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Kwing Galloway, W. Y.
Siamese woman operating a treadwheel to lift water from a ditch to a ricefield.
This is slow,
hard labor, but labor is cheap in Siam.
The garment the worker wears is the
"panting." Siamese women have Worn their hair shingled for many generations.
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(i was the evening rush hour, when homewardbound government workers pour out on Washington
streets by the thousand, and when street cars are
packed— jammed to the very doors. A late train had
brought a traveler, cumbered with baggage, to a
cross-town transfer point just when the street was
crowded-est. One —two—three cars whizzed past before a motorman deigned to even stop; and then we
just did manage to get aboard.
There were no seats to be had, of course, but as we
went around a curve, when most of the standees slipped
off balance and grabbed wildly for the nearest support,
a dusky-faced, bright-eyed, kinky-haired boy of twelve
or thereabouts touched my arm and spoke :
"Scuse me, lady, but ef yo' all kin scrouch roun' inter
dis corner, I change places wif yo'."
Thankfully I "scrouched"— even though a florid fat
man almost did get the precious corner-to-lean-against
first!
In half an hour we were out in the suburbs, and the
crowd began to melt away. The last part of the ride
was comfortable enough—as street cars go—for anybody.
"Georgia Avenue," called the conductor; then "7th
Street—6th Street— 5th Street — "
I turned to gather up my belongings as we ground
to a stop, but a dusky hand reached for the heavy
suitcase, and once more the small gentleman-of-color
came to my rescue.
"Yo' goin' dis-a-way, lady?"
"Yes, but—"
"I kin carry it —well as not," he insisted. And so—
with numerous stops—he did.
Four blocks—later—having told me en route all about
"Miss Mary and Mr. Jack" for whom "my mammy cooks
and housekeeps while dey run de stor'," he set the
burden down at last before the house where it belongs,
but with a smile that showed two rows of snow-white
teeth, absolutely refused to accept the quarter I offered
—yes, urged him to take.
"No, indeedy," he explained, "I's glad I kin do dat
fo' yo', 'cause it's my ferfume fo' terday!"
"Oh!" I -responded blankly. "Well, I surely thank
you very much!"
"Yo' shore is welcome," he beamed—then looked at
me quizzically and added, "but lady, yo' shore know
'bout the ferfume, don' yo'?"
"I'm not so sure, Jerry. Suppose you tell me."
"Why, Miss Mary, she say (Miss Mary's her I chores
fo' after school) , Miss Mary, she say yo' must do some
perliteness fo' somebody ever' day, and she say dat's
de ferfume o' life—make it smell sweet, yo' know!"
Ah, now I understood. Politeness is the perfume
that makes life more fragrant —sweeter —lovelier!
And really—isn't it?
(^OURTESY isn't such a complicated accomplishment,
after all. It's merely "to do and say the kindest tiling
in the kindest way," not merely sometimes, to some
few persons whose favor we may wish to gain, but to
everybody, everywhere, and under every circumstancs.
She was the queerest little old woman! "Eightythree years, come July 3," she told us. I wish you
could have seen her! Dressed in a patched black
dress, she was, with a rawcTi-patched faded blue gingham apron protecting her long, voluminous skirts.
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Her hat— a "sailor" type of ancient vintage —was
perched on the tiptop of her head, but securely tied
under her chin with a string, and beneath its spacious
brim gray hair fell in sparse fringe around a wrinkled
face. Her shoes were at least twice too large, and had
long, long ago seen their best days. On her right arm
hung a spacious though pitifully thin old pocketbook
tied shut with a shoe lace. In her right hand she
carried a broomstick— full length —with a nail in its
end. This served as a cane! Her left hand clung to
a tiny, old-fashioned "hand satchel."
The conductor brought her into the Pullman from
the crowded day coach, just after our train left Baltimore, and she settled herself with a sigh in its more
comfortable quarters.
"Nice man, ain't he?" she remarked in a highpitched, carrying voice to her nearest neighbor. "I
mean the tall feller wearin' all that gold braid. Come
in where I was a-sittin' an' said he had extry room in
here, an' he brought me right along, he did!"
Before an hour had passed every one within hearing
distance knew that her home was in "St. Paul, up in
Minnisoty; " that she had, after years of economy, saved
money enough to see at least part of the world, and
had selected "Jerusalem an' them places over there"
on which to begin. That she had bought her ticket —
"a round-tripper" from "the ticket-agent-man in St.
Paul," and charged him to see that she traveled
"straight to New York an' then straight to Jerusalem!"
But behold, when she arrived at port of sailing, "would
you believe it, that there ticket, so the feller at the
steamship office said, "would take her to London!"
And here she had "aimed to see Jerusalem!" Disgusted and disillusioned, she was hurrying "straight
back to St. Paul" to give that "ticket-agent-man a good
settin' out, an' make him give the money back!"
She positively refused "to go to bed" when night
came. "Whoever heerd of such goin's on in a train!"
But if she had been —the queen of Sheba —those railroad men, from the colored porter to the portly goldbraided official, could not have taken more trouble to
make her as comfortable as possible. And when we
reached Chicago, they arranged for her transfer to
"the Minnisoty station" in a taxi, and even put themselves to considerable trouble to locate her missing
"specks." And the way they did this proved that it was
not just all in a day's business, but that they knew
the real meaning of real courtesy!
Which after all is only the golden rule translated
into a gracious reality—the "ferfume" of life.
(-/ T'S so easy to be too busy in these hustling, hurrying days for some of the finer courtesies—those things
that are perhaps outside the realm of expected civility.
But 'tis well worth anybody's while to take a few steps
aside from the beaten path of his polite duty, and be
extra courteous!
Why? Because it will not only sweeten other lives,
but it will do wonders for one's own naturally all
too selfish heart, and transform one's little world into
a warm, kindly, sympathetic living place.
You wonder if it's worth while—this supercourtesy.
Well, just try it some day and — you'll—be —surprised!
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Commonwealth Celebrates tfts ^Birthday
labor under adversity with so little
CHARLES D. UTT
^HIS year the old Bay State
promise of prosperity.
I has been reviewing her hisTheir inspired determination was well expressed by
i tory of three hundred years. Impressive cele~~^ brations have been held in many of the lead- their leader, John Winthrop, in a sermon written on
ing towns,—Boston, Watertown, Waltham, Cambridge, board the "Arbella" while they were crossing the AtSalem, and others,—at which occasions the history of lantic: "Thus stands the case between God and us.
the three hundred years has been reviewed and its We are entered into a covenant with Him for this
significance pointed out. These celebrations have at- work. Now if the Lord shall please to hear us, and
tracted visitors from all parts of the United States, bring us in peace to the place we desire, then hath
and from many foreign countries, some from the latter He ratified this covenant and will expect a strict perbeing distinguished representatives of their govern- formance of the articles contained in it; but if we shall
neglect the observation of these articles, the Lord will
ments.
Now what is there about those old days of three hun- surely break out in wrath against us, and make us
dred years ago that so seizes our imagination today? know the price of the breach of such a covenant."
It is r.ot the fact that the Puritan settlement of Men who thus covenanted with God would not easily
Massachusetts was the first permanent settlement of be turned back from their undertaking.
The world owes much to the bravery and democratic
Europeans in America, nor even the first English settlement. The source of greatest interest is in the peo- ideals of the Puritans. Two of the chief forms in
ple themselves. The Puritans were men and women which they gave these ideals to the world were popuwho were willing to incur danger and hardship for lar government and popular education. The form of
an ideal. They had done this before they came to government which they instituted immediately after
their arrival in the New World
America. For many years, at
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tolerant in their treatment of
themselves a new state founded
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which was really a bill of rights, and in 1648 a book ants, were to be held once a month or oftener.
4. This board or court might (but not must) adminof all the laws in force was published. Here were the
ister to freemen oaths of supremacy and allegiance.
beginnings of a written constitution.
5. Power was granted to admit new freemen and esOne incident that especially favored the political development of the new colony was the bringing of the tablish the terms of their admission, and to elect such
charter to America. The English king granted, on subordinate officials as they might deem fit.
6. Power was given to defend, if necessary by force
March 4, 1629, a liberal charter to the "Governor and
Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England." of arms, the colony against enemies.
This charter, unlike other corporation charters, failed
But nothing was said about religious liberty.
to mention the place from which the company affairs
Under this original charter the colony became a very
should be administered. Tacitly it was understood that well-established, self-governing state. The charter is
the headquarters of the company would remain in still preserved in the office of the secretary of state,
England, but the absence of a specific provision gave in the statehouse in Boston.
the shrewd Governor Winthrop and his associates just
The colonists were not long in setting up their govthe opportunity they wanted to bring everything, in- ernment. The first meeting of the company was held
cluding the charter itself, to the colony.
in Charlestown on Aug. 23, 1630, just a little over two
The spiritual and political gulf between the Puritans months after their landing at Salem on June 16. Soon
and the king was so wide and deep that they were after this first meeting, in order to find a more adeanxious to have a literal body of water, nothing less quate supply of water, they crossed over the Charles
than the Atlantic Ocean, between themselves and the River to Shawmut, which they first called Trimountain
king. Moving the headquarters of the company to New and soon after changed to Boston. Here, on October
England gave the leaders, the men of wealth and in- 18, was held the first formal session of the General
fluence, the chance to come and live with the rest in Court (by which name the State legislature is still
the new colony. In this way the colony had the benefit known).
of the direct oversight of the officers of the company.
Soon other towns sent their representatives to the
This was a great advantage, of course, for with the slow sessions of the General Court, and thus the lawmaking
sailing of those days the headquarters and the colony body for the group of towns comprising the colony
would have had difficult communication, and affairs began. The first sessions met as one body, but in 1644
probably would not have progressed so rapidly and so it was divided into two groups, an upper and a lower
well.
house. This two-chamber plan became the model for
There was another advantage in having three thou- the representative form of government to be adopted
sand miles of ocean between the charter and the king. later by all the States and by the Federal government.
The distance alone saved the charter a number of
Another of the distinctive features of the Massatimes before it was finally canceled in 1684. The pos- chusetts political plan was the local town government.
session of the charter gave the colonists practical self- This system is still retained, with many of its original
determination
functions. It is
right from the
indeed a govstart, and this
ernment by the
taste of indepeople—a literal
pendence for a
democracy. The
half century
annual meeting
gave these Masis a legislative
sachusetts coloassembly, in
nists a love for
which every indemocracy that
habitant qualinever was to be
fied to vote may
quenched.
take part in the
The main proproceedings. It
visions of the
regulates every
charter were:
matter of local
1. Power
concern. It
was granted to
elects the town
the freemen to
officers, provides
elect a governor,
for education
deputy g o v e r within the town,
nor, and eightfor the care of
e e n assistants
the poor, for
annually,
taxes, for roads
and to make all
and bridges, and
laws so long as
for sanitary and
they were not
quarantine regrepugnant to
ulations. In
those of Engformer times it
land.
elected cowherds
2. Meetings of
to take the catthe Great and
tle to the comGeneral Court,
mon pasture
freemen, and
and swineherds
others, were orto drive the
dered to be held
swine to their
four times a
feeding place.
year.
Religion also
Ewing Galloway, N. Y.
3. Meetings of
came under the
Lexington, Massachusetts, Where the American Revolution Began
courts of assistsupervision of
ants, governor, The stone marking the line of minutemen is shown here. The words on the stone the town. At
are those uttered by Capt. John Parker: "Stand your ground. Don't fire
deputy governor,
the present
unless you are fired upon. If they mean to have war, let it begin here."
and the assist(Turn to p. 13)
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"Anne, we haven't far to go now, and I
was over—the great forty-sec*
want you to promise before we part that
ond General Conference. And
the meetings, the reports, the mission calls, oh, you will come and visit me often during the summer.
it all had been so inspirational! Anne lived You will, won't you?"
"Indeed, yes!" Anne answered, and impulsively
those days over again in memory, and her earnest face
squeezed her friend's hand. "I've just decided while
smiled unseeingly out of the train window.
"Margaret!" she spoke suddenly to the girl beside I've been thinking, to attend your church. It's so
her, "hasn't it made you wish you were through college reverent and quiet. I love it—the pipe organ espe—that you were ready and free to say, 'Here am I; cially!"
"It would be lovely to have you. But what about
send me'?"
your own church, and the duty you owe there?"
Margaret looked up from her book and smiled.
Before Anne could answer, the conductor called
"Why, yes, I think it has, Anne. But not only that,
it has made me want to do more missionary work while "Sunnyville!" and with a screech the train rolled into
her home station.
I'm here at home."
Amid the excitement of collecting baggage, bidding"Well, of course, that too. But I feel so inspired to
Margaret good-by, and
answer some call to teach
in Burma or China, or— £"£"£"£"£"£"£"£"£."£• ik£«£«£4»£.»£«.g«>£0£«i,*ns finally alighting from the
somewhere! Home? Yes, £«£»•«•••-"-'-"-•-"-•-"-*-"-*-"-*•"-»"' i».».«.».«f-.«,«.».i ».».«.».<r.».».*.».<j,][£ train and finding herself
£j{5. in mother's arms, Anne
only you know, Margaret,
forgot her reflections and
it's somehow hard to get
Life's Adjuster
decision for the moment.
interested again in my
As they drove away in
home church after being
3% the little Ford sedan, she
away so long. It's so
WHEN everything goes crooked,
little!"
M chatted merrily about the
And seems inclined to rile,
past year's experience,
The train drew into a
and her parents listened
station, and both girls fell
Don't kick nor fuss nor fidget;
M
with delight.
silent watching the pasJust—you—smile!
"O mother, it is so good
sengers who were alightto be home! You can't
ing.
It's hard to learn the lesson,
imagine how anxious I am
Anne and Margaret had
to wash dishes for you
enjoyed the past year M
But learn it if you'd win;
and sing for daddy!"
together at college, and
When people tease and pester,
"And daughter, we're
then at the General Conjust as glad you are with
ference in San Francisco.
Just—you—grin!
us," her mother responded
Now they were returning
quickly.
"I've already
home for vacation, MarWhen some one tries to "do" you
made an appointment for
garet to her father's wellyou to sing at young peofurnished dwelling in the
By taking more than half,
ple's meeting next Friday
city, and Anne to the little
Be patient, firm and pleasant;
night. They need your
country home up in the
Just—you—laugh!
hills.
help very much, and I
knew you'd be glad to do
Anne loved life. She >Hji
—Anon.
a little missionary work."
had literally "blossomed >j£
.?«?
Anne's face fell, and
out" during her school J«j _
days, and found a joy in ^^"•^"^^"^"soSVWoSNr! rSitV.rVo'S'o'S'i »•?«•?«•?«•?« »•! a shadow of annoyance
Christian fellowship and
crossed her eyes. Well,
leadership among her associates. Social and religious she might have expected it! But why must her sumactivities had alike shared the buoyancy of her spirit, mer be spoiled this way? The church people had such
and many an earnest mission talk from her eager academic tastes, they couldn't appreciate the classical
heart had stirred her fellow members of the foreign sacred songs she had enjoyed singing at college. And
then there was Miss Marshall, with her high-pitched
mission band to new resolutions for future service.
But now, home! Oh, yes, she loved it, and would do voice, who led the choir and had insulted Anne by
her part to help—but that little country church! Why asking her to join!
did her parents persist in going there?
"Mother dearest, I just can't!" Anne burst out. "I
Anne recalled its hot, crowded, stuffy room; her don't have a thing to sing they would like. Why don't
father reading the Scripture lesson; white-haired Elder they ask Miss Marshall?" she finished impatiently.
Her mother's voice tinged with disappointment.
Thomas sitting behind with head bent over and eyes
partly closed; Dickie and Billy sprawled out on the
"Anne dear, surely you can find something. They
front row, each restlessly turning the pages of his have been looking forward to your home-coming for
Little Friend; old Mrs. Brown on the next row vigor- the past month. Mrs. Brown has been over twice to
ously fanning herself and trying to keep her husband find out if when you came you would sing some hymns
awake; a baby on the back row crying incessantly; for her."
Farmer Jones, usher since before she could remember,
Anne was silent. Her parents just did not underand growing feeble now, tiptoeing around and at- stand. She would politely refuse. Indeed she would!
tempting to raise the tight-sticking windows. The girl
Wednesday morning Margaret telephoned and incould see it all and groaned inwardly.
vited her to come to the city for the evening. MissionShe simply would not go there any more. She would ary Jones was to speak in prayer meeting—"and I
attend the Parkhurst church in the city, Margaret's know you'll want to hear him, Anne," Margaret urged.
By eight o'clock that night the girls were seated in
church. It was so restful there. The order was perfect, and the pipe organ, how she loved it! So Anne the cushioned pew of the Parkhurst church.
"Margaret, I really feel at home here," Anne whisdecided.
Then the conductor called, "All aboard;" there was pered, but the missionary was speaking now and her
grinding of wheels, and once more the train was speed- friend only smiled.
ing on its way. Margaret settled back in her seat.
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again." Eccl. 1:7. How slowly
O y°u wish to enjoy
and quietly the water moves
your Sabbatn walks
along. In Isaiah we find the
more than ever?
words, "O that thou hadst
LAURA M. DROWN
What a joy it is to
hearkened to My commandsee the wonders of nature and
study them individually, to learn all we can of the ments! then had thy peace been as a river." Isa.
characteristics and habits of each flower, tree, and 48:18.
This big tree reminds us of the righteous man who
bird. But a still more interesting way to learn of
nature is to study God's two great lesson books to- "shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that
gether—to see how many Bible verses can be thought bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also
of in connection with the things which are seen and shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." Ps. 1:3. Our last thought before leaving the
heard on a Sabbath walk.
Take such a walk with me in imagination. We start river is this: "There is a river, the streams whereof
along the road, and soon notice the beautiful clouds shall make glad the city of God." Ps. 46:4. How we
spread over the sky high above us. How they change long to be able to see that river, of which this is a
as we watch them. We are reminded of these verses, mere reflection.
Now we enter the woods. Here are several paths.
"Can any understand the spreadings of the clouds?"
and, "Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the Which one shall we take today? Solomon bids us,
wondrous works of Him which is perfect in knowl- "Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be
edge?" Job 36:29; 37:16. We think of the God who established." Prov. 4:26. Our prayer is, "Show me
"maketh the clouds His chariot"
Thy ways, O Lord; teach me Thy
(Ps. 104:3), and whose "faithfulpaths." Ps. 25:4. Then comes
the assurance, "Thou wilt show
ness reacheth unto the clouds."
Ps. 36:5. He is so great and so
me the path of life." Ps. 16:11.
Farther on is a rock beside the
high that Nahum said, "The
path. "The Lord is my rock, and
clouds are the dust of His feet."
•THE ladder of life is full
my fortress, and my deliverer."
Nahum 1:3.
Ps. 18:2. "Lead me to the rock
The wind is blowing today.
•*•
of
splinters,
but
they
that is higher than I." Ps. 61:2.
One of the party quotes: "He
always prick the hardest
bring&th the wind out of His
As we approach this little
treasuries." Ps. 135:7. Other
brook,
some one quotes: "He
when we're sliding down.
sendeth the springs into the valverses that come to our minds
are, "Who walketh upon the
leys, which run among the hills."
•William L. Brownell.
"By them shall the fowls of the
wings of the wind" (Ps. 104:3),
"Who hath gathered the wind in
heaven have their habitation,
which sing among the branches."
His fists" (Prov. 30:4), "The wind
bloweth where it listeth" (John
Ps. 104:10, 12. Another of our
3:8), and, "Even the winds . . .
company thinks of the statement: "The wellspring of wisobey Him." Matt. 8:27.
Attracted by a bright-red flower in the stream which dom" is "as a flowing brook." Prov. 18:4.
runs through a pasture, we climb over the fence to
And so we wander on through the woods, often folget a nearer view of it. We do not pick it, for it is lowing the suggestion made in Job 37:14, "Stand still,
the rare cardinal flower, but as we look at it we are and consider the wondrous works of God."
reminded of the "Rose of Sharon" and the "Lily of the
After a long, happy afternoon, we turn homeward.
valley." This pasture makes us think of the shep- As we talk over everything we have seen, we exclaim,
herd's psalm. Even the sheep are here, in that far "Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the
corner. "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: Lord hath wrought this?" "Lo, these are parts of His
He leadeth me beside the still waters." Ps. 23:2. Let us ways: but how little a portion is heard of Him?"
stop a moment and look up at the sky, for "is not God Job 12:9; 26:14.
in the height of heaven?" Job 22:12. "The Lord
Twilight comes—"Thou makest darkness, and it is
looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of night." Ps. 104:20. But "the darkness hideth not from
men." Ps. 33:13. How vast the heavens are, yet "the Thee." Ps. 139:12. God in loving care is still watching
heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain" Him over us.
(1 Kings 8:27), and what a comfort to recall that "as
We are very tired as we near home. But we know
the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His that in the new earth "they that wait upon the Lord
mercy toward them that fear Him." Ps. 103:11. How shall . . . walk, and not faint." Isa. 40:31. Then we
small the earth must be after all, for the Lord says, shall spend our Sabbaths in a place far more beauti"Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool." ful than this earth, and know fully the God who is
partially revealed through His created works.
Isa. 66:1.
As we walk along the dusty road again, we look off
in the distance to the hills, which God hath "weighed
. . . in a balance." Isa. 40:12. It is the hills "from
whence cometh my help." Ps. 121:1. See those cows
A LIITLE boy saw his father using a spirit level to
grazing over there? Our Father says, "Every beast of see if the board that he was planing was "true" and
the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a thousand straight.
hills." Ps. 50:10. And the psalmist declares, "He
"What's the use of being so careful, papa?" he asked.
causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for "It's pretty good, I guess."
the service of man." Ps. 104:14.
"Guessing won't do in carpenter work," replied his
Now we pass over a little bridge. Here we stop and father, sighting the edge of the board and shaving
watch the river. See where it starts, way up there in it the least bit. "You have to be just right. People
the hills? "He cutteth out rivers among the rocks," guess at too many things. God doesn't like that way
says Job. Job 28:10. As we wonder where it flows, we of living."
are reminded that "they go up by the mountains; they
"I guess there aren't any spirit levels for living by,"
go down by the valleys unto the place which Thou laughed the little boy.
hast founded for them." Ps. 104:8. "All the rivers run
"Yes, there are," said the father, earnestly. "You'll
into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place find them in the Bible. Try all your actions by
from whence the rivers come, thither they return that."
<zA Sabbath Walk
is the only voice that can preach loud enough to reach the heart."
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Leaves From My Diary
MRS. W. N LOCK
/•—* /7OME! All the world over
"Be it ever so humble, there is no
5. Home, Sweet Home
O /"f
it is a best-loved word.
place like home."
A sad experience came to us only
/ \^s And so it was with joyful
*
hearts on this memorable morning, that we a week after our arrival. Timothy, our native helper,
came in sight of the home that was to be ours for a came to tell us that there was a very sick girl in a
time at least. Only a roughly built log cabin, with near-by village. Accordingly, Nurse Heise and I set
thatched roof and bark walls, yet to us, weary travelers out to see what we could do. After scrambling down
that we were, it seemed the dearest place on earth. a very steep pass, we reached the village. It contained
How very glad we were that the long, long tramp only one house, and such a poor one! no better than
was over.
a pigsty. And there on the dirt floor lay the sick
Natives were everywhere. They had come bringing girl, unconscious and moaning. Treatment was given,
corn, sweet potatoes, bananas, and sugar cane, for but was not at all appreciated, since it was an entirely
which they received matches or salt in exchange. new thing. The next morning she was no better, and
The women were shy and the children frightened. as we prepared for another visit in the afternoon, we
We were the first white women and children many were informed that she was dead. It hardly seemed
of them had seen. Our children especially were a possible that one so young and strong could have died
novelty. It was rather amusing trying to shake hands so quickly. She was one of those who had gone down
with a primitive people, for invariably the wrong hand to Bisiatabu and helped carry up our goods, so it made
was extended. It was about ten o'clock on Friday us feel very sad indeed. Particularly were we sorrowmorning when we reached home, so there was time to ful to know that she had died before having a chance
get unpacked and settled before Sabbath. The first to hear the gospel message we had brought to her and
duty was to pay off the carriers, but not much could her people.
be done until the crowd had dispersed.
And so the days passed by, each one seeing a little
While the carriers were being paid off, we women- more accomplished in the work about the place. It
folk set about preparing a meal. The stove was still was necessary to build a house for the boys who had
in pieces, scattered over the living-room floor, so we come to the mission, and also to plant a garden.
had to cook in a kerosene tin, over an open fire, out Knowing that all of our goods had to be carried over
of doors.
those rough mountain trails, we were anxious to grow
In our cutting down of loads just before leaving as much of our food as possible.
Bisiatabu, we had forgotten the very essential broom,
Three weeks after our arrival, Mr. Lock once more
so for four weeks we had to clean house without its turned his face toward Bisiatabu, taking carriers with
aid, using instead a brush broom. Settling did not him, to bring up some more of our freight. It was
take long. We had brought the beds with us, and a quite exciting a week later to look for their return,
table and two camp stools had been made by the car- and then to unpack boxes and take out a few more
penter who had been sent en to get the house ready. things to make the home a little more comfortable.
That was all the furniNow we had a broom
ture we had, except a
with which to sweep
few boxes. By sunset
the floors!
all was in place and we
Nurse Heise was kept
were ready to welcome
quite busy attending to
the Sabbath. Quite a
the sick. One small
number of natives
girl fell into the fire,
gathered around to
and was rather badly
have gurlguri (worburned about the chest
ship) , and it was with
and chin. She was so
very grateful hearts
afraid of the white
that we knelt before
woman that it was necthe throne of grace,
essary for her father
thanking our dear
and mother to hold
heavenly Father for
her firmly while her
His great mercy in
"Home, Sweet Home!"
wounds were dressed.
bringing us safely
But soon she came of
The first mission station opened by any denomination
over the mountains,
in the mountains of New Guinea.
her own accord, and
and permitting us to
grew very friendly.
worship Him in our own home in this strange new land.
A little later we were again called to the deathbed
Again on Sabbath morning, natives assembled, and of a native woman, and again the call had come too
we held worship with them, telling them of the love late. Everything possible was done, but to no avail.
of Jesus. We had to speak through an interpreter. Gladly would we have lifted her from her bed on the
One of our first tasks was to study the language, so ground and taken her home and cared for her, but
that we might talk to them in their own tongus.
her family would not permit us to do so.
The first thing that was done on Sunday morning
Such experiences as these made us more and more
was to set up the stove. Then as I cooked dinner, anxious to get to work among these, dear people in
the kitchen was built around me. A long worktable, their own language. Speaking through an interpreter
nails for hanging up cooking utensils, and a wash was anything but satisfactory. But the native lanbench comprised the furniture.
guage is very difficult. We simply had to dig it out.
In those days our home was very primitive indeed, We found that it had all the inflections of our own,
but to the poor natives it seemed a mansion. Every but it took us a long time to find out the different
day we had visitors, and they wanted to see all our changes in the words, and often just when we thought
house. Gradually we were able to get more conven- we knew, we discovered that we were all wrong, and
iences, and were very happy in our mountain domicile.
(.Concluded on page 13)
"It is the rough sea that makes the smooth pebble."
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ERY soon after
college opened
LX the freshmen
girls at Broughton were nearly all
certain that Justine
Lovely would prove
to be the most popular girl in her class.
"I never knew a name
so pat," Evelyn Moorhouse said to her crowd, the crowd that were always together. "She's just as lovely as she can be to look at,
and she's so sweet!"
"Isn't she?" Ottilie Johnson chimed in. "She told me
last night that she loved Broughton already and every
girl she had met so far."
Modesty forbade Ottilie from adding that Justine had
also told her that Ottilie herself was the nicest girl she
had seen, and she knew she was going to be her favorite.
Bea Landers was the fortunate girl to have Justine
assigned her as a roommate. Bea was plain and practical, but a girl to be depended on and was well liked.
"I've heard such nice things about you," Justine told
Bea as they were unpacking. "I'm fortunate to have you
for -a roommate. I know we're going to be great pals."
"Well, I hope so," replied Bea. "It will be nice to have
a roommate. I've always roomed alone at home, but I
guess we can get used to each other."
Justine shook out her pretty dresses and hung them
up in the closet on her side of the room. "Isn't it great
to have a closet all to oneself?" she remarked. "I was
afraid we'd have to share one."
"It wouldn't have been so bad at that. There'd be
plenty of room for us both." Bea looked rather ruefully
at her few clothes. Her closet looked almost empty. "I
might put my trunk in there, I suppose."
"No, it's against the rules, Miss Clark said. 'Trunks
must go down in the basement trunk room. Put them
in the halls after they are emptied,' she told us, 'and the
janitor will take them downstairs.'
"That dress you have on is such a pretty color and so
becoming!" Justine remarked.
"Oh, this? Brown matches my hair and eyes. That's
why I wear it so much."
"You look like a dear little brown wren in it."
Bea looked at her roommate rather puzzled. Compliments were not in her line, giving or taking.
Justine was patting her lovely amber-colored hair before her glass and twisting about to see the effect of
her own gay little gown. Bea looked her admiration of
Justine's loveliness, but said nothing.
Both teachers and students took Justine to their arms
metaphorically. Her praises were sung on every hand,
and it was forecast that she would be chosen for class
president.
Justine had something nice to say to every one she
met. Of course it made one feel good to have nice things
said to one, and most of the girls hastened to say something nice in return.
Somehow Justine and Bea did not become such pals
as had been anticipated. Bea had a way of looking at
Justine clear-eyed when the latter said something complimentary, so that Justine's tongue faltered and compliments became fewer on her part.
"I can't quite believe she means them," Bea confided
to her chum Lou Field. "I know I don't look like a little
brown wren. I'm not little, nor pert like a wren. I'm
just clumsy and plain and ordinary."
"Did she say that, that you looked like a little brown
wren?" grinned Lou.
"Yes, why? You look as if you knew something funny."
"I do. You won't be offended, will you, Bea, if I tell
you what she said to me about you?"
"No, indeed. I'd really like to know."
"She said you made her think of a clam. She couldn't
pry anything out of you. I suppose she meant flattery.
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-MISS JANUS"
She lives on flattery, I've found out; and she said she'di
wish you'd quit wearing brown, it is such a gloomy coloi
but she told me I had a wonderful color sense."
Bea took this information good-naturedly. "Tin
sounds more like what she thinks of me, I guess. We]
I don't mind in the least."
She smiled inwardly, however, for only the day befoi
Justine had said of Lou, "She looks small-town like a
the Pentland girls but you. You have individuality, Bea.
Bea did not tell Lou what Justine had said of her. ]
she didn't flatter a person, she was always careful not t
hurt one's feelings by criticism or passing on criticism
of others, although in her own case she had urged Lo
to tell.
"Whatever the faults of the Pentland bunch, they ar
always loyal to each other," she considered. She prom
ised herself she would do nothing to hinder Justine'
being elected president of the class, and she believed sh
would be.
One day when Bea was studying hard on a difflcul
lesson, Justine burst into the room. "Bea," she callei
out, "I overheard two girls talking this morning in th
history room about a person who thought she was goini
to get somewhere, but she'd find she'd get left. The;
called her such a funny name—Miss Janus. Who do yoi
suppose they meant?"
Bea turned first white and then red. She stared a
Justine without speaking for a moment.
Justine caught her breath. "Why, Bea, it couldn't b<
you! Why should they call you that?"
The conceit of the girl! Bea bit her lip. She believec
the truth would do Justine good. "No, they didn't meai
me," she answered. "I've heard that nickname before
though. It belongs to a member of our class. They saj
she's two-faced like old Janus. You know he was the olc
Roman god of beginnings. He had two faces, one looking
forward and the other backward. They named the month
of January after him because it began the year."
"But who in our class are they calling 'Miss Janus'?'
Justine was still innocently curious.
"If you must know, Justine, they meant you."
Justine recoiled as though she had been struck. "I?
Two-faced?"
"Well, aren't you? I'm sorry if it hurts, but you can't
say one thing to a person's face and another thing behind her back and get away with it—always."
Justine dropped into a chair limply. Bea couldn't but
pity her when she saw how her lip quivered and how
terribly the blow had struck home. "Forgive me, Justine.
I shouldn't have told you like that, but I thought_perhaps—it might do you good to know."
"Oh wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as others see us!"
quoted Justine bitterly. "Thanks so much, Bea." Then
her mood changing, she sprang up. "I'm going home
I'm going to see the president at once and tell her I'm
leaving college. I'll not stay here and be insulted."
"No one has insulted you, Justine. What you overheard
was not intended for your ears. Do you know what I
would do were I in your place?"
"I don't know as I care to." Justine was approaching
the door. No doubt she meant to go out and slam it
behind her to show her disapproval of Bea and her unsolicited advice.
Bea intercepted her and stood with her back agains
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"That's the girl! There's the dinner gong. Brush your
hair, dear, and come along."
Justine stopped to hug Bea. "Thanks for that 'dear.'
I know you meant it. Promise not to tell any one about
—Miss Janus."
Bea looked surprised. "Why, of course I won't."
The Pentland girls—there were six of them, Bea, Evelyn,
Lou, Mary Coburn, Edith Hayes, and Mildred Stairs—
were in conference that evening. The subject under discussion was the coming election of class officers. "As the
Pentland bunch votes, so votes the class." Some one had
started the slogan.
"Of course that's all nonsense," Mildred remarked, "but
it shows that the class thinks considerable of our opinions. My mind was made up on the question of who
should be president, but I'm beginning to change it since
I've heard—things."
"You mean Justine?" Lou put the question bluntly.
Mildred nodded. "You've guessed it. We want a president we can trust."
"Oh, but Justine's honest, I'm sure of it."
"Yes, as far as material things go, no doubt," responded Mildred, "but I don't call any one who says one
thing to your face and another behind your back quite
honest, do you?"
"But," Bea interrupted, "I'm sure you can't find—"
Mildred motioned her
to be silent. "Wait until
JrSvii?afitm7^r78^1trifity^iSrri^i/Sv^
I've finished, please,
Bea. Justine would do
us proud as far as apTHE MASTER'S QUESTIONS
pearances go, I'll admit,
and she wears lovely
John 15:14
clothes and all that; but
In vision I saw before me a form of exquisite grace,
I believe the office should
With a look of tenderest interest and a smile upon His face,
go to one of us Pentland
"My Lord."
girls.
I'll say we have
"My Master!" and bending nearer He asked, as I bowed my head,
the
flower
of the class
"My child, do you love Me dearly?" and with tears in my eyes, I said,
right here among us.
"Yes, Lord."
I'm going to propose her
"And do you love My commandments and study them day by day,
name and root for her."
Seeking to know them fully, and then with joy obey?"
"Yes, Lord."
Bea looked around at
"Do you love My poor and weary, who toil through the long, sad years,
the others and caught
With burdens which might be lightened by sympathy's tender tears?"
her breath. They were
"Yes, Lord."
all looking straight at
"Do you visit My sick and lonely, and minister to their pain,
her.
With patience that grows not weary, and love that is never vain?"
Mildred went on
"Yes, Lord."
calmly. "You all know
"Do you tell them My salvation, and their unspeakable loss,
Unless all their sin and sorrow are brought to My blood-bathed cross?"
the one I mean, the
"Yes, Lord."
most straightforward,
"Do you send to My many millions in far-away heathen lands,
sensible, right-minded,
Who are hungering for My gospel, with fettered and outstretched hands?"
friendly, and all-around
"Yes, Lord."
best sport in Broughton.
"Are you giving My gifts of money, of time, of talent, and health,
I mean Bea Landers."
Ungrudgingly to My service, not seeking for fame or wealth?"
"Yes, Lord."
There were cheers
He paused, and I looked up quickly, meeting His marvelous eyes—
from the bunch.
They were searching, and, oh, so wistful—I faltered in strange surprise—
"O girls! Please don't.
"Yes, Lord."
I don't deserve all those
"Do you seek My sheep who are scattered, My wandering Israel lost,
adj ectives, Mildred.
And yet redeemed, and beloved beyond all account of the cost?"
You know I don't; and
"No, Lord."
even if I did, I'm not in
"My own! and you knew that I bade you, and knew that I loved them so—
the running. 'I do not
I, your Lord and theirs, who changes not, and with all you did not go?"
choose to run,' to quote
"No, Lord."
"Do you help My faithful shepherds, who follow and find them out,
ex-President Coolidge. I
With message of hope and pardon to remove their fear and doubt?"
agree with you that the
"No, Lord."
Pentland
bunch is pretty
"Do you pray in your silent chamber, earnestly every day,
popular
and
that what
That these lost ones may soon be gathered—ah, surely you often pray?"
they say may have con"No, Lord."
siderable influence, but
In passion of shame and sorrow, I sank at His feet and wept
To think of the years I had grieved Him with this great command unkept.
if you all think so much
"Dear Lord,"
of me I want you to root
"Forgive me, and many others; awaken Thy church to pray;"
for my candidate."
"Thy biddings are all enablings," to each may we ever say,
Mildred raised her
"Yes, Lord."
eyebrows. "And who
—M. E. Searle.
may she be?" she inyi~
quired.
"Justine Lovely."
ie door. She would have her say. "No, you mustn't
3 till you're heard me out. If I didn't like you in spite
your fault I wouldn't say a word to you and would
link 'good riddance,' perhaps, if you did leave college,
istine, you're really lovely, like your name. You're sweet
• look at and attractive in every way if one didn't get
round in back of you and get a glimpse of that other
anus face. My grandmother used to say, 'Praise to the
ice is open disgrace,' but most people do like to have
ice things said to them. However, when they find they
re not sincere and something quite the opposite is said
=hind their backs, well, of course, they don't like it.
ou wouldn't yourself. Perhaps it isn't so much your
lult. You've been brought up on praise, so it's second
ature. If you'll promise me one thing, Justine, I'll
rove myself your very best friend by doing all in my
ower to help you overcome your fault. I want you to
o the same with me when you see me making mistakes.
ion't say sweet things you don't mean and don't say
asty things about others when they are not present,
et's shake hands on it, old dear."
During this rather lengthy speech Justine had melted.
nears were rolling down her cheeks as Bea finished. She
ccepted the proffered hand. "You talk like a grandnother, Bea, but I believe you're right. I'll do my best,
.onestly. I will, if you'll promise to help me."
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YOUTH'S
There was a heavy silence broken by a chorus of
protests.
"But I thought—"
"We said—"
"You all know—"
"Not Miss Janus!"
"Hush. Please do not call her that again, girls. I'm
Justine's roommate, and I know her better than any
of you, I'm sure. She has some excellent qualities,
and as for ability, she can put it all over me. She'd
make a good presiding officer. She told me she had
made a study of parliamentary law and likes it. Her
father's a lawyer, and she wants to be a lawyer too.
It would be good practice for her, this presidency. I
tell you, girls, I wish you would all cast your votes
for her."
They refused to make any promises, and when the
night of election came there seemed much uncertainty.
The first ballot resulted in a confusion of votes. The
thunderbolt came when Justine withdrew her name
from the contest. What could be the reason for her
withdrawal? They had all been sure that she had
been working for that end ever since she had entered
the class.
The next ballot resulted in a unanimous vote for
Bea Landers. Bea stood up and faced the class. "Girls,
I think you have all forgotten that I refused to have
my name used in this election. I stand firmly by my
resolution, but I move, Miss Chairman, that Justine
Lovely be asked to reconsider her decision not to run."
Bea turned to look at Justine, but Justine had suddenly left the room.
There was a hush throughout the room. New bal-
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September 9, 1930
lots were passed and names were hastily scribbled and
dropped into the ballot box. When the result was announced, there was a murmur of satisfaction.
"Will some one please find the newly elected president and bring her in?" asked the chairman.
"I will." Bea dashed through the door and returned
in five minutes with a teary-eyed Justine. They stood
together, arms intertwined.
"I have the honor to declare Justine Lovely duly
and unanimously elected president of the freshman
class," declared the chairman, bringing the gavel down
on the table with a bang. There were cheers from
the class.
Justine ascended the platform. "I can't make a
speech now, girls, but I honestly never felt so honored
in my life. I know I don't deserve it. I didn't know
when I came to Broughton what my big fault was, but
I've found out, thanks to my loyal roommate, Bea
Landers. I'm afraid I have deserved the nickname
some of you have given me, but I'm going to prove to
you that it's not too late for me to mend my ways,
and I'm never again going to give any occasion for
any one to call me—Miss Janus."—Rose D. Neally, in
Christian Youth.
THERE is a pretty story about the gravel walk and
the mignonette: "How fragrant you are this morning,"
said the gravel walk. "Yes," said the mignonette, "I
have been trodden upon and bruised, and it has
brought forth all my sweetness." "But," said the gravel
walk, "I am trodden on every day, and I only grow
harder."
KNOW YOUR BIBLE
A Trip Through the Workfe Most Wonderful Librat
STELLA PARKER PETERSON
ZEKIEL.—This week we visit the
dzekiel
third of the four large prophetic
rooms. It received its name from
the prophet who furnished it, and we find his
picture hanging right by the door as we step in. What
a stately, priestly figure he is as he moves among his
fellow captives who have been brought to Babylon following Nebuchadnezzar's second invasion of Judah—
ten years before the destruction of Jerusalem.
Though his prophecies all cluster about the fall of
Jerusalem—both before and after—they are varied.
We find visions, symbolical actions, parables, proverbs,
poems, allegories, and open prophecies.
1. By what river was the settlement of captives where
Ezekiel was placed? (Here he was given the sublime
and mysterious vision of the four living beings borne
by a series of complicated wheels, each wheel moving
in perfect harmony. This gyrolike arrangement piques
our imagination, accustomed though we are to the
mechanics of modern aviation. This marvelous vision
rolls upon us a sense of our finite limits compared with
the illimitable infinity of God).
2. For what purpose was Ezekiel ordered to construct
a miniature city?
3. How did the shaving of Ezekiel's head and beard
represent the threefold judgment of pestilence, sword,
and dispersion?
4. What prophet was shown the sad spectacle of
twenty-five men worshiping the sun in the inner court
of the temple?
5. What three outstanding men of Hebrew history
does Ezekiel mention?
As we read Ezekiel's catalogue of sins prevalent in
his days, let us not be too hasty to criticize the idolatry
g
and sinfulness of Israel. Perhaps we
have "set up idols in our hearts" as did
they—idols of worldliness, of money, of
dress, of diet, of reading, of association. Perhaps we,
too, are guilty of Sabbath infringement and unfair
dealings.
Let us search our own hearts, "the chambers of ...
imagery" (8:12), and see whether or not we are painting upon the secret walls of our imagination and memory, pictures which are polluting our own heart temple.
Next week's reading: Ezekiel 24 to 48.
1 to 23
What Is the Bible?
"'Tis a fountain ever flowing,
Whence the weary may obtain
Water for the soul that's thirsting,
And shall never thirst again.
"Tis a lamp forever burnin?,
By whose never-dying light,
Sinners from their errors turning,
Are directed in the right.
'"Tis a mine of richest treasure
Laden with the purest ore;
And its contents without measure
You can never well explore.
'"Tis a tree whose fruit unfailing
Cheers and stays the fainting soul;
And whose leaves the nations healing,
Carry joy from pole to pole.
'"Tis a pearl of price exceeding
Every gem in ocean found;
By its precepts ever heeding
You may learn where joys abound."
''He moves fastest who knows when to stand still."
OUR PLEDGE
Keep the Morning Watch.
Do my honest part.
Care for my body.
Keep a level eye.
Be courteous and obedient.
Walk softly in the sanetuary.
Keep a song in my heart.
Go on God's errands.
By the grace of God,—
I will be pure and kind and
true.
I will keep the Junior Law.
I will be a servant of God
and a friend to man-
The cA.
"It wouldn't be a birthday withF course, you do not know
out a party."
yet what those capitals
She was still thinking about
stand for, but Betty does,
and you have only to whisper them to her to the coming event which she was confident would soon
happen when she ran up the porch steps. Her mother
see her blush a rosy red and toss her curly head.
"But," she will laugh, "it was a lesson to me, and was standing in the door. Then Betty remembered
suddenly, and hung her head shamefacedly.
I am glad it happened, anyway."
Her mother saw the look, and with a sigh opened the
You see Betty was inclined to be very careless. If
her mother sent her to the store to buy beans, she door.
"O Betty, Betty," said she sadly, "something will
was sure to come back with peas; or if she was instructed to purchase butter, she would buy bread. surely happen to punish you, if you do not try to do
And if an errand was to be done after school, you could better."
"I do try," said Betty, "but it doesn't seem to do any
never be quite certain that Betty would remember anygood."
thing about it.
Mrs. David shook her head. "You do not try very
"Did you see Miss Vandermeter today?" asked Betty's
hard," she sighed, "or there would be a difference in
mother, meeting her at the door one evening.
Betty stopped still on the doorstep. "I forgot it, your conduct."
"I am sure I do try," said Betty to herself, after
mother," she answered.
"O Betty," said her mother, reproachfully, "this is mother had put on her hat and gone out in search
the third day that I have told you, and the houss is of another seamstress. "I know I thought of it just
just across from the school. How can you forget so before school closed." Then she fell to thinking of
her approaching birthday and forgot all about her
many times?"
"I came out through the back yard today," Betty failing, which was the Betty way, you know.
Monday came, and although Betty lingered in the
answered contritely, "and I never thought about the
dressmaker. I don't see why she doesn't have a tele- halls as long as she dared before going to school, she
could see no sign of any birthday preparations. Tuesphone."
"That has nothing to do with your forgetfulness," day passed as uneventfully without any of the delightsaid her mother. "I am afraid I shall have to have ful air of mystery that usually preceded her birthday,
my sewing done by some one who lives nearer, as I and Betty began to be worried.
"Surely I will smell the cake baking tomorrow," she
cannot go so far to see her, and I cannot depend upon
you to take my messages. It is too bad, too, for I said, consolingly. "They always make the cake the
morning before the party." And the next morning
know she needs all the work she can get."
"I will surely tell her tomorrow," promissd Betty. she made many unnecessary trips to the kitchen, durBut the next afternoon when school let out she was ing one of which she heard the cook regretting that
so busy thinking about her approaching birthday that there were no eggs.
"Hadn't I better stop on the way to school and order
she forgot the message completely.
"It is next Thursday," she said to herself. "Last seme?" asked Betty, anxiously.
"And have them send up a dozen tennis balls!"
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B was a city, that cradled the King.
C was a mount, where a prophet prayed;
D was a plain, where an image was made.
E was a country, of which Pharaoh was king;
F was a harbor, to which Paul once came.
G was a desert, where a eunuch was saved;
H was a mountain, where they dug Aaron's grave.
I was a town, where Paul preached the truth;
J was a city, loved by the Jews.
K was a fountain, to which Israel did go;
L was a mountain covered with snow.
M was a desert, where some sheep were kept;
N was a town, where a widow wept.
O was a mount, where our Saviour once stood;
P was an island, where John worshiped God.
R was a city, where Paul was tried last;
S was a province, through which Jesus passed.
T was a city, where a vision was shown,
U was a town, that was Abraham's first home.
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usually quiet, while she hurried away to bed a half
hour earlier than usual to wet her pillow with tears.
But if she felt disappointment then, the following
morning was heartbreaking. It was the custom of the
family to greet the person whose birthday it was with
the number of kisses corresponding to his years, upon
his arrival at the breakfast table, but this morning
no one sang out, "Birthday greetings!" and no one
kissed her.
Every one treated her as if she were a very ordinary
girl and not a birthday girl at all, and she was not
even told to put on her best dress to wear to school.
At three o'clock she hurried home, thinking perhaps
that they would have remembered and would be preparing to atone for their forgetfulness, but to her surprise the house seemed deserted.
"Where is mother?" she asked the cook.
"I think she went to town with Mrs. Sheffield," said
Norah. "She called for her, and they went away together. Why, what's the matter?" for Betty had burst
into tears and was running into the house as fast as
her two fleet little limbs could carry her. She flung
herself down upon her own bed and sobbed unrestrainedly.
To think that mother—her own mother—had gone
away to town, leaving her alone on her birthday!
Then she remembered her mother's words; "You surely
will be punished if you do not try to do better." That
was the way that Betty remembered them, and this
was the way that they had chosen to punish her! But
it seemed a cruel, cruel way.
"But I guess I deserved it," Betty admitted at last,
as she ceased her sobbing. "At any rate, I don't think
I will ever forget again."
That night she pleaded a headache, and crept into
bed without any supper, so that her mother was quite
alarmed, and sat by her side putting cooling cloths
upon her head until she fell asleep.
"Well, I am glad the day is over," she sighed to herself in the morning, when she awakened. When she
went down to breakfast, no sooner had she opened
the door than she was caught by half a dozen hands
and kissed repeatedly. She struggled away and stared.
"A happy birthday!" cried her father, and Brother
Tom caught her up and hugged her. Betty stared,
open-mouthed.
"But yesterday—" she faltered.
"Yesterday?" Her mother's tones were puzzled.
"Yes, yesterday was my birthday," said Betty.
Her father led her to the calendar upon the wall.
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"See that," he said. "Today is the eighteenth."
Betty stared at the number in astonishment. "But
last year my birthday came on Wednesday," she stammered.
Her father laughed heartily. "But you know that
this is leap year, don't you?" he said.
Betty hung her head. "I forgot about that," she
confessed.
"But if you had looked at the calendar, you would
have known," her father told her.
"I didn't think to do that," Betty whispered. They
did not say more about her forgetfulness, but led her
to the stack of presents beside her plate.
That morning she did not go to school, for Aunt
Kate and Uncle John came in their car and took them
all for a ride, after which they returned—not home,
but to Aunt Kate's house, and here a gay crowd of
Betty's little friends burst in upon her.
"We thought we should really surprise you for once,"
exclaimed Aunt Kate, laughing, "so we decided to have
the party here."
And such a party as it was! Never will Betty forget it.
"Even if I am allowed to," she laughs, for the story
of how she had absent-mindedly anticipated her own
birthday was too good a joke on her and too much of a
lesson to be readily forgotten by her family. But after
her day of misery Betty really did stop forgetting—
not at once, you understand, but gradually, until now
she is the most dependable, trustworthy little maiden
imaginable.
But just the same she always blushes when any one
says "The A. M. B.," as they sometimes teasingly do,
for you have guessed by now that it means "The Absent-Minded Birthday."—Faye N. Merriman.
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"Hold fast your dreams!
Within your heart
Keep one still, secret spot
Where dreams may go,
And sheltered so,
May thrive and grow—
Where doubt and fear are not.
O, keep a place apart
Within your heart,
For little dreams to go."
SIN the life of every young, healthy, normal girl,
(I there comes a time when she dreams. Idle
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of a career, of travel, and then, perhaps, of a
knight and a home.
Some one says dreams are foolish and a waste of
time. Oh, no! Dreams make life sweeter, happier,
easier, more worth while. God must have meant for us
to have dreams, because they add happiness to our
already happy lives.
What matters it that sometimes our dreams fail to
become realities! We have had the joy of dreaming
—not mere so-called "daydreams," but real visions of
success and happiness. It helps us when once we
catch a glimpse of the beautiful sunset beyond to
strive the more courageously and earnestly to reach
our goal.
You ask, "Of what are dreams made?" Why, don't
you know? Dreams are made of darling tea roses and
gorgeous American Beauty roses and silver stars and
golden moons. Under the leaves of each rose are
thorns that prick and tear the heart, but what of that?
The perfume of the rose heals the wound and makes
it beautiful.
Dreams cost, but they are worth the price paid every
time. Remember that—
"One broken dream is not the end of dreaming,
One shattered hope is not the end of all;
Beyond the storm and tempest stars are gleaming;
Still build your castles, though your castles fall."
"When a man is true blue to God, he is never blue himself."
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"Unto the Least of These"
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" 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least
of these My brethren,' " he read at the conclusion of
his address, " 'ye have done it unto Me.' My thought
for you this evening, brethren and sisters, is the second
phrase, 'unto one of the least of these.'"
Anne's attention was caught and she listened with
increasing interest.
"God will not call us to do great things for Him until
we have proved faithful in the smaller duties. His call
may be to the great open fields, but first He must
soften and humble our hearts as we minister unto
'the least of these.'"
To Anne this message was pointed as a two-edged
sword. She had listened first because the speaker told
of mission lands. Now he was telling her plainly to
go back, unto 'the least of these,' back to the little
church in the hills. And her parents were staying by
there for that very reason. How could she have been
so blind!
Tears glistened in her blue eyes as the last hymn
was sung. A genuine missionary spirit had been awakened in her heart, and a strange new love for those
dear, old-fashioned home church people gripped her
heart.
"I'm going back," she told Margaret, "and do what
I can to help, even if I have to sing a duet with the
terrible Miss Marshall!"
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Anne approached the dimly lighted little church
with a joyous spring in her step, but at the door she
paused. They were singing,
"What a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!"
A week ago she would have turned
. frowned. Now, however, she tiptoed into
and taking her seat beside Mrs. Brown,
fine contralto voice in singing from the
her heart,
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"What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer!"
Anne's voice was full and vibrant as she sang a solo
at the close of that prayer service. But it was not
an oratorio selection, it was that sweet old favorite,
"Does Jesus Care?" Deeper and richer the soft words
fell, and as the last strains died away, a chorus of
"Amens" followed their wake.
Old friends crowded around her when meeting was
over—the children she had taught in kindergarten, the
old ladies who idolized her, the young people who admired her. And she loved them, every one, from the
aging usher to the crying babe.
At last, as Anne was leaving the church, some one
slipped up behind her, and in an eager, yet hesitant,
high-pitched voice, inquired, "Would you care to lead
the choir while you're home, Anne?"
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time, some acts of the General Court (legislature) and
even some referendum acts are not in force in a town
until they have been considered and voted on favorably
at a town meeting. This type of local government was
copied throughout New England, and afterward, in a
more or less modified form, was carried by New England settlers to the West.
Another ideal which the Puritans cherished was universal education. They believed that "ignorance was
the stronghold of Satan." The colony had many highly
educated people; in fact it is said that there were more
college graduates in the Bay Colony in proportion to
population than in England itself. Accordingly, in
1636, the General Court voted £400 for founding an
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Forgot He had made them His treasures,
The dear little lambs of His fold.
I wonder if angry and willful,
They wandered far astray,
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Soft smoothing the silk tangled hair.
And low leaning down to the murmur
Of sweet, childish voices in prayer,
Oft bade the small pleaders to listen
If haply again they might hear
The words of the gentle Redeemer
Borne swift to the reverent ear.
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That ever those children went wrong.
And were lost from the peace and the shelter,
Shut out from the feast and the song.
To the day of gray hairs they remembered.
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Who spell it in God's word today;
You, too, may be sorry for sinning,
You may also believe and obey;
And 'twill grieve the dear Saviour in heaven
If one little child shall go wrong—
Be lost from the fold and the shelter,
Shut out from the feast and the song.
—Margaret E. Songster.
institution of higher learning. The next year it was
decided that this school should be at Newtown, later
called Cambridge. This school was founded so that
"the light of learning might not go out nor the study
of God's word perish." The school thus founded was
given the name of Harvard College.
In 1645 the town of Boston ordered "that £50 should
be allowed yearly to a schoolmaster and a house for
him to live in and £30 to an usher." They were to
teach "reading, writing, and ciphering." This order
was confirmed by the General Court. In 1647 the General Court decreed that in every township having fifty
families or more there must be maintained by public
taxes a school for instruction in reading and writing.
Every town having a hundred families or more must
maintain a grammar school. This law of 1647 was
indeed a memorable provision for education. It furnished an example for the whole world.
We have now briefly reviewed two institutions that
had their beginnings with the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony, which are today the prized possessions of every State in the American Union, and,
indeed, of all free peoples—democratic political institutions and universal education. Though their land was
small, their influence was far-reaching, because they
had a great ideal.
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had to go to digging again. The only two who were
able to help us at all were Timothy and Elulu, the
parents of the little burned girl, and their knowledge
of English was so meager that their help was very poor.
We could find no equivalent in their language for life,
and other words that seemed so essential to us in order
to teach the gospel.
"You cannot boost another when you are backsliding."
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Our Counsel Corner
Conducted by the Missionary Volunteer Department of the
General Conference
Questions concerning young people's problems will be answered in this column each week by those who have had long
and successful experience. You are cordially invited to
write the Counsel Corner regarding your perplexities. Each
inquiry will receive careful attention. Those writing are
requested to sign full name and address, so that a personal
answer may be given if in our judgment the question should
not be printed. Neither names nor initials will be attached
to queries appearing in print, and any confidence will be
fully respected. Address all questions to Our Counsel Corner, in care of Youth's Instructor, Takoma Park, D. C.
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ence, such as faith, doubt, and confession, or such practical
questions as tithe, courtship, or education, and study them
topically. A real interest in further study is more than likely
to develop. You can become interested if you try. The
messages through Mrs. White have been very helpful counsel
and an inspiring and guiding influence to individuals and
to the church through the years. Every believer should be
familiar with them.
The Sabbath School
Young People's Lesson
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Do you think it is right to hold a box social for the benefit
of the church? Is it right for children to attend and take
part in box socials in public schools?
The old-fashioned box socials were oftentimes of pleasant
association and enjoyment by old and young. But from what
we know of present-day socials, we do not think that they
are a proper means of diversion for young people, regardless
of who might promote them. They are inclined to encourage a wrong attitude of young people toward each other.
The method of choosing partners for the evening is not the
best, and often results in disappointment or embarrassment,
and sometimes in ridicule. A box social discriminates against
one who is not financially able to pay the price of the box
of his choice, and often leads to recklessness in the expenditure of money. We cannot believe that such things are
in harmony with the principles of God's word.
Is it wrong for Seventh-day Adventists to go to the circus?
This is only one of a number of questions that would best
be left to the individual conscience. The writer would not
attend a circus under any probable conditions, nor would he
feel free to lend his influence to attendance upon the part
of others. But to undertake to tell others just what they
ought to do is a wholly different matter from deciding what
one himself should or should not do. The Bible specifies
and forbids only a few definite sins; for example, idolatry,
profanity, Sabbath breaking, disobedience to parents, murder,
adultery, theft, and covetousness. But as magnified by our
Saviour in the fifth of Matthew, it is seen that hatred is
murder and lust is adultery. In the epistles we learn that
self-love is idolatry, as is also wantonness in eating and
drinking, or indeed in anything, however innocent in and of
itself. And so the "commandment" is seen to be, as the
psalmist expresses it, "exceeding broad." This being true, it
is impossible for any one to be governed by a rigid code,
specifying every act under every condition of life, followed
by a "Thou shalt" or "Thou shalt not." The Saviour summed
up the whole of the divine law in two commandments:
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, . . .
and thy neighbor as thyself." In like manner, the apostle
comprehended not only all duty, but all privilege, in the
words, "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever
ye do, do all to the glory of God." The opinion of the
writer is that if all such questions as attendance at movies,
circuses, etc., were conscientiously brought to God in prayer,
and were settled between Him and the individual upon his
knees before Him, there would be fewer Adventists seen at
such places than there are now. "Hast thou faith? have it
to thyself before God."
What books can a person read when he finishes the Read­
ing Course? The Testimonies are not interesting.
It would be impractical to attempt to present a list of
books here which would satisfy the varied interests and
tastes of different readers. The Reading Courses serve only
as a beginning. By purchase and through the public libraries one may extend his reading in many profitable ways;
e. g., biography, works of travel, missionary life, science,
invention, nature, social, moral, political, or religious problems. Let me suggest that if you are interested in biography,
you take some missionary or national hero like Livingstone,
Gladstone, or Lincoln and make a thorough search to learn
all you. can of his life. By thus pursuing the matter as a
project, you will find ereat pleasure, and at the same time
be cultivating an excellent method of study. The information thus gained may prove very useful on a future occasion. A similar method can be followed with protects in
other lines. When one puts forth the beginning effort, the
study becomes fascinating. The Testimonies may lack interest for you because they have been read without purpose
or because the mind has been injured through injudicious
fiction reading. Personally, during busy college days I found
real pleasure and profit in devotins ten to fifteen minutes
a day to reading through such books as "The Great Controversy." "Education," "Ministry of Healing," "The Desire
of A?es." and "Steps to Christ," and marking the sentences
which impressed me. Take problems of Christian experi-
XII—The ^Messiah That Was to Come
(September 20)
MEMORY VERSE: Acts 10:38.
Questions
The Advent of a Saviour
1. How was the fact that the Son of God was soon to
be born made known to Joseph? What prophecy was thus
fulfilled? Matt. 1:20-23; Isa. 7:14.
2. To whom was His immediate birth revealed? Soon
after His birth, to whom was His identity made known?
Note 1.
3. What was Jesus to do for His people when He came
to this earth? Matt. 1:21.
4. How is the growth of Jesus in childhood and youth
described? Luke 2:40, 51, 52. Note 2.
The Work of Christ
5. How old was Jesus at His baptism? When did He
begin His public ministry? Luke 3:22, 23; Mark 1:14. Note 3.
6. What was the special appeal of Jesus to the people?
Matt. 4:17.
7. What specific work did He do during His ministry?
Verse 23; Acts 10:38.
8. In sending out the twelve apostles, what did Jesus
instruct them to preach? What were they to do? Matt.
10:7, 8. Note 4.
9. What did Jesus say was His relation to those who loved
and followed Him? John 13:1; 14:21; 17:26.
10. Even though Jesus was forsaken by His disciples when
He was betrayed, how did He show His love? Matt. 26:56,
75; John 19:25-27. Note 5.
The Holy Spirit Promised
11. When Jesus told His disciples that it was expedient
for Him to leave them, of what did He assure them? John
16:7, 13. Note 6.
12. How may we be sure of Christ's presence in our hearts?
John 14:21.
13. What is the purpose of this continued infilling with
spiritual power? Matt. 28:18-20.
Notes
1. The imminent birth of Jesus was revealed to the following: Mary, Luke 1:35; Joseph, Matt. 1:20, 21; Elisabeth,
Luke 1:41-43. Soon after His birth His identity was made
known to Simeon, Luke 2:25-32; Anna, Luke 2:36-38.
2. "As He grew in wisdom and stature, Jesus increased in
favor with God and man. He drew the sympathy of all
hearts by showing Himself capable of sympathizing with
all. . . . Jesus is our example. There are many who dwell
with interest upon the period of His public ministry, while
they pass unnoticed the teachings of His early years. But it
is in His home life that He is the pattern for all children
and youth. The Saviour condescended to poverty, that He
might teach how closely we in a humble lot may walk with
God. He lived to please, honor, and glorify His Father in
the common things of life. His work began in consecrating
the lowly trade of the craftsmen who toil for their daily
bread. He was doing God's service just as much when laboring at the carpenter's bench as when working miracles for
the multitude. And every youth who follows Christ's example of faithfulness and obedience in His lowly home, may
claim those words spoken of Him by the Father through
the Holy Spirit, 'Behold My servant, whom I uphold; Mine
elect, in whom My soul delighteth.' "—"The Desire of Ages,"
page 74.
3. "The first thirty years of the life of Christ is called the
'Preparation.' Among the Jews a man could not become a
public teacher until he was thirty. In accordance with this
custom Jesus remained in the obscurity of His home until,
as Luke says, at the time of His baptism He 'began to be
about thirty years of age.'"—"Bible Lessons," McKibbin,
Book III, p. 132.
4. "The disciples were to have the same power which Jesus
had to heal 'all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.' By healing in His name the diseases of the body, they would testify to His power for the
healing of the soul."—"The Desire of Ages," p. 821.
•'The smiles that count are those that shine when it rains."
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5. Although Peter's denial was foreseen by the Saviour, He
did not upbraid His disciple. At the second crowing of the
cock, the warning of His Master came home to his heart,
and he went forth to weep in bitterness of soul, but to love
his Lord the more. To John was committed the care of the
Saviour's mother. Christ knew the human weakness of each,
but His love for them never faltered even in those dark
hours when they all forsook Him and fled. He could trust
His mother, however, to His disciple.
6. The work of the Comforter "is to define and maintain
the truth. He first dwells in the heart as the Spirit of
truth, and thus He becomes the Comforter. . . . The Holy
Spirit was the highest of all gifts that He [Christ] could
solicit from His Father for the exaltation of His people.
The Spirit was to be given as a regenerating agent, and
without this the sacrifice of Christ would have been of no
avail. ... It is by the Spirit that the heart is made pure.
Through the Spirit the believer becomes a partaker of the
divine nature. Christ has given His Spirit as a divine
power to overcome all hereditary and cultivated tendencies
to evil, and to impress His own character upon His church."
—Id., p. 671.
Suggestive Topics for Discussion
Those who really love the Lord will show their love by
obedience.
The gift of the Holy Spirit is given on conditions. What
are those conditions? (See "The Desire of Ages," p. 672.)
Do our daily lives show forth the humility that was seen
in the life of Christ?
Junior Lesson
XII—Healing the 'Demoniac
(September 20)
LESSON SCRIPTURE: Mark 9:14-29.
PARALLEL SCRIPTURES: Matthew 17:14-21; Luke 9:37-45.
MEMORY VERSE: "Why could not we cast him out? And
Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief." Matt.
17:19, 20.
STUDY HELP: "The Desire of Ages," pp. 426-431.
PLACE: At the foot of Mt. Hermon.
PERSONS: Jesus and His disciples; the father and his
afflicted son; the scribes and the multitude.
Setting of the Lesson
"The entire night had been passed in the mountain; and
as the sun arose, Jesus and His disciples descended to the
plain. Absorbed in thought, the disciples were awed and
silent. Even Peter had not a word to say. Gladly would
they have lingered in that holy place which had been
touched with the light of heaven, and where the Son of
God had manifested His glory; but there was work to be
done for the people, who were already searching far and
near for Jesus. At the foot of the mountain a large company had gathered, led hither by the disciples who had
remained behind, but who knew whither Jesus had resorted."
—"The Desire of Ages," p. 426.
Questions
1. When Jesus, and Peter, James, and John came down
from the mount of transfiguration, what did they see? Who
were asking questions of the disciples who had not been
with Jesus? Mark 9:14. Note 1.
2. What did the people do when they saw Jesus? What
did Jesus ask the scribes? Verses 15, 16.
3. What explanation did one of the multitude make?
How grievously did the evil spirit afflict the boy? Verses
17, 18. Note 2.
4. What exclamation of sorrow came to the lips of
Jesus? What did He tell the father to do? Verse 19. Note 3.
5. What did the evil spirit do as soon as he saw Jesus?
Verse 20. Note 4.
6. What question did Jesus ask the father? What reply
did the father give? What earnest appeal did he make?
Verses 21, 22.
7. How did Jesus seek to strengthen the faith of the
father? Verse 23.
8. What did the father then cry out with tears? Verse 24.
9. How did Jesus rebuke the evil spirit? Verse 25.
10. What did the evil spirit then do? In what condition
did it leave the boy? Verse 26.
11. How did Jesus then help the child? Verse 27.
12. When alone, what question did His disciples ask Jesus?
What reply did Jesus make? Verses 28, 29.
13. How may this lesson of faith be helpful to us? Note 5.
Questions to Think About
What reason had the disciples to think that they could cast
out an evil spirit?
What is "a mountain-top experience" today?
How may such an experience be gained?
For what purpose is it given?
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1. God does not make the mountain top a permanent
place of habitation. He takes us to the height to catch a
glimpse of heavenly glory, and a broader vision of the need
of the world. The source of the stream is in the upland,
but it quickly flows down the incline to enrich the valleys
below. We cannot selfishly tarry on the mountain peaks
of blessing. We must descend and take up our ministry
of love for others.
2. "While they [the nine disciples] were waiting at the
foot of the mountain, a father had brought to them his
son, to be delivered from a dumb spirit that tormented him.
Authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, had been
conferred on the disciples when Jesus sent out the twelve
to preach through Galilee. As they went forth strong in
faith, the evil spirits had obeyed their word. Now in the
name of Christ they commanded the torturing spirit to leave
his victim; but the demon only mocked them by a fresh
display of his power. The disciples, unable to account for
their defeat, felt that they were bringing dishonor upon
themselves and their Master. And in the crowd there were
scribes who made the most of this opportunity to humiliate
them. Pressing around the disciples, they plied them with
questions, seeking to prove that they and their Master were
deceivers. Here, the rabbis triumphantly declared, was an
evil spirit that neither the disciples nor Christ Himself could
conquer. The people were inclined to side with the scribes,
and a feeling of contempt and scorn pervaded the crowd.
"But suddenly the accusations ceased. Jesus and the three
disciples were seen approaching, and with a quick revulsion
of feeling the people turned to meet them. The night of
communion with the heavenly glory had left its trace upon
the Saviour and His companions. Upon their countenances
was a light that awed the beholders. The scribes drew back
in fear, while the people welcomed Jesus."—"The Desire of
Ages," p. 427.
3. "The selection of the three disciples to accompany Jesus
to the mountain had excited the jealousy of the nine. Instead of strengthening their faith by prayer and meditation
on the words of Christ, they had been dwelling on their
discouragements and personal grievances. In this state of
darkness they had undertaken the conflict with Satan. In
order to succeed in such a conflict they must come to the
work in a different spirit. Their faith must be strengthened by fervent prayer and fasting, and humiliation of heart.
They must be emptied of self, and be filled with the spirit
and power of God."—Id., p. 430.
4. "Again the Prince of life and the prince of the powers
of darkness had met on the field of battle,—Christ in fulfillment of His mission to 'preach deliverance to the captives,
... to set at liberty them that are bruised,' Satan seeking
to hold his victim under his control. Angels of light and
the hosts of evil angels, unseen, were pressing near to behold
the conflict. For a moment, Jesus permitted the evil spirit
to display his power, that the beholders might comprehend
the deliverance about to be wrought."—Id., p. 428.
5. " 'If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed," said
Jesus, 'ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to
yonder place; and it shall remove.' Though the grain of
mustard seed is so small, it contains that same mysterious,
life principle which produces growth in the loftiest tree.
When the mustard seed is cast into the ground, the tinv
germ lays hold of every element that God has provided
for its nutriment, and it speedily develops a sturdy growth.
If you have faith like this, you will lay hold upon God's
word, and upon all the helpful agencies He has appointed.
Thus your faith will strengthen, and will bring to your aid
the power of heaven. The obstacles that are piled by Satan
across your path, though apparently as insurmountable as
the eternal hills, shall disappear before the demand of faith.
'Nothing shall be impossible unto you.' "—Id., pp. 430, 431.
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LISTENING POST
LAST year, so 'tis said, United States motor cars consumed
fifteen billion gallons of gasoline.
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THERE are now thirty-four women in the
Reichstag, among them fourteen teachers.
German
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BY order of President Hoover, all the White House wine
glasses have been packed up and put in storage.
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IT appears that Byrd's expedition to the antarctic cost
$750,000 cash. It returned home $100,000 in debt.
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AFTER two weeks of weary debate the Senate has finally
ratified, by vote of 58 to 9, the London Naval Treaty.
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THE White Star motorship "Britannic," the largest cabinclass passenger vessel in the world, recently reached New
York City on her maiden voyage.
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ITALY, weary of paying high duties on paper imported
from foreign countries, has set her own technicians to work
to develop a process of manufacturing fine book paper from
rice straw.
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A GERMAN engineer has invented what he maintains is a
practical and speedy word typewriter. Whole words are
printed with one pressure of the finger. After making a
study of the words used in business correspondence, the
inventor concluded that more than 50 per cent of the words
were the same hundred used over and over. His machine
employs both individual letters and whole words. Altogether
the machine has 164 keys, and according to the inventor,
enables a typist to write as many as 1,000 words a minute.
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THE Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science has sent
an expedition under the leadership of Wharton Huber to
study the bird and animal life on the Queen Charlotte
Islands, off the coast of British Columbia. Owing to the
great humidity of these islands, the song sparrows found
there have developed much longer feathers than their relatives in other parts of North America. Several other species
of birds on these islands have responded to the continued
rainy condition by developing special protection against
showers, mists, and gales.
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ONE of the combatants in the World War shocked the
world by the use of deadly gases on the battlefields. The
great American inventor, Thomas A. Edison, said to a friend
that he could make a compound that would be far more destructive in war than these gases. His friend said to him:
"Why, then, don't you make it and sell it to the warring
nations? It would make you immensely rich." The inventor
showed his fine moral fiber when he replied: "It would no
doubt make me rich! But I shall not make it, and I shall
not tell any one else how. I am ready to do what I can to
help people live, but I will not do anything to kill them."
There are some things worth a great deal more than money.
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THE first railroad had wooden rails, wooden wheels on the
cars, and instead of a steam engine, had a horse to pull
its train. It was built and used in connection with the
coal mines at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England more than
two hundred years ago. This great-grandfather of our
modern railways was built because it was found easier to
lay crosslog sleepers or ties and narrow planks of wood for
specially grooved wooden cart wheels to run along than to
make the horses draw the carts of coal on ordinary roads.
It was considered very modern and marvelous in its day.
It was more economical of horse power than any sort of road
known before. Along the wooden rails a single horse could
haul more than ten tons of coal at a load. Later iron
tops were put on the rails to keep them from wearing
out, and finally all iron rails were introduced. The first
locomotive pulled a load of coal to and from an English coal
mine. It could manage thirty tons at a time and go almost
as fast as a horse!
THERE has been added to the war relics at the Smithsonian
Institution a feathered hero of 1013 and, appropriately
enough, named "President Wilson." Tliu ~.ack check cock,
now stuffed and mounted, v/as one of the outstanding dispatch pigeons of the World War. His carcrr closely resembles that of "Cher Ami," his famous contemporary, whose
stuffed remains are similarly honored. During an intense
machine gun and artillery action in November, 1918, "President Wilson" was liberated at Grand Pre. Plying through
fog and gunfire, he delivered an important message at Rampont, twenty-five miles away. The little feathered messenger
was found to have one of his legs shattered and there was a
bullet wound in his breast. "President Wilson" recovered,
and was provided with an artificial leg. In 1929 he died at
the ripe old age of eleven years. The homing pigeons used
by the American Army in the late conflict have a record of
97 per cent for efficiency.
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THOUSANDS of people in Cuba are giving yuca bread a
trial, and several bakeries in that country are using about
20 per cent of yuca flour in the manufacture of bread, says
the Pan-American Union. Yuca, as such, is little known
in the United States, but tapioca, one of its derivatives, is
extensively consumed in the American home. In tropical
countries the food derived from the yuca plant is consumed
by millions of people. The plant grows 8 or 10 feet high, and
one specimen may produce 25 or more pounds of roots from
which tapioca and other articles of food are made. In the
forests of the Amazon, where the yuca root is the staff of
life, the natives bake the roots in ashes, and the cooked product somewhat resembles baked potatoes. In Cuba a yuca
flour company has been formed and operations have started
at Jaruco. The machinery, while grinding a limited quantity
of yuca, is capable of a larger output if the new flour meets
a popular demand.
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To Benny Benson, a seventh-grade student in the Mission Territorial school, near Seward, belongs the honor of
designing the new Alaskan territorial flag, a copy of which
has been placed in the flag collection in the great court of
the Post Office Building at Washington, D. C. The flag bears
eight gold stars, symbolizing the gold found in Alaska,
on a field of blue, representing Alaskan skies, seas, lakes,
and wild flowers. Seven of the stars form the Great Bear
(Ursa Major), the most conspicuous constellation in the
northern sky, with the eighth star as the polestar, and prospective forty-ninth star for the national flag when Alaska
is finally admitted into the Union. Incidentally, the Post
Office collection contains every State and territorial flag,
save those of Nevada and the Virgin Islands.
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TIRED of washing the ruffled collars attached to her husband's shirts, Mrs. Hannah Montague, Troy, New York,
noticed that the shirts did not need laundering as often
as the collars. She removed all the collars and hemmed the
edges. In the same way she hemmed the edges of the shirt
band and provided a way to attach the collar when required. The next step, of course, was to provide extra
collars so that two or three of them could take their turn
and be worn with the shirt. The husband was delighted.
That was back in 1827. Without knowing it, Mrs. Montague
laid the foundation of a big industry. A collar factory with
6,000 employees and doing a business of $22,000,000 a year
is located in the city where Mrs. Montague invented the
detached collar.
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GOOD news for American tourists is the recent announcement of a sharp reduction in passport costs, which will save
our travelers an estimated $2,000,000 a year. "To Americans
abroad, the name of David O'Connell will now be blessed,"
says the Publishers' Weekly, "for on July 1, President Hoover
signed the O'Connell passport bill, which with one stroke
cuts the cost of passports for Americans going abroad from
$10 to $6, while at the same time it increases the term of
each passport from two to six years." Thus the bill "not
only reduces the cost of travel to those going abroad, but
more important still, this change of term will prove of value
to the business man who often goes abroad."
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THE oldest public park in the United States is the Common
in Boston, where the British mustered before the Battle of
Bunker Hill. It was the scene of many stirring gatherings
during the Revolutionary War period.
"The proof of the imioceiiee of pleasure is in its true profit."