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The Youth's Instructor, February 27, 1962
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Back of many a good man
COLUIVI3IA UNION COLLEGE
stands a woman who makes use of her
natural ability to
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maintain esprit de corps.
good wife:
This column, appearing twice each month,
is devoted to the social phases of Christian livinF. Questions from readers are welcome and
will be considered when topics for coming articles are selected. Address your questions to
Harold Shryock, M.D., THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, Tacoma Park, Washington 12, D.C.
N ADDRESSING the present article to wives, particularly to young
wives, it is my desire to pay tribute
to womankind by acknowledging
the important role of a wife's influence
within the family unit.
Marriage is a partnership, and I, for
one, believe that the ideal is a fiftyfifty partnership, not seventy-thirty or
forty-sixty. I recognize that a wife and
husband each have different parts to
play in making a success of their marriage, but I am sincere in contending
that the part one plays is just as important as the part the other plays.
Two personalities, one masculine and
one feminine, complement each other
so that what one lacks the other provides. When all the contributions a
wife makes within a home are compared with the total of the husband's
contributions, the totals are about equal,
even though the items on one list differ
from those on the other.
One of the singular contributions that
a wife makes to the welfare of a marriage is the building and maintaining of
good morale—esprit de corps, if we
choose to call it that. A woman possesses the natural ability to set the stage
of her home to reflect cheerfulness,
optimism, courage, and faith.
Inspired by his wife's confidence and
imbued with her assurance that only
good can finally come out of their combined enterprises, a husband can go out
to face the world courageously and
successfully. But, lacking this quickening influence that only a good wife can
give, a husband is helpless in his own
right to see the family's circumstances
in a consistently favorable light.
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Good Morale
One successful husband remarked to
me, "My wife has always been very
sensitive to the factors that can make or
break a man. During our years of
married life she has done her full part
in promoting the success of the 'team.' "
This husband recognized that his wife
was able to make a major contribution
to the success of their marriage that
was beyond his ability to provide. And
he paid her high tribute for playing
her part well.
The wisest man who ever lived paid
a similar tribute to wives: "He who has
found a wife has gained a goodly portion, and obtains favor from the Lord."
Consider the husband who makes his
living by selling. Our illustration is not
of a door-to-door salesman, even though
the principle applies in all types of selling. He is, rather, one who sells large
equipment items to manufacturers. A
typical week in his program may consist of making thirty to forty attempts
to get in touch with possible purchasers.
Out of these attempts he may succeed
in arranging for ten interviews. And
out of these ten interviews, if he is
fortunate, he may make one sale.
It is not easy for a person, be he man
or woman, to be repulsed time after
time. A salesman of the type we have
described receives a real boost in morale
when he does make a sale. But his
morale may run low between times
when time after time he fails to make
sales. Sometimes he may make two or
three sales within a short time. But on
other occasions two or three weeks
may pass before he makes a single sale.
Now, let us look at the responsibility
this salesman's wife carries for helping
her husband to succeed in his work.
His vocation provides the income that
enables him to meet the family's expenses. Thus his sales work enables him
to perform one of his major functions
as husband—that of making the living.
When this husband comes home and
reports that he has not made a sale for
several days, his wife holds within the
power of her influence the opportunity
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to encourage him or discourage him—
the chance to build his morale or to let
it wane.
She may say, "We have gone longer
than this sometimes without a sale,
and you know that by the law of averages if you have to wait two weeks this
time before making a sale you will
probably make two sales during the
following week." Then her husband
Adventist physician and wife who have
lived in the same community for more
than thirty years. The physician is well
known in the community where he
practices and is beloved by his many
patients. In the natural course of his
medical practice he handles many
difficult cases and has opportunities to
influence many people. He is respected
to the extent that his patients not only
Interlude in Ice
by LEE AVERY
Having dogs to walk
Has pried me from the tropical climate
Of house.
Winter, with an icy word, has breathed
Fact into fantasy—
Almost gingerly, we walk
Into a forest of glass!
Glass everywhere—glass evergreens and grasses,
A spangled willow leaning like a fountain, frozen
In the act of falling.
The wind stirs choruses of chimes,
Tinkling, sprinkling the crystal air
With a glass music.
Quiet, dogs! Do not bark.
The woods will shatter!
RAYMOND F. COTTRELL
RICHARD HAMMILL, THEODORE LUCAS
E. LENNARD MINCHIN, GERALD R. NASH
Circulation Manager R. G. CAMPBELL
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will realiie that she is on his side and
that she is happy and willing to share
life with him as it comes.
But if this wife says instead, "I wish
you would quit this job and find another one that provides a regular salary
so that we can budget our income and
our expenses and handle our affairs
systematically," then she has missed a
major opportunity to build morale.
It is because of the recognition that
wives are in the key position for building or breaking morale that sales managers of some large organizations are
now inviting wives to come along with
their husbands to the annual sales conventions.
Not all husbands are professional
salesmen. But in a fundamental sense
all of life's enterprises involve a certain
amount of dealing with people, and
therefore require skill in "selling."
Some people sell ideas rather than commodities. Some sell personal services
rather than books or appliances. Regardless of what product is "sold," the
wife has an opportunity to strengthen
or weaken her husband's morale and,
correspondingly, the happiness of their
home life.
I am acquainted with a Seventh-day
entrust him with their problems of
health, and with their lives when they
are seriously ill, but also with their
personal problems in matters of everyday living.
A doctor's life brings him into contact with various kinds of suffering,
disappointment, and tragedy. He sees
life at its worst. All day long—and
sometimes during the night—a doctor
deals with people and uses his best efforts to help them solve serious problems. This is the kind of life my friend
has lived during the thirty years he has
practiced in the same community.
I asked him how he is able to maintain his morale in spite of all the human
suffering and anguish he sees and hears.
In his reply he paid honest tribute to
his wife.
"I tell my wife that it is our ideal
home life that enables me to keep
going. I tell her that coming home after
a busy day at the office is like a ship's
coming into a quiet harbor after having
weathered a heavy storm." A good example, this, of a wife's role as a morale
builder.
I saw this same influence of a good
wife at work in maintaining morale
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Olympia Nick Germanis accompanied his story on the Olympics with
several photos, one of which appears on
the cover. It shows one of the streets in
this ancient city of Greece. I shall not
forget the tasty Sabbath dinner I enjoyed in the Germanis' residence in
Athens. Elder and Mrs. Germanis are
doing their part to keep the light shining in that ancient metropolis that once
tried the best in the apostle Paul.
Trip "Tehachapi Trip" took a first
award in the 1961 Advanced Writers
Division of THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR
Pen League. Mr. Hanson is taking the
English course at Pacific Union College, and looks forward to a lifework
of teaching. That could be in the mission field, for in answer to this question in our questionnaire, "Have you
thought of being a foreign missionary ?"
he replied, "Yes."
Jeanie "Far-reaching Decisions" is
the first installment of Wilma Ross
Westphal's new series on Jeanie, beginning next week. With graduation just
weeks off, the first three serials on
Jeanie, now in book format under the
same title, would make meaningful
gifts. Meantime, ensure that this magazine keeps coming to everyone on your
list who can profit by a dynamic weekly
just designed for youth becoming
adults.
Arizona "I was surprised at your
reply to the inquiry of some kind of
binder or folder to hold THE Youm's
INsmuclux (December 12, 1961). One
of the better-grade theme binders, available at most stationery stores, should
serve the purpose very well, and would
easily hold a year's supply of INsTRucTORS. Punch two holes in each paper
and insert them in the binder properly."
C. L. WESTERMEYER, Scottsdale.
Massachusetts "Want you to know
that I think the latest copies of the INSTRUCTOR are better than ever. Especially appreciate the pointed editorials.
They seem to be written just for my
benefit and encouragement. Keep them
coming!" M. WANDA LENZEN, Attleboro.
"Let go and let God," the preacher says. That's the way to begin
the victorious life. That's the way to master temptations. That's the
way to dispel your doubts, to surmount your disappointments, to
develop a daily abiding assurance that no matter what happens, you
are on the way to your Emmaus with God.
I have never found it so easy as that. Some have, maybe. More
have not.
Jacob on his way to meet Esau passed over the ford Jabbok, and
"there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day."' It
was not physical struggle only, but spiritual. He wrestled. In wrestling
he prevailed.
Joseph in Potiphar's house met temptation. Worse, it was his
master's wife who "cast her eyes upon Joseph."' In a segment of life
where some good people have fallen, Joseph had to meet repeated
temptations. "She spake to Joseph day by day." Daily, the young
man had to gird his mind, his eyes, his ears, against the enticements
of lust. Finally when one day she caught hold of him he "fled, and
got him out." Years later Paul would advise Timothy about the
necessity to "flee . . . youthful lusts."'
Asked a question one day on His way to Jerusalem, Jesus replied,
"Strive to enter in at the strait gate."' The question had been, "Are
there few that be saved?" "Strive to enter," He said. "Many, I say unto
you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able."
"I have fought," Paul said, "a good fight." "I have finished."
"I have kept."'
Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones is pastor of Westminster Chapel in
London. The Sunday I visited his church I heard him. say, "There is
no such thing as a holiday in the spiritual realm. I don't believe in
the 'let go and let God' idea. We have something to do."
"Religion is not merely an emotion, a feeling," Ellen G. White
wrote. "It is a principle which is interwoven with all the daily duties
and transactions of life. Nothing will be entertained, no business engaged in, which will prevent the accompaniment of this principle. To
retain pure and undefiled religion, it is necessary to be workers,
persevering in effort. We must do something ourselves. No one else
can do our work. None but ourselves can work out our salvation with
fear and trembling. This is the very work which the Lord has left
for us to do."'
Wrestle—flee—strive—fight—work—these are what make the gift
of salvation sweet.
Self-discipline, sacrifice, happy service, become our demonstration
to God that the unfathomable gift of His Son is appreciated and
understood.
Gen. 32:22-28. 2 Chap. 39:7-12. a 2 Tim. 2:22. • Luke 13:24. 5 2 Tim. 9:7. 6 Testimonies, vol. 2,
p. 506.
coming
next week
• "THE FAMILIES OF PHOTOGRAPHERS"—One Pen Leaguer
has pigeonholed photographers into characteristic groups. An
article for weekday reading by Rodney Applegate.
Holiness "Holiness is agreement with
God."-5T 743.
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Two hundred and ten miles lie between Athens,
Greece, and the ruins of Olympia's temples.
Olympics of 19-2
by NICK GERMANIS
T
HE Olympics of 1960 are now
in the past. But the names of
the champions still sound in
history's halls. The Olympics of
1964 are still future. Yet many young
people are already training to reach a
bodily perfection that will give them
the victor's crown and the gold medal,
come 1964. For the victors will again
be crowned with enduring fame and
honor.
But did you ever stop to think that
you and I, yes, every young person
under the banner of Jesus Christ, has
been called to run in the Olympics,
the Olympics of the "high calling" and
of the "time of trouble"? Yes, it is the
Olympics of eternal life itself. But,
come with me, if you will, on a little
journey into the past, a journey to
Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the
Olympic games.
I can't think of a more fascinating
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place than old Olympia, which is located in a plain lying in the western
part of the Peloponnesus. I've been
there many times, and I'll probably go
again. Here were collected thousands
of the statues of the gods, treasure
houses full of votive offerings, temples,
altars, tombs—the most precious treasures of ancient Greece. But these are
not the things that draw me to Olympia.
The magnetism arises from the fact
that in this place many young people
won immortal fame, as the world goes,
and a garland of wild olive. Standing
in the old stadium, I see once again
those youths running for the crown,
the garland, and fame. They were not
ordinary youth; they were a special
group, with one object in life—to qualify for a place in the Olympic games,
and to win the crown of glory and
fame.
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A tourist examines the Sacred Flame Altar.
More and more we hear of home
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visitation programs being carried on
by academy and college
students, and we ask: What better
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OU'LL have to do most of the
talking this time," Felicia whispered on our first Sabbath of
work in La Selva Beach. Nestled
among the hills along the cliff above
the shore, the little community appeared
warm and inviting. We started up the
walk toward the first house with a feeling of anticipation. After the doorbell
rang, we heard footsteps, and soon a
woman stood smiling at us from the
doorway.
"Good afternoon! I'm Kathy Thompson and this is Felicia Le Vere. We're
students from Monterey Bay Academy.
▪ Do you have a Bible in your home?
Just recently we started a Bible crusade and would like for you to read
two chapters which we feel are very
fascinating. They are Matthew 24 and
Daniel 2. If you'll read these sometime
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during this coming week, we'll return
with a small devotional book for you,"
I concluded, half nervously.
Her smile had faded, and the woman
answered, "I don't believe I'm interested." Good-by was just about all there
was left to say, so we made our way
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toward the second house.
When the afternoon was over we
had succeeded in persuading four people to read their Bibles. The following
Sabbath afternoon we returned to the
four houses where people had agreed to
✓ read the two chapters.
,At the first home we were cordially
invited in and the lady, holding her
small baby, listened as I read Matthew
24. She had found her daughter's Bible
but hadn't had time to read it. Felicia,
with what little help I could give, then
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went through the chapter verse by
verse. Steps to Christ was the devotional book we left. When we returned
the next week to study Daniel 2, the
little girl told us her mother was resting and asked us to come again.
One Spanish couple we visited was
particularly interesting. He was a
Catholic; she was a Mormon. By talking
with these people we learned a few of
the doctrines of these religions. We
talked to the husband about everyday
occurrences, such as the weather, his
family, and his hobby, music. Confidence and interest grew out of this talk
and he stayed and took part in the discussion of Daniel 2. Neither one had a
Bible, but expressed a desire for a
Spanish Bible. The wife had been reading Steps to Christ so we gave them
Planet in Rebellion. This couple was
especially interested in the fact that
there would never be another world
kingdom. He remarked, "I remembered
after World War II that I had read
about the kingdoms before."
Both their minds seemed open and
receptive. They seemed reluctant to
have us leave. At least they really enjoyed our company.
After calling his wife from a nearby
room, the Episcopalian man whom we
visited next asked us not to worry
about the wine bottle present. He commented that his wife was sick, and the
doctor had recommended a little to be
used as medicine. Because she had
been sick, his wife had not read the
chapter. However, we learned that she
was a Lutheran and had attended a
parochial school where the Bible was
studied. From her schooldays she remembered the general content of Matthew 24, so we read it through with her
and her husband to refresh their memories.
During the time he was in the Navy,
this man had had some unusual experiences. He remarked, "When an aircraft
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carrier is being attacked by a sub, a
feeling of confusion grips you. Your
main problem is to make sure all the
men get off safely. I remember our
chaplain in the Navy. He had to be willing to perform all types of rites for
any belief," he stated. "I really appreciated his work."
This man seemed interested in the
school we attended and asked various
questions. As we left we gave his wife
our get-well wishes, and they consented
to our return on the following Sabbath.
Each time before our group of twelve
teen-agers goes out, someone prays, and
we individually offer a silent prayer as
we enter the homes.
This method of spreading the truth
did not originate with us; it has been
tried and proved to work in other small
communities. At a youth leaders' weekend camp at Wawona, Miller Brockett
suggested the plan, which was immediately taken up by Rockne Dahl, the
school council pastor.
Direction and example inspired by
God are given in the Bible and in the
writings of Ellen G. White. Mrs. White
gives the following instruction: "To my
ministering brethren I would say, By
personal labor reach the people where
they are."' "Let those who have been
trained for service now take their places
quickly in the Lord's work. House-tohouse laborers are needed. The Lord
calls for decided efforts to be put forth
in places where the people know nothing of Bible truth."' "There is need of
coming close to the people by personal
effort. If less time were given to sermonizing, and more time were spent in personal ministry, greater results would be
seen. . .. Accompanied by the power of
persuasion, the power of prayer, the
power of the love of God, this work will
not, cannot, be without fruit."''
Christ set the pattern for us in His instruction to the disciples recorded in
Luke 10. On page 72 of the book Evangelism, Mrs. White reminds us that "Jesus bade them [the disciples] go out
two and two through the towns and villages."
Do we really believe Christ is coming
soon ? Are we anxious to go to heaven ?
Would our neighbors be ready to go if
He should come today ? Have we lived a
life of service? These are questions
each one should ask himself. If the answer to any one of them is No, then
there is a job to be done quickly. And
personal contact is easy if you ask
Christ for help.
Workers, p. 188.
ibid., p. 72.
Ibid., p. 363.
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Red Pine
by E. LAURENCE PALMER
T IS sensible to call this tree the red
pine because of the flaky orange-red
bark of the young trees. In spite of
this, it is known far and wide also as
Norway pine, although it is a native
American species. Some say early explorers took it for Norway spruce. Others
offer the explanation that large stands
of the tree were to be found near Norway,
Maine. In this latter case, one wonders
whether it is not as likely that the village
was named after the tree rather than the
tree after the village. It was apparently
introduced to the British Isles in 1756.
The red pine may grow to a height of
150 feet, according to some authorities,
but more conservative students set the
limit at 100 feet with a trunk diameter
of three feet. Unusual trees have been
known to have a trunk diameter of five
feet. Red pine is a beautiful, clean-looking tree at all times of the year. Each
year's growth may be identified by a
false whorl of branches such as may be
found also in the white pine.
The needles of the red pine are in two's,
though sometimes they may appear in
three's in areas attacked by insects.
Normally there are relatively few insect
and fungus pests in trees grown in the
open. The needles are from four to six
inches long, clean, dark green, and flexible. They remain in position on the tree
from three to five years.
The cones that bear the seed and those
that bear the pollen are separate, but
are to be found on the same tree. Two
years are required for the maturing of
the cones, which are erect the first year
and turn downward the second. The cones
bearing seeds are from one and one half
to two and one half inches long and,
when mature, about as wide as they are
long. The seeds are shed from September
through October and weigh about 61,000
to the pound. They are distributed by the
wind and may germinate from 70 to 80
per cent. The seedlings bear six to seven
cotyledons and by the end of the first
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year after germination may be over one
inch high.
The wood of the red pine is light and
hard and about 40 per cent as strong
as white oak. It weighs 30.3 pounds per
cubic foot, is close-grained and pale red.
Red pine is valuable as a timber tree
and as an ornamental. Its timber has
been used for piles, masts, and in general
heavy construction. The bark has been
used in the tanning of leather.
Normally, the red pine ranges from
Nova Scotia through Quebec and south
through Pennsylvania and Minnesota in
northeastern United States. It may grow
in stands at which time the trunks are
tall and straight and things of genuine
beauty as well as of great value to the
forester. Grown separately, the tree
quickly develops stout lateral roots,
which give good wind resistance.—NATIONAL WILDLIFE RELEASE.
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HE LAST time I saw Mrs.
Ethel Gray she was propped up
in her bed by the window. With
her gray head against the pillow
and her eyes closed she looked to me
like a saint. Her peaceful countenance
reminded me of a sleeping, innocent
child. I stood watching her for a long
moment before I spoke, "Hi, Mrs.
Gray."
"Cindy! What a long time." And
her furrowed face beamed as it crinkled
into a warm, wide smile.
As I kissed her she hugged me.
"Where have you been so long? You
have not been to see me since I became blind."
sunshine of her presence I forgot that
she was blind. While we visited I got
a glimpse of her soul. I understood
why the new earth meant so much to
her.
Mrs. Gray had been a woman in her
prime when, about ten years earlier, I
went to live with her. At that time she
was receiving radium treatment at the
She returned home broken in spirit
and discouraged. Her whole world
seemed to collapse. For more than
twenty years she had been a diabetes
victim, taking an insulin injection every
day of her life. Now she had cancer.
There was no hope.
Nor did this black hopelessness affect
Mrs. Gray alone. A gloomy shadow
seemed to settle over the rest of us,
and at times we could almost feel the
cruel touch of the disease. Worship became more meaningful as we met day
after day to plead with God on her
behalf. Often we would just sit and rehearse Bible promises. None of us were
good singers, but we often joined our
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No, I had not been to see her for a
long time and I wondered how she was
measuring up to this new malady. I
asked how she managed now since she
could not see.
"God has been good to me." Her
voice seemed vibrant with joy. "I do not
get around very much, nor do I have
as many visitors now as before; and
sometimes I get very lonely with only
dad and me in the house. But when I
am tired or real lonely I take a trip to
the new earth." She spoke of the new
earth as if she had been there before
and was now just waiting her chance
to return.
We chatted for a while, and in the
government hospital. She was told she
had a growth but that the doctors were
afraid to operate. The radium was to
prevent the growth from spreading.
For a while she lived in blissful ignorance.
The radium treatment did not effect
a cure, and as time passed she became
worse. Doubts began to form. She must
know what was ailing her. One way to
find out was to change doctors.
So she went to the Adventist hospital,
where she was accepted for a series of
tests. As soon as the results of these
tests were known the doctor gently told
her she had cancer. They could not
operate.
voices in praise to God. One line of her
favorite hymn I have never forgotten:
"Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal." This song was like a guiding
star in her life.
Slowly her physical strength was failing. Her suffering was intense, and her
body was wasted until she became little
more than a skeleton.
She must have wished many times
to die. Natural sleep had fled long ago,
and oral sedation had little effect. Many
times the doctor was called in to put
her to sleep.
Although suffering had devastated
her body, through suffering she blossomed into a beautiful Christian. She
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enjoyed a close personal contact with
her Master. Prayer alone kept her alive.
When her pain was hardest to bear she
could be heard singing her loudest.
Some nights when she could not sleep
because of the pain she would ask the
whole household to come to her bedside and pray. Many times as we prayed
I saw her fall asleep as relaxed as a
child.
She suffered patiently without a word
of complaint. Many visitors to her bedside were puzzled at her optimism.
Many left feeling that they had received more from her than they were
able to give. In spite of her sufferings
she could find special blessings for
which to thank God. She was passing
through Gethsemane and she could not
lose sight of the cross.
Sick though she was, she was not
exempt from problems. Her husband,
from whom she had been separated for
a number of years, had returned home
to be with her. He was not a Christian.
Years before, when she became a Seventh-day Adventist, he had promised
her that upon retirement he would
join the church. Now he was indifferent
to spiritual things. Her dream of a
Christian life together had not come
true. She was disappointed.
Daily she would plead with him to
change his life. "Daddy," she would
say, "I do not feel as if I will be with
you much longer," or "Daddy, don't
you want to meet me again ?" Sometimes the only answer she got was a
grunt. He was no more responsive than
a stone.
One day the doctor suggested that
Mrs. Gray go to the hospital for a while.
She spent a month there. She seemed
to be separated from death by only a
thin veil, and asked that she be sent
home.
Within two weeks after her return
from the hospital she went into a long
coma. When she regained consciousness
she was very weak and suffered more
than ever. She rallied slowly, lingered
awhile without change, then went into
another coma. Everyone stood by waiting, expecting her to die. Again she regained consciousness, suffering more
than before.
Mrs. Gray knew that her case was
out of human hands. All that could be
done had been done for her. Her only
hope was a miracle. She asked that
the ministers be sent for to anoint her.
That night, after they had anointed her
and prayed for her, she slept better than
she had for weeks. When she awoke the
next morning her whole countenance
was changed. Instead of the sick, pale,
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deathly look, she was calm and radiant.
Her face glowed with an indefinable
something.
She had had a dream. This is the
dream as I recall her telling it: "In
my dream," she said, "I went to the
new earth. I went as far as the river,
but the water was too deep and I could
not get across. While I stood there trying to think what I should do, I saw
a man on the other side of the river. I
called out to him to show me the way
across. He looked at me very pityingly
but kindly, and said, 'It is not your time
to cross as yet.' His voice was so musical
and he was so beautiful that I just
stood looking at him. As I gazed at
him I recognized him to be Jesus. He
then said to me, 'There is some work
left for you to do.' "
She was doubtless disappointed, but
she was happy. The only unfinished
work she could think of was the conversion of her husband. She felt that
God was permitting her to suffer so
that through her experience he would
be drawn to God. She must work, and
work earnestly.
There is no limit to what God can
do with one whose life is fully surrendered. Mrs. Gray had a living faith
—the type of faith that makes one attempt great things without any doubt
of what the outcome will be. She was
limited, but she would work. If she had
been indiscreet in her past effort, she
would be more subtle now. She did not
"preach" to her husband. Instead, she
would ask him daily to read certain portions of the Scriptures to her, and together they would discuss their meaning.
One day she looked up at him with
sad eyes and said:
"Daddy, do you like to see me
suffer ?"
The suddenness of the question took
him unawares. He paused, then with a
deep breath stammered, "Why no-o,
you know I don't."
With great emotion she said to him,
"God will never relieve me of my
suffering as long as you remain stubborn. He wants to do something for
me, but you will not let Him."
This was too much. He left the room
to struggle with self. And that was the
beginning of a changed life.
Satan never gives up a victim without a struggle. When he saw that he
was losing his claim on Mr. Gray he
turned his forces against Mrs. Gray. If
he could deceive her Mrs. Gray would
be his.
So, a woman who had been a cancer
victim and who was now well came
to Mrs. Gray and offered a cure to her.
This cure involved dealing with prohibited materials. Mrs. Gray could not
accept, although it was not without a
struggle, for she believed that the
woman had been cured.
She proceeded to tell the woman why
she could not accept. She told her of the
dream. She believed that God was
going to do something great for her.
She could not distrust Him now.
Frustrated, the woman left, calling Mrs.
Gray a fool as she went through the
door.
I was not there when Mr. Gray was
baptized. But when I next came to visit
I saw his wife sitting in a wheel chair
on the porch. Although I had heard
that she was healed, I was not prepared
to see her physical change. My jaw
must have dropped wide open with
surprise.
She looked up at me, smiling. And
as if reading my thoughts, she said, "It
is true. I am healed."
"Tell me all about it," I said eagerly.
And this is the story as I remember it.
One night after she had gone to bed
a man came and stood by her bed.
She does not know for sure whether
she was awake or dreaming. This man
began to talk with her, and as he talked,
anointed her.
When she awoke the next morning
the pain was gone. She felt well all
over. She called her family together
and told them that she was healed.
She also had the doctor called in. The
doctor was amazed at what he saw.
He could not give an explanation.
"This is a miracle," he said, "but you
no longer have a cancer."
She has had some setbacks, for she
fell and broke some bones while getting
out of bed one morning. But that difficulty she surmounted. Then one day
she became blind.
She lives in complete physical darkness now, but her inward eyes are
keener than ever. She believes that God
has closed her eyes to shut out the
ugliness of sin. In her mind she sees
only beautiful things. There is music
all around her—children's voices at
play, birds singing, the ebb and flow of
the sea at the nearby beach.
The upward climb has been a rough
one, but ten years of suffering have left
her like a gem polished for the kingdom of God. She has been broken in
body but not in spirit. Handicapped by
the confines of her little, darkened
world, she has been an inspiration to
those whose lives she touches. Today
she stands as a living monument, witnessing to the limitless power of God.
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p
▪
Key to source abbreviations published January 2, 1962.
► The Greek Eratosthenes (276-194
B.c.) made the first reliable measurement of the earth's circumference. His
figure in stadia, which have no modern
equivalent, is reckoned by some authorities to be the remarkably accurate
NGS
equivalent of 24,500 miles.
► The population of Ireland has long
been declining, and in Austria, Belgium, Sweden, and the United Kingdom population has been growing more
slowly than in Western Europe as a
whole. The Netherlands, Finland, Iceland, Portugal, Spain, and Greece have
a higher rate of population growth than
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the European average.
▪ The National Park Service proposes
to create a National Recreation Area
in northwest Maine. The area would
cover 300,000 acres in the Allagash
River region. The only roads are lumber trails; and the area is dotted with
lakes, which make canoes absolute necessities for traveling there. One to four
weeks (depending on the number of
side trips) would be required to journey along 100 miles of river and lakes.
This proposed recreation area would
give the camper the same close contact
with nature that Henry Thoreau experienced when he explored the AllaNGS
gash in 1846.
o' Risking their lives in an assault on
the rugged rockface of the Basutoland
mountains in South Africa, four Natal
men recently obtained the first pictures
of the almost-extinct bearded vulture or
lammergeyer. They photographed it
high on the face of a 600-foot precipice.
Only about 40 lammergeyers are believed to be still surviving in Southern
Africa. The full-grown bird has a wing
span of nine to ten feet. Its head is white
with a black band; its throat and breast,
orange; and the wings, glossy gray-black
streaked with white. Conspicuous bright
red eyes give it an air of ferocity. A tuft
of bristly feathers projects beardlike
ISSA
from under the beak.
• According to American Diabetes Association there are about 1.25 million
Americans who have diabetes and don't
know it. Another 1.5 million diabetics
have been diagnosed and are under
medical care. The most likely targets
for this disease are persons related to
diabetics. Other likely candidates are
persons who are overweight or past
forty years of age. Women past forty
are more likely to contract diabetes
than men. The disease can be controlled
by diet, exercise, and, when necessary,
insulin. Neglect can lead to heart disease, failing eyesight, hardening of the
arteries, kidney disorders, gangrene,
cerebral hemorrhage, or diabetic coma.
AMA
• Several years of intensive research has
resulted in the discovery and implementation of methods for control of the
sea lamprey, which has ruined the trout
fisheries of Lakes Huron and Michigan,
and nearly ruined those of Lake Superior. A chemical that can kill sea
lamprey larvae without damage to desirable fish is one of these methods. In
addition to this larvacide, electrical
"fences" are used to kill the adult lamprey on their spawning runs or to guide
them into traps from which they are
netted and destroyed. The Great Lakes
invasion by the sea lamprey was first
noticed in Lake Michigan in 1937. usni
► Pikes Peak in the Colorado mountains was first conquered in 1820 by Dr.
Edwin James, naturalist and physician.
Another famed Western explorer, John
C. Fremont, cut the first trail to the
mountaintop in 1843. But the most dashing pioneer was an ardent feminist, a
20-year-old bride, Julia Archibald
Holmes, who in 1858 made her triumphant climb, wearing the suffragettes'
reform dress of billowing bloomers. Nns
▪ The Amidon Elementary School in
Washington, D.C., which opened in
September, 1960, is dedicated to the
principle that basic formal education is
essential to a child's intellectual growth.
Formal reading and the principles of
geometry are taught in kindergarten.
The school's 353 pupils are drawn from
the southwest redevelopment area of
the city and from many public and priNAM
vate schools.
▪ Seattle, Washington, site of the 1962
World's Fair, is the largest city of its
age in the world. Founded in 1851,
it has grown to a population of nearly
600,000. The city curves around Elliott
Bay, and ships leave its piers for the
125-mile trip through the Strait of Juan
ANRC
de Fuca into the Pacific Ocean.
▪ Since 1930 the average size of farms
in the United States has increased from
UCAL
157 to 242 acres.
• Thomas Jefferson, third President of
the United States and the author of the
Declaration of Independence, began
AMC
most days by playing the violin.
Some 3,500 years before penicillin
was derived from molds, the old Egyptians, as indicated in a 1550 B.C. papyrus,
recommended that moldy bread be apScience
plied to skin bruises.
Pi.
p" In the Moslem country of Iran, time
is reckoned from the Hegira, the flight
of Mohammed to Medina in the year
622. Iranians welcome the new year
with No-Ruz, a springtime celebration.
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► Perhaps the best known of the great
diamonds is the Regent diamond,
which originally was purchased by the
British governor in Madras for L20,000
and sold to the regent of France for
£135,000. It disappeared for a time
during the French Revolution. Finally
Napoleon had it mounted on the hilt
of his sword. It is now in the Louvre.
Smithsonian
• A 1961 year-end nationwide reading
survey reveals that adult book circulation increased 29 per cent in the past five
years in the libraries studied. Emphasis
has shifted away from westerns and
mysteries toward art, music, and political affairs, with much greater interest
in science and technology. Circulation
growth is far greater in nonfiction than
ALA
in fiction.
► The octopus can drill directly
through the shell of an abalone and inject a venom that causes the victim to
lose its grip on a rock or aquarium wall.
The venom makes a bivalve relax the
powerful muscles that hold it closed,
and it then becomes an easy prey for the
octopus. It takes three or four hours for
the octopus to drill through the shell of
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a young abalone.
o' With some 70,000 Americans in the
air during any rush hour in the nation's
flying day, directing air traffic has become a major job. A five-year program
to increase the control and safety of
commercial planes has been begun by
the Federal Aviation Agency. Playing
a major part in this effort will be the
FAA'S new Aeronautical Center at
Oklahoma City. The huge center,
which is called the World University
of the Air, trains 10,000 men a year,
from 50 States and about 40 foreign
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countries.
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The challenge of the Tehachapi Mountains
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had intrigued Andrew Hanson and Gary Schwandt
for a long time. Now their eightday pack trip held the promise of an
unforgettable experience that could truly
alter a pattern of living.
eloachaps
by ANDREW P. HANSON
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AD PULLED the car off the road and turned
off the ignition. By the time he had climbed out of
the front seat, the trunk was open and our two packs
were leaning against the back bumper.
Dad laughed. "Why are you two in such a hurry?
You have a whole eight days to make the trip." Then
dad, Gary Schwandt, my best friend, and I knelt in the
road while my father prayed. He said something about
seeing God's plan in nature. I think I know what dad
was talking about now, but then I wasn't quite sure.
It's hard to know how to say good-by to one's
father, and I felt a little awkward when I shook dad's
hand. We climbed a little rise and waved our last
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good-by in the direction of the little blue Ford. The
sun was warm and the birds were auditioning for
spring. The sky was so blue we almost wanted to
touch it to see if it were painted. The only thing that
kept us from really enjoying the balmy spring morning was our packs. They weighed close to seventy
pounds. We pulled our hats down to keep the sun
out of our eyes and just kept plodding along. But
with our hats pulled down that way, we didn't see
another trail that forked off to the left.
"I don't remember seeing this cabin when I came
in a year ago." Gary was puzzled. "Hey, where does
the trail go from here? It looks as if it just quits in
the clearing!" It was true. The trail ended at the cabin
door, and only then did we realize that we had missed
the right trail somewhere. It began to look as if we
had packed four hours for nothing. We were discouraged. I rubbed the raw place on my back and was
feeling sorry for myself when I saw Gary pull out his
lunch. Then I remembered that I had an egg sandwich
stuck in my pack some place. You'd be surprised how
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Author Hanson stops atop the pass
between Sespi River and Alder Creek.
The seventy-pound packs were much
lighter on the return trip—but so were
two boys. Gary rests against a marker.
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much courage there is in an ordinary egg sandwich.
After lunch we backtracked and in two hours found
the right trail. It seemed almost impossible that we had
missed it.
"That's what happens to people who fall in love
with their own feet!" Gary kicked a rock in disgust.
The "right" trail joined an old jeep road that crossed
and recrossed Piru Creek as it washed down between
the boulders of its cattail canyon. At four o'clock we
came to the last crossing. The wind was blowing cold
and we were stiff and shaky. We wanted to make
Hot Springs that night, but we still had eight miles
to go.
"Maybe we should camp here ?"
The thought had never crossed my mind and I
looked at Gary blankly. "Why not ?" We dropped our
packs on the sand along the creek.
"Well, well," Gary spoke softly, "the first camp of
the Hanson-Schwandt expedition into the mysterious
Tehachapi Mountains of central California."
After supper and dishes we lay in our bags and
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watched the fire burn low. I was really
tired but I couldn't get to sleep right
away. I kept remembering how long
Gary and I had planned for this trip.
And now we were on it at last. Eight
whole days to forget about school and
smog.
At seven the next morning I woke
up and poked my head out of my sleeping bag. It was cold. The poncho over
my bag was covered by a sheet of ice,
and my boots were frozen solid. Even
my heavy wool socks were iced over. I
was a little worried about my boots, so
I set them in a patch of sunlight to
thaw out.
My boots were all right by the time
we finished eating breakfast, and I was
pulling them on while Gary washed
his dishes. Then Gary yelled, and I ran
to the creek's edge.
"Have you ever seen such big cat
tracks ?" Those tracks were two and a
half inches wide and we followed them
back toward camp. They circled our
sleeping bags twice. The lion had come
so close to both of us that we could have
touched him without getting out of our
bags. They say a cat won't bother you
unless you give him a good reason, but
it gave me a squeamish feeling, looking
at those tracks in the sand.
It was ten o'clock before we thawed
out enough to pack and cross the Piru.
Instead of the warm sun of the day before, the dark clouds had begun to pile
up, and we could smell rain. The trail
led us over a low bluff and into a grove
of ponderosa pine. We had to climb
over a cattle fence, and the trail beyond
wound through a forest of young pines
for half a mile.
Then the forest thinned and before us
was Mutah Flats, two miles wide, with
no trail across its knee-high grass. As
we crawled through the barbed wire
fence that bordered it, I wondered how
long it would be before the rain would
begin. The sky was a greenish gray and
a light mist was falling. The sun shone
darkly through banks of clouds. The
grass was wet, and it wasn't very long
until our pants were soaked to the
knees.
Halfway across we rested, and Gary
looked around in amazement. "Say,
that's pretty!" I had been so deep in
thought about what would be the best
thing to do in case of rain that I hadn't
noticed much except the mud and the
wet grass. But you know, we were in
the middle of a silver lake. The sky cast
a weird reflection on the high, wet
grass, and if you turned your back to
the sun, it looked as if you were kneedeep in a sterling sea. The beauty of the
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BELIEVE IT OR NOT
but according to a recent survey by the National Highway
Users' Conference, one State
after another is cracking
down on the drinking driver.
The "get tough" laws enacted recently in 27 States
indicate the call for a general
increase in fines as well as
jail sentences. The laws call
for jail sentences ranging
from ten days to a year's imprisonment and/or a fine of
$100 to $1,000, on the first
conviction; mandatory imprisonment of 90 days to a
year and a fine of not more
than $1,000 for the second offence.
W. A. SCHARFFENBERG
grass made me forget my tired back.
The light drizzle had stopped by the
time we reached the tree-covered ridge
that bordered the Flats on the east.
After a short search we found our trail
again, and stopped for a dinner of dried
apricots, peanuts, and dates. Then it
started to drizzle. We didn't want to get
caught in a rainstorm if we could help
it, so we hurried on.
The trail wound up the side of the
ridge and through a saddle to the beginning of the Johnson Ridge Trail. At
the top of the pass the wind howled and
stung our faces with the tiny drops of
mist. From Johnson's Pass to Hot
Springs is five and a half miles. The
trail to the valley floor is steep, and the
back of my thighs knotted and my
arms got numb. I thought that I
couldn't take another step, but I took
one more and then another and another.
I was too tired to think about rest because I knew that if I sat down I would
never be able to get on my feet again.
Then the trail hit the valley floor. A
sign read, "Sespi Hot Springs Camp."
Gary and I half fell down in the trail.
It was twenty minutes before we got
up again.
On the last of our three days at Hot
Springs, the sky was bluer than a jay.
The sun was warm and a hint of breeze
brushed the leaves into music. The
camp had been wonderful—three days
of clear-blue skies, warm bathing water,
and just relaxing.
One morning we had climbed a high
trail, and on the top of a hogback we
watched a herd of more than seventy
deer graze on a grassy plateau across
the canyon. Just that morning Gary and
I had been exploring the Sespi River
Canyon, and as we climbed high on a
pinnacle of rock, I looked down into
the blue-green depths of a landlocked
pool and watched a huge trout swim
lazily.
There were only two shadows that
marred my contentment. First, we were
breaking camp in an hour. Second,
we were almost out of food and there
were two and a half days of the trip
left. We ate the last of our beans and
cleaned the camp. We packed up,
trying not to notice how little food we
had left, and shouldering our lightened
packs, said good-by to the camp and the
hot water.
The trail followed Hot Springs Creek
until it joined the Sespi River. In the
canyon we turned southeast and followed the river for about two miles,
until a battered sign pointed us toward
a narrow trail that left the canyon floor
and climbed steeply up the side of a
ravine.
Forty minutes later Gary and I were
out of the canyon. Our destination was
Alder Creek Camp. It marked the halfway point between Hot Springs and
Cow Springs, where we were to meet
my father on Monday morning. We
planned to spend Sabbath at Alder
Creek and hike out Sunday afternoon.
To get to Alder Creek Camp we had to
drop down into the next canyon and
hike upstream two or three miles.
We were famished when we pulled
into camp about four o'clock. We decided to eat our last package of rice
that night. We saved two packets of
dried milk for Sabbath and Sunday
mornings. We had a packet of soup for
Sabbath supper. Before we began to
hike out Sunday afternoon we would
share the last packet of soup. I hoped
that dad would come early Monday
morning and bring plenty of food with
him.
When we arrived at Cow Springs
Sunday night, the camp looked shabby
in the moonlight. It was just a picnic
table in the middle of the sagebrush
that covered the high plateau. The dirt
road to Fillmore, the nearest town, was
fifteen miles long and full of chuckholes and gullies. Gary groaned and
twisted in his sack. It was freezing cold
and the ground was rocky. But worst
of all, I was hungry. Sleep was impossible, so I pulled the bag up around
my shoulders and sat up with my knees
under my chin. I thought about what
had happened to us since Friday night.
Sabbath morning we had had only
a little dry cereal left and we had that
for breakfast. Then we just sat around
and talked. It was really a beautiful
camp. The canyon was narrow and its
high red cliffs were frilled with alders
and scrub oak. The creek made a soft
kind of music, and birds were everywhere.
Supper on Saturday night had been
just an inch of green pea soup. Sleep
was filled with dreams of food. Ten
o'clock Sunday morning we had another inch of soup. That was it. We
didn't have a crumb left and we had
six hard miles ahead of us. Those six
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miles were a nightmare.
Cold, hungry, and miserable, Sunday
night at Cow Springs I remembered
dad's prayer about seeing God's plan
in nature, and I tried hard to see something good that might come from the
0 trip. Could this pack trip show me anything about God's plan? I reviewed the
first day when we had become lost because we had looked only at our feet
instead of being careful to watch for
the trail once in a while.
I thought about the lion that had
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prowled around our camp by the Piru.
I thought about the silver lake of grass
on Mutah Flats and how we had to
turn around to see it. I thought about
the five and a half miles from Johnson's
Pass to Hot Springs, and how my legs
had turned to rubber.
I thought about the three days we had
spent resting up and eating too much
of the precious food that we needed
later. I thought about the steep, twisting
trail, and the encouragement we had
had to give each other in order to make
the final climb. Was this miserable Cow
Springs, this barren waste, this forsaken patch of nothingness, the final
end of our trip?
No, of course not! Dad was coming
in the morning to take us home.
My father wouldn't let me down.
I could wait.
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March 11
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March 25
To Be or Not to Be?
GOOD WIFE: GOOD MORALE
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when we visited a former student and
his wife, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Moores,
who are engaged in self-supporting
medical missionary work in Newfoundland. The family lived in a two-story
frame house at Cupid's Crossing, an
out-of-the-way spot situated between
two small towns. The first floor of
their home was used for waiting room,
office, and treatment rooms. The living
quarters were upstairs.
The Mooreses told us of an experience
of the previous winter. It was late
afternoon and a new snowstorm had
just begun. The doctor had several
house calls to make. One of these required him to drive down a steep hill
and through a long, narrow driveway.
By the time he completed the house
call it was dark and the snow was deep.
At first attempt, he failed to get up the
hill. So he asked a neighboring farmer
for help. With the aid of a tractor and
chain, and after the passing of an hour
or so, he was back on the level road
and able to complete his calls for that
evening.
Mrs. Moores hardly expected that her
husband would be able to get back
home that night. On many previous
stormy nights he had waited until the
next day to break through the snowdrifts and so had stayed in some patient's home. But on this particular
night, even though the snow had
drifted above the first-floor windows of
their home, he did succeed in getting
home.
During the night one of their little
boys became ill. The parents awakened
and were trying to make the little fellow comfortable. Dr. Moores went
downstairs to get an instrument to examine his little boy's ear. Just at the
moment he happened to be downstairs,
a fire broke out beneath the huge oil
heater that was burning lustily in one
of the first-floor rooms. It was this
heater that provided the warmth for
the entire house, and because of the
low temperature that night it was
running to capacity. Some fuel oil had
dripped onto the floor beneath the
heater and at this particular moment,
while Dr. Moores was passing through
the room, the oil caught fire.
"It was easy to put out," Dr. Moores
recalled. "Inasmuch as I was there when
the flame started, all it took was a dash
of water from a drinking glass that
happened to be nearby."
"But what if your husband had not
been home on this night ?" I asked as
I turned to Mrs. Moores.
"Naturally, I thought of that too,"
she said as she thought back on the
evening when they might have lost
their home in flames. "Oh, well, the
snow was almost up to the upstairs windows and if the house had caught on
fire I would simply have thrown the
boys out the window into the snow
and then I would have jumped out
after them."
Here was a wife who was sharing
completely her husband's sense of mission as they cheerfully endured the
rigors of a severe winter in a community which needed their help.
The Mooreses did not have to locate
in Newfoundland. They could have
chosen some milder climate. It had not
been Mrs. Moores's idea in the first place
that they should go to Newfoundland.
But good wife that she was, she cooperated cheerfully in the enterprise by
which her husband uses his medical
training to bring physical and spiritual
healing to people living in an isolated
area.
And once having pledged her cooperation, she had been consistently cheerful
and wholehearted in standing by her
husband's side through circumstances
both favorable and unfavorable. It was
such plucky remarks as, "I would
simply have thrown the boys out the
window," that gave her husband the
continued courage to carry on his work
in spite of hardships.
The wise man recognized the value
of such a wife when he said, "A prudent wife is from the Lord." He further recognized that great tribute is due
the wives who stand loyally by their
husbands and contribute their full share
to the family's success and welfare. In
Moffatt's translation of Proverbs 31:30
and 31, we read, "Charms may wane
and beauty wither, keep your praise for
a wife with brains; give her due credit
for her deeds, praise her in public for
her services."
HAROLD SHRYOCK, M.D.
Prov. 18:22 (Berkeley).
Prov. 19:14.
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GOD
gave the
ORDER
by JERIEL HOWARD
AMMY LANE looked down at
the big M-1 rifle he was holding. It looked peculiar in his
hands. It felt peculiar. Never
before had those hands—hands which
had known nothing but hard work on
an Alabama farm—held anything like
this. It frightened him.
His company was almost to the rifle
range now. The hot, sun-baked earth
seemed to echo the feet of the marching
men, to echo the sharp commands of
the sergeant. Just thinking of the sergeant sent a chill through Sammy. He
had never before met such a man.
Sammy fully believed that the man
could speak above the roar of a cannon.
And under the gaze of those steely eyes
everything in him seemed to melt and
freeze at once.
They were at the rifle range now.
Sammy took it all in with one sweeping
glance—the sandbags lined up along the
firing line, the empty cartridges lying
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on the ground, the targets moving
slowly in the distance. The men began
to load their rifles.
Sammy froze with fear. His fingers
wouldn't move the heavy bolt. "Why,
oh why, did I take this rifle? I wasn't
going to march with one. Now I'm in
trouble. I'll have to tell Sarge that I
simply can't shoot this rifle. But how?
How can I do it?"
"Lane!" The command barked by
the sergeant broke into his thinking.
Now he was to approach the firing line
and learn to fire that gun, learn how to
shoot, how to kill a man. But he
couldn't.
"Sir," he began timorously, "I—I
can't shoot this rifle. You see, I'm
a—"
"Soldier!" Again the barked command, but this time the sharp eyes
seemed to cut right through his own
blurred vision. "Soldier, proceed to the
firing line!"
The men of the company were always
alert for something unusual, always
eager to feed upon someone else's ill
fortune. They began to gather, slowly
at first. The word spread rapidly. Soldier nudged soldier. Soon they were all
turning and looking at Sammy. It was
certainly an unusual day in camp when
a recruit dared to argue with Sarge!
"Bu—but sir, you must not understand." Sammy fought back the tears
he could feel coming, tried to swallow
the lump in his throat. "You see," he
continued, "I'm a conscientious objector. It's against my religion to take a
human life. Training with this gun is
training to kill. I don't want to cause
trouble. I will be glad to help in any
other way I can, but I just cannot train •
with this gun."
"Lane!" The voice was even harsher
now as it snapped out the sharp words.
The eyes seemed to narrow into tiny
little slits. "You took that rifle when
it was issued to you. You marched with
this company to the rifle range. You
have been ordered to fire on that target.
I gave the order; I will give it just one
more time. Fire!"
"I'm sorry, sir. I can't!" Sammy stood
erect now. Something in him suddenly
had come alive to stiffen him with
added courage.
"You refuse to obey a direct order ?"
"Yes, sir."
"All right. The report of your actions
will be radioed back to camp. You are
to hike back to camp now. You will
await further instructions."
During the return hike, Sammy
had plenty of time to try to think the
situation through. But thinking does
not come easily when one is under mental duress. He felt like a condemned
man walking the last mile. Alone.
Even the sun had slipped behind a
cloud and a faint shadow preceded him
along the trail.
His eyes blurred, his head throbbed.
The hot ground, which had previously
echoed the sound of marching feet,
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now seemed to repeat the thoughts of
his clouded mind. "Conscientious objector." "Fire!" "Thou shalt not kill."
"Fire!" He looked up into the sky.
The ominous clouds seemed to emphasize his feeling of despair. He began
to pray.
Sammy's mind seemed to clear then,
and he could think more clearly. Again
he started to review the situation that
had led up to the incident. He had become a Seventh-day Adventist too soon
before his induction to allow time to get
his draft status changed. He had been
inducted under class 1-A and not under
the conscientious objector classification
of 1-A-0. Had he been able to get this
changed, there would have been no
problems. Adventist soldiers are recognized, in the American Army, for
their willingness to serve within the
bounds of their beliefs, and they experience little or no hardship in obtaining these privileges.
Sammy had thought that he had the
problem all figured out. He just
wouldn't take the rifle when it was
issued. But everything had happened
so quickly. The supply sergeant had
thrust a rifle at him. He had taken it.
Now, as he came nearer and nearer to
the camp he began to recognize the
seriousness of his trouble.
The news about this young soldier
who had dared to disobey a direct order
had preceded him. He was promptly
called before the commanding officer.
He felt awed by the large office—by the
better-than-usual furniture, the feeling
of near-elegance. The impressiveness of
the general seated behind his desk with
shiny stars on each shoulder gave
Sammy a feeling of fear mingled with
respect. Surely this man would hear
and understand.
But as he began his explanation he
saw that General Hackman was an unsympathetic listener. Sammy tried to
explain that he had been drafted too
quickly after becoming an Adventist
to obtain his correct status, that now he
believed it was wrong to bear arms and
to take lives, that he had no intention
of directly disobeying the sergeant.
General Hackman appeared unmoved. To him it was inconceivable
that a soldier would refuse a direct
order. He stood.
"Lane, you have refused a direct
order. In the Army that is a serious
offense. You will be court-martialed.
I'm ordering you bound to your quarters until further notice. That is all."
Once outside, the recruit looked and
felt like a lost, defeated boy. He had no
friends here, and there seemed no way
to get help.
The next few hours seemed like years.
Sammy walked around the barracks.
He prayed. He lay on his rough army
cot, tossing and turning. Sleep would
not come.
Suddenly he felt a firm hand on his
shoulder. He turned abruptly and
looked into the face of a master sergeant.
indifference
by IRMA B. LIDNER
Satan's device—
to numb in ice
potential of saint or hero,
clogging at absolute zero
service one might have chosen,
talents useless, deep frozen. *
• See Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 644.
"Hello, Sammy," the sergeant said
as he seated himself on the bunk. His
voice sounded friendly. "I'm Sergeant
Bill Brandt. The commanding officer
asked me to come and talk with you.
You see, I'm an Adventist too, and
because of my rank I seem to be a sort
of unofficial supervisor of all the Adventist men here."
"You mean you're an Adventist!"
Sammy spoke the words half hoping,
half daring to believe. The friendliness
he had sensed was now changing to
something like brotherhood.
"Yes, I'm an Adventist, and I want
to do all I can to help you, son." Sergeant Brandt then began in a brotherly
way to discuss the problems of the bewildered young recruit. They knelt and
used their only weapon—prayer.
Before leaving, Sergeant Brandt told
Sammy that he would do all he could
for him. He would get in touch with
Elder Guy Williamson, who was then
war service secretary of the Kansas
Conference. Perhaps Elder Williamson
would have some solution or be able
to aid in some way.
That night, lying sleepless on his
bunk, Sammy imagined all kinds of
fates, some good, some bad. Finally exhaustion overcame him.
"Sammy! Sammy!" Someone was
calling his name. Through tired, aching eyes Sammy looked for the first
time into the kind face of Elder Williamson. Quickly he sat up and began
telling Elder Williamson the details.
Together they knelt and prayed.
The court-martial order stood. Elder
Williamson tried every possible tactic
to persuade General Hackman to cancel it. All efforts failed.
"Lane shouldn't have taken the rifle
in the first place." The general's face
grew red as he spoke. "No, I'm going
to make an example out of that man. I
want every soldier here to know the results of violating a direct order. I'll
throw the book at him. He'll get thirty
years for this!"
There was nothing more that Elder
Williamson could do. He returned to
the barracks and broke the news to
Sammy. Both men stood silent for a
long time; then Elder Williamson put
his hand on Sammy's shoulder and
again they knelt and prayed.
Other Adventist soldiers were on the
base. They had been having their prayer
meetings once a week. Now they met
every night. Never before had their
prayers possessed such urgency. Never
before had they felt their unity and
brotherhood so strongly. Trial teaches
a new appreciation of prayer. Each
night Sergeant Brandt personally came
and signed Sammy out of his barracks.
Together they walked to the chapel.
Every night, and throughout the day,
wives and mothers of Adventist soldiers
prayed; ministers prayed; church members prayed. The story of Sammy had
spread rapidly beyond the base. Everywhere people sympathized. Everywhere
people prayed.
Soon it was Thursday night and the
trial was to be held on the following
Monday morning. That Thursday
night the soldiers prayed with a special
sense of urgency. There must be a way
for Sammy to be cleared!
A feeling of tenseness seemed to pervade the base Friday morning. General Hackman had received a letter
ordering him to be off the base within
eight hours, flying on sealed orders. No
one knew why this particular general
was so suddenly called away. But he
hurriedly packed his things and boarded
the plane that would carry him to an
unknown destination.
Too soon it was Monday morning.
The barracks seemed unbearably hot.
For perhaps the tenth time that morning Sammy walked to the window,
strained his eyes toward the road. But
it was no use. There was no one corn17
ing, no sound. Only the regular ticking of an alarm clock broke the silence.
He stood there for a long time, rolling
a handkerchief between his hands. His
thin, narrow face looked pale in the
early morning light.
Tired of standing, he sat on the edge
of his bunk. The tears began to flow.
He looked more like a young, frightened boy—a boy facing a problem many
times his size—than a soldier. He
sobbed hard.
Crying helps to relieve tensions but
it does not bring solutions to problems.
Sammy got up and walked to the window. He prayed, "Dear God, please
help him to get here. Please help.
Please!" The tears were coming again.
Trying to regain self-control, he turned
and began to remake his bunk. This
was the fourth time he had remade his
bunk that morning.
When the bunk was made to his satisfaction, he knelt beside it and began
to pray. He prayed that Elder Williamson would hurry. He prayed that the
new commanding officer would understand, would at least listen to him.
Sammy doesn't remember how long he
stayed there or how long he prayed.
It was there, on his knees beside a neatly
made bunk, that Elder Williamson
found him.
On the way to the main building they
talked about General Hackman's leaving so abruptly. Neither knew Brigadier General Lowe, who was next in
charge. Questions flooded their minds
as they neared the office. As they walked
into the office, Brigadier General Lowe
was standing behind his desk. He
greeted the two men warmly.
"Pastor Williamson, I don't know
why, but there's something peculiar behind General Hackman's leaving. There
was no reason for it.* It just seemed
for some reason that he wasn't supposed
to be at this base. I almost feel as
though there is something providential
about this whole thing. He was the one
who brought the charge against this
soldier. I am not going to try him.
"Lane," he spoke warmly to the
soldier, "I have begun processing a
transfer for you to a medical unit. I
have no charges to present against you."
Sammy and Elder Williamson fairly
floated out of the building. The whole
world seemed more beautiful—the sky
was blue, the Stars and Stripes rippled
gently at the top of the flagpole. Elder
Williamson grasped the soldier's hand.
Their eyes, moist with tears, met. There
was nothing to be said. God had spoken.
• Later information indicated that there was nothing
for General Hackman to do at his destination.
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OLYMPICS OF 19—?
From page 6
In order to have the privilege of entering the races they had to meet certain standards. What was required?
Three things, only. First, the candidate
had to be Greek, a native son, through
and through. No barbarian was ever
allowed to enter. Second, he had to be
a free man. Not even a Greek slave
could take part. Third, he had to have
nobility of character. No liar or thief
ever took part in the games.
A son, free, noble. Don't these three
requirements suggest another race?
God may call upon you to take part in
the Olympics of all time, in the very
near future! But you'll never gain the
crown, you won't even be in the race,
if you don't meet God's requirements.
First of all, you must be a child of
God, a son or daughter of His. Second,
you must also be free—from sin, from
evil desires, from habits that destroy
both body and soul. Third, you must
have real nobility of character and integrity of purpose, as well as physical
excellence. God is looking for young
people who are willing and determined
to make sacrifices in order to be champions in His cause.
Robert Bruce Thurber, in his book
Without Doubt, tells the story of one
Greek youth who aspired to fame as
an endurance runner. He had opportunity to attend a meet at Corinth and
to watch the feats of the greatest athletes of that time. And he returned
home determined to place himself
among them after the next four-year
Olympiad had passed. He was a Greek;
he was free; and he had nobility of
character. Relentlessly he trained, spar-
ing no sacrifice, that he might also be
crowned with the honor of all Hellas.
The crucial day came, and he began
with the other competitors over the
winding and stony roads of that part
of Greece. After an hour this youth
and an older contestant were in the I
lead. The older man taunted the youth
for his youth and intrepidity, and then
forced himself into the lead. They
neared the walls of the city, which
would mark the end of the race, but
the older man was still in the lead. He
turned to mock, but with this act he
stumbled and fell on his face, bleeding
and unconscious.
Without hesitation, the youth of our
story ran to him and knelt over him,
giving him what aid he could and encouraging him to continue. At that
moment a third man passed them and
won the race.
But the people had seen the selflessness of the youth. They saw in his
face the character of a conqueror. When
he returned to his home city, his friends
breached the wall, as was customarily
done for victors, and sang his praises
in the streets. He was more than conqueror.,
On my desk I have the statue of an
Olympian youth, the "Discus Thrower."
Perfection and nobility are evident.
Who knows what city wall was
breached for him? His head had been
crowned with the wild olive garland of
victory. Are you ready for the greatest
Olympics of all time ? Remember that
the victor will be crowned with life
eternal, and he will enter within the
walls of the New Jerusalem.
Two men stand at the entrance of the stadium at Olympia, birthplace of Olympic games.
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by RUTH MILLARD
W
HAT is worth a fortune,
readily available to those
who seek it, and a commodity without which
man suffers lifelong discomfort?
A wealth of words is a classic answer
to this riddle—an answer that is even
truer today when every family is confronted with an explosion of language
unprecedented in history. Myriads of
new words and new meanings have
Webster's Third New International Dictionary is the
first unabridged planned for family use and enjoyment.
forced their way into everyday life just
in the past decade, words ranging from
aeronaut, fallout, cake make-up, and
computers, to solar heating, wage dividends, and zen. While enriching the
language, this avalanche of words has
added confusion to communications
in almost every walk of life.
Yet the key to understanding words
and using them effectively is as near as
a good modern dictionary.
"In today's complex society the man in
the street is expected to understand a
wide range of scientific and technical
terminology used in newspapers and
magazines and on radio and television,"
says Dr. Philip B. Gove, editor in chief
of Merriam-Webster dictionaries. "Income tax guides, sales agreements, and
insurance policies make fresh demands
on his verbal knowledge... .
"Precise use of words is a prime asset,
whether you report to a teacher, apply
for a job, try to make a sale, run for
public office, or propose marriage," Dr.
Gove notes. "The Human Engineering
Laboratory of Stevens University sums
the statement, 'Knowledge of the accurate meaning of English words has
more to do with success in business and
professional life than any other single
factor.' Home life, too, is affected by
use of words. Family relations counselors cite faulty communications as a
prevalent cause of discord between husbands and wives, as well as between
parents and children."
Getting the dictionary habit as a part
of family recreation is an ideal aid to
the effective use of words. Here Dr.
Gove suggests a few simple guide rules
to help you and your family learn to
enjoy adventuring with words—an important step toward enriching your vocabulary and improving your ability to
communicate effectively.
Look on the dictionary as a good companion, not as an austere word doctor
to be consulted only in emergency, advises Dr. Gove.
Make word watching a regular part
of family recreation. The new MerriamWebster, the first unabridged dictionary
up the value of a good vocabulary with
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planned to be read and enjoyed, makes
it easier than ever before to understand
the meanings of words at a glance.
Word usage is illustrated by 200,000
quotations taken predominantly from
contemporary publications and the
speech of well-known people.
For example, in the new MerriamWebster, Sir Winston Churchill gives
vividness to the meaning of confront,
in the sense of "meet," with "Confront
toil and danger." Ted Williams points
up the significance of percentage in the
baseball sense with "More use is made
players will be able to give all of the
current meanings of these words, not
at least without studying up on the subject.
Typical of the complexity of today's
English is the fact that shake has 42
different senses; run has more than 80
defined in the new Merriam-Webster
unabridged.
Consider go as a starter. A blue tie
will "go with your suit." Go is used
with the infinitive in the sense of
"intending" or "expecting," Webster's
Third New International states. For
example, "going to be a doctor." Go
sometimes means "to participate," as in
the sense of "going halves." Go has special political meanings. "The size of the
democratic margin in those big cities
determines whether the- States go democratic" is the example given by Merriam
for this use. Go is a synonym for "succeed" too. "He wants to make the business go," for example. The lively contemporary examples that emphasize fine
points of word usage stick in your mem-
ory and help enrich your ability to say
what you mean more accurately.
Make up your own family competition, based on words that are easily confused.
For example, you might check up in
the new unabridged on the meanings
of adopt and adapt, aggravate and annoy, complacent and complaisant, definite and definitive—just a few of many
that frequently cause confusion.
Or key the family word-watching fun
to new words related to space, for example, or to new meanings of old
words, such as snow in the TV sense,
thinking machine, and snorkel.
From A to Z, there is literally a
wealth of words waiting to reward
your interest.
Getting the dictionary habit as a regular part of your family's recreational
pattern can be a most important step
toward success in life for each member.
In school, in business, and in human relations the ability to say what you mean
persuasively is a prime advantage.
something better
by ARTHUR H. CANNON
These manuscripts represent just the copy
prepared on "S" in the new dictionary.
of the percentage today, such as playing
the hitter where he hits the ball most
of the time."
Poet Robert Frost enlivens today's
meaning of baby-sit with his quotation,
"I had to baby-sit with my grandchildren." The use of daylight in the sense
of "openness" is illustrated by the late
Dag Hammarskjold's comment, "The
new diplomacy . . . has to operate in
daylight." Elder Statesman Bernard
Baruch highlights a meaning of miracle
with "Test if man can produce, through
his will and faith, the miracle of peace."
Ernest Hemingway illuminates anymore, used in the sense of "now," with
"I am not lucky anymore."
Try starting the family off on word
adventuring with an easy game. For
example, key your play to the discovery
of the meaning of a word everyone
knows something about, such as shake,
run, or go. All of your school-age
youngsters will be able to contribute
some of the meanings of these familiar
words, but probably few, if any, of the
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ETER came running as fast as his
little four-year-old legs could carry
him. In his right hand he clasped a
soiled paper bag. It was apparent from
his outstretched arms and the gleam in
his bright blue eyes that he had great affection for my companion, his uncle.
"Oh, Uncle Ted, I have kept my last
candy for you!" exclaimed Peter, as he
put his chubby little hand into the bag.
He produced this treasured piece of confectionery and proffered it to his uncle.
Uncle Ted bent down and lifted up
his small nephew into his arms and gave
him a warm hug and a kiss, and then said
to him, "Thank you very much, Peter.
And I have a present for you." His uncle
then produced a fresh box of Peter's favorite candies.
Two weeks later when I was walking
through a lovely garden something happened to remind me of this experience.
I was admiring a beautiful Peace rose,
when my host, John, noticed that his
Alsatian dog had appeared on the lawn,
chewing a dirty old bone that he had discovered somewhere.
"Rex," he called to the dog, "bring me
the bone." The dog obeyed the first command and brought the bone. My friend
threw the old bone into the garbage can,
then he turned to me and excused himself, saying, "I'll be back with you in a
little while."
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As he walked toward the house the dog
followed closely at his heels. Soon John
was back again accompanied by Rex, who
was wagging his tail.
John explained that every time it was
necessary for him to take anything away
from Rex, such as that old bone, he
always gave him something he enjoyed
even better to take its place. He remarked, "I have just given him one of
his choicest tidbits."
We continued our walk around the
garden, and as we did so I thought about
my friend's considerate care of his pet.
He did what he knew to be best for the
dog. Then, because of his love for Rex,
he gave the dog something far better than
the thing he had taken away from him.
At that moment I recalled the experience of Peter and his last piece of candy.
Yes, his uncle had accepted it as a love
gift—it was the little boy's all. But he
repaid Peter for his loving sacrifice.
We read in Romans 8:28: "We know
that all things work together for good to
them that love God." Zechariah records
the words of God's promise, "Take away
the filthy garments. . .. And I will clothe
thee with change of raiment." *
One day, very soon, Jesus will fulfill
this promise, exchanging the nothingness
we possess for the riches of His kingdom.
* Zech. 3:9.
Sabbath School
MON
Prepared for publication by the General Conference Sabbath School Department
Youth
X—The Christian's Relations to Other
Races
(March 10, 1962)
▪
NOTE.—"Jesus had begun to break down the partition wall between Jew and Gentile, and to preach salvation to the world.
Though He was a Jew, He mingled freely with the Samaritans, setting at nought the Pharisaic customs of His nation. In face of their
prejudices He accepted the hospitality of this despised people. He
slept under their roofs, ate with them at their tables,—partaking of
the food prepared and served by their hands,—taught in their
streets, and treated them with the utmost kindness and courtesy."—
The Desire of Ages, p. 193.
5. What lesson in understanding may be gained from Jesus'
experience with the Roman centurion?
•
•
"Presently when a woman of Samaria came along to draw
water, Jesus said to her, Give Me a drink" (John 4:7, The
Amplified New Testament).
MEMORY GEM: "And hath made of one blood all nations of
men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their
habitation" (Acts 17:26).
OUTSIDE READING: Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 44-51; The
Desire of Ages, pp. 183-195, 339-403; The Acts of the Apostles,
pp. 132-142.
Introduction
Christianity alone—that is, the personal power of the personal Christ alone—will remove animosities, national and
racial feelings, and foster a true spirit of unity in Christ.
"He who is closely connected with Christ is lifted above the
prejudice of color or caste. His faith takes hold of eternal
realities. The divine Author of truth is to be uplifted. Our
hearts are to be filled with the faith that works by love and
purifies the soul. The work of the good Samaritan is the example that we are to follow."—Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 209.
"Jesus . . . marveled at him, and He turned and said to the
crowd that followed Him, I tell you, not even in [all] Israel
have I found such great faith [as this]." (Luke 7:9, The Amplified New Testament).
NOTE.—"Notwithstanding the formalism of the Jews, this Roman
was convinced that their religion was superior to his own. Already
he had broken through the barriers of national prejudice and
hatred that separated the conquerors from the conquered people.
He had manifested respect for the service of God, and had shown
kindness to the Jews as His worshipers."—The Desire of Ages, p. 315.
6. When the disciples implored Him to send away the
Canaanite woman, what did Jesus say?
"I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel"
(Matt. 15:24, The Amplified New Testament).
NOTE.—"In rewarding the faith of the centurion at Capernaum,
and preaching the gospel to the inhabitants of Sychar, He had already given evidence that He did not share the intolerance of the
Jews. But the Samaritans had some knowledge of God; and the
centurion had shown kinuness to Israel. Now Jesus brought the disciples in contact with a heathen, whom they regarded as having no
reason, above any of her people, to expect favor from Him. He
would give an example of how such a one should be treated. The
disciples had thought that He dispensed too freely the gifts of His
grace. He would show that His love was not to be circumscribed to
race or nation.
"When He said, 'I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the
house of Israel,' He stated the truth, and in His work for the
Canaanite woman He was fulfilling His commission. This woman
was one of the lost sheep that Israel should have rescued. It was
their appointed work, the work which they had neglected, that
Christ was doing."—Ibid., p. 402.
1] God and Peter's Prejudices
la One Origin, Blood, and Citizenship in
Heaven
1. How is the origin of the human race set forth?
"God created man in his own image" (Gen. 1:27).
Memory Gem.
NOTE.—"Here is clearly set forth the origin of the human race;
and the divine record is so plainly stated that there is no occasion
for erroneous conclusions.. . . The genealogy of our race, as given
by inspiration, traces back its origin, not to a line of developing
germs, mollusks, and quadrupeds, but to the great Creator. Though
formed from the dust, Adam was 'the son of God.' "—Patriarchs
and Prophets, pp. 44, 45.
2. What does faith in Christ make of all men?
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor
free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in
Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:28).
NOTE.—"Caste is hateful to God. He ignores everything of this
character. In His sight the souls of all men are of equal value."—The
Desire of Ages, p. 403.
3. Where is our citizenship?
"Ye are . . . fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God" (Eph. 2:19).
"We are citizens of the state (commonwealth, homeland)
which is in heaven" (Phil. 3:20, The Amplified New Testament).
NOTE.—This is the reason Abraham is known as the man who was
looking for a city. He spent his life looking for his home town, and
he never found it. He went to sleep in death looking, and when he
wakes up in the resurrection he will be ushered into it by Jesus, the
One who promised it to him in the first place.
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Jesus' Ministry to Non-Jews
4. How did Jesus show that He was concerned for other
nationalities?
7. What did Peter learn from the vision of the living things
in a sheet?
"God has shown me clearly that I must not call any man
profane or unclean" (Acts 10:28, The New English Bible).
NOTE.—"Peter laid the whole matter before them. He related his
experience in regard to the vision, and pleaded that it admonished
him to observe no longer the ceremonial distinction of circumcision and uncircumcision, nor to look upon the Gentiles as unclean.. ..
"On hearing this account, the brethren were silenced. Convinced
that Peter's course was in direct fulfilment of the plan of God, and
that their prejudices and exclusiveness were utterly contrary to the
spirit of the gospel, they glorified God, saying, 'Then hath God
also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
"Thus, without controversy, prejudice was broken down, the exclusiveness established by the custom of ages was abandoned, and
the way was opened for the gospel to be proclaimed to the Gentiles."
—The Acts of the Apostles, pp. 141, 142.
8. Through whom did the Holy Spirit work to inaugurate
the Christian missionary movement?
"In Antioch the disciples were for the first time called
Christians" (Acts 11:26, R.S.V.).
NOTE.—"The different connections and activities of the men men-
tioned here indicate that the church at Antioch enjoyed a cosmopolitan leadership. Barnabas was a Cypriote; Lucius, a Cyrenian; Manaen, apparently a Palestinian aristocrat; and Saul, a
rabbi from Tarsus in Cilicia."—The Seventh-day Adventist Bible
Commentary, on Acts 13:1.
"The Christian church was at this time entering upon an important era. The work of proclaiming the gospel message among
the Gentiles was now to be prosecuted with vigor: and as a result
the church was to be strengthened by a great ingathering of souls.
The apostles who had been appointed to lead out in this work,
would be exposed to suspicion, prejudice, and jealousy. Their teachings concerning the breaking down of 'the middle wall of partition'
that had so long separated the Jewish and the Gentile world, would
naturally subject them to the charge of heresy; and their authority
as ministers of the gospel would be questioned by many zealous, believing Jews. God foresaw the difficulties that His servants would be
called to meet; and in order that their work should be above challenge, He instructed the church by revelation to set them apart
publicly to the work of the ministry. Their ordination was a public
recognition of their divine appointment to bear to the Gentiles the
glad tidings of the gospel."—The Acts of the Apostles, p. 161.
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4 The All-inclusiveness of the Gospel
Quizangles
9. What is the Christian's obligation to all men everywhere?
1. Who established man's relationship with man? Memory
Gem.
2. How was Adam created? (1)
3. Does this mean that all men since have been created, and
in the same way? (1)
4. In what sense are all Christians one? (1)
5. With whom do we share the blessings and rights and
privileges of citizenship? (1)
6. What was Jesus' first question to the Samaritan woman?
(2)
7. Why was it difficult for the centurion to go to Jesus? (2)
8. Did Peter's vision have any effect on the uncleanness of
the swine? (3)
9. What lesson did God desire to teach the church? (3)
10. What is the one supremely important secret of the wonderful togetherness afforded in the gospel? (4)
"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations" (Matt. 28:
19, R.S.V.).
10. How does the Lord's Prayer teach the brotherhood of
man?
"Our Father in heaven" (Matt. 6:9, The New English
Bible).
NOTE.—"In calling God our Father, we recognize all His children
as our brethren. We are all a part of the great web of humanity, all
members of one family. . . . As children of God, you will hold His
honor, His character His family, His work, as the objects of your
highest interest. It will be your joy to recognize and honor your relation to your Father and to every member of His family. You will rejoice to do any act, however humble, that will tend to His glory or
to the well-being of your kindred."—Thoughts From the Mount of
Blessing, pp. 105, 106.
"Only those who devote themselves to His service, saying, 'Here
am I; send me,' . . . they alone pray in sincerity, 'Thy kingdom
come.'"—Ibid., p 109.
"The sympathies of God's people should be aroused in every
church throughout our land, and there should be unselfish action to
meet the necessities of different mission fields. Men should testify to
their interest in the cause of God by giving of their substance. If
such an interest were manifested, the bond of Christian brotherhood
would exist and increase in strength between all the members of
Christ's family."—Counsels on Stewardship, pp. 38, 39.
11. What is Paul's counsel?
"Be forbearing with .one another, and forgiving, where any
of you has cause for complaint: you must forgive as the Lord
forgave you. To crown all, there must be love, to bind all together and complete the whole" (Col. 3:13, 14, The New
English Bible).
All scriptures quoted from The Amplified New Testament are
used by permission of the Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California.
The New English Bible, New Testament. @ The Delegates of
the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge
University Press 1961. Used by permission.
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NEXT WEEK, March 17, 1962—Lesson title: "God
Does Not Favor Persons." Outside reading: Christ's
Object Lessons, pp. 325-365, chapter, "Talents."
Memory gem: Gal. 3:26.
3. Humble Hezekiah
Earliteen
X—The Night an Angel Won a Battle
(March 10)
TEXT TO REMEMBER: "Be strong and
courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed:
. . . with us is the Lord our God to help
us, and to fight our battles" (2 Chronicles
32:7, 8).
Atm: To show that pride goeth before a fall, and that God helps the humble.
1. Hezekiah's Good Reign in Judea
READ: 2 Chronicles 32:1-8.
Last week we studied about a remarkable victory God gave to Israel when the
king of Syria came against them. Today
we study about a remarkable victory God
gave to Judah when the king of Assyria
came against them.
Assyria was the first of the world empires. It was succeeded by Babylon, MedoPersia, Greece, and Rome. At the time of
Hezekiah's accession Sennacherib was
king of Assyria.
"At the time of Hezekiah's accession to
the throne of Judah, the Assyrians had already carried captive a large number of
the children of Israel from the northern
kingdom; and a few years after he had
begun to reign, and while he was still
strengthening the defenses of Jerusalem,
the Assyrians besieged and captured Samaria, and scattered the ten tribes among
the many provinces of the Assyrian realm.
The borders of Judah were only a few
miles distant, with Jerusalem less than
fifty miles away; and the rich spoils to
be found within the temple would tempt
the enemy to return."—Prophets and
Kings, p. 351.
When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib
had entered Judea and had begun
overcoming the fenced cities-
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What did he do about the water supply of Jerusalem?
What did he do to the walls of Jerusalem?
What did he do to fort Millo?
What armaments did he prepare?
What words of encouragement did he
give the people?
PROBLEM FOR CLASS DISCUSSION
Did Hezekiah need to make all this
preparation?
Did God use any of it to obtain the
victory over Sennacherib?
Does God expect us always to do all we
can under every circumstance?
2. Proud Rabshakeh
READ: Isaiah 36:1-4, 11-22.
"The Assyrian officers, sure of the
strength of their disciplined forces, arranged for a conference with the chief
men of Judah, during which they insolently demanded the surrender of the city.
This demand was accompanied by blasphemous revilings against the God of the
Hebrews. Because of the weakness and
apostasy of Israel and Judah, the name of
God was no longer feared among the nations, but had become a subject for continual reproach."—Prophets and Kings,
p. 352.
Who was Rabshakeh?
Who were Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah?
Who said: "Let not Hezekiah deceive
you: for he shall not be able to deliver
you"?
Who held their peace?
Who rent their clothes?
Why is pride so repugnant to God?
READ: Isaiah 37:1-13.
"A messenger was dispatched to Isaiah
to inform him of the outcome of the conference. . . .
"'For this cause Hezekiah the king, and
the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz,
prayed and cried to Heaven.'
"God answered the prayers of His servants. To Isaiah was given the message
for Hezekiah: 'Thus saith the Lord, Be
not afraid of the words which thou hast
heard, with which the servants of the king
of Assyria have blasphemed Me. Behold,
I will send a blast upon him, and he shall
hear a rumor, and shall return to his own
land; and I will cause him to fall by the
sword in his own land.' "—Prophets and
Kings, p. 354.
When Hezekiah rent his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went to
the house of the Lord, this showed that he
was humble.
True ❑
False 0
When Hezekiah sent to Isaiah, asking
him to pray also, this showed he was humble.
True 0
False 0
The Lord answered their prayers by giving Hezekiah a message by the prophet.
True 0
False 0
God said: "Be not afraid of the words
that thou hast heard." True 0 False 0
Rabshakeh returned and told Sennacherib that Hezekiah and the Jews were still
determined to trust in God.
True 0
False 0
Sennacherib sent messengers again saying, "Let not thy God, in whom thou
trusted, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem
shall not be given into the hand of the
king of Assyria."
True 0
False D
Why is humility so pleasing to God?
4. The Boastful Letter
READ: Isaiah 37:14-20, 33-35.
"When the king of Judah received the
taunting letter, he took it into the temple,
and 'spread it before the Lord,' and
prayed with strong faith for help from
heaven, that the nations of earth might
know that the God of the Hebrews still
lived and reigned. The honor of Jehovah
was at stake; He alone could bring
deliverance. . . .
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"Hezekiah's pleadings in behalf of Judah and of the honor of their Supreme
Ruler, were in harmony with the mind of
God. Solomon, in his benediction at the
dedication of the temple, had prayed the
Lord to maintain 'the cause of His people
Israel at all times, as the matter shall require: that all the people of the earth
may know that the Lord is God, and that
there is none else.' Especially was the
Lord to show favor when, in times of
war or of oppression by an army, the
chief men of Israel should enter the house
of prayer and plead for deliverance."—
Prophets and Kings, pp. 355, 359.
COMPLETE THESE STATEMENTS
When Hezekiah received the letter from
Sennacherib he
Hezekiah prayed, "Now therefore, 0
Lord our God, save us from his hand, that
all the kingdoms of the earth may know
that
When the Temple had been dedicated
Solomon had prayed: "When thy people
Israel be smitten . .
God answered this prayer through the
prophet Isaiah saying: "He shall not
nor
, nor
, nor
When you are at your wit's end, and
you take your problem humbly to God,
in how many ways do you think God
could give you assurance that all would
be well?
5. An Unusual Night Battle
READ: Isaiah 37:36-38.
"That very night deliverance came.
'The angel of the Lord went out, and
smote in the camp of the Assyrians an
hundred fourscore and five thousand.'
'All the mighty men of valor, and the
leaders and captains in the camp of the
king of Assyria,' were slain.
"Tidings of this terrible judgment
upon the army that had been sent to take
Jerusalem, soon reached Sennacherib,
who was still guarding the approach to Judea from Egypt. Stricken with fear, the
Assyrian king hasted to depart, and 'returned with shame of face to his own
land.' But he had not long to reign. In
harmony with the prophecy that had
been uttered concerning his sudden end,
he was assassinated by those of his own
home, 'and Esar-haddon his son reigned
in his stead' "—Prophets and Kings, p.
361.
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER
That very night one angel slew of the
Assyrian Army (a) 1,850, (b) 18,500,
(c ) 185,000.
In the morning the people of Judah
found (a) the enemy all gone, (b) the
enemy all dead.
When Sennacherib, who was still
Consel
Question 1 want to know why a Seventh-day Adventist minister should not
be called reverend like the ministers of
other churches.
Counsel
Seventh-day Adventist ministers do not assume the title of "reverend" for three reasons:
First, this title is not applied to any
human being in the Scriptures.
"According to the teaching of the
Scriptures, it dishonors God to address
ministers as 'Reverend.' No mortal has
any right to attach this to his own name
or to the name of any other human
being. It belongs only to God, to distinguish Him from every other being.
Those who lay claim to this title take
to themselves God's holy honor. They
have no right to the stolen word, whatever their position may be. 'Holy and
reverend is His name.' We dishonor
God when we use this word where it
does not belong."—Evangelism, p. 133.
Second, it is one of the many titles
applied only to God: "Holy and reverend is his name" (Ps. 111:9).
Third, reverend means "worthy of
reverence," and reverence is defined as
"profound respect mingled with love
and awe," which could hardly apply to
a human being.
There are other denominations that
do not believe "reverend" should be
applied to ministers, and still others are
contemplating discarding its use. Some
of the high ranking theologians of leading denominations are discouraging its
use because they believe that it belongs
only to God.
Question
I have been reading a little
booklet entitled Country Living, an Aid
to Moral and Social Security, by Ellen G. White. I have begun a course in
radio and television, and this book
makes me feel miserable about taking
the course. Also, once in a while I go to
the beach with non-Adventist girls. Do
you see anything wrong in being
friendly? Suppose a young man has inclinations to be married but can't see
how that could be. Is it wrong to enjoy
the company of girl friends?
Counsel
Under ordinary circumstances your reading of the booklet
Country Living, an Aid to Moral and
Social Security need not make you feel
that you are entering upon a wrong
guarding the road from the south, heard
this terrible news, (a) he realized at last
that it was no use vaunting his strength
above God, (b) he returned to his own
country, (c) he was filled with fear and
shame.
Not long after this Sennacherib was
(a) demoted, (b) went to live in Nineveh,
(c) was slain by his two sons.
Do we each have a guardian angel?
Then what more do we need? How car
we be sure that our guardian angels will
be on our side of our problems?
6. The Humble Shall Be Exalted
READ: Matthew 23:11, 12.
"The pride of Assyria and its fall are
to serve as an object lesson to the end of
time. Of the nations of earth to-day who
in arrogance and pride array themselves
against Him, God inquires: 'To whom
art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt
thou be brought down with the trees of
Eden unto the nether parts of the
earth?"—Prophets and Kings, p. 366.
Are you ever troubled with feelings of
pride?
Are you ever tempted to think you
can get along without God?
Have you ever seen a humble Godfearing person hopelessly overcome by
discouragement?
course of study. There is a place even
in the cause of God for radio and television technicians. But your peculiar
disturbance in this area may mean that
you are moving away from some inner
conviction known only to you and the
Lord. In that case, your only safe course
is to inquire diligently of the Lord for
direction, and resign your life to His
will. Do not cease praying until you
are satisfied that you understand His
will for your life.
Perhaps you are not ready for serious
courtship. If that is so, it is best that
you not date girls and thus mislead
them. To play with a young woman's
heart would be unkind, wouldn't it?
Pray earnestly that God will help you
to first prepare yourself for your lifework. After that the Lord will bring
into your life just the companion who
will mean the most to you as you live
and labor for Him. This kind of program rarely fails. Try it! Meanwhile,
those non-Adventist girls may he
Satan's lures to unsettle your plans for
the better life. Think it over!
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