Divine Measuring Line natural power, in making the serpent his 2. How did John tell us to be on our guard, not medium, that Satan caused the fall of Adam and only against false christs, but against false spirits? 10. The Holy Spirit is given only to those who Eve in Eden. Before the close of time he will 1 john 4:1. fulfill a certain requirement. Find what that re- work still greater wonders. So far as his power NOTE.-"Evil spirits, in the beginning created quirement is in Acts 5:32. extends, he will perform actual miracles."- sinless, were equal in nature, power, and glory 11. How can we test whether what appears to Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 698. with the holy beings that are now God's messen- be a manifestation of God's Spirit is of God or is 7. What will be the crowning deception of gers. But fallen through sin, they are leagued of Satan? Isa. 8:19, 20. Satan? 2 Cor. 11:14. together for the dishonor of God and the destruc- NOTE.-"What message do these teachers NOTE.-"AS the crowning act in the great tion of men. United with Satan in his rebellion, bring? Does it lead you to reverence and fear drama of deception, Satan himself will per- and with him cast out from heaven, they have, God? Does it lead you to manifest your love for sonate Christ. The church has long professed to through all succeeding ages, co-operated with Him by loyalty to His commandments? If men look to the Saviour's advent as the •consum- him in his warfare against the divine authority." do not feel the weight of the moral law; if they mation of her hopes. Now the great deceiver -The Great Controversy, p. 513. make light of God's precepts ; if they break one will make it appear that Christ has come. In 3. We cannot belittle Satan's power to deceive. of the least of His commandments, and teach different parts of the earth, Satan will manifest How will evil spirits disguise themselves to men so, they shall be of no esteem in the sight himself among men as a majestic being of deceive even those who want to do right? 2 Cor. of heaven. We may know that their claims are dazzling brightness, resembling the description 11:13-15. without foundation. They are doing the very of the Son of God given by John in the ASSIGNMENT 3 work that originated with the prince of darkness, Revelation. . . . This is the strong, almost over- the enemy of God."-Mount of Blessing, p. 208. mastering delusion. . . . But the people of God Proving the Spirits will not be misled. The teachings of this false 4. "Try the spirits whether they are of God," ASSIGNMENT 7 christ are not in accordance with the Scrip- John warned us. Many years before he wrote tures."-The Great Controversy, pp. 624, 625. these words, Elijah had tried the spirits at a time What word beginning with the letter D is 8. By what divine standard are all spirit mani- of crisis. He had been trying to keep alight the often used in connection with the works of festations to be measured? Isa. 8:20. flame of truth. However, the king, through the Satan? It is used as a noun, an adjective, and a influence of his heathen wife, had mixed idola- verb in the following passages: Matthew 24 : trous beliefs and practices with true religion. True Manifestations of the Holy Spirit Evil spirits were working through the priests. One 4, 5, 24 ; 2 Corinthians I r :13 ; 2 Thessalonians 2 : r o ; Revelation 13:14. What is the word ? 9. How does the Holy Spirit often speak to day Elijah called everyone together to test the people? 1 Kings 9:11-13. newly adopted form of religion, to see whether it was of God or not. Read I Kings 18:22-28, and see NOTE.-"It is not always the most learned how the priests of Baal acted when possessed by presentation of God's truth that convicts and the spirit of Satan. converts the soul. Not by eloquence or logic 5. After this demonstration Elijah quietly set are men's hearts reached, but by the sweet in- about building an altar to the true God. Read fluences of the Holy Spirit, which operate verses 36-38, and compare his methods with those 'ire quietly yet surely in transforming and develop- of the priests of Baal. ing character. It is the still small voice of the Spirit of God that has power to change the NOTE.-"God does not require His people to 1,1 TO R imitate Baal's prophets, to afflict their bodies and 1NI 64 heart."-Prophets and Kings, p. 169. cry out and shout, and throw themselves into 10. To whom only is the Holy Spirit given? almost every attitude, having no regard for Issued by Acts 5:32. order, until their strength fails through sheer Review and Herald Publishing Association Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. 11. What spiritual gifts have been placed in exhaustion. Religion does not consist in making the church? 1 Cor. 12:28-30. a noise ; yet when the soul is filled with the LORA E. CLEMENT EDITOR What should be the motive in seeking Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heartfelt praise to 12. spiritual gifts? 1 Cor. 14:12. (See Phil. 2:3.) God glorifies Him."-Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 231. FREDERICK LEE ASSOCIATE EDITOR 13. What was accomplished at Pentecost by the gift of tongues? Acts 2:7-11. ASSIGNMENT 4 CONSULTING EDITORS E. W. DUNBAR K. J. REYNOLDS L. L. MOFFITT True Gifts of the Spirit 6. In what form has God given the gifts of the R. J. CHRISTIAN - - CIRCULATION MANAGER Junior Lesson Spirit to the church? 1 Cor. 12:28. This paper does not pay for unsolicited material. 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