The YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR Vol. LXVIII March 2, 1920 No. 9 1111111191111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 THE RETURN OF THE " MAYFLOWER " Unto the faith they bought so dear, Find me the men on earth who care We pay each day less reverent heed; Enough for faith or creed today And boast, perhaps, that we outgrow To seek a barren wilderness The narrowness which marked their creed. For simple liberty to pray. Men who for simple sake of God All title, riches, would refuse; And in their stead, disgrace and shame And bitter poverty would choose. — Helen Hunt Jackson. 111111111111111111111111111111111M1111111111111111111111111111i11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 New York City is recognized as the greatest fire hazard From Here and There in the world; and the city, knowing its danger, has pro- vided for its protection the largest fire department in the world, larger than the combined fire departments of According to Secretary Lane, 143,000 school-teachers the five cities next in size to New York. It has on duty, have abandoned their calling in the last year to go into day and night, 300 engine companies comprising about better paid work. 4,000 firemen; 150 hook-and-ladder companies; five Secretary Houston has been transferred by President boats in the rivers, water towers and high-pressure sys- Wilson from the Department of Agriculture to the Treas- tems that will send a stream with the force of a gigantic ury, to succeed Mr. Carter Glass who has entered the battering ram. Senate. Mr. Frank Munsey, once owner of the Washington " The Kingdom of God " Times, Washington, D. C., has bought the New York Herald, the Evening Telegram, and the Paris edition of the THE foregoing title is that of a book by Elder New York Herald, at a cost of nearly $3,500,000. R. C. Porter, that has come from the press since the author's death. This book gives a comprehensive The school at Madison, Tennessee, has determined to view of the " origin of the kingdom of God through cut the high cost of living by teaching the pupils not only the marvelous work of creation, the inception of evil, how to make their clothes from purchased cloth, but the tragic invasion by which Satan and his angels how to weave raw material into cloth; and to prepare sought to overthrow the kingdom, and the infinite love leather and convert it into shoes. of God in seeking to save rebellious subjects while Australia is paying her 375,000 soldiers, sailors, restoring his kingdom from invasion. nurses, and war workers while they are awaiting em- " It presents the law of love as the foundation of ployment. In some cases the government has advanced God's government, and Satan's attempt to pervert it money to aid them in business enterprises, and to each that he might lead souls through disloyalty into the blinded man is given a home valued at $3,500. broad way of sin and death. The recent steel strike is reckoned to have cost in " It portrays Christ's life and death for man — the workmen's wages in the Pittsburgh district alone $48,- climax of God's love — as man's involuntary substi- 000,000, and the additional losses in fifteen districts out- tute, that the death penalty might be met, the demand side of that city are calculated at $39,000,000. The strike of justice satisfied, eternal life given to man, and epidemic which is sweeping the country is surely proving sin and death banished from the universe forever. costly in money as well as inconvenience. " It traces man from his creation to his fall, thence Chicago school teachers have had a raise in salary through the conflict of the ages. It concludes with from $400 to $500 each; but there is still opportunity the triumph of Christ and his followers, the utter for further adjustment, since one teacher says that two destruction of Satan and all his agencies, the kingdom of her feeble-minded pupils, seventeen years of age, have of God restored from invasion, and its peace and gone to work at a higher salary than her own. In some unity eternally assured. of the Pittsburgh schools the washerwomen and assist- " In offering to the public a work touching upon so ant janitors receive higher wages than the teachers in many phases of the kingdom of God, the writer's the same building. purpose was to avoid controversy, to present candidly The verdict in the trial of the leaders of the recent and faithfully the great truths relating to this all- general strike at Winnipeg is likely to have an impor- important theme as revealed in the word and works tant effect on the future of organized labor in Canada. of God, associated with such scientific and historical In substance the verdict classifies as sedition all general data as limited space would admit." strikes and sympathetic strikes, direct action, " one big This book presents the subjects treated in an un- union," seeking to control industry, advocating a change usually effective, interesting, and comprehensive way. in the form of government, or doing anything to endan- It is well worth giving a wide circulation, and ger the " comfort " of the public. The leaders of the will appeal to both non-Christians and unbelievers in strike were sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. the last gospel message. The book may be ordered When General Allenby, in the late war, came near the from Mrs. Hattie E. Porter, 63 Oaklawn, Battle Creek. city of Jerusalem, he determined not to damage the holy Michigan. The price is $1.50. place. He therefore telegraphed to the government for instruction, and was told to do what he thought best. Not satisfied, he telegraphed to King George, who ad- The Youth's Instructor vised him to make it a matter of prayer. As a conse- quence, General Allenby assembled his staff and troops, Issued every Tuesday by the and prayer was offered for guidance under the special REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSN.. circumstances. Before the meeting separated, an orderly TAKOMA PARK STATION, WASHINGTON. D. C. arrived with a telephone communication for the general to the effect that the enemy had surrendered the city. FANNIE DICKERSON CHASE Editor LORA E. CLEMENT Associate Editor A twenty-million-dollar industrial canal, now nearly VoL. LXVIII MARCH 2, 1920 No. completed, is to connect New Orleans, Louisiana, with the Gulf of Mexico through Lake Ponchartrain, making unnecessary the hundred-mile trip down the Mississippi Subscription Rates Yearly subscription - - - - $1.25 and through the Eads jetties. In some ways the diffi- Six months 1.00 culties were greater than those encountered in the build- Club Rates ing of the Panama Canal. The quicksands were a special Each menace. One hundred thousand cubic yards of dirt have In clubs of five or more copies, one year Six months - - - - ------- .80 been excavated from the cut, which goes sixty-five feet below the surface of the ground. The length of the Entered as second-class matter, August 14, 1903, at the post canal is six miles, and it would take ten thousand flat office at Washington, D. C., under the Act of Congress of March, 3, 1879. cars to carry the dirt excavated — a train one hundred Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for miles long. in Sec. 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized on June 22, 1918. The Youth's Instructor VoL. LXVIII TAKOMA PARK, WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 2, 1920 No. 9 The Brook of the Willows S. J. TOWNSEND To my heart come fond memories streaming, I am weary of life's peceadillos,— Of my childhood so joyous and free; Of a world that proves not what it seems; When the glad days were years in their seeming, And I long for the brook of the willows, And the years were as ages to me; And the trust of my childhood dreams! When I sailed my proud ships on the billows Of the greatest of earth's mighty streams,— But alas! for the home of my childhood! On my own little brook of the willows, And alas! for the loved ones of yore! By the home of my childhood dreams. They are gone,— and they sleep in the wildwood, And the hearthside shall know them no more. Once again, with my comrade, fair Alice, Yet a vision oft comes to my pillows,— There we mimic life's battles in play; Like a star in the gloaming it gleams,— And more sweet than from any gold chalice 'Tis a glimpse of the brook of the willows, Is our draft from the spring by the way. And the loved of my childhood dreams! Then at twilight I find on the pillows, As o'er me the mother-love beams, Though I know not what shall betide me, Sweetest sleep by the brook of the willows, Nor the leagues to the end of the way, In the home of my childhood dreams. Whether joys or afflictions abide me, 'Tis not long till the break of the day. Though I've climbed the earth's loftiest mountains, As my bark onward drives o'er life's billows, And have gazed on the grandeur below; And I watch for the morning's first beams, Though I've drunk of the world's famous fountains, Oh, I long for the brook of the willows, Where the waters chalybeate flow; And the faith of my childhood dreams! Though I've sailed o'er the wide ocean's billows; Though I've stood by earth's mightiest streams; There's a river whose streams ever gladden I've found naught like the brook of the willows, The green vales of the garden of God; And the joys of my childhood dreams! Where the shadows of earth never sadden, lend where only the righteous have trod.