Maryane Myers pictures in miniature the misery that comes with disaster: After Seven Years—Rain JULY 23, 1957 Bible Lesson for August 3 it ° WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS Are You a Berean? THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR is read by many who COVER We are indebted to the Dallas do not necessarily accept the teachings and practices of its Morning News for the picture of a boy on Seventh-day Adventist publishers. It is to such readers that our our cover. He is smiling through a not-so- question is addressed—Are you a Berean? happy situation for many people. For a Tenor There is nothing mysterious about either the query or the of Our Times article turn to Maryane Myers' center-spread report, "After Seven Years— name it employs. Reference is made to the Bereans in the Scrip- Rain." A single article can give only a keyhole ture lesson beginning on page 17. Of them it was written: "These view of the disaster that has followed what were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Weekly Reader of January 7-11, 1957, the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures credited scientists as saying was the worst daily, whether those things were so" (Acts 17:11). drought "in 700 years." Why were the residents of Berea judged more noble than the citizens of Thessalonica? Was it an accident of birth? or 23 Tenor of our times articles are item 23 inheritance? or public office? or renown in sports? or victories on our topic-frequency chart. We listed the in war? or contributions to science or art or industry? Not accord- first six items in this column June 4. Here ing to the record. Not family name, not material possession, are the others: 7. Education. 8. Fact-secular— biography of "things," geography, history, re- not accomplishment in any line, but the open mind had brought search-interview. 9. Fact-SDA—growth, his- them this distinction. tory, institutions. 10. Family life, friends, Riding the bus one Friday, homeward bound after a week of home. 11. Inspirational, instructional, devo- study in Los Angeles, I engaged in conversation with another tional. 12. Junior. 13. Literature evangelist. passenger. The woman apparently had little interest in searching 14. Missionary Volunteer—messages, objec- the Scriptures to find "whether those things were so" about which tives, plans from officers. 15. Missions—biog- we talked. I spoke of course of those prophecies pointing forward raphy, promotion offerings, reports, etc. 16. to Jesus' return, of conditions that would exist before that event. Nature. 17. Personality traits, social behavior. I really doubt that she kept the address card I left with her 18. Poetry. 19. Providence—guidance, prayer answers, etc. 20. Service and SYF ideas and after our conversation closed. reports, influence, witness. 21. Servicemen and One thing I had mentioned was the prediction that someday war service. 22. Standards of religious be- in America we would doubtless have a union of church and state. havior. 23. Tenor of our times—Matt. 24:4-8, Now, nearly a decade later, I could show her that very prediction 24-26—natural and man-related disasters. 24. from the January 7, 1957, issue of Christianity Today. But it had Travel—adventure, events, and places to visit. been unnecessary for me to wait until some writer in a religious 25. Vocations. 26. Waymarks—Matt. 24:29— magazine studied the forces already at work to bring about such anniversaries of earthquakes, inventions, etc. a strange repudiation of our constitutional division between the two. OMISSIONS If you have read these two Become a Berean1 Sweep your heart of prejudice. Renew your installments from our check chart and think we've omitted some area that should be in- acquaintance daily with God's Word. And when you find "those cluded in a teen-and-twenty magazine, let us things were so," follow them with all your heart. know, will you? MISSILES July 30 brings an entirely differ- ent kind of tenor of our times article. In picture and report it reviews what has been happening in just one area of the military weapons front. A new dimension and a new vocabulary have been coined in fulfillment of Joel 3:10. Watch for "Missiles." THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR is a nonfiction weekly designed to meet the spiritual, social, AFRICA Ferne Wilson Ellingsworth of the physical, and mental interests of Christian youth in their teens and twenties. It adheres to the fundamental concepts of Sacred Scripture. These concepts it holds essential in man's true Suji Mission in Tanganyika, East Africa, relationship to his heavenly Father, to his Saviour, Jesus Christ, and to his fellow men. wrote some while back: "THE YOUTH'S IN- Beginning with volume one, number one, in August of 1852, this paragraph appeared STRUCTOR and Review have been welcome vis- under the name of publisher James White: "Its object is, to teach the young the command- itors in our home ever since I can remember. ments of God and the faith of Jesus, and thereby help them to a correct understanding of Both my parents and my husband's parents the Holy Scriptures." were missionaries in various parts of Africa Whether 1852 or 1957, our objectives continue to be the same. for many years. We and our brothers and sis- ters grew up on missions, and now our chil- dren are doing the same." THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Vol. 105, No. 30 July 23, 1957 Editor WALTER T. CRANDALL Published by the Seventh-day Adventists. 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CHRISTIAN The post office will not forward second-class matter even though you leave a forwarding address. Send both the old Editorial Secretary ALICE MAE SLICK and the new address to THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR before you more. 2 THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR In this extraordinary story some new values come out of old definitions. You'll be glad to meet DAVID DEE God's Millionaire By OLIVINE NADEA U BOHNER ment from America, and that day he had sold the last of it. The profit had been eight times the cost. "This business of becoming a millionaire " he chuck- led. "There's nothing to it." That was his last chuckle for a long time. As he approached his car, shadows moved out of the darkness and three masked men confronted him. They said not a word. The hard gleam of their guns spoke for them. Before he could move or call out he found himself lying blindfolded and tied in the back of his own car and being driven away. For what seemed hours the car twisted and turned through Manila's side streets. The men said nothing. Finally he felt the car jolting over rough ground. It stopped with a jerk. He was dragged from the car and pushed through a door. There he was untied. His ears strained for some hint of sound, but all was still. They took the blindfold off his eyes, but so thick was the darkness that he could see little more than before. He could smell dank earth and mold, and decided P1 1)10. COURTESY OF THE All /MR they must be in a deserted house. David Dee, shown here with his family, was a Manila businessman who had aimed to become a Presently one of the men lit a stump millionaire as soon as possible after World War II—until a hair-raising adventure changed his mind. of candle, and the shadowy reaches of a bare room materialized. Another man produced pencil and paper and shoved FTER the smoke had cleared God's guidance has been marked in them toward him. "Tell your wife you're and the ashes had cooled, a man the life of David Dee. It might be said all right," he snapped. "All we want is came to the burned warehouse. of him, as of Joseph, that the Lord one hundred thousand pesos. Tell her The watchman told him he was makes all that he does to prosper. That that, too." crazy. is, all except one time back in 1946. Until that moment he had been too "Why, don't you know? This was Manila was just beginning to recover confused to reason, but now he saw it Hong Kong's worst fire. It burned seven from the ravages of war, and chaos plainly. Kidnapers, of course. One hun- days. You must have heard the explo- reigned. Everybody wanted everything, dred thousand pesos—that was more than sions. Terrific! There's nothing now but and the stores were empty. David Dee he was worth. ashes, millions of dollars in ashes." determined to become a millionaire.