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The YOUTH's INSTRUCTOR Ol The YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR ol. 70 September 5, 1922 No. 36 • Gilliams Service, N. Y. VICTORIA FALLS, AFRICA, THE WORLD'S GREATEST FALLS Along with the recent development in Africa, the use of the huge Victoria Falls for development of water power in the same way as the Niagara Falls have been harnessed, is contemplated. The rapid progress of this region, which contains valuable mining possibilities, makes this step inevi- table, and it is expected to link this development with Nile power development projects in a vast chain of electrification which will revolutionize the material life of the Dark Continent. This photograph shows the great beauty of the falls. Forest Keller Othella Jenkins Report of the New York Temple Society Charles Fassler Sylvia Garrett Virgil Donald Wood Thelma Garrett HE Junior Society of the Temple Church in New Howard Thompson Edia. Waneta Wood TYork City shows, by the following report, that it Walden Jenkins Lucir da Martin is actively engaged in missionary work : Loren Ward Hannah Jaynes The membership of the society is thirty-five. The Everett Friley Margaret Foster Louie Orleck Estel Lackey members have been doing excellent work. For the Guy Lackey Emma C. Fairchild month of June they wrote eight letters and received Curtis Foster Helen Fairchild four; held two Bible readings and cottage meetings; A. J. Bowen Lucille Harless took 25 subscriptions for periodicals; distributed 133 J. A. Barton Emmerelis Wood papers ; sold one book ; lent two books ; distributed 288 Price E. Stuffier Beatrice Barton tracts; 91 hours were spent in Christian help work; Hugh E. Jenkins Ursel Dorthey Wood Grace Webb one signer was obtained to a temperance pledge ; three Paul Webb Russell Barton Freda Tomlinson bouquets were given away; 426 Scripture cards were Lee Metzler Anna Garrett I distributed; $1.90 was given to foreign missions and James A. Randall Mary Jenkins E. 'T. McPherson Freda Bowen $6.05 to home missions ; $14.06 tithe was paid. Ruth Ramsey Fourteen of the Juniors are observing the Morning Miss M. McPherson Lula Garrett Watch, and nine are taking the Bible Year. Only a E. McPherson Sophia Rehs Gladys Friley short time ago eight of the youth received buttons for Bonnie Jenkins Agnes Radcliff Friends, and are now endeavoring to meet the re- Mrs. Friley Emma Thompson Ida M. Wood quirements for Comrades, while others are working Stella Garrett Mollie Jenkins on the requirements for Friends. Three of the Friend S. H. Halterman Mrs. J. A. Barton Ella M. Brown requirements are : Knowing the Junior pledge and Ella Lesser Roxie Fassler law, having a Reading Course certificate, and observ- Willie A. H. Wessels Mrs. A. J. Bowen ing the Morning Watch. Besides others, four of the requirements for Comrades are : Having two Reading Course certificates, also a Bible Year certificate, identi- fying ten trees, and also ten birds by their song and color. We have just completed a First Aid Course, con- ducted by Mr. Wood, one of our leaders, and a bird study by Miss Gordon, another one of the leaders. We have interesting programs, and consequently a large attendance, and it is not unusual to have ten or twelve visitors. We have already completed several courses, and are now taking the Bible Year and the Reading Courses. Our society is gaining in strength and spirituality. RETHA H. GILES. Is There Need of Mission Gifts? CHINESE gunboat official brought his son to A the principal of a mission high school to be ex- amined for admittance. The principal told the father it was no use to examine the boy, for there was no place to put him. The following conversation ensued : FATHER : " But I will rent a house in town and he can live at home." " Good hard work toughens your body, trains your PRINCIPAL : " But there is no desk." mind, and develops your will." FATHER : " Ah, I will buy a desk." • PRINCIPAL : " But there is no place to put it even if you did buy it." The Youth's Instructor FATHER : " Well, then, let him stand up for a year. Issued every Tuesday 0, we have heard so much about the goodness of the Printed and published by the Christian church. Please take pity on my son and REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSN. let him stay and learn. Your school is the only school AT TAKOMA PARK, WASHINGTON, D. C., U. S. A. I know of where I can leave him to be educated and FANNIE D. CHASE - - - - EDITOR never worry about him. I want him to grow up to LORA E. CLEMENT ASSISTANT EDITOR L. FLORA PLUMMER be a Christian." M. E. KERN SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS W. E. HOWELL 111 But he was the fifty-first turned away that term. Why were these turned away? Surely we do not \Tor,. 70 SEPTEMBER 5, 1922 No. 36 half believe the gospel story, or half love Him who died for the world, else we would do more for Him Subscription Rates Yearly subscription - - - - $1.75 and these, and less for ourselves ! Six months 1.11 Club Rates Each In clubs of five or more copies, one year $1.50 - Anti-Tobacco Honor Roll Six months - - - - ------ .80 (All but the first on the list come from Jackson, Ohio.) Entered as second-class matter, August 14, 1903, at the post Harold Savercool Marjorie A. Williams office at Washington, D. C., under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. Clarence Cook Martha Evans Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for Bennie Orleck Rachel E. Barton in Sec. 1103, Act of Oct. 3. 1917, authorized on Tune 22, 1918. The Youth's Instructor VOL. 70 TAKOMA PARK, WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 5, 1922 No. :36 Wishes HATTIE TOWN PURVIS When mystic night reveals the planets yonder, When heavy clouds enjoy the bliss of weeping, Where gray clouds drifting, leave the sky all clear, When soft drops patter on the growing grain, I gaze on through the azure space with wonder, I wish my tears could water virtues sleeping, And wish that heaven were to earth more near; To swell life's harvest with abundant gain. That, mounting upward by my own volition, And yet, like one expectant of promotion Where starry clusters light the sky with fires, By distant king, unmindful how he lives, I might enjoy the glory of transition, I too would calmly pass through life's commotion, And satisfy my wonder and desires. Content each day with what my Maker gives. 44 Little Johnnie Geddie" UST a few weeks before the Battle of Waterloo, pations of the work to which he was going, and of ref- J there was born in Banff, Scotland, a very delicate erences to the many acts of service he was able to child, so delicate, indeed, that for many weeks after render to those on the ship. But in the whole diary his birth it seemed unlikely that he would live. The there is not one word of complaint. father and mother pleaded that their little son might At daybreak, on the morning of July 13, 1848, be spared to them, and vowed that if he were and the Aneityum was sighted, appearing at first like a tiny way opened up, they would dedicate him to the service speck upon the horizon. In the early afternoon the of God among the heathen. boat came to anchor in a beautiful harbor on the south The father, who was a clock maker, met with re- side of the island — an island that vhis to be the scene verses, in business following the war, and in 1816 the of one of the most thrilling stories that has ever been family moved to Pictou, Nova Scotia. There the boy- written of the power of the gospel of Jesus. hood of John Geddie was spent. He was so small of Aneityum is one of a group of islands which Captain stature as to be known among the boys as " Little Cook, the famous navigator, on account of their like- Johnnie Geddie." He never shone in his classes, nor ness to the islands bearing a similar name in the north was he known as a leader in sport or debate. But of Scotland, called the New Hebrides. To begin work underneath his quiet manner was a strong determina- among such a people as found their homes in these tion to carry through whatever he undertook and an islands, demanded noble courage. Not far from Anei- absolute sincerity that no one ever questioned. tyum was the blood-stained island of Erromango, He attended Pictou Academy, and in 1837, at the where the heroic missionary • John Williams and his age of twenty-one, was ordained a Presbyterian min- companion Harris were clubbed to death by the fero- ister. Before this, however, he had decided to devote cious cannibals as they stepped on that beach just nine his life to making Christ known in lands beyond the years before. This tragic event must have been vividly seas. At that time, however, his church had no mission in Geddie's mind as they drew near the shore. in any foreign land and possessed but little interest in The natives of the island were degraded savages. the enterprise. With quiet determination he set him- They had curly hair, dark skin, and forbidding fea- self to the task of arousing an interest, and he suc- tures. Crimes of all descriptions were of constant oc- ceeded. When the decision was reached to establish currence. In their thirst for blood the Aneiteumese a work in the New Hebrides, Geddie was appointed the were almost inhuman.
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