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was the kind of person you like to be around—good clean boy, no swearing, no The KIND of PERSON drinking, no smoking, good company, high ideals. We fell in together. He is somewhere studying to be a doctor." You should have seen his surprise when You Like to Be Around I told him I was in close contact with his friend, who is now Dr. Vernon By T. R. FLAIZ, M.D. Thomas, and that if present plans ma- terialized, he would in a few months be in an overseas mission field carrying out a very rugged assignment. E WERE standing on the rough for kodachromes. Amateur photography Wground walk on the ridge facing was an easy avenue to conversation, which "That's just what I would expect of fabulous Mount Rushmore in the Black turned to the Seventh-day Adventist mis- that young man. By the way, can you tell Hills of South Dakota. We had taken sion work with which we are so closely me how to reach hirii? Maybe I'll be able several photographs of the mountain; and associated. to see him while out West." were remarking on the consummate skill "Yes, I know something about you Ad- What an excellent testimony to the high of the great Gutzon Borglum, who carved ventists," volunteered one of the young esteem in which sensible, loyal, and yet these colossal figures of Washington, Jef- men. "I was in the Navy several years, adventurous and resourceful Christian ferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lincoln. and there was a young man in our unit youth are held. They are not less but Efforts to capture on film the remarkable named Thomas. Let me see, what was more respected for their loyalty to Chris- personalities so skillfully portrayed in his first name? Oh, yes, Vernon—Vernon tian standards. Their very lives are a wit- stone, led to conversation with two fine Thomas. You see, when in the service we ness to their faith, and all agree that they are the kind of persons you like to be young men from Ohio, one wielding an generally pick out our associates according 8 mm. movie camera, the other a still to our ideas of conduct. Well, this Thomas around.
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I DON'T want to be president of this every medical student can be the greatest life will be furnished with inferior furni- I organization. Neither do I want to be doctor, not every law student can be the ture while the choice materials we might treasurer. I'll be satisfied to remain its sec- greatest lawyer, not every writer can mold have used will have vanished into the retary so long as I'm a good secretary and public opinion and sway the destinies of whichness of whither—that bottomless can live comfortably on my salary." his country. But there are the common, void where good intentions that are never The young man who made this surpris- everyday folks—the prescription fillers, the translated into concrete actions lie buried. ing declaration has plenty of ambition, law clerks; and the copy readers and re- Oh, let's be careful about the work we do plenty of ability, and a good education. He write men at the city desks of great metro- today, and build with our best! answered the amazed, questioning looks politan newspapers who do the necessary Eleen is almost as charming at home as on the faces of the friends to whom he ground tasks so that the greatest men can she is at a gay party. But just wait until had been speaking by saying that he sees do their work. some morning when she wakens with a no reason to attempt to do two men's work The young man who does not aspire grouch! Then the whole family literally in an effort to climb up the ladder of to be president of his organization realizes "stand around," and heave a sigh of re- achievement, perhaps arrive at the top all this. Instead of shooting at the moon lief when she finally is off to school. They breathless and beaten out, and to have and risking frustration and disappoint- are expected to overlook her temporary missed all the joys and satisfactions of ment, he is content to live along on a sane unpleasantness—and they do. But Eleen is living each today to the very best of his level, satisfied "so long as I do my job building a poor foundation that she will ability. He mentioned that he knows well today!" be ashamed of someday. dozens of young men who have their eyes "I'll never spend time doing all that on the boss's job. And they slight today's stupid homework," she sputtered to her duties that are their responsibility and The story is told of an amateur cabinet- best friend. "I can't remember anything waste their time dreaming about what they maker who saved lengths of choice wood very long anyway, so I cram just before will do when their pay check has been for years, against the time when he would examinations. Maybe my marks aren't so doubled, and they can "run the whole make a really fine piece of furniture. good as they would be if I studied hard all 4 works." Meanwhile the opportunities that Everything he built was constructed of semester, but I get by." are in hand slip away and they lose the odds and ends of flawed, cheap wood. The Yes, she does get by, but someday she joy and satisfaction of having put their perfect pieces of cherry, maple, and walnut may look back at her wasted opportunities best into today's task. were carefully hoarded for future use. and wish she had established good study Then the young man went on to say that In time the pile of fine wood outgrew habits in her early years. A poor educa- he does not favor mediocrity—not at all. his workshop, and the man bought lumber tional foundation is as unsatisfactory as an Nor does he believe one should settle down and hired carpenters to build an addition unstable foundation in a house. No in complacency. His point is that doing to house his treasures. But before he got amount of time and labor put into the rest one's present job well with relaxed mind— around to using his hoarded lumber his of the structure can ever compensate for a the best kind of mind for doing the best company sent him to a distant city to take faulty foundation. work—is worth while. And he pointed out over the management of a new factory. For instance, there's Fred, who longs to that "a man's gift maketh room for him, In vain he searched for a home in his be a doctor. He did not dream that the and bringeth him before great men." new location where there was room to decision not to allow his studies to inter- Therefore the best fuel to feed the fires of store his treasured wood, but none could fere with his academy education would ambition is to do one's best at whatever be bought or rented. Then the purchaser discredit him for entrance to medical task is his today. of his old home offered to buy his lumber school when it came to the final checkup. for a fraction of its worth, and in despera- He had not built a good solid mental tion he sold it and moved. foundation in the todays that were his in Last July I was privileged to take quite Ever after that, whenever he came upon high school years, and of course his col- a long airplane journey, and everywhere a fine piece of wood, he took it home and lege building was not of the best either. So the planes on which I traveled landed or made something as soon as possible. But today, frustrated and a little bitter at "the took off I was impressed with the number as the years passed he never ceased to look blow fate has dealt him"—so he says—he of men who made up the ground crew. at the furniture he had made from in- is trying to decide what other line of life- Theirs were humble tasks more or less, ferior wood in the days when he was work to take up. but if they had not been done with dis- hoarding his choice supply, and regret that patch, precision, and painstaking care, the it had not been built of his best. But now pilots, stewards, and passengers never it was forever too late. The choice, hard, So, friend o' mine, do your level best could have taken to the air. beautifully grained boards were gone. today! Build with the best materials you Just so, not every clerk, secretary, or So it is with life. We too have a variety can find. God has given you an abundance accountant can be president of his com- of building materials—the perfect, the of such materials. Use them! pany, but without their efficient, faithful cheap, the average. The choice is for us work the president would be helpless and to make. We must pray for wisdom to the organization could not function. Not choose wisely and well, or our house of (
Vol. 99, No. 42 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, October 16, 1951 One Year, $4.75 Published by the Seventh day Adventists. Printed every Tuesday by the Review and Herald Publishing Assn., at Takoma 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, 1951, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington 12, D.C. PAGE 2 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR the battlefields. Somehow the value of life becomes very real when you meet men who have come as close to death as they have and yet live! For nine months I worked in that ward, sometimes helping the doctors remove a small piece of shrapnel from a wounded kJ WAS ERSUADED! serviceman, and once in a while doing other bits of minor surgery by myself. But at last the chance came that I had been By WILLIAM R. BORNSTEIN looking for—I was transferred to the surgical department of the hospital. I be- S gan my apprenticeship for the surgical HE war was on in 1943. I had had one under fire, how to throw the hand grenade, technician's rating. For two months I T year of college at a Catholic school how to set a land mine. The plan seemed worked hard every day preparing the in- operated by the Dominican fathers. In to be that our outfit was to move onto struments for the operations, scrubbing September, after I had turned eighteen, I the beaches of Normandy after D day in the floors and the furniture in the operat- was inducted into the United States Navy. Europe. We were to follow the first wave ing rooms, and learning surgical tech- To belong to the Navy had long been my of combat troops after they had gained niques. p hope. You see, I was reared in a Navy a beachhead. Then it was my opportunity to go on State. Newport, Rhode Island, is probably Normandy came, but we were never night duty—it came to all of us. We the largest United States Navy base on sent out. The anticipated need for re- worked for a full month that way, taking the north Atlantic seaboard, and I had placements in that terrible fight never shifts. It was then that I really began to always seen sailors walking the streets of materialized. So, my outfit was broken know Sam Wall. He and I were on night Providence. up—some went East and some went West. duty together. Sam was about my age, of I spent some time at boot camp and I was with the group that went West to rugged build, sandy blond hair, and S then took hospital corps training, for I Hawaii—beautiful Hawaii. There I was friendly smile. He was serious-minded but had determined to be a doctor; that was stationed in a large naval base hospital always friendly and cheerful. It was easy my life ambition. From hospital corps with seven thousand beds. My experience to like him. school I went into my first hospital, work- up to this time had been that of the There was really little to do at night ing in the wards. The patients were all average sailor. I enjoyed the pleasures of in surgery. Although we had a few tasks surgery cases. After three weeks I was the sailor; I shared the tastes of the sailor; to take care of, things slowed down about transferred to an advance base unit in I was a Navy man. midnight, and all we had to look forward • Norfolk, Virginia. My unit trained for Work in a hospital is interesting. I was to was an occasional emergency case that some months with rifles and packs, and in a surgical ward, and most of my patients usually came in from somewhere in Hono- we were taught how to use the machine were marines who had just come back lulu. To keep sleep away, I would some- gun and revolver, and most of the Navy's from the battles of Saipan, Tinian, and times spend my time reading a magazine hand weapons. Then orders were sent for Tarawa. A few men from Guadalcanal that had filtered in from the United States. us to go to a camp just outside New York were still there. When I was not busy I Then, if I got too sleepy, I might relax City. There we were given the finishing would spend my time listening to the and drop off to sleep on a stretcher in the back room. We all did it, because the job ▪ touches in our training. We were taught stories the patients would tell of the ex- how to land on a beach, how to dig in citement and horror they had seen on was not like standing guard duty. One night I was looking for a maga- zine I had not read. I knew it was in the small room where the doctors rest between operations, and so I opened the door and walked in. There was Sam sitting reading, of all things, a Bible. I knew it was a Bible. It had a black cover, and the writ- ing was in two columns on each page. I looked at Sam with a surprised ex- pression on my face and said, "Excuse me, Sam." "Come on in, Bill," he said. "No, thanks," I answered. "You sit there and read, and I'll go somewhere else." Excusing myself that way, I found an- other place and read my magazine. The next evening after the work was done— about midnight—I went back to that same place where Sam had been the night be- fore. I opened the door, and who should be sitting there again but Sam Wall, read- ing his Bible! I think that was the first time I had ever seen anybody in the Navy reading his Bible twice like that. I thought Sam must be very religious, and I could
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I Was in a Surgical Ward, and Most of My Patients Were Marines Who Had Just Come Back Froth the Battles of Saipan, Tinian, and Tarawa
OCTOBER 16, 1951 PAGE 3 not understand that. I knew Catholics Baptist. He loved God's Word; he under- Off I went, sea bag over my shoulder and carried their medals with them, and I stood prayer; he was a sincere Christian. my new Bible carefully tucked in with knew that some people said prayers— I asked him what I should do now that my toothbrush and soap and towel in the not where everybody could see them, of I was a Christian, and he said to begin small bag I carried in the other hand as course, but some people thought some- reading my Bible. I swung along. thing of religion. But it was not for me. "My Bible!" I exclaimed. "I don't have It is not easy to live a Christian life in I did not hold it against Sam, so I smiled a Bible." the U.S. Navy. It is hard to find a place at him and said, "Excuse me, Sam. You "You must have one of some sort." to pray without being laughed at, and the are reading your Bible. I'll go somewhere I remembered that tucked away in my men think you are crazy if you read your else to read." sea bag I did have a New Testament I Bible very much. I stayed aboard ship "Bill," he said, "come in here. I want had picked up somewhere. for four months, and during that time I to talk with you." traveled back to the United States. I was "No, Sam," I replied, "you go right aboard a seagoing tug, and the voyage ahead and do what you are doing." back took twenty-six days. In that length Sam looked at me and smiled. Then he of time a person gets plenty of time to got up and said, "Bill, come on in. I just think. I stood my watches at the wheel want to show you something. Don't be and served as lookout with the rest of the afraid." men. When nobody was there to talk to I knew what he was after. I knew that me I prayed out loud sometimes, for often By MILDRED WOOD HARRIS people who read their Bibles try to get praying is the way a person makes his time other people to be like them, and I did more valuable. not want anything like that. October is a flaming month Soon after getting back to the United "No, Sam, never mind. You go right Of red and brown and gold; States I was discharged. When I arrived home mother and dad had not changed ahead." The month when Mother Nature "Bill," he urged, "come on in here. I much. They had a few more gray hairs. proves just want to show you something." My brother had grown up quite a bit; he I looked at him and said, "All right, It's lovely growing old! was ten. We had never been very religious Sam. I will listen, but I've got to go soon." She puts her vivid garments on, at home, so my parents were surprised So I sat down next to Sam. Prepared for her last fling, to know that I was so much interested in "Bill, do you believe that the Bible is So we may tingle with delight studying my Bible and praying. They did the inspired Word of God?" not discourage me, however. It was much Of her, remembering. I thought for a moment. That was a better that I should come back that way basic question, you know. I looked Sam Another year she'll dance again than another. square in the eye and said, "I'll give you Her brilliant minuet I started to go to the little Baptist church something to base your argument on. All Before King Winter carries her just down the road from our home. The right, I believe the Bible is the inspired Away. She'll not forget little New England town was a friendly Word of God." place to live. Sunday morning that old What all earth children need to know, Sam turned to a text quickly, and church's bells would ring, and everyone mumbled something like 2 Timothy 3:16, And so she'll leave behind would get ready to attend service. I did and quoted from memory: "All scripture This lesson: Years are mellowing, the same. Before I left Sam, back in is given by inspiration of God, and is And Age is often kind. Hawaii, he had said to me: "Bill, I am not profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for going to try to get you to join my church. correction, for instruction in righteousness: When you get back home go to church that the man of God may be perfect, where you find that the Bible and nothing throughly furnished unto all good works." but the Bible is taught and where the That is where Sam began with me, "Well," he said, "read it." beliefs are based completely on God's and I listened for fifteen minutes as he "Where?" Word." I put every church to that test, took me from one place to another in his "Begin with the Gospels." no matter where I attended services. Some- Bible, quoting each text carefully and "What are those?" how I found that the young people in meaningfully. It made sense. I was deeply He explained that to me, and suggested most churches were not what they should interested that evening as I left Sam, but that I begin to read in the Gospel of be. I was looking for real companionship I was not going to let him know. The John. So I did, and a month later I had —Christian companionship with Christian next night he was back in the little room read all the way to Hebrews. young people. I could not find what I reading his Bible again. This time the The time came when I had to part sought. All were busy with dances, parties, door was open. When I walked by I did company with Sam Wall. He had been a movies, and things I had learned were not look in, but Sam caught me. "Bill, great help in developing my Christian ex- not right—Sam taught me that. come back in here a minute as soon as perience in that one month, and now I One day some friends of mine—they you get time." was being transferred to a small ship in were Adventists—invited me to a young "All right," I said. I had promised to Pearl Harbor. But I had a problem. I people's meeting for the following Fri- come back. I knew what he was after, but did not know where I was going, and day evening. I was willing to go. I did I had promised, so I went in. That night felt the need of a complete Bible. Sam not care what church I went to just as what Sam read and quoted to me touched had been working for other men besides long as the members were Christians. So the very foundations of my thinking. me while he was there at the hospital, I went. That vacuum, that void within my heart, and there were some who had accepted the These Adventist young people were dif- was filled by what he read, and Sam led Lord in the few months Sam had been ferent. When they prayed they really meant me to accept the Lord Jesus on my knees there. One had been a Christian for about it, and when they sang they sang out that evening. two months and had two complete Bibles, loud and with fervor. "This is the way," Now I know what you are thinking: a King James Version and a brand-new I thought, "a Christian young person "There's an example of what a fine Sev- Scofield edition. I asked John whether I should be." That struck home to my heart. enth-day Adventist young person can do could buy one of his Bibles. He kept the If a man is going to be a Christian, he for those who do not know Christ." But Scofield and sold me the King James for really ought to be one. It is foolish to say Sam was not an Adventist. He was a three dollars. I got a good buy. —Please turn to page 18 PAGE 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR
PART I
By ALBERTINE KLINGBEIL TILSTRA, R.N.
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I T WAS a dark, rainy night in February. glee as containing mother's favorite them or help them take care of a sick The wind blowing from the North Sea cookies. They knew that on Saturday baby or clean house for them. She soon howled and roared in wild gusts around nights father always treated mother to was her mother's right hand in caring the corners of the houses of this little almond cookies. Tonight it was only a for her younger brothers and sisters and island town, Ridderkerk. A few people, very small bag, but Adriana gave her hus- doing many duties in the household. On pulling their wraps closer around them, band a thankful and loving glance and Saturday afternoons her mother would hurried home to their neat little cottages, stored them away until the next day. send her to town, a suburb of Rotterdam, most of which were fenced in by shrubbery The evening meal was eaten in silence; to buy the week's groceries. Her shopping and in the spring and summer by colorful then the children were sent to bed. Soon done, loaded down with two baskets, one flowers. The rain beat loudly on the small mother was sitting beside the fireplace on either arm, Kay would run swiftly windowpanes as if it wanted admittance with a basket of mending. Father was down the long dike road. Sometimes, and to the cheerful warmth of the one-room whittling on a cedar sewing box for her. then she was lucky, she would spy a cottages. Soon mother's sad thoughts came back to slow-moving, horsedrawn lumber wagon A sturdy man in his early thirties, her, and her face, usually so cheerful, going in the direction of home. Overtaking dressed like the other men in this fishing clouded up again. Father knew the cause this, she would put both baskets on the town, with short jacket, heavy leather of her worries. Laying aside his work, he end of the wagon and walk contentedly trousers, and wooden shoes, fought the said: "Adriana, the Lord has never left behind. wind and rain as he rounded the corner us in the past; He has always provided. "Please, teacher, please let me go home of the street where stood the row of cot- Let us trust Him this time also. Get the now. A hundred times I've written, 'I tages. Would he not soon be home with his Psaltry and read Psalms 37:25." Adriana will not turn around any more in the dear Adriana, who always greeted his did. Then they folded their hands and class!' See how nicely I've done!" And to arrival from the shipyards with much joy. bowed their heads and prayed earnestly herself: "It took me only five minutes. They were experiencing hard times, as that God would keep them from debt and My! did I write fast! I never could have were many of their neighbors and friends. bless their family. It was quiet, very quiet, done it in five minutes had I not used The cruel war of 1870, between Germany in the cottage as both parents sat there two pens, one held above the other." Then and France, had also left Holland in a and hummed the tune to the psalm they to the teacher: "May I go now? I know condition of depression. How could this had just read. little Anna and Kees are waiting for me fisherman manage to support his growing Suddenly the door opened a little—not in the kindergarten school, and if I'm not family, now numbering four and another far—just wide enough to let in a hand, there when school is out, they will cry, and little one expected? which threw a shiny silver piece to the mother will worry much if I don't bring Mrs. Knecht had been very thrifty. She middle of the room. Startled, they both them home on time." At a nod from the sewed and mended all the little garments sat still as though entranced. Jan rose first teacher off Cornelia would fly through the needed for this new baby. Until far into and picked up the precious piece of schoolyard in the direction of the "little the night she had sewed for other people money. It was a rijksdaalder, two and a school." The young brother and sister too, in order to earn a little extra money, half guilders—the exact price that the mid- were there waiting for her, half crying, but it seemed to melt away as fast as she wife would ask for her services. Tears of wondering whether they had been left could earn it. Now it was Jaantje who joy filled the eyes of both these sturdy behind. Swiftly she hurried them home- needed a dress, then Jan a pair of shoes, Hollanders. A happenstance you say! But ward, and they arrived only a little late! and so it had gone week after week. To- not to Jan and Adriana Knecht, who knew As she grew a little older, Kay would night, as she prepared the evening meal that it must have been an angel who had get up real early on Sunday mornings, she realized with sadness that there would come in answer to their earnest prayer before any of the rest of the family were be no money to pay the midwife she soon to provide for the birth of Cornelia. awake, light the kitchen stove, make tea, would have to engage. spread the rusks, and contentedly sit down As these anxious thoughts ran through Cornelia grew to be a healthy little in the warm, cozy kitchen and read her her mind the door opened and Jan Senior Dutch girl. Her shiny black curls would Bible. Those early morning meditations came in, his clothes dripping. The chil- peep from under her bonnet, and in vain were very precious to her. After a while dren ran to meet him; he greeted them, would she dampen these locks in an ef- she would take two cups of tea and two and then went over to where his wife was, fort to keep them flat. biscuits to her father and mother in their and kissed her affectionately. From under Kay, as she was nicknamed, could run bedroom next to the parlor. By that time his jacket he pulled a little paper bag, as the wind. The neighbors all loved her, the entire household was awake, and the which the children recognized with quiet and often she would go on errands for —Please turn to page 21 OCTOBER 16, 1951 PAGE 5 ERSONALITY—A Treasure
W E ALL have within our reach a great By TOM HARRIS prove in my grades." Maybe it will be TV treasure, but unfortunately few of us enough to swing you from a "C" average realize it. If you would like to obtain this to a "B" average. Would this not be a treasure, you must first understand what wonderful change? it is, and then you must prepare yourself Practice this habit until it is part of you. for its possession. The valuable treasure is Do not allow yourself to sleep in a few your own personality. You can develop it, mornings because you think you are up to or you can let it lie dormant. It can be a date in all your subjects. It is the exception great asset to your success, or a great that breaks the rule. It is also the exception hindrance. that breaks the habit. You do not need to be a genius to have Breaking an old habit is more difficult a good personality. All you need is intelli- than forming a new one. We all have gent will power. You must decide that you many bad habits that we have acquired. are going to develop all your abilities, so Let us determine to break them, and then that your treasure will be more worth do it! while. Your personality is your whole self, Each of these habits has become a part how you dress, how you walk, and how of us. We must try to understand each one you talk. It is the whole of all the habits in order to break it. Suppose you have a that you form consciously or unconsciously. habit of eating between meals. You know The word personality derives its meaning it is not good for you. However, is it really from the Latin word persona, which is such a bad habit that you should never defined as a mask. In the ancient theaters make an exception to the rule? the actors used different masks to portray As you must analyze your reasons for different characters. So the word denotes forming a habit, so in breaking a habit you a combination of different traits, or char- must decide why the habit is keeping you acteristics, in one individual. from obtaining a good personality. You In associating with other people we are gence, interest, emotion, and social adapta- must analyze each reason, for if you fail to apt to mask ourselves. In our homes we act tion. When we develop each of these char- do this, you will never succeed. differently from when we are at school. acteristics to the best of our ability, then We know that it is expensive to eat be- We all have a variety of personalities. Of we will have a well-developed personality. tween meals. Besides this, it is unhealthful. course, most people do not carry this to If you would have a pleasing personality, It overloads your 'stomach and makes you extremes, but the difference of action is you must be selective in your choice of sluggish and sleepy; it spoils your appetite very apparent in some of us. habits. You have two large tasks to accom- for the next meal, and you usually eat the We inherit tendencies that make it easy plish: One is to form new habits that will wrong kind of food for good health. It also for us to develop certain habits. If they are help you, and the other is to discard those uses valuable time that could be spent in bad ones, we try to compensate for them which you already have that are graceless study or work. in some way. Suppose, for instance, that and harmful. Do these reasons outweigh the pleasure you spend your money too freely. You How do you form a new habit? You and relaxation that you get at the lunch excuse yourself to yourself by saying that first probably noticed the characteristic in fountain? Many times you meet friends this is because of your generous nature. someone else. Next you practiced it your- there who can help you with that algebra However, the habit, if carried to excess, is self until it became part of you. Remember problem that you simply cannot solve really worse than being stingy. that the more times you do something, the alone. Maybe this is a place where you When you are introduced to a friend he more habitual it becomes. If you are a stu- pick up valuable ideas that will help you immediately begins to form opinions about dent, you might think that it is a good to understand people. your personality. First he notices your ap- idea to study in the morning. Now, in Do the reasons for discarding the habit pearance. He does not necessarily analyze order to establish this habit, you must do outweigh the reasons for keeping it? you, but he forms a mental picture. He more than merely get up early five or six It will be easier to break an old habit notices whether you are neat and well times, although this is part of the task. if you replace it with a new one. Suppose groomed, or careless in your dress. Next he Determine why you want this habit. you have the habit of going to the foun- will judge you by your expression. Are you Evaluate its advantages. This is a good tain right after your last class. If you re- at ease when you talk? Do you talk fast? habit, because the mind functions more place this habit by working at that time, How do you say your words? All these clearly in the morning. Next consider the then you will not hale the leisure to eat; things help to affect or determine the atti- inconvenience of the habit. You will have consequently, you will break the habit. tude he takes toward you. to give up those pleasant morning hours of After you have successfully started He also judges you by what you say. Are sleep. Just think—when you are studying, breaking the habit, do not let anything your ideas clearly expressed? Do you most people are contentedly indulging in hinder you until you have definitely lost it. answer his questions promptly and intelli- a last "forty winks." You may have to get This may require many years or even a gently? What you talk about—your inter- up in a cold room. Do you really want to lifetime. ests—also reveals a great deal about what form this habit? If you do, you must work Without delay let us analyze ourselves you really are. at it with all the strength you have. Say to and find the flaws in our personality. If Personality is the sum of all these char- yourself, "Because of this new habit my these are in our manner of dress, let us acteristics: appearance, expression, intelli- study time will be increased, and I will im- —Please turn to page 22 PAGE 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR IT IS 0545 hours at Camp Almansask, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The reveille has just sounded, and the sergeant-major's friendly voice comes over the public- address system. "Good morning, men!" One or two tired voices wail out a weak "Good morning" in reply. Once more the sergeant-major calls, "Come on, men, let's AN4P ALMANSASK, rouse up and hit the deck. Try again now —Good morning, men!" This time the response is more assuring when a strong • chorus of voices reply, "Good morning." CANADA By AINSLEY BLAIR Yes, this is Camp Almansask, the first Medical Cadet Corps camp ever to be con- ducted in Canada and the second largest in trainees into deep, earnest Bible study of too, for those boys—mostly from the farms North America for 1951. Fifty-one regis- civil government, war, noncombatancy, re- and altogether unaccustomed to the regi- trants left their work, paid their expenses, lationship between man and his govern- mentation of army camp life—hardly knew and even bought their own uniforms in ment and man and his God. their left foot from their right at first, but order to receive a training and an educa- Besides foot drill, military courtesies, by Friday morning they really made a tion to fit them for military service as and physical training, there were lecture fine display of themselves. medics when the call should come. They periods covering such subjects as atomic Not only did we get into the parade, but arrived by bus, car, truck, train, bicycle, fission, Red Cross first aid, and character the officials found for us a most excellent and afoot from all parts of Alberta, Mani- guidance. It was a rigid, intensive course— position. Ahead of us was the Eatonia toba, and Saskatchewan, from which three much work, much study, every hour brass band, led by three smart majorettes. provinces the name of the camp, Alman- crowded with appointments. But there was Behind our men was the Veterans' Hos- • sask, was compounded. time for recreation, and the men played pital float, flag-bedecked and featuring the Before the day's work began, a staff and worked with equal intensity and en- three armed services (it took first prize). meeting, conducted by the commanding thusiasm. Provision was made for volley- Our section was led by a color guard officer, Cadet Col. E. N. Dick, was held at ball, baseball, and educational moving bearing the Union Jack; then came two 0600 hours. Here plans were briefed, fol- pictures. cadets carrying a banner with the inscrip- lowed by a season of prayer for the Holy The city of Saskatoon was regaling itself tion "SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST Spirit's guidance of the camp exercises for in its best weather for the annual exhibi- MEDICAL CADET CORPS" in colors; next came a stretcher-bearer group, fol- ▪ that day. tion and parade, the latter to be held on Dr. Everett N. Dick, professor of history Friday morning of the camp at 1000 hours. lowed by a platoon of cadets. It was a very at Union College, Nebraska, is the Seventh- After careful consideration it was planned fine showing and gave our church and our day Adventist denomination's commander to join the parade with our cadets, if per- camp wonderful publicity. Thousands of of such camps for North America. His mission from the city could be secured. people jammed the main streets while wealth of experience and sound, mature Fortunately for us, the permission was other thousands lined up three and four judgment make him an excellent colonel granted, so the officers drilled the men deep to see the parade in other places. in chief, and his friendly, companionable morning, noon, and night for two and a Much applause and many cheers went up p manner wins for him the respect and affec- half days, and a creditable job they did as our "troops" marched by. People were tion of officers and men right from the surprised to know that Seventh-day Ad- first. Star-Phoenix Photo, Saskatoon, Sask. ventists are doing such a work, and a most favorable impression of our church It was a great privilege to have Pastor The Medical Cadet Corps at Camp Almansask Carlyle B. Haynes present too. He led the in Action —Please turn to page 19
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