1852 Centennial 1952 '74 *meek, INSTRUCTOR A 650WER Went Forth to SOW By MRS. WALTER DOHERTY WO young gospel workers and their It was in the early part of the twentieth and that night, when the boys were home Twives were traveling to their new dis- century. The faithful colporteur had left from their logging and the mother was trict of labor. With them in the car sat wife and family many days behind and ready to listen, the sower produced his the conference president. The midsummer gone forth to sow the precious seeds of the book, The Great Controversy Between sun beat down cruelly on the red dusty truth that is so dear to him. Every day he Christ and Satan. The young woman be- plains, and swirls of choking dust en- walked many weary miles, finding here came intensely interested. To the disgust veloped the car. Grasshoppers committed and there, beside the ocean or on the lake of her mother and four brothers she suicide on the windshield, and others flew shore, homes where the message of a ordered the book and began to read. She in through the windows to crawl on the soon-coming Savioiir that he carries is heard God's voice and decided to obey occupants of the car. Desert and heat received. His commands. Her family disowned her and unpromising countryside! Not alto- One evening just at dusk he found his after much ridicule and effort to persuade gether an inviting field of labor. way to a humble cottage door, and as he her to give up her faith. Finally she left A small white farmhouse came into knocked he was refreshed by the breezes home. view, and the president said, "That looks that floated past him from the nearby lake. And now the years have passed, and it to me like a Seventh-day Adventist farm- A girl of eighteen years answered his is 1952. Today she is the mother of eight house. It cannot be, however, for there knock. He was invited to come in and rest, —Please turn to page 17 are no Adventists in this district. But I believe that family will be the first to accept the message you are bringing." Weeks passed. The white farm- house was visited, and the story has a happy ending. The farmer and his wife had for years wanted to keep the seventh-day Sabbath, but knowing no one who did, they were not quite sure who was right—they or the multitude. And so they had been waiting, waiting, waiting! waiting for the gospel workers to come and sow their seed. Today they are earnest Christians and charter members of a small country church they are helping to build. Every Book or Magazine Left in a Home Is a Seed Sown for the Kingdom of Christ. Someday, in the New Jerusalem, We Shall See the Results VOL. 100, NO. 29 JULY 15, 1952 L TELLS the story, and Al was the covered with mud and a sight to behold! school. She would be a senior this year. A twelve-year-old boy who went to spend His new wide-brimmed hat was gone, and But she knew she could not go back and the summer with Uncle Dick and Aunt his new cowboy boots—well, they too had continue to do the things that had become May—well, it was quite a few vacations parted company with him as he ran. As a part of her program, the questionable ago, but he still remembers the lesson a he scraped the mud off his face and out things she really had come to enjoy. So calf taught him. In fact, he declares that of his hair and wondered what grand- she began to talk of finishing her academy he will remember it as long as he lives. mother would say at the sight of such an course at the local high school, working He had great fun watching the calves apparition at her kitchen door, his rescuer afternoons in the hospital, and staying at as they pushed and crowded to get their leaned on his scythe, and observed after home this year. milk, and particularly he enjoyed watching he had laughed heartily, "Just remember, Her family had noticed a change in her, the little fellows that were just learning boy, it never pays to tie up to anything but had not realized the extent of the to drink from a bucket, and made rather that can injure you." tragedy, and were distressed at her shift awkward work of it. That was the lesson. The calf was the of interest. Indeed, she simply must re- One day grandfather asked him to lead teacher. And Al still remembers! It never turn to the academy and complete her one of the calves down the road to a —there are no exceptions—pays to tie up course and graduate with her class, insisted certain pasture lot, and so with one end to anything that can injure you in body, her parents. With her savings from her of a rope tied securely around the neck of mind, character, reputation—not anything! summer earnings it could be done without the calf, the boy took hold of the other too much of a strain on the family budget. end and started off. But he had not gone Her savings? She had saved nothing! far when he decided that it would look Mary Beth, home from academy for the Finally the whole sordid story had to be much more dignified for him to be driving summer, found for herself a job as desk told. the calf than leading the calf, so he turned clerk in the home town hospital. The girls There was heartbreak, there were tears, back to the barn and helped himself to with whom she chose to associate did many there was pleading, and there were earnest grandfather's whip—the one that had a things that her conscience, instincts, and prayers. Her loved ones just could not ac- long lash and went s-w-i-s-h when it was training told her were wrong. Smoking, cept her plan, it seemed. This cherished cracked just right. In order to have his for instance! But it did seem unsocial not elder daughter had wanted to teach church hands free he tied the end of the rope to join them as they strolled in the nearby school ever since she was a wee little girl around his waist, and fastened it with a park at lunchtime, each with her cigarette. and instructed her dolls as they sat in a tight knot. She was as one set apart and felt very row on the porch step. The best in Chris- At the first snap of the whip the calf much all alone. tian training was what they wanted her turned his head and gave Al a long, dis- "A cigarette won't hurt you. Come on, to have before she went out into the world approving look. But Al paid no attention and try one. You don't need to make a to take up the work upon which her heart —not the least! Again the whip snapped habit of smoking—but you'll enjoy the had been set—until recently. Now she and the lash struck the calf a sharp, sting- kick one will give you in the middle of did not have anything special in mind to ing blow. And with that blow the lesson the day." Thus urged one of the telephone do after finishing high school, except per- began. The calf gave as loud a bellow as operators. haps to keep on working at the hospital. he could, his hind legs rose in the air, Finally Mary Beth decided she would And the most pitiful part of it was that and down the road he started at top speed. try it just once. She was deathly sick after she did not want to stop smoking, or the Al, tied to the calf as he was, could do the trial, but the girls only made fun of other questionable things she was doing. nothing else but try to keep up. But he her, and that aroused her determination Her ideals were going down, down, down! soon found out that a boy with two short to show them that she could "take it." In Mary Beth finally had her way. She legs has to run very fast to keep up with time she mastered the art. But she found never came back to Christ. She had tied a calf, which has four. As they ran through to her dismay that she had tied herself herself to something that had dragged the main street of the village Al was doing up to something that was taking her where her along a road she never dreamed she well, but the calf was doing better, and she did not wish to go—and she was help- would travel and one that she really did as some men and boys gathered in front less to free herself. She had the cigarette not want to travel—but she could not free of the post office watched, one of Al's pals habit, and, alas, it had her! herself. She took her own life in a cheap called out, "Hey, Al, where're you goin'?" Along with that she joined her per- rooming house—where a cigarette had led And almost out of breath Al answered, suasive friends in amusements that were her! "Better ask the calf.