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LIGHT The writer of Psalm 119:130 re- corded an ageless truth—"The entrance of thy words giveth light." How often, though, the only key that would fit the lock to the entrance of truth has been the fearless per- formance of a kindness in the shadows of personal danger. Young people living in the lands of broad freedoms and opportunities need often to remind themselves that such blessings are not the lot of youth everywhere. Such exploits of courage as portrayed in "The Heretic," our lead story, are products of our time and not of some past age of darkness. Christian youth will rejoice in the turn of events in Miss Lowry's story. All of us would do well to reflect that while the last chapter in the story of the gospel commission will increase the instances of Satan's roar, the EVA LUOMA Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save. And that "saving" has a double mean- ing.

How Do You Vote?-1 SIMPLICITY Some people miss the forest for looking at the trees, while others miss the Did Jesus set an example in prayer? "And in the trees for looking at the forest. Happy is the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and man who can see both. Perhaps the photo- departed into a solitary place, and there prayed."' graphic mind is a sharp aid in knowing which to look for, the trees or the wood. Our cover, Was Daniel too busy with worry and the affairs of state to of course, shows neither. But we think that pray? "He kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, the Ewing Galloway photographer who found and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime." simple beauty in a few grasses at water's edge, What program did David follow? "Evening, and morning, and with dappled clouds above, illustrates what at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice."' we mean. Were the Bereans so burdened with making a living that NEED "You Don't Have to Be Good," page they had no time to study the Scriptures? "They received the 11, may be a provocative title until you have word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures read the first paragraph of Eda A. Reid's daily, whether those things were so." important study. To miss the deeper meaning Did you ever say, "I haven't time to study my Bible every of her thesis is to invite tragedy. day. I cannot find time for private devotions"? Then how do you find time to provide for your food and raiment? Perhaps GUNS In next week's issue will be some- thing in common with this week's Family you reply, "That's the answer—I work so hard to provide these Fare item. Lalia Mitchell Thornton provides necessary things that no time is left for the other." a poem entitled, "Open Season." But have you not read, "Man shall not live by bread alone"? Have you not read, "Therefore take no thought, saying, What AUSTRALIA Margaret Clarke writes: "Some- shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we time when you are writing to Wilma Ross be clothed? . . . But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his Westphal, will you please tell her she has two ardent fans and an appreciative mother righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you"? of same? [Mrs. Clarke refers to the author How do you vote? For temporal things only? Or for the of the popular Jeanie stories, which ran the eternal? first of this year.] Incidently, why limit your readers to those of fifteen to thirty years? Eight to eighty would be nearer the mark." Mark 1:35. While the teen-agers and twenty-year-olds 2 Dan. 6:10. are the audience of our primary aim, we do Ps. 55:17. 4 Acts 17:11. not mind if the eighty-year-olds read the 5 Matt. 4:4. INSTRUCTOR! Even a centenarian could find Matt. 6:31-33. 6 something of interest in its pages. We've been "Read by the Young in Heart for More Than a Century."

THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Vol. 104, No. 42 October 16, 1956

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MOFFITT The post office will not forward second-class matter even though you leave a forwarding address. Send both the old Circulation Manager R. J. CHRISTIAN and the new address to THE Yount's lurrsucroa before you move. 2 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Jorge was caught in an exasperating dilemma At once he surmised what had hap- pened. In his mind's eye he could see the with no apparent solution that was safe. busy self-appointed executioners sprinkling gasoline along the thatch walls of his abode. They had applied a lighted match to the fuel, and the whole building had exploded into flames, shooting into the air a shower of sparks like a giant dis- play of fireworks. The dry palm fronds forming the roof, with their reserves of natural oil, added fuel to the fire that The Heretic was devouring the casita (little hut). Eying his fiery-furnace prison, Jorge discovered that the roof was ready to cave in on his unprotected head and the By ELENA LOW RY walls were a mass of glowing embers. "Dear God, help me!" he anxiously whis- pered. Tremblingly he looked for the weakest spot, a place where the unre- lenting fire had burned the fiercest, and VIGOROUSLY rap- then, gritting his teeth, he broke through ping on the gray, the wall. weather-beaten door, Lest he be discovered by his persecutors, the tall man nervously who stood to one side gloating like cats paced back and forth over a recently caught mouse, Jorge like a lion in a cage, stealthily stole down to the water's edge, impatiently waiting avoiding the weird, changing patterns for the occupant of cast on the ground by the flickering light the house to appear. of the dying fire. Rousing Carlos and As the door swung Jose—his two brawny paddlers, who had open the man on the been using the dugout canoe as a bed step hissed, "Juan, who's the fellow that's chamber—Jorge whispered, "Sh! Quick, sleeping in the old hut of yours?" push over to the other side of the rio." "Oh, I don't know. He said his name Jorge was caught in an exasperating was Jorge, and I guess that he's peddling .dilemma: the danger of being killed by some kind of books. Why?" his enemies if he stayed nearby was al- Stepping closer, the visitor hoarsely most as great as traveling downstream, whispered, "He's against our religion. where they might be dashed to pieces by Those books that he is selling are full of the racing rapids, shooting the frail bark false beliefs. You know, I think that we brow because the tough, fibrous, tropical would be doing God a great favor if vines twining like immense corkscrews tonight we did away with that young good- around the tall trees and the dense un- for-nothing heretic." dergrowth had cut off all circulation of Quickly entering the house, the two fresh air. Being very tired and drowsy, Spanish men drew their chairs together he immediately hung his hammock in the and laid plans for the deadly work of the small hut and fell into a deep and re- evening. freshing sleep, not realizing that his host II J Canoeing down one of the numerous and a prejudiced neighbor were planning water highways of Colombia, Jorge, a to slay him while he slept. South American colporteur, had can- Hours later, the sound of sizzling and vassed all the scattered huts lining the crackling, accompanied by a sensation of banks of the wide, muddy river. As the being roasted alive, awakened Jorge. His last slanting rays of the summer sun horrified eyes beheld a mass of flames warned him of the approaching night, he leaping and dancing like orange fiends. had disembarked at one of the lowly A tongue of fire licked at him, startling cabins seeking a place where he could him out of the hypnotic daze produced spend the night. by the devouring flames. He leaped to "I'm sorry, but our very small house the ground, whipped out his jackknife, is already crowded until the seams are slashed the strong ropes that held the almost bursting, but if you would like hammock, and folding it under his arm, to"—and the man paused to wave his ran swiftly to the door, only to find it hand—"you can use that old hut over securely barred. yonder." All the long, sultry afternoon Jorge had traveled down the brown, churning river under the rays of a torrid sun. No cooling breeze had caressed his heated ! .1 11111111111 \ _ [The author was born of missionary parents in Medellin, 0111f, —7Trfil I Colombia, South America. Last spring, when this story „,,, was submitted to the Insraucroa, she was completing her HARRY BAERG, ARTIST prenursing studies at Emmanuel Missionary College. She is now in nurses' training at the Hinsdale Sanitarium and The roof was ready to cave in any time, and the walls were a mass of glowing embers. Looking for the Hospital.] weakest spot, a place where the fire had burned the fiercest, he gritted his teeth and pushed through.

OCTOBER 16, 1956 3 into treacherously submerged rocks. Be- paddles that would announce the arrival kill last night have saved my child. There cause of these dangers, the natives do not of the injured boy. must be something better about your canoe during the dark hours of the night. The fang marks on the boy's flesh religion than mine. Teach me how to serve Carefully and speedily paddling stood out like two crimson decimal your God." through the inky darkness, the three points on white paper. Jorge slit the How thankful Jorge was that he could men soon grounded on a large, flat sand- wound, sucked out as much of the poison lead another needy person to Christ. All bar that formed an island in the middle as possible; then, applying the medicine, morning he taught God's words of life to of the river. "At least I feel a little safer he offered a prayer for the child's re- this man, who, like a parched plant, drank here. I guess there isn't much danger of covery and sent him back to his anxiously deeply of the spiritual water. In the after- those people stumbling over me now that waiting parents. noon Jorge reluctantly resumed his jour- I have put some water between us," The lapping of water against the prow ney. thought a grateful Jorge, as he busily en- of a swiftly approaching boat awakened Many weeks later the colporteur was gaged in setting up the folding cot he al- the colporteur just as the first silvery back in the same neighborhood making ways carried for emergency use. streaks of light burst over the treetops. deliveries. Jorge's one-time enemy was Like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed- Jorge's first thoughts were, "That man overjoyed to see him and to receive the nego, he had been through the fire, and is coming over to take my life. Since I books he had ordered. The best room in God had sent His angels to protect and wasn't burned last night he is afraid that the house was given to this bearer of deliver His faithful servant from the I will testify against him in court for his God's Word to sleep in, and the most midst of the blaze. Not a hair on his evil deed." With a pounding heart, Jorge delectable meals were• served to satisfy head was singed, nor had the smell of waited for the craft to land. his hunger. Jorge was treated like a king, smoke penetrated his clothing. Jorge The visitor stepped out, walked slowly but what brought the most joy to his heart could enthusiastically testify to the truth forward, and with tears in his eyes he was the decision of Juan, "I'm going to of Isaiah 43:2: "When thou walkest falteringly spoke, "You whom I tried to keep the commandments of your God." through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." "Jose, you sit up and watch for awhile, and then Carlos can take over the watch. Let me know if anyone follows us be- cause someone might have seen me es- cape. We'll leave just as soon as we can in the morning," instructed Jorge as he Pledge itot Seft9 settled down to try to resume his broken slumber. To Jorge the night seemed deathly By ROY E. BEARD silent, as if the whole world were holding its breath, waiting for an outstanding event to occur. ROM the mess tent, which Suddenly a woman's scream of an- was guish pierced the stillness, followed by substituting for a chapel, men's excited shouts. Jorge's heart plum- Et rang the strains of a familiar meted within: trm, as he jerked to a sit- hymn, "I will follow Thee, ting position and peered across the wa- my Saviour." However, there was a ter. "I *onder'- if they have discovered strangeness about the words. Inside, a my flight," thought Jorge. "No, they thin, emaciated Korean lad was lustily sound more as if someone had been hurt, singing and directing a choir of amazed or maybe they have received bad news. GI's. He sang in Korean and we sang Carlos, why don't you skim over and in English. see what has happened?" These characters are Korean for "Faith." A few minutes passed, each an hour Earlier, he had slipped into the mess long, before Carlos returned with the tent and had taken his place with the fa- had opened their books, he shyly lifted news, "Senor, the owner of the casita that tigue-attired soldiers clustered around burned down is all excited because his the tables. Sitting reverently during the his hand and began to direct. Hesitantly, little boy has just been bitten by a poi- song service, lesson study, and the chap- we joined his song. It was a strange but sonous snake, and he's afraid that the lain's sermon, he occasionally nodded his beautiful rendition of the promise, "I child is dying." head in apparent agreement. The medi- will follow Thee, my Saviour, whereso- Jorge, perched on the edge of his cot, cal company quartet had just finished e'er my lot may be." thought of his own danger if his escape singing the group's favorite song, "In a The song ended. We swarmed around should be made known, yet his desire to help the suffering lad spurred him Little While We're Going Home," the lad clasping his hand and trying to to send his paddlers over for the boy. when he arose, bowed politely, opened converse with him, but he could only "Tell his father that I have medicine and a Korean-English hymnal and began to shake his head and smile in bewilder- will try to save the boy's life if he will sing in a clear, pleasant voice. ment. Then we realized he knew no send the lad over to me." As he stood singing, the soldier near- English. Following the hasty departure of his est him glanced at the hymnal to see the He had come a stranger, but now was men, Jorge set about preparing for the page number of his song. Then he one with us. We did not need to converse boy. One moment wasted now might quietly turned to that number in his own for we knew his heart and he knew ours. mean the loss of a life. He unpacked hymnal. Quickly the rest of us did the A feeling of fellowship engulfed us be- the medicine, unwrapped a new razor blade, disinfected it as well as he could same and followed the lad by reading cause of our pledge in song that some- under the circumstances, then keenly the English translation of his song. When day we may all meet in heaven, where no listened for the dripping of water from the Korean boy noticed that his audience language barrier will exist. 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR AVE you ever sung from a hymnbook with split pages? H Several hundred years ago the tunes used for the singing of various psalms were founded largely on folk music and were quite simple. And, since nearly all the psalms were in ballad meter, only a few tunes were necessary. A single psalm might be sung to any one of many tunes. Even to this day some books are published with pages divided in the center so that one can choose to which tune he wishes to sing a given psalm. Although Seventh-day Adventists do not use many of its songs, the hymn- book that has been best beloved and most used by the Christian church is the Psalter. In it are an expression of all the different emotions found in the human soul. From early times it was the basis for the song of the Jewish communion. The use of the "words of David" in the tem- ple services is spoken of in 2 Chronicles 29:30. Its verses are poetic stanzas de- signed to be sung or chanted. Just what the tunes were like, we do not now know,

but from the songs of the different Jew- AMERICAN SEAT1N, ish communities we have a fair idea. The tune for hymn 76 in our own hymnal was taken from a song heard in a London synagogue. Originally, of course, the psalms were in Hebrew; next they appeared in Greek and Latin, and not until the time of the Renaissance and Reformation were The Psalter they translated into the vernacular of the various peoples of Europe. The early writers had great reverence By VERNE KELSEY for the Word of God, and in their trans- lations they tried to keep as closely as possible to the original thought. As a re- sult, most of their stanzas are crude and rough, for it is impossible to transfer in England to prepare settings of the tings. The first of these versions to exactly the thought of one tongue into psalms in English, but the first man to achieve lasting use was that of Tate and another. be really successful in this was Thomas Brady, known as the New Version. The One of the first to succeed in translat- Sternhold. In all, he versified thirty-seven above stanza appears in this edition so— ing the psalms into a modern language psalms; the rest were set by Kethe, Hop- The Heav'ns declare thy Glory, Lord, was Clement Marot of France. His songs kins, and others. This production was which that alone can fill; became popular. Each courtier chose one extremely popular—six hundred editions The Firmament and Stars express for his "theme song," singing it to some being known. The first stanza of Psalm their great Creator's Skill. popular tune of the day. Marot's verses 19 in this version reads— The Dawn of each returning Day fresh Beams of Knowledge brings; became the basis for the Psalter published The heavens and firmament by Calvin for his church in Switzerland, From. darkest Night's successive Rounds do wondrously declare divine Instruction springs. and in turn for some of the psalms in The glory of God omnipotent, the English Psalters. his works and what they are. None of these early settings has the Under the reign of the ardent Cath- The wondrous works of God appear beauty of the famous verses of Addison olic; Mary, English dissenters fled to the by every dayes successe: beginning, "The spacious firmament on Continent, living chiefly in Frankfort and The nights likewise which their race high." runne, Geneva. Here they came under the in- The selfsame thing expresse. With the passing of time, tastes have fluence of Calvin and his Psalter and, changed and most churches now sing combining the work of Marot with the About this same time Knox and his hymns rather than psalms. In our own versions of the psalms they had with followers were developing a Psalter for hymnal, moreover, few of them appear them, they produced service books for the Scottish church. This was similar to at all; the best known being Psalm 19 use during their exile. When they re- the English book, although they used and Psalm 100. We still sing the tra- turned to England they took these books more variety of meter, and a number of ditional tune to Psalm 100, but our pres- with them, and in 1562 a complete ver- tunes were taken from the French usage. ent way of singing it has robbed it of sion of the Psalter was published, later Growing dissatisfaction with the Old most of the original expression of s joy to become known as the Old Version. Version prompted a number of writers and praise. The earlier versions had a Several early attempts had been made to try to better the existing psalm set- sprightly rhythm, which has disappeared. OCTOBER 16, 1956 ,5 enough to permit free use of oars. I estimated that in five minutes we could get through it and reach the channel into our lake. The idea did not seem quite right, but that was where impatience gave the final push toward wrong decision. On Wings of Cheer "Let's go!" I exclaimed. I charge myself with full responsibility for what followed. Giny was inexperienced with ice floes. However, I had seen them before and knew the crushing power in their tre- By SAM CAMPBELL mendous weight. Moving in even a gentle drift, such ice fields are capable of crush- ing boats, piers, boathouses and of moving concrete pilings. Quickly we pushed our boat into the Chapter XIII water and loaded it with the most im- portant of our luggage and supplies. Not thoroughly convinced of the wisdom of ICY RECEPTION the move, I did think to put into the boat a long iron pipe and a mattock that were in the garage. We started through the open water, T WAS early April when we next for the day or days that this might re- and I rowed with all my strength. We saw our Sanctuary. Winter had de- quire—how long no one could know for had to get through that channel while the parted, but it had left some of its sure. We planned to accept their hos- great ice fields remained separated. Ev- 0 belongings. On the north side of pitality, but decided to drive on to the erything was going splendidly until we hills and in protected places there were end of the road and look the situation had covered about half the distance. Then remnants of snow. over. Hi-Bub was still in school, a fact we felt a strong gust of wind blow up Most impeding to our progress was for which I am grateful, otherwise he suddenly. the cold fact that ice still ruled the lakes. might have been invited along to share "Sam, look ahead!" cried Giny. The ice was at the stage where it was in the hazardous experience that fol- I did, and what I saw gave me no too thin to bear our weight, yet so thick lowed. What happened furnished ma- pleasure. The wind was causing the ice no boat could plow through it. Along terial for nightmares for a long time to floes to drift together again. The river the shores there was a channel of open come. of open water was closing ominously. water ,about ten feet wide, while the rest As we stood looking out across the In an instant I realized the situation we of the surface was monopolized by this ice floe a great crack developed, run- were in. It was useless to try to return. huge field of floating ice that weighed ning from the place where we were to Our only chance was to go ahead. I thousands of tons. the channel leading to our lake. In a pulled desperately at the oars and the Giny and I felt a bit disheartened as few minutes this had become an open boat lunged forward, but obviously it we stood at the end of the road on the thoroughfare about three feet wide. We was too late. We could not possibly get shore of the lake which adjoins ours. watched it anxiously. If we could get through before the gap closed. Our Our boat had been left here. A twenty- through that route into our lake, it boat would be crushed like an eggshell. minute row, if one could row, would seemed certain that we could follow along Already the channel had narrowed until carry us through a channel, around a close to the shore until we reached the my oars were striking ice on either side. point to our island. island. Once there it would make no Giny and I shifted our positions and difference to us how long the ice held used the oars as paddles so we could We were anxious to reach our home. on. We had adequate supplies for many stroke close to the boat. Soon the ice Since the Christmas visit our days had days. was so close that even this method of pad- been filled with intense travel and ac- dling was impossible. tivity. Now we wanted to be at our To be ready for any opportunity I brought cabin to watch the coming of spring. We our boat to the water's edge. We kept ey- "We must try the mattock, Giny," I had been tempting ourselves with ing the action of the ice. The channel exclaimed, when I realized that the oars thoughts of the cool, quiet, long evenings was still widening. It took on the ap- were now useless. we would have before the fireplace. pearance of a fair-sized river, wide "And with every stroke—a prayer," There would be time to read and think. Many of our woods friends would be there. Ah—that was the point that gripped us. Our hearts were eager to know which of these creatures were still around and whether they remembered us. It was this anxiety that impelled me to do a very foolish thing. We had stopped to see Ray, Ada and June, and they had begged us to make no at- tempt to reach our island until the ice was gone. They invited us to stay with them

On Wings of Cheer: a Red-winged Blackbird Shares His Happy Heart, by Sam Campbell. Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Company, $2.50. Copyright, 1948, by the Bobbs- Merrill Company. Serialization made from the special Seventh-day Adventist edition. 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR she added in calm tones. I looked up to see conquered. It seemed hopeless. Then ture. Often I dwelt on the tragic end it her smiling so fearlessly that I paused came to my thought something my might have had if I had failed to con- an instant to be grateful for such a com- sweet mother had once said to me: "The tinue swinging that mattock. The loss of panion. tremendous strength of Jesus was ex- a single blow might have meant the los- In my life in the forest I have often plained when he said, 'I can of mine ing of the battle. And I knew that the been in circumstances demanding my last own self do nothing' . . . and again, endurance which carried us through was ounce of strength. Nature is that way, `the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth not in my muscles, but came directly and there is a rough, strong joy about it. the works.' " She pointed out that "he from the Source of all creation. This situation called for all the stamina recognized that all real power is God." When we had rested for a time and I I had—and made me borrow some. It was Such nuggets of inspiration are a price- could lift the oars once more, we rowed necessary for me to keep breaking off less heritage. Recollection of this came on. Our path was easy now. In our own large cakes of ice from the margin of as I realized that I was now at that point lake we stayed close to shore where it the floes that pressed on us from either —1 could do nothing. In my heart I was ice-free. When we rounded the last side so that the crushing power was kept prayed, trusting my mother's words. point of land we were overjoyed to find from the boat. I joked about "Crossing- Now a sound caught our attention— the region about our island entirely open. ton washing the Delaware," and man- a voice from the skies. "Sam!" cried "You blessed little home!" said Giny aged to grunt that "Old Charley did Giny. "Hear that precious little creature. as we walked up to our door. "You this," but there was very little humor in It is he—and he has discovered us." know how we love you when we will go my thought. We were in a position that "Cheer, cheer, cheer!" came the call through an experience like that to get was just plain tough. from a little feathered object that was here." As pieces of ice were broken loose, winging directly toward us. "Conga- Cheer was not long in joining us. He we forced them down under the edge of re -e-e-e-e —Congare -e-e-e-e !" went the came singing as usual. He lighted at our the floes. This cleared a few inches of feet and strutted around in that funny water at a time so we could move forward little way of his, spreading his wings with the boat. But the gains were slight and turning his head from side to side. and the distance we must travel relatively How he loved the feast of peanut crumbs great. I dared not pause for a moment. we gave him! The mattock had to be swinging con- "It's all right, old top," I said to him. stantly, or the ice would close in on us. "After what you did for me today I Once the channel did close completely will buy you enough peanuts to fill this under the bow, lifting the front of the house—if you want them." boat into the air. It looked as if we were A few crumbs were enough, however. defeated. Then with the long iron pipe Then Cheer flew away, perhaps to sur- I was able to reach ahead, break loose vey home-building sites for later use. He a large cake and let us down into free was the only one of our wildwood friends water again. who put in an appearance those first We were saved at another point by hours. Giny's thoughtfulness. She saw that my Evening came with heavenly calm. We hands were tiring and my grip on the ate our dinner before a grate fire that mattock was not very firm. At her sug- warmed our spirits as well as our bodies. gestion we tied a rope firmly about the Presently we heard someone calling our handle of the mattock. It was less than names. five minutes later when the invaluable tool "What ho—Campbells!" flew from my hands into the water be- We went outside to listen. It was Ray's neath the ice floe. By aid of the rope we voice, coming from the far shore, fully pulled it back quickly and the chopping happy song. There was Cheer, the red- half a mile away. went on. winged blackbird! The last to leave us "Hello, Ray!" we called in unison. How long this battle continued we do in the autumn, the first to return in the "Are you all right?" came the ques- not know. Probably it was about three spring. He circled about us, sometimes tion. hours, though it seemed much longer fluttering like a helicopter close over our "Yes, we're all right," we called back, than that. Before the end came I had lost heads. His joy at finding us was unmis- spacing our words so they could be un- all sense of personal strength. My shoul- takable. I am sure he would have alighted derstood. der, arm and back muscles ached severely on the boat itself except for the activity "I saw your path through the ice," he from the strain. The chopping had to that was going on there. The mattock called. "Came out to see if anything was be done in a most awkward way, as I was swinging again. This bit of good wrong." had to reach out from the side of the boat cheer was the mental medicine I needed. to cut the ice at the greatest possible The blows of my pick grew stronger— He would! Ray seems to have been distance. Every blow must be strong, for "of strength not my own." The ice broke put in the world just to do thoughtful, the ice was about two feet thick—though off in increasingly large chunks. I helpful things for others. It had been a fortunately somewhat softened from the thought no more of myself but felt an long hike for him to the place where he spring sunshine and rains. exhilaration in the battle. There was could call to us. Surely there is a great reservoir of spir- really a wild joy about it. "Thanks," I yelled. "We got through itual power into which faith may dip When at last we slid into the calm all right." I saved the story for a time when the frail and faulty human source open water at the far side of the ice when we would be closer together, for is exhausted. Throughout history men floe, I sank exhausted to the bottom of I knew Ray understood that no one went have found this to be true. "Man's ex- the boat. Giny uttered a prayer of grati- through ice that way without a struggle. tremity is God's opportunity." tude for that reserve strength which had "You did a good job," he called back. At one time I felt as if I could not come to carry us through. Back of us we However, I felt no pride in what had carry on. My feeling of weakness had could see the path we had cut outlined been done, but rather a chagrin that I reached the point where my blows were by floating cakes of ice that were now had attempted it. It had been a lesson losing the necessary power. I looked being ground to pieces. For days after- in the folly of impatience—and a severe ahead at the long stretch of ice yet to be ward my thought reviewed that adven- one. OCTOBER 16, 1956 7 Chapter XIV of it; a porcupine had peeled the bark halfway down the tree. It gave us a thrill to see it. Not that we like to lose a tree, LOOK WHO'S HERE! but this indicated the probable presence of a porcupine on the island. Could it be one or more of those we had known as

OR two days the ice kept us marooned the act as perfectly as if it had been go- pets?When we were returning to the cabin, F on the island. The weather was still ing on daily. Giny suddenly caught my arm. "Look! and cool, and it looked as if the great The same was true of Still-Mo. Where Look! Look!" she exclaimed. It was a gray ice floe meant to stay in the lake the tiny animal had been during the sight that gladdened my heart. Peering all summer. elapsed months no one could know. It out at us from under a shed were four It made no difference to us now, how- was a safe presumption, however, that homely faces with shoe-button eyes, ever. This period of isolation gave us she had been through trying experiences, cupped ears and dirt-covered noses. time to set our cabin in living order, and the kind that might erase memories of "It's our woodchucks—our little Sau- to take inventory of our forest friends. her habits at the Sanctuary. But it was as sages!" exclaimed Giny excitedly. Cheer, of course, was the very first one if she had never been away. One of her Instantly the four little faces disap- to report. He was back again at dawn cute tricks was to tease Giny. Giny is a peared, only to reappear and look us over of our first day on the island. He was soft object for such teasing anyway, as she as if they couldn't believe their eyes. back every hour all through the day too. loves these little creatures so much that Then encouraged by our entreaties and As far as we could tell, there was not she is always wanting to do something tender greetings they began advancing to- another blackbird on the lake as yet. for them. Still-Mo had figured out a ward us in spurts. Once convinced that Again, one has to be careful not to claim route whereby she could climb to the their memories were not playing them too much in experiences with animals, kitchen window and appear directly in false, and that we were the people they for after all we can have only opinions front of Giny's work table. Whenever had known before their long hiberna- about them. However, we felt that our there were pies, cakes, cookies or other tion began the previous September, they friendship had become a strong influ- culinary products in the making, Still- came to us unhesitatingly. ence in Cheer's life, that caused him to Mo made the most of it. She would Six little sausages had gone to sleep face hazards of weather and seasons to be climb to the window and look in at in the autumn. We had named them near us longer. Giny with the most appealing and pa- Thuringer, Bratwurst, Salami, Wiener, In those early hours the first morning thetic expression. One would think she Patty and 0. Bologna. Four now re- it seemed as if the forest was opening was on the verge of starvation. Giny turned to greet us in the spring. That is a series of little trap doors to release one could never refuse her. She would stop a good average. The story of the other creature after another. Stubby, the chip- her work and walk toward the cabin two would have to be left in the deeply munk Hi-Bub loved so much, came door. Still-Mo knew the move. Down she secret diary of Nature. We were sure of bounding right up to the screen door. would go, and when Giny opened the the identification of Patty only. Since his Not knowing the art of knocking, he door there would be the red squirrel to babyhood he had some odd mannerisms ran up and down the screen until I went meet her. Usually Giny placed a handful not shared by the others. Now we could out to greet him—and pay the fee in of nuts on the doorstep to keep the recognize these traits. His size distin- peanuts. Beggar Boy, the other veteran energetic chickaree busy for a few min- guished him too. He was the runt of the chipmunk, came up to pay his respects utes. The nuts would be quickly disposed family and although this spring he was and be paid. Then Still-Mo, the red of and then—back to the kitchen win- a full-grown woodchuck he was still small squirrel with the bushy tail, come racing dow would come Still-Mo to put on the for his kind. to the cabin, sending the chipmunks to- sob act again. Now nearly a year had In the late afternoon came another sur- ward the horizons. passed since this had been done. Yet, prising experience. Giny glanced out the "Still-Mo!" Giny cried as we recog- while Giny worked at the first breakfast, front door and there near our step stood nized the little animal. "Are we glad to at the kitchen window appeared the pa- a huge mink. She called me to look at see you!" It really was quite an experi- thetic face of Still-Mo. Of course Giny's him. He was really a graceful and beauti- ence. This chickaree had disappeared to- heart melted. When she walked to the ful creature, for all his bad reputation ward the end of the previous autumn. front door, there was Still-Mo waiting for as a killer. Standing there he looked so We had feared she might have suffered the expected donation. peaceful it was hard to believe he was one of the tragedies common to forest Next came Nuisance, now a very power- one of the most bloodthirsty of all folk. Here she was back again, however, ful red squirrel. We were much pleased predators. Our chipmunks and red squir- as lively and as belligerent as ever. at his coming, for I believe Hi-Bub rels had discovered him, but they spent Blooey, the old blue jay, was on hand. would have been a sad little boy if his no time in admiring his beauty as we He identified himself by catching a pea- beloved "Noothanth" had not returned. did. They chirped and chattered a warn- nut we tossed into the air. It always Still-Mo did not welcome him as much ing to the whole woods that a dangerous amazes us how these creatures retain as we did, however. They engaged in a enemy was at hand. memories of their little characteristic rough and tumble fight that ended only We decided the visitor must be driven stunts. Blooey knew the very tree limb when each ran away from the other. from the island. While I know that he had perched on when begging for They perched on stumps a few feet apart predators are necessary in the balance of handouts. He knew the rhythm of the and for a long time bored holes in the nature, the friendliness of our island event. I would stand near him and count still atmosphere with the sharp, scolding creatures is so valuable to us we cannot "one, two, three," making motions to "chickare-e-e-e-e." Nothing can sound permit them to be harmed. Yet I did toss a peanut at each count. On the first saucier than a red squirrel, and when not want to destroy this invader, for he two motions he would merely flutter his they are addressing one another their belongs to nature's scheme. I stepped out wings, but at the word three, he would tongues are sharpest. of the door to invite him to leave. take to the air to meet the peanut and We walked around the island to see He looked up at me calmly, moved a few catch it firmly in his beak. It was now how our trees had endured the winter. feet and stopped. Not the slightest bit of six months since he had gone through All were in good shape except one white fear was in evidence. I walked toward this routine. Yet, at first sight of us he pine. It had some markings that made us him. He gai)e ground reluctantly, looking recalled it all and executed his part of stop and examine it closely. No question To page 23

8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR PHOTOS, COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR Left to right: Ba Hla TheM (Myaungmya, Burma), a Karen boy; Ma Than Yi, a Karen girl; Kyaw Zan, a Chin boy; Maureen Montgomery, Anglo-Burmese; Elmer, a Karen boy. Trophies of True Education

By BARBARA S. WYMAN

NCE in my English class the stu- Light and the Way. By looking to Him special class each week [baptismal class]. dents were required to write a and turning my eyes upon Him I can After studying I thought, 'God opens our 0 personal story. After reading know what I should do and where I new life and shows us the right way.' A their stories I understood more should go. Yes, He shows me the right few days later I was baptized into the clearly than ever before the reason why way by the light of His Word and His Seventh-day Adventist faith by Pastor we have our own Christian schools in character. Therefore my heart and faith Scott." the mission lands as well as in the home- still shine for Him." The stones in the pathway Ma Than Yi land. They surely fulfill God's purpose. How about you? Have you found that trod did not appear until after her bap- See what one boy, Ba Hla Thein, bright Light, which is found only in tism. Then her mother became so angry testified for God. "I Found the Light in Jesus? I am glad there are more in Burma with her that she forbade her to come Jesus," was the title of his story. who have found that Light. One of these back home. However, her younger sister, "Before I accepted Jesus Christ my is Ma Than Yi, who has been working in who was also baptized, was welcomed heart was hard and dark, as the darkness piy home for one and one-half years. Her home as in former times! of night. I had two eyes and two feet, path to the throne of God has not been It was not easy for Ma Than Yi to but I couldn't find the way. I didn't all smooth and easy, but she will tell you have her own mother turn against her, know where I should go, just like a per- how she found Christ: but it did not change her decision to son who is walking along in the deep and "One day I visited Kyew Chan with follow Jesus all the way. But her mother's dark forest at night. my friend. While there we went to stay heart began to soften, and she accepted "In 1946, when I attended the Seventh- in one old man's home. This man, Mahn her oldest daughter into the family again, day Adventist school at Zayasu, I had Ba Kyaw, had become a Seventh-day Ad- happy to have her two daughters here in studies about the God who created the ventist some time before. As we stayed in our mission school. Praying for her com- world. Then my eyes were a little that house about four days we saw him plete conversion to the way of light and opened, and I saw a little light, just as a worship God every night before he slept. truth became one of our daily privileges. person who was in the deep, dark forest "I asked him, 'Of what church are you "Before, I was not a Christian; but and saw a dim, little light from the a member?' He replied that he was a for a long time I met with Pastor U Po morning star. Seventh-day Adventist. He read his Bible Han and studied the Bible. Little by "Again in 1947 I had studies about a few minutes and told us about the little I understood about the Bible and the life of Jesus, and I accepted Him story of God. When we heard that story it the redeeming love of Jesus, who died for then. Now my eyes were opened wide was much better than what we had heard my sins." This is just the beginning of and my heart was shining, like a person in other churches. After a few days we our next story, written by Kyaw Zan, a walking along in the deep, dark forest turned back to our homes. boy from the Chin Hills in Northern for the whole night, then as he passed "When I arrived at my house I asked Burma. He continued: through it he saw the very bright light of my parents if I might come and stay in "When I lived in the Seventh-day Ad- the early morning sun. this mission school. Though they were ventist mission school [in Northern "My faith and my heart shine out and not too quick to consent, they did allow Burma], the teachers were teaching are filled with joy and happiness, like me to attend here at Myaungmya last about Jesus and God every day. I learned. the light of the sun driving away the year. about Them little by little. darkness of night. All the darkness and "When I came to this school I heard "When I passed the third standard sadness were driven away by joy, happi- the story of God every day. Then Pastor [fifth grade], I would read the Bible; so ness, and faith. So I know Jesus is the [Francis] Scott taught us the Bible in a then I could read and tell my mother OCTOBER 16, 1956 9 about the Bible. After I lived in the "As days passed on I found that I this church were very kind and full of Seventh-day Adventist mission and God argued with my brother about which day love. By their actions they showed that gave me His Holy Spirit I wanted to be was the seventh day. He told me to read they were strong in their religion, and baptized. Because my mother wasn't a Exodus, the twentieth chapter, verses I heard the preachers many times preach- Christian she would not give me permis- eight to eleven. After reading it I still ing about the Sabbath. After I thought of sion to be baptized. I asked many times said that Sunday was the seventh day, and it very carefully I knew that these and finally she said, 'My son, do you I would have my own way. Seventh-day Adventists were keeping the understand how to live as a Christian?' "In my home I found that the children true Sabbath and I was keeping the "I said to her, 'Yes, I understand how used to quote memory verses and had false sabbath which God did not com- to do the way of Christians.' worship in the evenings. By and by I mand us to keep. "She questioned, 'Sure?' joined in the evening worships and one "I went to Pastor Scott many times " 'Yes,' I replied; and then my mother day found myself reading the Holy Bible. and asked him many things that I gave her permission for my baptism. Although I didn't understand many of wanted to know in the Bible. He was "All my brothers and sisters were angry the verses, I kept reading it. I also read happy and pleased to help me. Pastor with me. They said, 'We don't want you Signs of the Times, and read some other [F. C.] Wyman also explained things to for our brother any more, because you interesting stories in it. me very well. are a Christian. Therefore you must go "As days and months rolled by, my "Since my heart was changed, I deter- and live with the Christians.' mother one day asked me to go to mined that I was going to keep the true "After I went and lived one week away church with her. Just to please her I Sabbath. I consecrated myself to God from home they came and called me to went along. To my surprise I found the and gave myself to Him. Then I was come back home with them again. When services quite interesting, especially the baptized by Pastor Scott in January, I returned they cooked pork curry and song service before the actual meeting. 1952, at Myaungmya." asked, 'Do you like this curry?' To crown it off, I started to go to the The story Elmer has written does not "I told them about our standards on church school. There I learned much disclose the details that made me choose pork eating, that we Christians do not from the Holy Bible about Jesus and it for this story. I would like to add some eat pork. His love and how He died to save us of those very interesting high lights. "When I told them that, my brothers from sin, so that we need not perish. It is often the case in our schools that and sisters all ate it anyway, but not my "One day Pastor [J. O.] Wilson, of the non-Adventist students live such good dearest brother. Therefore I believe my the Rangoon church, asked whether lives that by casual observance one can- dearest brother will become a Christian there were any students interested in not always tell who are members and also." studying the Bible. I at once had my who are not. Elmer was one such a Do you think the Seventh-day Advent- name sent in. Later as I studied the pupil. But I soon learned that he had ist school at Kokogone is worth while? Bible with other students I found it very special permission to go into town to his I'm sure it is. This same young man who interesting. own church every Sunday morning. This witnessed for God to his own loved ones "It was almost the end of the school went on for some time. He attended our was not afraid to witness in a wider year when the baptism was to take place. church on Sabbath and then his church sphere. He was one who went bravely It was the last day of school when Pastor on Sunday. forward in the hottest weather of a Bur- Wilson came and asked me whether I Sometimes we had to make up some mese summer selling message-filled books. wanted to be baptized. Without question lost school days by having classes on The summers of Burma are very defi- I told him that I did want to be baptized. Sunday. He did not attend these until nitely hot, but in spite of that Kyaw Zan The following day, Sabbath, many other about Christmastime when his life was was successful in earning about half a students were baptized and I was with changing to that of a Seventh-day Ad- scholarship. them. God called me from the darkness ventist. Then he began to attend these Do Christian schools pay? If you have to His marvelous light. special Sunday classes, and also to work known the ways of the world and had the "Now I am happy to know that I am on Sunday as the other students did. experience of a longing for something in in the true church of God, because we As he studied with Pastor Scott he very your heart, then you will understand how have the faith of Jesus and believe the seriously considered all the things he Maureen felt before she learned to know prophecies and their fulfillments. I am studied, but just could not make up his God as her Friend. She wrote: now walking in the light and I will al- mind about the Sabbath. So he went to "This story begins when God called ways try to walk in this light with the his own pastor to "get it straight." After me from a darker world to the world of help of God. 'Whereas I was blind, now two or three such visits he made his de- light. I was a Protestant but really didn't I see.' " cision to accept the Bible Sabbath and know much about the Bible. In the Prot- Yes, Maureen found the light finally to follow Jesus all the way. estant church there was a bit of Bible and more completely in the church Before his baptism he went by the reading, especially on Sundays. Usually school. I am happy to tell you that now name of Tha Say, but when he stepped the priest would read a verse or two from she too is actively letting this light shine out into this new life with Jesus Christ the Bible and the people would respond out to others in darkness. She is espe- he chose his new Christian name of Elmer, to it. cially anxious for her father, a blind man after a dear friend of his. He has found "In my mind I really didn't want to —literally and spiritually—to overcome happiness and peace in the true way of study the Bible, because I thought it to his tobacco habit and surrender his life life with Christ. be hard to read and understand. Al- to God. Shall we not all unite our prayers During the next summer vacation he though the Protestant church didn't have with hers in his behalf? went out in the colporteur work, and much to do with the Bible I wanted to Our next "trophy" is one who formerly came back with a near scholarship to go and join the church which had nothing was a member of a certain Protestant carry him through the school year. Not to do with the Bible. In my mind I group. Just notice what Elmer has to tell only did he succeed financially, but he thought the Bible was the hardest book about his conversion: was very active in sharing his faith and to understand. "In the year 1951 God led me to this we hope there will be other trophies "One day when I came back to my way. Before that I was not interested in won through this trophy, Elmer. parents' home from my aunt's house in Seventh-day Adventists but after three or If it were not for our Seventh-day Kalaw, I found that my family were four months at the mission school in Adventist schools in Burma I would not Seventh-day Adventists, who went to Myaungmya my mind and actions began have this compilation of "trophies" to church on Saturday. to change. I saw that the members of give to you. 10 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR purity and righteousness. Only Jesus can do that as we come to Him in penitence and faith. "It is Satan's special device to lead man into sin, and then leave him there, help- less and hopeless, fearing to ask for par- don," writes Ellen G. White. This was the case with Lida. After long months of illness her brother died. When the first shock and grief had worn off slightly, she remembered the times she had been impatient with him; she thought of how she could have been more companionable and pleasant. As she dwelt upon her failings she became discouraged. Seeing her state of mind, the adversary of her soul suggested that God did not care for her very much, and that this was shown by His letting her brother die. When Satan had convinced her of that, he presented a special temptation. A series of summer entertainments was given in the small city where Lida lived —lectures, musicals, pictures, mostly of a high class. One week a movie was ad- vertised. It had an interesting title and Lida felt she would like to see it. Of course, she would never enter a theater, but since this was not to be shown in such a place she decided it would be all right to go. God did not care much about You Don't her anyway so she might as well go, she thought. However, after a while her conscience began to trouble her for having gone. The adversary now told her, "You de- liberately went there; you can't ask God to forgive you." As time went on Lida Have to Be Good became concerned; she must know for a certainty whether or not she could obtain forgiveness. One day when Pastor Brown passed where she was working she asked if she By EDA A. REID might talk with him sometime. He said Yes, and went on. She knew she would never have the courage to mention it to him again, but hoped he might bring up the subject himself. And he did. One T WAS Sabbath morning at camp longing to come to the Saviour, but Sa- Sabbath afternoon it was necessary for meeting, and in the junior tent one tan whispers, "You can't go to God after Lida to go to his home for Ingathering of the ministers was giving the what you have done. He won't hear you." papers. He got them for her and she U sermon. Most of the children lis- And you believe him, and so you stay rose to go. tened attentively, but one boy in the back away. "Lida, you said you wanted to talk to me about something," he said. row seemed especially inclined to mis- Perhaps some think that if they can do chief. a few good deeds to offset the wrong She sat down again. Without looking In conclusion the minister made an they have done they might be worthy up she said, "After my brother died I appeal for the junior youth to give their to come. thought maybe God didn't care very much about me and I did some things hearts to the Lord. When one of the Others feel ashamed when they have I shouldn't have. I don't know whether workers invited this boy to go forward he done wrong and may think they will wait God will forgive me." answered in a voice husky with emotion, a while before asking forgiveness. After "I'm not good enough to go." a few hours it may not seem quite so "Lida, God says that 'if we confess There are many like this lad, who bad as it does at the time. our sins, he is faithful and just to for- give us our sins, and to cleanse us from think they are not good enough to come But neither our so-called good deeds, all unrighteousness.' " to Jesus. Perhaps even you have thought the passing of time, nor any other factor so.. But you are mistaken. Jesus did not is sufficient to recommend us to God. What assurance and confidence were come to save good people. He Himself The Bible tells us "all our righteous- in his voice! There was no doubt; God said so. "I came not to call the righteous, nesses are as filthy rags." A beggar may at- would forgive her. When, she grasped but sinners to repentance." That makes tempt to improve his appearance by try- the promise the burden was lifted. She all of us eligible for salvation, for "all ing to clean his soiled, ragged clothing, didn't have to be good in order to ask for have sinned, and come short of the glory but regardless of his efforts he has only forgiveness. All she needed to do was to of God." rags left. None of our attainments, cul- confess and believe God's promise. Your heart may be breaking with a tural or spiritual, can clothe us with To page 19 OCTOBER 16, 1956 11 HE men in the grinding division The tragic story of a tender doctor-patient struggle against blindness— of the Ford Motor Company's gigantic River Rouge plant had been a little edgy all day. The noisy automobile factory, doing the same thing hour after hour, produced jangled nerves and fatigue. And it was a stifling July day besides. But Dominic never once complained. The Curtain Is Dominic was fifty-five years old, an Italian immigrant who spoke broken Eng- lish, and his heart was as warm and his conscience as clean as any honest Ameri- can's could be. He was proud of his job, B y J. 1 proud of his little family, and glad to be a grinder at the great Ford factory. He was a jolly little man, always laughing and joking, thus keeping his fellow work- ers in good spirits. On this July afternoon even Dominic was feeling a little low. His legs ached and his back was tired after the long day on his feet. In his haste to finish he had a glass eye fitted. Things were his final bit of grinding for the day, he looking up for poor little Dominic, un- let his hand slip a little too far on his til one day when he was about ready to machine. A piece of steel chipped off leave the hospital. The doctor was on the piece he was grinding, and swift as his rounds, and noticed that his patient an arrow and just as painful, it pierced had redness and extreme pain in his re- his right eyeball. maining eye—his left one. Dominic jumped back. Screaming with "Not this," the doctor breathed in pain and holding his eye, he shouted, deepest sadness to his colleagues. "It "She's a gotta me in the eye. Quick, looks like sympathetic ophthalmia, and quick, getta me a doctor." that means he will need to lose his other In seconds the men and foreman had eye too! But we'll treat it for a while carried little Dominic to the first-aid and see." But in a few days the doctor station, but the doctor there simply knew the worst, for the eye looked bad. shook his head. "It's too deep." He called "0 Doc, the eye, she's a hurta so bad," to, the nurse, "Ambulance right away!" Dominic said. "We gotta do something. The nurse breathed easier, and began I can't see no good any more either. The ambulance drove up, Dominic was to relax as the doctor, with a few tiny Whatta we gonna do, Doc?" on his way to the famed Henry Ford stitches, closed the opening in the lin- Hospital in the heart of Detroit. When ing of the eyeball. The doctor bit his lip hard. The nurses turned their faces as tears welled up in he arrived, the eye specialist was called. "Well, the steel is out, Dominic," the In minutes the little Italian was in a their eyes. There was not a dry eye in the doctor said, "but we'll have to wait and room as the doctor quietly said, "Domi- clean white gown and headed for the see how your eye does before we can operating room. There with only a beam nic, we're going to have to pull the black tell about how much vision you will curtain!" The doctor clinched his fist, and of light focused on his eye, he waited have." With that he placed a patch over as a tray of tiny forceps, scissors, and bit his lip again. "Tomorrow, Dominic, the patient's eye, and transferred him to we must remove your other eye!" other delicate instruments was swung the stretcher that would take him to his into place over his chest. The doctor, room. Believe me, it was a hushed operating scrubbed, gowned, and with his hands in theater that sad morning. "The hard- As the days went by the eye grew est thing I've had to do in a long time," his sterile rubber gloves, breathed a redder and redder. Finally the bandages prayer that he could find the piece of the doctor said as he slipped into his were removed, only to bring bitter dis- rubber gloves. steel and extract it. X-rays that had been appointment to the doctor and the pa- taken previously had quickly revealed tient. "Can you see my fingers, Domi- In the darkened room, where the the steel to be deep in the ball of the eve. nic?" the doctor asked as the dressings hushed silence would let a pin drop seem "Don't know what luck we'll have," he were taken away. "How many fingers?" like a thunderclap, nerves were keyed said quietly to the nurse, "but if we and tense. A tear or two welled up, as "I can't see any fingers, Doc," the lit- the doctor asked, "Ready?" The scrub can just get the metal out without further tle man said. injury or infection, we may be able to nurse, looking over her mask, only Then the sad struggle against blind- save the eye." nodded. Her throat was too full for her ness began. In a few days he had such An electromagnet was delicately to speak. terrible pain in his right eye that he brought over the eye as the doctor gin- In the next few moments a doctor was pleaded, "Oh, Doc, can't you do some- gerly and ever so cautiously made an to pull down the shade of night on a life thing for me—something, anything?" opening to let the piece of steel slip that had been full and happy with joy through. Then as he brought the power- "Yes, but it will mean taking your eye and laughter, songs and sweetness, good- ful magnet directly over the eyeball, he out," the doctor said. ness and honesty. heard a welcome click as the steel piece "O.K., let's do it." The doctor's delicate and skilled hands came out. The next morning Dominic was again worked. Cutting the conjunctiva (lining "Good, good," were the only words the wheeled into the same operating room, of the eye), freeing the eye muscles as doctor uttered during those tense mo- and this time his eyeball was enucleated. though with a superhuman effort, he ments. And a short time later—a few weeks— said, "This is it." Twisting on his stool, 12 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR offered to help Dominic dress. "Oh, no, "How do you know paper money?" Doc, I take care of myself." I then queried. I noticed he was clean shaven and "I can't tell you a five from a ten, neatly dressed. unless I'm carrying it. But in my own "Does your wife shave you and dress wallet I fold a $5 bill crossways, $10 bills you in the morning?" longways, and $20 bills are folded twice." "My wife-a she die two years after my With that he pulled out a bill. eye operation," he said. "How much is this?" I asked. drawn "How do you get along?" I asked. "That's a $20 bill," he answered. And "On $21 a week from the insurance it was. company. I live with my son and daugh- Of course, I was curious about other ter-in-law, but I do the cooking and a things. "How do you tell time?" few chores around the house." "See my watch. It's 2:15," he an- TT FOX, M.D. "Who takes care of you?" swered as his fingers felt the Braille dial. "God," he answered sincerely. "I'm He was right. alone most of the day. My son and daugh- "Do you like pizza, Doc?" he then ter have to work, you know. But God queried. "I'll tell you what. Next time and I do a lot of talking. I say my I come down here I'll bring you some. prayers and He cheers me up. He takes Or maybe you likea da spaghett? I make good care of me, Doc. And my son, he's you some." so good too. He play the accordion, and-a With that I slipped Dominic's hand he said, "This is the nearest thing to he bring me pizza from Maria's Res- on my arm, and stepped into the elevator throwing the switch to an electric chair taurant once a week." and we went down to the lobby together. I have ever experienced. For this next "How did you get here alone?" I In the taxi as he turned his dark snip will bring down the curtain of dark- asked. "No Seeing Eye dog or anything?" glasses and sightless eyes toward the win- ness on little Dominic." With that he "Oh, that's a easy, Doc; I just go out dow of the cab and waved- his white placed a clamp across the optic nerve, on the street corner, and ask the first cane to me, I thought to myself, "What and cut it free. person I meet, 'Would you call me a am I growling about? I've got my eyes, Silence, utter silence! taxi?' And the taxi brings me here. I haven't I? I can see that beautiful blue Every nurse and doctor in that operat- walk around the neighborhood too, and sky up yonder. The grass is so green, ing room knew what tomorrow morning I've never been lost yet. I tap my white and the sun is so bright." would mean to Dominic. It was gruesome cane and find curbs, buildings, and walls." When I turned to go back into the business this: to know that the little man "How do you make change and know hospital, it seemed the whole world took lying on the table would have only the how much money you have?" I asked. on a new and rosy hue. What have we curtain of pitch-black darkness to look "My fingers and my ears, they have got to complain about—we've got eyes at the rest of his life. From this moment, replaced my eyes," he said. "Give me a to see with, haven't we? only his ears and his fingers could serve coin, please." It is a black world little Dominic lives as eyes. Only his memories and his I handed him a thin dime, a Ca- in, but he has made it bright for him- imagination would remain of his con- nadian penny, and a United States penny. self and for others. Would you and I do cepts of nature, magazines, television, He called each one correctly. the same? and the faces of his loved ones. Tomorrow was going to be a black day—black for Dominic, dreary for his doctor! In his hand the surgeon held a hu- man eye, an eye that would never again see flowers, sparkle-eyed children, pizza pie, spaghetti, or the flashing keys of an accordion. The black curtain drawn, the doctor turned from his discouraging task, and had his assistant finish, for the strain was too much. To the average person of fifty-five years, this would have meant the end of everything—and well it might, but not to the indomitable Dominic. The other day it was my pleasure to see him coming down the corridor on the arm of a nurse. This stocky little Italian, with dark glasses and white cane, had come to our clinic for examination. He said, "Hello, Doctor, my name's Dominic. What's yours?" I told him, and we be- came fast friends—as if we had known each other for years. "Just a little dizzy these days, Doc,"

he said. "What do you think it is?" SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO After a complete neurological exami- As the doctor asked, "Ready?" the scrub nurse only nodded, her throat too full to speak, for in the nation, in which we found very little, I next few moments the doctor was to pull the shade of night on a life once full of happiness. OCTOBER 16, 1956 13 OTHER, please, do I have to tooth paste, shells, pretty stones, flowers, side. So I just put mine away in a box in room with Margie?" asked boxes of buttons, bobby pins, ribbons, the drawer. If I want to look at them, or m Anita, when finally she and and junk. show them to anyone, I know where they Mother were alone and could "And the study table, Mother—you are. But Margie doesn't stop at photo- talk freely. should see it! Papers, books, notebooks, graphs. She cuts out pictures of flowers, "Now that is strange, coming from rulers, pencils, and drawing materials all dogs, cats, cute babies, landscapes, and you," said Mother. "I thought Margie over the top. I even let her use my half movie stars from magazine covers, and was your best friend. And did you not when she studies, because she has so has them pinned or taped up on the beg and beg to have that privilege?" many things spread out there just isn't wall. Some of them may be pretty, but "Yes, I know, Mother. I still like room for both of us. I wouldn't care if she has too many. I think I hurt her Margie, and all that, but it is just impos- she kept her things together, in their feelings one day, when I called it her sible to room with her; you just don't proper places, but they are all mixed up. `rogue's gallery.' Mother, I have asked know Margie, so you couldn't under- She even puts her hose in the drawer her many times to please keep her things stand." with her writing materials! One day she picked up and put out of sight, but it is "Perhaps you can explain, dear, just was looking for something in one of the of no use to talk to her. I think she really what you mean. I will try to understand." drawers, and found her best pair of likes to have all of her possessions spread "Well," began Anita, "it's this way. nylons caught on the filler of her foun- out that way!" She never keeps her half of the room tidy. tain pen. When she pulled them apart Mother was trying to get a mental I wish you could see it—it really is a she made a runner in one stocking, and picture of Margie's side of the room as mess! Don't misunderstand, Margie squirted ink all over the other one. And Anita had described it. Her voice was a cleans her side, really works hard doing she never can find the mates to her gloves bit sad as she answered. it, but when she has finished she still has or shoes. "Perhaps you should give your room- so many things all over the place that "And pictures! I will admit it is nice mate another chance. Margie is still just you'd never know that she had cleaned. to have a few small photographs of the a little girl, and has many things to And her side of the dresser is just covered different members of the family, and learn; evidently she has never been with toilet articles—perfume bottles, jars friends, but Margie has so many, and taught to organize her belongings, to put of cold creams and deodorants, combs, she has them all spread out, even on my things that should be together in one place. It may be that kindness and tact and a lot of patience will do wonders for Margie. "The Bible speaks of a house that was `swept and garnished.' And according to' the dictionary, to garnish means to adorn, decorate, or beautify. When we Display Windows garnish a salad, we add a touch of color, such as a sprig of parsley, green pepper strips, or dots of pimento or tomato to make it look attractive. But too many decorations would spoil the effect, and By ALICE M. UNDERHILL make it look overdone. "God decorated the deep blue sky with an orderly arrangement of beauti- ful, twinkling stars, like diamonds in a canopy of blue velvet. And that reminds me of a man I once knew who had a jewelry store in our old home town. He taught me a very important lesson, though he did not know it." "Tell me about him, will you, Mother ?" "Well, his jewelry store was right next to a ten-cent variety store. If you have ever noticed the show windows of a dime store, you know how many different articles are on display. In fact there are so many that if you tried to enumerate even half of what you saw, you would find it rather hard to do. There are lamp shades, writing materials, dolls, toys, cut- lery, dishes, buttons, ribbons, toilet articles, cosmetics, fancywork, phonograph records, curtain rods, frying pans, and many other articles of merchandise, too numerous to mention." "That sounds like Margie's side of the room, all right," said Anita. Mother continued: "The jeweler had a very different idea in decorating his display window. Instead of putting out a sample of each thing he had for sale, he "There are so many articles on display in a dime-store window," said Mother, "that one couldn't took everything out of the window, car- start to enumerate them." "That sounds like Margie's side of the room, all right," said Anita. To page 19 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Who Is Happiest?

By PAUL K. FREIWIRTH

It should be noted that the angel, with The mystics of the Middle Ages, we these words, does not put himself into are told, had a favorite saying to the the same class merely with the prophets effect that God is closer to His children of God, but also with all the great host than they are themselves. There may be of them "which keep the sayings of this a bit of exaggeration in this, but there book." is none in the words of Tennyson: Surely the supreme source of happi- Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit ness of angels is that they dwell in the with Spirit can meet— presence of God. When one of them an- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than nounced the forthcoming birth of John hands and feet. the Baptist to his parents, he identified himself as "Gabriel, that stand in the While Charles Dickens, one of nine- presence of God." And who can deny teenth-century England's foremost au- that the angels of heaven find their great- thors, was writing his book A Tale of est delight just there? But the wonderful Two Cities, he experienced a unique thing is, earth's frail mortals can also emotional struggle. The plot of the story find their greatest joy there. Speaking required the eventual death of its hero, from experience, David said, "In thy Sydney Carton, and Dickens had a most presence is fulness of joy: at thy right difficult time reconciling himself to this. hand there are pleasures for evermore." Though Mr. Carton was but a figment EVA LUOMA As long as sin reigns, man cannot en- of Dickens' imagination, he had somehow True happiness constantly seeks for self-expres- become so real to the author that his sion, and it can almost be lost without an outlet. joy the privilege of face-to-face commun- Therefore, if the love of God truly dwells in the ion with God, but he may so live day heart was almost broken over the pros- soul, there will be a longing to express its joys. by day that the presence of the Eternal pect of having to kill him. He actually constantly abides with him. Thirty-five spent several nights walking through the HAT'S your impression of hundred years ago, God promised Moses, streets of London to ease his anguish America, Mr. Gorki?" The "My presence shall go with thee, and and nervous tension while trying to decide question was put to the famous I will give thee rest." This promise was what to do. Russian philosopher as he not limited to Moses; it may be claimed Perhaps only a knowledge of Dickens' stood watching the pleasure-mad throng by all God's children today. life will keep one from calling him a in one of the nation's favorite amuse- And what sheer delight it is to abide neurotic, but his strange behavior ment parks on a Sunday afternoon some in the sunlight of God's presence! As ought to be less of a problem in psy- years ago. John Bunyan expressed it, "God's pres- chology and more of a challenge to one's "How desperately unhappy all these ence is renewing, transpiring, seasoning, spirituality. If a novelist, an author of people must be," was his sad, but all too sanctifying, commanding, sweetening and fiction, can be overwhelmed by the real- true, reply. lightening to the soul." But how may ity of his characters to such an extent, People have never more feverishly pur- His presence be found? Must one be- how much more should Christians be sued happiness than they do today. Some come a recluse or an ascetic, or read the conscious of the presence of God, the have made the attainment of happiness Bible twenty-four hours a day? No. God's greatest reality in all the universe? a complicated thing, but this is not so. It presence can be found in every legiti- Brother Lawrence, the humble French is the unhappy life that is complicated. mate experience of life. Thank God that monk of the seventeenth century who The happy life is ever characterized by the Hindu was right who said, "You Chris- spent forty years washing pots and pans simplicity. And the Word of God abounds tians find your God too easily!" "Ye shall wrote thus: "The time of business does in counsel and advice on how to find seek me, and find me, when ye shall not with me differ from the time of lasting happiness. search for me with all your heart." In prayer; in the noise and clatter of Perhaps a somewhat novel approach to these words the children of Israel were [work] . . . I possess God in as great the subject of happiness is this: Let us told that they could find God, if they tranquillity as if I were upon my knees." first discover the springs of happiness for sincerely sought Him, even in the hostile Another source of happiness for the the angels of God, and having found country of Babylon, the land of captivity angels is participation in the service them, let us with them drink from the and affliction. And still frequently today, of God: "Are they not all ministering same refreshing streams! His presence is found under similar cir- spirits, sent forth to minister for them At first this may appear to be a pre- cumstances. who shall be heirs of salvation?" And posterous idea, but it is not. There is a Adversity surely is one experience the service of God, which opens the door closer affinity between men and angels where few would expect—and far less to life's most rewarding pleasures, is than many think, and many of the sources even desire—to find Him, but countless by no means barred to the children of of pleasure accessible to the angels are people have first become really ac- men. God is always looking for men not out of the reach of God's children. quainted with Him there, "in the fellow- and women who are willing to lay their The angel Gabriel said to John the ship of his sufferings," as the apostle all on the altar. The more unreservedly revelator, "I am thy fellowservant." Paul called it. they give themselves to God's service, the OCTOBER 16, 1956 15 more delightful and satisfying their lives ormation, the Advent Awakening, and the Angles, the august bishop, already will be. all the others—were accompanied by new envisioning their evangelization, said, It is a well-known fact that everything songs. Similarly, when the soul of the "Not Angles, but Angels!" in God's great universe has an appointed individual Christian is quickened and When the kingdom of God is set up avenue of service, from the fragrant revived by the refreshing showers of God's on this earth, not only the Angles, but flower that supplies life-giving oxygen to love, the joy of it will spontaneously burst all of God's children, regardless of ori- the refreshing rain that nourishes the forth in song. gin, will be, no, not angels, but above earth. Once nature turns selfish and In the last years of the Roman Empire, the angels. But already in this life they stops serving, death sets in. Doctors tell when a procession of victory was one can have access to the joys of heaven us that the much-dreaded malady of day parading through the streets of the through the sources of happiness on which cancer is nothing less than physiological city on the Tiber, one of the ecclesi- the angels draw. selfishness. When one of the cells of the astical dignitaries present inquired con- body ceases serving the others and begins cerning the origin of a group of particu- 1 Rev. 22:9. 5 Jer. 29:13. ° Ps. 78:25. to look out primarily for its own self, larly blond and handsome young slaves. Luke 1:19. Phil. 3:10. '° Rev. 2:17. Ps. 16:11. 7 Heb. 1:14. 11 John 6:51. cancer sets in. But there is something When informed that they were from the 4 Ex. 33:14. " Rev. 22:3. 12 Col. 1:27. even worse than physical cancer, and British Isles, and belonged to the tribe of " Job 38:4-7. that is spiritual cancer, an attitude of heart and mind that gears all of life's actions for self-indulgence and self-grat- ification. Significant, in this light, are the words of this promise: "And there shall be no more curse: . . . and his servants shall serve him." 9 While these words apply primarily to the time when God will make all things new, they are not wholly without present-day application. It is as men serve Him that they will experience in their lives the meaning of the words 11* 9(404 qeavea "no more curse.' Another source of angelic happiness is described by the psalmist: "Man did By ALYCE STARR eat angels' food." ° What was this angels' food, and can God's children partake of it still? It was the manna given to the AYMOND, my three-and-a- him to undress for bed that night, he wandering Israelites, but it is also spir- half-year-old grandson, lived mumbled sleepily, "Mommy, you know itual manna, the "hidden manna" '° which with me while his mother what? I'm awfully glad I left my guns brings eternal life to those who choose to was hospitalized. During this behind!" eat it. time he attended Sabbath school and "Why?" his mother looked up, won- And what does it mean to feast on this church regularly, and toy guns were ta- dering. hidden manna? Jesus said, "I am the liv- boo. "'Cause Jesus is coming soon to take ing bread which came down from When his mother developed a stub- His people home; I want to go too! And heaven." " "Christ in you, the hope of born cough during her recuperation, her you know somethin' else? There won't glory" brings the experience of feed- doctor ordered a change of climate, sug- be any guns in heaven—Jesus doesn't ing on the hidden manna. gesting California. So she decided to visit like 'em!" Sacred music—the songs of Zion—is relatives in Ohio while her husband It has been said that "the training of another source of happiness for the an- left to find a job and establish a new children is a preparation for the gravest gels. The Lord one day asked Job, "Where homesite in the West. Just as they were and most important relations of life and wast thou . . . when the morning stars preparing to leave for Ohio, I saw Ray- upon the character of our home life must sang together, and all the sons of God mond's gun-and-holster set lying in open rest the well-being of our nation, and the shouted for joy?"" The angels of sight. Desperately, I longed to hide them. permanence of all our institutions." heaven have been singing ever since, and But I did not need to. He left them surely man has not been able to discover of his own accord. As his mother helped anything more soul-satisfying than just this, to lift his voice heavenward in grati- tude to a benevolent Creator. Martin Luther used to say that spiritual songs keep the devil at bay. Modern psychol- ogists concur by saying that they also keep mental abnormalities, as they call them, away! If the love of God truly dwells in the soul, there will be a heartfelt longing to express its joys—and this ought to be so. True happiness constantly seeks for self-expression. Happiness can almost be lost if it has no outlet, for it is out- ward flowing by nature. And, the more perfectly the joy of the love of God is expressed, the greater will be the blessing retained. Little wonder, therefore, that all truly great spiritual revivals—the Ref- 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR too late. While the last rays of the setting sun were lingering on temple, tower, and pinnacle, would not some good angel lead her to the Saviour's love, and avert her doom? Beautiful and SABBATH unholy city, that had stoned the prophets, that had rejected the Son of God, that was locking herself by her impenitence in fetters of bondage,—her day of mercy was almost spent! SCHOOL "Yet again the Spirit of God speaks to Jerusalem. Before the day is done, another testimony is borne to Christ. The voice of witness is lifted up, responding to the call from a prophetic Prepared for Publication by the General Conference Sabbath School Department past. If Jerusalem will hear the call, if she will receive the Saviour who is entering her gates, she may yet be saved. "Reports have reached the rulers in Jerusalem that Jesus is Triumphal Entry approaching the city with a great concourse of people. But they have no welcome for the Son of God. In fear they go out to meet Him, hoping to disperse the throng. As the procession is LESSON FOR OCTOBER 27 about to descend the Mount of Olives, it is intercepted by the rulers. They inquire the cause of the tumultuous rejoicing. As LESSON SCRIPTURE: Matt. 21:1-16. they question, 'Who is this?' the disciples, filled with the spirit of MEMORY GEM: "And the disciples went, and did as Jesus inspiration, answer this question. In eloquent strains they repeat commanded them" ( Matt. 21 : 6 ) . the prophecies concerning Christ: OUTSIDE READING: The Desire of Ages, pp. 569-599. "Adam will tell you, It is the seed of the woman that shall bruise the serpent's head. Inspiration "Ask Abraham, he will tell you, It is 'Melchizedek King of Salem,' King of Peace. Gen. 14:18. "And Jesus entered the temple of God and drove out all who "Jacob will tell you, He is Shiloh of the tribe of Judah. sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of "Isaiah will tell you, 'Immanuel; 'Wonderful; Counselor, the the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.' Isa. said to them, 'It is written, "My house shall be called a house of 7:14; 9:6. prayer"; but you make it a den of robbers.' "Jeremiah will tell you, The Branch of David, 'The Lord our "And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and Righteousness.' Jer. 23:6. he healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw "Daniel will tell you, He is the Messiah. the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in "Hosea will tell you, He is 'the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is the temple, 'Hosanna to the Son of David!' they were indignant; His memorial.' Hosea 12:5. and they said to him, 'Do you hear what these are saying?' And "John the Baptist will tell you, He is 'the Lamb of God, which Jesus said to them, 'Yes; have you never read, "Out of the mouth taketh away the sin of the world.' John 1:29. of babes and sucklings thou hast brought perfect praise"?'" "The great Jehovah has proclaimed from His throne, 'This is (Matt. 21:12-16, RSV). My beloved Son.' Matt. 3:17. "We, His disciples, declare, This is Jesus, the Messiah, the Spirit of Prophecy Prince of life, the Redeemer of the world. "Christ came to save Jerusalem with her children; but Pharisai- "And the prince of the powers of darkness acknowledges Him, cal pride, hypocrisy, jealousy, and malice had prevented Him saying, 'I know Thee who Thou art, the Holy One of God." from accomplishing His purpose. Jesus knew the terrible retri- Mark 1:24.—The Desire of Ages, pp. 577-579. bution which would be visited upon the doomed city. He saw Jerusalem encompassed with armies, the besieged inhabitants Notes driven to starvation and death, mothers feeding upon the dead Jesus' return to Jerusalem was witnessed by "a very great bodies of their own children, and both parents and children multitude" and Matthew reports that as a result "all the city was snatching the last morsel of food from one another, natural affec- moved." tion being destroyed by the gnawing pangs of hunger. He saw This enthusiastic reception by the masses in which they spread that the stubbornness of the Jews as evinced in their rejection of their garments, strewed tree branches in his way, cried out His salvation, would also lead them to refuse submission to the their Hosannas, and proclaimed Him the prophet of Nazareth, invading armies. He beheld Calvary, on which He was to be would seem to herald the approach of a most auspicious climax lifted up, set with crosses as thickly as forest trees. He saw the to His three-and-a-half year ministry. wretched inhabitants suffering torture on the rack, and by But one thing is lacking—the endorsement of the rulers. These crucifixion, the beautiful palaces destroyed, the temple in ruins, self-appointed guardians of the morals of the people "were sore and of its massive walls not one stone left upon another, while displeased." the city was plowed like a field. Well might the Saviour weep in And such is the mysterious power of human influence that agony in view of that fearful scene. though they were vastly outnumbered, they won the day, and the "Jerusalem had been the child of His care, and as a tender city of peace rejects the Prince of Peace. Father mourns over a wayward son, so Jesus wept over the It behooves every one, young and old, to make sure that his beloved city. How can I give thee up? How can I see thee de- influence is always on God's side, for there is always one of His voted to destruction? Must I let thee go to fill up the cup of "little ones" following after. thine iniquity? One soul is of such value that, in comparison with it, worlds sink into insignificance; but here was a whole Quizangles nation to be lost. When the last westering sun should pass from sight in the heavens, Jerusalem's day of grace would be ended. 1. By what names did Jesus call Himself in this lesson? While the procession was halting on the brow of Olivet, it was not yet too late for Jerusalem to repent. The angel of mercy was then folding her wings to step down from the golden throne to 2. How did Jesus know about the ass and colt tied in the give place to justice and swift-coming judgment. But Christ's great heart of love still pleaded for Jerusalem, that had scorned His neighboring village? mercies, despised His warnings, and was about to imbrue her hands in His blood. If Jerusalem would but repent, it was not yet 3. How did the disciples react to Jesus' command? OCTOBER 16, 1956 17 ium, and finally convulsions of the strychnine type, which lead to death. The quantity of drug to produce these differ- ent stages of poisoning varies from one pteemmiNt a person to another. It can be seen that caffeine will produce the same final re- c sult as the alkaloid strychnine if taken apiderieftea in a large enough dose. The reason we do not see more of the severe toxic reac- tions such as mania, delirium, and con- vulsions is due to the body's ability to become tolerant to increasing amounts Popular Nerve Poisons of caffeine. However, the less severe symptoms are very common, but they are frequently Health subjects of general interest will be discussed in this twice-monthly department. overlooked by both the patient and the There will be no diagnosis or treatment of disease by mail, and no letters will be answered doctor. Often the cause of these symp- personally. If you would like to suggest a subject for discussion, you may send your sug- toms is blamed on something else, rather gestion to Dr. Saxon, The Youth's Instructor, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. than on caffeine. "What's so harmful about a little pickup if you use caffeinated beverages AROLINE walked into my office Much like Caroline, millions of people in moderation ?" That is a good ques- with the complaint of being are using literally tons of nerve poisons tion, and it has an answer that surprises C extremely nervous and irritable. every day without being aware of the most caffeine devotees! As I talked to her I learned that damage done to their nervous systems. Before answering this question I she had recently acquired a new Govern- The commonly used nerve poisons are would like to ask you a question. "Is ment secretarial job. She felt the work coffee, tea, colas, tobacco, alcohol, pheno- there such a thing as moderation in the was pleasant, and especially liked the two barbital, and bromides. The most popu- use of poison in the body?" When a coffee breaks during the day which she lar of these are coffee, tea, and colas poison damages the nervous system I had not had with her previous job. But (Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola). think its use in any quantity is too much! because of her uncontrolled irritability I have been surprised repeatedly by What do you think? at work she was already in danger of the number of Seventh-day Adventist Even a small dose of caffeine produces being fired, and had come for help. young people who take a lax attitude excessive stimulation of the nerve cells After questioning Caroline further I toward drinking caffeinated beverages. in the brain and spine. The cells were found that she was a victim of caffeine An analysis of these popular drinks created to function best at a certain poisoning. Before the new job she drank shows that all of them contain large level of activity. Any substance that two or three cups of coffee daily, but now amounts of the drug caffeine along with stimulates these cells to a higher level of with the two extra coffee breaks she was other irritating substances. A look at the activity than was originally intended will drinking as many as ten to twelve cups accompanying chart will give you a unbalance the entire nervous system and of coffee every day. I had some difficulty better picture of what these beverages produce damage. Because of this princi- convincing her that coffee was poisoning contain. ple governing the nerve cells any artifi- her nervous system, but she finally agreed Irritating Sub- cial stimulation will be followed by a to stop drinking coffee, tea, and colas for Beverage Amount Cageine stances depression in cell activity or a state of a two-week period. Coffee 1 cup 1 1/2-3 grains Caffeol nervous exhaustion. The greater the When I saw Caroline again I could Tea 1 cup 1 1/2 -3 grains Tannic acid stimulation the more profound the state tell immediately that she had kept her of exhaustion that follows. agreement. Her expression of anxiety Colas 1 cup 1 IA -1'/ grains Large amounts of sugar and Why not refresh your memory on was gone and she appeared happy and acid what the Spirit of prophecy has to say calm. She said she felt better than she (Medical dose 1-4 grains, never more than 8 about this subject. You can use the Index, had for months. Her nervousness and grains.) and look under the words "tea" and irritability had vanished after the first "coffee." Then next time I will give you week, but she had had quite a struggle What is caffeine? It is an alkaloid that a full scientific answer to this question. with the headache that I had warned her stimulates the nerve cells of the brain would come. She seemed especially and spine. Merk Index of Drugs de- happy to tell me that her work had im- scribes the toxic effects of caffeine as avc pv-Ec proved so much during the two weeks' pe- follows: wakefulness, nervousness, excite- riod that she had been promised a raise. ment, tremor, temporary mania, delir- JACKSON A. SAXON, M.D.

4. How did Jesus know what the owner's response would be? 10. What was it specifically that stirred the resistance of the chief priests and scribes?

11. Whose house did Jesus say the temple was? 5. Was the mission of the two disciples a success? 6. What response came from the multitude? NEXT WEEK, November 3, lesson title: "The Reality 7. How much of Jerusalem was stirred? of the Second Advent of Christ." Scripture Reference: Matt. 24:4-7, 14, 23-31. Memory Gem: Luke 21:36. 8. What happened to the children? Outside Reading: The Desire of Ages (1940), pp. 627- 636; (Miss. ed.), pp. 616-626. 9. Why did the scribes and Pharisees reject Jesus?

18 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Display Windows as forgiveness of sins. You cannot repent and went to see his pastor. The pastor of your own will, but if you come to told him of God's free grace and that he From page 14 Him, Jesus will give you repentance. could have complete forgiveness by ask- There may be those who still feel that ing for it. But that did not satisfy the peted and lined it with rich dark blue they themselves must do something to man. Surely there was something he must velvet. From each corner he placed merit God's acceptance. Such are like do to atone for his sin. Salvation could not narrow white ribbon streamers, which the man who was troubled about his sins be that free. Finally the minister asked, came together in the center as the rails of the railroad seem to meet at the hori- zon. At this point he placed a tiny open box containing a solitaire diamond. And that was all! It was such a contrast to the window next door! All the attention of the passer-by was fixed on that one little diamond in the center of the jewelry store window." Mother paused. Anita was thinking serious thoughts. Then Mother said, "Our lives should be like that window. There should be but one central figure to shine out day by day—the beautiful character of Jesus Christ lived out in us. How easy it is for us to let things of this The children are eager to learn. One world so fill our hours of activity, like Weeping Water Story Hour girl came with her catechism and asked the chaotic, unorganized display that fills By Buddy F. Clark about the difference in the com- the space in the average dime-store win- mandments—she learned them from the dow. That was the lesson I learned from LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.—Persist- Bible. MV classwork was begun in the the jeweler when he arranged that simple ence pays! In the small town of Weeping spring, and last April twelve Weeping bit of advertising. So, since that day I Water, Nebraska, a group of Union Col- Water children were invested in the Un- have tried to keep my miscellaneous lege students two years ago began or- ion College auditorium. personal belongings orderly, and as far ganization of a Story Hour for the com- as possible, out of sight, so that a visitor Because of the Story Hour, a munity children. It has since been the Pathfinder Club has been organized and might not see the multitude of things avenue for many spiritual contacts. a branch Sabbath school will be held in a that I possess, but will see only that which Visiting each home in the community I wish to emphasize. A few well-chosen local nursing home, beginning this fall. where children lived, the students invited Seven children were sent to junior camp pictures, dainty scarves and doilies, cur- them to the Christian Story Hour to be tains, rugs, cushions, and neatly arranged with money raised by a bake sale and an held at the Legion Hall. On the first offering in College View. flowers are garnishings that greatly add Sabbath fifteen came to sing and learn to the beauty of a home. These should be about Jesus and the Bible. Future plans include MV classwork at in harmony with the life of a happy, Because they felt that more children the Companion level and a larger repre- loving, humble servant of God, whose ought to come, the students advertised in sentation at next year's summer camp. chief aim in life is to be the spotless the weekly newspaper. When they ap- The two students mainly responsible mirror that reflects His matchless Son, proached the editor they were surprised for the Story Hour are Helen Tynar and Jesus Christ." to find that he wanted a front-page story Delano Gilliam. Others participating Anita gave a little sigh as she said, and a picture; their advertising didn't each week are Charles Slattery, Lyman "Now I know why you were always so cost a penny. Although a representative Williams, Bob Bergh, Arlene Reile, Sally strict with me about picking up my toys of the ministerial association opposed the Crozier, and Kathy Mills. and keeping things put away out of sight. program, attendance has not dropped; in The Union College young people are I am glad you were." fact, there have been as many as sixty at ready to take their places beside those Then after a brief moment she said, one program. Average attendance is who are older and of wider experience in "I think I need some improvement also about thirty each Sabbath. the thrilling work of soul winning. in my own house cleaning. I have de- cided to give Margie another chance. I'll try to be patient with her as you have been with me. I'll tell her about the display windows, and perhaps by the end of the year we will both have `diamonds' in our display windows."

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20 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR "You are a miner, isn't that right?" anyone, but they "stood afar off: and "Yes." they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, "How do you get up out of the mine BELIEVE IT OR NOT Master, have mercy on us." And Jesus at night?" healed them. "I ride up in the cage." but the wine countries of We are all afflicted by the leprosy of "How much does the company charge Southern Europe are com- sin and in need of soul healing. The you for riding in it?" plaining of an economic worse you feel yourself to be, the more "They don't charge me anything." hangover. you need the Saviour. No matter how "Do you mean it doesn't cost you any- It is not because they are far you are from Him, if you will say, thing to ride up and down in that cage?" drinking too much wine, but as the lepers did, "Jesus, have mercy on "No, it doesn't cost me anything, but because they are not drink- me," He will as surely answer your plea it cost the company plenty to put it in." ing more wine, and the rest as He did theirs. Nor does He leave you Just so, the pastor explained, a great of the world is not drinking at a distance, for we read again that those price has been paid for our salvation. up the surplus. who "were far off are made nigh by the That price is the precious blood of Christ. At a recent meeting of the blood of Christ." We can do nothing to earn or merit sal- Food and Agriculture Organ- No, you don't have to be good to come vation but God offers it to us as a gift. ization in Rome the FAO to Jesus. If you wait till then you will As Steps to Christ so beautifully states council urged wine producing never come, for you cannot make your- concerning the peace and forgiveness that countries to concentrate on self better. The only requirement is a sense God gives, "It is yours if you will but producing a better quality of of need and a willingness to come. And reach out your hand and grasp it." "Our wine and less quantity, and you must come just as you are. His prom- own merit will never commend us to recommended that measures ise is, "him that cometh to me I will the favor of God; it is the worthiness of be introduced calling for "the in no wise cast out." "If we confess our Jesus that will save us." limitation and if necessary sins, he is faithful and just to forgive In the 17th chapter of Luke we read the prohibition of new vine- us our sins, and to cleanse us from all of ten lepers who desired healing. They yard plantings." unrighteousness." were in a terribly loathsome condition. W. A. SCHARFFENBERG Then you stand in His sight justified, The sight of them was enough to sicken covered with His righteousness, accepted one. The law forbade their coming near as if you had never sinned.

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22 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR On Wings of Cheer porcupine kept us guessing. At first he tree as he climbed to a place he regarded seemed actually frightened, and raised his as safe. From page 8 quills. Giny gave the porcupine call. She "He can't fool me, though," declared talked to him in the manner and tones Giny as we returned to the cabin, "That at me with puzzled defiance. Apparently used with our porcupine pets when they is Salt. We may have to prove to him he had not expected to see people in this were babies. I called in my most reassur- who he is, but there's no doubt in my ice-bound country. I picked up a stout ing manner too. All this had an effect on mind." stick and beat the ground with it, shout- the old fellow. He stopped and faced about. It was clear to us that moment that ing as I did. He walked away, though His quills went flat to his back. He re- there was nothing panicky in his move- one of the first tasks of the season at the garded us closely as if he were trying to Sanctuary would be to get this old crea- ments. I followed him at a short distance. understand. He stopped and turned around fearlessly ture to recall fully his friendship with us. We began to feel sure that this was one to face me. Think of the courage of the During the morning of the third day of our pets. We reasoned it was most likely rascal. I speak of him as being a large we saw the ice break up and disappear Salt. Pepper was not such a mild creature. mink, yet he would not have equaled from our lake. It was a thrilling sight. Certainly a wild porcupine who had never in size a house cat. But there he stood The whole ice field began rocking un- had friendly contact with people would not looking at me as though he would just as der the pressure of a high wind. The behave as this one was doing. He rose on soon fight as not. I stopped too, beat the motion seemed gentle at first, but surely ground and shouted until he took a no- there were stupendous forces and masses tion to move on. That much noise would at work. Great cracks appeared. These have sent a bear away at a gallop. Not spread into rivers like the one through this fellow. Had I pressed him harder which we had gone on the eventful day I believe he would have attacked me. of our arrival. Then the massive pieces We continued our little game until the ''our .5‘eite of ice came together again. The action animal reached the edge of the water was slow and the collision seemed to be near our boathouse. He paused for a Eceied gentle, yet where the edges touched there moment there looking at me as much as were mounds of white ice shavings ris- ing like huge snow drifts. Again there to say, "I'm going, mister, but don't get By ALBERT L. HENDRICKSON any idea you're chasing me away." I would be new cracks, new rivers and then fresh collisions. The wind increased waited patiently for him to take his leave When you build your earthly temple in his own way, admiring his courage its strength and a warm sun shone down. the while. I felt definitely attracted to Build it strong and straight and true— The process was a quick one. We would the dachshund-shaped creature. It seemed One that you would care to live in never have thought it possible, but within as if the difference between us might be When your journey here is through. three hours not a pound of ice was left easily settled and a friendship estab- in the lake. The last scene was of a few lished. floating flat-topped icebergs being buffeted Never use defective timber, by waves. These dissolved as quickly as if However, our interests in the forest Covering it with gilt and show; they had been made of sugar, and the were too much at variance. I beat the lake was ready for summer. ground once more, insisting that he go. You will know how you have builded, He inched into the icy water, then swam Though the world may never know. With the coming of night the mystical away smoothly and rapidly. I watched calm which is the poetic mood of Nature returned. No camera can record it, no him as he skirted the edge of a great ice Build it so the great Inspector, cake and made his way to the mainland. artist catch the fullness of its heavenly When He_ checks the work you've charm, no words describe it, nor can "Learn to live on peanuts and then done, thought fully rise to appreciation of its come back to us!" I called after him. glory. We built a campfire and sat at- However, I fancy his diet remained the From foundation to the finish tentive to its tongues of flames as if they same as it had been heretofore. We saw He will find a perfect one. spoke a language pure enough to delve no more of him. into such celestial things. As evening approached came the most Then out of the dark draperies that precious experience of the day. We saw a solemn, slow old porcupine coming spread over woods and waters came a canoe, announced only by the soft dip- down the path. No doubt it was his his hind legs and stretched his nose to- ping of its paddles. Ray, Ada and June sharp, amber-colored teeth that had ward us, still trying to understand. Giny had come to join us for the evening. stripped the bark from our tree. But who bent over him. Their faces were not over The spirit of friendship which attended was he? Was this a stranger who had a foot apart. Still the porcupine showed their arrival was needed in the perfec- discovered our island during the winter no alarm. tion of the evening. Remember the words and found it a safe and satisfying place "Let's try the peanut test," I suggested of Cowper? to live? Or was it one of our pets? We in a whisper. Since peanuts are not na- realized it couldn't be Inky, the first one tive to the region, it was certain that a How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! of these strange creatures whose friend- wild porky would have no taste for them. But grant me still a friend in my retreat, ship we had gained. Inky when last seen On the other hand our pet porcupines Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet. had been much larger than this one. How- had been very fond of them. I shelled ever, the animal was the right size for We talked little, for there seemed to one and handed a kernel to Giny. She be nothing to say that would add to the either Salt or Pepper, the two we had held it out until it touched the porcupine's raised together. grandeur of the silent universe. Occa- nose. This was too much for him as things sionally we sang a song in muted tones. We walked to meet the slow-moving now stood. Apparently his memory of us Then when the midnight hour was near creature. He discovered us and stopped and the place was not clear as yet. When and there arose loud and clear the call short. We watched closely, for only by he was touched he let out a little squeal. of old Meph the wolf Giny said, "That his actions could we learn his identity. Immediately his wild instincts came to does it! His wild call was all that was Would he remember us and, like Still-Mo, the fore. He whirled about, quills rising. needed to make this complete." recall certain stunts that would tell us his Away he went through the brush. Soon name? It was not so easy this time. This we heard him scratching the bark of a Next Week: Chapters XV and XVI. OCTOBER 16, 1956 23 ▪ ABOUT 32,400 of the 146,500 children R.' THE sands of Arabia's deserts sometimes born out of wedlock in 1951 were born to reach a temperature of 170° F. mothers 17 years of age or younger. ▪ LESS than half the Antarctic continent THE world death rate from tuberculosis has been explored. dropped during the seven-year period 1947- 53, as a result of the use of new chemicals in 1.1. CYPRUS has been ruled by the Egyptians, treatment of the disease. In the United Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, the States there was a 64 per cent drop for the Byzantine Empire, England, Venice, and the period. Turks since its written history began about 1500 B.c. ▪ THE plastic handle of a new travel tooth- brush holds a four-week supply of liquid ▪ FIFTY years ago in THE YOUTH'S INSTRUC- dentifrice. A twist and a shake of the handle TOR: "On the opening day of the schools in coats the brush with the dentifrice. A Ger- New York City there were seventy thousand man invention, the handle can be discarded part-time pupils, because there was not room when empty and replaced by a refill. for them in the schools."

• POLIO will be completely eradicated ▪ HURRICANE winds can surpass 150 miles from Mexico within six or eight years, pre- an hour, and the storm can lift 2 billion tons dicts the Minister of Public Health in Mex- of water from the sea in 24 hours and dump ico City. The disease incidence has gone it all back as rain. It can pile up the ocean down 65 per cent since the government until low-lying beaches and islands drown started the preventive campaign last year, U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS beneath smashing waves. and with the increased application of Salk vaccine, now manufactured in Mexico, it will SCIENTISTS are studying whales to be possible to do away with the disease. = A "TEEN BREW" that looks like beer, foams learn how to improve techniques of under- like beer, tastes like beer, and smells like water warfare. Harpooned whales can dive M.' EVEN in this mechanized age, when trac- beer is being pushed on the market by immediately to a depth of 500 fathoms and tors supplant horses and mules, the number brewers who are admittedly looking forward at once rise again to the surface, but the of camels keeps growing. A recent United to the crop of "war and postwar babies," maximum depth to which a human diver Nations estimate of 9.7 million camels repre- who will be potential customers after 1960. can descend, and ascend immediately, is 150 sents a significant increase in their world In some States the beverage is available to feet. population, 24 per cent above prewar times. youngsters at soda fountains, drugstores, The outstanding asset of these ungainly and lunchrooms. It has been advertised over Fa. SPECTACLES save the lives of a Dutch desert freighters is their ability to forgo wa- TV with the suggestion that tots drink the farmer's chickens. Previously, when one of his chickens got accidentally pecked and ter on long heat-ridden journeys. Contrary brew as they watch TV, "just like Dad and began to bleed, others in the flock, excited to popular legend, the camel does not carry Mom." Wisconsin "teen beer" is called "ce- by this sight, would kill the injured one—a water in his hump, which is a mass of fat, real beverage," and in one chain store the familiar problem. The farmer was losing a but he conserves water in his body tissues. drink was placed on a low table attractively arranged within reach of children. dozen chickens a week in this way until he had aluminum spectacles fastened to the " A UNIQUE Chrysler-designed automobile " TWENTY-FIVE years ago in THE YOUTH'S made in Italy is now at the bottom of the birds so that they couldn't see ahead to at- INSTRUCTOR: "After a long series of experi- ocean in the hold of the unfortunate Italian tack each other but could still see downward ments, Thomas A. Edison announces that he liner Andrea Doria. More than 50,000 hours and sideways. The cannibalism then stopped, has successfully vulcanized the synthetic rub- of research and labor were expended, and an and chicken production went up 20 per cent. ber he has been making from goldenrod. estimated $200,000 spent on the four-door, Mr. Edison's plan is to construct a factory for LIVES of badly burned children can be hard-top sedan, the Norseman. Described as ▪ the large-scale extraction of rubber, and to saved by wrapping them in skin from dead structurally unique and years ahead of cur- give the whole project to the Government bodies, it was announced recently. The rent design, the vehicle had been on the for an emergency war-time supply. Under Northwestern University Medical School, Chi- drawing boards for more than two years, and normal conditions the goldenrod product cago, literally bandages the child with skin, 15 months were required to build it. It was could not compete with natural rubber." which readily grows, provided the same being brought to America from the Ghia aseptic precautions are used in its removal automotive plant at Turin. Some of the new ICE cakes more than 200 feet thick and and in the preparation of the recipient area, ideas incorporated in its design were re- several miles wide drift in summer across says Dr. Frank Pirruccello. It is the quickest leased, but the engine construction is a the Arctic Ocean, and often collide with method of converting the open wound to a closely guarded secret. cannonlike roaring and heave up huge pres- closed wound, he said. A five-year-old boy sure ridges. = JET exhaust sound can be drastically was burned over 58 per cent of his body and cut by a new noise-control attachment, there- II' THE modern blue whale is equal in had more than 1,000 square inches of skin by permitting mechanics to work in a weight to 3 dinosaurs, 17 elephants, or 133 from two corpses grafted onto him in two more comfortable environment. The device oxen. operations about two months apart. He was is a perforated sheet-metal cylinder around discharged from the hospital completely which are wrapped three conical shrouds. INDIA exports $25 million worth of healed five months after he had been ad- Weighing 150 pounds, it is about six feet cashew nuts a year. mitted. long, two feet in diameter, and can be at- tached easily with a simple clamp to the engine tail pipe. The new device is not a silencer in the strict sense of the word. It Because almost all of us are interested in new cars, it seems a personal controls the turbulent flow so that what loss that Chrysler's car of the future, the Norseman, now rests at the noise is produced is of such a high fre- bottom of the Atlantic. Its designers expected to "present a new stand- quency it is not audible to the human ear. ard in passenger car transportation," but these high hopes have been shattered. Its value was dramatically demonstrated during a recent field test in which it was Such a loss might be compared with a family who has been studying the third angel's message. You have visited with them, studied with them, prayed with them, attached to the engine of a long-range jet bomber. After idling the engine for a few and pleaded with God in their behalf. Then just as they are approaching the harbor of church membership, a clash between Christian brethren occurs that sends the new minutes, its power was increased to where it normally would be developing more than 10,- believers to the bottom of the ocean of discouragement and doubt. Your hours of 000 pounds thrust. After the test was com- faithful labor are fruitless and your high hopes of adding to the kingdom are shattered. pleted, one of the spectators standing about Do we pilot our course in church and family affairs consistently so that no one 100 feet away inquired as to when they were may be lost in life's sea? We must never forget what salvation cost Heaven nor what going to start running the engines. its preaching costs now. DON YOST