The Stolen Tapestry Hold the Line, Please WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS

SECRETARY The name of Don Yost in our staff box and under a Focus on the Radar- scope page will be missing next week. As of January 1, 1957, he assumes the post of as- sistant secretary, and editor of MV Program Kit in the General Conference MV Depart- ment. He has been with the INSTRUCTOR SIX and a half years, first as an editorial assistant, then as assistant to the editor, and last as assistant editor. He has worked loyally under "A NEW two editors, helping the INSTRUCTOR to reach COMMANDMENT its objectives for Christian youth. Personally I GIVE UNTO we shall miss his conscientious workmanship, YOU, THAT YE his equanimity of spirit, his enthusiasm for LOVE ONE editorial advance in the realm of youth jour- ANOTHER" nalism. We are confident that as we shall still Jesus be associated in the work—only a building apart—we shall still be close together in dedi- cation to the best interests of Seventh-day Ad- ventist young people. We express our thanks The Conduct Expected to Don for his over-all contribution to this magazine, for his cogent Focus week by week, By WINSLOW B. RANDALL for keeping us in touch with the mind of youth as we have labored together.

Are you inclined to feel that being a Christian de- GUEST Guest editorialist Winslow Beach prives you unduly of the exercise of choice in the matter of Randall has been with the U.S. Internal Rev- associates, of activities? Consider these nonchurch rules, found enue Service since 1940. He is now regional in the employee regulations of the U.S. Internal Revenue inspector in the Chicago, Illinois, office. Six- Service: teen years in Government service makes his conclusions more than textbook gleanings. He "Employees are expected to exercise the utmost discretion has been an active member on the board of concerning their associations with persons outside the Service. the Hinsdale Seventh-day Adventist church. While it is not desired to place undue restrictions on the private A graduate of Union College, he has attended lives of employees, the Bureau must insist that its employees Southern Junior College and Washington Mis- avoid unofficial association with persons of ill repute, partic- sionary College. He and the editor first met ularly gamblers, racketeers, and the like, as such associations in the latter, becoming roommates, to the tend to reflect discredit upon the Service. confusion of students trying to distinguish Randall from Crandall. Each of two summers "Employees who, without just cause, persistently refuse or found him earning colporteur scholarships. habitually neglect to pay personal and family debts will be He has also worked in an Atlanta publishing disciplined. Frequent or habitual borrowing or lending of money house, a Book and Bible House, and as list between employees, particularly in large sums, is prohibited. clerk at the Review and Herald Publishing "Betting on horse races or on contests of any kind is for- Association. He edited a college annual, was bidden by law in the District of Columbia and in many states. advertising manager for others, and also held the student superintendency of a Sabbath Even in those states where at-the-track betting on horse races school. He has been conference secretary- is legal, it is, as a general rule, against the law to place bets treasurer, commercial teacher in Chicago away from the track. It is also unlawful in the District of Academy, accounting officer in a Colorado Columbia and in many of the states to sell sweepstakes tickets mercantile company, and commercial teacher or to participate in the 'numbers' game. Any Internal Revenue in California. employee who engages in such transactions in violation of the District of Columbia or State law is liable to dismissal." CHRISTMAS Our Christmas week cover is a Dick Smith photo. Untainted conduct is expected of those in the service of their Government. Should any less be expected of those whose alle- BALLOT Next week brings a ballot for vot- giance has been pledged to Jesus Christ? ing your choice of 1956 covers, lead stories, center-spread stories, and long, long stories. Save the January 1, 1957, issue for the sum- mary of covers and stories in 1956 INSTRUC- TORS.

THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Vol. 104, No. 52 December 25, 1956

Editor WALTER T. CRANDALL Published by the Seventh-day Adventists. Printed every Tuesday by the Review and Herald Publishing Assn., at Takoma Associate Editor FREDERICK LEE Park, Washington 12, D.C., U.S.A. Entered as second-class matter August 14, 1903, at the post office at Washington, D.C., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1956, Review and Herald Publishing Assn., Washington 12, D.C. Assistant Editor DON YOST Consulting Editors Subscription rates: one year, $5.25; two years, $9.50; three years, $12.75; six months, $2.75; in clubs of three or more, one year, each $4.25; six months, $2.25. Foreign countries where extra postage is required: one year, $5.75; six months, $3.00; GEORGE W. CHAMBERS, RICHARD HAMMILL in clubs of three or more, one year, each $4.75; six months, $2.50. Monthly color edition, available overseas only, one THEODORE LUCAS, E. LENNARD MINCHIN year, $1.50. L. L. 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 new address to THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR before you more. 2 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR HE one-room schoolhouse for School District Number 51 stood on an area that was partly barren alkaline soil and partly tall clumps of rye grass. A lone cotton- wood tree fought for existence in the poor soil. The millionaire sheepman to The Stolen whom this land once belonged, had mag- nanimously donated the worthless area to the establishment of a greatly needed school. One of the pupils was Laura. The district was poor, and school was TAPESTRY often held only six months out of each year. This arrangement pleased the chil- dren, and their parents did not feel too bad about it, since this freed the chil- By ALICE STEWART

dren to work in the field and herd the was shocked, and further questioning sheep and cattle. brought out the fact that the Bible was Laura had come with her brothers and an unopened Book to them all. sisters to the small white building. She Laura felt ashamed. Teacher's voice felt like a trapped, jailed thing for the implied that everyone should know the first few days. Outside she could hear the words to the Lord's Prayer, and besides, birds singing, and the roll of loose beds the beauty and simplicity of the words of shale on the hillside told her that a fascinated her in a way she did not un- frightened squirrel or groundhog sought derstand. cover in his home on the rocky slope. The house in which Laura lived was In due time she learned to read. Some- a large, ill-planned building with eight times the words in her books made her big rooms. There was no way to heat the laugh and sometimes they made her cry. dining room or the bedrooms, and the There were words that shocked her with kitchen, which ran along one entire side their naked ugliness, and there were of the house, was so long and so poorly others that left her breathless with their constructed that on the coldest winter beauty. She longed to be able to write days, ice froze in the water pail at the beautiful, glowing words. back of it, even while a fire burned in One day when she stood up beside her the wood range at the front. desk to read, the teacher called her at- There were four bedrooms upstairs. It tention to the fact that a portion of the was in one of these outsize rooms that Lord's Prayer was given. Laura slept. It contained her bed, a "Laura," the teacher said, "will you crudely made reading and writing table, give us the rest of the prayer?" several odd chairs, and ceiling-high Laura hung her head. She had never shelves filled with old books and maga- heard any of the prayer before. No one zines of every sort. Amid the motley, lit- in the entire school, from the first to the erary collection stood a ponderous old eighth grade, so the teacher discovered, silver-clasped Bible. had ever heard the prayer. The teacher As Laura and her brothers and sisters reached the age of seven, their father took them into the fields and taught them HOMER C. NORRIS, ARTIST to hoe and pull weeds. They were old

In her ill-fitting clothes, Laura roamed the countryside, climbed the hills. She knew where the bluebells grew amid the grass on the shady slopes.

DECEMBER 25, 1956 3 enough then to pull and tie vegetables " 'In the beginning,' " she read, " 'God in which Mrs. Martin kept them, there into counted bunches, and to wash and created the heaven and the earth.' " was one missing. It rested in the pocket ready them for the market. At first her sole interest lay in the dis- of Laura's dress, and every now and Laura, however, did not go into the covery of the prayer she sought. Then, then, the girl's hand stole into that pocket fields until after her ninth birthday. Be- as she read of the sin offerings of cattle, and felt of the silken bit of beauty. fore she was old enough to enter school, sheep, and goats that were to be made As soon as she was home, Laura she had suffered a severe case of blood under the old law, she began to worry a slipped away to her room and spread the poisoning that almost cost her life, and little about her own transgressions. She little tapestry square out upon the bed. kept her bedfast so long that she had to felt that her own sins would never be Somehow it didn't seem quite as pretty learn to walk all over again. The effects forgiven her. She could not afford to buy as it had when Laura held it up from of this illness and her natural frailty gave any such animals, and even if she could, among the other squares. She felt as if Laura freedom from field work during there was no priest in all the valley to she would rather not look at it any more the earlier years of her life. make the offering for her. that day. So when she was not in school she Now it so happened that there was one She started to slip it out of sight in the roamed through the woods and the sin in particular that worried her. As I big silver-clasped Bible, but as quickly swamp, climbed to the tops of the hills, have already mentioned, Laura loved decided that the Bible wasn't exactly the and swam in the waters of the shadowed everything beautiful about her, the right place to hide it, and hid it in a creek. She knew where the bluebells grew flowers, the hills, birds, and all the little big geography book instead. amid the grass on the shady slopes of the wild creatures. The pity of it all was that That was Laura's great sin, that piece hills. She learned the nesting habits of Laura had so few pretty things. Her of cloth between the pages of the big the birds and lay in the woods for hours clothing was mostly cast-off things from geography. It was for this great sin that silently listening to their songs. In fact, grown-up relatives in the city. The waist- she felt that she should bring a sin offer- Laura was like a wild creature of the lines of her dresses fell about her hips, ing. But what could she bring? The very valley herself, having seldom traveled be- the necklines were too low, and the hem- poor, so the pages of the old Bible said, yond its confines. Trips outside rarely oc- lines touched the tops of buttoned shoes were permitted to bring doves. that were sizes too big for her. She had curred for the children of this family un- There were mourning doves in the a few dresses that an older sister made less the need was urgent. valley where she lived. She had often especially for her, but these were all But even as playful colts of the pasture watched the pearl-gray birds as they built multi-colored plaids. There were none of are finally broken to the harness, so these their flat, coarsely woven nests in the the dainty, flowered prints or soft pastels days of idyllic abandonment ended for orchard trees, and in the timbered areas for which Laura longed. Laura often Laura. Her mother, by now used to the along the river. She knew where there felt ashamed of the dragging skirts that child's occasional help about the house was a nest low enough to reach up and made her slim, tall young figure look like and concerned lest the field work be too lay her hand over the mother bird. an overdressed scarecrow. hard for the frail body, tried to protest Laura studied the pictures of altars in the going. Although Laura's home and the homes of most of the people in the valley were the ancient Bible with great care. If she "Frank, you have all the others to help furnished in the plain, utilitarian man- were to make a sacrifice for her sins, she you," she said. "Let me keep Laura to ner of those who are of very modest must have an altar to make it upon. help about the house. I need someone to means, Laura had glimpsed another way Finally, after hours of reading, Laura help me too." of life. With her mother she had visited found the Lord's Prayer in the pages of "So you're Mamma's little curly-haired the home of Mrs. Martin, a newcomer the great Bible. Eagerly she read the few blue-eyed pet," Laura's father said scorn- to the valley. Mr. Martin made a mod- simple words. Then she read them again fully. "You probably think you're too est living by raising chickens on the little silently, joyously. She copied the words good to work in the field with the other ranch that adjoined the one Laura's par- onto a scrap of paper and hurried away kids," and he reached out and slapped ents owned. Laura knew, however, that into the woods. Laura across the face. the Martins had once been quite wealthy In the heart of this timbered area, Tears flooded his daughter's eyes, and people. In the albums Mrs. Martin there was a cleared spot where several she turned and went into the fields with- showed Laura and her mother, were pic- trees had been felled for wood. The out a word. tures of Mr. and Mrs. Martin taken in stumps remained. Laura climbed up onto Many evenings Laura was so tired famed places all over the world. In many one of these stumps, took the scrap of after work that she ate her supper, went of them Mrs. Martin wore expensive paper from her pocket, and read the upstairs and threw herself on the bed. clothing and fine fur coats. Her fingers, words aloud. A breeze stirred the She pulled a few covers over her when even now, were covered with costly rings branches above and about her, and she needed them and fell asleep. Some- and her home contained many treasures moved the finely cut leaves of the clumps times she slept through an entire night. from better days. of Dutchman's breeches, which matted Other times she awakened after a few One day while Laura and her mother the floor of the little open spot. A bird hours of sleep, and spent the rest of the were visiting in Mrs. Martin's home, their lit in the top of a cottonwood tree, then night reading. hostess brought out some silken tapestry flew away, startled by the sound of a Her reading now was all from one squares into which were woven, with con- voice below: "Our Father which art in Book. She must find the Lord's Prayer in sumate skill, a variety of garden flowers. heaven, hallowed by thy name. Thy its entirety and memorize it. Evening Laura turned them slowly about, watch- kingdom come. Thy will be done on after evening she lay across her bed, read- ing the play of light and shadow, and the earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day ing patiently through chapter after chap- shimmer of the rich, changeable colors. our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, ter of the Bible, searching for the verses "She has so many," Laura thought. as we forgive our debtors. And lead us she wanted. Although her father and "Surely she would not miss just this one." not into temptation, but deliver us from mother possessed Bibles, they never read She turned the piece of heavy silk evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the them, and, indeed, they acted so embar- again slowly, watching the soft hues in power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." rassed whenever religious subjects were a delicate spray of carnations change into Early on a sunlit spring day, Laura mentioned that Laura felt ashamed to brilliant glowing colors as the full light and one of her brothers went fishing along ask them for help or even to let them of the room fell upon them. the river. At one point along the stream know that she was interested in that When Laura slipped the pile of little a rocky cliff rose above the creek bed. Book. square tapestry blocks back into the box The sound of the water roaring against 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR

great boulders that had fallen in its coat while I make a fire to dry your cloth- Laura thought the brakes had given course, and tumbling over a solid rock ing and warm you up again. You must away, and the whole load of children wall into the dark pool below, was like be freezing in this wind." would go crashing down the hill onto the the sound of a great anthem if you knew In the days that followed, Laura often rocks at the side of the road. She stood where and how to listen to it. Laura thought of this incident. It seemed to her up and jumped out, meaning to jump discovered this secret of listening one day that God must have reached down and clear of the loaded car, but she found when she lay down upon the ground to brought her to safety, that He was some- herself sprawled directly in its path in- rest. With her ear pressed close against how trying to tell her that there was stead. Just then, a hand snatched her out the sand on the shore below the falls, she work for her to do, and that He was not of the road, and Laura looked up into heard the fuming, frustrated tones of the willing that she should die. Laura de- her brother's face. He had seen her jump water harmonized into a great melodious cided that she must find some way to make and had followed her swiftly but he anthem, swelling, as it were, toward a the required sacrifice. Yet she tarried since had only barely yanked her out of the road- sublime climax. she did not know exactly what she should way before the car passed over the spot On this day, Laura moved upstream do. If she built an altar and placed a where she had lain. ahead of her brother, meaning to listen sacrifice upon it with her own sinful That night Laura had a dream. She in on this beloved melody of the turbu- hands, would God strike her dead for her seemed to be walking along a road in a lent waters. Her hook caught on some presumptuousness? foreign land. She stumbled and fell and root or rock deep under the water, and While the memory of her escape from the wheels of an oxcart almost passed over Laura, without hesitation, pulled off her the water was still vividly etched upon her her body. Laura got up and continued shoes, and waded in to loosen it. The mind, Laura escaped possible death a sec- to follow the road. She reached the end of stream was still swollen from the snow ond time. it, at last, and found that she stood upon melting far back on the mountain, and There were few cars in the valley at a cliff so high and so wide, it seemed she the current was much stronger than she that time. One, however, was owned by could see the entire world stretched out expected. She was carried swiftly down- the sons of the millionaire sheepman. At below her. Individuals and individual stream, alternately ducked under the recess, one day, the children heard this deeds were brought to her attention as if water and then tumbled up again. She car coming up the road and crowded the a microscope were placed directly over clutched at the bushes along the bank, and stile and the fence to watch it pass. them to magnify and clarify their actions. grabbed at the overhanging limbs, but "Please give us a ride. Please, Bob! As she knelt there, peering over the her fingers failed to catch them. Please, Ralph! Please!" they begged. cliff edge, Laura's attention was called "I am going to drown," she thought. The brothers in the car laughed good away from the scene below her by a "I can't get my feet down. I am going to naturedly and flung open the car doors. change in the heavens. A figure ap- drown." The children crowded in and the car peared. Looking upon it was like look- When they had started from home that labored off up the road with its burden of ing into the face of the sun at midday. morning Laura's brother had permitted screaming, laughing children. Halfway up Laura was blinded for a second, and her to wear his hat, as a very special the hill, the overloaded car could not then she saw, as never before, the miser- favor. Its band was stuck full of his most make the rest of the climb. Slowly, it able depths of her own unworthiness laid treasured flies. She saw the hat, now, float- started backing down again. bare. ing off down the stream. She wondered whether it would go past the spot where her brother was fishing. In the same in- stant, she saw it sucked out of sight under a drift ahead of her. "I am going to die," she thought again. "I'll be caught under the drift. I'll prob- FAMILY ably never be found." The water and darkness closed over her, but not unconsciousness. She knew she was being sucked under the drift. She struggled in hopeless terror against the trap into which she had fallen. Seconds later she opened her eyes and discovered that she had somehow passed under the drift and been swept out into By MILDRED GRANT WILLIS shallower, calmer water. She stood up coughing and choking, and looked back up the stream along the way she had come. She shook so hard she could A small hand lovingly patted my arm in her mind as mutual stillness resumed, scarcely stand. Sobbing hysterically, she and sparkling eyes looked up into mine. but somehow those words of hers gave crawled up the bank and headed back A sweet childish voice said, "Mildred, I me another delightful picture of our new- down the stream. hope we will be neighbors in heaven." earth home, and with it came the thrill Her brother heard her coming and ran Nadine, the six-year-old from across the of an overwhelming longing to be there. to meet her. "Laura," he cried, stopping short in surprise when he caught sight of street, and I were pulling weeds from Because God has prepared it for us her sodden clothing, "what happened? around the iris. It was a quiet, under- and He is there, it is filled with unimag- Are you hurt?" standing association based on many sim- inable beauty and an all-pervading love When he had heard her story, he com- ilar experiences. I gave her a hug and beyond our finite grasp. But sprinkled in forted her: "Aw, you're all right now. agreed heaven would be even more at- generously are comfortable familiar Don't cry about it," Laura's brother tractive if she and I could indeed be things. Heaven—a homey place with soothed. "What do I care about the old neighbors. pole and the hat—or the fishhooks either, flowers, friends, loved ones, and especially so long as you got out. Here, put on my I don't know what thoughts prevailed little girls as neighbors. DECEMBER 25, 1956 5 She looked away and saw that strange Laura's father saw the tears which came "Tomorrow," she promised, "I will things were happening on the earth scene into her eyes when she saw the dresses build the altar and make the sacrifice." beneath her. Men abandoned the treas- and misread them. "I thought she would She was persuaded that the dream was a ures it had taken them a lifetime to amass, like the dresses," he told Laura's mother. personal warning from God. and flung themselves into the waves of Abruptly he turned and picked up his The next afternoon she slipped off into the sea as the Saviour drew near. Others newspaper. the timber alone. In the center of a bar- threw themselves over high cliffs, or On the night of her strange dream, ren spot where the backwaters of the cowered like frightened animals in the Laura remained at the window, upon her creek covered the ground during high caves of the mountains. knees for a long time. She looked up at water, Laura gathered up some large A small band of people, meanwhile, the silent stars, thinking about these things rocks and erected an altar like the ones separated themselves from this scene of and wondering about many more. If in the pictures of the old Bible. On the terror. They hurried forward to wel- her parents loved her why didn't they top of it, she arranged a pile of branches, come the heavenly Visitor. Laura watched ready for the kindling when she came this group, and although she was afraid, back with the bird. 5t.A. AriAlmg7cSii,1:5AA5A,Zii5Z7A3531:Z=Z3r.a=5331Z3 arose and joined them. But Laura's hand never closed over the She stood, in her turn, face to face with mother dove. With a flutter of gray wings, Jesus Christ, the Lord. No artist's brush the frightened mother bird eluded her or author's pen could portray the tender- grasp, and dropped into the grass on the ness, compassion, or the beauty of holi- other side of the bushes. She flopped about ness that shone upon His countenance. piteously. One wing dangled helplessly The divine eyes looked past the smile of as if it were broken. Laura knew this welcome that trembled upon Laura's lips, was a ruse to lead her away from the into the depths of her soul. Laura shrank nest in which she had glimpsed the almost back, self-condemned. A hand was lifted naked bodies of two baby birds. toward her, extended full length, palm The pursuit of the mother bird was up—in a gesture not of welcome, but useless. Laura sat down beside her altar of heartbroken denial. exhausted. Her plans had failed. There Laura awakened to the sound of her was still nothing to sacrifice and the Bible own bitter sobs, and sat up in bed, breath- said very plainly that without the shed- ing fast. It was all a dream she knew. ding of blood, there was no remission of Somehow, though, she failed to shake off sin. the feeling of actually having stood be- Saatotail Suddenly Laura had an idea. The baby fore the great Judge, and of having seen birds! Why hadn't she thought of them Him stretch forth His hand to halt her before? She could easily take one of hypocritical approach. By ALBERT GEHLY them from the nest. Silently, she slipped out of bed and Laura felt a bit sick as she came back made her way across the bare floor to one Softly with the bird in her hand, and sat down of the four windows of her room, all of The falling snow beside her altar. The baby bird was such which looked out over the darkened hills. Danced around my window, an ugly thing. It was so helpless. How She knelt and looked up at the distant could it know that it must die because stars. In the words of a child, she asked Lingering in clusters a little girl had stolen a pretty bit of that she might find the mercy and pardon Here and there, cloth and hidden it away in her room? of God. Swirling, twirling, She sat very still with the bird cradled Racing on in her hand, wondering how the killing Like floating fields of pure of an animal or a bird could cause God LAURA had ever received a caress I F white flowers. to forgive sin. or a word of endearment from her She heard someone approaching father, she could not remember it. But through the timber, and turned about she did like to think about the time her Flake-swept sky, just in time to see a white-haired man father returned from peddling vegetables Why must you die with a kind fatherly face step out into in one of the neighboring towns, and So silently? the open spot. handed her a package. Laura broke the "Hello, little girl. Having a picnic all string and eagerly unrolled the paper. In- [Poet Gehly was an advanced composition student at by yourself?" he asked. side she found two ready-made dresses of Atlantic Union College when he composed this poem.] soft woolen cloth. They were prettily Laura shook her head. Her face felt trimmed, and Laura thought, "Father hot. She had not expected anyone to must love me even if he doesn't say so. ICSATZ53tg3WAltfiE5Zi63;AVZW,45Z53TA3*5. 511S-A5:53 discover her plans. Carefully, she placed He must love me or he wouldn't have the bird upon the ground beside her. bothered to pick out these dresses for me." tell her so? Why did they so seldom caress "What do you have there, a baby bird? Where did you find that?" She glanced up at her father and saw their children? Why must her father and that he was watching her, a smile on his her older brothers quarrel so much and "I took it out of the nest," Laura ad- lips. Tears came into Laura's eyes. She threaten to kill each other? It must be mitted, feeling very miserable and very hastily caught up the dresses and carried because they didn't love God. mean now. them upstairs into the back of a big dark Denied as she was of the continued as- "Didn't you think how the mother clothes closet. There she sat down on surance of her parents' love, Laura's heart bird would feel when she came back and the floor, and smoothed the dresses out reached out for assurance of the love of found her baby gone?" the stranger asked, across her lap. God. She had been taught to obey the his voice very kind but very serious, too. "He bought these for me," she whis- commands of her parents, and now the "I already know how she felt," Laura pered to herself. "He bought these just for words of an ancient Bible convinced her said. "She was so worried, she fluttered me! He must love me or he wouldn't have that she owed obedience also to the com- about and tried to make me think she bought me such pretty dresses." mands of God. had broken a wing or a leg." 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR A puzzled look passed over the stran- ger's face. "If you knew how the mother R A Ft bird felt, how could you go ahead and or take her baby away?" Laura's face flamed at these words of gentle rebuke. She studied the question- ,A.W0,4 M.pARK C. ing face and saw only kindness there. He did not understand. She had not idly looted the mother bird's nest. The kind eyes searched her face, and Laura felt, all at once, that she would like to tell the whole story. Perhaps this man would know what she should do. Silently the stranger listened while Laura poured out the long story of the stolen tapestry, of the search for the Lord's Prayer, and of the words of the big silver-clasped Bible about sin offer- ings. While she talked, Laura looked away from the face of the white-haired man. Maybe he would laugh at her as her father did when she tried to talk to him sometimes. But this man did not laugh. Instead, he was so quiet for several seconds after Laura finished that she stirred uneasily. "Honey," he said then, very gently, "go put the baby bird back into the nest and

I will tell you a story." HOMER C. NORRIS, ARTIST Laura listened quietly to the old, old Sunday afternoon saw Laura, her mother, her two sisters, and three brothers seated behind desks story of God's great love for man, whom in the small white school building of District Number 51. They came to hear "some preachin'." He had created. It was the oft-told story of the entrance of sin and shame into a world created perfect. In simple words the old man retold the sweetest story of The prayer was short and simply Sunday afternoon saw Laura, her all times, the story of Jesus, who gave worded, but Laura and the elderly minis- mother, her two sisters, and her three Himself to die in the place of sinful man ter felt the Spirit of God close in upon brothers seated behind desks at the school and forever did away with the need for them as they knelt by the crude stone of District Number 51. The minister animal sacrifices. altar Laura's childish hands had erected exchanged a few words of greeting with The white-haired man watched the face unto God. the handful of people present, then he of the little girl who listened. He was "Laura," the minister said before they walked up to stand behind the teacher's thinking, perhaps, of the words of his parted, "maybe you've heard that I have desk. His sermon that Sunday was based Master, "Whosoever shall not receive the been preaching at the schoolhouse on on the story of the prodigal son. Laura kingdom of God as a little child, he Sunday afternoons. I'd like to have you listened, her eyes alight. She had often shall not enter therein." He must also come. Perhaps your father and mother read this story in the big silver-clasped have thought of grown men and women, or your brothers and sisters would come Bible. wise in the way of the world, who with you if you asked them." She looked about her to see if her spurned the invitations of God and Laura's mother, much to her surprise, neighbors were enjoying the sermon as laughed at the words of His Book. It is agreed to go. "I always went to church much as she. Big Bessie Billups stared very certain that he was glad he had fol- when I was a girl back in Nebraska. But stolidly up at the preacher. Her work- lowed his impulse to go alone into this there ain't been no preachin' to go to in worn hands were clasped on the desk in wooded area on this afternoon. He knew this valley since Ben McGill and those front of her. She had no sons, prodigal or that it was God who had led him to this other young hoodlums threw rotten eggs otherwise, and she worked like a man at one little girl who did not understand at that preacher, Emigh. I remember Ben shoveling ditches, pitching hay, and re- what she read in God's great Book. come to me early one morning and asked pairing machinery. When the old man ceased to speak, if there were any rotten eggs the hens Old Tom Raleigh, who lived by him- Laura drew a deep breath. "How much had set on around. I asked him what he self in a little shack down the river, God does love us," she said. "I will take wanted them for, and he said that they shuffled his feet uneasily now and then. the tapestry back and ask Mrs. Martin planned to rotten-egg the preacher, come Tom was like the hills, silent himself, to forgive me. I know now that God will Sunday. I wouldn't give him any." but given to echoing back the words of forgive me without my killing the baby Laura's mother paused and looked others. Bob Walters, one of the million- dove." around the table at her brood. "It won't aire's sons, sat batting his eyes rapidly "Laura," the minister said, "I came hurt you youngsters any to hear a little after his usual habit. What he was think- into this woods to talk with God alone, preachin'," she declared emphatically. ing it would be hard to say. Figuring, but He led me to your altar and you. That Saturday night, as usual, Laura perhaps, what this year's lamb crop Shall we kneel together and ask God to and her brothers and sisters scrubbed would bring on the market or dreaming, forgive our sins and lead us in His ways? themselves clean in the big washtub, as he often did, of the time he would Wouldn't you like to give your heart and which their mother placed on the floor inherit a big portion of his father's lands your life to Him? That is the sacrifice He of the kitchen, close beside the big wood and money. Maudie, his wife, played wants you to place upon this altar." range. with her rings and smiled at the preacher DECEMBER 25, 1956 7 "Good-by, Laura. May God bless you. You won't forget, will you?" "I won't forget," Laura promised. She was thinking of a little tapestry square in her room at home. It belonged to her now. After having talked with the minis- ter in the woods, Laura had gone straight to her room, taken the tapestry square from the pages of the big geography, and walked down the road to Mrs. Martin's By INEZ BRASIER house. Her heart was beating fast as she walked up to the door and knocked softly. Mrs. Martin opened the door promptly and invited Laura into the comfortable living room. Laura's glance fixed on some- for their lamps costs a year. They told me thing on the wall above the davenport. it was twenty-seven francs. I am giving She could not look away from it. All of that amount that it may help to take the the little tapestries had been joined to- light of Jesus to places where He is not gether to form one huge square tapestry. known." It was perfectly beautiful only—. Yes, One day Jesus sat in the Temple courts in the very center was a square of plain in old Jerusalem. He observed the costly silk where the carnation square should offerings the rich poured into the coffers have been. ART UR TWIDLE, ARTIST with pride and ostentation. He heard the "I have the square that is missing," exclamations and blessings called after Laura said miserably. "I stole it that day them as they, with their retinue of serv- you showed them to me. I am very sorry ants, passed through the massive gates. and I want to ask you to forgive me." HE old straw worker of Paris Then the record continues, "There was poor and blind, but in There were tears in Laura's eyes as came a certain poor widow, and she threw she held out the little square of cloth. her heart burned the flame in two mites, which make a farthing. And 6 of Jesus' love. One day, in he called unto him his disciples, and Mrs. Martin looked at the slim little the missionary meeting of her church, saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, figure in the faded, ill-fitting cotton dress. she placed twenty-seven francs in the of- That this poor widow hath cast more in, She was remembering another little girl fering box. than all they which have cast into the and another confession that had been as "Twenty-seven francs! How can you treasury: for all they did cast in of their painful to make as this one. give so much?" asked one who knew her abundance; but she of her want did cast "Sit down, Laura," Mrs. Martin said poverty. in all that she had, even all her living." kindly. "Of course I forgive you. Per- "You know I am blind. I do not need It is not the size of the gift that heaven haps you have noticed this exquisite little a light, so I asked the straw workers records, but the motive, the sincerity, and painting of a cherub I keep here on my where I am employed how much the oil the kindness of spirit that prompts it. desk. When I was a child, I stole this picture from my aunt. I took it back, as you have the tapestry, and Aunt Jessie gave it to me. She said that she wanted me to keep it to remind me to keep the commandments of God, and to forgive those who might sin against me." with saccharine sweetness as she tipped ley, and accounts of events that had Mrs. Martin walked over to Laura's her head about in a show of simulated moved or disturbed her. chair and gently placed the silken square interest. She was pretty in the way a doll "I can't speak words like this minister in her lap. is pretty, with its big, wide-open eyes, its does," Laura thought, "but I can write "I want you to have it, dear. I hope it painted face, and its empty head. them. God wants me to write." will mean as much to you as this pic- At the close of the service the minister "Do you want me to continue these ture does to me. Frame it, and take it came down the aisle, greeting each one meetings?" the minister asked at the close into a home of your own some day. Let as he passed. He clasped Laura's hand of the service. it remind you to keep the commandments a moment and said simply, "May God Big Bessie was brutally frank. "I'd of God and to forgive those who may bless you, my child." much rather go to a ball game on my sin against you just as Aunt Jessie's pic- That following Sunday, Laura once rest days," she declared loudly. ture has reminded me through all these more heard the minister speak in the little "We usually have picnics and dances years." schoolhouse. This time also his audience for gettin's together," Maudie added, Laura stood up, the silken square was very small. He chose as the topic of pursing her painted lips, and tilting her hugged close against her. The tapestry his sermon, the parable of the ten talents. head with its heavy mass of coiled black in her hands would hold, as long as she Laura felt as if he were speaking to her hair. lived, far greater beauty than it could alone, as if he were telling her that God "Ain't much use you wastin' your time. ever have held before. For now, whenever had given her talents to use for Him. It's good enough weather for ball games she looked at it or thought of it, she She felt that she knew what her talents already," Bob declared. "There won't would think of the love of God so great were, and what God wanted her to do nobody sit in church then." that He gave His Son that men might be with them. Tom Raleigh shuffled his feet uneasily forgiven. It was the love of God in the Hidden away at home, back of the and looked embarrassed, but he said hearts of men that led them to forgive books on her shelves, was a box that con- nothing. one another as God forgave them. The tained Laura's writings. In it were her So the decision was made once more words of the elderly minister had fallen descriptions of beloved spots in her val- on majority rule. into fertile soil that day. 8 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR version of ferocious, drunken debau- chees; for she knew what was ahead. Like a lamb, then a lion, he slowly be- came restless—twisting, turning—work- ing himself into delirium tremens. The bedfast accident patient in the other bed No Refill of Love of the semiprivate room turned on his signal light more frequently, worrying about the tossing condition of Mr. Wal- lace. The thermometer mercury passed 104°, scarlet replaced a normal complex- By TOM M. SMITH ion, precordial pain drew him into con- vulsions. This introduced his incessant demand for alcohol; for hours his condi- tion fluctuated. One afternoon when I arrived at work URSE, Nur—" Muffled, frantic scenes that were enacted by this puppet he decided that the floor was his bed, screams came from Room 217. of liquor. Alcoholism would be an un- and we finally had to decide that too. The beams of my flashlight led known evil if only everyone could see Some strange, mystical force grasped his me down the long county hospi- what a hospital orderly sees. But if you mind and body; he wandered in a world tal hall and then shone in the red burn- feel uncomfortable in the presence of of hallucinations. For hours he lay there, ing faces of two agonizing patients—one depravity and filth, read no farther. panting rapidly, his fever running high, was being choked to death by the other; February the first he came in, a his skin red and hot, sweat running off the other in turn was being choked by his wretched alcoholic, a disgusting sight, him in small streams. He trembled nerv- inordinate craving for liquor. shabbily dressed from head to foot. His ously. His stricken countenance revealed What a disenchanting, base boozer was clothes were all covered with vomitus a terrible, haunting fear. His arms waved Mr. Wallace! How degraded can human- and soot. But there was no laughing— vigorously. In delirium he reviewed the ity get? I asked. He was trying to snuff just cursing and swearing. past, pausing just long enough to ask for out a life for a drink of "distinction." "And your name?" I shook down the a drink of liquor. Putting him to bed for the hundredth thermometer and recorded his tempera- Several hours later, muscular convul- time, strapping his fevered, demanding ture. sions gripped his body; frantically he body again for the fiftieth time, I looked "Richard Lee Wallace, just call him screamed in agony. He was then tied into his tragic face. Long unkept hair, Rickie," was a solemn response from the to the bed. Sweat watered the bedding; blood-shot eyes, features of the living neighbor who had brought him in. "He vomitus soiled the floor. Trembling and dead. Never have I seen his picture on a just looked too sick to be at his house shivering, with an inordinate strength, bear advertisement. Never will anyone. without anybody there to take care of he tore himself loose from the bed. Climb- Liquor propagandists are much too him. Mary Wallace and his daughter, ing over the rails, he staggered desper- shrewd to so honestly depict their wares. Barbara, moved away seven years ago; ately out of the room and down the dark Once you have seen what liquor really anyone would, the way he drinks." halls toward the nurses' station. does, as I have, you vow to forsake for- And there he lay, sullen and morose, Quickly we got up to catch him! He ever this uncaring killer. Everyone needs for hours—perfectly still and peaceably fought vigorously, stamping, screaming, to know this man's story; everyone sleeping. Mrs. Genoway, the head nurse, crying in a mania, as we tried to hold should experience the vivid, horrifying smiled softly as she listened to my novice him. "Get out of here! Get out! And tell Ted to bring me that beer. Do you hear me? Let me go! Ted! 0 Ted!" The intense hysterical outcry rang down the halls. "Your brother Ted cannot come now —let's go back to your room, Mr. Wal- lace." Slowly we edged him up to the bed, Mrs. Genoway holding one arm tightly, I trying to manage his body movement. Suddenly he stooped, search- ing the floor around his bed in a frenzy. I strained, trying to pull his body up- ward. Wildly his tremulous fingers, tangling with the guardrails of the bed, nervously tried to grasp an unseen object. "I want that bottle of beer there. Did you hear me? I want that beer." Mrs. Genoway quickly gave him a sip of water. Satisfied, he then crawled into his bed. On his taut, anxious face there dawned a smile, "Thank you." We smiled and left. Smiles are blessings, even in the cold face of death. Mary Wallace came often, sitting for hours on the small, hard chair, wrestling earnestly to keep Rickie in bed, praying silently as her minister came to comfort. A. DEVANEY Within her blue eyes was reflected the Never have I seen this picture on a beer advertisement. Liquor propagandists ate too shrewd. agony that her husband was suffering; on DECEMBER 25, 1956' '9 her brow were etched years of waiting, and how very handsome was he. How slowly started back up the long, narrow love, fear, and forgiving toil. She was a very proud! Everything had come his road to recovery. Mary, staying by his woman made old by a broken home. way at once: good employment, a new side constantly, would smile more often Money could never bring beauty back to car, and a blue-eyed blonde from a small now. Room number 217 did not even her worry-racked face. But like a mother town. Nothing would be too good for look so dark as it once did—even though of a tiny infant, she gently cared for them. That apartment was large enough the only physical light was the beam Rickie. Barbara, the eight-year-old for the many parties that were held. from my flashlight. Hallucinations, tre- daughter, stood back, betraying an in- Mary went right along with Rickie when mens, nausea were blotted items on his stinctive fear of her almost-lunatic father. he brought home that first case of beer— chart, to be forgotten; but still liquor Mary comforted both of them and ex- just to be sociable. "What would a party had left this human hull with a calling plained in words beautifully simple and be without it?" Mary thought of her card and war scars. The results of too sweet that Daddy was sick, and when he mother's words telling her never to touch many years of wading in wine could easily got well they could go live with him. it. be seen. Mary knew that he was changed Then, as she looked up, I could sense the First she had smiled reluctantly—hesi- completely, a man that was beyond any sincere desire couched in her words. Mrs. tating— repair that she could give. Barbara only Genoway encouragingly squeezed her "But just for this one time, huh?" showed signs of fear—fear of his demand- hand, for this nurse knew the agony that She then nodded. ing voice, fear of his swinging arms, fear Mary tried to hide. She also knew the Rickie slowly changed his attitudes as of his marred face. husband's condition, even when a swift that first year passed. Mary knew why he "Come here, girl; you don't have to be maddened hand disturbed the air and was always late, but love put worry aside. afraid of me. I'm your father, you know." landed on the soft cheek of this lady in Mrs. Genoway set her pen down. "Go to Daddy, Barbara," Mary en- white. Alcohol was demanding a refill; Mary's eyes dropped. "One night he came couraged softly, even though her pushing Rickie was demanding a refill. Mary and home late, a drunken, nauseated, stag- arm was trying to be held back by her Barbara were demanding a refill also, but gering mess. I thought I could take no inward emotions. The small girl's face a refill of love. more. Then he was fired from the plant. grew puzzled as she advanced slowly. After much treatment, Rickie dozed We moved from apartment to apartment, Quickly he grabbed her arms. "Why into hours of statuelike silence. Mary each one smaller. With breath reeking are you afraid of me?" Barbara struggled, walked slowly down the hall, longing for with liquor he'd say, 'We'll get along, Mary's thin hands grasped the frightened comfort. With sad eyes, she peered un- honey.' body, Rickie held it tight, squeezing, and knowingly, indirectly into space. The "Sure, we got along. I had to start beginning to shake her. "It's what your lights of the nurses' station silhouetted a sewing and altering. Then Barbara came mother has been telling you, isn't it? She small woman on the polished floors of —the only happy results of our marriage always said things like that. You act like darkness. She smiled slightly at Mrs. after he started being so 'sociable.' I you hate me. That's what she wants you Genoway. Somewhere, somehow she never knew that beer could do so much to do. She's been doing that for years. wanted to release her worry. damage. He made me leave him when Well, I've got news for you"—vigorously The lines on her grieved moist face Barbara was only a year old." he shook her young form, then throwing deepened. Then she cleared her throat, She could say no more; tears dimmed her backward on the floor—"I hate you "It wasn't like this when we married." her eyes; thin hands tried to hide her too!" Mrs. Genoway leaned forward, setting face. Mrs. Genoway quickly drew near His maddened eyes glared at the petri- the charts aside. Clearly could be seen and administered the medicine of love. fied girl on the floor. Trembling and the story—told in vivid, burning colors. We wondered as days rapidly filled terribly frightened, she scrambled to her What a beautiful bride she had made new pages of the nurses' charts. Rickie feet, her full eyes fixed completely on him, then suddenly turned and fled down the hall. Mary, standing erect and taut, gasped. This moment was too rigid for tears or vain emotion. Her lips quivered, and with a strange, mystical desire, they wanted to speak out the latent feelings of seven long years. Words that would be Eorazier so very different from these this loving woman had spoken now formed. By W. E. WHITNEY She looked at him tensely—"All these years Barbara and I have gone through all we can take. I've begged you to quit He takes the metal, dull and plain and rough; time and time again, and now you are And places it in contact with the wheel. going to have to decide—I'm fed up." A When bright and smooth and polished quite enough, tear trickled down the worry-worn face. He takes in hand the sharply pointed steel. She breathed slowly. A wild-jackal, burning look filled his With master skill, he carefully pursues eyes. He sat up quickly, and like a Some complicated lines within his mind. spoiled child, he shook his head vigor- And soon we have rare beauty, for the use ously and screamed, "Get out! Get out Of those who love the art he has designed. of here! Leave me alone! I'd rather have beer than ten wives like you!" Christ will prepare our souls for future life, I heard nothing in the silence that If we submit our hearts to be engraved; followed, but watched the sculpture of a Although at times we flinch beneath the knife, terrified, completely shocked face. Then God's love inscribes the beauty we have craved. the tense muscles finally relaxed as tears dampened the flushed cheeks. She turned. Stifled sobs and quick, hurried steps were the last I knew of Mary Wallace. 10 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR REVIVAL in READING

By D. A. ROTH

HE smartly dressed young man the fourteenth row, wanted to catapult He looked down, closed his eyes, and on the fourteenth row leaned out of his seat and rush forward. But he breathed a prayer. His eyes lifted sharply forward so that he wouldn't miss had never done anything like that before. and surprisingly as he felt a hand on his a word being said. An eight- How could he stand in front of all those shoulder. The voice that belonged to the month-old baby behind him was crying, people and tell them what he wanted to hand whispered, "Come, I'll help you." but he didn't seem to hear her. His at- do for Christ? Before he knew it, he was before the tention was focused on the man speaking. microphone, giving his testimony. Theodore E. Lucas, world youth "I wouldn't have missed these meetings leader of the Seventh-day Adventist for the world," he said simply. "God has Church, was addressing a capacity-plus spoken in a definite way to me this week, audience of five hundred who had and I want to announce my decision to crowded into the Reading, Pennsylvania, forsake the ways of the world and join Adventist elementary school auditorium the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This early in October. is the happiest day of my life, because "The greatest decision that can be today I know I have found Christ. I am made by youth today is to give their lives convinced of the fact that Jesus Christ is unreservedly to Jesus Christ," he was coming back to this world, and I want to saying. "Young people of today need to be ready when He comes. I hope to be give their hearts to God, and then devote faithful until then." a lifetime of service to Him." Nine months before this nine-day The young man on the fourteenth row series, Bob was working in a Berks felt a surge of response in his heart. He County factory as a turner of ladies' listened intently as the plan and purpose shoulder bags. He had been a lifelong of Christian living were unfolded by resident of Reading, but had never heard Pastor Lucas. much about Adventists until he met a When the sermon ended, the bespec- fellow worker at the plant. tacled, dark-haired young man and hun- His friend was an Adventist, and at dreds of others joined in a song of dedi- first was eager to tell Bob about his cation. church. It wasn't long until Bob was tak- Then Arthur J. Patzer, youth leader of ing the Bible course. He accepted an the Columbia Union Conference, stepped invitation to attend church with his forward and in a simple, straight-to-the- friend one Sabbath morning. point way asked for expressions of re- Unmarried and twenty-four, Bob had sponse from the young people. plenty of time every night and on week- One after another they came forward ends to study the great truths of the Bible. and spoke of their desire to live a better The more he studied, the more he life for Christ. Bob, the young man on To page 21

PHOTOS, COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR Top: T. E. Lucas, leading speaker. Below: The choir led by Pastor Seitz (organist, Leonard Grube). Left: The revival auditorium. Center, left to right: Pastors Ingersoll, Zytkoskee, Wittenberg, Seitz, Lucas, Patzer, Callender, Tyson, and Philpott. Right: The singing quintet from Pine Forge Institute. DECEMBER 25, 1956 11 Are you turning over some New Year's resolutions in your mind? Then read—

WEALTHY woman who had the midst of a speech, for all the para- attended a popular concert dis- phernalia for the deaf will be discarded! A covered on her arrival home But until that great day we need to that she had lost a costly dia- heed the warning of the Master, "Take mond brooch. Frantically she called the heed . . . how ye hear." For certainly Hold custodian of the concert hall and re- many forms of deafness are discernible. ported her loss. He asked her to hold the Those who have their full physical hear- line while he investigated. Sure enough, ing but misinterpret what they hear may among the items picked up by the as well be deaf. Those who hear plainly janitors, the brooch was discovered. and understandingly but soon forget may The custodian returned to the tele- just as well never have heard. Those who PLI phone to report the fortunate news, but choose to hear only what they want to there was no response. Apparently mis- hear, listening to commendation but understanding the request to wait, the never to counsel, soon lose their sense of woman had hung up. She had failed to harmony. give her name, and was never heard from There are 125,000 deaf people in By HARRY again. Advertisements were inserted in America who are being served the gospel the newspapers, but no one ever laid by mail in their own homes, but what claim to the valuable piece of jewelry. about the millions of spiritually deaf It never reached its rightful owner. who have never heard the thunders of Failing to wait for an answer has been Sinai and its revealed law, nor the voice the defeat of many an enterprise. Turn- of God in the cataracts "that blow their ing away from counsel before it is given trumpets from the steep"? has been the defeat of many a Christian. Let us look at the group who misin- Praying loudly and then not listening for terpret what they hear. When Jesus was the still small voice of the Spirit has foretelling the supreme trial He was fac- hardened ears that were already deaf. ing, He paused and cried, "Father, glorify Heaven's benefits and stored-up blessings thy name." Immediately an approving have lain unclaimed because their right- voice was heard from heaven by those ful owners did not hold the line open who were sympathetic with the Saviour. between themselves and God until as- Sen§itive to spiritual things, they whis- surance was given concerning their pered, "An angel spake to him." But petitions. there were many in the throng whose Instead of waiting in the holy silence hearts were not attuned to divine revela- where God is, many rush out to sit in tion. Their verdict of what they heard assemblies where they can hear only the was that "it thundered." petty babblings of men. But it was when These two groups represent the two typ- the disciple John had been exiled from ical reactions of men to God's messages. the world of clamorous men to the lonely One treats them with reverence and godly rock of Patmos that he heard "the sound fear, and finds fellowship with angels. The of many waters" that profoundly stirred other, ready to explain away the super- his soul. The prattlings of boastful power natural or to define everything by natural and the tyranny of trifles disturbed him law, is unreached and therefore un- no more, for he was alone with God. blessed by any miracle. The sounding of the heavenly note of Millions of deluded people in our authority fell on sensitive ears, and the modern era pay large sums of money to church was given the marvels of the hear what they suppose to be the counsel Apocalypse. and confidences of the departed. Nearly In these thunderous days the world eight million dollars is spent annually needs hearing aids to catch the under- by the people of Chicago alone for the tones of meaning in the noisy clamor of services of spiritualists and clairvoyants, the times. Never were there so many in the hope of getting mystic messages deaf ears since the confusion of tongues from the cities of the dead. Since the at Babel. The clash of conflict and the Bible declares that "there is no work, nor alarms of war have drowned out the device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in significance of the name of Jesus, "sweet- the grave," any messages purporting to est note in seraph song." come from the tomb must be sepulchral But more tragic than the failure of fakes. those who have never heard is the in- Houdini, master magician and miracle difference of those who once heard angelic escapist from locked doors and sealed choirs singing the promise of redemption chests, agreed to come back with wonder and release but who have become deaf tales from the spirit world, but he has listening to the noisy panaceas of earth. never been heard from, though for more One bright promise remains, however, than a decade friends have held mumbo- and that is Isaiah's prophecy that in the jumbo trysts and eerie incantations to kingdom restored, "the ears of the deaf woo him back from his dusty sleep in shall be unstopped." No more audi- the grave. phones or turning of knobs, no more But what is it these spiritists hear? Ob- amplifiers or loud-speakers that fail in viously what they want to hear, and the 12 spirits of devils that were cast out of messages come to men. Sometimes they heaven supply them with convincing proof issue forth from among the pots and pans that self-hypnosis is the most subtle form of everyday routines. Once in a great of flattery. while they are found in the counsels of The answer of the small boy to his obscure men who never would be taken father's request at dinner that he refrain for prophets. The Jewish church in from tinkling the dishware with his knife Christ's day thought it had the oracles of Line, and fork has a measure of acute observa- God, but it was John the Baptist in a tion in it. He said, when his parent in leather girdle and hair shirt who was irritation asked him why he did it, "I commissioned with the counsels of guess everyone likes his own music best." Heaven for his times. How very true that is! That is why people But the human heart likes the specta- hear so badly. They are listening for cular. Blaring bands and colorful parades SE what they want to hear. call us away from the duties of the pass- There are wretched singers who be- ing hour. Fireworks and noisemakers cause they think they have absolute symbolize the tumult that words cannot pitch despise the corrective of standard express. Twenty-one-gun salutes, deafen- tuning forks. There are moaning croon- ing ovations, cheering multitudes—these are the insignia of merit in men and TIPPETT ers who make radio programs hideous with barroom ditties that are the farthest movements. Yet how differently God possible cry from heaven's harmonies. works! He announces the Bethlehem There are boresome orators whose ragged birth with an angelic anthem, but as E. H. BLASHFIELD, ARTIST philosophies bear no semblance either to soon as the shepherds of the fields have the wisdom of the ancients or to the con- heard and understood, the glorious fan- clusions of experience. It is not strange fare is over, and the silent wonder of a therefore that Jesus said, "Take heed . . . star over the city of David is all that how ye hear." remains of that epochal spectacle to re- But paradoxical as it may seem, some mind our human race that "unto us a discords that men produce afford rejoic- son is given." ing in the realms where the blessed are, How silently, how silently because their inner ears are attuned to The wondrous gift is given! the chromatic scales of the angels. So God imparts to human hearts A Bible society secretary told of being The blessings of His heaven. No ear may hear His coming; met in Africa by a crowd of Christian But in this world of sin, converts who had formed a band com- Where meek souls will receive Him still, posed of a nondescript assortment of The dear Christ enters in. instruments badly out of tune. He con- fessed he was not sure that they were not Radio and its allied wonders have trying to play "Ta-rah-rah Boom-to-ay," made more convincing the fact that al- but the bandmaster with beaming face though heaven seems far away, it can be asked him how he liked their rendition tuned in. The soul needs to get on of the Hallelujah Chorus. Perhaps be- heaven's wave length to hear the most cause of their holy enthusiasm it was so up-to-date newscast obtainable. The bur- registered in the books above. At any den of its comment is, "To day if ye will rate, for the Bible agent and the Africans hear his voice, harden not your hearts." it was merely a difference in what each Distance really lends tonal quality to heard—a difference in discernment. Like- music. They say that the chimes in the wise, in the faltering harmony of a back- tower of St. Nicholas' Cathedral in woods choir many a soul has found the Amsterdam are among the world's finest. note of redemption and has been born But to hear them in the chamber where into the kingdom of God. Or again, in they hang is nothing but ear-splitting the wheezy rendition of a childhood clatter. One needs to go out into the fields hymn on a collapsible street organ some some distance away to hear their melo- have had their faith and courage re- dious, worshipful harmony. newed for the onward march of another Sometimes we cannot understand day. God's purposes and patterns for our lives One reason for spiritual deafness is because we stand too near our griefs, our that many fail to listen long and intently problems, our distresses. We need to seek enough at their devotional shrines. They His face apart from men, and then we "let go of the arm of the Lord too soon" shall see all things working together in a is the observation of God's prophetic beautiful rhapsody of interaction. Some- counsel to the church. They see "the one has coined the word telepotence in sights that dazzle" and "the tempting reference to prayer, and the term becomes sounds" they hear. They rush into God's significant when we understand its mean- presence without knocking, stop only to ing—power at a distance. plead, do not wait to implore, artd lose Have you had conversation with God much of what they came for. They pour lately about your heavenly inheritance? out their souls in petition, but like Pilate, Did you get any response? If not, don't who asked of the Saviour, "What is be discouraged, but try again and hold truth?" they do not stop for the answer. the line until the answer comes. Not always with the voice of thunder A dissolute young man became a mod- or with earthquake and fire do God's ern prodigal and ran away from home. 13 By some- means the notice of his father's man named Kline lay in wait one night translates the songs of earth into mes- death came to him, and he returned for alongside a dark and lonely road for one sages from Heaven. the funeral. His mother received him as who he felt had done him an unforgiv- Some people are so poorly attuned to any true mother would, with kindness able injury. He had brooded over the musical beauty that as far as they are and affection. The family was called to- matter so much that he had now resolved concerned bells might as well be with- gether for the reading of the will, and to kill his supposed enemy. out clappers, violins without strings, the lawyer began to read the document. Soon he heard the voices of a group organs without pipes, and a marching To the surprise of everyone, the will of children on their way home from a band without instruments. Those who told in detail the wayward career of the Sunday school choir practice. He listened have spiritually dull ears are likewise un- runaway son. Without waiting to hear intently, trying to make out the words, stirred by the harmony of life's disci- more he arose in anger, stamped out of but a guilty conscience tortured his hear- plines. To such people the messages God the room, left the house, and was not ing so that instead of the song, "Jesus has for men are muted. They spend their heard from for three years. died for all mankind, and Jesus died for lives at the complaint window, and talk When the youth was eventually found me," he heard, "Jesus died for old man themselves out of satisfactory adjust- he was informed that after the story of his Kline." Terror-stricken, he jumped up ments. Their transmitters are always folly had been told in his father's will, and returned home. open and their receivers forever closed. he had been bequeathed fifteen thou- The old man was the first penitent at "Hold the line, please," is the best sand dollars. How much sorrow he would the next series of gospel meetings held formula we can conceive, then, for relief have been saved had he heard the read- in that place, and subsequently he of our spiritual deafness and for assur- ing through! He failed to listen until the learned the words of the song as they ance of Heaven's opulence. "Call ye upon transaction had been completed, and re- were written. Yet on that dark night of him while he is near," for He will hear turned to the husks of his prodigality for his awakening "Jesus died for old man you today, and if you wait long enough, three bitter years. Kline" was just as true as the words the there will be a marvelous surprise in "Take heed . . . how ye hear." An old children were singing. The Spirit of God store for you.

TERROR in the NIGHT

By JOSE RODRIGUEZ

noises. The windows and the doors would slam of their own accord. At times the house would tremble as if shaken by an While the house shook earthquake. Whoever lived there always and rattled, my wife and became frightened and moved out. Even I knelt by our beds, un- some Spiritualists themselves had tried liv- able to speak, praying. ing in the house, but would not remain. I had heard of such things before. But RUSS HARLAN, ARTIST the Bible had taught me how to deal with a situation like this. I realized that it would take much faith and prayer to HE old minister for years had doors against us. I learned later that there be delivered from the power of the devil. labored in Spanish lands among were many Spiritualists in this town. At But the experience of Jesus and the people held captive by various least half the population belonged to this Gadarene who was possessed with un- forms of Spiritualism and devil sect. clean spirits, and many other instances worship. This is one of the stories he had From one of our believers I learned of when Jesus and the apostles commanded to tell: an uninhabited house at the edge of evil spirits to depart were examples to I had been assigned to labor in a small town. But I was told that it had once me of how to fight the devil. town and had come ahead of my family been the meeting place of a group of With these instances in mind I went to find a place to live. For two weeks I Spiritualists, who had moved somewhere to the owner of the house and asked looked in vain. My family was ready to else, leaving the house empty. whether I could rent it. The man ex- come. Everything had been packed, but I Since that time no one had been able plained the situation to me and several could find no house to rent. to live in it; it was a known fact that the friends begged me not to rent the house. To this day I have not been able to house was haunted. Several families had Still I determined that with the Lord's decide whether there really was no house attempted to occupy it, but would not help I was going to live there. I believed for rent or whether Satan had locked the remain. At night they would hear strange To page 21 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR RIZONA is just one spot on the Museum, in the same State, is a stone financial gain from the sale of genuine earth's surface where fossil re- image that was taken from the gravelly dinosaur footprints. A mains are abundant. Here they banks of the Columbia River. It bears a Under each seam of coal there is are more easily found because resemblance to those found among the usually a bed of clay, and under this clay erosion has helped to uncover them by Mayan ruins of Central America. may be seen the petrified stumps and blowing and washing away the topsoils. Giant human skeletons were removed roots of trees; they sometimes shoot up Professor Stovel, of the University of from the gravel knolls of Ohio; the through the coal itself and on up Oklahoma, writes: "Dinosaurs were museum at the University of Nebraska through the shale above. We also find widely distributed over the earth's sur- has large skeletons—fossilized—of many fossilized ferns and sea shells when coal is face. There seems only one way to ex- extinct animals; and giant specimens of placed under a miscroscope. The shale plain this wide distribution and that is animals have been found in Africa and was once sand and silt deposited over by means of land-bridges. This is another India. and between the layers of coal, and we way of saying that the Continents were Sometimes fossil remains are found in find the remains of all kinds of sea life in once all a part of one land mass. coal deposits, and sometimes human foot- them. As many as a hundred seams of "Doubtless these dinosaurs were some- prints are found in slate rock. In the coal are laid down in this manner. Thus times mired deeply in the mud where State of Connecticut a man discovered we see that in all localities and in all they could not escape and died there. that the rocks on his farm were gener- formations are found evidence of a Large masses of bones were washed into ously covered with the footprints of worldwide Flood. depressions and buried. Thus preserved, dinosaurs, and he has harvested a good Many of the plants and animals that they throw light on the life of the past." Of special interest to us is the dis- covery of skeletons and artifacts that have evidently been buried secure in their gravel or sandstone tombs since the flood waters receded from the earth. There is the recent finding of bones of early Americans associated with those of Along the Trails of extinct animals such as elephants or mas- todons, in a newly dug drainage ditch in the valley of Mexico, at Lake Texepan. A human skeleton was removed from the same gravels about twenty feet from the skeleton of an elephant or mastodon. FOSSIL LAND The skull of this skeleton was fairly broad, very surprising to anthropologists, for many believed that the early Ameri- cans had long narrow heads. In an ancient ruin not far from the By MARION E. and EVANGELINE H. CARR Mexican border in Arizona a number of interesting carvings were found. They were the crude forms of a quail or grouse, PART SIX—CONCLUSION a coyote, an eagle, a Gila monster, an elephant, and a human head. All were carved from rock of the same character. We have the elephant and the grouse in our possession. The stone images from Henderson County, Texas, were excavated from an ancient river terrace at an elevation of about seventy-five feet above the present river level. The calcium deposits upon the faces of these images lends evidence that the carvings were done before they were in- cluded in the gravel of the old Trinity River. Then too, the stone that was used to make the images is the same in charac- ter as the bed-rock formation and is weathered just about the same as the large rocks that lie under the gravel. In this same gravel were found the fossil bones of sloth, elephant, horse, camel, and bison. At the Twin Squirrel Hobby Shop and Museum in the little town of Quincy, Washington, there is the fossilized thigh bone of a Morosaurus that weighs 350 pounds and is about four feet long. The creature to which it belonged must have SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION stood about eighteen feet high and was "These dinosaurs were sometimes mired deeply in the mud and died there. Large masses of bones were about forty-five feet long. At Maryhill washed into depressions and buried. Thus preserved, they throw light on the life of the past." DECEMBER 25, 1956 15 exist now are the descendants of those Colorado we found some large vertebrae The bones that we find indicate that that were here long ago, but they are and rib sections of dinosaur. Painted many varieties of the large dinosaur small compared with their giant an- badlands lie in the near background to family once lived in these parts. cestors. Trees that grew to a height of the north, and some of the dunes are of Our next search led us over the long fifty feet, and were two or three feet in the grayish-white color that we are al- miles to the small hills that rise from circumference at their base, are now re- ways looking for. the flat country bordering the Little Colo- presented by plants with stems one and We slip and slide up the dunes—on rado just north of Holbrook. As these one-fourth inches around and about a hands and knees part of the way—and hills level off toward the edge of Leroux foot tall. sink four or five inches at every step of wash, the most beautiful of picture woods Club moss grew to be as much as fifty progress into the soft, ashlike soil. At begin to appear, sometimes a whole log feet high, and giant ferns were like palm last we gain the clay ridge of the dune we of it and tons of smaller pieces. trees. There were the Calamites—giant have selected and gaze down into the Off to one side of another wide wash asparagus—distant cousin of the mod- washes that are strewn with bits of fossil there is about an acre of petrified willow ern horsetail rush, which grew in dense bone, skin, and a tooth now and then. roots, and on the other is a veritable jungles. Some grasses grew to the height forest of the fallen, stony Calamites that of a young forest. vary from the size of a man's thumb to The colors of the Painted Desert sands that of a wash-tub. All are of the same are soft and beautiful and make lovely color (reddish cream) and shape. They pictures when gathered separately and all have a tip at the end that resembles a sifted for use. The colors of the petrified slightly flattened asparagus tip, hence the wood near what is known as the Rainbow 104ese tile Pad:way nickname giant asparagus. Forest of National Monument fame are When we examine the dunes that rise brilliant, and the variety is almost endless. Ewa from above the willow-root flat, across But in some areas the petrified, wood the wash from the Calamites field, there looks so natural that we feel like gather- By MARY GUSTAFSON lie the fossilized bones of the very crea- ing some of the chips that litter the bluffs tures that must have fed upon the once- and canyon to help us kindle a fire back juicy Calamites and taken pleasure in a at camp. Some of the logs look as though Someday when the pathway is ended nap under the shady willow trees whose they had fought a hard battle with the deep-blue petrified roots lie scattered And Jesus returns for His own elements that felled and petrified them over this little flat of the Painted Desert. for our eyes to see. He'll send the angels to waken the Eastern Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Walking quickly from one log to an- sleeping and Southern Alberta in Canada also other, we keep up our search for evi- Beyond the cold silence of stone. have interesting fields for the fossil hun- dence of fire, and finally under a leaning ter, and of course Badlands near the stump that has its rocky roots still im- Black Hills of Dakota. bedded in the earth that is now a sand- Then we who wait will be taken, The rich placer lands of Alaska often stone bluff, we find the hardened ashes Transformed in a moment, I've yield large quantities of ivory tusks and of a long ago fire that had blackened read, teeth of the mastodon that are deposited and burned a small section of it. right along with the gold nuggets in the One log stands upright. Supported by a Forever to be with the Saviour, cuts and underground tunnels, and are bit of nature's masonry—some of the To follow where His foot may washed out when the high pressure hose sandstone of the bluff—it is a fitting tread. of the miners melts the frozen soil and monument in a desolated region. knocks it to pieces. I wish I could show you the stony bark Alaska and Siberia were once tropical, of some of these trees. It is about two God hasten that beautiful morning for the elephantlike mastodon and inches thick and looks very much like When peace will ring with new grasses he fed on are found preserved in the bark of the modern sequoia tree. Im- the perpetual ice that froze them as the peace, bedded in the bark of some of the limb flood waters receded. sections that we find, are pebbles and When all of earth's woe will be There is no riddle of this physical small shells, which are now forever a banished earth that the universal Flood cannot part of the petrified mass. . And joy will forever increase. solve. It is the only rational answer to Much of Fossil Land is being scoured the wonders of nature and the story of by scientists and treasure hunters, and the past that men are able to piece will soon be just a legend unless erosion tolc.0,x0x0It.0)4.0•40-0-0'xr,x.0x.014.6.0.0-401 together by the fossils they are finding. uncovers more of the buried treasures, Some of the bones that are found are so we often travel as much as a hundred hard to identify. A friend showed me miles in one single trip. We find a section of jawbone, and follow some fossil bones that he found in east- One of these trips took us about twelve the washes and search the dunes until ern Oregon. They resemble the flapper miles north of Winslow. We had been dusk falls, and it gets too dark to find joint of a seal or walrus, and were found told that this was good territory for fossil even the shiny teeth. One of our finds for in the higher altitudes of the eastern part hunting, and about one rod from where the day was a bit of armor plate in collar- of the State. Monkey skeletons have also we stopped our car I stepped over a like shape that may have been almost been found in Oregon. fine fossil cactus, and what a yell from as tough as it is now, when the dinosaur Nature has many surprises for those me, for petrified cacti are practically un- wore it around its neck. who put themselves under her instruction known. I took out my glass to see how Along the attachment to the body line and look to the Creator for explana- many spines I could discover projecting there are indentations about the shape of tions of natural phenomena. It is evident from the sockets or still clinging there, a squash seed where the scales pressed to the fossil hunter that beasts of all and I found some. This appears to be a into the surface of the collar. The hole kinds once associated together on our close relative of the saguaro that grow in the middle of the collar measures earth—only in much greater variety— in southern Arizona and Mexico. eight inches across—quite a neck meas- much as we see animals in a zoo today, Along this wide margin of the Little urement for a reptile creature. with man their keeper. 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Spirit of Prophecy "Christ has not died for you that you may possess the passions, SABBATH tastes, and habits of men of the world. It is difficult to distinguish between those who serve God and those who serve Him not, because there is so little difference in character between believ- ers and unbelievers. Ye can not serve God and Belial. The sons of SCHOOL God belong to a different nation,—the empire of purity and holiness. They are the nobility of heaven. The stamp of God is Prepared for Publication by the General Conference Sabbath School Department upon them."—Testimonies to Ministers, pp. 441, 442. "One of the convincing characteristics of the sons of God is, their conversation, their sympathies, their outflowing love and affection, are all in heaven. What is the predominating tone of Nobility--Not Pharisaism your feelings, your tastes, your inclinations? Where is the main current of your sympathies, your affections, your conversation, LESSON FOR JANUARY 5 your desires?"—Ibid., p. 442. "The Vaudois and the Huguenots, Wycliffe and Huss, Jerome LESSON SCRIPTURES: Gen. 32:28; Matt. 5:20; Acts 17:11; and Luther, Tyndale and Knox, Zinzendorf and Wesley, with 1 Cor. 1:26; 9:24; 14:12; 2 Tim. 2:5. multitudes of others, have witnessed to the power of God's word MEMORY GEM: "None is good, save one, that is, God" (Luke against human power and policy in support of evil. These are the 18:19). world's true nobility. This is its royal line. In this line the youth OUTSIDE READING: Testimonies, vol. 9, pp. 19-29. of today are called to take their places."—Education, pp. 254, 255. Inspiration "True goodness is accounted of Heaven as true greatness."— "The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man Testimonies, vol. 2, p. 305. and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian, and his mas- ter saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord caused all Notes that he did to prosper in his hands. So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his "The most important part of Joseph's story, as it is brought out house and put him in charge of all that he had. From the time in the Bible, begins when he was about seventeen years of age." that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had —C. B. HAYNES, On the Throne of the World, p. 81. the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; the bless- "He possessed an implicit and profound belief, which no devel- ing of the Lord was upon all that he had, in house and field. So opments seemed to shake or alter, that God had a definite, posi- he left all that he had in Joseph's charge; and having him he had tive plan for his life; that there was something in the mind of no concern for anything but the food which he ate. Now Joseph God for him to accomplish, some purpose to fulfill, some divinely was handsome 'and good-looking" (Gen. 39:2-6, R.S.V.). made program to carry out. He was conscious always, in all cir- "'How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against cumstances, that he was under the discipline of God and the tui- God?' " (Gen. 39:9, R.S.V.). tion of the divine Spirit, to which he surrendered himself to be "But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love, directed in every decision of life. He looked upon himself as a and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And man under divine orders, as God's man to hold himself always at the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's care all the pris- God's command. oners who were in the prison; and whatever was done there, he "Whoever believes such things, whoever accepts the teaching was the doer of it; the keeper of the prison paid no heed to any- of the Bible that God has a plan for his life, and keeps that before thing that was in Joseph's care, because the Lord was with him; him always, recognizes in circumstances only the tools which and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper" (Gen. 39:21-23, God uses to shape and mold and fit him for his destiny. He yields R.S.V.). himself to these impressions and convictions which come from "So Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'Since God has shown you all above, and permits them to take him outside the developments this, there is none so discreet and wise as you are; you shall be which are immediately around him and touch him. He who over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you thus yields himself willingly and happily and devotedly to such command; only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.' influences is bound to see his most cherished dreams fulfilled and And Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'Behold, I have set you over all the will of God for him completely realized."—Ibid., pp. 83, 84. the land of Egypt.' Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his "He was in the hand of God, and all things touching him were hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in garments in that same hand. No one could do anything to him or do any- of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; and he made thing against him except as God could use it to perfect his char- him to ride in his second chariot; and they cried before him, acter and improve his service in shaping him for his place. 'Bow the knee!' Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt. More- "No accident can happen to such a man. Things do not happen over Pharaoh said to Joseph, 'I am Pharaoh, and without your to him by chance. He is God's man, God's agent, and everything consent no man shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of that occurs to him comes to him through the hand of God. Egypt" (Gen. 41:39-44, R.S.V.). "Nothing can really hurt such a man. His feelings can be hurt, "Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of he can be plunged into terrible grief, he can be shocked by the Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the pres- hatred of brethren; but all this works together to his real good as ence of Pharaoh, and went through all the land of Egypt" (Gen. he believes God and yields to His disciplining hand."—Ibid., 41:46, R.S.V.). p. 85. "So Joseph said to his brothers, 'Come near to me, I pray "To all who read these words let me say, Be true to the God you.' And they came near. And he said, 'I am your brother, Jo- above who made men and to the vision He has planted in their seph, whom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed, souls. Be true to the ideals received from Him and from His or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here; for God Word. All will be tested, for God has in mind a place and a work sent me before you to preserve life. . . . And God sent me before for all to fill and to accomplish as truly as He did for Joseph. you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for Keep the soul on top and the body under."—Ibid., pp. 89, 90. you many survivors. So it was not you who sent me here, but God; "Ask yourself, my young Christian friend, fairly and honestly and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his these questions: 'If I continue in the way I am going now, what house and ruler over all the land of Egypt— (Gen. 45:4-8, will become of me; what is to be my end? If now the shadows R.S.V.). press in about me, what awful night will follow? If the present DECEMBER 25, 1956 17 road I travel is not an eternal one, to what will it lead at last? Quizangles If my distance from God increases from what it is now, how far, oh, how infinitely far will He be when I most need Him? If 1. What is the meaning of "Israel"? the light of heaven shines on me more dimly than it does 2. Why were the people of Berea more noble than those in now, and continues to fade as the days pass, when will it dis- appear altogether and leave me in endless darkness? If the Thessalonica? warmth of the changing power of the divine Spirit changes me less readily than it does now, how cold, how rigid, how bound 3. For what purpose did they study the Bible? in ice will I be in the coming days?' "—Ibid., p. 90. 4. What is said about the number of wise, mighty, and noble "It took thirteen years of Joseph's life, from the age of seven- teen to that of thirty, to prepare him for the great place which who are called? God was shaping him for. They were hard years. They must have been filled with much searching of soul. The years from the time 5. What was Joseph's appearance? Joseph was sold as a slave to the time when Pharaoh sent for him were years of the most intense trial and testing. 6. What two things did Potiphar clearly understand about "But they did not hurt him. While everything seemed to go Joseph? wrong and every manifestation of integrity and faithfulness on his part was followed immediately by what appeared to be an- 7. To what extent did Potiphar trust Joseph? other setback, nevertheless through it all his character was be- ing shaped and molded and his life was being prepared for a 8. From what did Joseph draw back? position of enormous responsibility that God had in mind for 9. To what extent did the prison keeper trust Joseph? him."—Ibid., p. 103. "The process of hewing, squaring, and chiseling; the pain 10. To what extent did Pharaoh trust Joseph when he was that comes from chipping off a sharp point on one side, then on the other, followed by the burnishing and polishing, is not an thirty years of age? easy process. It is painful to be pressed down to the grinding wheel. But the Lord is preparing the stone for is appointed place in His building. It is designed to emit light as a living, polished NEXT WEEK, January 12, lesson title: "Dependabil- stone. The trial, however sharp and disagreeable, will impart a ity—Not Self-Assuredness." Scripture References: Ec- bright luster. clesiastes 9:10; Matthew 24:13; 25:21; Luke 16:10; "The Master does no such careful and thorough work on use- Romans 12:11; 1 Corinthians 4:2; Galatians 6:9; less material; only His jewels are polished after the similitude Hebrews 6:12; Revelation 2:10. Memory Gem: Num- of a palace."—Ibid., p. 106. bers 14:24. Outside Reading: Testimonies, vol. 5, pp. 272-285. This same true loftiness of character and nobility of heart may be yours, too, by submitting to the hand of your loving Lord.

now, however, I stopped and listened to the whole congregation of so many varied human natures all uniting in vocal ex- pression of praise to the Great Physician. ff nomeat oa Rafteeete How sweetly the chorus rose of the "Sweet- est name on mortal tongue"—human hearts and lips, though unworthy, each By KATHLEEN TAYLOR striving to express appreciation and praise, gained in life's pathway through sunshine and shadow, to the One alto- gether lovely, who inspires the "sweetest carol ever sung." ii OMETIMES, if our hearts are joicing to be again in the house of the I was not ashamed of the welling up of attuned aright, we find in Lord. tears as the touching moment lingered, the commonplace experiences The Lord's Spirit seemed so near, and drawing me nearer to the Fount of every of life a genuine pleasure through newly opened eyes I experienced blessing. What a blessed privilege in and often thrilling moments of joy. In a subdued rapture in that simple con- this day of changing values and in a the ordinary experience of a Sabbath wor- gregational worship. From the pew be- world growing cold for lack of true re- ship I found that moment of rapture one hind came the rich, full voice of an ex- membrance of the only true God1 How we day. pressive personality, and in the song I should cherish each precious opportunity This crisp, cloudy morning in Winni- heard his fullhearted joy in lifting his to meet together and, like the unified peg's winter found our family on its way voice in praise and gratitude. The soft camp of Israel of old, join in oneness of through the city streets to church, passing lower voice beside him was more subdued, worship. through a bustling world going on its yet full of quiet devotion as it steadily We know not how many more such usual business. sang the words. The voice to my right peaceful Sabbaths will transpire this side Perhaps it was my own heart prepara- was rich in harmony as the beautiful of eternity, but as each one comes and tion as I stood in the congregation during melody ascended heavenward. goes and we stand in the earthly congre- the opening song, for only a few short It had always been a joy to me to enter gation of the children of God, let our weeks before I had been led by the Good in wholeheartedly and sing out with others hearts fully respond, and with heavenly Shepherd through the pain and affliction the songs of Zion, which have such an rapture go out in holy devotion to the of major surgery, and I was indeed re- abundant place in worship. For a moment God and Father of us all. 18 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR the labor seem light and the warm In- dian summer days sped quickly into frosty evenings. Festivals as an industry affair are some- thing quite new. The first one of national flavor was held in 1948 at Edaville, It's South Carver, Massachusetts, one of America's largest cranberry plantations and the home of the last remaining two- foot narrow-gauge railroad. Here every fall visitors ride the steam trains around the bogs and learn all about the intricacies of the cranberry, CRANBERRY TIME that it grows on a low ground-hugging vine and that the bogs are not wet. Peat bogs are carefully cleared, drained, leveled, and covered with a layer of sand before the vine cuttings are planted. By BETTY BUCHAN There is no water in them at all except when they are purposely flooded for pro- tection against frost or winter freezing. Flooding is sometimes necessary in the middle of the harvest, and all bogs are under water during the winter. First found growing wild in Massachu- O ONE has ever picked cran- masters put aside their rods so that stu- setts, cranberries are now cultivated in berries from a bush as he has dents and teachers alike could take their volume in New Jersey, Wisconsin, Wash- 11 raspberries, or balanced on the places in the picking lines. Lunchtime ington, and Oregon, with a few vines limb of a tree to reach for the was a picnic, with much laughing and sending runners into neighboring States. first ripe red fruit, as for apples, or dug singing and plotting as to what young The current crop is estimated by the them like peanuts, from the ground, or man should pick next to what fair maid. U.S. Department of Agriculture at 957,- plucked bunches of them, like grapes, Mothers sat on the side lines keeping 000 barrels. About 520,000 of these will from a vine. For cranberries have a way tally, and grandmothers were comfort- be harvested in Massachusetts, with Wis- all their own to grow and be harvested able in the screen house, where they consin's crop of 280,000 barrels taking that gives reason for the eager pilgrimage picked out the green berries from the second place. of visitors to Cranberryland each fall at red, their tongues moving as fast as their Cranberry festivals open the harvest harvesttime. busy fingers. season with a gay tribute to the gleaming There, spreading for thousands of There was no harvesting help in those little berry, but it is the natural rich, acres, are the cranberry bogs, flat and days from the wooden scoops now used red color and the puckering, tart flavor smooth to the eye like thick green car- in most of the cranberry areas or from of the cranberry itself that continue to pets, their edges bordered with narrow the mechanical pickers that have re- spread festivity to mealtimes throughout flood ditches. cently been adapted, but gay hearts made the year. At close view the low-lying vines can be seen, with runners that spread over the ground to form deep piles a foot or more deep. The berries hang beneath, protected by the slim leaves, and it is only when they turn their characteristic vibrant red that they can be seen from the roadway. No, cranberries do not grow on bushes, and public cranberry festivals are de- vised by industry to invite the public to see firsthand how neatly a cranberry is tucked away in its unwrinkled bog bed. Cranberry festivals are not new with the industry. They were first initiated by the Indians who frequented the islands of Cape Cod. With the first crispness of September, the Indians made their way to Gay Head to bring in the ruby harvest and store it against the winter ahead. But they also gathered to test their skill in games and contests and to praise the Great Spirit for a bountiful crop. With the populating of southeastern Massachusetts and the development of cranberry cultivation, the festival spirit persisted. Whole towns turned out for the picking, making harvest days a happy, friendly fiesta. NATIONAL CRANBERRY ASSOCIATION Business took a holiday, and school- With big wooden scoops workers harvest the gay red berries that lend a festive touch to mealtimes. DECEMBER 25, 1956 19 Use the Nugget Series---

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20 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Terror in the Night Bibles were kept open to Psalm 91 all listened and those who gave their testi- night long. mony. He and hundreds of others were From page 14 For six nights we were harassed by thankful for the MV Voice of Youth the evil spirits. For seven nights our be- revival that had fanned new interest and that the angels of the Lord would dis- lievers came and prayed with us before enthusiasm for Share Your Faith evange- place the evil spirits, and even more, we retired. Each night the noises became lism in the Pennsylvania Dutch territory that the work of the Lord would be fainter and fainter until the night of the of the Columbia Union Conference. carried on in that town. sixth day. That night we heard only soft Bob's experience was typical of many We finished moving the last of our clanking of chains on the roof, weak and others who drew nearer to Christ during belongings at six o'clock one evening. faint. Satan wanted us to know that he the revival series sponsored by the MV My wife prepared a light supper, we had had departed. department of the Columbia Union Con- our evening worship, and trusting in All in the town were astounded when ference, October 5 to 13. Every night God, we went to bed. The day's work they heard that we were remaining in they came. Not even a cold, driving rain had been heavy, and we were so weary the house. They could not understand could keep them away the first Saturday that soon we fell asleep. how the Adventist minister had been night. They had heard good music, ring- I do not know how long we had been able to stay. "Surely," they would say, ing testimonies, touching prayers, and sleeping, but suddenly, breaking the still- "his God is more powerful than our inspiring sermons by the beloved leader ness of the night, came a terrible noise, spirits." of all Adventist youth the world around. like the clanking of huge chains. It The story spread rapidly to the four Young people themselves participated seemed to come from every part of the corners of town, and many became in- as they sang, ushered, visited in the house. We were shaken as though by an terested in knowing more about the homes, joined the many prayer bands, earthquake. Pictures on the walls fell, powerful religion that was able to drive and attended other services that were and books, dishes, and pans knocked away the devils. As a result, many per- held. Students of Blue Mountain Acad- against one another and fell. sons were willing to be taught the gospel emy, with their choir came to sing. The My wife and I knelt beside our beds, of Jesus Christ. nearby Pine Forge Institute sent musicians. but could not speak. The shock had been A well-known radio singer and friend of too great. What we were experiencing youth, Ben Glanzer, thrilled the crowd was far worse than I had imagined. But with a sacred music concert. even more significant was a voice that Revival in Reading The Crusaders Male Quartet (Walter spoke to us. We heard it clearly and dis- Kotanko, William Jensen, Wayne Mayes, tinctly. We knew it was the voice of From page 11 and Walter Tate) from Washington, Satan. D.C., left their jobs and families back "You will not stay in this house," the wanted to mingle with his new-found home to spend two days and sing with voice said. "It belongs to us. Further- friends at the Hampden Boulevard the revival group. Many vocal and in- more, you will not preach in this town." church in Reading, where he was now strumental groups participated in the I managed to open my mouth, and as attending. well-organized music program that had if in answer to my prayers the angels Several months went by, and Bob's been planned for each night by A. J. came to my side. I felt their influence, faith grew stronger. But, strange as it Patzer, program director and master of for I gained strength, my fears departed, may seem, as he grew stronger in the ceremonies. and in faith I answered, "In the name of faith, his friend began to lose interest. Every committee fulfilled its duties. Jesus Christ I shall live in this house, Smoking was a great temptation, and it Ray Griesmer, a young local elder of the and with His help I will bring the souls relentlessly tightened its tentacles on the of this people to Christ. In His name I one who had led Bob to Christ. command you to depart." Bob began to detect this, and now the "I will tear the house down," the voice tables were turned. It became his duty answered me. to try to rekindle some of the flame that "Jesus is more powerful," I said with now burned so low in his friend's heart. conviction. This was about the time that he learned It was then that the devil manifested of the youth revival series scheduled to even greater power. What happened I start on the other side of the city. Only hardly have words to describe. For a mo- one thing was in his way: he was ment we seemed to be in the midst of an scheduled to attend night school three explosion in which everything was shaken nights that week, where he was studying and demolished. Drops of cold sweat ran auto mechanics. He went to his instruc- Reign of Error down my forehead. tor, however, and told him of his desire We were glad the experience lasted but to attend the revival series and skip By IDA M. PARDUE a moment. If it had lasted much longer, classes that week. To his surprise, he was and were it not for the power of God, we given immediate permission to miss the The Bible kings below are reigning over th might have lost our reason. classes. wrong kingdoms. Can you correct the errors? In the morning I learned that my Each night during the revival series he mother, who was sleeping in the next drank in every word. He joined the 1. David, king of Geshur room, had had the same experience, after prayer service, and soon found himself 2. Hiram, king of Neo•Babylonian Empire which she had prayed the rest of the praying earnestly for himself and his 3. Ahaz, king of all Israel night. friend. 4. Hur, king of Edom We could not be overcome by Satan, He made a definite decision near the 5. Cyrus, king of Gath yet it seemed as if we were not strong end of the week. There was only one 6. Talmai, king of Tyre enough to suffer another such perform- thing he could do—accept Christ and 7. Hadad, king of Antioch ance. Something had to be done. the Bible, and forsake the world. 8. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Midian Every night afterward the church Then came the thrilling moment in his 9. Demetrius, king of Judah life, when he stood up before hundreds members were invited to come over and 10. Achish, king of Persia join in a prayer service. We ourselves and confessed his faith. A sweet bond of prayed more often than usual, and our fellowship was forged between those who Key on page 22

DECEMBER 25, 1956 21 chase the entire set or just one or two MV Share Your Faith volumes. Finally she ordered the whole set of five but paid for only one as her down payment. As we left that home my heart was overjoyed because of the suc- cess of that day. However, as in every canvasser's experi- ence, the day comes when you must meet the people by yourself. At first I was frightened and nervous, but I soon Teen-ager Succeeds With in the family, Mr. Stanek canvassed the gained confidence in myself. Bedtime Stories woman for the Bedtime Stories. At first The next week I called at the same she did not seem interested, but after home to deliver the rest of the set of By Jimmie Kennedy seeing how helpful the character stories Bedtime Stories and was disappointed for children really could be, her attitude when the woman told me she could not I was first introduced to the canvass- changed. However, when asked to buy, take the rest of the set. This was my first ing work during a colporteur institute she was not sure whether she could pur- cancellation, and I did not know how and rally held at Wisconsin Academy by to take it. I knew I could not force her R. G. Campbell, of the Lake Union Con- to accept. Of course I know now that ference, and W. G. Wallace, of the Wis- you must accept such decisions. But I consin Conference. As I attended the made my way to the police station, weekly student colporteur club I finally where, as I had been informed, her hus- decided that I was really meant for litera- band worked. There I met him, and with ture work, although I was only fifteen. the help of God, sold him the other four It could benefit me financially and spirit- volumes his wife would not accept. ually. This brought me in touch not only On my first day of canvassing, Mr. with this policeman but with the chief of Stanek, one of the full-time workers serv- police himself, and they have been very ing as student assistant, went with me. friendly to me. Their courtesy to me has This day, like all others to follow, held meant a great deal in my work. a good experience for me. It was late in My total hours for the summer were the afternoon when we approached a 356, and I delivered $355 worth of litera- house where, we learned later, a police- ture. I plan to go out again next sum- man lived. PHOTO, COURTESY OF R. C. CAMPBELL mer and try to double my sales. I enjoy Upon discovering there were children Even the first day held a good experience for me. it immensely.

Kenhorst Boulevard church, directed a L. L. Philpott, and A. V. Pinkney used In commenting on the meetings, T. E. corps of ushers and usherettes. Irene their spiritual talents in the afterservices. Unruh, president of the East Pennsyl- Sterner, of the host MV Society, was in One of the high lights came on Satur- vania Conference, said, "The effort was charge of decorating. Winfield Doll and day night when Thomas K. Leinbach, well organized. We greatly appreciated Katherine Brenner, leaders of the two superintendent of Community General the inspiring messages of Pastor Lucas. local MV Societies, assisted in many of Hospital, attended the entire meeting I'm confident that the revival effort has the details of program planning. and gave a brief challenging message to brought a new experience to the members All the MV secretaries of the Columbia the assembled young people. of the churches, and that there will be a Union participated in the program. The high light of each meeting was the number of persons reclaimed as a result Every morning they gathered in the East dynamic presentation of Pastor Lucas. of these services." 'ennsylvania Conference office for their His messages were greatly appreciated. As a result of the meetings young oily MV council. Every afternoon they Every night opportunity was given for people of the Reading area are deter- tmed up two by two and concen- some kind of response—a prayer band, mined to work more diligently for others. ted on visiting and praying with back- an afterservice, an altar call, or a mo- They want many young people to have clen young people, interested youth, ment for quietly meditating and making the opportunity of knowing about the \ others. At 6:45 P.M. they met for determined decisions as the Spirit of God soon coming of Christ. They are now !r and to make last-minute prepara- entreated. teaming their efforts with other young ... At 7:30 sharp they were all on the Many decisions for Christ were made people who, like Bob, had unusual ex- xiiatform as the evening program got during the week. A baptismal class was periences, brought to a climax during under way. formed, and J. Branson Chrispens, pastor the MV Voice of Youth revival in Read- Something different was presented of the Reading churches, immediately ing, Pennsylvania. each night as a special feature. Charles began to give instruction in the funda- H. Seitz directed the revival chorus-choir mentals of the church. Other young and the congregation in rousing song people already in the church renewed services. Robert Tyson created interest their consecration and dedication. S‘evrimiceita in the study of the Scriptures with a Bible Financially, too, the meetings were a quiz. Dale Ingersoll read the Bible each success, for the nightly offerings covered night. L. R. Callender handled a wide all the cost of folders, posters, signs, and REIGN OF ERROR variety of details prior to and during other expenses of the publicity program. 1. David, king of all Israel, 2. Hiram, king of Tyre, 3. Ahaz, king of Judah, 4. Hur, king of the meetings. It took the cooperative effort of scores of Midian, 5. Cyrus, king of Persia, 6. Talmai, king of Geshur, 7. Hadad, king of Edom, 8. Nebuchad- T. V. Zytkoskee interviewed young per- young people and their leaders to make nezzar, king of Neo-Babylonian Empire, 9. De- sons each night and W. N. Wittenberg, the revival the success that it was. metrius, king of Antioch, 10. Achish, king of Gath. 22 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR

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DECEMBER 25, 1956 23 = PURE cellulose, such as cotton, can be FIFTY years ago in THE YOUTH'S INSTRUC- utilized as a food for cows. TOR: "Naturally America rejoices over the suc- cess of Commander Peary in reaching a point ▪ THE world's deepest man-made hole farther north than any other explorer. The reached oil at a depth of four-and-a-quarter Duke of Abruzzi, an Italian, in 1900 achieved miles. the latitude of 86° 34'; while Mr. Peary has • On. discovered in Costa Rica has reached latitude 87° 6' north. His unprece- brought new wealth to the largely agricul- dented sledge journey of more than four hun- tural economy of the Central American dred miles over polar ice and snow fields country. still leaves him two hundred miles from the pole. But Mr. Peary has not given up his Ss ENOUGH sediment is deposited in one original purpose. He means to stand yet with year in waters around New York City to the north star in his zenith." bury a city block to the depth of 50 Chrysler Buildings, say scientists. II' NEW buses in Paris, France, have auto- matic doors that prevent passengers from IP' THE virus that causes Japanese B en- jumping on or off while the bus is moving. cephalitis has been found in a soldier who Some critics of the vehicles say that they contracted the disease in Korea. These viruses threaten the Frenchman's individualism. No can be transmitted by seven species of mos- longer can he chase a departing bus and quitoes. leap on board, nor can he jump off when the driver slows to round a corner. II. THE White House grounds, in the cen- U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS ter of Washington, D.C., have been a haven JAPAN'S first expedition to Antarctica in for birds. President Theodore Roosevelt 45 years sailed November 8. The 130 mem- found and recorded nests of redheaded bers of the group will attempt to set up a MI' TWENTY-FIVE years ago in THE YOUTH'S woodpeckers, redstarts, flickers, catbirds, wood base on Prince Harald Coast, in the Indian INSTRUCTOR: "Believe it or not, fact is that it thrushes, screech owls, and sparrow hawks. Ocean sector, more than 700 miles west actually rains inside the Goodyear Zeppelin of the nearest base—the Australian's Maw- dock at Akron, Ohio, where the giant diri- EXCESS poundage should be blamed on son station. gible 'Akron' was built, when the sun is shin- inactivity, not overeating, in most cases. ing outside. This dock is the largest building Tests were made on two groups of girls, 11' A CONVEYOR system will move stock in the world without center supports. The matched except that one group was obese throughout a new department store in roof encloses eight and a half acres of ground, and the other nonobese. Both groups were White Plains, New York. It will deliver and inside are 45,000,000 cubic feet of space. considered sedentary, but the obese group merchandise to any part of the store's four A sudden change in temperature causes clouds reported less sports and strenuous activity floors, and its operation will be con- to form and rain to fall inside the building. and less caloric intake. trolled by electronic buttons. The rain is caused by condensation of mois- AN UNUSUALLY severe polio epidemic in ▪ CONSUMPTION of margarine increased ture when warm air strikes the roof of the Yugoslavia spurred the country to a clean-up from 230 million pounds in 1931 to more hangar, that is, if the roof temperature is drive. Antipolio vaccine is not available than 1.2 billion in 1952. During the same lower than the air temperature and there is there, so the authorities closed bathing es- period, butter consumption declined from moisture in the air." tablishments on the muddy banks of the 2.2 billion pounds to 1.4 billion. MP' PROBABLY the only father in the world river Sava. Also closed, on the grounds that they prepared food under unhygienic WHEN completed late in 1957, the 26,- younger than his son is Sheik Suleiman El 444-foot Mackinac Bridge connecting Michi- Huziel, ruler of the Negev Bedoin. In 1949, conditions, were four bakeries, two cafes, and one well-known restaurant. gan's upper and lower peninsulas will rival when the Israeli Government passed a law San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. requiring each person in the state to carry 119' LOCKSMITHS of the middle ages con- an identity card, the Sheik reduced his age centrated on devices to trick thieves. They 11.. THE United States Treasury will receive by twenty years when registering. He for- put false keyholes on chests and doors and more than $100 million in 1956 for grazing got to tell his eldest son to do the same. secreted the true ones, while some locks and timber rights in national forests. Today he is officially 60, and his son 63. required several keys to open them. One A QUARTER of the world's electricity will chest would amputate pilfering fingers, and I.. SPACE suits that a man could wear on the be produced by atomic energy in 1975, ac- another shot a pistol at anyone picking cording to one estimate. moon are being made in a factory in Eng- the lock. The latter has a modern counter- land. Made of flexible, lightweight fabric, part in a remote-control time lock that shoots ▪ THERE are 2,030 State parks in the United the suits are supposed to give the wearer tear gas. "portable atmosphere" to carry about with States. him. Their manufacture is being treated as a secret project.

▪ TALK about a hectic day! One farm couple tells of the day their sow had pigs, Teems It is said that young people today are not so true to principle as the their cow had a calf, their mare had a colt, youth of former generations. Is this charge true? As the lines of battle five hens hatched twelve chicks each, and between Christ and Satan are being drawn for the final conflict of their first son was born. the ages, our elders see the evil alongside the good. There are tares among the wheat —youth in our churches, our schools, our institutions who have never really decided • A VAPOR track can be caused by any air- to go all out for Christ. craft, but is most common with jets, prob- But there are thousands of us who have turned away from worldliness, fashion, ably because of the higher altitude flown and sin. We want to be as true to duty as the needle to the pole. With simple, direct and colder temperatures encountered. faith in the personal companionship of Jesus and the sin-destroying power of God, A NEW electrical steel can be rolled so we are carrying the Share Your Faith torch to every corner of the globe. thin that it is 20 times thinner than a Take a look at the roster of graduates from our colleges over the past ten years human hair; by weight it is literally worth and you will see the names of academy principals, mission directors and presidents, more than gold. medical directors, editors, as well as a host of teachers, ministers, nurses, secretaries, publishing house workers, and consecrated laymen. la' EVERY second, the American Telephone Are we young people of the mid-twentieth century as devoted to duty as were and Telegraph Company spends $66,408.62 the pioneers? Do we have the zeal of the prophets, the faith of the apostles, the courage on new facilities. of the martyrs? From every land of earth comes a chorus of replies, and we know that with each Yes is the pledge: "The line shall not break where I stand!" ▪ LIGHTNING is the main cause of farm fires. DON YOST