Special Home-Foreign Issue 
Delivering From Heathenism 
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T is advocated by some, especially 
those who are averse to giving of 
their substance to missions, that 
t ie people in heathen lands should 
be let alone in their religious rites and 
cm emonies, left to themselves to wor-
sh'p their gods, undisturbed by mis- 
sio laries who come in among them to 
teach a new and different religion. 
Such do not obtain even a glimpse of 
what the "rites" and "ceremonies" of 
these heathen lands mean to the people 
who have been chained to them genera-
tion after generation. They do not 
know what it would mean to be let 
alone, for example, undisturbed in a 
primeval forest in the interior of 
Africa where such scenes as the fol- 
lowing have been witnessed. 
- At the death of a chief the sternly 
demanded "rites" and "ceremonies" of 
their heathen religion begin. They 
commence at the death chamber, and 
end on the heap of earth where he is 
entombed. 
"The procession is ready to start, 
when suddenly, from the dead king's 
hut, a number of lynx-eyed natives 
spring forth, like panthers. The king's 
weary old nurse has already received 
her nursing fee in sudden death, and 
now the door to the harem is shut, be-
hind which are a dozen wives, soon to 
become living sacrifices. The 'red sun-
set' has begun. The nurse's blood has 
flowed, and now another victim dies as 
the royal corpse is carried across the 
threshold. Another life is sacrificed as 
the corpse passes the town gate, and 
from there on death after death fol-
lows until the tomb is reached. Down 
in the huge pit more victims meet 
death by suffocation, and up in the 
sunlight, on the new mound of earth, 
there are other sacrifices, which are 
known as the 'blood plaster.' " 
Lot us enter another stronghold of 
heathenism, inner Tibet. 
"In the depths of Inner Tibet there 
are monasteries, we are told, where 
the courtyard walls 'contain stone-
sealed apertures behind which languish 
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the immured monks of the order, who 
do nothing but sit in their tomb and 
turn a prayer wheel. The endless 
night of their imprisonment is meas-
ured only by the knock on the stone, 
which occurs once or twice a day, in- 
dieating that there has been placed 
within reach a bowl of water and a 
morsel of bread—just sufficient to 
withhold the victim from the release 
of death. As time goes on, the stone 
of the aperture is removed with in-
creasing difficulty by the devitalized 
hand inside. Someday there will be 
no response to the knock, for death of 
body and soul of the inmate will have 
taken place." 
And here are some "rites" and "cere-
monies" which the most ardent ex-
ponent of the "let them alone" theory 
could hardly point to as in any man- 
ner whatsoever leading its adherents 
toward the gates of restored Paradise. 
A visitor to the religious ceremonies 
held in the Red Lama Temple, near 
Peiping, China, tells what he found 
in progress there: 
"The chief lama—powerfulrstrongly 
built, and of great stature, towering 
above his assistants—opened the serv-
ice with a chant, in which a group of 
boys joined. There was a pause, and 
then a huge lama opened his mouth. 
I had never before heard so cruel, so 
hypnotic, so vibrant a voice. It seemed 
as though all humanity and tenderness, 
all recollections of kindly things, had 
been wiped out. And yet the voice 
held a dominance that scorched and 
seared. My nerves began to tingle, the 
air seemed heavy, I could not breathe. 
Suddenly I became desperately afraid, 
and the conviction gripped me that 
Satan was present. For an awful mo-
ment I caught a prevision of the 
eternally lost souls in the dark abyss. 
I felt that I must get away at once, 
and I pressed my way and somehow 
stumbled to the door." 
Only by the power of the gospel of 
Jesus Christ can such souls be de-
livered from the clutches of the de-
stroyer, the god worshiped by the 
devotees of heathenism. When Jesus, 
upon the slope of the Galilean hillside, 
after having severed the fetters of the 
O Coo, speak to these 
Laodicean statues, that they 
may live. Turn the current 
of Thy Holy Spirit, which is 
promised in the outpouring 
of the latter rain, upon the 
cold monuments of clay, that 
we may vibrate with spirit-
ual power. 
Cleanse these murky, luke-
warm temples from the sin 
of denominational pride and 
self-complacency, that they 
may shine as Thy mighty 
archlights to quickly lighten 
the whole earth with Thy 
glory. 
O 
Thou compassionate 
Bridegroom, wilt Thou not 
send word in haste to the 
sleeping virgins, that they 
may awaken and trim their 
lamps, and begin at once to 
sound the loud cry of the 
message, calling sinners to 
repentance, and saints to a 
reconsecration, in prepara-
tion to meet their coining 
Lord? 
O Father, do all this for 
Thy people. Do it for Thy 
remnant church. Do it, Lord, 
personally, for me—in Jesus' 
name. Amen. 
J. H. MCEAOHERN. 
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tomb and received of His Father "all 
power in heaven and earth," com-
manded His disciples, "Go ye into all 
the world, and preach the gospel to 
every creature," He had in mind souls 
such as these, bound in fetters of iron. 
And thousands are today being freed, 
as our missionaries bring to them the 
last notes of the everlasting gospel, 
bound up in the truths of the third 
angel's message which sounds to the 
"uttermost part of the earth." Let 
us not weary in the sending, or in the 
support of, these messengers in the 
accomplishment of this our task given 
to us by the Master. 
God's Call to Us 
"To human agencies is committed 
the work of extending the triumphs of 
the cross from point to point. As the 
Head of the church, Christ is au-
thoritatively calling upon everyone who 
claims to believe on Him, to follow 
His example of self-denial and self-
sacrifice in working for the conversion 
of those whom Satan and his vast army 
are exerting every power to destroy. 
God's people are called upon to rally 
without delay under the bloodstained 
banner of Christ Jesus. Unceasingly 
they are to continue their warfare 
against the enemy, pressing the battle 
even to the gates.. . 
"The hearts of the disciples were 
surcharged with a benevolence so full, 
so deep, so far-reaching, that it im-
pelled them to go to the ends of the 
earth, testifying, 'God forbid that we 
should glory, save in the cross of our 
Lord Jesus Christ.' They were filled 
with an intense longing to add to 
the church such as should be saved. 
They called on the believers to arouse 
and do their part, that all nations 
might hear the truth, and the earth 
be filled with the glory of the Lord.... 
"Shall we be less earnest than were 
the apostles? . . . Is not God saying 
today to His praying, trusting, be-
lieving workers, who are opening the 
Scriptures to those ignorant of the 
precious truth they contain, 'Lo, I am 
with you alway, even unto the end of 
the world'? . . . 
"As the disciples, filled with the 
power of the Spirit, went forth to 
proclaim the gospel, so God's servants 
are to go forth today. Filled with an 
unselfish desire to give the message 
of mercy to those who are in the 
darkness of error and unbelief, we are 
to take up the Lord's work. He 
gives us our part to do in cooperation 
with Him, and He will also move on 
the hearts of unbelievers [as they in 
turn become converted to Him through 
the truth] to carry forward His work 
in the regions beyond"—"Testimo-
nies," Vol. VII, pp. 80-82. 
Leave those bound, as with bonds of 
iron, alone in their religion of rites and 
ceremonies, to perish—miserably per-
ish? This is not the word of our Com- 
mander. We should rather, with the 
aid of His strength, go forth even 
into the strongholds of the enemy, "to 
loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo 
the heavy burdens, and let the op-
pressed go free, and . . , break every 
yoke." Isa. 58:6. 
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Faithful in a Very Little 
LIFE is made up of many little 
things. Because they aro little, often 
little is thought of them. But God 
asks, "Who hath despised the day of 
small things?" Here are matters of 
importance: give attention to the 
many small things, avoid the little 
evils, and foster the good, even though 
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they are small. The faithful servant 
hears from his Lord the welcome 
plaudit, "Well, thou good servant: be-
cause thou haat been faithful in a very 
little, have thou authority over ten 
cities." Luke 19:17. Even a "very 
little," when faithfully done, is accept-
able to God. And a little sin is, on the 
other hand, the link in a chain that 
finally has become strong to bind or 
enslave. 
A little departure from the path of 
right leads toward the broad way of 
destruction. Judah's guilt was not 
positively but relatively greater than 
Sodom's; but because Judah's stand-
ards should have led them to such a 
higher life, the word of God to Judah 
was, "Thou west corrupted more than 
they in all thy ways." Behold what 
Adam and Eve may have thought of a 
little( ?) sin. To what terrible results 
it led I "A little tea or coffee will not 
hurt me." "A little meat once in a 
while will not harm one." These are 
man's statements, but God says it is 
the tender vines and the tender grapes 
that the little foxes spoil. And it is 
he that is faithful in the little things 
who can be trusted with greater things. 
Little things make up character. 
"What's the harm of a little ring? 
Why say anything about that?" Well, 
it is a little thing, but God's word 
speaks against various ornaments (see 
Isaiah 3), such as spangled ornaments, 
rings, etc, And both Peter (1 Peter 3) 
and Paul (1 Timothy 2) warn against 
the wearing of gold. This should be 
the end of controversy. Then read 
what God says in the Spirit of proph-
ecy: 
"I feel deeply over this leavening 
process which seems to be going on 
among us, in the conformity to custom 
and fashion."—"Testimonies to Minis-
ters," p. 181. 
"Have not our sisters sufficient zeal 
and moral courage to. place themselves 
without excuse upon the Bible plat-
form? The apostle has given most 
explicit directions on this point: 
will therefore . . . that women adorn 
themselves in modest apparel, with 
shamefacedness and sobriety; not with 
broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or 
costly array; but (which becometh 
women professing godliness) with good 
works.' Here the Lord, through His 
apostle, speaks expressly against the 
wearing of gold. Let those who have 
had experience see to it that they do 
not lead others astray on this point by 
their example. That ring encircling 
your finger may be very plain, but it 
is useless, and the wearing of it has a 
wrong influence upon others."—"Testi-
monies," Vol. IV, p. 680. 
"Fashion is deteriorating the intel-
lect and eating out the spirituality of 
our people. Obedience to fashion is 
pervading our Seventh-day Adventist 
churches, and is doing more than any 
other 'power to separate our people 
from God."—Id., p. 647. 
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THE HOME FOREIGN MISSION FIELD 
Suggestive Program for Sabbath 
Service, June 3, 1939 
OPENING SONG: "Let the Lower Lights 
Be Burning," No. 480 in "Christ in 
Song." 
SCRIPTURE LESSON: Acts 2:1-21. 
PRAYER. 
READING: "A Key and Its Use," by 
Steen Rasmussen (pastor or elder 
should make this article the intro-
duction to the theme for the serv-
ice). 
SONG: "Call for Reapers," No. 547 in 
"Christ in Song." 
READING: "Home-Foreign Work," by 
B. L. Grundset. 
READING: "A Dying Wish," by D. E. 
Reiner. 
READING: "A Challenge to Leaders 
and People," by J. B. Penner. 
TALK: "Accepting the Challenge," to 
be given by church missionary 
leader. 
MISSIONARY OFFERING AND PLEDGES. 
CLOSING SONG: "Christ for the 
World," No. 670 in "Christ in 
Song." 
An Appeal to Leaders 
BY M. N. CAMPBELL 
President, N. Amer. Division 
IN the endeavor to increase the cir-
culation of our truth-filled literature, 
our brethren are thinking of the for-
eign-language groups in America. 
Giving the message to these people is 
one of the big problems that confronts 
the North American Division. We 
have a large foreign mission field in 
the United States and Canada. It is 
estimated that fully thirty-five million 
people speak a foreign tongue in these 
two countries. Hosts of these people 
were taught what religious knowledge 
they have from the Bible written in a 
language other than English, and for 
religious teaching to be effective it 
must be heard in the mother tongue of 
the hearer. No conference can with 
impunity overlook its responsibility 
for evangelizing the foreigners within 
its borders. They are as much the 
responsibility of our churches as are 
any other people. 
As an indication of their loyalty to 
their own tongue it may be noted that 
there are over 1,000 newspapers pub-
lished in foreign languages in the 
United States. 
And so it is sincerely hoped that in 
all the campaigns to be launched our 
people will bear in mind that we 
have foreign-language literature which 
should, be circulated among the for-
eign-speaking people in the neigh-
borhoods of our English-speaking 
churches. It would be well if clubs of 
foreign papers could be subscribed to, 
and our young people in their en-
thusiasm for missionary work could 
take them from home to home among 
their foreign-speaking neighbors. It 
would' open a splendid field for mis-
sionary endeavor. Let us not forget 
that it is possible to become an active 
foreign missionary without having to 
buy a steamer ticket. There are for-
eigners all around us, and they form a 
very fruitful field for missionary Re. 
tiyities. I trust that these opportuni-
ties will not be overlooked. 
A Key and Its Use 
BY STEEN RASMUSSEN 
OR a number of years we have 
followed the practice, as a de- 
nomination, of setting aside cer-
tain days every year on which specific 
mi sionary endeavors or enterprises 
are especially emphasized. This has 
been done in order that they might 
receive proper and rightful attention, 
not only on that specific Sabbath, but 
during the entire year. 
Sabbath, June 3, has been desig-
nated as "Home-Foreign Day." It is 
hardly necessary for us to call atten-
tion to the fact that all through North 
America we find foreigners not only 
scattered here and there, but living in 
large settlements. They furnish a for-
eign mission field within the home-
land. While this field is by no means 
an easy one, yet experience shows that 
it is as fruitful as we have anywhere. 
We as a denomination have in our 
possession a very special key which 
opens the door of entrance to their 
minds and hearts. This key is our liter-
ature in the language of these people. 
We are earnestly soliciting the co-
operation of our churches in making 
1939 an outstanding literature year 
also as far as foreign publications are 
concerned. We are urging anew the 
organization of home-foreign bands in 
all our churches where there is a field 
of labor among foreign-speaking peo-
ple. It is the business of this band to 
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devise ways and means of carrying the 
message to these various foreign• 
speaking peoples in their community. 
Hundreds of them accept the truth 
every year through the ministry of the 
printed page and other follow-up ac-
tivities. 
A most interesting letter was re• 
cently received by the Pacific Press 
Publishing Association International 
Branch at Brookfield, Illinois, from 
the pastor of a German Evangelical 
Lutheran church in one of our Eastern 
cities. In the letter this pastor says: 
"I received from someone recently two 
sample copies of your weekly paper 
Zeicheh der Zeit (Signs of the Times). 
I am very mush pleased with them, and 
I am sure they aro very suitable for 
distribution in the churches. T would 
like very much to send some sample 
copies to all members of my Evan• 
gelical Luthern church, and I would 
need eight hundred copies for that 
purpose. Kindly send me also a few 
extra copies of recent issues. If you 
can give mo a special price for eight 
hundred copies, then f will be ready to 
Send you an order." 
In commenting upon this letter, B. 
L. Grundset, manager of the Brook-
field Branch, says: "Isn't it remark-
able that the pastor of a Lutheran 
church would have us send copies of 
this paper to each of his eight hun-
dred members? I think it is the most 
remarkable experience that ball ever 
conic le this publishing house. An-
other outstanding thing about the ex-
perience is that all these members—
eight hundred strong—read the Ger-
man language. This pastor is doing 
the very work that our people ought to 
be doing." 
Who knows but that the Lord in 
His inscrutable plans for the finishing 
of Hie work is using this pastor as a 
medium whereby members of his 
church may receive the last warning 
message. It is also a challenge to us 
that we should redouble our efforts in 
getting the message before these mil-
lions of strangers within our gates. 
The words of the Saviour, "That thou 
dent, do quickly," are as applicable in 
this endeavor as in every other lino of 
missionary activity in which wo can 
engage. 
There are still untouched possibili-
ties in a systematic distribotibn of our 
foreign literature. Be sure to contact 
your Book and Bible House or the 
Pacific Press Brookfield Branch in re• 
gard to the number of languages in 
which literature is available, the typo 
of literature, prices, etc. 
Greatly appreciating the coopera-
tion and interest taken in this home. 
foreign missionary work, wo do appeal 
again to our willing and much-bur-
dened workers and church officers to 
assist us anew in a still greater effort 
this year in reaching those multitudes 
of foreign speech with the last mes• 
sage of salvation. 
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Home-Foreign Work 
Or the many unfinished tasks which 
confront this denomination, none are 
of more vital importance than the giv-
ing of the message to the millions of 
people who have come to America 
from their homelands across the sea. 
In this country are representatives 
from all nations that dwell upon 
earth; and with this multitude among 
us the United States is, in a unique 
sense, the greatest mission field ou the 
globe. 
The representatives of the various 
nations are gathered here by divine 
ordering, as set forth in the following 
quotation from the writings of the 
Spirit of prophecy: "In our own coun-
try there are thousands of all nations, 
and tongues, and peoples who are 
ignorant and superstitious, having no 
knowledge of the Bible or its sacred 
teachings. God's hand was in their 
coming to America, that they might be 
brought under the enlightening im 
fluent* of the truth revealed in His 
word, and become partakers of His 
saving faith."—"Christian Service," p. 
200. 
Jesus instructed His followers to 
"go .. . into all the world, and teach 
all nations." We do not have to go far 
from home to obey this command of 
our Lord and Master. One of the most 
effective means by which we can reach 
these millions with this last message of 
mercy is through the printed page; 
and the importance of church mem-
bers' forming literature bands for 
carrying the precious light of truth to 
these millions through the printed 
page is set forth in the following 
statement: "The formation of small 
companies as a basis of Christian ef- 
fort has been presented to me by One 
who cannot err. If there is a large 
number in the church, let the members 
be formed into small companies, to 
work not only for the church members, 
but for unbelievers. If in one place 
there are only two or three who know 
the truth, let them form themselves 
into a band of workers."—"Teati-
monies," Vol. VII, pp. 21, 22. 
The effectiveness of missionary 
band organization is still further em-
phasised as follows: "The locusts have 
no king, yet go they forth all of them 
by bands." Prey. 30:27. In another 
scripture we read that one may chase a 
thousand, but that two will put ten 
thousand to flight. Dent. 32:30. 
There may be Italian bands or Polish, 
Hungarian, Russian, Slovakian, Greek, 
German, Danish-Norwegian, Swedish, 
and Jewish bands, depending upon the 
size of the church and the number of 
foreigners in the community. 
The International Branch of the 
Pacific Press Publishing Association, 
located in Brookfield, Illinois, prints 
literature in more than twenty ion. 
guame. Missionary periodicals, com-
parable with the Signs of the Times, 
are printed in German, Danish-Nor-
wegian, Swedish, and Italian. Why 
not send a subscription to your foreign 
neighbor or friend t That these people 
prefer reading mutter in their mother 
tongue is evidenced by the feet that 
1,062 foreign periodicals are published 
in this country. A man in Michigan 
writes, "From time to time some good 
soul leaves Inc at my door a little 
paper—Tar Menlo Pravda (Polish 
Present Truth). Although I under-
stand the language as well as Russian 
and English, L prefer to read in 
Ukrainian, for this is my native lan-
guage which I love and understand 
best." A daughter, writing for her 
mother, says, "My mother loves her 
German papers and reads them from 
cover to cover, and hopes by God's help 
to read them all the remaining days of 
her life." Another writes from the 
State of Oregon: "I thank you for 
sending me the five Evangeliets Snide-
bud, for I have given and mailed them 
to Danish-Norwegian people who love 
to read this good paper. Already one 
lady is attending church as a result of 
this missionary work." 
Go where you will, from the Atlantic 
to the Pacific, the foreigner is there. 
In thirty-throe of our largest cities the 
foreign born exceeds the native born, 
and in almost every city, village, and 
hamlet arc found large numbers of 
these people. What a challenge is this 
to us in this land of light and liberty! 
Will you not, in each of your churches, 
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mass your forces and lend a hand to 
save them? May God help us to 
quickly finish this great unfinished 
task! 
B. L. GRUNDSF.T, 
Manager, intsymitional Branch. 
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A Dying Wish 
T AM thinking of a godly mother 
who was born on foreign soil. Al-
though she lived in beautiful North 
America for over fifty years, she lost 
none of her interest in, nor her burden 
for, the foreigners. Hor last earnest 
wish on her dying bed was that some-
one might go to her brothers, also 
living in America, and give them this 
measage. This godly mother who ex-
pressed such a dying wish was none 
other than my own darling mother. 
Given to us in such an hour, with such 
an earnest appeal, how could I ever 
forget my mother's wish! 1 think of 
it while traveling on trains, walking 
on the busy streets of our cities, and 
standing in the pulpits of our 
churches. Every foreigner is some-
body's brother, sister, uncle, or aunt. 
What can we do to bring them to 
Christ'? 
At one time these foreigners were 
not here. What brought them here? 
Behind the search for new homes, new 
business, new worlds, lay the heavenly 
urge instilled by the Spirit of God to 
find a new message and a new hope. 
To tens of thousands of these com-
fortably settled and pleasantly situ-
ated, as well as many homeless souls, 
this message has been proclaimed, and 
thousands have accepted it and ore 
living sincere lives, and preaching the 
message by voice and by pelt to their 
kin and kith, both hero and in their 
native land. 
What more can we do for the mil. 
lions yet nnwarnedt Many of them 
are getting restless. Unemployment 
has thrown them into despair. They 
are being herded bite labor organiza-
tions. Their hearts are stirred up with 
a spirit of hatred and revolution. 
They have found Christian America a 
highly organized commercial nation. 
Religious fanatics have misguided 
them. Political parties have held out 
false hope, and labor leaders have 
taken advantage of their innocence 
and ignorance. Because of these 
tragic experiences many have lost con-
fidence. They look upon all-men with 
giave suspicion. 
How welcome is the messenger of 
peace to Mich disappointed soulal-
ono Who loves them and believes in 
them; who is willing to study and 
work out their problems, to live with 
them, sleep in their beds, eat at their 
tables; and carefully, slowly, and lov-
ingly to unfold this message in its 
simplicity to them and help them to 
find Christ, elm also was a foreigner. 
Christ's dying wish for the lost 
world was that Ilis.message might be 
carried to all mankind. He is no re-
specter of persons. He died for all. 
"Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, 
circumcision nor uncireumeision, bar-
barian, Scythian, bond nor free: but 
Christ is all, and in all." 
D. E. REINER, 
Rome Miss. Seo., Northers Unica. 
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Tremendous Field of 
Opportunity 
THERE is a tremendous field of op-
portunity for missionary work among 
the foreign-spealang people, and our 
church members must arouse to the 
situation soon if these are to be 
warned before the Lord comes. A 
large number of these people are au. 
nually returning to their homelands. 
Through the instruction by the Spirit 
of prophecy, we are told that it was in 
the providence of God that these for-
eign-speaking people should came to 
America "that they might be brought 
under the enlightening influence of the 
truth revealed in His word, and be. 
come partakers of His saving faith." 
What answer shall we give when asked 
to account for the foreigners who have 
lived among vs 'for months and years 
and whom we have never tried to reach 
with the message of trutht Their so-
journ in this country is being limited, 
and in just so far our day of oppor-
tunity to do our duty by them is being 
cut short. 
The newspapers of Chicago have 
published statistics in regard to the 
various foreign groups in time city. 
B. L. Grundset, of Brookfield, Illinois, 
refers to the situation in much the fol-
lowing manner: 
It is stated that in Chicago there aro 
100,000 Lithuanians. Now this is a 
comparatively small people, as, we 
think of them, and yet we have 100p00 
right hero in Chicago. I do not know 
of a single missionary effort ever 
having been put forth for them. Then 
it' is stated that there are 40,000 
Croatians in Chicago. The Slane is 
true of these people. We have 
scarcely any literature in these two 
languages. Then we have in Chicago 
500,000 Poles, 300,000 Italians, 300,-
000 Bohemians and Slovakians;and 1 
suppose the same number of Germans, 
and in addition a large number of Rus-
sians and representatives of every na-
tion of earth; and yet very little is 
being done for any of these people. 
In New York City, and other largo 
centers of the East, the need is even 
greater than in Chicago. Time real sit-
uation is apparent from the statistics 
below. 
tEr 
A Challenge to Leaders and 
People 
"Goa so loved the world, that He 
gave His only-begotten Son." Gbd 
loved all men. No class was excluded. 
And, as the apostle Paul states, it is 
God's will for "all men to be saved, 
and to come unto the knowledge of the 
truth." I Tim. 2:4. 
Jesus said to Ilia disciples, "Go ye 
therefore, and teach all nations." The 
gospel message for these last days is 
Kiwis of City 
New York 
Chicago 
Philadelphia 
Detroit 
Cleveland 
Milwaukee 
St. Louis 
/MilneAgana 
Ins Angeles 
San Francisco 
Boston 
Hudak 
tOTA1,8 
German Russian 
374,052 442.432 
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39.888 �
78.402 
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50,117 �
80,000 
�
39,062 �
21,781 
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31E278 �
15,103 
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47.745 �
7A43 
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29,203 �
0.014 
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7,549 �
4.840 
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24.120 �
10,744 
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24.277 �
7.456 
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7.067 �
81.359 
�
21.285 �
6.045 
705,647 724,035 
�
Bolin �
rough Swedish Hungarian 
440.250 238.889 37,2417 59.883 
73.060 149,622 63.735 15.337 
�
68,156 �
30.582 . 2.245 �
7.102 
�
28.581 �
06,113 �
4.318 �
11.162 
�
28.524 �
32,808 �
1,922 �
10.073 
�
4,080 �
10,003 �
1.256 �
3.789 
�
9,489 �
5,198 �
629 �
2.597 
885 1.555 24.860 313 
�
12.685 �
0.895 �
8.917 �
3.055 
�
27,311 �
2.033 �
7,152 �
1.070 
�
36.274 �
0.903 �
5.432 �
273 
�
i9.471 �
245.010 �
1,085 �
1.057 
745,872 593,017 160,774 123.691 
Czechs. 
fit000kiat Preach 
38.130 
11.008 
35.818 
23.400 
21,740 
12,502 
48.819 
4,568 
1,300 
970 
3,348 
2.941 
1,596 
1,930 
6.291 
2.341 
516 
LINO 
448 
73 
34.095 
4,393 
84 
389 
0 
148 
292 
2,978 
1,029 
135.7
.40
472 
2418 
3.530 
2.308 
1,872 
Lis 
279 
a 
4.047 
3.777 
1,047 
0.464 
1,1500 
681 
412 
1,068 
413 
284 
007 
1.242 
90.651 148.673 142,903 47.905 
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to go to "every nation, and kindred, 
and tongue, and people?' The minis 
try and the people of the remnant 
church are charged with the solemn 
responsibility of making known the 
message of truth for this time to all 
peoples in their various languages and 
tongues. God's people cannot evade 
this charge and appear guiltless be-
fore Him. "Let a man so account of 
us, as of the ministers of Christ, and 
stewards of the mysteries of God. 
Moreover it is required in stewards, 
that a man be found faithful." 1 Cor. 
4:1, 2. We must give account of our 
work. God has made us "watchmen" 
and "stewards" of the souls of all men, 
and He requires faithful service. 
A Great Need and Opportunity 
Right at Our Doors 
According to the Census Bureau, the 
number of the continental inhabitants 
of the United States is 129,800,000, of 
which 40,000,000 are white foreigners 
and their children, born abroad. In 
addition, there are 13,000,000 Ameri-
can Negroes, and 360,000 American 
Indians. 
In the year 1930 there were 7,-
800,000 foreign-born Germans and 
their children; 4,500,000 Italians; 
3,389,000 Jews; 3,300,000 Poles; 
3,100,000 Scandinavians; 3,100,000 
Irish; 1,301,000 Czechs; and millions 
of other nationalities, all using their 
own languages. Besides these there 
are also additional millions living in 
Canada. 
In 1930, 79.1 per cent of all the 
foreign-born families resided in the 
suburbs of cities and in the country, 
while about 20 per cent were to be 
found in the large cities. In the city 
of Chicago there are 179 churches in 
which services are conducted in for-
eign languages entirely. In 342 
churches two different languages are 
used, and in 14 churches three lan-
guages are used. These masses of 
precious souls love to hear the word 
of God preached in their own tongue, 
and they are to receive the light of the 
third angel's message through the 
spoken and written form, as presented 
in their native languages. 
A Great Duty 
Through the Spirit of prophecy we 
are instructed concerning our great 
duty, as follows: "In our own country 
there are thousands of all nations, and 
tongues, and peoples who are ignorant 
and superstitious, having no knowl- 
edge of the Bible or its sacred teach-
ings. God's hand was in their coming 
to America, that they might be 
brought under the enlightening in-
fluence of the truth revealed in His 
word, and become partakers of His 
saving faith." "Many of these for-
eigners are here in the providence of 
God, that they may Have opportunity 
to hear the truth for this time, and 
receive a preparation that will fit them 
to return to their own lands as bearers 
of precious light shining direct from 
the throne of God."—"Christian Serv-
ice," p. 200. 
"Wake up, wake up, my brethren and 
sisters, and enter the fields in America 
that have never been worked. After 
you have given something for foreign 
fields, do not think your duty done. 
There is work to be done in foreign 
fields, but there is a work to be done 
in America that is just as important. 
In the cities of America there are peo-
ple of almost every language. These 
need the light that God has given to 
His church.... The souls in China are 
no more precious than the souls within 
the shadow of our doors. God's people 
are to labor faithfully in distant lands, 
as His providence may open the way; 
and they are also to fulfill their duty 
toward the foreigners of various na-
tionalities in the cities and villages 
and country districts close by."—Id., 
p. 199. 
to=00.0o0o000o0o0o000o00004 
I Wonder 
I WONDER What the world would say 
If I should die tonight. 
Would it consider it had lost 
A man who served it at some cost, 
If I should die tonight? 
The chances are, 'tis pretty clear, 
It wouldn't know I had been here, 
If I should die tonight. 
I wonder what my friends would say 
If I should die tonight. 
Would they delay their dancing now, 
Their laughter and their prancing now, 
If I should die tonight? 
Would they for many hours be sad, 
Would someone secretly be glad, 
If I should die tonight? 
I wonder what my own would say 
If I should die tonight. 
They've seen me live from day to day, 
They've seen me stumble in the fray. 
If I should die tonight, 
Would they forgive the times I hurt? 
May they forget I'm sometimes curt, 
If I should die tonight. 
I wonder what my Lord would say 
If I should die tonight. 
Ile died my death on Calvary, 
From fear of death to set me free. 
If I should die tonight, 
I wonder if I've won a soul; 
Would "Well done" greet me at the 
goal, 
If I should die tonight? 
—Moody Monthly. 
Faithful Discharge of Duty 
The only way to faithfully discharge 
this great duty toward our foreign-
speaking neighbors in America is for 
workers and church members to take 
upon their hearts the home-foreign 
missionary work, like the apostle 
Peter, as stated in Acts 10 and 15. 
This calls upon all to love their neigh-
bor as themselves, to engage in sys-
tematic soul-winning missionary work 
among the foreigners, to remember 
them in every missionary service, to 
organize a foreign mission band in 
each church, and to order clubs of 
foreign-language papers, tracts, and 
books, keeping them in constant circu-
lation. In fact, the situation calls for 
the same program as that which is 
carried forward in behalf of native 
American people. 
It may be well to remind all our 
church members that in the providence 
of God we have home-foreign depart-
ments in the General Conference or-
ganization, with leaders and helpers 
who are ready to assist in organizing 
and carrying on the home-foreign mis-
sionary work. We also have the In-
ternational Publishing House, at 
Brookfield, Illinois, where truth-filled 
literature is published in twenty for-
eign languages. But this literature is 
without wheels, or wings, or legs, and 
it can reach the people for whom it is 
designed only through the personal 
service of church members. People 
are sitting in darkness at our very 
doors, waiting for you, my brother, my 
sister, to place in their hands the 
literature which will bring light and 
joy, and the hope of eternal life. 
Literature is, as in the days of the 
Reformation, still one of the prime 
agents for advancing the gospel story. 
We appeal to every church member 
to take a new stand in this matter of 
serving the foreigners in this country. 
Don't despise them, don't neglect 
them, and do not think that this work 
does not pay, for it returns large divi-
dends. Give of your means for the 
publishing of more literature, dis-
tribute literature freely, and pass 
names of interested people to the near-
est foreign-language worker for per-
sonal follow-up. 
If we are faithful to the great com-
mission, the blessing of the Lord 
will rest upon our earnest endeavor, 
and the harvest of souls will be great. 
J. B. PENNER, Editor, 
German Signs of the Times. 
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Methods of Working for For-
eign-Language People 
THE bringing of souls to Jesus is 
the highest achievement possible to a 
human life. The supreme method for 
winning souls to Christ is indicated in 
the story of Andrew, who brought his 
brother Simon to Jesus. The Holy 
Scriptures are clear that God expects 
every one of His followers to win 
others to Him, of whatever nationality 
they may be. 
There is no power like the power of 
personal testimony and personal love. 
Do we love sinners? the strangers 
within our gates? No one can be won 
without love. Many who have come to 
this country have left lands of oppres-
sion, and they respond readily to acts 
of kindness. 
Our primary, fundamental, preemi-
nent, supreme, and tremendously 
urgent duty as Christians is to save 
souls, of whatever nationality they 
may be. Christ said, "I will make you 
fishers of men." This is a promise, 
and we are to accept it, and yield our-
selves for service, so that He may ac-
complish His will in us and make us 
fishers of men. 
Fishing for men is a science. There 
are principles to be observed in deal-
ing with different classes of people 
and with those of different nationali-
ties. Many efforts have resulted in 
failure because of the fact that these 
principles have not been recognized. 
Fishermen do not use the same 
bait for every kind of fish. They have 
learned which is the most successful 
bait for different kinds of fish. Have 
you ever given much thought to this? 
Herein may lie some of the reasons for 
failure. A good fisherman under-
stands something of the habits of the 
fish; and so we should understand the 
individual viewpoint of those we wish 
to win to Christ. 
May I bring to your mind, for in-
stance, the fact that a Jew, a Roman 
Catholic, an infidel, a Methodist, a 
Baptist, etc., each has his different 
point of view? It would be folly to 
use a Jewish bait, so to speak, for a 
Roman Catholic, or vice versa. While 
the whole Bible is the one general bait, 
there are portions of it which are 
more suitable for use among people of 
different nationalities. 
One day while soliciting for Harvest 
Ingathering funds, I met an infidel 
who vehemently spoke against all mis-
sionary work. Then he denounced the 
Bible, and with an oath denied the ex-
istence of God. When he made the 
assertion that there was no God, I 
said, "You remind me of what the 
Bible says about men who talk as you 
do. Perhaps you know there are two 
kinds of insanity—heart insanity and 
head insanity;" and I quoted Feeleii-
astes 9:3 and Psalms 53:1. He de-
clared that the Bible does not make 
such statements and challenged me to 
prove what I was saying. I got my 
Bible out of my car, and gave him the 
texts to read. In Hebrews 4:12, we 
read, "The word of God is ... sharper 
than any two-edged sword." And 
those two verses—Psalms 53:1 and 
Ecclesiastes 9:3--had the desired ef-
fect. They proved to be the right bait 
for that one man. We are now study-
ing the Bible together, and some day 
he may be a Seventh-day Adventist. 
It is very essential to make proper 
contacts with these different nation-
alities. A Jew, who was more of a 
communist than anything else, when 
his mind was directed to Deuteronomy 
28, said, "Well I never knew that was 
in the Bible!" He was willing to 
learn more, and soon he became so 
interested that studies were started. 
Later he gave himself to the Lord. 
Deuteronomy 28:48, 64, 65, was fol-
lowed by Daniel 9 and Isaiah 53. 
These are wonderful baits for Jews 
and for people of many other nation-
alities. 
We must remember that a Jew does 
not accept the New Testament, and 
therefore should not be approached 
with it until his confidence has been 
won by studying the writings of the 
Old Testament prophets. We should 
ever keep in mind the literature pre-
pared for this class, and remember 
that literature argues with no one. 
Men may become angry and throw it 
away, but often they will pick it up 
again, and by reading be convinced., 
In Mark 2:1-12 we have the recital 
of the conversion of a man sick with 
the palsy. His four friends had some 
work to do before they could get him 
to the Saviour. They went after him, 
got a stretcher, and carried him to 
where the Saviour was. 
They were 
handicapped by the crowd, but their 
faith would not let go. They made an 
opening in the roof of the house to let 
the man down at the feet of the 
Saviour. They worked perseveringly. 
Read the words of Jesus in Mark 2:5: 
"When Jesus saw they faith [not the 
faith of the man sick of the palsy, but 
the faith of the four who brought him 
to Jesus], He said unto the sick of the 
palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." 
Why should we not go after some of 
these foreign-speaking people with our 
ears, and bring them to our services? 
We should give heed to the follow-
ing admonition: "My brethren and 
sisters, give yourselves to the Lord for 
service. Allow no opportunity to pass 
unimproved. Visit the sick and suf-
fering, and show a kindly interest in 
them. If possible, do something to 
make them more comfortable."—"Tes-
timonies," Vol. IX, p. 86. "If we 
would humble ourselves before God, 
and be kind and courteous and ten-
derhearted and pitiful, there would be 
one hundred conversions to the truth 
where now there is only one."—Id., P-
189. Such personal interest will be 
especially appreciated by the for-
eigners. 
A Roman Catholic will generally 
welcome the suggestion of prayer. The 
miracles of Jesus and the marriage in 
Cana are interesting topics of conver-
sation with Catholics. Their great 
reverence for the blessed virgin Mary 
may be made a strong factor in lead-
ing them to see that they should obey 
Christ. At one time I baptized eleven 
Roman Catholics who had become in-
terested through the text which reads, 
"His mother said unto the servants, 
Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it." 
John 2:5. 
A Catholic nun once asked me if I 
believed in confession. In answer I 
quoted three scriptures: Proverbs 28: 
13; 1 John 1:9; James 5:16. In a 
very few words, I explained to whom 
we should confess. I refrained• from 
entering into any argument, and let 
the word of God do its work. Three 
months later I was called to visit that 
nun. Since. our conversation she had 
been under conviction by the Spirit of 
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God, and was so troubled that she 
could not sleep. The first question she 
asked me was, "Do• you pray to the 
blessed virgin Mary?" f answered 
that question by reading to her 1 
Timothy 2:5. The Spirit of God did 
the work. I gave her "Steps to 
Christ," and followed this with other 
literature. Later on I baptized this 
woman. 
Many foreigners experience an in-
feriority complex because they think 
they are looked down on by the Ameri• 
cans. But they respond very quickly 
to any manifestations of love and 
kindness. While in a certain city, I 
was told of an Italian Roman Catholic 
family who had recently come from 
Italy. There were nine in the 
I visited them. I secured copies of 
the Italian paper published at the In-
ternational Branch, llrookfield, Il-
linois. They seemed greatly pleased 
to have me visit them, and they read 
all the literature I gave them. Later 
I had Bible studios with them, and six 
members of the family were baptised. 
Our evangelists can help in bringing 
many foreigners to the knowledge of 
this truth by giving some thought to 
subjects that will attract the attention 
of those people and lead than to at-
tend the services. Such subjects as 
"The Tragedy and Origin of the 
Cron," "Where Is Purgatory, and 
How Many Souls Are in It?" "Italy 
in Prophecy," "Rome in Prophecy," 
"Greece in Prophecy," are suggestive. 
Greeks are more philosophical, and 
do not respond to the same program as 
do the Roman Catholics, but are im 
Wrested in prophetic literature, and 
that which deals with present-day 
events in the light of prophecy. 
"Europe in Prophecy" attracted a 
young Greek to my tent meetings. 
Later this young man was baptized, 
and wont back to Greece with the one 
purpose of taking the truth to his 
parents. He wrote a letter to me, in 
which he said, "My father and mother, 
though very bitter at first, are now 
keeping God's Sabbath." 
On the day of Pentecost, after the 
disciples had been filled with the 
Holy Spirit, their first work was with 
the foreigners in Jerusalem. They 
preached in eighteen different lan-
guages. God had brought these people 
to Jerusalem so that they might re-
ceive the message and take it back to 
their own people. So today, God has 
brought these people of different na- 
tions to America so that they may re• 
ceive the message and carry it to their 
own people. Every Seventh-day Ad-
ventist can speak to those people in 
their own language, through the litera-
ture that has been especially prepared. 
Cannot someone be found in every 
church who will be constrained by the 
love of tied to dedicate his life to the 
work among these foreigners? Study 
their characteristics and their habits, 
and visit them regularly. Supply 
them with literature; pray with them; 
accept invitations to dine with them, 
even though you may not enjoy the 
food set before you as well as you 
would that of your own choosing. In 
other words, follow the admonition of 
the apostle Paul—"I am made all 
things to all mon, that I might by all 
means save some." 1 Cor. 9:22. 
L. F. BASSEBOIS. 
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Working for Latin Catholics 
']'nosy. who have been reared in the 
Catholic faith have had built up in 
their minds a strong and high barrier 
against other faiths and doctrines. 
But with love, prayer, and tact this 
barrier can be scaled and the truths of 
the third angel's message planted on 
the other side. At first we must stay 
on common ground, and we may find 
that this is not such a difficult matter, 
as there are many sincere, devout 
Catholics who, like ourselves, grieve 
over the trends of the times with the 
antireligious drift, the increase in di-
vorces, the lack of modesty in dress, 
and other such things. Later, talks on 
health, demonstrations of simple treat-
ments, and distribution of health lit-
erature, such as leaflets on the care of 
the mother and the child, will be found 
to be acceptable. Next, talks about 
nature, natural history, and the story 
of creation, may be brought in. 
Give out tracts judiciously. Por 
Spanish Catholics a beginning may be 
made with Esperansa del Mundt), us-
ing numbers one to nine consecu-
tively; then skip to seventeen, and then 
to twenty. Other numbers may be 
used later, when a good foundation has 
been laid in doctrines easily under-
stood. 
El Centinela, a monthly magazine 
corresponding to the English Watch-
man, can be distributed with good ad• 
vantage to the Spanish. The 0 Alta-
(aye magazine should be used for the 
Portuguese, La ?Wats for . the 
Italians, and La Message,- for the 
French. 
Such books as "Christ Our Saviour" 
and "Steps to Christ" are appropriate 
to use with beginners, and may be ob-
tained in all the Latin languages. 
"His Glorious Appearing" and "Min-
istry of Healing" are also available in 
several languages. 
Simple studies on the life of Christ, 
His ministry, His passion, and His 
second coming, may be made interest-
ing to our Latin friends, and will open 
the way for more doctrinal subjects. 
Studies on the sanctuary, presented 
from the beautiful, positive side, the 
study of Daniel 2, and other Well. 
ellOSell prophecies, will help to hold the 
interest and pave the way for other 
points of present truth. 
In teaching the truth, it is int-
portant to avoid controversy. The 
teacher's voice should be gentle, and 
his manner calm and undisturbed when 
questioned and disputed. 
A few suggestions of caution may 
be helpful: 
Don't talk about the priests or the 
pope. 
Don't talk about the images or the 
saints. 
Don't speak of the virgin Mary ex-
cept with reverence and respect. We 
must not forget that it was the angel 
Gabriel himself who said, "Blessed art 
thou among women." 
If we will work with our Catholic 
neighbors and friends prayerfully and 
tactfully, God will fulfill the promise 
found in these words: "I will bring the 
blind by a way that they knew not; 
and I will lead them in paths that they 
have not known: I will make darkness 
light before them, and crooked things 
straight. These things will I do unto 
them, and not forsake them." La. 
42:1e. �H. D. Canna, 
erro. See. Bureau of Home MOM 
Do Something for the Jews 
RECENTLY I saw a statement by 
Rabbi Wise which read, "For eighteen 
hundred years, certainly most of that 
time, Jews have not been given an 
opportunity to know what Christianity 
is, least of all to understand who Jesus 
was and what the Christ means. The 
very ignorance of the Jew, touching 
Jesus, condemns not the Jew but 
Christendom." 
I began to think of some method of 
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Vol. 26, No. 6 
presenting Christ to them. Perhaps 
the persecution going on in Germany 
might be a means of getting them to 
a service; so I thought of Jeremiah 
30:7, "Alas! for that day is great, so 
that none is like it: it is even the tune 
of Jacob's trouble." "Why," T thought 
to myself, "perhaps this is the begin- 
' �
g of Jacob's trouble." I knew the 
Jow was thinking that Palestine as a 
homeland was going to settle his perse-
cutions, but I also knew from the 
Bible that it would not; so I sent out 
personal invitations to many Jews to 
attend a service, saying that a special 
message bad been prepared for them 
and that I wanted to tell them what 
the Bible said about the persecutions 
then in progress. 
I noticed in the newspaper that their 
rabbi was to speak on Zionism:. so I 
attended the synagogue that Friday 
evening. I arrived a half-hour before 
the service and talked with some of 
the people. They inquired who I was, 
and when informed that I had come to 
pray with them concerning their perse-
cutions, how happy they were to have 
me! They gathered around me after 
the service and said they were coining 
to my church on Sunday morning. An 
advertisement was put in the news• 
paper on Saturday night, reading, "A 
message to the Sews of Racine, Sunday 
at 10:45 a.M. Jews invited to the 
church friendly to the Jews." 
Sunday morning there were about 
forty Jews present, and one walked 
Tanach (Bible) God's 
np Word 
Ier. 10:10; Ps. 138:2; 2 Sam. 28:2; 
Job 23:12; halt. 32:4; Ps. 119:105: 
Ise. 40:8; Pros. 2:3-6; Ps. 83:6, t); 
Ps. 119:9. 11 : 17:4: Dont. 8:3. 
Study No. 3.-Sofas--Origin, Work, and 
Destiny 
Gen. 1:27, 81; Ned. 7 :25; Ps. 8:4. 5 
Lao. 28:12 (last Dart), 13, 14, 15; Ilia 
14:12-14 ,• Ese. 28:16. 17; Gest 3:1-4 
-lob 1:6-3 (explain Xob's experience) 
Job 2:1-7; Ps. 91:2, 3; Its.. 28:18. 19 
Zee. 4:23-20; In. 24:19-28; Jer. 25:31 
38; Mid. 4:14; Dan. 7:27. 
• In the October (1038) Issue of the 
OaSr.r7s (pages 9 and 10) reference was 
made to "Winning the Jews for Christ." 
and four outlined Bible studies by J. M. 
Hoffman were printed, with the slate. 
ment that the remaining studies in the 
series could be obtained upon request. 
So many have called for these studies 
that it seems best to print the entire 
series of twelve studies at this time. 
Wo understand that printed copies may 
be obtained at slight cost by addressing 
Brother Hoffman through the General 
Conference Home Missionary Depart-
ment-Myron. 
around outside all during the service. 
But there were forty inside! Each 
one wan handed a Bible, and I gave 
Bible readings for over an hour. It 
was getting late and I said I would 
have to close, but one man cried out, 
"(lo on." I asked, "How many want 
no to go on?" 'they all raised their 
hands, and the service continued. I 
read about the tribulation period from 
the Talmud and Midrash, and stated 
that they were rightly looking for the 
Messiah, but that this Messiah would 
be none other than He who died on 
Calvary. T showed them from their 
own Scriptures concerning their de-
liverance. "I will pour upon the house 
of David, and upon the inhabitants of 
Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of 
supplications: and they shall look 
upon Me whom they have pierced, and 
they shall mourn for Him, as ono 
mourneth for his only son." Zech. 
12:10; 13:6. I reminded them that 
God's special blessing would be upon 
them for obedience, and God's special 
curse would be upon them for dis-
obedience. No one spoke a word of 
resentment, and many thanked me for 
the message. 
I believe that 'ye may be in the time 
of the eud when the blindness of Israel 
is being removed, and the Jews want 
to know about the Lord Jesus Christ. 
This could not have happened twenty-
five years ago. I want the churches to 
take heart and do something for the 
Jew.-W. Carvin, in Moody Monthly. 
Study No. 8.-God's Health Laws 
Prov. 17 :22 ; Ex. 23 .25 : 15 :26 Gus 
1:29. Nuts grains, fruits-the origin I 
diet. Gen. 3f17, 18. After sin entered. 
herbs were added to the diet. This di t 
continued for 1.665 years until the flood. 
or about one third of the entire Minor. 
 
of the world. Gen. 9:3. After the 
flood. flesh diet was permitted. Gen. 9: . 
Never allowed to eat blood. Deut. 12: 
28-25. Blood is the life. Deut. 14:1.20: 
Dan. 1 :8. 
Study No. E-Prophwy-The Sore Wore 
of god. and Nebuchaduserar's Dream 
1st 42.9: 48.9, 10: Amos 8:7; Deur. 
20:20; Dan. 2.1. Fact of the dream. 
Dan. 2:2.12. Story of the dream. 
Dan. 2:13-17, 19. Daniel's interview 
with the king; dream revealed. Dan. 
231-35. The dream. Dan. 2 :117-43. 
The interpretation. Dan. 2:44. 'rhey 
remain In a divided state until the king-
dom of heaven is set up by the Messiah. 
Study No. 5-The Ten doimsandonents, 
and Who Changed the Sabbath 
Debt. 4:12, 18; Ps. 19:7. 8, 11: Ps. 
119 :165 : Ps. 1 :1, 2 ; Ex. 20 :8•17 : Gen. 
2:1.8: ban. 7:8. 24. History shows 
that this was the Roman Catholic power. 
Don. 7:25. 
There is no account in the Bible of 
any Sabbath of the herd except the sev-
enth-day Sabbath; but Daniel prophesied 
of a power that would think to change 
the low of God. The "Doctrinal Cate-
chism," panes 174. 352 offers proof that 
Protestants are not guided by the Scrip-
tures. Quoted as follows: 
"Question: Have you any other way of 
,roving that the church has power to 
institute festivals of precept? 
"Answer: Had she not such power, she 
could not have done that in which all 
modern religionists agree with her, she 
could not have substituted the observ-
ance 01 Sunday, the first day of the 
week. for the observance of Saturday. 
the seventh day, a change for which 
there is no scriptural authority." 
Roman Catholic writers consider the 
pope as God on earth, as is noted from 
their writings, as follows: "For thou 
art the shepherd, thou art the Physi-
cian. thou art the director, thou art the 
husbandman ; 'Malty thou art another 
God on earth."-Prom Oration of Chris-
topher Marcella* in fourth session of 
Fifth Lateran Council, Labe and Cos-
sari's "Meters of the Counests," pub-
lished in ISM Vol. XIV, col. 105. 
Don. 11:13. Margin, "times �
. 
years." 1260 years of persecution of 
Jews and Christian Sabbathkeepers. 
(Num. 14:34; Kee. 4:6-a day a year.) 
Ese. 22:26 Ezekiel saw the law vio-
lated. the Sabbath profaned. and those 
who should have led in right lines using 
"untempered mortar." or falsehood, in-
stead of God's words. 
Sleds No. 6.-Signs of the Messiah's 
Soon Coming 
Ps. 10:10: Dan. 12:4: Nahum 2:3. 4. 
"In the days of His preparation" the 
chariots have flaming torches-great 
headlights. 
Nahum 2:5. A description of the con-
ductor of any rapid train of airs as be 
fraeco
resu.nts his passengers and collects 
Nnitum 3:16, 17. One who has lived 
in the countries in which locusts abound, 
and has seen the sun darkened for hours 
by dense clouds of locusts dying so high 
that they could scarcely be distinguished 
from the clouds. can readily think the 
prophet saw the "merchants," "crowned' 
ones. and "captains" soaring in airplanes 
"as the locusts." 
 
Joel 2:10, 30, 31. Earthquakes, floods, 
cyclones, tailing of stars. Ise. 12:10: 
Ames 8 :9. 
Joel 8:15. May 19, 1870. is known 
in history as "the dark day.' Herschel. 
the astronomer, says: wonderful Dar 
. . . was one of these 
�
phe- 
nomena of nature which will always be 
read of with interest. but which philos-
ophy is at a loss to explain." Although 
the moon had fulled only the night he. 
fore, the darkness was so intense that a 
sheet of white paper could not be seen 
when held within a few Inches of the 
eyes. An entire chapter in Deven's "Our 
First Century." pages 320.330. Is de-
voted to the description of the great 
shower of stars of Nov. 13. 1833. which 
Minded this prophecy in every respect. 
Joel 8:2, 9-12. It is generally thought 
dint the bottle of Armageddon will he 
fought in the 'valley of Jehoshaphat." 
or the plain of Bedrosian, where noted 
battles have been fought 
Dan. 7:27: 1st 33:24 (last part). 
Change of Conditions After Messiah's 
Coming. Ian. 37:29: Isa. 11:6: 35:5. 
6. 10. 
AGMs No. 7.-Where Are the Dead? 
Keel. 9 5. 6, 10: Ps. 146:4; Dan. 12: 
2• Job 17 :13 : 14 :21 ; 14.12. 14•, Hasa 
 
IS :14 ; Ps. 1715 : Isa. 26:19; Ps. 
20 ; Prov. 10:25 ; Mal. 4 :1. 
made No. it.--Which Is Gott Word, the 
Bible or the Talmud, 
 
Ian. 8:20; 54 18: 42:9. The Bible 
foretells the future. lea. 46:9, 10: 
I'rov. 2-S-5; 1st 29:13. The Talmud 
le not the writings of one man, nor of 
a mere set of men: it was not formed 
In a day. In a month. or in a year. It 
was a growth and a development of the 
sayings of the supposedly great teachers. 
BIBLE STUDIES WITH JEWS* 
(Outlines Arranged by J. M. Hoffman) 
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covering a period of many centuries. 
The Talmud was begun soon after the 
return of the Jews from the Babylonian 
captivity several centuries before Christ, 
and was completed about the middle of 
the fourth century after Christ. The 
Talmud consists of two general divi-
sions: the "Mishna," a commentary or 
text on the Old Testament Scriptures, 
containing nearly five thousand Mish-
nayoth, sections, or traditions; and the 
Gemara, the commentary of the Mishna, 
containing hundreds and thousands of 
laws, illustrations, allegories, commen-
taries, and a lot of other definable and 
indefinable sayings on anything and 
everything. There are two Talmuds, 
known as the "Talmud Jerushalmi," or 
Jerusalem Talmud; "Talmud Bo-vel," or 
Babylonian Talmud, so called because 
the men who commented on the Mishna 
dwelt at Jerusalem and at Babylon. 
Dan. 1 :1, 2; 2 Chron. 36:14-21. The 
Jews on account of their sins were sent 
into Babylonian captivity. 
Jer. 29:10 ; 25 :11, 12. Here they re-
mained in exile for seventy years. Dan. 
9:2. While in this state of captivity, 
the Scriptures were little known among 
them. They had very little of the word 
of God; occasionally a roll of the Scrip-
tures having been laid up by some very 
godly man. Ezra 10; Nehemiah 10, 13 
(only explain these chapters). By the 
study of the books of Nehemiah and 
Ezra, it will be seen that the people in 
general had greatly departed from the 
word of God in their captivity, and had 
lost sight of their worship of God. Ezra, 
Nehemiah, Mordecai, and other men of 
God, sought to bring about a restoration 
of the word of God to the people, and 
associated with them men who would 
teach the people the pure word of God. 
In the days of these leaders. the truth 
was held up before the people, and much 
good was accomplished ; but after their 
decease a new generation, as it were, 
arose, and these followed not in the 
ways of their predecessors ("Practical 
Lessons," pages 30, 31). Eze. 2:3. The 
Jewish people still use the Talmud. 
4tudy No. 9.-The Fulfillment of a Re-
mancable Bible Prophecy 
Prov. 30 :4 ; Dan. 3 :23-25. �
These 
texts prove that the Father has a Son. 
Isa. 7:14. Messiah to be born as a 
child and to be "God with us." Isa. 
9:6. Child to be "A Mighty God," "A 
Prince of Peace." Micah 5 :2. He was 
to be born in the town of Bethlehem, 
in the state of Judah. Gen. 49:10. 
Born of the tribe of Judah. Zech. 12:8. 
He was a descendant of royal family of 
David. Zech. 9:9. To come riding on 
an ass into Jerusalem. Isa. 53. His 
sufferings foretold, and in verse 10 He 
was an offering for stn. Dan. 9 :26 
(first part). He was to be an offering 
for sin. 
June 3-Earnestness in Soul 
Winning 
"Ha that winneth souls is wise." 
Prov. 11:30. The wisest and most far-
reaching choice that a person can make 
is to become a Christian-a follower 
of Christ. Such a choice involves be-
coming a living witness for Christ, 
ever seeking to bring others to Him, 
and accepting Him as a personal 
Saviour. One of the essential quali-
fications of a Christian soul winner is 
earnestness. A worker for Christ 
should go about the Master's business 
Dan. 9:24, 25. The decree went into 
effect 4561A �
; 70 weeks, or 490 years, 
were determined, or cut off for the Jews. 
The things mentioned were all fulfilled 
by Christ within the 70 weeks. The 70 
weeks were divided into seven weeks, 
sixty-two weeks, and one week. Seven 
weeks and 62 weeks, or 483 years, 
reached to Messiah. Subtracting 45131A 
years from 483, leaves 26/ A.n., or 
27 A.n., the date for the Messiah. The 
Hebrew word "Messiah" in English is 
"anointed ;" the 483 years reached to 
the Anointed One. 
Dan, 9:27 (first part). In4 the midst 
of the 70th week, Messiah 
was to be 
cut off," and "cause the sacrifice to 
cease." He was to confirm the covenant 
for one week, and yet be cut off in the 
midst of the week. Num. 14 :34 Eze. 
4 :6. A day a year. Isa. 42 :1 ; Isa. 
49 :6 ; Isa. 60:3, The light was to go 
to the Gentiles because the Jews re-
jected their own Messiah. (See Isa. 
53 :6 ; Gal. 3 :29.) 
Study No. 10.-The Old and New Tene-
ments as One Book 
Isa. 8 :20 ; Ps. 110 :11 ; Jer. 31 :31 
2 Tim. 3 :16 ; Heb. 1 :1, 2; Luke 24;27 
Luke 16:31 ; Matt. 5 :17, 19 ; Rev. 12 
17 ; Rev. 22 :14. 
Study No. 11.-The Two Lowe 
Introduction : Col, 2 :14. 
I. Two distinct codes of law set forth 
in Scripture: 1. Moral. 2. Cere-
monial. 
II. Spoken by: 1. Moral or ten Com-
mandment Law. Deut. 4 :12, 13; 
5 :22. 2. Ceremonial or law of Ordi-
nances. Lev. 7:37, 38; Eph. 2:15. 
III. 
Written on : 1. Moral law : Ex. 
31 :18 ; Dent. 4 :13. 2. Ceremonial 
law. 2 Chron. 35 :12. 
IV. Where placed: 1. Moral law. Ex. 
40 :20. 2. Ceremonial law. Dent. 
31 :25. 26. 
V. Character of the two: 1. Moral 
law. Ps. 19:7, 2. Ceremonial law. 
Heb. 7 :19. 
VI. Perpetuity: 1. Moral law. Ps. 
111 :7, 8. 2. Ceremonial law. Col. 
2 :14. 
VII. Messiah's Attitude: 1. Moral law. 
Matt. 5 :17. �
2. Ceremonial law. 
Eph. 2:15. 
VIII. 
Moral law gives knowledge of 
sin. Rom. 3 :20 ; Rom. 7:7. Cere-
monial law instituted in conse-
quence of sin. Lev. 3 :7. 
Study No. 12.-The 2300 Days. 
Dan. 8:14, 27 (Num. 14 :34 ' • Eze. 4 :6. 
; 
Day a year) Dan. 9 :21-24 ; Dan. 9:25 
(first part) ; Ezra 7 :12, 13; Dan. 9 :27 ; 
Matt. 24 :3, 29, 34 ; • 2 Tim. 3 :1-5 ; 
2 Peter 3 :3, 4 ; Matt. 24 :44, 50, 51. 
(Use diagram of 2300 days as appears 
on page 99 of "How to Give Bible Read-
ings.") 
as though it were a life-or-death 
matter; for so it is. We are living in 
a time when "intense earnestness 
should now take possession of us. 
Our slumbering energies should be 
aroused to untiring effort.. . My 
brother, my sister, is it nothing to you 
to know that every day souls are going 
down into the grave unwarned and 
unsaved, ignorant of their need of 
eternal life and of the atonement made 
for them by the Saviour? Is it noth-
ing to you that soon the world is to 
meet Jehovah over His broken law? 
Heavenly angels marvel that those who 
for so many years have had the light, 
have not carried the torch of truth into 
the dark places of the earth."-"Testi-
monies," Vol. IX, p. 44. 
"When we become as much in 
earnest to rescue our friends and dear 
ones from eternal death as we are to 
save them from physical suffering and 
death, then we shall see the rapid 
spread of the kingdom of Christ. A 
man falls overboard from the deck of 
a vessel, and his wife screams, 'Stop 
the boat! My husband is drowning!' 
No one would criticize the woman for 
her passionate cry, or command her to 
keep still. It is natural for her to cry 
out for help. And when the church 
of Christ becomes thoroughly awake to 
the worth of a soul and the awful 
danger to which all out of Christ are 
exposed, it will be the most natural 
thing in the world to manifest an 
undying earnestness in seeking the 
lost. Then propriety, reticence, re-
straint, and rules of rhetoric will be 
thrown to the winds, and a divine 
passion will possess the life. The 
world may sneer at its fanaticism, but 
it is the fanaticism of Pentecost"-
Mahood, "Art of Soul Winning." 
June 10-Patience in Soul 
Winning 
THERE are many texts of Scripture 
which reveal the patience of God in 
dealing with sinners. The apostle 
James gives one illustration of divine 
patience when he refers to the earthly 
husbandman. We read: "Behold, the 
husbandman waiteth for the precious 
fruit of the earth, and hath long 
patience for it, until he receive the 
early and latter rain." And then he 
adds, "Be ye also patient." James 
5:7, 8. This brings to mind the long-
suffering and patience of God in wait-
ing for the harvest of souls. Where 
we put forth one effort to win a soul, 
the Holy Spirit strives continually. 
We are exhorted, "Be ye also patient," 
We must never forget that though 
some will accept the message of life, 
there are many who will reject it. But 
we can never tell what the final out-
come is to be, and we are never to be-
come discouraged or to give up. An 
inward struggle may have been going 
on in the heart for years. Many a 
prayer has not been answered until 
after the death of the one who prayed. 
Faith and prayer will avail in God's 
own time, and we can wait and trust. 
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Vol. 26, No. 6 
Plan Well and Plan Ahead 
BY STEEN RASMUSSEN 
As we enter into the summer 
months, our busy group of lay preach-
ers will hardly be able to carry on 
their work as systematically and effec-
tively as during the autumn and 
winter seasons. However, here and 
there, some lay preacher can possibly 
secure a small tent for a series of 
meetings, or can construct a little 
open-air platform and have the meet-
ing place fenced in and provided with 
some inexpensive benches or boards. 
In case of inclement weather, of 
course, such a meeting place when un-
covered is not serviceable. Perhaps a 
barn can be fitted up out in the coun-
try to serve the needs for evening 
meetings. 
The summer months, however, 
should be utilized by the lay preacher 
in gathering helpful material for his 
fall and winter effort, and in planning 
carefully for the same. It is always a 
great advantage to have sermon ma-
terial, helps, and other matters well 
arranged beforehand, so that when the 
time comes for starting the effort, the 
lay preacher will have quite an 
abundance of helpful material from 
which to draw. 
As we have expressed so often be-
fore through the columns of THE LAY 
PREACHER, we desire to emphasize 
anew the special importance and value 
of the personal touch with the people 
in their homes, and the extraordinary 
value of the Bible reading in the 
family circle. Plans should be made 
with this indispensable part of soul-
winning work in view. 
Study Helps 
We are giving herewith some sug- 
gestions in regard to service material. 
1. A good concordance. Cruden's 
Concordance is about as serviceable as 
any. Walker's is also well arranged 
and quite complete. 
2. A small Bible encyclopedia, of 
which there are quite a number on the 
market. Both the concordance and the 
little encyclopedia can easily be picked 
up in any well-assorted second-hand 
bookstore. 
3. Piles of Present Truth, Signs of 
the Times, Watchman Magazine, and 
other of our denominational publica-
tions also contain helpful material for 
the construction of good, well-rounded 
Bible studies. 
4. Denominational Books.—"Bible 
Reading's for the Home Circle," "How 
to Give Bible Readings," "Johnson's 
Bible Textbook," "Helps to Bible 
Study," and others which might be 
recommended. 
Study Outlines 
In developing and constructing the 
outline for the Bible reading proper, 
there are certain rules which should 
be observed: 
1. Be sure to search diligently in the 
Bible in regard to the teachings, not 
only in one text, but in several texts, 
or in as many as can profitably be 
studied which bear on the subject 
chosen. 
2. Be sure to make plain what the 
text says, why it is stated thus, and 
how it can be applied in the specific 
case with which you are dealing. 
3. Do not use too many texts of 
Scripture. While no infallible rule 
can be laid down as to the number of 
Scripture passages to be used in any 
one Bible reading, it is better to use 
too few than too many. Only the most 
striking and representative passages 
should be chosen. 
4. Be careful to arrange the texts in 
their logical order. Let progress in 
thought mark the order and arrange-
ment of the references. The transition 
from one thought to another should be 
natural, not forced or strained. 
5. Explain each passage or group of 
passages in their proper setting and 
with sufficient detail. Be sure to un- 
derstand just what the text teaches. 
Let the explanation be such that the 
people can readily understand it. 
6. Be sure to illustrate each point. 
This is a very essential factor in the 
effectiveness of a Bible reading; even 
more so, perhaps, than in delivering a 
sermon. As a rule, use Bible illustra-
tions. There is an abundance of them, 
and they illustrate truth far better 
than illustrations taken from books 
of stock illustrations. 
7. Limit your subject or your read-
ing. If your subject deals with a 
large and perhaps somewhat compli-
cated theme, such as the sanctuary 
question, the law and the gospel, the 
change of the Sabbath from Saturday 
to Sunday, it is best to take up only 
a certain phase of your subject in one 
reading, then continue and conclude it 
in a second, third, or fourth study. 
There are some subjects which it 
would be detrimental to endeavor to 
cover in one reading. 
S. Be sure that at the conclusion of 
each study a tactful, persona/ appeal 
is made to the individual or individ-
uals to give consent to the truths pre-
sented and to accept the teachings set 
forth. Too often this feature is over-
looked and much of the benefit of the 
reading is lost. The aim of every 
study should be to bring the people 
into obedient harmony with the mes-
sage presented. 
We believe that our lay preachers 
would do well to work out a number of 
Bible studies with some of these and 
other points and suggestions in mind; 
then go over them carefully and revise 
them accordingly and have them in 
readiness for use whenever an oppor-
tunity presents itself or an occasion 
arises for the giving of Bible studies. 
Lay Evangelism in China 
THE following suggestive and in-
spiring experience appeared in the 
Chima Division Reporter: "A new de-
sire to work for God has been created 
in a number of the churches. In one 
chapel a young boy, who had just been 
graduated from the Union Training 
Institute, called together all the church 
members and believers, and secured 
their cooperation and help in working 
all the villages in the near-by territory. 
They went out in bands and held street 
meetings and gave out tracts. In one 
village fifty families have decided to 
(Continued on page 14) 
BREAK THE CORDS OF INDIFFERENCE 
"Law those who have become sleepy and INDIFFERENT, Awake!"— 
"Testtmonies," Vol. IX, p. 251. 
"Eternity stretches before us. The 
curtain is about to be lifted. What 
aro we thinking of, that we cling to 
our selfish love of ease, while all 
around us souls are perishing? 
"Have our hearts become utterly 
callous? 
"Can we not see and understand that 
we have a work to do in behalf of 
others? ... 
"Do you believe the declarations of 
His word concerning what is coming 
upon the world? 
"Do you believe that God's judgments 
are hanging over the inhabitants of 
the earth! 
"How, then, can you sit at ease, careless and INDIFFERENT,"—Id., 
pp. 26, 27. 
"Let no one think he is at liberty to fold his hands and do nothing. 
That anyone can be saved in indolence and inactivity is an utter int-
possibility."—"Christian Service," p. 83. 
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June 10—Patience in Soul 
Winning 
(Continued from page 10) 
"When those for whom you labor do 
not exactly meet your mind, you often 
say in your heart, 'Let them go; they 
RTC not worth saving.' What if Christ 
had treated poor outcasts in a similar 
manner! He died to save miserable 
sinners, and if you work in the same 
spirit and in the same manner indi-
cated by the example of Him whom 
you follow, leaving the results with 
God, you can never in this life measure 
the amount of good you have accom-
plished."—"Testignotties," Vol. IV, p. 
132. 
"We become too easily discouraged 
over the souls who do not at once re-
spond to our efforts. Never should we 
cease to labor for a soul while there 
is one gleam of hope. Precious souls 
cost our self-sacrificing Redeemer too 
dear a price to be lightly given up to 
the tempter's power."—"Ministry of 
Healing," p. 168. 
June 17—Personal Testimonies 
and Experiences 
THE "Poster Sermonette" for this 
month (seen below) suggests that 
there may be two classes of people in 
the church--those whose hands are 
bound by indifference, and those who 
are active in service for Christ. While 
possibly a few of the former class may 
be found within our ranks, we are 
happy to know that the majority of 
the church members are diligently 
working for the Master and are having 
blessed experiences. In many church 
missionary services on the third Sab- 
bath of the month, and also in general 
missionary meetings, as at the camp 
meeting, not only are varied mission- 
ary experiences related, but often the 
fruitage of efforts is evidenced by men 
and women who have been won 
through personal missionary endeavor. 
Many times reports come in from the 
churches in regard to the weekly mis-
sionary services, bearing the state-
ment, "Many were present, with the 
persons they had won to the truth," 
These are days when the seed sowing 
is often followed by quick harvest; 
and what great joy is afforded as we 
come bringing in the sheaves one by 
one. There are many avenues into the 
harvest field, and there is so much to 
do, that "every sanctified heart will be 
pressed into service," A Seventh-day 
Adventist brother who had lost both 
his hands found himself handicapped 
seemingly in every way. But his heart 
was aglow with love for the truth, and 
he felt impressed to do something to 
carry the printed page of truth to 
others. He asked his wife to fill his 
coat pockets with tracts; then he went 
to a small town where there were no 
Sabbathkeepers, and knocked on the 
dpor of each house with his elbow. 
'When the doors were opened, he 
apologized for not removing his hat, 
but told the people, "I have a message 
for you. It is in my pocket. Please 
take it, for, as you see, I am unable 
to hand it to you." This missionary 
brother soon found interested people, 
and a mission Sabbath sehool of 
twenty members was organized. Three 
of the members of the Sabbath school 
have been baptized. "God will do the 
work if we furnish Him the instru-
ments." What service have we ren-
dered at His bidding during the past 
week or month? 
June 24—Perseverance in Soul 
Winning 
"BE thou faithful unto death"—
faithful in testifying for Christ and 
righteousness, faithful in soul win-
ning—is a sacred charge which carries 
with it the promise of a "crown of 
life." Rev. 2:10. It has been said truly 
that "there will be no starless crown." 
Christ met with strongest opposition 
from the very beginning of His minis-
try, and this opposition increased each 
year until His crucifixion; but He 
never gave the semblance of defeat. 
He would not permit discouragement 
to seize upon Him. Ever seeking to 
point souls to the Father, He toiled on 
untiringly until His ministry closed. 
But IIis very earnestness, faith, and 
perseverance caused thousands to be-
lieve and follow His teaching before 
His death on the cross, and hundreds 
of thousands very shortly after. 
We should learn a lesson of perse-
verance from Christ's ministry. He 
knew that His cause was righteous, 
that He must bear faithful witness, 
and that the fruits seen while He was 
still on earth were but the beginning 
of the great host of the redeemed 
who should praise Him throughout 
eternity. He said, "As thou hast sent 
Me into the world, even so have I also 
sent them into the world." Wo are to 
"sow beside all waters," and when ap-
parent defeat is met in one experience 
or place, we must chock our weak-
nesses, claim new promises from 
above, and start in elsewhere. Neither 
must we desert old, tried methods for 
new fancies. 
We must toil on till the last, faithful 
and persevering, though we may not 
see the results. We may see the fruits 
of but one soul won to Christ, but that 
one soul may in turn win a thousand or 
more. Only God can weigh accurately 
the eternal results of sincere loyalty. 
W. A. BUTLER. 
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Departmental Activities 
Transforming Power of Foreign-
Language Literature 
WORLD events of the most startling 
nature are taking place all about us. 
Our oyes behold and our ears hoar 
that which for long we have known 
wholly by faith. But there are scenes 
taking place in human hearts which 
are hidden from sight and sound, which 
are revealed to us through the pen of 
inspiration in the following forceful 
language: 
"I was shown men and women 
studying with intense interest papers 
and a few pages of tracts upon present 
truth. They would read the evidences 
so wonderful and new to them, and 
would open their Bibles with a deep 
and new interest.... As they searched 
the Scriptures to see if these things 
were so, a new light shone upon their 
understanding, for angels were hover-
ing over them, and impressing their 
minds with the truths contained in the 
publications they had been reading. 
I saw them holding papers and tracts 
in one hand, and the Bible in the 
other, while their cheeks were wet 
with tears; and bowing before God in 
earnest, humble prayer, to be guided 
into all truth,—the very thing He was 
doing for them before they called upon 
Him. And when the truth was re-
ceived in their• hearts, and they saw 
the harmonious chain of truth, the 
Bible was to them a new book."—
"Life Sketches," pp. 314, 215. 
Today the printed page of truth is 
available in many languages, and our 
faithful colporteurs and members of 
our churches are scattering this litera-
ture far and wide. Everywhere, in 
all countries of the world, men and 
women are found who are anxiously 
praying for light. The writer well 
remembers when the third angel's mes-
sage first entered Southeastern Europe, 
in 1898. Among the first to accept the 
message was an aged Rumanian 
brother who had been a member of 
the Baptist Church. This man was 
unable to read the Bible, but lie had 
a keen and retentive memory, and did 
not forget what others read to him. 
One day he said to his Baptist min-
ister, "Pastor, will you do me a favor? 
You have been reading the Bible to 
us, and you have always read about 
the seventh-day Sabbath: now please 
read to us what the Bible says about 
Sunday." "Why, brother," the pastor 
replied, "I cannot read to you about 
Sunday in the Bible, for the word 
'Sunday' is not in the Bible." "Really, 
is it not!" exclaimed the old man. 
"Then I want you to know that after 
this I shall observe the day which can 
be read out of the Bible." 
This illiterate but very faithful 
brother was one of the first of our 
Rumanian believers. At that time 
we did not have even one church in 
Rumania. This brother seemed a sup-
ply of all our literature then issued 
in the Rumanian language, and went 
from house to house showing the tracts 
and papers to the people and asking 
them to read to him. Many of his 
readers became interested, and it was 
not long until several churches were 
organized, as the result of the faithful 
and sincere efforts of this old saint. 
And this is only one of many expe-
riences which show how doors and 
hearts were opened to the message 
through the reading of our literature. 
In Southeastern Europe during those 
early days we were not permitted to 
do public work, but the printed page 
prepared the hearts of the people and 
opened the way for the messengers of 
truth, and today we are reaping the 
harvest in these lands in every part 
of Europe. 
Treasure Every Fragment 
livery fragment of truth-filled liter-
ature is to be regarded as of value. 
"In the miracle of feeding the multi-
tude with a few loaves and fishes, the 
food was increased as it passed from 
Christ to those who received it. Thus 
it will be in the distribution of our 
literature. God's truth, as it is passed 
out, will multiply greatly. And as the 
disciples, by Christ's direction, gath-
ered up the fragments, that nothing 
might be lost, so we should treasure 
every fragment of literature contain-
ing the truth for this time. None can 
estimate the influence that even a torn 
page containing the truths of the third 
angel's message may have upon the 
heart of some seeker after truth."—
"Christian. Service," pp. 153, 154. 
To illustrate the truth of this state-
ment, I wish to relate the following 
incident: 
"When one of our eolporteurs en-
tered the home of a Hungarian family 
in Czecho-Slovakia, he was surprised to 
have the woman of the house, without 
waiting for him to finish his canvass, 
step to a drawer of the bookcase and 
bring out a fragment of a page of the 
Hungarian missionary magazine. This 
piece of paper was handed over to the 
eolporteur, and the woman explained 
by saying: "Some time ago I pur-
chased a mirror. As I was fastening 
it to the wall it fell out of my hands 
and was completely shattered. This I 
considered a bad omen, but it proved 
to be not a curse, but a blessing. As 
I began picking up the pieces, there 
dropped out from the frame this scrap 
of printed paper, and my eye caught 
the lines of a poem. This was what I 
read: �
' 
" 'Behold, behold the Lamb of God, 
On the cross, on the cross ; 
For you He shed His precious blood, 
On the cross, on the cross.' 
The words burned into my soul as 
nothing ever had before. At the bot-
tom of the page I found the address 
of the publishing house in Budapest, 
and I sent for more literature." 
This woman was very happy to wel-
come the living messenger of God's 
truth, and it was not long until she 
united with the church. Yes, even 
fragments of truth-filled literature oft-
times work miracles. 
Thief Converted Through 
Stolen Book 
From another part of the world 
comes the story of a man who was at 
one time a thief, who made it his 
business to bfeak into houses and carry 
away the spoils. On one such venture 
he hastily gathered up everything in 
sight, and later found that he had car-
ried away a book bearing a strange 
title. Although this book was not 
what he wanted, his curiosity led him 
to glance through it. A power seemed 
to grip his attention, for he had never 
read anything like this before. The 
still small voice of conscience seemed to 
speak the message, "Steal no more." 
Then the battle began to rage between 
right and wrong. Today that man is 
no longer a thief, but a humble, happy 
child of God, spending his life in sell-
ing truth-filled literature. 
Let us be faithful in the literature 
ministry until the work is done. 
J. F. HUENERGARDT. 
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Study Outlines on "The Great 
Controversy" 
For the Month of June 
BY D. E. ROBINSON 
Chapter 9-"The Swiss Reformer" 
1. Wycliffe, Huss, Jerome, and 
Luther appeared successively as Re-
formers. A century and a half has 
been covered by their work, up to the 
Diet of Worms. Zwingle was a con-
temporary of Luther, and, though a 
leader, was but one of several who 
arose in the cantons of Switzerland, 
moved by the same Spirit of God to 
take their place as leaders in the great 
reform movement. 
2. "In Germany the monarchial 
principle predominated; in Switzer-
land, the democratic. In Germany the 
Reformation had to struggle with the 
will of princes; in Switzerland, 
against the wishes of the people. An 
assembly of men, more easily carried 
away than a single individual, is also 
more rapid in its decisions. The vic-
tory over the Papacy, which cost years 
of struggle beyond the Rhine, required 
on this side but a few months and 
sometimes only a few days."-D'Ait-
biome, book 8, chap. 1. 
3. What are two essential charac-
teristics of men whom God can use in 
His service? Why can God so seldom 
find men of influence and learning 
with these qualifications? 171:9 
[195:1]. 
4. How did an aged and humble 
relative help to mold the mind of 
Zwingle as a child? 171:2 [196:1]. 
5. To what place was he sent for 
education, and why was he recalled? 
172:1, 2 [196:2, 3]. 
6. To whom was Zwingle indebted 
for the first rays of advanced light, 
and what was the source of this light? 
173:1 [197:1]. 
7. What helpful thoughts regarding 
the study of the Scriptures can be 
gleaned from Zwingle's experience? 
173:2-174:1 [197:2-198:1]. 
8. What striking feature of the 
Reformation and of the great second 
advent awakening gives evidence of 
divine guidance in each? 174:2, 
140:3; 212:1-3; 357:1 [198:2; 161: 
1; 244:1-3; 409:1]. 
9. In what way did the work of 
Zwingle at Einsiedeln decrease his 
financial support/ 174:3475:3 [198: 
3-199:3]. 
10. When called to the cathedral in 
Zurich, how did he relate himself to 
the instruction given by those who had 
invited him? 176:3-4 [200:2-201:2]. 
11. Who was the chief pardon 
monger of Switzerland at that time, 
and what success did he have in 
Zurich? 178:4-179:1 [203:2, 3]. 
12. How did Zwingle, before the 
Council of Zurich, reply to two repre-
sentations of the deputies from the 
bishop of Constance, and what was the 
attitude of the Council? 180:3-181:2 
[205:1, 2]. 
13. Why did he not appear to 
champion the cause in the disputation 
at Baden? How did he, in his absence, 
make his influence felt? Contrast the 
appearance of Oecalampadius and Eck 
at the discussion, also the difference in 
their appeals. What was the result of 
the discussion? 182:1484:2 [207:3-
209:3]. 
Chapter 10-"Progress of Reform 
in Germany" 
1. Did the disappearance of Luther 
help or hinder the work of the Ref-
ormation? 185:3 [212:1]. 
2. What was Melanehthon's first at-
titude toward the claims of some to the 
prophetic gift? Were any who were 
really honest, deceived by the move-
ment? What are the tests by which 
such a claim may be judged? 186:1-
187:3 [212:2-214:2; 217:2, 3]. 
3. How was this fanaticism finally 
ended? 190:2 [217:1]. 
4. On what occasion did Luther ad-
vocate the principles of religious lib-
erty, and how did he state them? 
189:4-190:1 [216:2-4]. 
5. What is said to be "one of 
Satan's most successful devices to cast 
reproach upon purity and truth"? 
193:1 [221:1]. 
6. NoTY.-/n some present-day Re-
called "reform movements" we see 
manifested the same characteristics 
that marked the work of Thomas Mum-
zer and his associates. Note the follow-
ing: Possessed with desire to reform; 
ambitious for position and influence; 
claimed to see intenders manifestation 
of a "form of popery;" claimed a 
"divine commission to introduce the 
true ref orm ;" were governed by iim-
pressions; appealed to men's "desire 
for the marvelous;" denounced order 
in public worship; reviled the leaders 
who opposed them; appealed for and 
won sympathy by claim of unjust 
treatment; made great claims to holi-
ness and sanctification. 191:1-193:1 
[217:4-221:2]. 
1. NOTE.-Though great credit is 
rightly given to the leader of the Ref- 
ormation, yet the peak of the success 
and the spirituality of that movement 
was reached when an army of laymen, 
"persons of all ranks," with the Scrip-
tures and message-filled literature 
went everywhere preaching the Word. 
195:2 [224:2]. Compare the move-
ment with that described in "Testi-
monies," Vol. IX, p. 126. 
, Chapter 11-"Protest of the 
Princes" 
1. The vacillating emperor, Charles 
V, had for a time turned toward the 
Reformation, and his armies had 
marched into Rome and sacked the city 
in May, 1527. Following this, the 
French armies were pushing him bard, 
and he thought to strengthen his posi-
tion by again seeking the favor of 
Rome. It was to this end that the Diet 
of Spires of 1529 was called. 
2. During the interlude of compara-
tive peace and religious liberty, the 
Reform movement had become unified, 
and church order bad been established. 
3. How may it be shown that the 
Turks, the French, and even the pope, 
helped the cause of the Reformation 
in Germany? 197:2 [227:2]. (See 
also Rev. 12:15, 16.) 
4. What were the demands of the 
two parties to the controversy at the 
Diet, and what compromise was pro-
posed? 199:1, 2 [229:2, 3]. 
5. With what plausible arguments 
might this compromise have been ac-
cepted? What principles of truth 
would have been thus yielded? 199 :4-
200 :1 [230:1, 2]. 
6. In the final test of strength, 
which party was in the majority? 
201:2 [231:2]. 
7. To whom did the minority ap-
peal? 202:2 [232:3]. 
8. Against what two abuses was the 
protest to the Council directed? 202:4-
203:4 [233:1-234:2]. 
9. In what way is the experience of 
these Reformers a lesson for our time? 
204:2 [235:1]. 
10. What illustration do we have of 
the power of music? 206:1 [236:2]. 
11. In what assembly was the "Con-
fession, of Faith" finally read? 205:4; 
207:1 [236:1; 238:1]. 
12. Was Luther responsible for the 
blood that flowed in the conflicts be-
tween the German States and the 
enemies of the Reformation? 209:1, 3 
[240:1, 3]. 
Lay Evangelism in China 
(Continued from page 11) 
keep the Sabbath, and now the old 
village temple bell that formerly called 
the people to the worship of Buddha, 
rings every Sabbath morning to call 
the people together for Sabbath school 
and church services. As the result of 
the work of these lay members in re-
sponse to the call of the young brother, 
twenty-one persons are being prepared 
for baptism. Similar results could 
and would be seen in every chapel and 
church if the members were aroused to 
their responsibility, and led to realize 
the part which God would have them 
act in this closing work." 
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°Jung [Peoples department 
of Missionary Volunteers 
OFFICERS' NOTES 
June 
Special Holiday Plans 
IT
OTING people like to be doing 
something—something out of 
the ordinary. They will plan 
good times for themselves on 
special holidays, but will their "good 
times" be really "good"? Here Mis-
sionary Volunteer leaders can show 
their thoughtfulness by keeping ahead 
of the young people and planning at an 
early date for the Fourth of July in 
the United States or for Dominion 
Day, July 1, in Canada.' This we are 
instructed to do in the Spirit of proph-
ecy. (See "Messages to Young Peo-
ple," pp. 392, 393.) 
Missionary Volunteer leaders, why 
not plan something worth while now 
—for example' 
 an outing in nature's 
great outdoors? Endeavor to keep all 
your young people away from demoral-
izing gatherings in the cities. Keep 
them together by taking them out into 
nature, and there provide for them 
innocent recreation. Help the young 
people in providing plain but whole-
some food for the outing. 
And do not forget to cooperate with 
the church pastor and church officers 
in all plans you may lay. 
D. A. Owls. 
What M.V. Officers Can Do 
TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE TO ATTEND A 
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 
IN many of our Missionary Volun-
teer Societies are young people who 
might to be in one of our Christian 
schools. The reasons they are not 
there may vary to some extent, but 
usually they fall under one or the 
other of the following three heads: 
indifference, attitude of parents, or 
finances. 
In helping these young people, our 
first move should be to find out, by 
friendly association and fellowship 
with them, what is their attitude 
toward Christian education and our 
schools. Sincere friendliness on our 
part will lead them to reveal to us 
their real attitude, which will be very 
helpful to us in assisting them. 
If they reveal indifference toward a 
Christian education, indicating that 
they don't see any particular differ-
ence between the secular school they 
are attending and a Christian school, 
I think the distinctive differences 
should be pointed out to them. An- 
other helpful plan would be to ar-
range for these young people to visit 
one of our schools, if they have never 
been to any of them. Many of our 
schools have special occasions when 
young people are invited in to the 
school and entertained over a period of 
two or three days. 
If the problem of some of the young 
people is to finance themselves at one 
of our schools, then that matter should 
be studied with them and assistance 
be given to them in getting in touch 
with the school in their vicinity, or 
with the field representative of the 
school who may come through that 
way. 
In case it is found that the parents 
are opposed to the young man or 
woman's going to one of our schools, 
then I think opportunity should be 
sought to talk with the parents, trying 
first to find out why they are opposed. 
Then evidence could be presented to 
them as to the importance of Chris-
tian education to their young people 
in their training as well as in their 
ultimate salvation. 
Reference material which might be 
used and ref erred to, is suggested as 
follows: "Messages to Young People;" 
"Counsels to Teachers;" Educational 
Leaflets No. 21, "The Peril of World-
liness in Education;" No. 22, "Why 
Our Own Schools?" and No. 29, "Edu-
cational Seed Thoughts Worth Know-
ing and Remembering;" and "Cru-
cifying Christ in Our Colleges," by 
Gilbert. �
J. E. WEAVER. 
How to Carry on Temperance 
Rallies 
THERE never has been a greater 
necessity than in the present hour to 
carry on a campaign of temperance 
education among the youth of America. 
Every conceivable effort is put forth 
by the liquor interests to exploit the 
youth of America and induce them to 
become users of alcoholic beverages. 
Our young people have a wonderful 
opportunity to lead out in a counter 
campaign to save the youth of America 
from becoming addicts and victims of 
alcoholism, as well as of narcotics. 
The only question is how to do this 
campaign work in temperance educa-
tion successfully. 
One of the most effective ways is to 
hold temperance rallies in our own 
churches and church schools and train 
our young people to give temperance 
programs in the public schools. Excel-
lent material is available for such pro-
grams. All that is needed is someone 
of mature judgment and tact who 
knows how to select and assemble this 
material and fit it into a program. 
Mrs. D. E. Robinson, of Takoma Park, 
Washington, D.C., has done some ex-
cellent work of this nature for the 
Juniors. She has prepared three lec-
tures illustrated by the still-film pro-
jector, which can be given by any 
Junior who is specially trained for this 
purpose. The lectures could also be 
divided into sections and the parts 
assigned to different young people. 
Two such lectures illustrated by the 
still-film projector have been prepared 
by L. A. Hansen, General Conference, 
Takoma Park, for Seniors and high-
school students, which could easily be 
given by some keen student of this age 
level. The young people can reach 
those around their own age more 
readily than can older persons. 
Some public schools are eager to 
have these programs given especially 
by the young people. They will even 
allow our youth to enter these public 
schools and high schools and organize 
Temperance Councils—a work similar 
to that which the 1W.C.T.TI. is doing 
in this respect—training the young 
people in the public schools and high 
schools to give these illustrated tem-
perance lectures. Some adult, respon-
sible for the Junior or Senior work 
in our churches, ought to be in charge 
of these programs, and properly train 
the young people and secure openings 
for them in outside schools. 
This plan has been tried in numerous 
localities, and excellent results have 
been obtained in getting the students 
in the public schools and high schools 
to sign the total-abstinence pledge—
not to touch, taste, or handle alcoholic 
beverages, nor to use cigarettes. 
Our temperance literature should be 
placed in public-school and high-school 
libraries, and this can readily be ac-
complished after a temperance pro-
gram has been presented to the stu-
dents in these schools. 
C. S. LONGACRE. 
If I Were Society Librarian— 
I 'WOULD- 
1. Become acquainted with the books 
in the society library. 
2. Try to find among the society 
members any books missing from past 
Missionary Volunteer Reading Courses, 
so that those persons desiring to com-
plete past courses might have the 
privilege of doing so. (Consult M.V. 
Leaflet 35.) 
3. Catalogue the library books ac-
cording to some simple method. 
4. Lend books systematically. 
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5. Ask the executive committee to 
purchase the current M.V. Reading 
Course books, and texts used in society 
study groups or classes, if they have 
not already done so. 
6. Try to instill in the hearts of the 
Missionary Volunteers a real love for 
reading helpful, worth-while books. 
7. Plan a Reading Course contest. 
a. Divide the society members into 
two or more groups. 
b. Set an opening and a closing date 
for the contest, 
c. Encourage each individual mem-
ber to read as many of the current 
M.V. Reading Course books as pos-
sible. 
d. Give each member the privilege of 
enlisting other youth also. 
e. Assign a certain number of pointS 
for each book read, and figure the 
winning side on points gained. 
f. Assist losing side to plan a recrea-
tional evening for winning side. 
8. Give intriguing reviews of worth-
while books. 
a. Seat at our library table a circle 
of "reporters" around a 'literature-
filled table. 
b. Present an animated ' catalogue, 
in which various publications come to 
life and speak in the first person. 
Introduce book personalities: 
characters from the books step from 
pages improvised by folding screens, 
and speak in, first person. 
9. Have a specially selected book-
shelf weekly or monthly of timely or 
intensely interesting and practical 
books, and lay special emphasis on 
them. 
10. Study the membership and plan 
for the individual needs of each mem-
ber, paying special attention to those 
who seem to be uninterested in reading. 
11. Consult M.V. Leaflet 34, "What 
Shall I Read?" for further suggestions 
of appropriate books for youth. 
12. Report to the society secretary 
each person completing any M.V. Read-
ing Course, with the number of the 
course; and apply for specified gift 
award when five Junior courses have 
been read. (See M.V. Leaflet 35, 
p. 9.) 
13. Work in cooperation With the 
Society Educational Secretary, or carry 
that work if called upon to do so. 
(See "Duties of Officers," M.V. Leaflet 
4, pp. 14, 15.) �
y. w. 
July Topics 
When Loyalties Conflict 
S You Are a Teacher 
Junior—You Are a Builder 
15 Open 
22 Am I a Christian? 
Junior—The Pattern Prayer 
29 Christian Education and Its Re- 
lation to Lifework 
New Song Booklet 
"SPECIAL SONGS OF THE MESSAGE," 
No. 1. If this octavia-size compila-
tion receives satisfactory sales, a see-
end number will be made available 
soon. Price, 50 cents. Order through 
your Book and Bible House. 
The Value of Christian 
Education 
(Program for June 3) 
BY J. P. NEFF 
OPENING EXERCISES. 
TALK: "The Value of a Christian 
Education." 
SPECIAL MUSIC, 
TALK: "A Preparation—For What I" 
TALK: "Ways and Means." 
READING: "Why Not Obtain an Edu- 
cation?" 
SvmPosium: "Ten Reasons." 
CLOSING EXERCISES. 
The Value of Christian 
Education 
EDUCATION is a complex growth of 
the mind, heart, and body. To evalu-
ate it is not a simple task. But there 
are certain broad features by which 
its value may be estimated. The 
evaluation of Christian education nec-
essarily involves a comparison of 
Christian and non-Christian, or secu-
lar, education. 
There are broad factors to be con-
sidered which vitally affect the quality 
and character of education: 
1. The teachers have a strong influ-
ence upon the character training of 
the students. Their precept and ex-
ample are ever before the youth. 
God-fearing men and women of Chris-
tian character, humanity loving and 
true, will draw their students nearer 
to Christ in faith and noble aspira-
tions. In these formative years the 
young life should be brought in con-
tact with teachers who are positive 
and strong in their faith and conduct. 
2. Christian teachers will guide the 
youth into correct ideas and the use 
of good judgment concerning private 
and social matters. 
3. The personnel of a student body 
has an important bearing on educa-
tion. Association with young men 
and young women who are preparing 
for a life of service greatly affects 
the life interests of a student. 
The most vital consideration in se-
curing an education is not a question 
of buildings, equipment, and courses 
of study, but one of environment and 
association with teachers as well as 
students. It is a question of those 
subtle influences and hidden forces, 
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which powerfully determine the cha - 
aeter, interests, desires, and decisions 
of one's life. The mental attitude of 
the student toward his studies and the 
school has a reflex action upon his 
own spirit. The atmosphere of the 
school has a molding influence upon 
his life and character. Think of the 
atmosphere of a school from which 
God and religion are eliminated in-
tentionally; in which no subject is 
studied from the standpoint of the in-
fluence and power of 'the Creator and 
Supreme Ruler of the universe or of 
the benign influence of the Christian 
religion; in which no subject is illu-
minated by the light of divine revela-
tion nor by the supernatural agencies 
that hover about us from infancy to 
the hour of death. No amount of 
scholarship and learning can in-
demnify for the leanness of soul and 
loss of the finer things of life which 
befall the student whose studies 'are 
divorced from God and religion. 
Knowledge apart from God leads into 
the pathway of departure from God 
and eternal values. 
In what kind of atmosphere do you 
want to develop? Do you want your 
soul to breathe in a pure social and 
religious atmosphere or in one pol-
luted with infidelity, morally contami-
nated, hopeless and godless? 
A Preparation—For What? 
ALL things that pertain to the ma-
terial life have only relative values. 
Some of these values can be expressed 
ill figures and standards of measure-
ment. But the spiritual values are 
more real than anything in the ma-
terial universe. These spiritual values 
are absolute, infinite, and transcendent. 
Christian education puts these spirit-
ual attainments first. They are the 
values that endure. 
Why should you attend one of our 
academies rather than a high school? 
Why should you go to our college 
rather than to a secular college or 
university? Every young person 
among us probably asks this question 
either orally or in his heart. The 
question is proper. Upon its answer 
rests, very likely, your choice of a 
life companion, of your life vocation, 
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the place where you will spend your 
life. Surely those aro questions of 
supremo moment to every young per-
son. The answers aro largely deter-
mined by the school you choose to 
attend. The school will shape your 
course in life. It will decide the char-
acter of the young people who arc to 
be your friends and associates. It 
will determine your life plans, work, 
and character. What you are when 
your education is completed will 
largely determine what you are to be 
down through the years, and will very 
likely determine your eternal destiny. 
Since the school has so much influ-
ence upon the life, it should be se-
lected with great care. 
The first objective of Christian edu-
cation is to establish Christ in the 
heart. Character, Christian ideals, 
personal worth, and a preparation to 
do God's work in the world are the 
chief objectives. Position, honor, 
wealth, and power, are held as sec-
ondary in importance in the Chris-
tian school. 
The chief objective of secular 
schools is to prepare their graduates 
to achieve worldly success in finance, 
to accumulate wealth, to fill positions 
of honor, to receive high recognition, 
and to win influence and power. That 
sounds good, does it nett—success, 
position, honor, power, wealth, dim 
tmetiont But what after that? 
Death, the judgment, eternity. Secu-
lar education makes no provision for 
the hereafter. It actually diverts the 
mind and heart from even an interest 
in the things of eternity. As the 
mind grows in knowledge, the soul 
starves and dies. 
Life, with those prospects only, is 
poor indeed. At the end of this life, 
the rich man, the man of influence, 
power, and position; the man who has 
achieved great things, the ripe scholar 
—all of these men must leave every-
thing behind them. They have lived 
their lives, they have won success as 
the world counts success, they have 
played the game of life and lost, and 
there is no other game to play. Gladly 
now would they exchange all they-
have attained for their own soul they 
might have saved, but have lost. 
"What is a man profited, if he shall 
gain the whole world, and lose his 
own soul t" 
In a Christian school, God, char-
acter, eternal life, and a preparation 
for Christian service aro first and 
fundamental aims. The motive back 
of a Christian education gives direc-
tion and character to all study. His-
tory is illuminated and given mean-
ing when the hand of God is Ma 
ruling in the affairs of men. In the 
study of science and nature, the stu-
dent is led to acknowledge God and 
not turn his back upon Him. The 
student trams the laws and forms of 
nature to their Creator, and the power, 
wisdom, and goodness of God are re-
vealed. 
Christian education aims so to train 
the student that he may find and know 
God, that he may choose salvation 
through Christ, servo Hint, and win 
eternal life for the hereafter. The 
unanswered challenge of Jesus re-
veals the absolute value of Christian 
education. "What shall a man give 
in exchange for his soul?" 
Ways and Means 
now may one with little or no 
money obtain an education? The 
fact that every year young men and 
young women with no financial sup-
port are getting an education in proof 
that it is not impossible. There is 
opportunity for some to work at the 
industries provided by the school. A 
number find employment in the school 
home, in the kitchen, the dining 
room, and in keeping the buildings or 
campus clean. Others can do typing 
and secretarial work. Students in 
the Junior and Senior years may cor-
rect papers for the teachers, assist in 
the library or laboratories. Some find 
work in the community. An increas-
ing number of girls find employment 
in homes -where they obtain their 
board and rosin, and enough money 
to pay for clothes and incidentals. In 
some instances they receive enough to 
pay their tuition also. 
There are opportunities to earn 
money during the summer vacation. 
Many sell books or magazines and 
earn part or all of their expenses for 
the next year. 
It may require a year or two longer 
to obtain an education if ono has to 
work for his expenses, but the time 
spent in school is not lost. A good 
education enables one to do a larger 
work ill the years that follow. The 
years required to obtain an education 
look long to many youth, but they 
will pass quickly, and all subsequent 
life will prove to be much more worth 
while than is possible without a Chris-
tian onducation. 
As you lay your plans to attend 
school this fall, choose the school 
tho great aim and purpose of which 
is to lead the student to think the 
thoughts of God. How great is the 
poverty of the knowledge of the man 
or woman who knows much about 
many things, but nothing about Godl 
How rich is the knowledge of the 
man or woman who knows God even 
if he knows little else) Oh, the rich-
ness, the strength, the sweetness, the 
glory, and the real grandeur of the 
life of ono who carries God foremost 
in all his thoughts, feelings, plans, 
and netivities—one who knows God, 
whom to know is life eternal. 
Why Not Obtain an Education? 
AGNES had worked hard all sum 
mer and saved her money so that she 
might attond one of our academies. 
September found her ready and am-
bitious for school, with one hundred 
dollars in the bank. 
She had made 
arrangements to work at the academy, 
and thus would be able to make all 
her own expenses. 
Verna, Agnes' chum, had spent the 
summer out at a beautiful lake, swim-
ming, fishing, and rowing. Upon her 
return home, she found Agnes all 
prepared for school. Verna was very 
much displeased to think she could 
not go along, and wished that she 
were as wealthy as Agnes. Why 
could not Verna have worked and 
economized as did Agnes? 
Every young person, I believe, may 
secure an education if he hail the will 
power and the ambition to work. 
The Lord desires us to obtain all 
the education possible, with the object 
in view of imparting our knowledge 
to others."—"Christ's Object Les-
sons," p. 33.1. 
This education may be gained at 
any of our academies or colleges. Do 
not wait for an opening; make one 
for yourself. Others have done it, 
why not ymiPaigne B. 031181% 
Ten Reasons 
WHY S.P.A. YOUNG PEOPLE SHOUPX 
ATTEND S.D.A. 8011001$ 
(As Maim by the students of one of our 
colleges) 
"'Oun public schools arc weak in 
practical religious teaching. . . . 
Jesus lived the one perfect life, and 
taught the one perfect moral code.'—
Baldwin's School Management. 'Edu-
cation acquired without Bible reli-
gion is disrobed of its true bright-
ness and glory.'—Mrs. E. O. White. 
The Bible is the basis of all true 
education. The Scriptures are taught 
and practiced in Seventh-day Advent-
ist schools." 
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"By attending Seventh-day Advent-
ist schools the young people are under 
the influence of present truth and are 
encouraged to remain in our ranks." 
"The 'field workers' come from our 
schools." 
"Worldly schools, with scarcely an 
exception, are permeated with new 
thought, evolution, Christian science, 
Spiritualism, higher criticism, and a 
dozen other isms. By attending 
worldly schools we place ourselves di-
rectly in the way of temptation and 
deception." 
"The association with Christian 
young people is a greater ,help in 
character building than one could 
hope to obtain from any source avail-
able in worldly schools." 
"It is the special business of Sev-
enth-day Adventist schools to educate 
and train missionaries. It is the 
business of every Seventh-day Ad-
ventist to be a missionary. Therefore 
our young people should go where 
they can obtain the best training for 
their future work," 
"Seventh-day Adventist young peo-
ple should not plan on going into the 
work without first obtaining an edu-
cation that will fit them to be proper 
representatives of the message. 'The 
times demand an intelligent, educated 
ministry, not novices.' "—Mrs. E. G. 
White, 
"'Heart education is of more im-
portance than the education gained 
from books!—Mrs. E. O. White. Sev-
enth-day Adventist schools stand for 
'the harmonious development of the 
physical, the mental, and the spiritual 
powers.' 
"'Three fourths of the benefit and 
inspiration in afterlife derived by the 
student while in school comes from the 
teacher.k—Prof . B. A. Sutherland. 
Seventh-day Adventist schools are 
manned by consecrated, Christian in-
structors." 
"Seventh-day Adventist young peo-
ple should attend Seventh-day Advent-
ist schools because they are unable in 
any other school to learn the princi-
ples of true Christian education. Edu-
cation other than this is worse than 
none, because it gives us a wrong view 
of life, of God, and of our duties to 
our Redeemer." 
gpg 
A NOBLE character is not the result 
of accident; it is not due to special 
favors or endowments of Providence. 
It is the result of self-discipline, of 
subjection of the lower to the higher 
nature, of the surrender of self to the 
service of God and man.—"Prophets 
and Kings," p. 488. 
vs' 
!min being very short, we ought to 
waste none of it in reading valueless 
books.—Bus7ctin. 
A Wonder World of Insects 
(Program for June 10) 
13Y FRANK E. MARSH 
OPENING EXERCISES. 
SCRIPTURE. (See Notes to Leaders.) 
TALK: "The Insect World." 
TALK: "Beetles—and Beetles." 
TALK: "The Butterfly's Wings." 
Onosiwo EXERCISES. 
Notes to Leaders 
Scripture.—Consult the following 
topics in a concordance to the Bible, 
and assign the texts you choose to as 
many members: Ant, bee, beetle, cank-
erworm, caterpillar, flies, grasshopper, 
hornet, lice, locust, moth, palmerworm, 
scorpion, snail, spider, worm. 
Organize a group for the study of 
insect life. The requirements for the 
Vocational Honor in this subject may 
be found on pages 216, 217, of the 
"Master Comrade Manual." _ 
The Insect World 
An entomologist is frequently 
amused at being asked by his well-
meaning friends whether he found 
anything interesting when he was out. 
Insect hunting is a sport in which 
there are no disappointments if you 
know how to play the game. Often 
the most unlikely times and places aro 
the best. We can never say we know 
all there is to know about an insect's 
haunts until we can tell where to look 
for it at all times during the year. 
Insects have their own particular hid-
ing places, and should be looked for 
under rotten wood, stones, bark and 
dead leaves, among the roots of 
plants, in stems and flowers, in shelf 
fungi; in short, everywhere, and at 
all times. 
Insect, which is the name given to 
any of the numerous small inverte-
brate animals that have a body which 
is more or less segmented, comes from 
the Latin word inseetus, which means 
out in. These creatures are so called 
because the body seems to be cut in, 
or almost divided. The bodies of true 
insects are divided into three parts: 
head, thorax, and abdomen. No true 
insect has more than six true legs. 
An insect's jaws chew, if they do 
chew, sideways, not up and down. 
The outside of an insect's body is 
usually, more or less covered with 
hairs. In butterflies and moths these 
hairs are largely scalelike. 
Roaming over this world there are 
some hundred thousands of species of 
insects. Of these about 25,000 be-
long to North America alone. Of this 
great number, only about one per cent 
is aggressively arrayed against our 
health and prosperity, though many 
others may make themselves very an-
noying. The rest are neutrals or 
friends. The destructive one per cent 
are such a large and fast-multiplying 
horde that if they were not opposed, 
they would overrun the earth and 
wipe out practically all vegetable and 
animal life. In fact, they do cost our 
country about two billion dollars an-
nually. At the same time, out of mil- 
lions of species, man has domesticated 
only two for his own use—the honey-
bee and the silkworm. 
By far the largest group of insects 
is the beetle, with about 195,000 spe- 
cies. Next comes the moth and but-
terfly order; in this there are about 
92,000 species. Next in importance' 
is the order that takes in the wasps, 
the bees, the ants, and the sawflies. 
The flies, mosquitoes, and gnats be-
long to another order, which contains 
51,000 species; followed by the true 
bugs, the aphids, the scale insects, the 
cicadas, and the buglike hoppers. 
Next in size is the order containing 
the grasshoppers, crickets, roaches, 
walking sticks, and mantids. Last is 
the order including the dobson flies 
and the lacewings. 
All insects batch from eggs. These 
are placed by the mother on or near 
food that her offspring must have. 
They aro usually anchored to leaves, 
stems, stones, or almost any object 
handy. They may be in clusters, 
masses, strings, rows, tiers, or singles. 
Under a lens they are seen to be beau-
tifully sculptured, of unusual shape, 
and most exquisitely colored. 
The steps in the life of these creat-
ures are first the egg, then the larva, 
or growing stage, the pupa, or resting 
stage, and finally the adult. In many 
insects the process is completed in a 
few days; but in the case of some of 
the cicadas it takes seventeen years. 
In certain groups some of the stages 
are omitted; for instance, grasshop-
pers bear a close resemblance to the 
adults when hatched. 
In comparison to their size, insects 
are much stronger than man. Ants 
have been known to carry loads forty 
or fifty times as heavy as themselves. 
The beetle can move a weight one 
hundred twelve times his own weight. 
The housefly gives six hundred strokes 
of its wings in one second, and this 
enables it to go a distance of thirty-
five feet. The dragonfly can fly 
through the air at a rate of sixty 
miles an hour, and, more wonderful 
still, can stop instantaneously in its 
flight, or move backward, or sideways, 
without changing the position of its 
body. Hundreds of bees can hang 
one to another without tearing away 
the feet of the upper one. It has been 
estimated that if an elephant were 
as strong in proportion to its weight 
as a male beetle, it would be able to 
overturn a skyscraper. Amazing 
strength is shown in another phase, 
that of leaping great distances. If a 
horse could jump as far in propor-
tion to its weight as a flea can to 
its, think how far the horse might 
jump. 
The most brilliant, beautiful, and 
showy of all the insects are the but-
terflies, numerous species of which 
may be found in most places. This is 
by far the favorite group among in-
sect collectors. 
Wherever you live, you will find no 
difficulty in collecting insects, for they 
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are plentiful everywhere. If you wish 
to know to what class, order, genera, 
and species they belong, and also the 
way to collect and preserve them, get 
Dr. Frank E. Lutz's "Field Book of 
Insects" (Putnam. Price, $3.50.) 
Dr. Lutz is curator of the Department 
of Entomology of the American Mu-
seum of Natural History, and one of 
the foremost authorities on Inseeta. 
You do not have to be an accredited 
scientist to be useful in the world of 
entomology, but you do have to keep 
your eyes open if you want to see 
things no one else has seen before. 
Beetles—and Beetles 
THE story is told of a general in 
Napoleon's army, who, along with his 
military prowess, found time to col-
lect and study insects. In fact, Count 
Dejean had one of the largest collec-
tions of insects that has ever existed. 
Entomologists tell of one instance in 
which this hobby became his major 
interest, and he stopped a battle to 
pick up a beetle. It was the battle of 
Alcanizas, and all was in readiness for 
the command to charge. At that very 
moment a rare and beautiful beetle 
lighted on a flower near the general. 
He knew that he did not have that 
specimen in. his collection; so he im-
mediately jumped off his horse, caught 
the beetle, secured in it his helmet, 
then mounted his horse again, and 
gave the order to charge. During the 
skirmish his helmet was badly smashed, 
but that did not worry him nearly so 
much as the thought of what might 
happen to the beetle. After winning 
the battle, the general returned to 
camp, and was gratified to find that 
although his helmet was ruined, the 
beetle was in perfect condition. 
As has been mentioned, beetles com-
pose the largest order of insects. You 
can readily identify an adult beetle 
by the horny wing covers, sometimes 
very brilliantly colored. You will note 
a straight line down the center of the 
back where the edges of the shield 
wings meet in a peaklike roof that 
comes down well over the body to the 
legs. This characteristic belongs to 
the beetle battalion alone. Their 
strong jaws can reduce almost any 
edible substance to fit their needs. 
This causes them to be among the 
most destructive of insects. 
The ladybird beetle is an excep-
tion; she is a valued friend. Hordes 
of aphids, scale insects, and other 
plant pests are consumed by this 
class of insects. Whenever you see a 
ladybird, you can thank her for the 
orange juice that you have for your 
breakfast, because it was a cousin 
of hers from Australia, introduced 
into California, that saved the citrus 
fruits from insects which threatened 
to destroy them many years ago. 
Beetles were also imported to com-
bat the plague of gypsy moths (which 
-were foreign invaders). These par-
ticular beetles found delight in climb-
ing about the trees and eating the 
caterpillars and adult female moths. 
Eventually 47 varieties of gypsy moth 
enemies were gathered from all over 
the world,. and they are now helping 
us to keep down this pest which at 
one time seemed to be taking posses-
sion of this country. 
For a number of years the Japa-
nese beetle has been making rapid 
growth, and it has now invaded sev-
enteen States, living on the roots of 
grasses, foliage of various trees, et 
cetera. Without its natural enemies, 
this beetle has increased at an alarm-
ing rate. Now Government entomol-
ogists have introduced a natural 
enemy—a small wasp from Japan. 
The female wasp burrows in the 
ground until she finds a beetle grub, 
which she paralyzes with her sting, 
and then deposits an egg on its abdo-
men, making it stick by a gluey sub-
stance from her own body. After 
about a week the egg hatches into a 
larva, which begins to drain all the 
fluid from the grub, consuming all 
but the tough portions of the head 
and legs. It is hoped that these wasps 
will in time have reduced the number 
of the Japanese beetles so that they 
will no longer be a plague. 
The Butterfly's Wings 
BUTTERFLIES are often compared to 
flowers, because of their wonderful 
and beautiful coloring, and because 
they are both summer products. 
But there is a still better reason 
than similarity in color. It may be 
news to some of you who have not 
examined these tiny creatures that the 
male butterfly has a faint, though dis-
tinct, scent. If you brush your finger 
over the wing of a common white 
butterfly, you will find it covered with 
a fine white dust which gives off a 
delicate perfume of lemon or balsam. 
As a rule, the duller a butterfly's 
color, the stronger his scent, perhaps 
a compensation from nature. Some of 
the dull-colored night butterflies or 
moths have a quite strong scent. 
Removal of the dust leaves a notice-
able bald spot on the wing; and when 
we come to examine the dust under a 
microscope, we find it of more sub-
stantial composition than we ever 
could have suspected with the unaided 
eye. In fact, it is made up of count-
less scales—the real coloring of the 
wings—for without the scales the 
wing is as transparent as that of a 
wasp or bluebottle. 
The scales are laid on the wing in 
much the same way as the slates are 
laid on a roof. But in spite of the 
exquisite shape and coloring, they are 
so tiny that the scales on the wings 
of a single butterfly would outnum-
ber all the slates on the roofs of the 
houses of a good-sized town. When 
you consider that each must be ar-
ranged according to its color, in order 
to give the wonderful patterns that 
the wings display, you will obtain 
some idea of the wonders of workman-
ship in a butterfly's wings.—L. E. 
Eubanks. 
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Our Common Enemy— 
Alcohol 
(Program for June 17) 
BY K. L. GANT 
SoNG: "Yield Not to Temptation," 
No. 66 in "Christ in Song;"No. 46 
in "Missionary Volunteer Songs." 
ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
OFFERING. 
LEADER'S REMARKS. 
RESPONSIVE READING: "Scripture Ad-
monition." (See Notes to Leaders.) 
PRAYER: That the Lord will keep us 
from this terrible evil, and help us 
to influence others to make a de-
cision against it. 
READING: "A Mother's Sorrow." (See 
"Stories Worth Rereading.") 
Exiumm. (See Notes to Leaders.) 
TALE: "Humanity's Charge Against 
Alcohol." 
READING: "Traffic in Snakes." 
DiscussioN: "What Shall We Do?" 
SIGNING OF PLEDGES. (See Notes to 
Leaders.) 
SONG: "We Will Not Use Liquor." 
BENEDICTION. 
Notes to Leaders 
Leader's Remarks.—We would sug-
gest that in your brief introduction 
to the subject, you warn the young 
people concerning the use of rum 
candy, rum cakes, rum ice cream, or 
any other thing that contains even 
a suggestion of liquor. 
Exhibit. —Take ordinary rubbing 
alcohol with 50 per cent alcohol con-
tent (the same average as whisky) 
and fill a small mayonnaise jar three 
fourths full. Fill another mayon-
naise jar with water to the same level. 
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Now prepare two slices of bread, one 
and one-half inches square. Place a 
slice in each jar: Let them remain 
there for a few minutes, or until the 
close of the meeting. The bread in 
the water will fall apart; while the 
bread in the alcohol will be shrunken, 
and hard and preserved looking. Ex. 
plain how the 50 per cent alcohol in 
whisky tends to preserve food, whereas 
the water dissolves food. The former 
hinders digestion, and the latter aids 
digestion. After the meeting many 
will want to inspect the bread as it 
is taken from the jars. 
Signing of Pledges.—Order enough 
copies of M.Y. Pledge I for your 
membership. Urge the young people 
to sign them. After the pledges have 
been signed, have ono of the older 
members of the society or the pastor 
offer an earnest prayer that God will 
give the young people grace and cour. 
ago to remain true to their pledge. 
Scripture Admonitions 
(A Responsive Reading) 
Leader �
Congregation 
Verse 12 
. 
lea. 28:1 
Prow. 23:21 
lag. 6:22 
Prow 20:1 
Verse 30 
Verse 32 
Judges 13:4 
Verse 20 
Humanity's Charge Against 
Alcohol 
1. It is the enemy of use human 
body. "The worst din en have not 
caused as many deaths and have not 
disabled as many people as has Mee. 
holism.... Alcohol prepares the way 
for disease, ... causing degeneration, 
weakening the system, and making the 
individual unfit morally, physically, 
and intellectually. . . . Alcoholism is 
a slow way of committing suicide"—
Congressional Record. 
Alcohol is revealing itself to be 
more and more an enemy of the hu-
man body, in that the lives of even 
those who do not pollute their bodies 
with alcohol are in danger every time 
they go out on the streets and high. 
ways. Of the 39,700 automobile fa-
talities during 3937 reported by the 
National Safety Council, 56 per cent 
are attributable to drunken drivers 
and pedestrians, and an additional 25 
per cent are due to drivers under the 
influence of drink. The commissioner 
of motor vehicles of New York State 
made the statement that "deaths 
caused by drunken driven have almost 
doubled in four years." Another says 
that "drunken drivers have increased 
ten times as fast as automobiles in 
New York State." 
S. II is 04 enemy of the human 
mind. Whatever its immediate effects 
are upon some minds, it does not 
brighten the wits of all men. Many 
a word that seems like wit when 
spoken under the influence of alcohol, 
proves to be the opposite when viewed 
with a sober mind. A young man, ac• 
customs(' to drink, was one evening 
talking in what seemed to him a most 
brilliant way. A friend who was 
sober was a court stenographer, and 
made a verbatim report of all that 
the young man said. Ho showed it to 
him •the next day when lie was him-
self again. "Did 1 say all these fool 
ish things?" 
"Yes." 
"Then, God ',Slog me, I will never 
drink again." 
Doctors and statisticians prove to 
us that feeble-mindedness and insan- 
ity are hereditary effects of alcohol. 
ism. A large majority of the in. 
mates of our asylums come there di. 
rattly or indirectly through strong 
drink. 
J. it is an enemy of property and 
wealth. 
The cost of alcohol to the 
community and to the nation is far 
more than the sum received as revenue 
front taxes and license fees.... Take 
into consideration the waste in na-
tional resources; the material which 
could be used for the people's food; 
the destruction of man power because 
of its effect on efficiency and on the 
health of the people; and the expense 
incurred by the public in caring for 
the defectives and delinquents who are 
such, largely or wholly because of 
drink—and the cost of alcohol will 
multiply enormously. 
Take also into consideration the re-
lation between strong drink and in-
dividual poverty. Tho man's earning 
capacity is decreased, either by de-
crease in his efficiency, or by actual 
loss of time at his work. Alcohol 
takes the money needed to provide 
food and clothes for himself and his 
family. Indeed it often takes to the 
pawnshop the clothing the family 
themselves have been able to procure. 
"The drunkard . . . shall come to 
poverty." 
A reformed drunkard met a saloon-
keeper who asked why he never came 
to the saloon any more. ?nous° I 
have a lump on my side," ho answered. 
"Oh, that's no reason," returned the 
man. "Come over and have a drink 
and the lump will go away the 
sooner." 
"Yes, I know that, and that's why 
1 stay away," answered the reformed 
man. "The lump on my side is the 
roll of bills I have saved by staying 
away." 
4. It is an enemy of the human soul. 
Strong drink weakens self control, 
perverts the will, sends the man into 
evil associations, and deadens his eon-
seienee. The greater part of the 
crimes for which men and women aro 
sentenced in our courts of justice, 
come in some way from the use of 
strong drink. A constable once said, 
"I have never taken a total abstainer 
to prison since f have been a consta-
ble." 
In the light of these charges against 
alcohol, surely wo should shun very 
religiously an enemy who seeks to rob 
us of our health, our intellect, our 
wealth, and our smile—Adapted. 
Traffic in Snakes 
There was once a man in the moun-
tains of the South whose hobby was 
rattlesnakes! He had an insatiable 
desire to hunt them; moreover, from 
their skins and the "Be" for liniment, 
he made a fair living. Occasionally 
he sold live ones to museums, travel-
ing shows, or snake farms. But it 
was a horrid thing, this trafficking in 
snakes. Why, everyone who ever saw 
or heard of a big rattler scuttled to 
Sam with the news. 
"Ilujah, Sam, Ah done saw a big 
diamondbaeker down in the swamp 
by Lonesome Creek." 
"She 'nuff I" 
And Sam would take himself off, 
stalk his prey, and presently return 
with the booty. After a while, Sam 
thought in terms of snakes, talked 
snakes, worked snakes, and dreamed 
snakes. Why, it was almost us if he 
dealt in concrete delirium tremens. 
The main ambition of his life seemed 
to he to "coteli one jos' a leetle big-
ger." 
An immense rattler was reported to 
have been seen in the direction of 
Humpback Mountain. 
In the par-
lance of those who had seem it, it was 
a "loner." Since it was reported to 
be so large, Sam determined to catch 
it alive. Ile had often caught snakes 
alive before; so this was no now 
thing. With the long box for the 
snake, lie hunted hours for a trace 
of it. Finally he caught it safely, 
and imprisoned it securely in his es-
pecially prepared box. 
Sam was highly elated. This was 
by far the largest serpent he had ever 
caught. It was such an enormous 
specimen that he determined to use 
it to fill an order he had from a big 
zoo fora large rattlesnake. 
Ho laid the box down in the yard 
and repaired to the cabin to eat 
supper. 
About midway through the meal, he 
heard his little throe-year-old boy Jim 
give a sharp scream of pain. 
"Oh, peppy, I'm bited, I'm bited, 
I'm bited!" 
Nearly paralyzed with fear, Sam 
ran to the door, just in time to see 
little Jim rise from inspecting the 
long box, holding up a tiny hand 
where two purple spots were growing 
livid. The baby had slid the cover 
just enough to put in a little, warm, 
investigating hand. 
With a wail of horror, Stun sprang 
into the yard, and taking the ax, in 
fury, he chopped the box and the fine 
prize rattlesnake to bits. 
None of his remorse saved little 
Jim. All through the night they 
fought for his life. When the morn-
ing came, Sam knelt by the lifeless, 
swollen body of his little son. With 
streaming oyes, and trembling hand 
lifted toward heaven, he cried, "Oh, 
God, why, I wouldn't a' give up my 
little Jim fer all the whoppin' rattle-
snakes in these low mountains!" 
For the last six years Uncle Sam 
has been dealing in snakes—delirium 
lee. 5:11 
Lev. 10:8. 
Pro,. 81 :4 
Prow. 21 :17 
nab. 2:16 
@ph. 5:18 
Pre
s. 28
y. 23 
 :81
29 
: 
Pro 
1 Cor. 13 A. 10 
1 Car. 61.0 
1 Cor. 10:21 
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tremens, if you please. The revenue 
hes helped, so statisticians say, to 
pay the enormous expenses of our 
great government. 
But Uncle Sam did not take into 
account the little Jima who would bo 
bitten. "At the last it biteth like a 
serpent, and stingeth like an adder." 
Ono poor "Jim" who was stung, 
has spent thirtysoven years in prison 
for a crime he does not remember 
!admitting. They told hint that he 
had shot and killed his sweetheart in 
a jealous, drunken rage. When he 
thine to himself, behind the bars of 
the county jail, his grief and remorse 
were terrible. Ile, too, could have 
wailed: "Oh, God! Why i wouldn't 
have given up my sweet Alta for all 
the intakes in these United States!" 
But poor Jiml 'Medias spent thirty-
seven of the best years of his life In 
prison, and Alta has lain sleeping in 
her grave for as many years, all be-
cause Uncle Sam traffics in snakes. 
"01' Doe" is what they call a poor, 
doddering old wreck of humanity—a 
poor old bitten "Jim." You can see 
him almost any warm day in front 
of the poorhouse, sunning himself, in 
the company of a half dozen other 
senile old paupers. 
When 01' Doe slid the lid just a lit-
tle and got bitten, he was the finest 
donor in town. Ile lived in the old 
Kirby mansion, and his cakes and 
growing practice were a source of 
constant local wonderment and admir-
ation. Ho was a handsome figure, 
nearly six feet six, with his high silk 
but and gold-headed cane. The little 
community was justly proud of him. 
But there sits Oh' Doe Uncle Sam: 
? 
lie is your little "Jim,' and he has 
been bitten because you trafficked in 
snakes. Once started, his downfall 
came rapidly. Patients who had once 
put such faith and tneit in his diag-
noses and remedies, now feared to 
take concoctions mixed by a reeling, 
gibbering shadow of the once great 
man in the consultation room. His 
practice fell into disrepute. His 
offices were uncared for. Mortgages 
were placed on the fine old homestead. 
Lastly, his license to practice medicine 
was taken from him. For years: in 
between sprees, he operated a smithy 
on the main street. One could see 
only a pitiful caricature of the fanner 
upstanding citizen and community 
lender. When old age advanced, there 
was but one place where he could go. 
And so Jim—I mean "01' Doe"—
went "over the hill." He is still 
there, Uncle Sam—your "Jim!" 
Yonder lives another "Jim." It 
seems incredulous that a man such 
as Judge Grey, who had witnessed so 
much misery attendant to drunkenness, 
should ever slide the lid. But be did, 
and put in an explorative hand. From 
a position of honor and trust, he 
fairly toppled. Now he is just a 
bloated old tippler. You'd never 
dream that he over wore judiciary 
robes! His former associates shrug 
their shoulders when they speak of 
him and say, "Yes, it's the same old 
tale: 'wine, women, and song.'" 
Someway, it seems that this traffic 
in snakes is not always a paying 
proposition, when one considers how 
much the "Jims" are worth. For 
Jims do got bitten, even though they 
ate commanded: "Look not thou upon 
the wine when it is rod, when it 
giveth hie color in the cup, when it 
movoth itself aright. At the last it 
biteth like a serpent, and stingeth 
like an adder." 
0, Uncle Sam! There is no mount 
of revenue that will ever make up to 
you the loss of your little "Jims"!—
Josephine Cunning/on lefitaardS (used 
he permaerum). 
What Shall We Do? 
Alcohol has been proved to be a 
deadly foe in disguise. We must ban-
ish it from our lives, from our homes, 
from our cities and towns, and from 
our nation. How can this be done? 
If you wish to banish it from your 
life, observe the following rules: 
Avoid evil company. Keep out of 
temptation. When you find yourself 
In the presence of this deadly foe, 
run from it with all your might. Do 
not look at it or allow yourself to 
dwell upon its ugly fascination. 
William Penn was advising a man 
to stop drinking. "Can you tell me 
how to do it?" said the victim of 
drink. 
"Yes," answered Penn, "it is just 
as easy as to open thy hand, friend." 
"Convince me of that, and I will 
promise upon my honor to do as you 
toll me." 
"Well, my friend," said the good 
Quaker, "when thou Mutest any vessel 
of intoxicating liquor in thy hand, 
open the hand that grasps it before 
it reaches thy mouth, and thou wilt 
never be drunk again." 
if you wish to banish this destroyer 
of homes from your city and your na-
tion, there is also a work which you 
can do. Seventh-day Adventists have 
some of the best literature which is 
written on temperance, and surely we 
should do our part in its circulation 
individually and in rallies. 
Not only should we work for the 
advancement of what is generally un-
derstood as the temperance cause, but 
wo should realize that the knowledge 
God has given us on health reform 
is for our good and for the salvation 
of the world. This knowledge must 
spread from our homes to other homes. 
The temperance cause is common 
ground for us and other Christians. 
We are not to stand aloof from them, 
but while there is to to no sacrifice 
of principle on our part, as far as 
possible we are to unite with them in 
laboring for temperance reforms."--
"Counsels on Health," pp. 416, 437. 
We are told that Christian workers 
should present to the people the prin-
ciples of true temperance, and call for 
signers to the temperance pledge. 
While we recognize that the pledge 
of itself can save no one from in- 
temperance', yet it in a etinstant re-
minder of Him who can keep us from 
yielding when tempted; and the very 
act of signing strengthens the will for 
its struggle against temptation. Dur-
ing twenty-three years a certain Sun-
day school in New York obtained thir-
teen hundred signers. It is claimed 
that without a known exception' 
 the 
signets have remained true to their 
vows. 
Abraham Lincoln said: "Par thirty 
years I have been a temperance man, 
Had it not been for my total•absti-
Hence principles in the early days of 
my temptation, I should probably 
have gone the scone way so many of 
my companions wont, who lived drunk-
ards' lives and are filling drunkards' 
graves." 
John Wanamaker expressed his re-
gard of the temperance pledge thus: 
"The mail who will not sign a tem-
perance pledge to help a weak brother, 
though he may not need it himself, is 
not so much of a man as he thinks 
himself to be." 
The messenger of the Lord has 
given HA the following admonition: 
"Intemperance, licentiousness, and 
profanity are sisters. Let every God-
fearing youth gird on the armor, and 
press to the front. Let no excuse be 
offered when you are asked to put 
your name to the temperance pledge, 
but sign every pledge presented, and 
induce others to sign with you. Work 
for the good of your own souls, and 
the good of others. Never let an op-
portunity pass to cast your influence 
on the side of strict temperance."—
"Commas on Health," p. 441. 
Surely there is no Missionary Vol-
unteer but would be glad to sign the 
pledge and by his influence bring 
others to this important decision.—
Adapted. 
We Will Not Use Liquor 
(Tune: "Omoard, Christian Roldirre.") 
Coma and heln the army 
Of the temperance throug; 
We are glad to tell you 
We are mighty strong. 
Volunteers arc needed 
Who will stand for right; 
 
Jesus Is the Captain: 
We wilt win the fight. 
°tons: 
bet us sign the pledge today 
That will make us tree. 
"We will not use liquor:" 
Sing It out with glee. 
We'll be loyal soldiers 
In the great campaign: 
We will fight for temperance 
TIN the right shall reigns. 
Wine and beer are harmful 
To our home and town; 
If we love our nation, 
We will put them down. 
"We will not use liquor?' 
Thus we pledge today: 
 
We will practice tempentace 
On our upward way. 
Will you join the army? 
There's a place for you: 
Come and be a soldier 
to the temperance crew. 
—genet leuthey. 
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No Provision for Failure 
(Program for June 24) 
BY C. T. EVERSON 
No Provision for Failure 
ONE of the outstanding evangelists 
of this country was conducting an 
ovangelistic campaign in an Eastern 
city. At the close of one of the serv-
ices, a woman who had been urged 
to accept Christ, told the evangelist 
that she did not want to make a 
start in Christian life because she was 
afraid she could not hold out. She 
said she Was persuaded that she ought 
to take her stand for Christ, but she 
never had done so because she felt 
quite sure that she would backslide 
if she did. 
The evangelist asked her whether 
she had ever heard the story of the 
clock that was ready to give up. She 
said she never had heard the story, 
but would appreciate hearing it. 
"Well," said the evangelist, "there 
was a clock that one day figured out 
how many ticks it would take to make 
a day. When the clock realized how 
many thousands of ticks would be 
necessary, it became discouraged and 
quit. Someone learned of the clock's 
discouragement because of the many 
ticks that it would have to make to 
keep going even for one day, and he 
asked the clock, 'But can you not 
take just one tick at a time?' Yes,' 
said the dock, 'I believe I can do 
that,' and it started, and has been 
going ever since." 
In a Nebraska camp meeting Dr. 
David Paulson noticed, during the 
revival meeting that followed the 
Sabbath morning sermon, that there 
was a young man who could not be 
induced to go forward for prayer. A 
number of workers had made an ap-
peal to him, but nothing seemed to 
move him. 
Doctor Paulson, who was a real 
fisher of men, decided to try a new 
appeal. He reasoned that the young 
man had been backsliding for such 
a long time that it was easier for 
him to go backward than forward; 
so he invited hint to go to the rear of 
the tent with him. To this the young 
man readily assented. When they got 
to the back of the tent, the doctor 
talked to him and prayed with him 
and tried to induce him to take a: 
stand for Christ. But the young man 
steadily refused, saying that he was 
sure he could never hold out in the 
Christian life. 
Doctor Paulson asked him whether 
he thought he could hold out in the 
Christian life until suppertime that 
evening. He replied, "Oh, certainly 
I can hold out until supper." Then 
the doctor said, "Well, all I ask you 
to do is to try to hold out until sup-
pertime. Will you agree to that?' 
The young man replied, "I am sure I 
can hold out that long." So after 
supper the doctor asked him, "Do you 
think you can continue to hold out 
until tomorrow morning?" "Cer-
tainly," responded the young man, "I 
will have no difficulty in holding out 
until tomorrow morning." Then the 
young man suddenly realized that 
holding out for Christ was a much 
more simple matter than he had an-
ticipated. It was living one day at 
a time for Christ. 
If every young person could realize 
that the Christian life is just one 
tick at a time, and one day at a time, 
perhaps he would be less hesitant to 
take his stand for the Saviour. Young 
people look forward to long years of 
walking in the narrow way when they 
think they are expected never to make 
a false step. To many it looks like an 
impossible task ever to reach that per-
fection of life that they feel is re-
quired of them once they take a stand 
for Christ. 
To be sure, the Lord does set up 
a high standard for everyone who ac-
cepts Christ. We read in 1 Sohn 2:1, 
"My little children, these things write 
I unto you, that ye sin not." 
God's standard for every person 
who accepts Christ is "that ye sin 
not." He could not set a lower stand-
ard. He could not say He would be 
satisfied if we had 10 per cent or 20 
per cent of sins and 90 per cent or 
SO per cent of right living. The 
standard must be 100 per cent of 
doing right. But no 'one yet has ever 
attained to 100 per cent of righteous-
ness or right doing except Jesus 
Christ. Still the goal of every Chris-
tian's life should be to live without 
sinning. 
As we strive to reach the goal set 
before us, we may never attain to 100 
per cent, but may get 90 per cent or 
80 per cent or perhaps just the pass-
ing grade. As in school, we all strive 
to get one hundred, or what we call 
"A," but we may not reach the top-
most grade, although by perseverance 
and keeping our hearts set on the 
highest mark attainable, we get at 
least a passing grade. 
So in the things of heaven, we 
should set our goal for attaining God's 
standard of "My little children, . . . 
sin not." While we may fall short of 
attaining this most coveted goal, yet 
we must strive to attain at least the 
passing grade of admittance into the 
eternal bliss of heaven at last. 
The reason that we may reach 
heaven, although we have not fully 
attained the high standard set before 
us, is that provision is made for our 
failure to attain the highest goal of 
Christian living. By faith we claim 
the promises of God, acknowledge our 
weaknesses and sins, and seek forgive-
ness for them, and God imputes the 
righteousness of His Son Jesus Christ 
to cover all our defects. 
So we read again in 1 Sohn 2:1, 
"My little children, ... sin not. And 
if any man sin, we have an advocate 
with the Father, Jesus Christ the 
Righteous." We are admonished not 
to sin; yet if we should fall into 
sin, our ease is not hopeless, for we 
still have Jesus Christ, who is willing 
to forgive us again as He did the 
first time when we were converted and 
gave our lives over to Him to serve 
Him. 
He takes the blot that we have 
made upon our life's record and 
washes it away and gives us a clean 
white page, as white as it was the 
day we were first converted. 
There was a group of people one 
day gathered around a man who had 
slipped and fallen at the corner of a 
busy thoroughfare in a large city. 
Almost everyone had something to 
suggest as to the cause of his hav-
ing fallen down. They blamed the 
city for lack of proper provision's be-
ing made to prevent people from 
slipping and falling. Some thought 
he must have slipped on a banana 
peel, and others felt sure that the 
sidewalk was defective. Finally a 
little girl who had stood there for 
some time hearing the comments of 
the people remarked, "Well, it is too 
bad that he fell down, but it's worse 
that he does not get up." 
And this is true also of Christian 
life. It is bad to fall, but it is 
worse not to get up. Every Chris-
tian falls at some time or other, but 
he does not need to stay down. Read 
Proverbs 24:16. 
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However, we should never forget 
that there is One who can keep us 
from falling, as we read in Jude, 
verse 24, "Now unto Him that is 
able to keep you from falling." 
It is encouraging, indeed, to know 
that there is One who can keep us 
from falling. After all, falling is not 
an experience that any Christian en-
joys or likes to have happen. The 
way we can keep from falling is 
clearly indicated in Romans 13:14: 
"But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, 
and make not provision for the flesh, 
to fulfill the lusts thereof." 
If we had a number of wild beasts 
well fenced in so that they could not 
by any means escape, what would be 
the best way to get rid of them? 
Make no provision for them. Do not 
provide any food for them and they 
would soon die. 
In a town where we wore holding an 
evangelistic campaign, when the invi-
tation to accept the Saviour was pre-
sented, a large, fine-looking man came 
forward in response to the call. He 
exclaimed as he left his seat, "The 
love of Christ constraineth me." 
After he was baptized into the 
truth, he went home and gathered up, 
preparatory to destroying it, fifteen 
gallons of liquor that he had in his 
cellar. His wife suggested that it was 
too bad to throw it away, as the 
neighbors might be glad to get it. He 
said he did not want the neighbors to 
drink the poisonous stuff he would not 
drink any more. So he poured all the 
fifteen gallons into the sewer. He 
did not propose to make any provision 
for falling back into his former habits 
by keeping liquor on hand. Of 
course, he could not have made this 
brave decision and stood by it so 
nobly if it had not been that Christ 
was with him and helped him at every 
step of the road. So the first thing 
that everyone must do to keep from 
falling is to put on the Lord Jesus 
Christ. Or, as it is translated in 
some versions, "Clothe yourself with 
the Lord Jesus Christ." 
But having clothed yourself with 
the Lord Jesus Christ, make no pro-
vision to fall back into your former 
sinful habits. If you have been ac-
customed to going to shows, make no 
provision for falling back into the 
things that lead away from Christ. 
The music, the posters' of the movies, 
the tuning in on the theatrical pro-
grams on the radio, and all other con- 
nections with shows should be abso-
lutely avoided, so that no provision 
is made to keep alive our interest in 
the things we' once loved. 
If a person has been a drinking 
man, he cannot afford to stand out-
side the window of a tavern, recalling 
his former fondness for drink and 
look at liquor bottles displayed, or 
he may be inside before he knows it. 
A barrelful of lead weighing hun-
dreds of pounds can be held in place 
by one finger before it begins to move, 
but once it starts to roll down hill, 
nothing can stop it. It is at the 
moment that the temptation appears 
that no provision must be made for 
fulfilling the lusts of the flesh. 
In a series of evangelistic meetings 
we were holding in a Wdstern city, a 
former opera singer was a regular 
attendant. She was especially inter-
ested in learning about heaven. She 
finally accepted the truth and was 
baptized into the message. Before 
she was baptized she had a struggle 
with the cigarette habit. She smoked 
a number of cigarettes a day. But 
when she learned that it was a habit 
that Christ wished her to give up, she 
gave it up for Him. 
Some weeks after her baptism, she 
was dusting the parlor in her beauti-
ful home. Suddenly she became pos-
sessed of a great craving for tobacco, 
and said to herself that she believed 
that if she had a cigarette, she would 
smoke it. Of course, it was a temp-
tation of the devil. Satan especially 
tries to discourage us and to plot our 
fall just after we are baptized, just 
as he sorely tempted the Lord Jesus 
after His baptism. As she was dust-
ing beneath the cushions of the daven-
port, what did she see but a cigarette. 
She looked at it for a moment; then 
picking it up, she said, "You little 
devil, you," and threw it into the 
fire. So she disposed of the tempta-
tion immediately, before Satan had a 
chance to cause her to lose out by 
presenting his alluring words of de-
ception. 
If we expect Christ to keep us from 
falling, we must not make provision 
for breaking God's commandments. 
If we are applying for a position 
to go to -work, we must not make 
provision to work on the Sabbath. 
When we are told that an unusually 
good position is open to us, but it is 
not sure that we can always be ex-
cused every Sabbath, we cannot afford 
to take such a position, for we would 
be making provision to break the Sab-
bath in case our services were needed 
on that day, or at least provision to 
harbor a temptation. 
If we stand firm and refuse to make 
any provision to go back on the truth, 
God will see to it that we shall win 
out completely. We may feel at times 
that our case is different from the 
cases of many persons we see all 
around us who are able to win out 
in spite of the many obstacles placed 
in their way. It is not that their 
cases are different from ours, but 
they are making no provision to go 
back on the truth, and God is fulfill-
ing His promise to them to make 
them more than conquerors through 
His power. 
In 1 Corinthians 10:13 we read, 
"There bath no temptation taken you 
but such as is common to man: but 
God is faithful, who will not suffer 
you to be tempted above that ye are 
able; but will with the temptation 
also make a way to escape, that ye 
may be able to bear it." 
We may try to convince ourselves 
that we are situated in an impossible 
position, so that we cannot win out as 
we see others do. But we are told 
that our case is in no way different 
from those of other people; the temp-
tations that come to us are but the 
same ones that are common to man. 
Seeing so many young people about 
us making a success of Christian life, 
going forth to do wonderful service 
and winning great victories through 
Christ, should encourage us to go for-
ward, assured that we also shall be 
more than conquerors through Christ, 
who has loved us and given His life 
to save us. 
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Why I Should Attend a Sev-
enth-day Adventist School 
1. BECAUSE I are a Seventh-day Ad-
ventist. 
2. Because my parents are Seventh-
day Adventists. 
3. Because the teachers are Seventh-
day Adventists. 
4. Because the students are Seventh-
day Adventists. 
5. Because I want to be a better Sev-
enth-day Adventist. 
6. Because I want to be a Seventh-
day Adventist worker. 
7. Because I believe Semis is coming 
soon. 
A. Because I want to be ready to meet 
9. Because I want to help others to 
get ready. 
10. Because a Seventh-day Adventist 
school can help me more in all these 
respects than any other school.—&e-
looted. 
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The Value of Christian 
Education 
(Program for June 3) 
BY J. P. NEFF 
OPENING EXERCISES. 
TALK: "What Is True Education?" 
TALK: "Why Church Schools?" 
SYMPOSIUM: "What I Like About At- 
tending Church School," by the stu- 
dents, or "Why I Should Attend a 
S.D.A. School." (See p. 23). 
TALK: "Who Can Go On?" 
CLOSING EXERCISES. 
Why Church Schools? 
ALL boys and girls can go to public 
schools without paying tuition or other 
expenses. In many cities and rural 
communities textbooks are provided 
free also. The schools are generally 
located conveniently, or else buses 
transport the children to school. The 
buildings are furnished with good 
seats, desks, blackboards, and other 
necessary and desirable equipment in 
addition to possessing well-trained 
teachers. 
These advantages are free to all 
children. Why, then, should we main-
Han Christian 'schools? It is not for the 
reason that we want better buildings 
and better equipment; for the public 
schools are ordinarily able to provide 
good equipment. Unless our schools 
provide something further, something 
superior, and of greater value than 
that provided in public schools, we 
should be very unwise to maintain 
them. 
What is it, boys and girls, that is so 
important that cannot be obtained 
from public education? What are 
the differences? Or is there something 
given in the public schools, or some-
thing in some way connected with the 
public-school training, that is unde-
sirable? 
These are questions which you and 
your parents must answer. What are 
the things that schools do for children? 
1. They teach children what is given 
them in the textbooks, and in supple-
mentary reading books. 
2. They establish habits and form 
character. 
3. They place ideals before children 
and guide them in their choice or re-
jection of certain activities. 
4. They instruct children in regard 
to their treatment of others. 
5. They mold their social, moral, and 
religious conceptions, judgments, and 
habits. 
Consider each point separately: 
1. The public schools omit the Bible 
as a textbook. And yet this Book is 
the greatest book in the world. It 
contains the most valuable knowledge 
of any book in the world. A knowl-
edge of the Bible is more worth while 
than the knowledge of all other books 
combined. ' 
Education should be obtained in an 
atmosphere where this book, the Bible, 
is made the guide and standard of all 
teaching. If our education is received 
from sources that reject or ignore the 
Bible, our education will be funda-
mentally deficient, if not tragically 
erroneous. 
2. Habit training and character de-
velopment, to be of the genuine kind 
and quality, must have the proper 
moral basis. Christians believe that 
the Bible is that basis. It should be 
taught by Christian teachers who prac-
tice its precepts in their lives. The 
public schools, of course, do not make 
the Bible the basis of morality, nor 
can they require that the teachers be 
Christians. 
3. The public schools and Christian 
schools do not agree on what are 
proper activities. The Christian 
schools hold to Christian ideals, 
whereas the public schools do not 
and cannot recognize the prerequisite 
of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. 
Christian parents desire that their 
children be taught to believe, rever-
ence, and adopt Christian ideals, and 
to choose their activities from those 
that harmonize with Christian stand-
ards. The ideals children adopt and 
the activities in which they participate 
are just as important as the facts they 
learn from books. 
4. Christian schools and public 
schools have very different viewpoints 
on how children should consider them-
selves and other people. It is the 
business of public schools to teach 
children the worldly conception of 
duty and destiny, which is largely 
for self-development and personal ad- 
vantage. It is the business of Chris-
tian schools to teach the ideals found 
in the sermon on the mount. The 
teaching of the public schools and the 
teaching of Jesus are strangers to 
each other. These opposite concep-
tions of life result in a fundamentally 
different treatment of other people. 
5. However great may be the differ-
ence between the two systems of 
schools in textbooks, in the formation 
of habits and character, in ideals and 
character building, and in the concep-
tion of the proper treatment of others, 
perhaps boys and girls are influenced, 
in the final outcome, to a greater ex-
tent by their association with others 
than in any other way. 
In the public schools the teachers 
may or may not be Christians, and the 
boys and girls come from homes of 
people whose beliefs vary from Chris-
tianity to atheism. The children gen-
erally have imbibed the Christian or 
non-Christian ideas of their parents. 
Some come from homes which have 
unacceptable moral ideas as well, and 
have no respectable standards on per-
sonal or moral conduct. 
Tn the Christian schools the teachers 
are selected on the basis of their 
Christian character and their proper 
scholastic qualifications. The children, 
for the most part, are not only from 
Christian homes, but from Seventh-day 
Adventist Christian homes. They 
therefore have similar high Christian 
ideals as to morals and religion, us 
well as to proper activities and recre-
ations. 
What Is True Education? 
A PERSON is educated by everything 
that comes into his conscious life. By 
the term, "education," however, we 
generally mean scholastic education, or 
the education received in attending 
school. This is the sense in which we 
shall speak of it here. 
The aim of education is to prepare 
one to live a better, broader life. The 
one who is educated should see more, 
hear more, understand more, and en-
joy more than the one who is not edu-
cated. That is, life is bigger, deeper, 
broader, and fuller to the educated 
person. He can think better and ac-
complish more. The value of education 
is both spiritual and material. Tn 
knowing and understanding more, a 
person is happier, has better self-con-
trol, is able to judge more fairly and 
wisely, can serve others better, and 
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therefore is more worth while in the 
world. 
Getting an education is the big busi• 
nen of early life. It prepares for 
living, and living is the big business of 
every individual. Moat people an 
make a living; but living is much 
more important than making a living. 
Merely working is not living. Some- 
one has said: �
. 
"Ile most lives who thinks most. feels 
the noblest. acts the best.' 
The great purpose of education is to 
develop the body, mind, and heart 
harmoniously. These are the snored 
possession of every human being. 
Tt is the fine work of the school to 
develop and train these to the end 
that the individual may be what lie 
ought to be and bo able to do what he 
ought to- do. 
Personal value has greatly depre- 
ciated in modern times. Purity, 
honesty, veracity, honor, depends hility, 
sense of duty and of responsibility, are 
very hard to find in one person. This 
material age is calling for men and 
women who can do things that add to 
the material wealth of the world. 
What people aro, is not of so much 
consideration. And yet, after all, 
personal worth in the final count, is 
the only thing that is worth anything. 
At least, it is the only thing that has 
enduring value. 
"True success in education, as in 
everything else, is found in keeping 
the future life in view. The human 
family have scarcely begun to live 
when they begin to die; and the 
world's incessant labor ends in nothing- 
ness, unless a true knowledge in regard 
to eternal life is gained. He who 
appreciates probationary time ae the 
preparatory school of life, will use 
it to secure to himself a title to the 
heavenly mansions, a membership in 
the higher school. For this school 
the youth are to be educated, disci-
plined, and trained by fonning such 
characters as God will approve."—
"Counsels to Teachers," p. 21. 
According to this statement, on edu-
cation that fits for this life's labors 
only, ends in nothingness. True edu-
cation must go farther and prepare 
one for the future life also. 
Who Can Go On? 
IN many churches after a student 
has finished the eighth grade, provi-
sion is made for the ninth and tenth 
grades. Whether such provision is 
made or not, when the time comes that 
you have taken all the courses offered 
In the local church school, consult your 
pastor, the elder of the church, the 
young people's leader, the conference 
educational superintendent, the prin-
cipal or representative of the academy, 
and work out some means of attending 
the academy. 
If this cannot be done, and a year 
or more must intervene before you can 
go to the academy, take correspondence 
courses of the Home Study Institute 
under the supervision of the church 
school until you have earned money or 
found a way to go to the academy. 
Some students make arrangements to 
work at the academy to pay part of 
their expenses, and others earn enough 
selling books or magazines to pay their 
school expenses at She academy. 
"Let the youth who need an educa-
tion set to work with a determination 
to obtain it. Do not wait for an 
opening; make one for yourselves. 
Take hold in any small way that 
presents itself. Practice economy. Do 
not spend your means for the gratifies. 
Lion of appetite, or in pleasure seeking. 
Be determined to become as useful and 
efficient as God dills you to be. Be 
thorough and faithful in whatever you 
undertake. Procure every advantage 
within your reach for strengthening 
the intellect. Let the study of books 
be combined with useful manual labor, 
and by faithful endeavor, watchful. 
ness, and prayer, secure the wisdom 
that is from above. This will give 
you an alleound education. Thus 
you may rise in character, and gain 
an influence over other minds, ena• 
Whig you to lead them in the path of 
uprightness and holiness."—"Christ's 
Object Lemons," p. 884. 
A Wonder World of Insects 
(Program for June 10) 
SY HOWARD A. 'MUNSON 
OPENING Emmons. 
13CRIPITRIL (See Notes to Leaders, 
p. 18.) 
SUPIRINTENDENT'S TALK: "The Insect 
World." 
RRADINO: "One Spider I Observed." 
Tan: "Spiders' Enemits." 
TALK: "Protecting Themselves." 
TALK: "Winged Insects." 
Pont: "Insects." 
°Loma EXERCISES. 
Note to Superintendents 
Some of the Juniors may today be-
come interested in attaining the Voca-
tional Honor in Insect Life, the re-
quirements for which aro listed on 
pages 216, 217, of the "Master Com-
rade Manual," or page 110 of the 
"Junior Handbook." Doubtless some-
one in your community is experienced 
in this field, or you can work out the 
requirements together. 
The Insect World 
TRULY the world of insects which 
inhabit this earth is a world of many 
wonders. Most people have never 
studied the insect world, and they 
entirely miss this mass of tiny, six. 
legged wonders. Other people spend 
most of their lives studying insect 
life, and they find that the more they 
study the more there is to learn. 
The deeper they go into insect lives 
and habits the more interested they 
become. "fumy scientists have spent 
much of their lives exploring in this 
world of countless little creatures and 
find it as interesting and fascinating 
as any story ever written. 
Most human beings consider our 
insect neighbors as a fearful, creepy 
let that should be killed on Right. 
But insects are not ugly, even though 
some of them are ugly looking. They 
will seldom bite a person. Even a bee 
will crawl over your body without 
stinging if you do not frighten or 
hurt him. My nine•year-old son ha 
dies all kinds of insects. He keeps 
many kinds of spiders in jars and lets 
the large, golden garden spider, which 
has a body as big as an acorn, crawl 
all over him. ITe has numerous crickets 
injars, so that he may see how these 
little fiddlers do their chirping. He 
has katydids flying around his room. 
He handles snakes without fear. Ants, 
beetles, butterflies, cicadas—all are 
his pets. And he is never bitten by 
any of them. Any boy or girl can do 
the same and at the same time hare 
much enjoyment and learn many valu• 
able lessons. 
My plea to every young person is 
to discard the idea that all insect life 
is hateful and ugly and creepy. Do 
not think that the insect world is fit 
only to be crushed underfoot. Dismiss 
the thought that there is nothing of 
interest or profit for you in the study 
of insects. Then when you have 
emptied your mind of these false no-
tions, make a decision to find out for 
yourself what wonders the inset world 
holds. Get a good insect book, an 
inexpensive magnifying glass, several 
jars or boxes with screened covers, and 
begin by collecting the first insect you 
find—ant, cricket, katydid, walking 
stick, bee, or beetle. Feed it. Study 
it. Learn how it lives. You will 
soon be deeply interested in a study 
that is worthy of all your spare time 
and your best efforts. And you will 
learn many things. 
As you see wonders unfold before 
your eyes, you will realize what a wise 
God created this world and all its in-
habitants, and you will learn to know 
and to love this Creator better. 
(See Senior Talk, "The Insect 
World," on page 18.) 
One Spider I Observed 
To show you what awaits you in the 
insect world, let me tell you of a little 
experience I had. It was an early 
summer day. I felt like getting out in 
the pure air and sunshine; so I selected 
a beautiful knoll just above a wood 
lot, and there put down my pillow. 
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The sun was warm, the air was clean 
and fresh, and the sky was the bluest 
blue one can imagine. I hadn't been 
seated long before I noticed a spider 
web on my left. The top of this web 
was fastened to a clump of dandelions, 
and hundreds of silken threads led 
down to the ground. There they all 
joined to form a thick mass of web, 
and these in turn formed a thick-walled 
tunnel that led under a rock. 
While I was noticing how cleverly 
this was made, a large spider came 
up out of the tunnel and stopped on 
his "doorstep." He stopped there a 
second and then ran up the web and 
stopped on the edge of a dandelion 
blossom. Before long a bumblebee 
came buzzing along and landed on a 
blossom. That spider moved so fast 
I could hardly follow his motion. He 
reached that bumblebee as quick as 
a flash, and seemed to bring his two 
strong front legs down on his back, I 
suppose to hold him, and quickly bit 
the bee on the back. Then he quickly 
jumped back. The beo was so badly 
hurt that he could not fly away, and he 
fell down into the grass. The spider 
dropped down and swiftly ran around 
and around his fallen victim, but he 
was careful to keep a good distance 
from that dangerous stinger. When 
he saw an opening, he jumped in close 
and bit the bee again. This seemed 
to completely paralyze the bee, and 
the spider picked it up bodily, carried 
it to the web, and down into the 
tunnel. There the poor bee would 
serve as food for the spider and her 
family. 
This interesting bit of insect drama 
is all a part of the insect life, and 
such things are happening every hour. 
It is those who are out in the open 
and are alert who will be privileged to 
see such things. 
Spiders' Enemies 
In the experience just read, the 
spider was victor. But there is a 
family of wasps who always get the 
better of any argument with a spider. 
In fact, they like nothing better than 
to pick a fight with any spider. They 
catch and kill even the very poisonous 
black-widow spider. 
One of these wasps is known as the 
blue mud dauber; another is called 
the potter wasp. This wasp is very 
clever at making little mud cells or 
homes for its children. It mixes little 
particles of mud and clay into a plastic 
mass and forms nests under the eaves 
of houses, in barns, or in back sheds. 
It leaves a small opening in one end 
through which it can enter and lay 
eggs. Then it goes spider hunting. 
With the speed of light it drops down 
on a spider and stings it. This does 
not kill the spider, but just paralyzes 
it or puts it to sleep, and then the wasp 
carries it to this cell, where it has 
just laid an egg. When the wasp has 
enough food in the cell, she carefully 
seals up the opening. She knows that 
when her eggs hatch out into little 
grubs, or larvae, they will find a supply 
of food. And when they have changed 
their form, they will come out of that 
little home and begin their lives as 
wasps, eager to go on a hunt for 
spiders for themselves. 
Protecting Themselves 
Ona of the most interesting things 
about insect life is the way insects have 
of protecting themselves from larger 
and stronger enemies. Many of them 
are so small that they cannot fight. A 
great many of them have no sharp 
bite, sting, or any method of hurting 
their enemies; so they have three 
principal ways to keep from being 
killed off. First, by protective colora-
tion. This means that the insects are 
so nearly the color of their surround-
ings that they cannot easily be seen. 
The second way is by protective resem-
blance. This means having the same 
shape or appearance as their.surround-
ings—such as looking like a flower or a 
bit of grass or a stick. And the third 
means of protection is by looking ugly 
and fearsome, so that other insects and 
birds will not touch them. The insects 
of this class have great, stiff hairs 
all over their bodies, or long, ugly-
looking horns, or a terrible odor. 
As one example of self-protection 
let us consider our common little inch-
worm, or measuring worm. Every 
Junior has seen this little fellow "inch-
ing" along. He crawls by stretching 
himself out as far as possible, then 
bringing his hind feet up close to his 
fore feet. This pushes his body up in 
the air. When be puts his front feet 
out again and stretches his full length, 
he has moved about an inch. This 
little fellow couldn't possibly hurt an 
enemy, but he has a fine way of pro-
tecting himself, two ways, in fact. 
First, he crawls on a twig that closely 
resembles him in color. If he should 
stop on that twig and not move, you 
would never see him, even though you 
knew he was somewhere on that twig. 
This is due to protective coloration. 
He can also protect himself by resem-
blance. If he should see a shadow pass 
over him and he doesn't want to be-
come a breakfast for a hungry bird, he 
quickly makes himself look like a twig. 
He grasps the branch firmly with his 
two pairs of hind legs. Then he 
stiffens his body and shoots it out 
away from the branch at an angle. 
In this position he looks exactly like a 
small twig, without leaves, and, unless 
you actually saw him do it, you would 
pass him without a second glance. 
You see, he likes life, even as you 
and I do, and he intends to live as 
long as he can. 
The praying mantis uses protective 
coloration to help him get his food. 
He is not as common as the inchworm, 
but you can find him if you look care-
fully. He is a big, tough-looking fel-
low who eats flies and many harmful 
insects. For this reason, he should 
not be killed. He settles himself on 
a branch or leaf that is the same 
color as himself (grayish brown or 
greenish) and there he sits perfectly 
motionless. He has two very long and 
very strong front legs that are lined 
with many sharp little spikes or 
needles. These legs are kept up in 
the air and drawn up close to his 
body; so he is said to be praying. 
When another insect lands within 
reach, those long legs shoot out and 
down over it and hold it securely. 
Only a strong insect can free itself 
from his grasp. An interesting thing 
about this fellow is that he will not 
strike a person or another insect that 
is larger or more fierce than he can 
handle. Nor will he grasp a very 
small insect that is not a fit subject 
for a good meal. So you see he knows 
a thing or two, and will not cause a 
big disturbance on that limb until he 
has something worth while. 
Did you ever see a stick walking? 
No? Well, if you are very observing, 
and look around out in the woods, you 
will probably find a walking stick. 
This interesting insect owes his life to 
protective coloration and to resem-
blance. In color he is just like the 
twigs on which he crawls. And he cer-
tainly does resemble a stick. His 
long slender body is rough and scaly 
like bark and generally has several 
large joints which make him appear 
like a twig. His six long, slender 
legs carry out this imitation. I know 
a woman who one time saw what looked 
like a small twig on her lace curtain. 
She was a good housekeeper, and, 
wondering how such a thing got on 
her curtain, she walked over to pick 
it off. Behold, the twig began to 
move, and frightened her. It was our 
deceiving friend, the walking stick. 
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Winged Insects 
Ix our study of this insect wonder-
land we cannot omit our most colorful 
and most beautiful group of insects. 
This is the huge family of Lepidoptera 
(pronounced Lep-i-dop'-ter-a), which 
contains about 50,000 different kinds. 
This is a Greek term meaning "wing" 
or "scale and wine and in this family 
we find all our wonderfully colored 
butterflies and moths. They have 
four broad wings, which aro completely 
covered with tiny scales which overlap 
like shingles. The beauties of these 
moths and butterflies attract nearly 
six thousand collectors in the United 
States alone. Some of these collectors 
are boys and girls who have very fine 
collections carefully mounted and cor-
rectly named. Any boy or girl can 
quickly make a spreading board and 
begin this inteersting hobby. 
Moths and butterflies are like some 
people—the more you know about 
them the better you like them. By 
way of introduction to this beautiful 
family let us follow one from the egg 
to the flying adult. Their life is made 
up of four stages. First it begins 
with a batch of tiny eggs on the under-
side of a leaf. The larvae of each 
butterfly prefer certain leaves for 
their diet; so these eggs are placed 
under the leaves which are the best-
liked diet for the young. Here the 
eggs are protected from sun and wind 
and rain, and they hatch out into 
small, fuzzy caterpillars. These have 
tremendous appetites, and you may 
find certain small trees with almost all 
the leaves eaten off by those hungry, 
fast-growing caterpillars. By early 
fall the caterpillars are full grown, and 
you see them as creepy little fellows 
in different-colored skins or covered 
with stiff hairs, hurrying along the 
ground and getting ready for winter. 
The caterpillar finds a safe place 
and begins making its winter home. 
From its mouth it ejects a silken thread 
and weaves a very tough cocoon. It 
builds this cocoon around itself and 
then covers it with a substance that 
. hardens and makes it waterproof and 
very tough. Here it contracts to less 
than half its full size and spends the 
winter secure against storms and hun-
gry birds. And here it sheds its skin 
and becomes a pupa, which is the third 
stage. As soon as the warm June 
days arrive, it bores its way out. At 
first it is very weak, and its wings are 
tiny and useless. However, it takes 
but a few hours for those four beau-
tifully colored wings to spread out and 
get strong. Then we see a wonderful 
creature flying from flower to flower, 
sucking nectar. Butterflies fly and 
eat during the day, but almost all the 
moths come out at night. 
Any observing Junior boy or girl 
can collect cocoons containing the 
larvae of moths and butterflies. They 
may be collected in the fall and even 
during the winter, and can be kept in 
a jar, with a little moisture, in some 
back, unheated shed. There is no more 
fascinating sight than watching these 
ugly-looking "worms" change into gor-
geous-winged creatures. 
It is interesting to notice the way 
nature has provided protection for 
these helpless caterpillars before they 
form their cocoons. Many of them 
are the same color as the twigs or 
leaves on which they crawl and feed. 
Others are covered with short and very 
stiff hairs that birds do not like. 
They also have a way of curling up 
into a tight little ball when danger 
threatens. Others, with great, long 
horns, look very fierce and ugly, and 
still others give off a very offensive 
odor when molested. Then when they 
become winged creatures, they are 
protected by their swiftness of flight 
and also by having one set of wings 
that are much more drab in color than 
the others. These drab wings fold 
over the brightly colored ones when 
the insect is at rest, and thus he, is 
not easily seen. 
This beautiful family of Lepidop-
tera live very short lives. Some live 
only a few hours and never even eat 
while in the winged stage. Others 
live a few weeks. Many eat only 
nectar from the flowers. For this 
purpose they have a very long tongue. 
Someday stand watch at a patch of 
milkweed and catch a monarch butter-
fly. Then notice his long tongue, 
with which he goes down deep into 
the flower for nectar. And notice how 
this tongue is kept coiled up close to 
the underside of the head when it is 
not eating. 
Of course this is only a brief glimpse 
into this wonderland of insects. Other 
thousands of them are exceedingly 
fascinating subjects to study. The 
Junior who will take the time to be-
come acquainted with this vast group 
of bisect neighbors will receive a great 
blessing physically, mentally, and spir-
itually. 
Insects 
Tue insect world is a busy world, 
With habits and rules of its own; 
With queen and hunter and soldier 
bold— 
Worker and slave—and drone; 
Spinner and weaver—mason and those 
Who tunnel in wood and earth; 
There are those who trap and those who 
store 
Provisions for times of dearth. 
There are those who rob and those who 
kill 
To dine on their victims flesh—
There are those who spin a winding 
sheet 
To bind the prey they enmesh. 
The insects build their snug nests well, 
Each type of a skillful plan, 
Silk lined and proof against wind and 
rain— 
As they've built since the world began! 
—Lillian Fazzini. 
Alcohol: Enemy of Juniors 
(Program for June 17) 
BY K. L. GANT 
SONG: "Yield Not to Temptation," No. 
65 in "Christ in Song;" No. 46 in 
"Missionary Volunteer Songs." 
ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
OFFERING. 
RESPONSIVE READING: "Scripture Ad-
monitions," p. 20. 
(Adapt for 
Juniors.) 
PRAYER. 
DIALOGUE: "Playing the Game." 
EXHIBIT. (See Notes to Leaders, p. 
19.) 
STORY: "A Mother's Sorrow." (See 
"Stories Worth Re-reading.") 
TALK: "Let's Sign the Pledge." 
SIGNING OF PLEDGES: (Pass out Tem-
perance Pledges [M.V. Pledge 4] 
and urge the Juniors to sign them. 
After the pledges have been signed, 
have an older person pray very 
earnestly that God will give the 
boys and girls courage to remain 
true to their pledge.) 
POEM: "The Boy Hero." 
SONG: "We Will Not Use Liquor," 
p. 21. 
BENEDICTION. 
Playing the Game 
CHARACTERS: Jack and Ted, two boys, 
about fifteen years old. 
SETTING: Two boys meet. One carries 
a tennis racket and two balls. (Adapt 
if program is presented on the Sabbath.) 
JACK: Hello, Ted. I see you have 
the racket in hand as usual. With 
whom do you play today? 
TED: Hello, Jack. I'm on my way 
to the State college courts. I'm play-
ing with Bill Mead. 
JACK: Who's Bill Mead? 
TED: Oh, one of the fellows out there 
who is practicing for the amateur 
tennis tournament. 
JACK: Is he good? 
TED: Fair. Put I think he'd be 
better if he'd live differently. 
JACK: How's that? 
TED: Well, he carries a bottle. Lots 
of the young players do, you know. 
Think it's smart. But so far I've won 
more games than he, even though he 
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is older and has a longer reach. He 
says I serve the balls too fast, he can't 
see them. Imagine that! If I serve 
them too fast, wonder what he thinks 
it's going to be like in the tourna-
ment! 
JACK: What's that got to do with a 
bottle? 
TED: Just this, Jack. The fellow 
who drinks isn't altogether alive and 
awake. Didn't you read what Helen 
Wills Moody, the famous woman tennis 
player, said about drinking, some time 
ago? 
JACK: No, I didn't. What did she 
say? 
TED: She said that one glass of beer 
is sufficient to induce sleep on the 
tennis court. Think of that! Of 
course she doesn't mean a player goes 
to sleep, I suppose, but that it makes 
him drowsy, and keeps his eye just 
wobbly enough so that he does not 
hit his stroke cleanly. She said that 
oven one cocktail or a glass of beer 
will make a difference in one's eye 
coordination and balance. I suppose 
she knows what she's talking about, 
too. She's played enough people. 
JACK: Yes, she certainly has. Say, 
Ted, why don't you tell Bill Mead 
what you just told me? 
TED: I think I will. He's a fine sort 
of chap, and I'd like to see him win in 
this contest. 
JACK: I suppose it's for that same 
reason that Henry Ford won't have 
any drinking men work for him. 
TED: Exactly! It dulls their com-
mon sense, and causes them to make 
mistakes in working on the fine ma-
chinery. And not only the Ford repu-
tation is at stake, but the lives of 
those who drive the cars he puts out. 
It's the same in all those factories. 
They won't have a drinking man if 
they know it, and they soon find it out. 
JACK: I heard a man lecturing on 
temperance the other day, and he said 
that the phrase "blue Monday" was 
not made by poor housewives who had 
to do a big washing on Monday morn-
ing, but came into use because so many 
workers were unable to go back to 
work on Monday. They received their 
pay on Saturday night, drank all day 
Sunday, and spent all day Monday 
sobering up. Some of the managers 
decided to pay their men on Monday 
instead of Saturday, so that they 
would be on hand Monday morning. 
TED: Think of that! I tell you, 
Jack, I'm going to do everything I 
can to help the cause of temperance, 
aren't you? 
JACK: I surely am, Ted. I have a 
part in the temperance rally to be 
given at our church next week, and 
besides, I'm going to tell all I know 
to every one I can. 
TED: I am, too. Must be going 
now. I'll have to hurry to meet Bill 
Mead on time. Good-by! 
JACK: So long, Ted! Good luck 
to your game I—Bertha D. Martin. 
"TOTAL abstinence from liquor is the 
most effective enemy of drunkenness." 
Let's Sign the Pledge 
ABOUT twenty-five hundred years 
ago, in the beautiful but heathen city 
of Babylon, there was formed a small 
temperance society composed of four 
red-blooded young men. Daniel and 
his three young friends, although cap-
tives in a strange land, did not for-
get the important principles of tem-
perance which they had learned while 
they were Juniors back in Jerusalem. 
You know the story of how God 
greatly honored that temperance band. 
And Ho is just as ready to honor any 
such band of youth today! 
I believe that Juniors—no matter 
when they lived or where—are pretty 
much alike in this respect: they like 
action. It's the Junior who likes to 
play hard and work bard. And the 
Junior who is wise will learn how to 
care for his body, so that he will have 
strength and vigor to do the interest-
ing and worth-while things in life. It's 
no fun to sit on the bank with a weak 
heart while the crowd is in swimming; 
it's no fun to sit on a bench while 
the crowd skates! The Junior keeps 
fit, so that he may enjoy life himself, 
and that he may help others. 
A Junior is old enough to make 
choices for himself. A bottle marked 
"Poison" and decorated with a skull 
and, crossbones is kept out of the 
reach of small children. But the 
Junior understands the meaning of 
the word "poison." No Junior would 
take a drink of lysol or carbolic acid 
—he knows better. 
Doctors, who have studied and 
know, tell us that alcohol is a poison. 
Solomon, the wisest man who ever 
lived, speaking under divine inspira-
tion, declared: "Wine is a mocker, 
strong drink is raging: and whosoever 
is deceived thereby is not wise." "At 
the last it biteth like a serpent, and 
stingeth like an adder." Of course, 
no Junior Missionary Volunteer will 
touch the poison! He will, like Dan-
iel, purpose in his heart not to de-
file himself, and he will let others 
know of his purpose. He is familiar 
with pledges—he has taken upon his 
lips the pledge to be pure and kind 
and true and to keep the Junior Law, 
which includes caring for his body. 
Gladly—for his own sake; for the 
sake of others whom he hopes to 
help; and, above all, for the sake of 
his beloved Missionary Volunteer Cap-
tain, Jesus, he will sign the temper- 
mice pledge—and by the grace of 
God, he will keep it!—Ruth B. Burge-
son. 
The Boy Hero 
Hush's a hand to the boy who has 
courage 
To do what he knows to be right; 
When he falls in the way of temptation. 
He has a hard battle to fight. 
Who strives against self, and his com- 
rades 
Will find a most powerful fee; 
All honor to him if he conquers. 
A cheer for the boy who says No! 
There's many a battle fought daily 
The world knows nothing about; 
There's many a brave little soldier 
Whose strength puts a legion to root, 
And he who fights sin singlehanded 
Is more of a hero. I say. 
Than lie who leads soldiers to battle 
And conquers by arms in the tray. 
Be steadfast, my boy, when you're 
tempted, 
And do what you know to be right 
Stand firm by the colors of manhood. 
And you will otercome in the fight. 
"The Right!" be your battle cry ever 
In waging the warfare of life ; 
And (hod, who knows who are heroes. 
Will give you the strength for the 
strife. 
—Author tint:noir n 
The Ten Commandments 
(Program for June $4) 
BY W. B. OOHS 
OPENING SONG: "Guards of the 
Armor," No. 85 in "Missionary Vol- 
unteer Songs." 
PRAYER. 
SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
MISSIONARY REPORTS. 
OFFERTORY. 
INTRODUCTION. 
TALK: "The Ten Commandments." 
A TALK on each commandment. 
DISCUSSION OR TESTIMONIES. 
CLosmc SONG: "Steady and True," 
No. 64 in "Missionary Volunteer 
Songs;" or "Blessed Are They That 
Do," No. 55 in "Christ in Song." 
BENEDICTION. 
Introduction 
The subject under consideration for 
this program is one that ought to 
appeal to every boy and girl in the 
advent movement, for of the remnant 
church it is said, "Here are they that 
keep the commandments of God." 
Before we can keep the command-
ments, we must know something about 
them. Most Seventh-day Adventist 
Juniors no doubt have committed 
them to memory; but it is one thing 
to be able to give them from memory 
and another thing really to know what 
it means to keep them as God desires 
we should. 
The Ten Conunandments 
The ten commandments reveal our 
duty to God and to our fellow men. 
The first four commandments tell us 
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what God requires of His children, 
and when we keep them, we demon-
strate by our lives that we love the 
Lord above everything else in the 
'world. The last six commandments 
reveal our duty to our fellow men -to 
the boys and girls and grown folk 
with whom we associate. When we 
keep them, we fulfill the duty that 
comes to us toward one another. Solo-
mon, who at one time enjoyed the 
pleasures of life and had all that his 
heart desired, finally mane to the fol-
lowing conclusion: "Let us hear the 
conclusion of the whole matter: Fear 
God, and keep His commandments: 
for this is the whole duty of man." 
Led. 12:13. There was a definite 
reason why he made this statement, 
for the next verse says that "God 
shall bring every work into judgment, 
with every secret thing, whether it 
be gsod, or whether it bo evil." 
Many times Juniors like to hide 
what they aro doing from others, be-
cause they are ashamed of it; and it 
is possible to hide some things from 
our parents,, our brothers and our 
sisters and others. Rut ono thing is 
sure, we can never hide our secret sine 
from the Lord, and in the great judg-
ment day we are going to be awarded 
according to what wo have done. Then 
every secret thing, whether it bo good 
or whether it be evil, Is going to be 
revealed. With this in mind, we want 
to study the ten commandments ono 
by one to see what it really means 
to keep them. 
First Commandment 
Ex. 20:8 
As we study those words we find 
that they are directed against false 
gods, for the commandment says, 
"Thou shalt have no other gods be-
fore Me." In "Patriarchs and Proph-
eta," page 305, we are told, "Jehovah, 
the eternal, self-existent, uncreated 
One, Himself the source and sustainer 
of all, is alone entitled to supreme 
reverence and worship." We must 
make the Lord first in our lives. Roth. 
ing must take Ills place in the heart. 
There aro so many false gods in the 
world today; but you say, I do not 
have a false god, I do not how and 
worship idols made of wood and stone. 
But notice what the servant of the 
Lord says, "Whatever wo cherish that 
tends to lesson our love for God or 
to interfere with the service duo Him, 
of that do we make a god."—Ibid. 
Is there anything that we can think 
of that we cherish or love so much 
that it tends to lesson our love for 
God, or that might interfere with the 
service that is duo Hind If that be 
true, then we make a god of that 
thing, and thus put the Lord second 
in our life. And that is a transgres-
sion of the first commandment. 
This e.ommandment may be broken: 
1. By putting God secondary. 
2. By making pleasures the goal of 
our life. 
The world today is pleasure mad. 
Boys and girls are allured by the 
things which the world offers. Many 
times we forget God because we think 
only of the pleasures we can got out 
of the things wo want to do. The 
Lord wants us to be happy, cheerful; 
Ho wants us to enjoy life and have a 
real good time, but that good time 
must never conflict with the com-
mandment. It must never lead us 
away from the Lord, for the very 
moment that we are led away from 
Him and forgot Him because of the 
pleasures that wo enjoy, we break this 
commandment. 
Second Commandment 
Er. 20 :441 
Tut second commandment forbids 
the worship of the true God in false 
forms. To represent the eternal God 
by material objects, lowers our con-
ception of Him. When the mind is 
turned away from God and is at-
tracted to the creature rather than 
the Creator, it causes us to lose sight 
of the real teaching of this com-
mandment. The second commandment 
may be broken: 
1. By resorting to the use of crosses 
or images in worship. 
2. By substituting something else 
for God. 
3. By bowing down to and serving 
false gods. 
Lot us be sure that we do not in 
any way bow down or be obedient to 
that which is in opposition to the 
Lord, for terrible results will come to 
those who transgress this command-
ment. God says, "Visiting the iniq-
uity of the fathers upon the children 
unto the third and fourth generation 
of them that hate Me." Everywhere 
today we can see the fulfillment of 
these words. 
How many boys and 
girls are suffering because of the sins 
of their parents. We are told, "By 
inheritance and example the sons be-
come partakers of the father's sin. 
Wrong tendencies, perverted appe-
tites, and debased morals, as well as 
physical disease and degeneracy, are 
transmitted as a legacy from father 
to son, to the third and fourth gen-
eration."—Id., p. 306. But how cheer-
ing it in, Juniors, to know that in 
spite of the terrible results of sin, we 
can have forgiveness of sin, live a 
clean life, and by the grace of God 
keep this commandment; and when 
we do that, then the Lord's promise 
to us is, "Showing mercy unto thou-
sands of them that lovo Me, and keep 
My commandments." 
Third Commandment 
Ex. 20:7 
As we study this commandment, we 
find first of all that it warns against 
taking the name of God in vain. His 
name is holy, and we are to reverence 
it. The word "vain" means deceitful, 
idle, light, or trifling. Let us not 
forget that the Lord says that He 
"will not hold him guiltless that tak-
eth His name In vain." We break 
this commandment: 
I. By taking a false oath. 
2. By swearing. 
3. By using the name of God in a 
light or Careless manner. 
4. By appeals to Him in trivial 
matters. 
5. By frequent and thoughtless rep-
etition of Hie name. 
6. By living the opposite of what 
we profess to be. 
If we could always remember that 
the transgression of this or any other 
commandment will keep us out of 
heaven, then I am sure that we would 
guard our words and actions more. 
We would think twice before we speak. 
It is so easy to form the habit of 
using wrong language or swearing, 
taking the name of the Lord in vain. 
Jesus said, "Blessed are the pure in 
heart: for they shall see God." When 
the heart is pure, then the language 
is pure also. 
Fourth Commandment 
Er. 20:811 
THIS commandment is well known 
to Seventh day Adventist boys and 
girls, for it deals with the keeping of 
the Sabbath day, which is the seventh 
day of the week. This is the only 
commandment in which we find both 
the name and the title of the Law-
giver—the only one that shows by 
whose authority the law has been 
given. It contains the seal of God, 
which is affixed to His law as evidence 
of its authenticity and binding force. 
The essential thing embodied in this 
commandment is work and rest. It 
enjoins work on six days and forbids 
work on the seventh, not any seventh, 
but the seventh, which is the Sabbath 
of the Lord. This commandment tells 
us that the Sabbath is the Lord's day, 
that we are to keep it holy. It per-
mits acts of necessity or mercy and 
distinguishes the true God from false 
gods. How may it be broken? 
I. By forgetting the day, for the 
commandment says, "Remember." 
That means that wo should remember 
the Sabbath throughout the whole 
week and not only on the Sabbath 
day. 
2. By not keeping it holy, for we 
are told to "keep it holy." Wo must 
not work on the Sabbath, neither aro 
we to speak our own words on His 
holy day. There are many things 
that we can talk about during the 
week which are perfectly all right, 
but which aro a transgression of this 
commandment if we talk about them 
on the Sabbath, for we are told that 
wo are not to speak our own words. 
(See Isa. 58:13.) The Sabbath day 
must not be made a day of selfish 
pleasure. The only pleasures that we 
are to enjoy on this day are the 
pleasures that come to us as we serve 
God, attend worship in His house, 
and meditate upon His name and won• 
derful handiwork in nature. Those 
things are eternal. 
of 
"Mane your life worth living and it 
will help your neighbors." 
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Fifth Commandment 
Ex. 20:12 
TIM is a commandment that every 
Junior ought to commit to memory, 
for it deals with the honoring of 
father and mother. Our parents are 
entitled to a degree of love and re-
spect which is due to no other person. 
Many times we do not appreciate 
what father and mother really mean 
to us, what they are trying to do to 
help us. It is so easy for us to for-
get them. This commandment we 
break: 
1. By disrespecting father and 
mother, calling them disrespectful 
names, such as "old man" and "old 
woman." 
2. By being ashamed to be in their 
company. Our parents may not be as 
educated as some other people; they 
may not have as much money as 
others have, and consequently cannot 
dress as others, or live in such a beau-
tiful house as they would like to; 
and sometimes boys and girls are 
ashamed of them because of this; 
but that is a transgression of this 
commandment. 
3. By being disobedient. We are 
living today in a disobedient age. The 
very spirit of disobedience seems to 
be in the air we breathe; and how 
easy it is for us to be disobedient to 
our parents. Let us remember that 
in order to get to heaven we must be 
obedient in every detail. Surely the 
Lord would not ask us to keep a com-
mandment if He knew it was impos-
sible for us to keep it. So every 
commandment He has given us, can 
be kept if we truly love God. Think 
of the wonderful promise to those 
who keep this commandment, "That 
thy days may be long upon the land 
which the Lord thy God giveth thee." 
Sixth Commandment 
Ex. 20:13 
THE sixth commandment throws a 
bulwark around the human life. We 
all were created in the image of God. 
To take life is a thrust at God. 
Through sin man lost the image of 
the Lord, but through conversion His 
image is to be restored in the soul. 
When we think of what it cost Christ 
to redeem us, to bring us back to the 
Lord, then we will better understand 
the real value of life and how sad 
the Lord must feel when people take 
life. This commandment may be 
broken: 
1. By sinful anger. There is more 
than one way to kill a person. In 
Jeremiah 18:18 we read, "Then said 
they, Come, and let us devise devices 
against Jeremiah; for the law shall 
not perish from the priest, nor coun-
sel from the wise, nor the word from 
the prophet. Come, and let us smite 
him with the tongue, and let us not 
give heed to any of his words." Just 
think how many people are being 
killed through the words that we 
speak! 
2. By hatred, which is the same as 
sinful anger, which is mentioned 
above. In 1 John 3:15 we are told, 
"Whosoever hateth his brother is a 
murderer." So you see there are other 
ways of killing besides using a 
weapon. Let us make sure that we do 
not kill our fellow men with the 
tongue or the hatred in our heart 
toward them. 
3. By immoderate recreation and by 
unsafe surroundings, because they en-
danger life. 
4. By committing suicide. Thou-
sands of people commit suicide be-
cause they do not feel like facing the 
problems of life; in God's sight they 
are transgressors of this command-
ment which says; "Thou shalt not 
kill," and therefore will never enter 
the kingdom of God. 
Seventh Commandment 
15x. 20 :14 
Tuts commandment throws a pro- 
tection around the home. It may be 
broken: 
1. By thinking unclean thoughts, 
things that are impure. 
2. By committing adultery. 
3. By divorces that are not based 
on Bible grounds. 
The transgression of this command-
ment has been one of the curses 
through all the ages. It has been the 
ruination, not only of many nations, 
but of many homes. The Lord wants 
us to form the habit of thinking 
about things which are clean, pure, 
and holy. Juniors are often led 
astray easily as they mingle or asso-
ciate together, because of the things 
which they talk and think about. The 
Lord who converts our hearts and 
causes us to want to do what is right 
in His sight, will keep us from sin-
ning day by day. 
Eighth Commandment 
Er. 20:15 
THE eighth commandment strikes at 
the sin of theft, for it says, "Thou 
shalt not steal." Boys and girls are 
especially tempted to break this com-
mandment. They want to have some-
thing for nothing. So they take those 
things which do not belong to them. 
They feel that as long as they can 
get it without being seen, that they 
will "got by" with it. But have we 
not learned in this study that every 
secret thing is going to be revealed? 
This commandment may be broken: 
1. By theft and robbery. 
2. By using false weights and meas-
ures. 
3. By not putting in full time. 
4. By borrowing and then not re-
turning. 
5. By making debts when we know 
that we cannot pay them. 
6. By usury or graft. 
7. By lying advertisements, by mak-
ing assignments to escape the paying 
of honest debts. 
Paul said, "Let him that stole, steal 
no more." If any of the Juniors have 
taken things which are not theirs, 
they ought to return them, and then 
ask for forgiveness, for the Lord can-
not take a thief into His kingdom. 
Shall we not pledge never to take 
those things which do not belong to 
us? 
Ninth Commandment 
Mx. 20:16 
Tuts commandment strikes at the 
sin of lying. It always pays to be 
honest, to tell the truth. Do not 
hide or dodge, but be open and frank 
in your statements. In the last book 
of the Bible we are told that those 
who make a lie are going to be out-
side the city. This commandment is 
broken: 
1. By actual open lying. 
2. By swearing falsely. 
3. By slander. 
4. By talebearing. 
5. By intentional suppression of 
truth. 
6. By creating false impressions. 
7. By breach of promise. 
8. By exaggeration or flattery. 
9. By recommending boys and girls, 
or, for that matter, anyone who is 
unfit for a job. 
It is an awful thing to be false, to 
say things that are not true, to lie. 
How much better to face the world 
with an open heart, knowing that we 
are always truthful in our statements. 
Tenth Commandment 
16x. 20:17 
WE have come to the last command-
ment in the decalogue, the tenth. This 
forbids us to have that which is un-
lawful for us to have. It strikes at 
the very root of all sins, prohibiting 
selfish desires, from which spring sin-
ful acts. This commandment deals 
not only with open violation, but with 
the inner desires of the heart, for it 
strikes at the very purposes of the 
heart. God says, "As he thinketh in 
his heart, so is he." Every sin origi-
nates in the mind. What we think, 
we are. No wonder we are told that, 
"The heart is deceitful above all 
things, and desperately wicked." It 
is not wrong to want to have things 
or to desire those things which will 
build us up and bring success in life, 
but it is wrong to have a desire in 
the heart for that which it is unlaw-
ful for us to have. The command-
ment makes that very plain. 
And so as we have taken a review 
of these wonderful documents, the ten 
commandments, let us ever remember 
the statement of the apostle James, 
"Whosoever shall keep the whole law, 
and yet offend in one point, he is 
guilty of all." James 2:10. 
THE pessimist sees a difficulty in 
every opportunity; the Christian 
should see an opportunity in every 
difficulty.—Dr. S. L. 2/mei/mgr. 
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N our work," writes superintendent 
G. F. Ruf, "we come in touch with 
between 10,000 and 15,000 In-
dians. We have every year be-
tween 80 and 100 schools, some of 
which employ as many as three teach-
ers, and have a large enrollment of 
pupils. In our schools we not only 
teach the general branches of instruc-
tion, but we also teach the value of an 
honest and clean character, in place of 
a life of slavery to vices. We are 
happy to report that thousands have 
left their old pagan customs and vices, 
and live honest and respectable lives. 
"In our superior school in Juliaca 
we have each year from 160 to 190 
students, most of whom are Indian 
boys and girls. Here, aside from the 
regular courses of study, they learn 
such things as farming, care of stock, 
carpet making, the art of cooking, 
housekeeping and sewing, as well as 
carpentry, and typewriting. This en-
ables the student to help his people to 
improve their ways and better their 
condition, not only materially, but also 
physically, mentally, and spiritually. 
"Our Juliaea medical clinic enjoys 
the confidence of the whole surround-
ing territory. Most of the time it is 
full of patients, while others are wait-
ing admittance. It is open to people 
of all classes and creeds, and we must 
enlarge the Clinica to be able to ac-
commodate all these. 
"Our doctor makes ono or two annual 
visits to each of the nine central sta-
tions into which our field is divided. 
Here he comes in touch with people 
unable to reach a doctor. A small 
supply of the most necessary medi-
cines is kept in each of these central 
stations. This enables the directors 
to treat annually thousands of people, 
by pulling teeth and washing and 
treating wounds and soros, thus sav-
ing the lives of many. 
"Calls to establish our educational 
and medical work are coming from 
different places. A few days ago a 
prominent man was hurt in an auto 
accident, and needed to be operated 
upon. Our doctor was called, but was 
unable at the time to answer the call. 
The man died." 
How He Settled It 
MISSIONARY F. L. STORES tells how 
one brother on the Gold Coast, West 
Africa, settled his tithing problems: 
"One new Sabbathkeeper runs a 
lorry transport business. He was very 
much concerned about his tithe, and 
came to consult me as to how he could 
find his true tithe. It turned out to 
be such a complicated problem that 
he said, finally, 'I'll settle it by paying 
tithe on all the money I receive.' It 
is good to see how this man has pros-
pered under the blessing of God. 
Sometimes he has brought in as much 
as $34 tithe a month. A short time 
ago money came in so fast that his 
town folk became jealous. They ac-
cused him of buying fetish medicine 
and getting help from the juju in 
order to succeed in his business. It 
made him so unhappy that lie moved 
his home into another town. 
"There this good brother has raised 
up a company of Sabbathkeepers and 
built a small church building. The 
new believers are getting loose from 
the grip of money, and they are pay-
ing better tithe than are some of the 
members of older churches. We 
visited this new company a few weeks 
ago. The Sabbath school developed 
into a three-hour session, so great was 
the interest in the subject under dis-
cussion, 'The Judgment.' It was in-
spiring to see these newly found souls 
seeking for more understanding. 
"This new company wanted to start 
a small school for their children. We 
had no teacher to give them. Eventu-
ally we decided to transfer a teacher 
from a station not very far away, but 
the few members there came to plead 
with us. They prophesied bad things 
if the teacher was taken. However, 
we went ahead with our plan. 
"Nothing was heard for a week or 
so, but at the end of last month in 
came our brother, the owner of the 
lorry transport business, and once 
again he had moved his abode, and had 
virtually taken the place of the teacher 
who was transferred from his old sta-
tion. He brought in the best report 
we have had for months, and once 
again the tithes had sprung into prom-
inence. An increase in the tithe is a 
sure sign of a healthy church." 
Obtaining a Foothold in Bangkok 
DR. RALPH F. WADDELL tells of our 
medical missionary pioneer entrance 
into Bangkok, the capital city of Siam: 
"The need for medical work in this 
land is tremendous. It was thought 
best to start in the capital city, and 
then to branch out later into the out-
lying territory as ways and means 
developed. The people in many places 
in Siam, especially in the south, are 
urgently requesting us to send them 
help. These parts are rich in tin and 
rubber, and the businessmen there 
tell us that they will give us land, 
help us to build a hospital, and guar-
antee our support, if only we will 
come in. I am sure that many of the 
students at our medical school would 
be glad to come to such a place as 
missionary doctors if such needs were 
brought before them. 
"The Bangkok Mission Clinic was 
opened on May 10, 1937. Since then 
we have treated well over thirteen 
thousand patients. At first we were 
not so busy, but business has gradually 
grown. We start in with our out-
patients at eight-thirty in the morning 
and usually finish about four in the 
afternoon. Then before and after 
hours, we attend the inpatients, do 
surgery, and make home calls, all of 
which have steadily been increasing 
during the last six months. 
"At first we hoped that we would 
develop a large surgical practice. It 
seems that there are at least a few in 
most parts of the world who develop 
goiters, and we have found that Bang-
kok is not an exception. For some 
reason, the other hospitals do not care 
to do thyroid surgery. We have done 
several thyroidectomies of late, all of 
which have been successful. The Lord 
has been most gracious in blessing our 
humble efforts to restore these people 
to health. Now we find that these pa-
tients are sending in their friends, and 
so the work grows. 
"The clinic is located in the busy 
part of town. At first we had but 
twelve beds. As the demand grew, we 
added more, and we have now had to 
rent an adjoining shop-house, which 
has been connected with our original 
quarters, in order that we might have 
more room. At present we have 
twenty-five beds, but still we must turn 
patients away nearly every day. 
"Please remember us in your prayers. 
Remember the work out in these dis-
tant fields, and pray that the Lord of 
the harvest will send forth more 
reapers. The right arm of our mes-
sage needs strengthening in all of 
these lands." 
Sent Into the Interior 
PRESIDENT L. H. GARDINER, of the 
Guiana Conference, tells in a recent 
letter of how the Lord is opening 
doors before them in that field much 
faster than workers can be found to 
fill them. The government has in its 
employ one of our trained nurses. 
Of her experience he writes: 
"She received instruction from the 
government to move seventy-five miles 
from her home to a village called 
Mahaicony. The first Friday after her 
arrival she secured a girl who would 
meet with her on the Sabbath. The 
second Sabbath two more persons 
came, and so on, until in a short time 
twelve were in her Sabbath school. 
She sent word to us that it was too 
great a task to take charge of this 
Sabbath school, when she frequently 
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was interrupted during services to at-
tend to her government duties. On 
visiting her we found a Sabbath 
school of eighteen, and a baptismal 
class of seven. We invited a wiper-
teur who was working a little distance 
away to meet with them every Sab-
bath. Soon he reported thirty-one at-
tending Sabbath services, with fifteen 
in the baptismal class, and more being 
added every week. 
"The nurse was then sent seven 
miles into the interior, where she is 
teaching a Sunday school. Hero I 
found a settlement of East Indian rice 
planters who promised to build us a 
church if we would come and teach 
them. We told them to build the 
church, and we would send someone. 
This promise was made in faith, with 
the belief that in some way God will 
provide the worker before the church 
is finished." 
And "Delivereth Them" 
Jr isn't a new experience, but it is 
a real one. The missionary now sleep-
ing in Lima, Peru, sent us the story 
just before she was overtaken with he• 
last illness. She wrote: 
"Before daylight one frosty morn-
ing I left Llave Mission to go to 
Plateria (Plat-a-rd-all) on horseback. 
Harold, twelve years old, and a young 
Indian were to accompany me. Harold 
rode a burro, and the Indian rode 
our other mission horse. The Indian 
passed us on a near-by path in the 
darkness, and, thinking we were still 
ahead, kept hurrying on to find us. 
"When we were about halfway to 
Plateria, two Indians came running 
to us from the pampa. Since I had 
lived among the Indians for a half 
dozen years, I had no fear of them, 
but these two frightened me. They 
were big Indians with hard faces, and 
each carried a heavy native whip. I 
asked them what they wanted. 'We 
want bread, give us bread.' I have 
often given bread to people on these 
country roads, but had nothing for 
those insolent men, and told them so. 
'Sell us that poncho' (an Indian blan-
ket), demanded one of them in the 
rudest possible manner. Both insisted 
they must have it. I expected them to 
snatch it from me, but instead they 
fell behind us a bit to talk to each 
other. After a minute or two they 
again ran after us, imperatively de-
manding the poncho. I would gladly 
have given it to them had I dared, 
but it seemed they would pull us to 
pieces if once they began to take 
things. 'Don't worry, Harold,' I said. 
'God will take care of us.' And He did. 
In spite of all that those bad men said, 
they did not touch us. 
"They evidently planned to stay with 
us, and they were not desirable com-
pany. The road was deserted, for it 
was harvesttime. No one that day was 
working along the road. But as I 
prayed for deliverance, we came to a 
slight rise of ground, and, at some dis-
tance ahead, I saw a man walking in 
the road, driving a burro ahead of 
him. We hastened to overtake him. 
Whoever the man might be, I planned 
to stay with him as long as I could. 
Drawing nearer, we saw he wore 
shoes. Could he be one of our own 
boys Sure enough, a roll of literature 
peeped from his saddlebags. 'Brother! 
brother!' I called, 'wait for us.' It 
proved to be our dear teacher, Mar-
celine, who also was going to Plateria. 
"That night friends told us more 
than we knew of the robbers infesting 
those pampas and of the bold robberies 
and cruel murders they had been com-
mitting. And we thanked God with 
full hearts again that the 'angel of the 
Lord eneampeth round about them that 
fear Him, and delivereth them.'" 
Chamyolo Stood Firm 
IN Rhodesia, Africa, the government 
conducts an institution for the training 
of outschool inspectors. Several of our 
mission school teachers were chosen as 
students to attend this school, among 
them Chamyolo, formerly Musofu, who 
was later connected with the Rusangu 
Mission Training School. An expe-
rience that came to these students was 
sent to us by a missionary who is now 
sleeping: 
"After Chamyolo and the other mis-
sion teachers had been there for some 
time, and work bands had been or-
ganized, one Sabbath the overseer came 
to them and said, 'What does this 
mean? Why are you not at work?' 
They explained that they kept the 
Sabbath, and so did not work on that 
day. 'Foolishness,' said the overseer. 
'All the boys are at work. Get your 
hoes and come along.' After sufficient 
urging, the other boys became fearful 
lest the government get after them 
for misconduct, and went to work. 
'But Chamyolo stood firm. He did 
not get his hoe. He explained again 
his position, that he could not work 
on Sabbath. After a little time the 
leader at the school, Pastor Fell, came 
out, and looking at Chamyolo, said, 
'What is all this I hear, refusing to go 
to work! Look, all your fellows have 
gone, even those who stood with you. 
We have no such thing on this place, as 
one man sitting down when the others 
are working.' But again Chamyolo 
told that he was a Seventh-day Ad-
ventist, and that he could not work, 
even if the others did. Then Mr. Fell 
put his arm on Chamyolo's shoulder 
and said, 'Never mind, my boy. I 
know you are a Seventh-day Adventist. 
I know your principles. I was just 
testing you to see how you stand. You 
will not need to work on Sabbath.' But 
his companions, who did not stand 
firm, were not thus excused." 
Taught a Preacher 
IT is not so important where this ex-
perience took place, as it is that it 
took place: 
"I was giving a Bible study in a 
home two years ago, when a man 
rapped at the door. My host invited 
him in. He joined him in the study, 
and at the close of the study, re-
mained for quite a while to hear more 
of the truth. Before leaving, he gave 
me his address, and invited me to 
visit him. After he left, I was in-
formed that he was a Baptist min-
ister, and that news made me hesitate 
to visit him. 
"A year after this, as I was peddling 
berries, I saw a man hurrying across 
the street. Thinking he wanted ber-
ries, I asked, 'How many baskets?' He 
paid no attention to my question, but 
stretched forth his arm for a hearty 
handshake, and reminded me of the 
meeting of a year ago, saying he had 
often wished I had come to see him. 
So far, I have given him several Bible 
readings, and he is reading 'The Great 
Controversy.' He has announced in 
his pulpit that his best friend is a 
Seventh-day Adventist, and that he be-
lieves many of our doctrines. It pays 
to follow up every interest with litera-
ture and study." 
Come Together to Sing and Pray 
la writing of a recent visit among 
Indians on Upper Amazon rivers, Mis-
sionary J. D. Replogle makes clear the 
great need for teachers. He writes: 
"We have one Indian worker who 
came from Lake Titicaca to help 
Elder Stahl, who is stationed at Me-
traro. He has established a good 
work here during the years. At his 
mission he teaches the children, holds 
meetings, visits the Indians, and 
treats the sick. He holds the respect 
of the white people on the river, and 
many times has opportunity to treat 
them when they are sick, and to hold 
Bible readings. 
"We have two white boys, with 
their wives, at other stations. They 
are doing their best, but feel the need 
of further training. Then we have a 
few other workers, young men among 
the tribes, who should receive some 
schooling to enable them to teach. 
"On our trip we found two places 
in which there was no one to lead out in 
Sabbath school; so the interested ones 
had ceased coming together on the 
Sabbath. Yet we encouraged them to 
meet and sing the songs they knew 
and pray God to send them a teacher 
as soon as possible—and not forget the 
Sabbath. And these poor children of 
the forest promised they would have 
a prayer meeting each Sabbath till 
we could send them a teacher. They 
want to be baptized, but we at present 
have no one to instruct them. One of 
our white boys will leave his mission 
once every three months and spend 
one Sabbath with them. Much has 
been done, but there is much yet to be 
done for our Indians. Elder Stahl 
came in contact 
-with them when 
they were savages, many of them 
naked. They are now clothed, and 
are eager to learn from God's word. 
Pray that they may soon receive 
teachers." �MISSION BOARD.