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. Falsehood abounded, theft was first missionary. considered honoiable, licentiousness prevailed every- It required no small amount of courage to under- where. There was no thought of love. War was con- take, seventy-five years ago, such an ocean trip as tinuous. A member of one tribe dared not venture did Mr. and Mrs. Geddie when, on Nov. 30, 1846, they beyond the confines of his territory, for he would be left Halifax. Eight days were occupied by the pas- instantly killed. A man was never seen without his sage to Boston, where they had expected to find a club and spear. In the museum of Knox College, whaler bound for the Sandwich Islands. In this they Toronto, are specimens of their savage weapons. All were disappointed, and they had to be content with victims, killed or captured, were considered the lawful securing passage in a small vessel of one hundred food of the victors. Nothing was so sweet to them as ninety-seven tons. The voyage lasted more than a human flesh. Woe to the unfortunate shipwrecked year and was marked by strange and varied experi- sailors who fell into their hands, and many a ship's ences. Several times it seemed as if they would never crew had been savagely devoured by these cannibals reach their destination. On one occasion the vessel of the Pacific Islands. sprung a leak, and the pumps had to be worked every The state of women was most wretched. Brutality few minutes. The supply of food became exhausted, was their daily wage. The awful habit of strangling and they had to live on very scant allowance. At last, the widow on the death of her husband was firmly after nineteen months of hardship, they arrived at the rooted among these people. Every woman wore round island of Aneityum, in the New Hebrides, which was her neck a stout cord, so arranged that by pulling it to be their home for many years. strangulation was effected. Infants had no rights and During the long journey Geddie kept a diary of might be put to death whenever the father so wished. events. In it we find vivid accounts of the privations White people had landed on the islands, but these encountered and of the severe storms that threatened were generally sandalwood traders from Australia, of the little boat and all on board. It is full of his antici- whose treachery and deception fearful accounts were 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR September 5, 1922

, given. So brutal had these traders been in their treat- and said, " Why don't you come on? We are ready ment of the natives, that, on some of the islands, there to fight you." "How can I ? " asked Nohoat ; " the was a standing rule to kill every white man who new religion makes it wrong to fight." He then landed. handed his spear and a strip of native cloth to the Very little notice was taken of the coming of Mr. other and received his in return. In this way, what and Mrs. Geddie. The natives did not understand would have been a bloody war, involving all the in- their behavior. They carried no firearms, lived in habitants of the island, was averted. peace, and did not steal their wood. While the mis- At the end of the first year, Mr. Powell, Geddie'h sionary's words were strange, they readily under- associate, becoming utterly discouraged, returned to stood his language of kindness. At first there was a Samoa, and Mr. and Mrs. Geddie were left alone on good deal of curiosity. Some were friendly, but the this savage island, fifteen hundred miles from their most were indifferent. nearest missionary neighbors. Imagine the situation Mr. Geddie's first task, after building his house, was and the heroism of this brave man and his noble wife ! to become acquainted with the tribes on the island. Nearly three years passed after leaving home before For this purpose he first visited, with an interpreter, they received any letters, and three long, dreary years a neighboring village ; then he made a trip around the before any one came to share their labors, and yet, shores of the island. Everywhere he went he was through it all, not a single word of discouragement greatly impressed with the beautiful scenery, in strik- or of leaving ever fell from the lips of Geddie or his ing contrast with the terrible depravity of the people. faithful wife. All the time he was busy getting the language, which Every day there was a school session, and several he had to gather word by word. The natives were boys began to attend regularly. Notwithstanding the crafty and suspicious, and, as they would not give him indifference of the parents, a class was gradually a single new word without some sort of payment, he formed, and the boys made slow but sure progress. carried biscuits in his pockets, which he gave in ex- A small printing press was set up and a twelve-page change for the strange sounds. pamphlet published. In his journal, Geddie has given us some idea of It must not be supposed that the little band of the busy life he led. " Besides preaching every Sun- Christians, which now began to grow in numbers, was day in our little chapel, Mr. Powell and I. are accus- allowed to go unmolested. Kapaio, a brother of the tomed to go out in different directions and preach to chief of the district, a man who had been notorious for the people wherever we can find them. This is a his wickedness, had opposed the work from the be- deeply interesting part of our work. When we see a ginning, and had persecuted the native Christians native at his work or amusement, we request him to bitterly in many ways. This savage determined that follow us until a little group is collected. Sometimes he would murder the missionary. For several months we collect five or six, sometimes ten, twenty, or thirty. he awaited his opportunity. One evening he lay con- Then we sit down under the shade of a tree, or by the cealed near Mr. Geddie's home until the missionary side of a path, or by the seashore, and tell them as best came out. Then he followed him down the path, so we can of sin and a Saviour from it. Some will laugh, close that he could almost touch him with his hand. others look serious, some will amuse themselves so as At last, thinking his opportunity had come, and with not to hear, and some will turn away in anger." one good strong blow the deed would be done, he For a considerable time he was allowed to do his grasped his heavy club, raised it in the air intending work without any hindrance, then 'suddenly indiffer- to strike, when suddenly his arm became weak, a ence was turned to hostility. He had unintentionally strange sensation came over him, and he could not offended some of the spirits by cutting some cocoanuts strike. Thus, in this marvelous way was Geddie's life that had been dedicated to their gods. He had burned spared and the savage himself mightily impressed. coral for lime. He had built his house on the path Soon after this, to the amazement of everybody, of the spirit gods. For a time it looked as if the Kapaio came to Mr. Geddie and asked for Christian missionary's life was in danger, but Geddie pleaded instruction. The Christians were greatly encouraged ignorance of their religious customs. By his calm and Mr. Geddie himself greatly cheered by this strik- dignity he was able to quiet the disturbance and re- ing evidence of God's working. The savages who were establish peace. opposed to Christianity, alarmed at the conversion of On one occasion there was to be a bitter fight be- Kapaio, renewed their persecution of the Christians. tween two of the tribes. Natives came pouring into Their clothing was stolen, their plantations destroyed, the village from all quarters,, armed with clubs and they were reviled and threatened with death. If an spears. Mr. Geddie and his helper, Mr. Powell, re- epidemic of 'sickness broke out, the report was spread solved to prevent the battle if possible. Setting out that the heathen deities were offended by the Christian for the place where the fight was to occur, they found converts and so were sending disease. Geddie himself the two tribes occupying points about half a mile was continually shadowed by would-be murderers, ar- apart. Already they were yelling and screaming at rows were thrown at him, and he could not go beyond each other, throwing their bodies in various postures his compound in safety. and assuming all the attitudes of challenge and de- White traders from Australia also bitterly opposed fiance, which were their preliminaries of battle: the work. They realized that the gospel interfered The missionaries knew that, in seeking to prevent with the carrying on of their sinful practices. Conse- the conflict, they were in serious danger of being in- quently their fierce hatred was aroused. One calm stantly killed. They accordingly took a circuitous night Mr. Geddie was awakened to find that the route and suddenly appeared upon the brow of a hill, thatch roof of his house was on fire. Hastily rescuing midway between the contending parties. Their pres- his wife and children, he sought, with the help of the ence had a paralyzing' effect. Mr. Geddie approached natives, to save the church. Investigation proved, Nohoat, the originator of the war, and strongly re- all too clearly, that some white traders had bribed a monstrated with him. While he was undecided what number of savages to do this fiendish act. But in to do, the leader of the opposite party came to him spite of hatred and opposition, the work went on until, September 5, 1922 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 5 at the end of the fourth year, nearly one half the soon as it touched the beach, was raised on the shoul- population of the entire island of Aneityum had ac- ders of several men and carried, amid wild acclaim, to cepted the gospel. When, after an absence of two the gate of their home. A strange and happy contrast years and eight months, the mission ship returned to to their last landing among naked, painted, and armed the island, all on board were amazed at the wonderful savages ! What a change the gospel had wrought.! change which had been brought about as the result Mr. and Mrs. Geddie resumed their work, but of the labors of Mr. Geddie and his wife. six years later, in 1872, Mr. Geddie was stricken In 1864, after nearly sixteen years of heroic service, with paralysis, and in his fifty-eighth year was laid. they returned to Nova Scotia for a brief furlough. to rest in the land of his love and toil. Could Two busy years were spent in telling the wonderful any one .covet a nobler epitaph, or a greater re- story of Aneityum to the people at home. In 1866, turn for a life invested, than that recorded on the they returned to their New Hebrides home. Their tablet behind the pulpit in the native church at Anei- return to Aneityum was the occasion of a great dem- tyum " When he landed on Aneityum in 1848 there onstration. When the ship was sighted in the dis- were no Christians; when he left in 1872 there were tance, great crowds gathered on the shore. They no heathen." — By Archer Wallace, for the Missionary were taken from the ship in a small boat which, as Education Council of Canada.

Jungle Walks in Northern India --- No. 1 In the Himalayan Terai FLOYD WINFIELD SMITH

EFORE we start on our jungle walks, let us way in one general. direction. These paths lead to B understand what is meant by a jungle. Indians watering places, to grazing grounds and quiet resting use it in a much broader sense than we in America. places. Some animals, such as deer and wild pig, " Jungle " is a word taken directly from the Sanskrit, have places where they assemble for play. and not only may mean " a forest choked with under- If we wish to enjoy a walk in the jungle, we must growth," as the English dictionary defines it, but in forget our outside cares for the time being and pay the original it may also mean any waste or uninhabited no attention to the difficult paths and the thorns in place, sometimes be- the way. Also, we ing applied to the must keep our eyes desert. It corre- open for the details sponds very closel4' of jungle life. If to the wilderness of o n e notices " the the Bible. dust or mud under- The population of foot, the signs on India is so great the grass or bushes, that few parts of it and the little sounds are entirely unin- that reach his ears," habited. The prin- lie may know what cipal jungles are in is happening around uncultivatable him. At first all mountain regions, seems a perfect or the unhealthful maze, with no sys- regions called the tem or order; but, terai, at the foot of after all, it is a the mountains, or wonderfully regular perchance where the life that appears. government has its " Beasts of all kinds forest reserves. come and go, sleep We will take our a n d graze, drink first walk in the and play, at about terai country, not the same places and far from our mission time every day. station a t Najib- An Interesting Family Group of Jungle Tigers They have their abad. Leaving the habits a n d their bungalow, we will follow for a few miles a road haunts in 'the wet, and others in the dry, weather. leading north toward the Himalayan foothills. This Their life is as free as the wind, yet they bind them- is the only path or road worthy of the name for selves with the bonds of time and place." many miles to right or left. There are a few rough We go along a narrow, winding path. It is hard roads by which timber is dragged or carted out ,of going ; often we have to stoop and crawl under thorny the woods in the dry weather.' In addition to these bushes. Nevertheless the path is well trodden. Here we find that the jungle is full of paths, not man a sambar, or a nilgai (blue cow), the largest deer of made, but made by and for the use of wild animals. the jungle, has grazed. There is the midday resting The beasts have their highroads, their side roads, and place of ,the herd. Their resting places are always their paths. If we wish to see the life of the jungle, chosen where nothing can approach without being we must follow these. We shall not be able to go seen. And no matter from what direction the enemy straight in any direction, for the road twists here may come, the animals make sure that they have a and turns there. Yet a main path may go a long clear line of retreat. 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR September 5, 1922

A Herd of European Deer; but No More Interesting Than a Jungle Herd In a quiet hollow we find a beautiful spotted deer. The forest is full of birds, but one must look closely From a place where we have previously seen nothing, to see them. In the early morning their calls and a whole herd may start up. Their spots, which in songs will show you their whereabouts, but at midday the open are so distinct and beautiful,' are the most one must sit down and watch carefully. The outskirts efficient camouflage when the deer are among the of the woods are the best for studying bird life. In trees and bushes. the early morning the jungle cock sends forth his The black buck and his family will not be found gay call, and we may _even see him strutting about. in the forest. Their home is among the cultivated The peafowl, too, is common, and it is pleasing to fields and open meadows where the domesticated vil- watch the peacock " dancing " in the early morning, lage animals graze. They take shelter among the as the Indians call his proud display of plumage. fields of dal or in the small groves, but do not venture The insects too are worthy of notice, but they are into the deep jungle. a world of their own. We must now return before On coming to a somewhat marshy place we find the sun is higher in the sky. Great creatures and the ground has been thoroughly dug over. The wild small,— the jungles are full of them ! How wonderful pigs have been digging here during the night for are the things which our Father in heaven has created ! roots. The half-dried pond near by, afforded them an inviting place to wallow. We must be careful lest we come upon an old boar, with his family. These How They Came to Be Written creatures are dangerous foes, and will give way to " Throw Out the Life-Line " neither man nor tiger. They can run with amazing VERYBODY loves to sing, " Throw Out the Life- speed, and when angered, a single rip of their terrible 3-.4 Line ; " but perhaps few know who wrote the tusks is sufficient. song and how it came to be written. Rev. U. S. Ufford, Tiger hunting on elephants is common in this sec- the author, tells the story of its writing, as follows : tion. But we shall not be likely to meet either tiger or his little brother the leopard. We may see signs " From early boyhood my life has been passed in the vicinity of the seashore. The river and ocean, with their poetical beauty, of their presence, may even hear their fearsome calling have always exercised a fascinating power over me. to one another, but if by accident we should meet one " At my conversion, at twenty, a volume describing Moody of them, he would riot be apt to harm us. Early in and Sankey's labors fell into my hands. After its perusal I the morning they might' kill our horse or bullock or felt led to hold gospel services, and hired a vacant clubhouse near New Haven, on the Housatonic River, in Stratford, Con- snatch away our dogs, but man is ordinarily safe from necticut, where on Sunday afternoons I made my first appear- their attacks in the daytime. ance in public. The room soon became too small, and hundreds Another animal, of which we see signs, but shall gathered outside, so that the meetings were transferred to the not be likely to meet, is the porcupine. If one lives open air. Much good resulted from these services. near the- jungle, the garden will probably suffer from " After my removal to •Maine and Massachusetts, I entered the ministry and was brought in contact with seafaring people. his nightly visits. It was at Nantasket Beach, known as a noted wreck-strewn Those new to the jungle and Indian life will be coast, that I visited the life-saving station, and there saw, for surprised that we do not see more snakes, In the the first time, the life-line. I entered the factory where it is daytime we shall see but few. It is said that pythons manufactured. are common, but the writer has not seen these. One " A friend of mine portrayed for me a scene of a shipwreck on that famous beach. I afterward had the chance to see eight of our missionaries, as he came from the mountains vessels cast ashore there. But it was the description by my one day, saw an eleven-foot python. friend, whom I soon baptized, that gave me the real idea of September 5, 1922 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR

writing the song. He said a schooner was hurled by the raging When he came to the United States, he was given elements on the coast there, where it lay exposed to the cutting a triumphal reception. He went everywhere, playing winds and icy water, all the while bumping and dragging itself along toward the rocks, threatening to go to pieces. Soon the for every one, winning hearts as well as dollars. He wreckers appeared, joined by willing hands. There, through amassed a great fortune, which he soon lost through the spray, they could see the big schooner with two chain cables people who pretended to be his friends. His genius out. In the rigging were the eight men of the crew and one won other fortunes, and he settled down in Cambridge, woman holding on for their lives, while the huge breakers dashed over them amid the gale and blinding snow. Massachusetts. " Now came the life-line, which was shot out over the vessel. Every summer, in that green old age of his, he went As the rope fell across the deck of the doomed craft, a shout back to the mountains of Bergen, in Norway, where went up, and those on shore made ready to haul the shipwrecked he had been born, and where his father had driven souls in. It was a perilous situation, but the undertaking was him from the house because he would do nothing successfully accomplished. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.' Acts 27: 44. but play on his violin. There, once more among the " As I listened to this story, it opened the way for my song. great hills, he played as before,, but now with marvel- I soon after was in East Boston, assisting in special meetings, ous fingering and wonderful technique. There at last when the pastor said to me, Throw the line.' Like a flash the he died, and was buried under the shadow of the scene reappeared before me. •On reaching home I took my pencil and wrote the first verse. In ten minutes more I had mountains in which he had wandered. the other three verses composed, and seating myself at the in- Ole Bull, the great violinist, was a man whose soul strument, I seemed to play it off, impromptu to a tune which found its highest expression in music. then seemed all too simple. The chorus came while singing it over, as if by inspiration. Gray, the Farmer's Son, the Great Botanist " I have sung the song before large assemblages, with slides A seventeen-year-old farmer's boy in Oneida County, made to illustrate it. At one time, very singular to relate, I New York, set out one spring day to make a collection had sung the hymn in East Boston at the same church above referred to, from the canvas, when at the close who should ad- of all the flowers that grew on his father's farm. He vance to grasp my hand but the mate of the vessel wrecked on had gone to the local academy, and .he expected to Nantasket Beach. Here are my brother and sister,' he said. study medicine in the Fairfield medical school. His And shortly after they had brought in their mother to com- collection of spring flowers was his entrance into his plete the party, which produced a picture whose coincidental life-work. • grouping I can never easily forget." Eight years from that day he began to write about " I Gave My Life for Thee " what he had found. At that time (1835) there had The words of this song were written by Frances been little study of the wonderful plant life of the Ridley Havergal, and the music by P. P. Bliss. United States. The farmer's boy who studied what " Fiftden years after the hymn was written, Miss Havergal said about it: Yes, " I gave My life for thee " is mine, and was closest at hand — at his very door — found an perhaps it will interest you to hear how nearly it went into the almost unexplored field for greatness. fire instead of nearly all over the world. It was, I think, the Until he was seventy-eight years of age Asa Gray very first thing I wrote which could be called a hymn — written studied the botany of the United States. Lovingly and when I was a young girl in 1859. I did not half realize what painstakingly and with wonderful ability, he observed I was writing about. I was following very far off, always doubting and fearing. I think I had come to Jesus with a the works of nature. trembling faith, but it was a coming " in the press " and behind, He wrote many books that have helped others to never seeing His face or feeling sure that He loved me. understand and love plant life. Gray's Botany is " I scribbled these words in a few minutes on the back of one of the best and most popular scientific books ever a circular, and then read them over and thought, " Well, this is not poetry, anyhow; I won't trouble to write this out." I written. Asa Gray's learning became so great that reached out my hand to put it in the fire, when a sudden im- Harvard University made the farmer's boy professor pulse made me draw it back, and I put it, crumpled and singed, of natural history, and maintained him in that office in my pocket. forty-six years. " Soon after I went to see a dear old woman in the alms- At Harvard, Asa Gray built up a department of house. She began talking to me, as she always did, about her Saviour, and I thought I would see if she, a simple old woman, study that has influenced hundreds of young men to would care for these verses, which I felt sure nobody else would devote their lives to the ,work in which he himself was even care to read. I read them to her, and she was so delighted so profoundly interested. with them that I copied them out and kept them. And now the His books, his papers, his many botanical studies, Master has sent them out in all directions, and I have heard of their being a real blessing to many.' " and his great influence over his pupils formed a life- work of the highest value. Out of the farmer's boy's interest in things close at Poor Boys Who Became Famous hand and out of an earnest, quiet life, Asa Gray built Ole Bull, the Violinist an imperishable fame.— Frederick Houk Law. NE day early in the nineteenth century a blue- 0 eyed Norwegian youth leaped into the Seine in Consider the Lilies Paris and tried to drown himself. He had no money ; 0 LILY fair, tell me the secret of your sweetness, he had been sick; and he was starving. Some one had And yet look at the pool where once you grew, So dismal, slimy, undesired, and stagnant — stolen the violin that he loved, and all else that he No one could live in that dark swamp but you. owned. Fortunately, people saw him leap, and dragged You are so fragrant, stately, pure, and lovely, him out of the water. A rich woman gave him help, 0 who would think, to see your dear, sweet face, bought him a new violin, and set him on his way to That you had lived so long in such a lowly, Wretched, unclean, unhealthful-looking place! fame. When that same Ole Bull died at the age of Then gently came the answer from the flower, seventy, he was known as one of the greatest violinists " I'll tell you now the secret of my life: who had ever lived. I do not stop to look at my surroundings, Ole Bull's whole life was a series of failures and of Nor at this world, so full of sin and strife; triumphs. At various times he met with disappoint- But I just keep my face turned up to heaven, To Him who sees the little sparrow's fall. ment in Italy, in Germany, in France, and in England. He gives me everything for which I ask Him — At other times he was hailed as the world's greatest My purity, my sweetness, and my all. violinist. GERTRUDE M. DOWER. PLANTING the corn and potatoes, Sweeping, and washing the dishes, Helping to scatter the seeds, Bringing the wood from the shed, Feeding the hens and the chicken,, Ironing, sewing, and knitting, Freeing the garden from weeds, Helping lo make up the beds, Driving the cows to the pasture, Taking good care of the baby, Feeding the horse in the stall,— Watching her lest she should fall,— We little children are busy; We little children are busy; Sure, there is work for us all, 0, there is work for us all, Helping papa. Helping mamma.

Spreading the hay in the sunshine, Work makes us cheerful and happy, Raking it up when it's dry, Makes us both active and strong; Picking the apples and peaches Play we enjoy all the better Down in the orchard hard by, When we have labored so long. Picking the grapes in the vineyard, Gladly we help our kind parents, Gathering nuts in the fall,— Quickly we come at their call; We little children are busy; Children should love to be busy,— Yes, there is work for us all, There is much work for us all, Helping papa. Helping papa and mamma. — Anonymous. Making Family Prayers Interesting

NE hOme I often visit follows a custom which missionaries, friends, family, and local church. The O might with profit be observed in many homes. mother explains the need or special interests of The mother gathers the children around her at an the church, such as revival meetings, the raising of hour when interruptions are not likely to occur. Each special funds, or sickness or trouble among friends, one of the circle has a Bible, and the mother has in and the children remember the same in their prayers. addition a geography, a missionary prayer list, and They pray without the slightest embarrassment, and a concordance. the breadth and intelligence of their interests would A regular course of reading is followed, even the put many an older Christian to shame. youngest participating, and the mother explains ref- The six-year-old prays for the Russian famine suf- erences to Oriental customs, animals, costumes, etc., ferers, the Armenians, the people of " what is that as they are suggested by the Scripture reading. country like a boot, mother? 0 yes, the Italians." Interest in missions is in direct proportion to knowl- Frequently he finishes with, " And don't let there be edge. It is an easy and pleasant task to familiarize any more war." oneself with the workers and the stations of one's own These children love the hour for family worship, denomination. The missionary list is next taken up and beg for it with as much interest as some do for and the names for the day are talked over. movies. Such training continued as they grow into • The geography comes in use now as the country is adolescence, will fit them for further work. They pointed out where this or that missionary works, and grow into it so gradually that there is nothing strained any bit of interesting information about the country or precocious about it, and when the time comes they or the workers is eagerly welcomed by the children. are ready to take an active and intelligent part in It is not long before mother and children feel really carrying on church activities.— V. P. Loops. acquainted with the various workers, and are more or less familiar with the needs of schools, hospitals, dis- pensaries, and other branches of the work. Her Investment All this information makes definite prayers a nat- THAT'S the queerest woman I ever saw. She does ural sequence, and after the children's questions have the strangest things! " been answered, they are ready and eager to pray for " Who — Mrs. Curtis t I see her often with her that day's missionary and his station. children." It is most valuable training for children to have a " I should think you did. If I were to give you a chance to meet missionaries and other prominent work- hundred guesses, you couldn't guess where she is ers as often as possible, for they remember a personal- going with them now. She's taking them to southern ity much better than a bit of information about a New Jersey so that they can see the peach trees in stranger. bloom." In this particular home of which I am telling, there " No, really ? " are four children from six to thirteen years of age, " Really. I met her the other day when she was and each one prays intelligently and earnestly for buying the tickets, and I asked her where she was 8 September 5, 1922 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 9

going, and she told me, ' I want the children to see cal comfort, if for no other reason, to fasten the gates the peach orchards in blossom. I want them to get I find across my track. the thrill the beauty of it will give them. Children What are some of these gates ? The bed left unmade aren't fed enough real beauty. Two days spent among till a later hour, the dishes unwashed till needed again, blossoming trees will give them a memory of color and the rake and the hoe thrown down in the garden, the perfume and soul-satisfying beauty that will last letter unfinished in the typing machine, the little jobs them a lifetime.' left for " somebody else," which properly come in my " I never heard any one talk and act like that. own little sphere. She's queer. She dresses very plainly. Last winter Let's finish them now, for we never are sure I asked her if she was going to get a new coat, and That another day's sun will find us right here. she said no. I thought perhaps they couldn't afford These things that we have at hand, then, today, Let's finish them up ere we go on our way l it, but the next thing I saw was the workmen up there Then fasten the gate as you go, little men, building. She said it was a laboratory and studio for And the " colt " will then run in his own proper pen I the children. They make all sorts of things in the F. A. PAGE, laboratory. " The queerest thing she did was to pay old Henry to take her boy into his carpenter shop and let him fool Home Suggestions around there, planing and sawing and working with the old man just like a helper. Those boys of hers - PAINT spots can be easily removed from window have been in many places like that. She makes ar- glass by rubbing with hot, sharp vinegar. rangements for a day or a month for them, and pays To make Japanese lanterns less liable to start fires, the people for taking them in. put a little silver sand in the bottom of them to give " Last summer one of her sons went across the ocean them weight and hold them in position. in care of the purser of one of the big steamers — When the window glass is broken and you are Just so he can get an idea of an Old World city, ready to insert the new pane, just pass a red-hot meet new people, and start some new ideas,' she said. poker slowly over the old putty and it will come out What do you think of that? easily. " I asked her why she spent so much money and went to so much trouble with her children, and she My Little Man in Coveralls said, I look upon it all as an investment for the chil- IN coveralls I saw him last. dren, an investment for their happiness and useful- - The train drew near, with warning blast; ness. The children will realize on it later. I'd rather With good-by kiss and fond embrace, I looked into the -plump, round face — invest the money and time in something that is going My little man in coveralls. to make them bigger and better men,and women, than in bonds and mortgages that might have, the very The train pulled out, bore me away, opposite effect.' With misty eye and naught to say; " Queer woman ! But she has mighty fine children, To work afar I travel on, I'll say that." — Angelo Patri. And leave at home my loving son — My little man in coveralls. Ak . When far away in other climes,— The Lesson of the Barnyard Gate I get too far from home sometimes,— -.7 OME years ago a series of experiences with our It helps that lonesome feeling fine • barnyard gate forcibly impressed me with a val- To think about that boy of mine — uable character lesson. Perhaps I should say it was That little lad in coveralls. the colt, or rather chasing after the colt, that impressed His mother's comfort, help, and stay, the lesson. You know there is nothing like physical He's busy all the livelong day. expression to deepen mental impressions. He feeds the chickens and the cat, Three times a day, or oftener, I would go through Brings wood and water — all of that — that gate to feed and care for the cow, mare, and colt. My little man in coveralls. It was only a few steps from the gate to the barn door, • He likes to toss the " bean bag " too, and hay must needs be carried through by hand. It And play baseball, or pitch horseshoe; was inconvenient to stop and fasten that hasp every But when his mother calls to work, time ! The gate would swing to, or nearly so, behind He comes right on, for he's no shirk — me, so I would think, The colt will not find the gate My little man in coveralls. so slightly ajar, and get out before I can get back. The thought of him that cheers me most But that colt, tired of being cramped in so small a Is that, when breakfast's o'er, his post yard,' just longed for a chance to run up and down Is by his mother, to sit down and around those rows of corn and beans in that And read God's word, in prayer to join — garden just outside her narrow yard. God's little man in coveralls. A little puff of wind showed her the way out the first time. Soon she began to use her nose to open the He grows so fast! I wonder some Will I know him when next I'm home? gate wide enough for exit. In spite of care to push 0 yei3, for soon as greeting's past, the gate shut, and speed to feed and return, several " What did you bring for me? " he'll ask — times the colt got out, and help had to be called to My loving lad in coveralls. return that frolicking youngster to the restricting con- fines of her own yard. What did I bring my little boy? He's looking for a book or toy. A few weary races of this kind convinced me it was He'll find it, too. The largest thing well to fasten the gate behind me. So, whether a job Is father's love and joy I bring be little or big, and whether or not I'm coming right My little man in coveralls. back, I've decided it is best, for the sake of my physi- F. A. PAGE. 10 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR September 5, 1922 Nature and Science Air Travel HE extent to which Ttravel through the Moth-Proof Wool air has been systema- N absolutely moth-proof wool has been discovered. tized and commercial- A The woolen fabric is dipped in a cold solution ized abroad is strik- of the new chemical until thoroughly saturated. It ingly illustrated by the is then rinsed and dried, when it is absolutely un- very fact of the issue appetizing to moths of all ages and of a time-table by the tastes. Air Service of Bremen, 0 0 The discoverer hit upon the idea and still more so by w in an interesting way. He had the contents of that N Wool-oathlg Moth Y heard housewives remark sagely, unique a n d pioneer w " Moths won't touch green cloth." He experimented publication. The book- 0 and found that they did not discriminate against the let is rich in informa- 0 P green; but concluding that an idea which had been tion on various matters E handed down the ages must have had some semblance of detail, and it con- C of fact for a foundation, he experimented upon green tains a map of all the R. 'cloth dyed fifty years or more ago. This proved of no air routes in Europe, interest to the moths. The which in itself is elo- difference in dyes occa- quent testimony to the sioned the difference in the astounding rapid results obtained. Continu- growth attained by avi- Larva of Wool Moth ing his experimentation, he ation on that continent. found to his surprise that it was not the green dye No fewer than twenty- that made the cloth immune, but a yellow dye that four companies are en- was used in connection with the green. gaged in the business, a n d their machines make landings in fifty cities distributed over fifteen countries, from Great Britain to Russia and from Dr. Woodpecker, Tree Surgeon Rumania to Sweden. LTHOUGH the eagle has the emblematic place The number of companies would indicate that at A of honor in the United States, the downy wood- least over some of the routes, competition is keen. pecker is distinguished as the most useful bird citizen, Thus five lines, three French and two British, ply says Enos A. Mills in " The Spell of the Rockies." between London and Paris. These have a schedule Of the eight hundred three kinds of birds in that is regularly maintained from six o'clock in the North America, his services are most helpful to man. morning until four in the afternoon. There are eight He destroys destructive forest insects. Long ago na- planes each day from Paris and nine from London ; ture selected the woodpecker to be the chief caretaker the time taken is from two and a quarter to three — the physician and surgeon — of the tree world. hours, as against eight to ten hours by train-boat-train ; This is a stupendous task. Forests are extensive and and the fare is 300 francs, or around $25. It is pos- are formed of hundreds of species of trees. The Amer- sible to go by way of Paris from London to Marseilles, ican woodpeckers have the supervision of uncounted on the south coast of France, in eight and one-half acres that are forests with more than six hundred hours. kinds of trees. The air lines are great timesavers, and the charges With the exception of the California big tree, each for using them are not excessive. The rates are prob- tree species is preyed upon by scores, and many ably lowest in Germany — that is, in terms of Amer- species by hundreds, of injurious and deadly insects. ican currency. For example, a ticket from Berlin to Five hundred kinds of insects are known to prey upon Leipzig, which is a journey of about one hundred the oak, and a complete count may show a thousand miles, costs 470 marks, or in the neighborhood of $1. kinds. Many of these insects multiply with amazing rapidity, and at all times countless numbers of these aggressive pests form warrior armies with which the woodpecker must constantly contend. 'rep, In this incessant struggle with insects 'ave. tglew=4. the woodpecker has helpful assistance : VITA itli0100ser from many other bird families. Though the woodpecker gives general attention to hundreds of kinds of insects, he spe- cializes on those which injure the tree internally — which require a surgical op- eration to obtain. He is a distinguished specialist ; the instruments for tree sur- gery are intrusted to his keeping, and with these he each year performs innumerable successful surgical operations upon our friends the trees.— Selected. Candle Molding on a Large Scale September 5, 1922 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 11 It is the cause of some surprise that in this matter of the way down, but out it would come ; several times of air travel Europe is so far ahead of the United I could see nothing but the head of the snake, but States. Outside the transcontinental air mail service, with vigorous efforts, it would plunge out again. I do some flights to and from Havana and other points, and not know how long the chick had been trying to occasional five or ten minute pleasure runs at sundry swallow the snake before I came, but I can safely say coast resorts, the air machine has not yet come into that he made fifty trials after I arrived, until at last its own, in a strictly commercial sense, in this country. he accomplished the task. I looked with wonder, ex- Experiments are, however, under way, and it is not pecting to see the snake come forth again, but it was unreasonable to anticipate that, with the immense down to stay. I then expected to see the chick fall territory to be covered and a large population to draw dead from swallowing such a large live snake, but on, commercial aviation will eventually be perma- instead it sharpened its bill on a stone and set to nently and successfully established over wide areas work to find another. of the United States. — The Washington Post. I believe there is a great lesson in this little inci- dent for each of us. This little chick, not endowed with the brains and thinking powers that we have, began a large task, considering its size; and although A First-Aid Doctor it completely failed over fifty times, it never showed HE venerable John Caldwell is connected with signs of discouragement, but continued trying until Tthe Monon Railroad, and renders first aid to it realized its aim and desires. Many of us, after about thirty men of the shops each day. On dark, trying to do something only a few times and failing rainy days he may have as many as eighty patients, each time, are ready to sit down and fold our arms because most accidents occur at such times. in despair, saying it is impossible for us to do it. After work hours, Mr. Caldwell is called upon to May we all attempt great things for the Lord, and serve his neighbors. Though he is called out of bed, have the grit and determination of this chick to stay he serves his callers graciously and without charge. with them until our tasks are finished. He has never taken a cent for his first-aid work, though BYRD BULLARD. he has treated thousands of patients, having been en- gaged in such work for more than fifty years. He says if he were to accept money for his services, Science Silkworm's Rival it would rob him of the pleasure of having done a kindness to some one. He says that " we should give HE silkworm spins its dainty product by emitting one another some little assistance, for there's too much Tthrough tiny apertures in its tail a glutinous fluid selfishness in the world." which immediately, on contact with the air, coagulates He spends most of his time outside of the shops into a thread. If a fluid of the same composition could preparing himself to render better service to others, be manufactured, women would no longer be obliged even though he is now counted as the best informed to depend upon a humble caterpillar for their finest first-aid man in the State of Indiana. A favorite bit dress materials, but chemists have tried in vain to of counsel of his therefore is : " Store your mind with imitate it. useful knowledge, that you may help your fellow Accordingly, a very pure cellulose is used instead, men." and the machinery employed in the manufacture of He practises what he preaches by reading every artificial silk is patterned after that of the silkworm, book on first aid, hygiene, and health which he believes the fluid (held in a tank) being forced by air-pressure will teach him something new. If he wants to know through nozzles which are glass --Wipes drawn so fine any special thing, he makes a special study of that that their apertures have a diameter of only 1-800 of subject. a millimeter. It coagulates into threads on exposure Though Mr. Caldwell is seventy-four, he is hale and to air, and is reeled just as natural silk is reeled from hearty; and he passes on to others his formula for cocoons. keeping young, which is : " The way to keep young By increasing the size of the apertures through is not to worry. After you've done everything you which the cellulose solution is forced, artificial hair is can under the circumstances, let your mind rest easy. produced for upholstery, hats, etc. By changing the Forget yourself and help your fellow men. That's apertures to narrow slits an artificial straw is obtained. the way to keep young, and the way to develop a By the use of wider slits an artificial leather is pro- beautiful expression, even if you weren't born with duced, or a sort of cloth. This process is made to one." yield the thin, transparent sheets used for facing en- velopes (the address showing through) and for wrap- ping candies. The Persevering Chick Artificial silk net and simple forms of silk lace are OT long ago one of our workers came running produced by pouring the cellulose solution into en- N into the house greatly excited, saying, " If you graved lines on a revolving steel cylinder, from which want to see a sight that you have never before seen, the, product is continuously peeled as it issues from a run to the rear yard, quick ! " _ fixing bath. I immediately rushed to the place, and sure enough There has been, ever since the war, a greatly in- saw a sight I had never before seen,— a young chick creased demand for artificial silk in this country. We about a month and a half old trying to swallow, tail now manufacture 80 per cent of all that we consume, first, a young live snake about twelve or fourteen and a single American concern will produce more than inches long. This was a large mouthful indeed for 10,000,000 pounds of it during the present year. The such a small fowl. He would get the snake about half- bulk of it goes into stockings, but it .finds, of course, way down his throat and it would crawl out of his many other uses. Plushes, carpets, and even imitation mouth ; at times he would get it about three fourths furs are made of it. 12 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR September 5, 1922

The Tree Doctor " Having started to he a coward, I kept on being one. Mind you, I had been taught that for every idle word we must give THERE is a man in this country who loves trees account at the day of judgment. And oaths, I believed, were as Joyce Kilmer must have loved them to write the worst kind of idle words. Yet because I feared ridicule his short but exquisitely sweet and expressive poem : if I did not do as others did, I began to curse. Fear is the scourge of a man's soul. I feared the ridicule of my com- " I think that I shall never see panions; and I feared the wrath of God. So I was doubly A poem lovely as a tree — tormented. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed " Then one of my friends, Tom Braddock, died quite sud- Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; denly. He, too, had been one of the swearing kind; and they told me that almost with his last breath he had cried out, " A tree that looks at God all day, Hell must be my portion! ' And lifts her leafy arms to pray; " Tom's death brought me up standing. John Davey,' I A tree that may in summer wear said to myself, you stop right now! From this day on you A nest of robins in her hair; will do none of these evil things!' " I did stop cursing, though 'twas often a hard fight, but " Upon whose bosom snow has lain; still I had no peace. I was in agony of soul, because I had Who intimately lives with rain. been so weak and sinful. Night after night, with only a Poems are made by fools like me, shepherd dog as my companion, I went out into the fields to But only God can make a tree." think — and to pray. . . . I shall always love a dog; for that dumb friend of mine seemed the only creature in the world This rival of Mr. Kilmer as a tree lover is John who understood and sympathized." Davey, a man now five years past the threescore and When twenty years of age, the young man deter- ten allotment, but famous all over the country as mined to learn to read and write, so he heroically set " the tree man," " the tree doctor," and " the father about the task. He says : of tree surgery." He was born in Somersetshire, Eng- " With two books — a New Testament and a little pocket land, and came to this country when twenty-six years dictionary — I taught myself to read. I was up early in the of age. When twenty years of age he could not read morning, walked two miles to work, put in twelve hours at or write. But there was a lesson .that he had learned gardening, and walked two miles home at night. After supper early in life that proved as good a substitute for learn- I went to the chapel; for although I had been brought up an Episcopalian, my new friends at Torquay were Nonconformists. ing as one could find. He learned this lesson when but Every night there were prayer meetings, or clubs, or classes. four years of age, and he learned it planting a potato. And when I got home from these gatherings, I sat down with He says : my two little books and taught myself to read. " One day, when I was not quite four years old, my father " I had a good physique and was proud of my strength. At was planting potatoes, and I asked him to let me plant one, too. fifteen I could lift four bushels of wheat weighing two hundred So he cut a potato in half and had me get a big iron spoon, forty-eight pounds, and carry them up a flight of stairs. But because I was too small to handle a hoe or a shovel. Then even my youth and strength were not equal to the strain of he told me to listen to him carefully, and with great earnest- working practically sixteen hours a day and studying until the ness he said: wee sma' hours of morning. At the end of the second year " Do it right, or don't do it at all! ' I broke down and had to go home. " He showed me how to plant each half of the potato with " But there I soon was able to work in the fields again. And the cut side down; and then, with my iron spoon, I had to many a time, when we would stop for lunch on a rainy day, shovel the dirt back into the trench, which looked as big as a I would creep in under a hawthorn hedge, and with a piece of canal to me. Through the weeks that followed I tugged pails bread in one hand and my Testament in the other, study while of water to put on my two plants. I kept the weeds away. I ate. About that time, some one gave me a little hymn book. And always my father would repeat to me, Do it right, son; And then, no owner of a great library felt richer than I did or don't do it at all! ' with my three little books." " We do not plant potatoes that way now, at least not in Some years later he came to America, and made this country. But it was the right way then. And because, in all the care I gave them, I followed my father's injunction a success, winning promotions wherever he went ; and more faithfully than he himself had time to follow it, my two he says it was all due to his adherence to the lesson his plantings yielded the finest potatoes in the whole garden. That father taught him, " Do it right, or don't do it at all." lesson has stayed with me for more than seventy years." He stuck pretty close to farm work, for he loved But unfortunately the lad missed heeding this im- growing things ; though he had other tempting offers. portant lesson when he was thirteen years of age, and He was now possessed with an insatiable desire for thereby brought himself into serious trouble. His an education, and he pursued that goal with praise- mother having died, the father placed two of the boys worthy zeal. While acting as janitor at a certain out with other farmers. At the place where John school for his tuition, he followed a severe program, went he at first had a room to himself, then later he which he described thus: had to share it with a teamster, a rough fellow given " I used to get up at three o'clock in the morning, wash in to cursing and swearing. Mr. Davey, in recalling this ice-cold water, put on my clothes, and race a mile in the frosty darkness. Then back to my room, where I would wrap the early experience, says: blankets around me, for I bad no fire, and study until it was " I'll never forget the first night he was there. My mother time for me to go and attend to my duties as janitor of the was a deeply religious woman, and had brought me up to say school. my prayers every night. But when it came to kneeling down " Was it a hardship, No! It was Opportunity! It was the in front of a fellow like that teamster, I didn't know what to thing for which I had come to America — the chance to fit do. I thought it would be a sin not to pray, yet I expected myself for a richer and broader life." that he would curse me if I did. " I waited until he was in bed and the light was out. Then But his strenuous work has been handsomely re- I quietly got down on my knees beside the bed. Receiving no warded in his own fuller enjoyment of life, and in his response to his talk, he said: Where are you, lade' . . . great service to others. He has saved many a prize No answer. . . . Putting out his hand, he touched my head, tree to its owner ; and he can tell all kinds of interest- and realized what I was doing. He was silent until I got into bed. Then, in a shaking voice, he made some apology for his ing tree stories ; but he counts none more interesting cursing." than that of the girdled tree of Piqua, Ohio. He says : " Oh, I had my chance then! If I hadn't turned coward, " You know that when a tree has been girdled,— that is, had that man would have respected me, as any man respects hon- a section of the bark cut away entirely around the tree,— it esty and courage.* But the next night, coward that I was, I dies. The reason is that after the sap has traveled up through crawled into bed without kneeling down; and I said no more the trunk and out to all the leaves, where it is changed chem- prayers for a long and bitter time to come. ically, part of it flows back down the tree, just inside the bark, September 5, 1922 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 13

to feed the roots so that they will grow. If a ring of bark is Dr. Tigert is interested in, education, not only through birth, removed, the sap does not pass this exposed circle, the roots but through environment. He was born in Vanderbilt Uni- fail to receive the elements they need for growth, and the tree versity, in one of the large dormitories, Wesley Hall, in 1882, slowly dies. It really bleeds to death. his mother being Amelia McTyeire, daughter of the president. " Well, at Piqua, a man said to me, Mr. Davey, I've got His home training was of a very high order. He also attended something to show you that I'll bet you can't account for. I've public school in 1890 at Kansas City, Missouri, where his got you stumped this time.' father was pastor of a church, and in 1894 at Nashville. " I wasn't worried, because I never yet had seen anything When he was fourteen, he was sent to an excellent private about the condition of a tree which I couldn't at least account school for four years, where he was prepared for Vanderbilt for. But when I saw what he had to show me, I thought for University, from which he was graduated in 1904. a while that he did have me stumped. It was a beech tree In boyhood and youth Dr. Tigert was an honor winner. He which had been girdled some time before, but which was still took the entrance prize in Latin and Greek when he entered living. I examined the exposed section carefully, looking for Vanderbilt University, made the valedictory address when he bridges; ' that is, small strips of inner bark which might not was graduated, and won the first Rhodes scholarship for Tennes- have been cut quite through. A tree will fight so hard for its see. This took him to Oxford University, England, whence he life that if even a few little strips of this bark are left it will emerged an A. M. in the honor school of jurisprudence in 1907 use them as conduits for the sap, and will set to work to at the age of twenty-five. strengthen and widen them. It is heroic — and pathetic. Culture of heart and head and health have been wisely bal- " But even the most careful examination failed to reveal a anced in the training of Dr. Tigert. At college he made a shred of bark bridging the gap on this 'beech tree. I was great record in tennis, cricket, and baseball, as well as for his puzzled. I never had seen anything like it. By all the laws intellectual and spiritual caliber. of nature, that tree should have been dead! But there it As the United States Commissioner of Education, he is espe- stood in fairly good condition. cially 'concerned with the promotion of better rural education " I stepped away to look at it from a little distance. An- and of industrial training, and with the removal of the stigma other beech was growing near it, and I had noticed that some of illiteracy which still rests upon this country, despite the of the roots of this second beech crossed the roots of the first decrease from 7.7 per cent in 1910 to 6 per cent in 1920. tree. Well, the tree which had not been injured, and whose Dr. Tigert frankly calls public attention to this condition, in roots touched those of his brother who had received a mortal the spirit of pure patriotism, braving the displeasure of those wound, was ministering to that brother! Through this contact who would brand him as less patriotic than themselves because he was giving to his stricken neighbor a share of his own life- of his courage and honesty. blood! And the tree which should have been (lead was actually in better condition than the other one. " That was the most wonderful and beautiful thing I ever saw in nature. It was like the human brother who gives his Texts Illustrated blood to save the life of a dying man. Do you wonder that I There Shall Be Added (Matt. 8: 88) love trees? Do you wonder Unit I lift my hat in reverence be- A YOUNG man who had come to honor declared : fore them? Do you wonder that I am grateful if I have been able to serve them?" " I was like a purchaser who went to a jeweler and bought a set of costly gems, and the jeweler said Mr. Davey's two sons are engaged in business with to him, ' When any one chooses jewels so precious as him, and they are planning to reach the million-dollar these, we always throw in the casket.' And so I mark this year. Mr. Davey, in speaking to boys or sought first the kingdom of God, and these other men who seem to be handicapped, says: things have been added — friends, position, influence, " If you ever get discouraged, I want you to remember John Davey, who didn't know how to read until he was twenty years and many blessings." old! John Davey hasn't accumulated great riches. His hands Confessing Before Men (Matt. 10: 82) have known plenty of hard toil. He is just a plain old fellow Mr. Moody said that " in a prayer meeting in Boston without any frills. But he has all the material comforts any a little Norwegian boy, who could speak only broken man needs. He has friends, high and low — and he likes to have both kinds. Above all, he has the satisfaction of a life- English, got up and said : If I tell the world about time of enthusiastic enjoyment of work! And at seventy-five, Christ, He will tell the Father about me.' That wrote even though he does have to go to bed-in a rocking-chair now, itself upon my heart, and I have never forgotten what he is looking forward to more years of blessed work. For that little boy said." honest work, to a good purpose, is the greatest joy in life." " If I tell the world," yes, that is what it means to confess Christ. Our New Commissioner of Education Our Lamp (Ps. 119: 11) The man came to read the gas meter. We had been HORTLY after President Harding assumed the housecleaning the cellar, and some pails were left on S duties of his high office, he appointed Dr. J. J. the steps. We warned him to be careful, and as he Tigert Commissioner of Education, to take the place flashed on the lamp which he carried with him, he said : of Dr. P. P. Claxton, who had served the country in " We have to carry a lamp with us, for if not we could that capacity for a number of years. not see, coming into dark places out of the sunlight. Before the war Professor Tigert occupied the chair Yesterday in all probability I should have been killed of philosophy in the University of Kentucky. During if I had failed to have my lamp with me. I entered the war he served as organizer and instructor of edu- a home which was undergoing repairs, and the people cational classes among the sailors for the Y. M. C. A. never thought to tell me that the cellar stairs had been His work was so efficient that on his return to this removed. I was just putting my foot out to go down, country in 1921 he was given the highest educational when the lamp revealed my danger in time to save position in the land. me from falling to the concrete floor below." An interesting sketch of his early career, as given We are apt to meet many such dangers in our in the Christian Endeavor World, follows : spiritual life, but God has provided us with a lamp. Both his father, Bishop Tigert, and his maternal grand- " Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto father, Bishop McTyeire, were religious leaders of eminence. Bishop MeTyeire was the founder of Vanderbilt University, my path." This lamp will reveal to us the dangers Nashville, Tennessee, of which he was the first president and that lie in our pathway. Some refuse to make use of for which he secured from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt the lamp which God has provided, and they are an endowment fund of one million dollars. He was an author liable to meet danger and death. But they who are of high repute. wise always take the light with them. Like David So was Bishop Tigert, the father of Dr. J. J. Tigert, who was professor of mental and moral philosophy at Vanderbilt they can say, " Thy word have I hid in mine heart, University and became the son-in-law of Bishop McTyeire. that I might not sin against Thee." 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR September 5, 1922

The great aquarium at Brighton, England, which fifty Information Bureau years ago was one of the most popular places of enter- tainment at that popular seaside resort, has been closed, What are five synonyms for the word " acquit "? and the building will be used as a garage by a company that runs chars-a-bancs and motor busses for " trippers " Discharge, requite, release, absolve, and clear. and sight-seers. Here is a text for a discourse on the Who was Noah Webster? Daniel Webster? mutations of the popular taste. In Victorian times people Noah Webster was an American lexicographer, while were interested in knowing more. At Brighton they Daniel Webster was a statesman and orator. liked to see and learn about the strange sea creatures in the huge tanks of the aquarium. Elsewhere they went What is the area of the island of New Guinea? to museums, art galleries, and the like, partly no doubt New Guinea, next to Australia in size, has an area of from a sense of duty, but partly too because they liked 334,997 square miles. to go. Nowadays they would rather ride about swiftly in the open air and amuse themselves in restaurant or dance When is Leif Ericson said to have discovered America? hall. Leif Ericson is thought to have landed on the coast of Labrador in the year 1000 A. D. Some students of Yale College once tried to play a joke on the old president of the college. They removed On which side of the Mississippi River is New Orleans? the Bible from the desk and put a dictionary in its place. New Orleans is situated on both banks of the Missis- Next morning at chapel the president announced that he sippi River. would read the one hundred nineteenth psalm. He Where is the United States Naval Academy located? opened the dictionary, and so perfectly had he committed the psalm, that no one ever knew that the change had At Annapolis, Maryland. been made, except the president himself and those who In what mineral is Illinois richest? had removed the Bible from its accustomed place. It is Illinois has the largest coal areas of any State. All well to be prepared for any emergency. of these are soft coal. Manuel Nunes, inventor of the ukulele, the musical How is temperature commonly represented on a map? instrument of Hawaii, died at his home in Honolulu on What is the name given to such a map? July 12, of heart disease after a long illness. His death brought to light the fact that, contrary to general belief, Temperature is represented by isothermal lines, or the ukulele was known to the Hawaiians only after the lines connecting all places having the same temperature. advent of the white man. Nunes was born in Funchal, Such a map or chart is called an isothermal chart. Madeira, in 1 8 43, and came to the islands in 1 8 7 8. The When was iodine discovered? following year he fashioned a rude, guitar-like instru- ment from a cigar box and a few strings. It was from It was discovered in 1812 by B. Courtois. In 1815 it this that the ukulele was evolved. was shown to be an element. What makes cut glass so heavy? It is more than one third lead, which is a very heavy The Sabbath School metal. Why do matches so readily gather dampness? Young People's Lesson It is because of the glue in the paste or covering mix- ture of the head. It readily absorbs moisture, becoming too soft for friction to cause ignition. Recently France XII - Jacob in the Home of Laban has placed on the market a kind of match under the name " naiads " that is unaffected by dampness. (September 16) LESSON SCRIPTURE: Genesis. 29, 30, 31. From Here and There LESSON HELP: " Patriarchs and Prophets," pp. 188-194. Questions A British Guiana stamp issued in 1856, recently sold Jacob Comes to Haran in Paris for 300,000 francs, equivalent to about $2 5,0 0 0, 1. What great contrast is seen in the manner of the ar- even at the present low rate of French exchange. rival of Jacob in Haran and that of Abraham's servant a hundred years before? Gen. 29: 1; 24: 10. Out of twenty students in our training school at 2. When Jacob arrived in Mesopotamia, what took place? Tavastehus, Finland, twelve entered the canvassing field. Gen. 29: 2-8. They have met with success, and are planning to return 3. Describe the meeting of Jacob with Rachel and her to school in the fall. father. Verses 9-13. Near Phoenix, Arizona, is the Arizona Academy. From Jacob Serves Laban the report this school seems to be making progress in the 4. After Jacob had been there a month, into what contract right way. Its vocational features appeal to those who with Laban did he enter? Verses 14-19. know that the hand as well as the mind must be trained, 5. What evil trait is seen in Lahan's method of carrying out to insure life success. the contract? Verses 21-28. Note 1. Why not keep one or two new books on hand to read 6. After Jacob had served Laban twenty years, what re- on especially warm days, when it seems life is hardly quest did he make? Gen. 30: 25, 26. worth living? If you become absorbed in some book, you Jacob Prospers forget about the weather, and life flows along smoothly. 7. What arrangement was finally made? Verses 27-34. Plan for your younger brothers and sisters, too. 8. When Jacob prospered, what was the attitude of Laban Captain Amundsen, the Norwegian arctic explorer, is and his sons toward him? Gen. 31: 1, 2. on the point of attempting an air flight across the polar 9. In Jacob's perplexity, what did God instruct him to do? regions. He is now in Alaska, from the northern shore Verses 3, 13. of which, at Point Barrow, he expects to begin his flight. 10. How did Rachel and Leah feel in regard to the matter? According to his latest plans he will try to land in Spitz- Verses 4-7, 14-16. Note 2. bergen, which is more than two thousand miles from his Jacob Leaves Haran starting-point. His monoplane is fitted to descend on 11. What did Jacob then do? When Laban heard of it, what land, water, or ice. Captain Amundsen will endeavor to course did he take? Verses 17-23. fly directly across the north pole, but the chief value of 12. How did the Lord cause Laban to change his purpose? his exploration - if he succeeds - will not be a visit to Verses 25-29. that spot, but a general inspection of the whole polar 13. Of what did Jacob remind Laban during their parting area and the discovery of any land masses that may exist interview? Why had Jacob endured these hardships so long? in the unvisited part. Verses 38-42. Note 3. September 5, 1922 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 15

14. 'What agreement did Jacob and Laban finally make? The Lord's Supper Verses 44, 45, 51, 52. 12. On what occasion was the ordinance of the Lord's Sup- Notes per instituted? 1 Cor. 11: 23. 13. What three things did Jesus do before giving them the " The selfish and grasping Laban, desiring to retain so 1. bread to eat? Matt. 26: 26. valuable a helper, practised a cruel deception in substituting 14. What did He say as He passed it to them? 1 Cor. 11: 24. Leah for Rachel. The fact that Leah herself was a party to 15. What was the next step in this ordinance? Verse 25. the cheat, caused Jacob to feel that he could not love her. His 16. What is shown each time the Lord's Supper is eaten? indignant rebuke to Laban was met with the offer of Rachel Verse 26. for another seven years' service. But the father insisted that 17. What preparation should be made for this service? Leah should not be discarded, since this would bring disgrace Verses 27-29. Note 7. upon the family. Jacob was thus placed in a most painful and 18. What events are commemorated by the ordinances of the. trying position; he finally decided to retain Leah and marry Lord's Supper and baptism? Note 8. Rachel. Rachel was ever the one best loved; but his preference for her excited envy and jealousy, and his life was embittered Fix in Mind by the rivalry between the sister-wives."- "Patriarchs and The significance of each ordinance. Prophets," pp. 189, 190. The blessings attending its observance. 2. " In early times, custom required the bridegroom, before The heart preparation that should precede the observance of the ratification of a marriage engagement, to pay a sum of each. money or its equivalent in other property, according to his Notes circumstances, to the father of his wife. . . . In the case of 1. True repentance and genuine faith in Christ as the Saviour, both Rachel and Leah, however, Laban selfishly retained the precede baptism. The gift of the Spirit is promised to those dowry that should have been given them; they referred to this who follow the example of Jesus. when they said, just before the removal from Mesopotamia, 2. " Christ has made baptism the sign of entrance to His He hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.' " spiritual kingdom. . . . Those who are baptized in the three- -Id., pp. 188, 189. fold name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, at the 3. " Jacob would have left his crafty kinsman long before, very entrance of their Christian life declare publicly that they but for the fear of encountering Esau. Now he felt that he have forsaken the service of Satan, and have become members was in danger from the sons of Laban, who, looking upon his of the royal family, children of the heavenly King." -" Testi- wealth as their own, might endeavor to secure it by violence. monies for the Church," Vol. VI, p. 91. He was in great perplexity and distress, not knowing which way 3. " Baptism is a gospel ordinance commemorating the death, to turn. But mindful of the gracious Bethel promise, he carried burial, and resurrection of Christ. In baptism public testimony his case to God, and sought direction from Him. In a dream is given to the effect that the one baptized has been crucified his prayer was answered: Return unto the land of thy fathers, with Christ, buried with Him, and is raised with Him to walk and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.' "-Id., p. 198. in newness of life."-"Bible Readings for the Home Circle," p. 101. " Baptism is a most sacred and important ordinance, and there should be a thorough understanding as to its meaning. Intermediate Lesson It means repentance for sin, and the entrance upon a new life in Christ Jesus. There should be no undue haste to receive the ordinance."-" Testimonies for the Church," Vol. VI, XII - The Ordinances of the Lord's House p. 93. 4. " The vows which we take upon ourselves in baptism (September 16) embrace much. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we are buried in the likeness of Christ's death, MEMORY VERSE: " This do in remembrance of Me." Luke 22: 19. and raised in the likeness of His resurrection, and we are to live a new life. Our life is to be bound up with the life of LESSON HELP: " The Desire of Ages," pp. 109-111, 642-661. Christ. Henceforth the believer is to bear in mind that he is " You call Me Lord, and Master too: dedicated to God, to Christ, and to the Holy Spirit. He is to Then do as I have done to you; make all worldly considerations secondary to this new relation. All My commands and counsel heed, Publicly he has declared that he will no longer live in pride And show your love by word and deed. and self-indulgence. He is no longer to live a careless, in- different life. He has made a covenant with God." - Id., pp. 98, 99. " Ye shall be happy if ye know 5. " At a feast it was an Oriental custom for servants or And do these things by faith, below; slaves to wash the feet of guests. (See 1 Sam. 25: 40, 41.) For I'll protect you till I come, It was not the custom, however, of equals to wash the feet of And then I'll take you to your home." equals, much less for superiors to wash the feet of inferiors_ Questions Butthis is the very thing that Christ did when He washed the- disciples' feet, and instituted the ordinance of feet-washing-. Baptism In this lies the lesson of humility and willingness to serve which 1. Before His ascension to heaven, what work did Jesus He designed to teach."-"Bible Readings for the Home appoint His disciples to do? Matt. 28: 19. Circle," p. 665. 2. In what ordinance had He already set the example? 6. Note the change which this ordinance of humility wrought Matt. 3: 13. in the spirit of the disciples. " When the disciples entered the 3. What remarkable experience attended the baptism of supper room, their hearts were full of resentful feelings. Judas Jesus? Verses 16, 17. pressed next to Christ on the left side; John was on the right. 4. What promise is made to those who repent and are If there was a highest place, Judas was determined to have it, baptized? Acts 2: 38. Note 1. and that place was thought to be next to Christ. And Judas 5. What is the meaning of the ordinance of baptism? Rom. was a traitor." - " The Desire of Ages," p. 644. When Jesus 6: 11. Note 2. had washed their feet, " this action opened the eyes of the 6. What experience in the life of Christ does baptism disciples. Bitter shame and humiliation filled their hearts. commemorate? Verses 4, 5. Note 3. They understood the unspoken rebuke, and saw themselves in 7. After being buried in baptism, what should we hence- altogether a new light."-Ibid. forth not serve? Verse 6. Note 4. 7. " The last expression shows what is meant by eating and drinking unworthily. It is not the one who has a deep sense of The Ordinance of Humility his sinfulness and of his unworthiness of God's mercy and 8. What ceremony was customary at Oriental feasts? grace, but he who does not discern that Christ died for his Note 5. sins - who is not penitent - that eats and drinks unworthily." 9. How did Jesus teach the proud disciples that they should -"Bible Readings for the Home Circle," p. esteem it a privilege to serve others? John 13: 1-5. Note 6. 8. The bread represents the broken body of Jesus; the wine, 10. How did Peter feel about the Saviour's washing his feet? His blood shed for us. Verses 6-10. 11. What instruction did Jesus give concerning His example? " THE songs we sing and the smile we wear Verses 12-16. Make the sunshine everywhere." 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR September ..1192.2

, Notice It does not take a very big thing to spoil one's use,- HIS is the last number of the INSTRUCTOR upon fulness in life. There was a beautiful ship, which, hadi Twhich the present editor's name will appear on been built at great expense and fitted with every app the editorial staff, as by her request she has been re- pointment for the comfort and convenience of its pas- leased from the work. sengers; but there was a leak below the water line;, Miss Lora Clement, as assistant editor, will carry which was overlooked or neglected, and when the ship the work temporarily. All communications in refer- was at sea it filled with water and sank to the bottom. ence to contributions to the INSTRUCTOR should there- Of what use then was the ship with all its fine equip- fore be addressed to Miss Clement, until further ment ? notice. F. D. C. Young man, young woman, if you could know what your acquaintances say of you, would you find your- self in the " but " class? It is a question worth seri- ously considering. We may be born with inherited An Interesting Letter faults of disposition, but we do not need to carry them N interesting word was received from a young through life. We can, we must, by the grace of God, A man in Haverhill, Massachusetts, who said : rid ourselves of these fatal encumbrances. I am sending just a word to tell you that I am only twenty, L. A. SMITH. but 'lave smoked quite a little. However, upon reading your paper of March 14, and seeing the cartoons on pages 6 and 11, I decided to stop while I could, also because I am going to school to study medicine, and realize that tobacco hinders Courtesy at Church mental development. I have not smoked for a month, and do not intend to again. Pass this along; it may help some one else. ID it ever occur to you that you have a responsi- CARL V. MORSE. D bility to the church akin to the responsibility in your hone ? What do you do at home when you see a book lying on the floor, or pieces of paper scattered about, or a picture hanging topsy-turvy on the wall? " Sister Grouch " Burned How do you receive guests when they call? Do you URING a recent evangelistic campaign in Kansas take the best rocker, place it in the doorway, and D City, Missouri, it was decided to burn " Old permit the guest to climb over you? At dinner do. Sister Grouch." So " a dummy representing the you make a grab for the soup before your guests are, ' Spirit of Gossip, Revenge, and other maladies common served? Do you leave the table before your guests• to earthly beings, was placed before the audience. have completed their meal, rush out of the house and' After being thoroughly consigned to lowest depths by down the street ? " Preposterous ! Nonsense! " you' the evangelist, Sister Grouch was placed at the door. say. Each person put into her mouth, as he passed out, a This is precisely what some people do at their church slip of paper on which he had written his particular home. Come, wake up ! The church is yours, get grouch. The old hag was then burned — grouches under your responsibility, be at home to strangers and all. Quietly some of the youngsters purchased an and visitors who attend. Be as courteous to every urn. In this they placed the ashes of the departed other member of the church family as you are to sister. On. the closing night of the campaign the members of your own family in your own home.— evangelist presented to the pastor this urn as a me- , The Assistant Pastor. mento of the occasion and its significance." It is desirable that Sister Grouch should not be allowed in any church ; but the surest way to get rid of her unhappy work in the church, is to let the Holy Spirit burn every vestige of her spirit out of each individual heart.

" But —

E is a fine fellow, good-hearted, a splendid work- man, but — " How often language similar to this is used in con- versation when reference is made to some young man -or young woman. The individuals to whom such a description might apply constitute a large class. Here is a young man who has abilities and prospects that give promise of a brilliant career ; " but," says one who knows him, " he doesn't know anything about A Garden Is a Little Child handling money. He spends more than he earns, and is continually in debt." Or perhaps he says, " He has A GARDEN is a little child That must be tended; such a quick temper that he is always getting into Befriended; trouble with people," etc. Mended. Here is a young woman who is well qualified to fill Befriended from sly weeds; a useful position in society ; " but — " she seems to Mended with more seeds; Tended. 0, near and far •care for nothing in life but to have a good time. Or They are the same! Not worth it, to your view? she has some other failing which, like the dead fly in But think of what a comfort gardens are the ointment, spoils what she might otherwise be When they're grown up, and they take care of you! .and do. — Youth's Companion.