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IN DESCRIBING the last days the Saviour warned His disciples and those of us who live after their time against deceivers, saying, "Take heed that no man deceive you." Again the writer of the book of James They Jooled Themselves speaks of people who deceive their own hearts. In com- By LEON TINDALL mon everyday English we are in the habit of saying that such and such a person was fooled or that such and such a person speeches to gain confidence, to benefit the low parts of the city to advise people fooled himself. . himself at another's expense. But the man to flee to higher ground. Now, it seems strange that people would who lets his thinking get so befuddled that Hundreds hearing the warning seized deceive themselves. Nearly everyone has the strongest warnings are considered silly a few personal belongings, tossed them had experience with the deceiver, for he is fooling only himself. into a sheet or blanket, threw the load appears almost anywhere, in all walks of It had rained nearly every night for over their shoulders, and trudged toward life. He comes with flattery and fair a whole week, not refreshing spring a safer place. But not everyone! There showers, but old-fash- were some who derided the warning say- ioned downpours punc- ing, "The water has never been that high tuated with sudden, before, and it won't come that high now." blinding lightning and They defied anyone to make them move. ear-splitting thunder. The highly exasperated deputies, with so Then early one afternoon little time, could not stop to argue, so they great masses of black hurried on to warn others. angry clouds gathered The siren normally used for fire alarms over the hills above and shrieked and wailed its flood warning for beyond the city. A ghastly minutes at a time. Night came on, and white space between the the lights of the city shone as brightly as clouds and the earth in- they ever had. The river flowing through dicated a severe hailstorm the heart of the residential district was or a cloudburst. rising rapidly. Curious hundreds crowded Telegraph keys clicked the several bridges to watch the wild, and telephone bells lashing waters. Great logs rode the churn- jangled as messages be- ing flood with snakelike motion. The hour gan coming in from com- was growing late; still people lingered as munities up the river. if charmed. These messages reported Suddenly everyone was starded by a a devastating storm in sound resembling that of a great wind. progress and warned of And to their horror they were face to face grave danger from high with a twenty-foot wall of savage, roaring water to every person up water that was bearing down upon them. and down the valley. The And at that moment the local light plant authorities were alarmed. was enveloped, and every light in the city Something had to be flickered out. Total darkness descended done immediately! The upon the wild scene. It was every man alarm must be given. for himself. Each one fought wildly, Every man available was scrambling for safety. But where was any rounded up, sworn in as safety? It was many blocks in any direc- a deputy, and sent into tion to high ground. A few had the pres- ence of mind to run up stairs into build- Acme Newspictures, Inc. ings, but many perished needlessly in There Were Some Who Had those dirty, swirling waters. Derided the Warning Saying, The following day people gathered on "The Water Has Never Been That High Before, and It the hills to gaze at the wreckage. The Won't Come That High Now" —Please turn to page 19 JANUARY 29, 1952 HE other day I read a sixteen-word beautiful pearl, and he wished to give it half a dozen stenographers were trying Tsentence that set me thinking. It was to that one of his sons who had showed to finish the day's work. One girl sealed this: "If you are not satisfied with your himself the noblest. Accordingly, he called and stamped her last letter and dropped lot in life, build a service station on it." them all together, and asked each one of the whole handful into the mailbox, then Service! Someone has said that loving them what had been the most praiseworthy came back and looked around with a service is the greatest thing in the world. deed he had performed during the last smile. "May I help any of you?". she asked And really—isn't it? three months. the others. "I'm lucky tonight, and now The eldest son spoke first. He said: "On I'm ready to lend a hand. 0 Betty, is that my journey last week I was entrusted with a letter to be rewritten? Let me do it! It A newspaper clipping records the death a number of valuable jewels. The mer- won't take but a jiffy and then we can all of a Negro who had ItNed most of his life chant who sent them took no account of go." So she took the letter to retype, and in one of Ohio's large cities. He had a them. One or two never would have been her friend prepared the rest of her mail shoe-shining stand on a popular corner, missed, and I might easily have made for sending out. She finished the "Jonah- and there for twenty-six years he had myself rich. But I did no such thing. I letter" just as the last stamp was thumped worked hard, without ever taking a holi- carried the parcel as safely as if it had been into place. It was signed and sealed in no day. my own." time, and the two girls went 'down the Apparently he had a good education, "My son," said the father, "you are stairs together, laughing. and it is said that famous Booker T. honest, it is true, and you have done well. The boss came out of his office just then Washington once tried to persuade him to But you could hardly have acted otherwise and remarked to his assistant, for whom I come to Tuskegee and become his private without shame." was waiting, "Elizabeth gets the first secretary. But he refused that and every Then the second son spoke. He said, opening for promotion. She's a jewel. Al- other offer to leave his stand, and never "As I was walking the other day, I saw a ways about the last one out, and not be- did he explain why. child playing by the lake, and while I cause her own work isn't done either. She's After his death the true situation was watched him, he fell in. I swam after him forever on the alert to help somebody, revealed. Helping him as he worked were and saved him." and she'd just as gladly have stayed an always ten young Negroes. Every one of "You also have done your duty," said hour to get the mail out, as the 'jiffy' it them was attending school. Some were in the old man, "but you could hardly have took her to give Betty a lift." high school, some in college, a few in left the child to drown." True to the boss's word, Elizabeth did night school. The stand could have been It was now the third son's turn. He get the promotion, and now she holds a operated with a smaller working force, said: "As I crossed the mountains the highly responsible position with the but it was constantly maintained at that other day, I saw near the edge of a danger- president of the firm. She is making a number. ous precipice a man who has hated me, good living, and in addition to that she James had figured that the earnings of and has done me harm. He had sat down is making a good life, for she has tasted the stand would pay the school bills plus to rest and had fallen asleep. I would have the joy of loving service—the bit extras the modest living expenses of ten boys at passed on my way without a word, but that all of us can give if we only will— a time. And for more than a quarter of a something within me called to me to go and has found it so good that she gives it century this unknown, unsung colored back and waken him. This I did, knowing with a smile. man supported and kept ten boys in all the time that he would not understand Someone has said, "There is a word in school. That was the one and only reason and that he would be angry with me, as the English language so powerful that if that he had carried on his business as he indeed he was." it were blotted out of the world for one did. He had worked with no other pur- "My son," cried the father, "the pearl is day the result would be more terrible than pose. The service he had rendered to his yours! To serve others without hope of that of war or pestilence. It is love trans- fellow travelers along life's road had been favor or reward, even those who have lated into action—service! Unselfish serv- far beyond the call of duty—far, far wronged us, is to be truly noble." ice is what keeps the world going." beyond! Oh, friend o' mine, it's this loving serv- ice that goes beyond the call of duty that Think a minute, friend o' mine—what We do our assigned tasks day by day, brings most lasting satisfactions and that makes a life—not a mere living. kind of service are you giving to those who honestly, diligently, and as workmen that pay the salary or wage that provides your need not be ashamed whenever the in- You have a job—be it in school or in the workaday world—and the work you living? If you are not putting some of you spector happens along. By that means we should do today is done. But there's into loving, unselfish service, then con- earn a pay check and make a living by sider beginning to do it right now. If you what we get. But what we give in service another task that needs to be looked after, and—what about doing a bit extra? Going don't think it will pay rich dividends, just to God, to our employer, or to those with try it and see! whom we associate that we are not ex- the second mile in loving service rendered? pected to give—by that we make a life! In ancient Persia there was once a ruler I shall never forget stepping into a busy who had three sons. The father owned a office about five o'clock one evening when

Vol. 100, No. 5 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, January 29, 1952 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 secondiclass matter August 14, 1903, at the post office at Washington, I).C., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1952, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington 12, D.C.

PAGE 2 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR NURSE on graduation night! The A doors swing open, and the graduating class come in—starched white uniforms, newly black-banded caps, navy-blue scarlet- lined capes, each folded at a precise angle. To all outward appearances each nurse is as cool and collected as her uniform is crisp and white. But the new uniform covers many a wildly beating heart, and the new white cap only seems to speed her thoughts backward over the hours, days, and years of training that have made this moment possible; time spent in work, in study, in classes; times of heartache and disappoint- ment, yet of joy in service and in tasks well done. What a thrill to be a graduate nurse at the end of three hard, matchless years! And now from her heart she can repeat the words, "I solemnly pledge myself, before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity, to prac- tice my profession faithfully." Yes, she will do all of that; she will hold the lighted lamp of service high, yet she can never quite forget the things that went into making her what she is at this moment— a graduate nurse.

There was the first day, when she and Charles Carey her roommate hurried to join their class- With the Eyes of Christ She Looks at Her Patient, and With the Heart of Christ She mates. Suddenly the roommate grasped Loves Her Patient, and the Patient Sees Christ and Not Her her arm muttering, "Look," and there before their startled gaze, in the lecture room they were entering, was a real skele- ton, showing its teeth in a gruesome smile of welcome. But for the instructress they certainly would have left right then! The practical work proved interesting. It was fun to watch as the instructress ex- plained each step and showed them what )ighted Lamp to do. It seemed quite simple, watching her work smoothly and gracefully. When she folded back the corners and tucked in the sheets the bed looked smooth and By ROBERTA B. LINDBECK, R.N. inviting, but weird things happened when they tried. Little by little they learned to make the bed, carefully mitering the cor- ners of the sheets and leaving it smooth never be left in the bed you know, for In spite of all the training, the new and efficient looking—but that was when every wrinkle makes a possibility of a bed- nurses could not help approaching their the bed was empty. How the picture sore. Bedsores on patient—unthinkable! first real patients with nervousness, much changed when a patient, in the form of That, nurses, is decidedly poor nursing akin to fear, in their hearts. As one nurse Mrs. Chase (practice dummy patient) or technique. We never allow it to happen said when asked exactly why she was one of the students, reposed in the bed. in this hospital. There is no excuse for it, nervous, "It's partly the patients. If they Then nothing seemed to go right. The so fold the sheets down carefully, and we even had their clothes on, it wouldn't be sheets flew out of place as though possessed are ready for patient to roll slowly to the so bad. But all those people in nightgowns of a life of their own, and the bed refused other side of the bed. Slowly and care- that haven't any backs! How do you talk to look as it should. They had to learn to fully! You do not want patient to roll out to them?" She soon forgot her fear in change the sheet, turning the patient from of bed, remember. Now pull the sheets as taking care of the needs of the patients. side to side, the instructress explaining as tight as you can, and leave them straight There is more than just practical train- they went along. and smooth. That is fine. Now that you ing in nursing. Nursing means being dose "First, Mrs. Chase must be carefully have learned how to do it, each of you to birth and death, sorrow and gladness. turned on her side, as far to the edge of must practice it over and over again, for It is holding your fingers on the pulse of the bed as is safely possible. No, no, no, that is the only way to learn to do it as it humanity and feeling akin to God. It is not on her face—remember she still has must be done." the day-by-day chores too that often make to breathe! Now quickly roll up the soiled The instructress was patient during you tired and almost ill. It is having sym- sheets, leaving them in as small a roll as those trying hours when repetition was pathy and understanding. And patience! possible, for patient must turn back over necessary, when it surely must have Especially patience when you are caring them. You must always remember pa- seemed that the would-be nurses never for the elderly woman, tired with years of tient's aching muscles and the pain that would make the grade. Yet little by little living, racked by cruel never-ending pain. rolling over even a small bump may cause. perfection began to result from all the To get her into a wheel chair might seem Now put the clean sheets in place— striving, and the work seemed to become a simple process—but it would only seem ipread them out smooth. Wrinkles must easier. simple until you tried it a few times. JANUARY 29, 1952 PAGE 3 that doctors and nurses will not be so des- perately needed. But what is life? A battle against the conflicting forces of evil about us, and certainly the old nurse of the race, Mother Nature, will need all the help she can get from her human colleagues if she is to keep her charges reasonably sane and Preceieda gemd whole. Nurses will always be needed, espe- cially at the entrances and exits of the house of life, where helplessness, as well By LENA T. LEGROW as susceptibility to disease, calls for in- creased guardianship. There was the time in training when the sick baby was brought in, and how The things on earth that are most worth while sick she was with her hot, dry skin, her Are the things we cannot buy. gasping breaths. It seemed impossible that The song of the breeze as it stirs the trees, her life could be saved. How the nurses The glow of the sunset sky, worked and prayed over her, carefully following out every order of the doctor. As the days went by, little by little they The peace that comes with simple faith, could see that she was getting better. Soon The joy of a task well done, her little cheeks were no longer flushed The well-earned rest when we've done our best, with fever, and she was able to stand up The thrill of a victory won, in her crib and prattle to the nurses, or to hold out her little hands pleading to be The fellowship of a friend that's true, picked up. How happy the nurses were The love of those who care— over her recovery, and how they loved Though you search and try, you can never buy; caring for her. The doctors too were in- They are priceless jewels rare. terested in her and never needed to be asked to stop in to see how she was getting along. She had learned to love them all, For peace and hope and love and faith and was glad to see each one. The nurses Can never be bought or sold. vied with one another in caring for her, They are flowers rare from God's garden fair, and one nurse could never have the baby More precious far than gold. in her arms without another nurse crying, "Oh, let me hold her for a minute." It Yet every waiting soul is rich was such a pleasure to give her back to her As he looks in faith above, parents, beautiful and healthy, yet how For these are God's gifts to each trusting soul— lonely the hospital seemed after she was The gifts of the Father's love. gone! That had been rewarding service indeed, and the memory left a warm glow in the heart of each nurse who had helped to care for the babe. And there is the evening work, when the patients must be made comfortable for the night: the backs rubbed, the "tired" spots adjusted, the wrinkles smoothed out, and fresh water placed beside the bed. "Now, Mrs. Keyes, the doctor wants you footrest is raised or lowered. You spend Then it is time to read the comforting pas- to walk a few steps today, so we'll just what seems hours of precious time trying sage the patient has requested—words that walk over to the wheel chair, then you to make the patient comfortable. Though will be encouraging during the long, dark can go outside for a little while. I know you can scarcely keep back a sigh, and hours of the night, words that he or she you'd rather not walk, but you do have rebellion is surging high in your heart, can say over and over until sleep comes, faith in your doctor, so let's do what he you continue to work patiently and smil- and repeat again if there are wakeful asks. Only a few steps to take. There we ingly to please the patient. hours. are." Carefully you guide her into the Most of the time there is not even a Perhaps the patient may feel that she is chair, which you have made ready for her. word of thanks, yet at the most unexpected nearing the valley of the shadow; then Aad then she insists on climbing right out moments a trembling hand is laid on your the simple faith expressed by the nurse again! arm and a quavery old voice says, "Thank gives her courage to speak of her own fear The pillow is not rightly placed. You you, my dear. You have been very sweet. I and to reach out a groping hand for help show her that it is exactly the way she can tell you love nursing by the way you in the dark hours ahead. The nurse, catch- wanted it yesterday, but she will not have care for me." This is reward indeed for ing a glimpse of the terror in her heart, it that way today. She insists that it is not the service given, and the words will takes the groping hand and puts the weary comfortable, and she wants it turned echo in your heart the next time you have heart at peace. "Jesus who has loved you around the other way. You rearrange the a trying patient, for you do love nursing all your life is still with you. He has pillow, and seat the patient in the chair in spite of everything that conspires to dis- planned for your life, planned in love, and again. She still is not satisfied, but she courage you. He will be with you every moment of cannot think what is wrong, unless per- Since a very great part of the work of every day. Even in this hour you have haps it is the pillow in the back. You try the nurse is to educate her patients to be nothing to fear, for He who loves you is a new pillow, and the patient settles into healthy, public health enthusiasts have here beside you." Then indeed the nurse the chair, only to find fault again as the sometimes predicted that disease will be has carried the lighted lamp to the bed- blanket is adjusted around her and as the practically wiped out in the future and -Please turn to page 18 PAGE 4 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR LL right, keep close to the ground, and A don't raise your head just because the guns stop firing!" We soldiers were lined up waiting our turn to crawl a hundred yards through the mud and barbed wire while machine guns sprayed bullets over our heads. The bullets were little things, it is true, but they were nevertheless deadly. Such ittle Things The sergeant repeated the warning as each new group climbed out of the starting ditch and nervously made its way to the other By H. P. WALLING side of the obstacle course. As we waited for the officer to call our number, we could see that it would be utterly foolish to disregard his warning. You can be sure that not one of the men on that field dared you propose? Most of you would welcome smoke produces coughing as a result of lift any part of his body more than an such a warning, and be thankful to have the body's effort to expell the poisonous inch or two from the ground until he was someone show that much interest in your gases and second-hand air present in ciga- well beyond the finish line. If any one of life and happiness. Yet strangely enough rette smoke. All of us know how smoke them had raised up, he would surely have there are hundreds of young people just hurts our eyes. Think of the injury that been considered foolish by those around like yourselves who reject such advice takes place when smoke reaches the deli- him. from their parents and older friends. Yes, cate tissue that is the lining for our lungs! Why do you suppose the men were so literally hundreds every day turn a deaf Now you can understand in part at least careful? Was it because they wanted to ear to friendly counsel, and place them- why it is that only those who have become please their officers? Was it because they selves in the worst sort of danger simply used to smoking can stand actually to enjoyed crawling through mud? Neither, because they cannot see the final effects draw the poisonous mixture into their of course. It was because they could see of their actions. lungs. what would happen to those who disre- You may say that you do not know of The fact that cigarette smoke causes garded orders and got up to run. They saw anyone who would be foolish enough to irritation and inflammation in the lungs that there was absolutely nothing to be do a thing like that. But stop and think and throat is well known. Even the com- gained but much, even life itself, to be a moment—have you ever seen young panies that produce the cigarettes are con- lost by such a course. people of high school age begin smoking tinually claiming some new improvement Now suppose you were about to expose against the wishes of their parents? Oh, that makes their own merchandise less yourself to some real danger that you did yes! you say, but what is so dangerous irritating. But no matter how tobacco is not know existed. Would you be willing about a little thing like that? I will admit refined and treated before being wrapped to take a warning from your best friend that it is hard for some of us to consider in white paper, it will always contain poi- who knew of the danger and tried his best smoking as something dangerous, when son, and that poison (actually there are to save you from the disastrous results that we see men and women puffing away at more than a dozen poison gases in ciga- he had seen come to others who did what cigarettes day after day. The real dangers rette smoke) will always cause irritation. are not seen Medical records show that smoking is merely by looking directly responsible for certain cases of at a smoker for a cancer in or around the mouth, as well minute or two, as for chronic diseases of the lungs. but let us consider Only after long use of tobacco do what effects smokers succeed in numbing the sensitive smoking produces nerves in the nose that normally warn of on the human smoke in the air. Every year scores of body. people burn to death after falling asleep That cigarettes while smoking in bed. Perhaps many of contain poison is these would be alive today but for the fact shown by the fact that their nerves were so injured that no that most new warning was flashed to the brain even smokers become when the smoke was heavy in the air. violently ill when Besides producing these noticeable they first begin physical defects, tobacco also works to their use. Is it any injure the mind. Though it is a slow wonder that one poison, it eventually damages the brain should become and hinders the reasoning process. The sick after attempt- heart and nervous system are also dam- ing to suffocate aged. If you want to see what happens him,elf by breath- to a smoker's nerves, just watch one who ing smoke instead is obliged to go without his usual smoke of air? Breathing for several hours. Many professional men, doctors and H. M. Lambert business executives, allow their names to Two Brothers Began Work for a Construc- be used in cigarette advertisements. tion Company. Both Usually they benefit financially for their Were Industrious. endorsement of a certain product. It is Louis Soon Received Promotions, but His interesting to note that the tobacco com- Brother Did Not. panies have no testimonials from men like And the Difference Seemed Only a "Little Thomas Edison, Charles Lindbergh, Wil- Thing" liam Mayo, and Henry Ford. These men JANUARY 29, 1952 PAGE 5' realized what a little thing called a ciga- continued working so that he could be the reason for his defeat. Slowly but surely rette could do to destroy mental and physi- ready for supper when his uncle arrived they had robbed him of his wind—the cal health, and they refused to have any- from the office. wind that runners need most during a thing to do with it. He continued to experiment with his race. He had learned the truth about It is unfortunate that so many young uncle's tobacco during the weeks that tobacco only after a sad experience. boys must learn the truth about tobacco, followed, until he felt no ill effects from The tobacco and liquor companies con- as did Emil Sloan, from bitter experience. smoking, and convinced himself that just tinually remind us that experience is the Emil had lived on a farm most of his life, one little cigarette a day was not such a best teacher. By showing pictures of people and so was delighted when his parents sent bad thing after all. Besides, he felt grown surrounded by luxury, they try to con- him to live with an uncle in the city. He up when he smoked, though he never let vince us that using their products will enrolled in a large high school and signed anyone see him doing it. bring success and happiness to all. I would up for the track team, hoping to earn his Finally the day of the track meet ar- like to tell you a true experience that you letter. He showed progress as the weeks rived, and the teams assembled on the will never see in a liquor advertisement, went by, and the coach took a real inter- field. Emil waited impatiently until the because it tells the truth about such est in him. one-mile relay race was announced, and products. At the beginning of the second semester then proudly took his place on the track. Several years ago two brothers applied the coach gave Emil the chance to train He had been chosen to carry the baton the for jobs with a construction company. with the relay team. When he accepted the last quarter of a mile across the finish line, They were husky young men in their early offer he was given a copy of the training and all eyes were on him as he started twenties and had no trouble getting work. rules that the team was expected to follow down the track in the lead position. As he After seeing them work the foreman told for the rest of the season. Emil had no ran Emil strained every muscle in an them he would like to have them as per- trouble following the rules, but the one effort to stay ahead, but he was being manent employees. The months went by, that read, "Use of tobacco by team mem- overtaken by another runner. During the and the brothers continued to work side bers is forbidden" aroused his curiosity. few seconds that remained he remem- by side as they learned more about con- What difference could a little thing like bered that he had felt a pain in his chest struction engineering. Both were indus- that make? he wondered. Had his dad not during the last few practice periods the trious, and after a year they were pro- smoked a pipe for a long time, and his week before the race. Now that same feel- moted to the job of supervising crews of uncle smoked cigarettes? They were both ing was with him again as he gasped for ten men each. Louis, the older of the two, healthy, so what could be the harm from air to ease the burning pain in his lungs. took the promotion with pride and began smoking? Though he tried his best, he could not to work harder to show that he deserved Emil thought no more about it for a match the other runners' speed, and when it. However, Clifton was not to be out- few days and continued his daily work- he reached the finish line he was in third done, and he too worked with renewed outs on the track. Then one day on the place. effort. way home from school he made up his Emil left the dressing room and started About this time Clifton began stopping mind to try a cigarette for himself. At home, being careful to avoid his class- at the local saloon to chat with some of his home he took one from the smoking stand mates. He was ashamed of what he had workmen before going home for the night. and went out to the garage. After smoking done and wanted to be left alone. While This seemed like the friendly thing for only a small part of the cigarette he re- walking slowly home he realized what had him to do, since he was a section foreman. membered his chores and went out to happened to him. Those little cigarettes It was not long, though, until Clifton was work in the yard. He felt a bit ill but he had been smoking every afternoon were spending the most of each evening and a good part of his pay at the saloon. Both his wife and his brother noticed the amount of time he spent with "the boys," Rj-sWs and they tried to show him that he was forming a bad habit. However, Clifton PrV7rn +nFAXXXAFtn could see no harm in being sociable by taking a small drink, so he continued to visit the saloon. At the end of another year Clifton had 20441 *oafte 1'eute0 the habit of taking a bottle of whisky home with him at night so he could have a drink before going to the job in the By MARY GUSTAFSON morning. Louis pleaded with his brother many times and told him what woul.'_:1 hap- Whenever you're lonely and in need of a friend pen if the superintendent ever found him Just call upon Jesus, and ask Him to send on the job while under the influence of The Comforter to you with healing and peace, liquor. Clifton's answer was always the And joy from that moment will ever increase. same: "I never drink enough to make me drunk, but just enough to calm my nerves." He still could not see any harm Instead of dull longings your heart will sing praise, in drinking, especially when he never And the new morning sun will shine with bright rays took more than a little drink. Of happiness beaming your path as you go, It was now his third year with the com- A-bringing of joy in an unending flow. pany, and Clifton went to work one Mon- day morning after his usual small drink. Oh! do not be lonely; let Jesus be near That day his crew was scheduled to re- And give you for loneliness, days of His cheer. pair an oil derrick for a local refinery. Clifton's men had their equipment set up and were waiting when he arrived. Their first task was to raise a heavy pulley to the top of the derrick, which was over a X5470941C —Please turn to page 21 PAGE 6 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR

HEN the missionary returned to her Wroom after the lovely visit with Iris and Marie, she found a note which had been slipped under her door. She opened it with keen anticipation, and read: For OIRLS Only "DEAR MISSIONARY, "We have been talking about what you said last night about not having a store nearby to go to and buy the articles you NELLIA BURMAN GARBER PART V need. Where do you get things like scour- ing powder, butter, cheese, stove polish, soap, and the like? "Please answer this, and settle a big argument. Some of us say that you make these things, and some of us say that you just do without. Which group is right? "If the ones are right who say that you make them, please tell us how. "Many thanks. "Sincerely, "THE QUIZ KIDS." That little letter gave her a good laugh. How characteristic of American girls, she thought. You see, she knew, for she was once one herself, and wished she still were one. When time allowed she answered it thus: "DEAR QUIZ KIDS, "Thank you for your note. I only wish I might have sat in on the discussion. It sounds so interesting. The Mission and the Mission Home Should Always Present a Neat and Tidy Appearance, "Since it is the answer to the argument for We Represent Not Only Ourselves but Also the Seventh day Adventist Denomination that you want most, I'll give it right away. Yes, I make all the things you mention if any of you want the recipe for cream above, let me know. I am more than happy except soap, which I can usually buy. I cheese or longhorn cheese, you can write to help you prepare yourselves. Who have made it though, once or twice. again. To make cottage cheese, allow milk knows, some of you may come to work "If I were to quote the recipe for scour- to sour and become thick (but not strong). near me, and I may want to pay you a ing powder, I would first say whiting, a Then place it on a slow fire—the back of visit! commodity that is unheard of in our field. a wood stove is fine. When the curds ding "The best of everything to the Quiz So I have to use a substitute. What do I together and the whey is clear you know Kids. use? Chalk. You know all those tiny little it is nearly ready to remove from the fire. "Sincerely yours, balls of chalk that were such a nuisance to Once the whey is really hot, drain thor- "THE MISSIONARY." clean up when you were in disgrace in oughly, add cream and salt, and serve. grade school and had to clean the black- "It is fun to make stove polish, for most When another note came through the boards for a week? Those are just the of us like to get really dirty once in a mail it brought a smile to the missionary's thing. After they have been pulverized, while. You must have a wood stove to lips. Yet that smile quickly faded, for she add an equal part of very, very fine sand, make this, but then you must have a wood realized that it was not meant for a joke. and another equal part of soap powder (or stove to need it, so I guess that evens things It was from Trudie, and since she was very finely grated soap) is added, and you up. From the inside of the stove, above embarrassed to ask her question verbally, have your scourer all ready to use. And it the oven, remove one tablespoon of thick she had written it. It said in part: is just as good as any you can buy—no it soot. Put it into a pan. Add one cup of "I was too shy to ask you this for fear hasn't scratched either! hot milk and one tablespoon of vinegar. that you would misunderstand and think "As for butter, it is very easy to make, That is all. It will thicken and make an that I am rude. I do not mean to be. But for Mother Nature has given us an abso- excellent polish. I want to know. I hope you will under- lutely foolproof recipe. After you have "Most of you will have to make soap stand just what I mean. You do not look collected enough cream—sour or sweet— in chemistry laboratory, so I shall not go like a missionary! Why?" simply shake in a bottle or churn, and the into the details of making it here. It is not At first she did not know whether to fatty particles will come to the top. After a very pleasant job, but it is sometimes a feel proud or ashamed, and then there the butter has all separated from the whey, necessary one, especially on the out- came up before her eyes a vision of the it is ready to wash. Carefully pour off the stations. first woman missionary she ever saw. Why buttermilk, and add cold water to the "Since we are talking about these things did she remember her? Because her butter right in the bottle or churn. Shake that are hard to get out on the mission sta- clothes were so strange and outmoded. it well; then pour it off. Repeat this until tions, girls, let me make a few additions Perhaps they had come out of a mission- the water comes clear. Then work all the to the list of things you must know how ary barrel. She was clean; in fact, her water out of the butter by mixing and to make. Gluten roast, 'vegetarian' coffee, face shone from its last vigorous washing mixing. Add salt and eat. peanut butter, bread, yeast, floor polish, with soap and water. But from the crown "Because there are three kinds of cheese furniture polish, breakfast cereals, dehy- of her head to the soles of her feet she was that can be homemade, I hardly know drated fruits and vegetables, jelly, and so different as to be conspicuous. Again which kind you are interested in. So I sauerkraut. And this is not all! If any of the modern missionary wife and mother shall presume that it is cottage cheese; then you are interested in the recipes for the read Trudie's query. She knew that to

JANUARY 29, 1952, PAGE 7 many the picture in her own memory was son, who spent fifty years working in we may never know. But that they are typical of what the appearance of a mis- Africa, always cleaned up and dressed for observed by the district commissioner and sionary wife should be, and she was con- the evening meal as if they were expecting count for or against our denominational scious of the fact that she did not fit the company. They had this as a rule in their standing with the local government the description very well. But after all, why home for the long time that they spent in missionary knows from experience. should she? Africa. And what a grand boost it was to Courtesy seems to be closely connected No worker in the cause of Christ should their morale. Those of you who have seen with personal care. It costs nothing to be dress in such a way as to attract attention Mrs. Anderson know that she is very fas- polite, and to teach our children to be the to herself. One's clothes should be dean, tidious and neat; yet she does not attract same. It is well to remember that we rep- neat, and near enough to the current style attention to herself by wearing fancy, resent the Seventh-day Adventist denomi- to arouse no comment. gaudy clothes, freakish hats, or make-up. nation, not just ourselves, and let us al- Someone had asked her one day, "Do A missionary went calling at another ways represent the cause of God aright. you curl your hair out there in the mission early in the morning, so the story "You don't look like one." Trudie's jungle?" goes, and was met at the door by the mis- question keeps coming back again and "Of course, I do," she had answered. sionary's wife. She apologized for the again to the mind of the furloughing mis- "Should I go around untidy just because appearance of her hair. sionary. It represents a challenge. It was no one but my family and the native peo- "I didn't notice that it looked any dif- not make-up, for she did not use it. Could ple will see me during the day? No. After ferent than usual," the visitor replied. It it be that her face did not show the heav- all, my family forms the most important was a very serious remark, and offended enly peace that a Christian enjoys? God unit in the world. Why should I let myself the hostess, but how often that would be forbid. go in such a fashion as to make them the truth. So many women seem to make A friend of hers once was told, "I knew ashamed of me? Then, too, those very themselves tidy and attractive only to be you were a missionary. You just look it!" natives whom we so casually discuss with admired. This is not the true cause for And when inquiry was made as to scarce a thought are the people for whom careful grooming. "Order is heaven's first whether it was his clothes, his walk, his we are working. We hope to help them law," should be the daily motto of all haircut, or his accent that betrayed him, change their ways of life. How can we do Christians, everywhere. the answer was, "No, you just have such this if we lower ourselves to their level by The mission and the mission homes a good look on your face!" That was a letting our appearance deteriorate?" should always present a neat and tidy ap- real compliment. "I want to look like She remembered hearing Mrs. W. H. pearance too. How great is the influence of that," mused the college guest. And how Anderson tell how she and Pastor Ander- the appearance of the houses and grounds, about you? (To be continued)

sage to nearly all of the older ones of the village. They seemed to enjoy the talk, so I was encouraged to come to the next meeting with paper and pencil to enroll names. folut °Kvei 5444e4 "After sundown worship I began to write down the names. I enrolled fifteen. Next morning after worship I taught them By J. K. AKA-KWARM the family prayer. During the study four elderly persons desired to have their names recorded. This brought my total to nine- (CC C

PART • • • • LEGENDARY YUCATAN

I HAVE no intention of tir- ing my INSTRUCTOR audi- ence with the series of lectures I gave in my evangelistic cam- paign in Merida, but I think it might be interesting if you could get a glimpse of my in- troduction, with just a few Photo Courtesy of the Author words at the end, in the appli- cation of the lesson. I do this because in one of my first articles I told about my plans for looking up items of local interest and color to introduce The First Lecture into my lectures. This is a sample of the twenty-fie lec- tures given. By HENRY J. WESTPHAL A very interesting parallel is found between the methods used by Cortes, the Spanish conqueror of the ancient Aztec culture, own ill-advised inclination, decided to is a mighty lever, by the aid of which it and the methods used by some ideologies take an intermediate step. He sent two of would become easier to overturn this which are struggling today for world con- his noblemen as special ambassadors, with empire. quest. Without any further reference to a hundred slaves, loaded down with gifts Cortes, accompanied by fifty of his men, the latter, I shall let the reader draw his of solid gold for Cortes. At the same time paid a visit to the cacique of Cempoala in own condusions as I relate, as was done in he forbade him to enter the country, but his own capital. Leaving his soldiers in my lecture, the successive steps taken by requested him to leave, bearing with him the courtyard of the palace, Cortes took the Spaniards in carrying out their pro- his kindest regards for the king of Spain. one of his officers and his fair interpreter gram of conquest. What an illusion! He had shown his own Malintzin into the presence of the chief. A The Spaniards first settled their colonial weakness, and also Hezekiah-like, he had long conference followed, in which the government in Santo Domingo, from shown him his riches. The Spaniards suf- Spaniard gathered considerable informa- where they could embark on greater ad- fered from a peculiar disease called a "pas- tion regarding the discontent of the ventures. Lesson number one: Get things sion for gold," as was explained to the country. He told the cacique that he him- under control in the home base. couriers, which could only be cured by the self was the subject of a great emperor They then infiltrated into Cuba, where administration of more gold. Lesson num- across the ocean, and that he had come to they rapidly grew, enslaved the aborigines, ber three: It is advantageous to conquest abolish the "inhuman worship" that pre- and thus won a good springboard from if the enemy nation has divided counsel vailed on the Aztec shores and to intro- which to take off across the Gulf of in its department of foreign relations. duce real happiness and justice for all. Mexico onto the continent itself. In Cuba Cortes had no intention of leaving the Lesson number five: After backing your- they created their arsenal of men, means, country. While wondering what to do self up with a powerful nation, promise and armaments for the great adventure. next he was visited by five Indians, whose all kinds of better living conditions and Lesson number two: Get the next-door dress and whole appearance were different the abolishment of special privileges in the neighbor nations under control, and draw from those of the Aztec nobles. They wore present setup. from them all the men and material rings of gold, and gems of a bright blue The Totonac chief, though well im- needed for conquest. stone in their ears and noses, while a pressed with the powerful foreigners, Montezuma, the emperor of the Aztecs, gold leaf, delicately wrought, was attached feared to break openly with Montezuma. was troubled over the appearance in his to the underlip. They were natives of Cortes tried to reassure him by declaring domains of Cortes and his small army. Cempoala, the chief town of the Totonacs, "that a single Spaniard was stronger than By quick relays of men he had been noti- a powerful nation. However, they had a host of Aztecs." Still he hesitated. In the fied of their landing in Veracruz. He been recently conquered by Montezuma, midst of their conference they were sud- called in his noble caciques to ask their and they said that they experienced such denly interrupted by a movement among counsel on his procedure toward these for- oppressive vexations from their conquerors the people. Five men had appeared in the eigners. Some held out for an immediate that it made them despondent of their great square of the market place. Their attack to drive them back into the ocean. yoke. The fame of the Spaniards had demeanor and much richer dress showed Others, thinking that these white men reached their master, and they wished that they were not of the Totonacs. They might be the promised gods returning, Cortes to visit their cacique in his capital. were attended by slaves, some bearing maintained that they should be received An important truth now flashed on wands with cords, others fans, with which with honor as guests, and invited to Cortes' mind. Lesson number four: In they brushed away the flies and insects Tenochtitlan. Montezuma, following his the discontent of subjugated peoples, there from their masters. Passing by, they cast JANUARY 29, 1952 PAGE 11 a haughty look at the Spaniards, -scarcely cacique, guessing their intent, instantly emperor wished to bestow on the Span- returning their salutations. They were called his men to arms. The warriors iards. On entering that sacred city he was immediately joined, in great confusion, gathered from all sides, with shrill cries well received, and spent a few days in by the Totonac chiefs, who seemed eager and clashing weapons, while the pagan great festivities. But suddenly rumors to win their favor. priests rushed frantically among them to reached him of a great conspiracy in These men were Aztec nobles, empow- call for protection of their gods. All was which he and the rest of the Spaniards ered to receive the tributes for Montezuma. now confusion and menace where only a were all to be massacred. Alert and ever Not long did it take until the Totonacs few minutes before peace and good will ready to act, he ordered his army into returned with dismay expressed in their had reigned. position; and after getting the nobles into faces. They declared that the Aztecs were Cortes caused the cacique and other the great plaza through trickery, he greatly incensed at them because they nobles to be arrested. With part of the ordered the troops to shoot. The cream of were entertaining the Spaniards without army he held back the angered crowd, the Cholulan civil and religious aristoc- the emperor's permission. And to top it and with a few men he cast the wooden racy and thousands of ordinary citizens all, they demanded in expiation twenty gods out of the teocallis, burned them, and were cold-bloodedly massacred. Lesson young men and women for sacrifice to the over the ashes raised the cross. Then it number nine: Liquidate all opposition gods. dawned upon the Indians that these white and treason. Cortes showed the strongest indignation men were even stronger than their gods. The last and most important action was at such insolence. He counseled the chief They decided that it was good policy to to get Montezuma under the Spaniard's to arrest these men immediately. He hesi- side with men who were not afraid of their power, make him their figurehead, and tated, but Cortes "insisted on it so per- gods or Montezuma himself. Were they control the country. This required some emptorily" that the chief complied, and not the sons of thunder? The canons had daring schemes. Cortes was royally wel- bound the Aztecs hands and feet and made some impression on them before comed into the city of Mexico, and given placed them under guard. That night, this. Peace was made, the people were one of Montezuma's palaces in which to however, Cortes helped two of them to make his headquarters. After a few days, escape, unbeknown to the Totonacs, and with apparently no headway being made expressed to them his great regret and in- ■••••••••••••=0.1••••••••=00.%•••••••••••Wr to conquer the country, Cortes visited dignation concerning what had been done Montezuma in his palace, accompanied by to them. He promised that he would inter- some of his most trustworthy cavaliers. cede and try to get the release of the other "The hard part of making After an introductory and pleasant three men. He did, and after playing up repartee, he suddenly turned on Monte- his own goad virtues and condemning the good is that you have to do it zuma and accused him of dealing deceit- Totonac:. he sent them back to the em- fully with them. Montezuma denied this. peror, who was well impressed with his again every day." Cortes then asked him to become his vol- "friend" Cortes. By this double crossing, untary hostage, as a guarantee to them, Cortes had made the Totonacs absolutely and an assurance was given that he would dependent on him for protection against continue to reign under their command. the fury of Montezuma. Lesson number He indignantly refused. But they finally six: By foul means or fair, get people or took him. Then he decided that in going nations tied in with the plans of conquest, baptized, and the rear of his conquest was he would do so with all the pomp of an from which they cannot retreat. This safeguarded. Lesson number seven: The emperor, and not as a captive. principle was masterfully maneuvered all established religion, which is supposed to When Montezuma finally lost all in- the way through the conquest, and it gave be the opium of the people, must be fluence with the people, and died of a Cortes hundreds of thousands of adherents destroyed. broken heart, after having been yelled and warriors. Cortes simply had to win, The time came to advance toward the down and stoned by his own people, the or they would all be victims for the vic- highlands of Mexico. Leaving the hot low- Spaniards took the reigns of government torious sacrifices of the Aztecs. lands of the coast, or tierra caliente, Cortes into their own hands. After many months In token of gratitude for some favors and his men made a hazardous climb over of war, terrible disasters, and most un- done by Cortes to the Totonacs, these de- the lava-strewn valleys above Jalapa. believable exploits, they finally destroyed livered to the general eight beautiful In- Finally ascending to the cold plateau of the capital city stone by stone, and sub- dian maidens, richly dressed, wearing col- the central mesa, the Spaniards reached jugated the people. Lesson number ten: lars and ornaments of gold, with a num- Tlaxcala, a small independent nation. In conquering a country, first try to gov- ber of female slaves to wait on them. They They asked for the privilege of free pas- ern through the existing authorities, and were princesses, and the cacique requested sage through their domains. Instead, if these become recalcitrant, get rid of that the Spanish captains take them as young Xicontencatl presented himself them and control it yourself. their wives. He received the maidens cour- with a formidable array of warriors to dis- teously, but told the cacique they must pute them their way through his country. The audience before me this first night first be baptized. This gave him the op- Three unsuccessful pitched battles and a of my campaign, living over again the sad portunity to preach the "gospel" to them. disastrous night attack taught the Tlax- conquest of their country with mixed The Totonacs demurred, but the zeal of calans that there was no use fighting these emotions, wondered now what would the Christians had mounted too high, and superbeings, and they surrendered. Be- come of the present world upset, when the these princesses looked too beautiful to cause of Cortes' extraordinary skill as a same methods that had been used on their lose, to let the occasion slip by without diplomat, he won their alliance, and from own people were being used to conquer doing something in favor of their mother then on the Tlaxcalans became his most the world. This opened the way to present church. They claimed that "Heaven would loyal supporters in the conquest. Lesson three texts, and another one in conclusion: never smile on their enterprise, if they number eight: After defeating the enemy "Behold, the hire of the labourers who countenanced such atrocities (sacrifice of on the battlefield, win him over for the have reaped down your fields, which is of victims), and that they were resolved that great world crusade. you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the the Indian idols should be demolished that Cortes finally received an invitation from cries of them which have reaped are very hour, if it cost them their lives. To Montezuma to visit his capital. Before entered into the ears of the Lord of postpone the work of conversion was sin." crossing the saddle between Iztaccihuatl sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the The Spaniards moved toward one of and Popocatepetl he was to go to Cholula, earth, and been wanton; ye have nour- the principal teocallis, or temples. The first to receive the great honors that the -Please turn to page 21 PAGE 12 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR North Borneo Investiture Mrs. V. T. Armstrong, Reporting Fourteen young people were invested as Friends, and one received the Guide in- signe at an investiture service conducted at the Sabah Training School in Jesselton, North Borneo. During the exercises in which their recently acquired knowledge was displayed, the young people showed great skill as they tied knots and gave their memory work, both in the Malay and English languages. D. P. Siagian, treasurer of the North Borneo Mission, gave a stirring message on the high ideals of the Missionary Volunteer organization, and G. Y. Dizon, principal of the school and leader in the MV classwork, led out in the program. God is richly blessing the work of the young people in the Far East- ern Division. Poona, India, MV Society Lenore M. Lobo, Reporting For the young people in the Poona, India, church, Sabbath afternoons are devoted to MV classwork. Youth of all ages working on their requirements for classes from the Busy Bee to the Master Guide class, gather each Sabbath after- noon, first of all for oral and theoretical work. After that is finished the leader Wilma Cowan takes the group out for nature rambles Behind the French Adventist Seminary at Collonges-sous- over the hills and by the streams and lakes Saleve, France, Rise the Challenging Mountains of the Western Alps to collect specimens or to observe the birds, trees, flowers, and animals in their natural habitat. In one year alone two in- Ca Ca Ca W-Ea-K-E-Ea-E0-EC-E-M-K-FEEFEEE-K-E-Ca c« Ea-K-E-K-FEO-KE-EK--Ea-Ca Ea-Ca Ca Ca EEF vestitures were held. At the first fifty-eight were invested, including seven Master unteer work as they go out to their local Union Mission and the local mission pres- Guides, and at the second forty-four were fields. ent to assist in the investiture service. All invested, and of that number five were A Pidgin English Investiture the young people who participated in the Master Guides. To those who had earned program spoke in pidgin English. They Reporting them 150 Reading Course Certificates Alfred W. Peterson, repeated the Ten Commandments and the were given out and 114 MV honors were The Seventh-day Adventist young peo- shepherd psalm, and various members of awarded. ple of the South Sea Islands have taken a the class gave short talks on Bible texts and on such subjects as home efficiency MV Progress in Gold Coast long step since the days when their fathers and grandfathers were wild, warlike men and health habits. What an inspiration H. J. Welch, Reporting who devoted their lives to worshiping the it was to hear these youth sing "The Cap- The work of the Missionary Volunteers devil in wicked debauchery. This was es- tain Calls," "I Would Be True," and "The is moving forward rapidly and success- pecially illustrated recently at the first Youth of the World." This work to fully in the Gold Coast, West Africa. The New Hebrides Missionary Volunteer in- qualify as Friends opened a vast new area boys and girls and young people there vestiture service. There at Parker Mission- of experience to these young people, and have taken hold of the MV classwork with ary School on Aore Island, Eric Hokin, the training they are receiving in the pur- real enthusiasm. A recent yearly report secretary-treasurer and Missionary Volun- suit of the MV classwork will greatly shows that 852 young people were in- teer secretary for the New Hebrides Mis- strengthen their work as they go out to vested in the various MV classes. One in- sion, has led out in training the students teach in schools or to minister in the field.. vestiture alone included 462 persons. in MV classwork. Thirty-five young men A Novel Week End and three young women were invested as Today the work is being carried on by ten Mrs. W. Stark, Reporting Master Guides, seven of whom were in- Friends. Because the investiture was con- vested at the school. So these teachers, ducted at the time of the annual meeting When Australian young people want to these Master Guides, are able to give of the New Hebrides Mission, there were have a good time over a week end they strong leadership to the Missionary Vol- many visitors from the Central Pacific go to visit another group of Adventist JANUARY 29, 1952 PAGE 13 young people. At least that was the case by bus, automobile, and train. Ten car- High School auditorium for the fourth not long ago when the young people 'of loads came in from St. Louis alone. Sab- meeting of what is now called the Rainier the Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, bath afternoon the Union College choir, View Missionary Volunteer Society, a church were week-end guests of the Too- directed by Prof. J. Wesley Rhodes, pro- federation of these five societies. Plans woomba young people's society. The two vided special music in the form of a sacred are laid for the spiritual and social ad- groups enjoyed a blessed Sabbath school concert. Then came the thrilling reports vancement of the young people of this dis- and church hour together, and then in the from the delegates to the Paris Youth trict. At this meeting Pastor Theodore afternoon the Ipswich church presented Congress. Pastor Dunbar himself told of Carcich, the conference president, told a symposium entitled "The Journey to the the inspiration of that congress, and Mrs. the thrilling story of his conversion. New Jerusalem." On Sunday morning the Deljean Wolfe and Bobby Roberts, as well Juniors Share Their Faith two MV Societies joined forces to do In- as Pastor W. S. Jesske, told their impres- A. J. Reisig, Reporting gathering work, and that afternoon they sions of the European Youth Congress. Four Juniors and their Senior sponsor— visited beauty spots in Toowoomba. Al- Later on in the afternoon a symposium all from the Bend, Oregon, church—have together the week end provided an un- was conducted, during which living proof been giving Bible studies in two homes usual opportunity for the young people to was given of the ability of the young every Tuesday and Friday night for some be uplifted spiritually and to enjoy whole- people to do soul-winning work. The con- time. Already nearly the entire series of some, Christian fellowship. gress was climaxed by a mission pageant studies has been presented by these youth- under the leadership of the president of Kansas-Missouri Youth Congress ful evangelists. R. 0. VanTassel, their the Missouri Conference. The inspira- sponsor, has always gone with them, but Pastor H. M. S. Richards, of the Voice tion of this congress will long be felt, and the children themselves have done the of Prophecy, was the Sabbath morning its results will be witnessed by a greater speaking and led out in the singing. speaker at the youth congress held in the ingathering of men and women for the music hall of the Kansas City Municipal kingdom of God through the work of the Union College Master Guide Class Auditorium for youth of the Kansas and young people of these two conferences. Under the leadership of Percy Paul, Missouri conferences. Present for the Fri- Washington State Youth Federation Don Hilliard, and Floda Smith fifty-seven day evening service was Pastor E. W. Union College (Lincoln, Nebraska) stu- Dunbar, General Conference Missionary Alvena Sloan, Reporting dents are working toward completion of Volunteer secretary. Scores of young peo- The young people of the Auburn, Kent, their Master Guide requirements in time ple had come to be there for Friday eve- Renton, Issaquah, and Snoqualmie for the spring investiture. They have com- ning, but on Sabbath morning more came churches gathered recently in the Kent -Please turn to page 21

School. "He will meet head-on the terrific power not only of tradition and custom, but also of a dangerous product—a drug—by advertising campaigns and the corruption of legislatures." ONE THIRD WET! There are about 50 million beer drinkers in the United States—about one third of the population. Last year the average beer drinker consumed 51.3 gallons, equal to 11/2 bottles a day. Beer drunk in the country last year totaled 2,567,276,904 gallons.

GINGER ALE, PLEASE! in my glass. He couldn't believe that I was ASK THE MAN WHO DRINKS ONE! drinking plain ginger ale!" Voices from prison speak from experience "There is actual pressure being placed on on the matter of criminal offenses springing the individual today who desires to shun YOUTH URGE LOCAL OPTION! from drinking habits. The following personal beverage alcohol," writes young Lenore "We are unable to defend ourselves against statements on the relationship between drink- Carrero in Allied Youth. "Because of business ing liquor and criminal offense were made reasons, I recently attended a cocktail party the social dangers of a legalized liquor traffic, but you who do have voting power are able to the editor of an outstanding journal. All with my family. Immediately upon arrival those speaking were in prison. I was confronted with a waiter carrying a to protect us. Our present and future welfare tray of mixed drinks. When I asked him may be determined by your decision with the No. 21923. "My advice to all young men is which was plain ginger ale he almost ballot. If you have no other reason for to leave drink alone. . . . Every good oppor- dropped the tray. 'But madam,' he mumbled, helping to make our communities dry, please tunity I ever had has been lost through 'we only have mixed drinks, but I'll see what do it for the sake of us boys and girls," was drinking." I can do.' Then he proceeded to find a place the plea of nearly 3,000 teen-agers in Shreve- No. 21969. "Most of my drinking has been to put the tray down, went over to the bar, port, Louisiana. Published in the Journal, social drinking. I have no specific craving. and after much ado presented me with a this plea urged adults to protect the future I am certain, however, that if it had not plain ginger ale. By this time I was seated in of the city's youth by making possible the been for drink, I would not be here." a group of people all of whom were drink- outlawing of liquor. No. 21991. "I was very drunk and did not ing mixed drinks of some type. 'There you A SURE WAY! know what took place. I do not even know are, madam,' he said triumphantly, 'plain whether I am guilty. I have never been in ginger ale.' The conversation stopped for a Lycoming College, a small Methodist school trouble when I was sober, only when I am second while everyone looked at me, then in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, bought a full- drinking." the guests proceeded to look at one another fledged brewery several weeks ago, according No. 22060. "I was under the influence of as though I were an oddity, and then con- to the Christian Advocate. Not feeling sure drink at the time I was arrested and had tinued to converse with one another. Later, a of enough votes to vote it out, the trustees been drinking heavily. Alcohol has been in- gentleman asked whether he could refill my decided to buy it out! volved every time I have been in trouble. . . . Once I start to drink I can't stop." glass. I thanked him and asked for ginger LIONHEARTED DOVE! ale. He looked at me in a teasing manner No. 22075. "Every time I get drunk I get and said, 'Oh, come on, let me get you a "Whoever wishes ardently to prevent al- in trouble. I have never been in difficulty real drink' I repeated that I would like just coholism will need the heart of a lion, the except when I have been drinking.... Better ginger ale. He shrugged his shoulders and wiliness of the serpent, and the guilelessness leave drink alone if you want to live happily. walked toward the bar, but just before he of the dove," writes Abraham Myerson, M.D., I have lost my home, my car, my family gave my order I saw him taste the last drop professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical because of liquor." PAGE 14 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 111 T WON'T be long until we can pay it I all back, and this would be an excellent way to make it multiply and bring us double the amount," said father, rising from his chair in preparation for going to bed. "I know, Lou, but I'm not sure. I must LESSON think it over. We will decide tomorrow evening," and mother began tidying up the room before she also retired. Two weeks had passed since mother had received an inheritance of five thou- sand dollars from her mother. Four thou- Well Learned sand of this amount had been used as a down payment on some country land with a small farmhouse on it. Here my parents

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PAGE 16 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR should get the mail now. Can't we turn "What is it, Mother?" Harold, shouting with laughter, had back? We haven't come far." "I have inherited another five thousand trouble catching and rescuing his pet. Obediently father turned the car back dollars! Isn't it wonderful? I knew God Seeing that his playmate got such enjoy- toward town. would hear me!" And silently she thanked ment out of his antics, Toly performed his "For you, Mother," he said, as he came the heavenly Father for His goodness. trick often, always knowing that Harold out of the post office carrying only one "Well, Mother, I guess we'll know bet- would rescue him, and soon it became a letter. He handed it to her and started ter than to use our tithe again, won't we?" game between them. the car. said father thoughtfully. One bright May day Mr. Niles backed "Well, I wonder who this is from? Mother nodded, and with determination the car out of the garage. Probably some more people wanting their in her voice she said, "Yes, we surely will. "Where are you doing, Daddy?" money," and she sighed as she tore open I shall take the tithe out right away, and "To town. Do you want to go?" the long brown business envelope. we will never use the Lord's money for "Oh, yes; may I, please?" "Oh, Lou, look!" she cried. ourselves again!" "Well, if you have finished your chores, hop in." Harold, in the excitement, forgot to shut his lamb in the corral, and rode off in the car with the rest of the family. Toly, finding his playmate nowhere in sight, began looking for him. Seeing the sprinkling can, he remembered the many times he and Harold had played their little 204,ft qvided 9en9ot game with it. Maybe if he started the game, Harold would come and help him By RUTH NIES finish it. He stuck his head into the can and began bleating and wandering around the yard. But no Harold appeared to res- cue him. Soon he became tired and tried THE wind howled furiously and and he hugged the little lamb enthusi- to rub the can off his head, but it would I slammed the door after Mr. Niles as he astically. not budge. The game was not so much came into the house. He shivered a little The problem of feeding the new pet fun any more, because he could not see and began brushing the heavy, wet snow was soon solved by heating milk in a pan, where he was going, and besides, it was off his clothes. placing it in a large pop bottle, and putting a warm day and the can was getting un- "I have news for you, Harold." a nipple on the neck of the bottle. It was comfortable. After resting awhile he began "What is it, Daddy?" The little blond a simple task to teach Toly, as the lamb wandering around again, searching for lad of six was quite interested. was soon named, to drink from the bottle. someone to help him. Slowly and surely his "We have some new baby lambs out in However, as he grew older and stronger, little circles and turns were bringing him the barn, and there is one that has lost its the problem was for Harold to be able to nearer and nearer to the deep water hole. mother. How would you like to take it hold onto the bottle when Toly became Finally his front feet were in the water. and raise it for your own?" extra enthusiastic about his meal. Some- Suddenly frightened, he gave a jump but The joy in Harold's face gave evidence times he nearly knocked the little boy over, only landed in deeper water. By now panic of the delight he could not quite tell in but Harold would grit his teeth, brace stricken, he tried desperately to get out of words. himself, and hang on tighter. the water, but each lunge only put him He kept his parents busy answering Spring came early that year, and soon into deeper water. Soon it was up to his questions about the new lamb that night. Harold and Toly became constant play- neck, and then, worst of all, the can on What did it look like? Was it white or mates in the bright, warm sunshine. Like his head filled with water. There was no black? Was it pretty? And the question "Mary's Little Lamb," Toly followed Har- escape no matter which way he turned raised most often: When could he see it? old nearly everywhere. He almost made a from this new menace. The cold, suffo- After what seemed to Harold an almost nuisance of himself by waiting right out- cating water seemed everywhere, it filled endless night he finally saw in the wintry side the door when Harold went into the his eyes, ears, and mouth. He could not sky the gray light that meant it was time house and nearly tripping anyone who for- breathe. to get up. getfully stepped outside without watching Near evening Harold and his parents re- "But, Dad, there are so many little lambs for him. turned from town. Harold ran, as he al- out here. How will we ever find mine?" Together Harold and Toly roamed the ways did, to the corral to see how his pet The question was a good one, for the barn broad fields of the farm, being careful to was. Then came the terrible realization was a bedlam of the bleats from all sizes, stay away from the busy highway and the that he had forgotten to shut Toly in that shapes, and descriptions of sheep, from the deep water hole that the rains had left. afternoon when he had left. But he was shaggy mothers to the tiny, shivering Toly got into mischief when he was left sure his lamb would be around some- babies. alone, so it was decided that he should be where. However, calling and searching Harold's father had forseen this con- locked in the corral whenever the family brought no results. Becoming a little wor- fusion, though, and had placed the orphan was gone. Harold assured his father that ried, Harold asked his father and mother lamb behind a separate partition. He led he would be faithful in seeing that Toly to help in the search. They looked every Harold to it and smiled a little at the boy's was safely locked up when he was not place imaginable, but nowhere could the enthusiasm over his new pet. There was with him. lamb be found. reason for it, for the lamb was an endear- Once in his explorations of the big, ex- Finally Mr. Niles called Harold, and ing sight. He raised his woolly little body citing world Toly found an old sprinkling taking him by the hand, led him to the on unsteady legs and gazed at the in- can that Harold's mother had left lying water hole. It was a terrible experience for truders. He was nearly all white except for near the garden gate. His curiosity had to Harold to see his beloved pet, lying there black feet and black markings on his face. be satisfied, so he stuck his head inside to in the shallow water, dead, with his head The markings above the eyes were similar investigate. It was a tight fit going in and stuck in the watering can as it so often had to human eyebrows, giving him a quizzi- even tighter coming out. In fact, his head been during their games. It was a sad cal expression. Then he gave a strong little was stuck! Alarmed, Toly began to run little boy who sobbed himself to sleep that bleat. That won Harold over completely, aimlessly about, giving excited bleats. night, but it was a much wiser one. JANUARY 29, 1952 PAGE 17 A Lighted Lamp and suddenly cascading them out onto the Now here is the doctor ready to be gowned floor either at the feet of the supervisor or (Continued from page 4) for surgery. The scrub nurse helps him at the feet of the surgeon. Of course you with his gown, but again you must pull side of her patient, and its glow fills the would just about die if such a thing ever down the sleeves. Your hands are trem- room as she offers a prayer, asking the happened to you, but it is said that the bling until you are sure you never will be heavenly Father to be with the sick one, things you worry about never or seldom able to do it right, but you manage to tie His child, to bring back health and happen, probably because they are the it carefully, and nothing is contaminated. strength if it be His will, to speak peace things you are careful to avoid. Just the What a feeling of relief sweeps over you to the weary heart. The gratitude in the same, you work with supercaution on that —"mission completed" all right so far! patient's eyes, and in the pressure of her first day in surgery. First you must help Each new nurse watches the doctor put hand show her appreciation for this, the the scrub nurse get into her sterile gown. on his gloves with awe. Surely sometime true service. As she puts on the gown you must reach a surgeon is going right on through the Most, nurses look forward to their first inside, careful not to contaminate the out- finger tips of the glove as he rapidly jams service in the operating room. When they side, and pull down the sleeves. Then you his hand down into it. Why the glove does see their name on the list for that service must carefully tie the gown, and how not reach to the elbow is a wonder never they ate both happy and frightened. They clumsy your fingers seem in your haste! fathomed by student nurses. Away from know it will not be easy, working under You practice carefully on her, remem- the surgery the nurse may wonder what the eagle eye of the supervisor, who is bering that the doctors are to follow. You would happen if the scrub nurse let go of ready to pounce on the slightest deviation are grateful for the few spoken words of the glove with a snap—but this is only from technique. Probably the most fre- encouragement from the supervisor, for in retrospect! No time for such thoughts in quent nightmare of the young nurse on even though you have learned exactly the busy operating theater. There is always surgery duty for the first time is that of what to do, and have practiced it many so much to do, and the supervisor walking carrying in a tray of sterile instruments, times, all your knowledge seems to have on rubber soles is here, there, and every- ready to be placed on the table for use, deserted you on this first real occasion. where, guiding you in your work, teach- ing you to do it efficiently and well. Noth- ing must be overlooked; everything must be in its place and accounted for at all times. But the work is interesting, how- cost one dollar a year, and a little more ever tired you may be, and it is a satis- outside the United States. faction to realize that day by day you are The third:, form through which stamp able to do things on your own initiative news comes is the daily newspaper stamp without being told. Yes, there is joy in column. Many newspapers have a separate learning. column just for stamp collectors each And now it is graduatign night, and week. The New York Times is considered Conducted by each nurse realizes how swiftly the, days ROLAND A. FRANKLIN the most useful of this type, but many ; training have gone b .,,Some flew on other newspapers throughout the conti- wings of light, others sperned to drag their Address all correspondence to the Stamp Corner, YOUTH'S INsTgucToa, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. And be nent and the world are doing an excellent feet in weariness and despondency, but sure to enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope or In- job in keeping collectors informed about ternational Reply Coupon, which can he secured at any now all are gone, and she stands, a post office in any country, for reply. Please use commemo- news of philatelic importance. Some graduate. rative stamps on all your Stamp Corner correspondence whenever possible. papers merely have feature articles on Behind her is a rich heritage of nursing stamps whenever the occasion arises. history—its beginning in the home, nurs- How, When, and Where The large majority of collectors need to ing done on the battlefield and in what look to regular stamp newspapers or we would now call field hospitals, carried TAMP Corner readers who are in or magazines for their news. Practically every on by the knights of old; nursing by S near large cities where exhibits and stamp publisher will be glad to send a monks and sisters; and at last the great stamp shows are presented may get ideas, sample publication to anyone who writes reformation of nursing by Florence Night- stamps, and news about the hobby with requesting such. The Stamp Corner would ingale, the Lady With the Lamp, who very little effort. Those of us who are not advise anyone who does not now do so handed down to all nurses the lighted near enough to any large center to take to subscribe to one of these news agencies. lamp of service. advantage of seeing stamp collectors in The easiest way to decide which stamp The future lies before the nurse, and action must depend almost entirely on our paper you would like to have is to request there is no limit to her usefulness in what- mailboxes for news. a sample from several of the publishers, ever line she chooses, as long as she is At the large stamp exhibits there are look the material over, and then make selflessly devoted to duty. There is work booths occupied by publishers as well as your choice. to be done on staff duty, with private-duty other stamp firms. At each one someone We are listing a few that are of inter- nursing, as head nurse, teaching super- cordially offers all those who pass a sample est and hope that you will find pleasurable visor, and superintendent of nurses. Also copy of their form of stamp news. Now reading: there is the missionary nurse working in there are three chief sources of stamp Scott's Monthly Journal ($2 a year in far-flung lands, without all the facilities news for the collector. One kind of stamp U.S.) New York 19, N.Y. she has learned to regard as necessary, yet news is in the form of a journal or maga- Philatelic Gossip (weekly; $2 a year in working successfully in spite of the diffi- zine. We like those that are printed on a U.S.) Holton, Kans. culty. There is the public health nurse, good grade paper and have lovely illus- Linn's Stamp News (weekly; $1 a year who goes into the homes and teaches the trations. Stamp journals and magazines in U.S.) Sidney, Ohio. people as well as nurses them. There are are issued either monthly or weekly and Stamps (weekly; $2 a year) New York the hostesses for the great airlines, carry- cost about two dollars a year in the United 14, N.Y. ing on their work high above the earth. States. Mekeel's Stamp News (weekly; $1 a And the armed forces plead for nurses for Another type of stamp news comes in year in U.S.) Portland, Maine. Army, Navy, and Air Corps, for Govern- the form of a little newspaper. It may be Western Stamp Collector ($1 a year in ment hospitals, and to work with wounded issued weekly or twice weekly and is a U.S.) Albany, Oreg. veterans. In fact, the needs are so great rich source of information and help to National Stamp News ($1 a year in that many times the nurse is at a loss to many collectors. Stamp newspapers usually U.S.) Anderson, S.C. know which field is the most needy, which PAGE 18 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR same warnings as did those who were evening were quickly forgotten when she saved. The storm warnings were in the saw the morning paper with its glaring sky for all to see. Everyone in the city headlines, "EXCURSION TRAIN heard the siren blast. The deputies warned PLUNGES INTO FLOODED RIVER. Oaydream$ many. Neighbor told neighbor. Men in 100 PERSONS LOSE LIVES." Helen was automobiles rode along the streets shout- profoundly grateful that some miscalcu- By LAURETTA WILCOX JARNES ing at the top of their voices, advising all lation of time or other trifling incident had In childhood as I played to run for their lives. Still the scoffers kept her in the city. At all of child's delights, wasted precious time commenting on how -And plans in fancy laid, foolish the neighbors were to jump and Today any person who pays the slightest My castles reached the heights. run before there was any sign of actual heed to relations between nations knows There, queen of all I reigned; danger. They retired to their own comfort- that all is not well. Clouds of trouble seem Earth bowed at my comniand; able beds while hundreds crowded into to be everywhere. The signs, the In- Reality disdained, public buildings, moved in with anyone spired Book tells us, just preceding the I ruled a magic land. who would take them, or even slept out second coming of Christ are crowding Though it was sadly true in the open. But a few hours later when upon us from every side. Voices in all the I lacked both charm and grace, the flood struck, it was too -late to do world give warning to flee from the com- In fancy people knew much. Everyone had the same amount of ing ruin and loss. Some heed the warning. My beauty, which they praised. time; the difference was what each did Some say there always have been both bad Imagination seemed with his time. A paradise renowned, Until within my dreams A certain railroad company once upon Completest joys were found. a time advertised an excursion at reduced Alas for childish dreams rates to a large city-a week-end trip with Lived far above the earth, the return to be made Sunday evening. For actual life, it seems, In that day rail travel was the most popu- Must earn all things of worth. lar way of travel, and quite a number of How little did I know people took advantage of the offer. Some That good which long endures, expected to attend to business, some From faithful effort grows, And worth-while life ensures. wanted to shop, others wished to visit friends. But earth's unceasing toil, Sunday evening the crowd gathered at The constant need to fight, Original puzzles, acrostics, anagrams, cryptograms, word the station to board the waiting train transformations, quizzes, short lists of unusual questions- Must not my spirits foil. anything that will add interest to this feature corner-will Our God gives only right. that would carry them home. In a little be considered for publication. Subjects limited to Bible, while the "all aboard" sounded, and the denominational history, nature, and geography. All ma- terial must be typewritten. Address Editor, Youm's Is- beautiful train glided from the station, sravemit, Takoma Park 12, D.C. through the railroad yards, and onto the main line. There it picked up speed. The A Bible Enigma click, click, click of the rails made music one she can best serve. But wherever she in the trainmen's ears, and the bright By FLORIS M. SCHOONARD works it is with devotion to service and headlight burned a pathway through the I am composed of 37 letters. with the lighted lamp held high. darkness. Inside the coaches all was bright My 20, 29, 10 is perfect. "With the eyes of Christ she looks at and cheery. Happy travelers were busy her patient, with the hands of Christ she My 3, 21, 31, 19, 27 is Israel's great leader. telling one another what they had seen My 8, 32, 14, 19, 12 and milk flowed in cares for her patient, with the heart of and what they had done. the land of Canaan. Christ she loves her patient, and the No one dreamed of danger; all expected My 1, 16, 37, 19 is what Jesus invites us patient sees Christ and not her." to be home in a few hours. But far, far in to do. For helping the sick and meeting needs the distance forked lightning was jabbing My 36, 27, 31, 11, 1 was the child of of the world, these are your nurses! the inky heavens. For miles the roadbed promise. My 6, 22, 26, 24, 18 is what we are all to lay near the banks of a normally quiet tell. stream, and near the journey's end a My 27, 5, 34 is transgression of the law. storm was raging. The stream was being My 7, 33, 15, 28, 30, 19 is mentioned in They Fooled Themselves filled to overflowing with swirling waters Matthew 5. rushing down from the hills. The train (Continued from page I) My 20, 2, 25, 23 is the Guide to all. thundered on. It was the midnight hour. My 17, 5, 3, 32, 24, 35, 9 followed the subsiding waters left a sea of desolation. Only five miles from home! The lights of teachings of his faithful grandmother. A passenger train washed from the tracks the city could be seen reflected on the My 7, 33, 4, 13 is also my 15, 5, 37, 26. • lay along the right of way. Bridges were clouds, so near was the end of the journey. -Key on page 23 bent and twisted. Buildings bore high- No one knew that the railroad bridge water marks. Humble homes had been had been weakened by tons of backed-up shifted, upset, and shoved about; and pounding flood waters. The engine crossed there was mud, mud, mud everywhere. the bridge-almost! Then it was dragged times and good, and that sometime- A little girl mourning for her friend backward, and with several coaches went maybe a long time from now-conditions pointed to a cottage saying, "Annie lived crashing into the black waters. will adjust themselves, and once more in that house, and when the men came Helen was among the number who had there will be peace and plenty. No need and told the family to leave, her father made the trip down. As departing time to get excited. would not go, and this morning they were drew near, friends had accompanied her Those who are finally saved will have found dead." to the station. But the train had gone! It the same feelings of gratitude, only in a The unbelievers, no matter what their was provoking, but there was nothing else greater degree, that Helen had when she excuse, were not there to tell the tale to do but return with the friends and wait understood what an experience she had when morning came. Judgment had been for another train. Whatever resentment escaped. swift. Most of those who died had had the and inconvenience she experienced that When we see some person who has JANUARY 29, 1952 PAGE 19 TURN OVER A Thousand New Leaves IN 1952

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Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, California been fooled, it is human nature to say be lovers of their own selves, covetous, one on the West Coast will likely be in the down deep in our hearts, "It's too bad, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient latter part of August, and the one in the but I wouldn't be that silly!" But really, to parents, unthankful, unholy, without East during the early part of June. are we so very wise if we neglect our own natural affection, trucebreakers, false Another Paris Delegate Reports salvation? accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of A. J. Werner, Reporting Let us not fool ourselves. those that are good, traitors, heady, high- minded, lovers of pleasures more than At the autumn youth rally held in the lovers of God; having a form of godliness, Frazier Auditorium in Caldwell, Idaho, Such Little Things but denying the power thereof: from such Margaret Ausmus, the North Pacific turn away." Union Conference delegate to the Paris (Continued from page 6) "And there shall be signs in the sun, Youth Congress, gave her report. She was and in the moon, and in the stars; and hundred feet high. Clifton told the men so successful in describing the inspiration upon the earth distress of nations, with of the congress that the congregation felt to go ahead and raise the pulley with a perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; transported to Paris. She appealed to the piece of steel cable he had taken from the men's hearts failing them for fear, and for truck. Before the pulley was thirty feet youth of Idaho to share their faith more looking after those things which are com- than ever before, because "we know that. from the ground, the cable broke and let ing on the earth: for the powers of heaven it fall with a crash. One of the men was Jesus is coming soon, and that means the shall be shaken. And then shall they see destruction of the earth by fire." injured, and several pieces of machinery the Son of man coming in a cloud with were broken by the falling metal. power and great glory." Columbia Academy Ingathering Within a few minutes the superintend- The attention of the audience was called C. E. Davis, Reporting ent was on the scene to investigate the to the lecture of the next evening on accident. He recognized immediately that The Ingathering field day at Columbia. Daniel 2, which would answer whether Academy, Washington, resulted in an ad- Clifton had been drinking. Further inves- Russia was to conquer the world, and in tigation showed that he had carelessly dition to the Lord's treasury of $1,090.17 conclusion a ray of hope was given: in cash. Besides this, the twenty-two car- picked up a piece of worn-out cable, which "And when these things begin to come gave way under the weight of the pulley. loads of students and teachers who par- to pass, then look up, and lift up your ticipated brought back a considerable The accident cost the company hundreds heads; for your redemption draweth of dollars, and a week later Clifton was amount of produce. More than $300 came nigh." from the sale of produce and from other released from his job without a recom- (To be continued) mendation. He found work with another sources, making the total $1,412. And the company, but his small drinks were hav- blessings received by those who took ing more and more effect as time went on. active part made all feel that the day had His new job lasted only six months before Advent Youth in Action been very much worth while. he was fired again. Thus he drifted from (Continued from page 14) Check Up on Your Society job to job while continuing to drink more and more. Five years after losing his first pleted the class in tree and flower study, From the South New South Wales job Clifton was using what money his and now the group are fulfilling the re- Light Bearers comes this check list. Can wife earned to pay his liquor bill. He had quirements in star study. you answer yes to all these questions? lost all ambition to do construction work, Leaders' Training Camp 1. Does your society have a Share Your and his health was suffering from his con- Faith project? tinual drinking. Provision has been made for the con- 2. Does your society have an active Meanwhile, Louis continued to work, ducting of two Missionary Volunteer Share Your Faith band? learn, and advance in the construction Leaders' Training Camps in 1952. The 3. Were the meetings of your society business. Twenty-five years have passed, planned, prayed about, and studied for by and Louis is looking forward to retiring your executive committee? in a few more years, with a substantial 4. Are the members of your society pension. He owns a comfortable home, a reading the Character Classics or the Bible good car, and has managed to save enough Year? to send his daughter through college. 5. Did all the members report "observ- Today Clifton lives in a cheap room in a ing the Morning Watch"? small town. He has no home to call his 6. Has your society ordered the 1952 own, and his wife has refused to continue MV Reading Course books? to support him. When his health permits "Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you." 7. Will you plan, work, and pray for he does odd jobs to get enough money a better society? for a few groceries and a small drink. By F. DONALD YOST What a contrast! These two men were Loughborough League given equal opportunity to live a happy Obedience Missionary Volunteer Department, Reporting life. The thing that made the difference Which text would you quote if you were With an eye to increasing the time spent in their two lives was just a small thing, asked to prove that- by Adventist youth in reading their Bibles but what a difference it made! Yes, small 1. God is more pleased with obedience of and developing good devotional habits, things are mighty! the heart than with any act of outward piety? the Missionary Volunteer Department of (a) Heb. 11:8. (b) 1 Sam. 15:22. (c) James the General Conference is launching the 2:17. (d) Mark 11:21. Loughborough League plan for 1952. This 2. By His death on Calvary, Jesus set us A Visit to Legendary Yucatan an example of selfless obedience? (a) John plan includes the Morning Watch with 19:30. (b) Rom. 16:26. (c) 2 Sam. 6:18. (d) the new commentary, In the Morning; the (Continued from page 12) Phil. 2:8. Bible Year; and the Character Classics ished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 3. Even our thoughts are to be brought plan. J. N. Loughborough, one of the into captivity to Christ? (a) 2 Cor. 10:5. Ye have condemned and killed the just; (b) Ps. 19:14. (c) Matt. 5:5. (d) Rev. 14:5. Advent pioneers, was a deep student of and he doth not resist you." 4. There is a reward for obedience? (a) the Word of God, and so this plan has "This know also, that in the last days Isa. 1:19. (b) 1 Peter 1:22. (c) 1 John 1:10. been named for him. Furthermore, his perilous times shall come. For men shall (d) Dent. 4:9. personal Bible has been left in the posses- JANUARY 29, 1952 PAGE 21 Called Friends And gradually, in the slow, half-con- spiration, they were singing with hearty servative hearts of these disciples a new voices, "Blest be the tie that binds our By FRANK H. LANG relationship had been growing. Now it hearts in Christian love." And then as the HE new Galilean Rabbi, following the could be unveiled: "Henceforth I call you two in full field equipment vanished up Tcustom of the times, had gathered about not servants; for the servant knoweth not the trail, ten husky-throated GI's con- Him a group of disciples who would fol- what his lord doeth: but I have called you tinued their worship. The order of the low their "Master" in His itinerate minis- friends." day was to carry on! But renewed vows try and, for the privilege of benefiting Friends. What nostalgia the word car- and strengthened Christian hope and the from His teaching, perform the menial ries! What pictures color those seven fellowship of prayer bridged the gap be- role of servants. letters! To me just now the picture is that tween two on the Philippine invasion front The disciples of this "Jesus" had nat- of a troop transport in the harbor of and ten still awaiting orders in New urally assumed the usual role, but prob- Noumea, New Caledonia, way down Guinea. ably found it difficult at times to remember under. It was nothing outstanding, just a And then there was that only time I "their place" with this affable youth, who shared wonderment and the security of ever received the first letter at mail call had so recently left the carpenter's bench camaraderie between two boys a long way and opened it to find that Charlie had to shake the countryside and invite the from home. But the faint reflection of been killed in action in Italy. A friend— charge of social anarchy by bringing the harbor lights on the black, shimmering gone. Word of God out of the cobwebbed clois- water and the tang of a sea breeze across But the supreme meaning of the word ter of learned conjecture, clothing it with the gently rocking prow still color my friend was to come from our Galilean the language of the tradesmen, the peas- memory around the word friend. Teacher, who so shortly was to say to the ants, and the rough fishermen who And then there is another picture that bloodthirsty mob seeking His crucifixion, thronged His steps. Weatherbeaten men never fails to bring a bit of warmth with "If therefore ye seek me, let these go lifted their faces from the unyielding sod it: Twelve young men, arms on each their way," and still He remained His to contemplate the carefree life of the birds other's shoulders, stood under a big jungle disciples' friend though they did! of heaven, and went back to their work tree growing out of the bank of one of the "For scarcely for a righteous man will knowing that they were children of God, many small streams that intersect the one die. . . . But God commendeth his not merely pawns for the oppressor's humid New Guinea coastal land. With love toward us, in that, while we were game. moisture in their eyes that was not per- yet sinners, Christ died for us."

sion of the MV Department. On one of its We are to be Christians because Christ flyleaves is this note in his own handwrit- offers us significance now and in eternity. ing: "I have this day completed reading Many people are greatly troubled because the Bible for the seventieth time." they fear that their life has no meaning. A man can endure almost anything except New South Wales Youth Camp this feeling of frustration. Ellen E. Parmenter, Reporting Christianity is essential in life to help Among the North New South Wales us face the moral conflict. The power for young people who attended this season's victory against wrong must come from youth camp were four non-Adventist girls, outside ourselves. We are helpless without Senior Youth Lesson who, before the camping period had the help of Jesus. Man cannot win the closed, were taking part in the public moral battles in his own strength; the vic- VI—The Christian's Hope prayer services. This is indicative of the tory comes only through the Lord. "I can (February 9) do all things through Christ which inspiration received by the entire group. LESSON SCRIPTURE: I Peter I :1-9. With the daily program enriched by the strengtheneth me." MEMORY VERSE: I Peter I :3. We should be Christians because we LESSON HELPS : Acts of the Apostles, pp. contributions of local and union MV lead- 593-602 LMount of Blessing, pp. 65-72; Proph- ers, it is no wonder that these Australian need comradeship. All men are lonely ets and Kings, pp. 730-732. until they find fellowship with God. It young people recall fondly the hours spent Daily Study Assignment at this camp and look forward eagerly to is wonderful to know that we have a 1. Survey the entire lesson. next year's outing. friend in Jesus and that He is the kind of 2. Ques. 1-5, and notes. comrade that men need. He is kind to 3. Ques. 6-8, and notes. both the sinner and the saint. 4. Ques. 9-11, and note; read Acts of the Apostles, pp. 593-602. Every man loves Christian adventure, 5. Ques. 12-14, and notes ; read Prophets and Motives for True Christian and to satisfy this longing, Christ offers Kings, pp. 730-732. 6. Read Mount of Blessing, pp. 65-72; begin Living the greatest spiritual quest. The early reviewing lesson. 7. Finish reviewing the lesson. (Continued from page 10) Christians were forward-looking pioneers. They were men and women of action. If How We Are Chosen living is the reward that Christ offers not you want adventure, become a disciple of 1. In introducing his letter what does Peter call only in this life but also in the life to come. Jesus Christ. It is indeed thrilling to be a himself? 1 Peter 1:1, first part. The motive of reward is clearly held out NOTE.—An apostle means literally "one sent Christian! forth," an ambassador. Peter was sent forth by to men to induce them to choose the right Our basic need is met by Christ. If we Jesus. He was Christ's ambassador. way. accept Him, we will find life. If we respect 2. To whom did Peter address the epistle? Verse As there is the reward for the Christian, Him, we free ourselves. Hear the call of 1, second part. NoTE.—The letter is addressed to the Chris- so there is the sure and certain reward for God: "Come now, and let us reason tian Jews scattered everywhere over Asia the sinner. The sinner loses his own self- together, saith the Lord: though your sins Minor, but in addressing them as "strangers" it would seem that he wanted to remind Chris- respect and the respect of others. If he is be as scarlet, they shall be as white as tians everywhere that no matter where they not virtuous, he reaps his pay in a gnawing snow; though they be red like crimson, might be in this life they are only pilgrims conscience; if he is not a Christian, he they shall be as wool. If ye be willing journeying to their permanent home in heaven. 3. What name does Peter use to indicate the pays at last in disgust and weariness of and obedient, ye shall eat the good of honored position of these Christians? Verse 2, spirit. His life will stand as an empty shell. the land." first part.

PAGE 22 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR 4. By what means are we elected or chosen? rolling stone. At one time he would be very Assignment 5 Verse 2, second part. enthusiastic in his love for the Master and in NOTE.-When we choose what God chooses, his desire to serve Him. The next day he The Trial of Our Faith and as long as we continue so to choose, our might become very much discouraged and be 9. However, while the believers were waiting election is sure. That this election is not un- tempted to return to his fishing. But when for that inheritance, Peter continues, even though, conditional but dependent upon man's choice, is Jesus gave him the definite commission to the followers are cheered by the "lively hope" of clearly shown by the fact that it is through feed His lambs and to feed His sheep, Peter the heavenly inheritance, there was something sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience ; that in love and humility accepted the apostleship, that caused them to feel sorrow of heart. What is, only those who yield to the convicting, and he began to grow in grace and became was it? Verse 6. sanctifying power of God's Spirit, even to a strong in his service for the kingdom of Christ. 10. How should we as followers of Christ re- life of obedience to God, are elect, according to Gradually the rolling stone became more and gard the trials that come to us? Verse 7. the foreknowledge of God. more like the Rock, until the persecuted Chris- NOTE.-When gold is taken from the mines it tians of the early church looked to him for 5. In the closing words of the salutation of his is mixed with the dross, which is valueless. In letter what blessings does Peter wish for these counsel and guidance in their difficulties. He order to extract the pure gold, the refiners have Hebrew Christians? Verse 2, last part. knew what it was to go through trials and to to put the dross and the gold in a hot furnace. give in to weaknesses, but he knew too that The gold comes out shining and pure, but the The Saints' Inheritance Jesus Christ could give power to the weakest dross is burned away. So God allows us to pass to make them strong, and so he spent his life through fires of affliction that the dross in our 6. To whom does Peter express gratitude and encouraging those whose faith was in danger praise, and for what? Verse 3, first part. characters may be burned away and the gold of growing dim, upholding those who stumbled left to shine and glorify our Father. "God 7. What was it that made possible this "lively under the heavy weight of trials. permits the fires of affliction to consume the hope"? Verse 3, last part. dross, to separate the worthless from the valu- NOTE.-"It is the Gospel alone that gives the Assignment 1 able, that the pure metal may shine forth. He well-grounded hope of eternal life ; and the passes us from one fire to another, testing our ground on which this hope rests is the resurrec- Read the lesson text and the Guiding Thought. true worth."-Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 85. tion of Christ himself. The certainty of our Lord's resurrection is the great seal of the Assignment 2 Assignment 6 Gospel."-Clarke's Commentary, vol. 6. p. 844. The Letter Writer and the Letter Receivers 8. What is the "lively hope" that means so Where Faith Leads Us much to Christians? 1 Peter 1:4; John 14:1-3; 1. Nowadays when we write a letter we start 11. How is the joy of the disciple in his Lord' Titus 2:13. off with our address, the date, and then the name of the person to whom we write. Then when we described? Verse 8. NOTE.-"Called an inheritance because it have finished all we have to write we sign our 12. What is the end or purpose of our faith? belongs to the children of God. Eternal life can- name. Take a look at this first letter of Peter's. Verse 9. not be a gift to any but these; for, even in Does he sign his name at the end? Can you find -"There are homes for the pilgrims of heaven, the lot is dealt out according to law; it in the beginning? What title or profession does NOTE. Peter put after his name? 1 Peter 1:1, first part. earth. There are robes for the righteous, with if children, then heirs ; if not children, then not crowns of glory and palms of victory. All that heirs."-I bid. 2. To whom did Peter originally send this letter? Verse 1. has perplexed us in the providences of God The Trial of Faith will in the world to come be made plain. The NOTE.-Peter may not have been aware of things hard to be understood will then find ex- 9. How are those kept for whom this inher- it, but when God told him to write this letter itance is reserved? 1 Peter 1:5. planation. The mysteries of grace will unfold He intended it to go far beyond Pontius and before us."-Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 286. NOTE.-Faith is based upon God's word. God Galatia, Cappadocia and Asia and Bithynia. says it; faith says it is so, and so it is. I-lope is God, who inspired this letter (for "all scripture Assignment 7 based upon God's promise. We are begotten is given by inspiration of God"), meant it for again unto that hope by the word of the gospel ; all Christians of all churches and countries of On a piece of paper write the first letters of but that word of the gospel is the living Word, all ages. the following words in the lesson texts: our Lord Jesus Christ, who demonstrated His 3. In the addressing of this letter Peter uses 1. The name of the first place mentioned in power over sin and death by His resurrection. two significant words-one a noun, the other an verse I. This hope in Christ is therefore "a living hope," adjective-that describe the people to whom he 2. The first word in verse 2, describing those ever growing brighter, bigger, stronger, as we writes, and that apply to all Christians. Find the to whom the epistle is feed upon the living Word. first one in verse 1. It means "one who does not 3. What are sent to written.try our faith? Verse 6. belong to a place." Find the other at the begin- of our faith. 10. What does faith bring to the heart of the ning of verse 2. It means "chosen." 4. Salvation is the believer? Verse 6, first part. Verse o. NOTE.-These two words given us a picture 5. First word in verse 9. 11. Even though we do rejoice, what may we of the Christian. He is a stranger to the world, be called upon to endure? Verse 6, last part; verse 7, first part. because his ways of thinking and living are so different. But he is favored and chosen by God 12. What three qualities will this test develop because he has chosen to serve Him and to in the life of every believer? When will this be inherit the greater riches of the kingdom to KEY TO "A BIBLE ENIGMA" manifest? Verse 7, last part. come. NOTE.-Every day brings its trials of faith ; "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in every temptation puts faith to the test; but to Assignment 3 him." Ps. 37:5. him who has genuine faith there is never any The Greeting more danger of faith's failing under one test 4. Just as we put a wish in our letters, such as, than under another. It matters not how great "I hope you are all well," or "I hope you have the test ; power sufficient for every need awaits a nice vacation," so this letter contains a wish. faith. Find it in the last part of verse 2. 13. How does Peter account for the unspeakable 5. What alone gives us peace? John 14:27. .7‘04a.44'4. joy of these Christians in Asia Minor? Verse 8. NOTE.-"When we receive Christ as an abid- NOTE.-Faith begets love by continually prov- ing guest in the soul, the peace of God, which ing God to be what He is. The Christian there- passeth all understanding, will keep our hearts fore knows Christ, though having never seen and minds through Christ Jesus. The Saviour's Him. Faith has brought Him into the heart, put life on earth, though lived in the midst of con- Issued by Him into the life, and proved Him to be love Review and Herald Publishing Association flict, was a life of peace. . . . It is the love of Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. under all circumstances ; and the soul loves self that destroys our peace. While self is all Him with an ever-growing love. alive, we stand ready continually to guard it LORA E. CLEMENT EDITOR 14. What is the end of faith? Verse 9. from mortification and insult ; but when we are dead, and our life is hid with Christ in God, FREDERICK LEE . ASSOCIATE EDITOR we shall not take neglects or slights to heart. We shall be deaf to reproach, and blind to scorn CONSULTING EDITORS Junior Lesson and insult."-Mount of Blessing, p. 31. This is E. W. DUNBAR K. J. REYNOLDS L. L. MOFFITT the peace that Peter learned after many con- VI-Keeping Our Hope and Faith flicts to receive, and this peace he wanted the R. J. CHRISTIAN • • CIRCULATION MANAGER' sheep of the flock to experience. Shining This paper dots not pay for unsolicited material. Con- Assignment 4 tributions, both prose and poetry, are always welcomed, (February 9) and receive every consideration; hut we do not return Thanks to God manuscript for which return postage is not supplied. LESSON TEXT : I Peter r :1-9. MEMORY VERSE: "Blessed be the God and 6. For what does Peter give blessing and SUBSCRIPTION RATES Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which accord- thanks? Verse 3. Yearly subscription, $4.75; six months, $2.50; in clubs ing to his abundant mercy bath begotten us NOTE.-Here again we find how truly Peter's of three or more, one year, each, $3.75; six months, $2.00. again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of thinking had been reversed. During his lifetime Foreign countries where extra postage is required: Jesus Christ from the dead." I Peter i :3. he ever fought the idea of Christ's death. He Yearly subscription, $5.25; six months, $2.75; in clubs of wanted Christ to win a victory on earth over three or more, one year, each, $4.25; six months, $2.25. Guiding Thought the occupying nation. But now we see this same disciple thanking God for Christ's death and Monthly color edition, available overseas only, one year, The name "Peter" means a rolling stone, resurrection. $1.50. the kind of stone that a boy might kick ARE YOU MOVING? around with his foot. In the opening words of 7. How does the apostle go on to explain what the "lively hope" is? Verse 4, first part. You should notify us in advance of any change of ad- his first letter, Peter, the rolling stone, calls dress, as the post office will not forward your papers to you- himself the apostle of Jesus Christ, the Rock. In 8. Who are eligible for that inheritance? Verse even though you leave a forwarding address. Your com- Peter's early experience he was indeed like a 4 (last part), verse 5. pliance in this matter will save delay and expense. JANUARY 29, 1952 PAGE 23- • AN Associated Press dispatch from Tucson, • THERE are 307,000 industrial steel plants Arizona, says that a machine is going to read in the United States. the Bible, with the Reverend John W. Ellison • BELGIUM'S largest nursery has sold 38 vari- • THE U.S. National Geographic Society of that city looking over its shoulder. The minister has received a grant of $3,250 from eties of azaleas, worth $550, to be planted estimates that there are now between 30 and for beauty spots in Pietermaritzburg, South 60 million refugees in the world. the American Philosophical Society to do a textual study of the Gospel of Saint Luke Africa. • NEXT time someone says to you, "I'll be on Harvard University's Mark IV Computer. • NEW glass-fiber sleds weighing only 36 there in just a shake," chances are he will It is believed that this will be the first time pounds are replacing the 400-pound wooden be a little late. According to engineers of the the complex mechanical brain has been ap- sleds used in evacuating wounded over ice Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, a "shake" plied to a problem in the humanities. Mr. and snow. The United States Army is using equals one one-hundredth of a millionth of Ellison says that the machine will "read" 100 these in its winter training program. a second. ancient manuscripts of the Bible, two at a time, and reveal every difference between • SPECIAL features of Seventh-day Adventist } GENERAL ELECTRIC'S lamp department says them. It will show where extra words have camp meetings held in North America during that aluminum is now being used in the bases been added, others deleted, different spelling the summer of 1951 received favorable pub- of incandescent electric light bulbs instead of used, and word order inverted. The com- licity in the press. By actual count, newspapers brass, thus saving critical copper for defense puter will do its part of the job in less than carrying camp meeting stories had a com- purposes. In the future they are prepared to two weeks. bined circulation of 24 million copies. use either metal, depending upon which may be in least critical supply. • WITH the ultimate aim of making the • IN its 110-year history, the New York world's arid regions more productive, the Philharmonic-Symphony has played 5,000 • DARTMOUTH COLLEGE has acquired the University of California at Berkeley has an- concerts. Only twice has this oldest orchestra Vihjalmur Stefansson collection—one of the nounced the establishment of the M. Theo- in the United States had to cancel or post- world's most complete arctic libraries. Book- dore Kearney Foundation of Soil and Science pone a performance: when Abraham Lincoln men say that it is difficult to appraise the in its College of Agriculture. The foundation was assassinated and when Franklin Roose- 35,000 books, 18,000 pamphlets, and many will be devoted to the advancement of knowl- velt died. rare manuscripts and maps collected over 40 edge of soil science, including soil-water-plant years by Dr. Stefansson, noted explorer and relations, through basic physical, chemical, • Science News Letter says that a record star arctic authority. The most he paid for a single biological, and hydrological research, with eclipse lasting 17 years is now in progress volume was $400, but one book that he particular reference to arid - and semiarid in the Southern skies. One star of a double- bought for $30 is now cataloged at $2,000. farming regions. One third of the total land star team started passing between us and its area of the world is arid or semiarid. Less is companion about 12 years ago. The eclipse • DOROTHY Dix is well known to millions known about the soils of these regions than will not end and the double star return to in the United States for her advice to the about those in the more humid areas. maximum brightness for another five or six lovelorn. Millions wrote to her during the years. This is the longest eclipse on record, if half century she served the public in her • WHEN New York State tax agents recently calculations are correct. syndicated column appearing in many news- seized a truck carrying 56,500 packages of papers. In real life she was Mrs. Elizabeth cigarettes toward Canada, where legal ciga- • FOR about 80 years, during which Uncle Meriwether Gilmer. She was born in Tennes- rettes cost 50 cents a package, the State De- Sam has experienced a 500-fold increase in see in 1861, and died in New Orleans, Louisi- partment of Taxation and Finance described the cost of government, the popular, green- ana, December 16, 1951. In her personal life the cargo, valued at more than $9,000, as the stamped post card has gone to all parts of the Miss Dix set an example of devotion that largest single contraband cigarette haul in United States, and even to U.S. servicemen might well have shamed correspondents who the annals of that department. The goods overseas, for one penny. On January 1, 1952, sought her sympathy for minor difficulties. should have carried $1,695 in tax stamps. the price was boosted to two cents. One reason Two years after her marriage her husband is said to be that big business has been ex- suffered an illness from which he never re- • UNITED STATES ARMY "personnel costs" ploiting the penny postal for advertising pur- covered. For the 35 years until his death she during the fiscal year 1952 are estimated to poses. Only about 10 per cent of the 4 billion nursed and supported him. be more than $4 billion for about 1.5 million cards sold yearly at post offices are now used men. To pay, feed, clothe, and transport one for personal correspondence. • SEATTLE, Washington, is about to turn its man, taxpayers will have to part with $2,856, weather-predicting chore back to the Indians. according to Pathfinder. • HEREAFTER your telephone bill will come It has been discovered that they are experts to you practically untouched by human hand at it. The project started back in 1949, in the • THE population of the State of California as the result of complicated automatic and Boeing Airplane Plant in Seattle, when the increased more than 3.5 million during the electronic accounting devices recently pat- editor of the plant paper asked five Indian past decade, according to 1950 census figures, ented. One patent is for a transcribing and employees what kind of winter they thought and led the Union in that respect. Oklahoma summarizing system for gathering together it would be. Everyone, including the Indians, had the greatest loss-103,000. all the items on a subscriber's bill and sum- thought it was a good joke. But each of the marizing them. Another is for equipment that five agreed that it would be a hard winter. • THE first toy company to have its stock will automatically figure out the amount of It was. The next year five other Indian em- listed on the New York Stock Exchange is tax on your phone bill as well as the charge. ployees were consulted. They predicted ac- the 51-year-old Lionel Corporation, manufac- Information is fed into the equipment from curately that there would be a mild winter. turers of model electric trains. a keyboard, and the equipment does the rest. All predictions were based on such things as • To keep up America's supply of timber, The third patent is for an automatic account- the flight of white owls, the aches in the over 1,000,000 acres of trees have been planted ing machine that collects the data on bills bones of a tribal oldster, and conditions in the during the past five years. from various and scattered sources in the woods. This year five Indian employees are records, calculates the charges to be made, and agreed again. They say it will be a fairly hard • A GOOD lead pencil will draw a line more translates the records into the form required winter. than 35 miles long. for printing.