THEY are slipping away, these sweet, swift
Like a leaf on the current cast;
With never a break in the rapid flow.
We watch them. as one by one they go
Into the beautiful past.
As silent and swift as a weaver's thread.
Or an arrow's flying gleam;
As soft as the languorous breezes hid,
That light the willow's long golden lid.
And ripple the glassy stream.
As light as the breath of the thistledown,
As fond as a maiden's dream;
As pure as the flush in the sea shell's
As sweet as the wood bird's wooing
So tender and dear they seem.
One after another we see them pass.
Down the dim-lighted stair;
We hear the sound of their heavy tread,
In the steps of the centuries long since dead,
As beautiful and fair.
There are only a few years left to love;
Shall we waste them in idle strife?
Sfiall we trample under our ruthless feet,
Those beautiful blossoms. rare and sweet.
By the dusky way of life?
There are only a few swift years — ah! let
No envious taunts be heard;
Make life's fair pattern of rare design.
And fill up the measure with love's sweet wine.
But never an angry word.
REACHING UP AND OUT
If Only
'LL tell you what's the matter with you
Christians,"— a high-caste Hindu gentleman
was talking with the missionary,—" you are
not as good as your Book! "
Rather a startling charge, isn't it ? But scrutinize
your own life carefully under the light of sacred precept before you venture to deny its truth. If only we
were all as good as our Book, what a different place
this world would be !
For the Book is powerful. One writer declares that
it has dynamite in it, so wonderful is the way in which
it speaks to the hearts of men.
A French skeptic was converted by studying, for
philological purposes, the fifth chapter of Genesis —
that chapter giving a list of the patriarchs from Adam
to Noah.
Once, when Dr. John Chamberlain had read to the
natives of an East Indian city the first chapter of the
epistle to the Romans, an intelligent Brahman said
to him, " Sir, that chapter was written by one of you
missionaries about us Hindus. It describes us exactly." But we know that those inspired words were
written by the apostle Paul almost two thousand
years before the first missionary went to India.
A learned Chinese student was employed to translate the New Testament into his native language. At
first he worked stolidly, but after a few weeks he
came to the missionary greatly agitated.
" What a wonderful Book this is ! " he exclaimed.
" Why so ? " questioned his employer.
" Because," the Chinese replied, " it tells me so exactly about myself. It knows all that is in me.
The One who made this Book must be the One who
made me." •
An Armenian patient in an American hospital in
Turkey was given a copy of the Book, and carried
it home with him to his native village. Very proudly
he exhibited his new possession, but the priest, when
he saw it was a Bible, snatched it from his hand, tore
it in pieces, and flung it into the street. There it lay
until a grocer, coming by, picked it up to use as
wrapping paper in his shop. Thus the poorer villagers took home bits of the Word wrapped around
a bit of cheese, a few olives, or a candle. And in this
strange way that one Bible was scattered all through
the countryside. Soon the grocer's customers began to
ask if he had any more leaves. They had read the
torn pages, and wanted to know more of the Book.
The grocer, of course, knew nothing about the Bible,
and could not help them find another. But the leaves
were treasured and read over and over again.
A change came into the lives of these simple people
as they tried to follow this new Guide. And then one
day a missionary colporteur on his round through the
Turkish provinces, reached this obscure village. To
his great amazement a hundred persons came demanding Bibles or parts of the Bible, when his errand was
known. No Christian preacher had been at work, but
the scattered leaves had proclaimed their own message
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of light and life, proving once more the power of God's
Word to transform hearts.
If only the scattered words and actions which go
to make the volume of our daily living all reflected
the Christ, then we would indeed be living epistles,
worthy to be " known and read of all men." 0, if
we were only as good as our Book, what a different
place this world would be !
A A A
" Aggareuo "
LLEN RAY faced her pastor across the study
table. Stormy eyes looked into his, and tense
lips were pressed firmly together to hide their
trembling. Quietly he waited for the confidences he knew were coming.
" It isn't that I want to shirk," she burst out finally.
" I'd work my fingers to the bone to go to Art.
League. I've dreamed of it ever since I had my first
box of paints. And now to have to give it all 'up•
and go into an office — I just don't know how to
stand it — that's all ! " And she burst into tears.
The pastor mused for a few moments until the girl
was quiet again. " There's an old Greek word, Ellen,"
he said at last, " that has meant a great deal to me
through the years — it's aggareuo, the word Christ
used when He told men what to do in cases likeyours."
" Cases like mine ? " she questioned, " in the Bible ? "
" Yes, my dear, in the Bible and out of it — they
are everywhere. The word I referred to is a word
with a history. Long ago in the East, the old kings
used to keep runners stationed along the highways to.
carry their messages ; and these runners, whenever
they needed help or protection, had the right to press
into service any men or horses they might meet. When
the Romans conquered Palestine, they brought this.
custom with them, and the Jews found no duty morehateful than that of being compelled to carry messages
for their detested rulers. This is, I believe, what Jesus.
really had in mind when he said, ' Whosoever shall
compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.' Reused this old cordially hated word aggareuo; and He
meant that the only way to take the hatred out of it
was to make the doing of the duty a gift and not a
task. We are to face the duty we dislike in the spirit
which says bravely, ' You can't make me a slave
I do this voluntarily. I am even going to do twice
as much as you ask ! '
" For instance, you want to be an artist. But necessity lays its hand upon yours, and says, ' No, you must
be a stenographer.' What then? Why, this, Ellen..
Remember that art is not a thing. It's not a picture,.
or a great statue, or a wonderful poem, or a beautiful
song — it's only a beautiful way of doing things.
If you are an artist in your heart, nothing in the •
world can rob you of your heritage or your joy in it."
Ellen sat silent for a long time. "Aggareuo," she
murmured at last. " What a funny old word ! I guess
I'll take you for my motto ! "
THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, APRIL 27, 1926
NO. 17'
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Wireless Telegraphy and Prayer
HE " Volturno " burned at sea, Oct. 11, 1913. the wireless telegraphy of the soul. It unfolds the
There were 657 souls on board. The near- whole philosophy of prayer as taught by the Master
est vessel was seventy-four miles away. It in the model prayer. The main difference lies in the
seemed that all were doomed ; yet only 136 fact that in prayer we talk in terms of life. It is law
of the 657 were lost ; 521 were saved. How was it in a spiritual world.
Six steps are to be noted in the process:
done?
1. There is a virile transmitter. The man who
In a little cabin on that boat, a man sat at a wireless
key. Message after message flashed out into the air. prays, sees a need, possesses a desire, finds a possibility
Seventy-four miles away in another cabin a receptor he wishes achieved. He realizes his inability. He
began flashing and sputtering. Its coherer was re- believes there is a God able and willing to accomplish
ceiving the message of distress that its aerial had for him what he cannot accomplish for himself, or at
picked out of the quiet air about. The prayer of the least to give him ability or wisdom to do. He prays.
" Volturno was heard, and relief hastened to her. How far may his prayer go ? If audible, he only
The first movements in the history of wireless knows that those within range of his voice can hear.
telegraphy date back to experiments completed by If silent, he has immediate evidence that it has gone
Faraday in 1846, but the first steps in the present out of his own heart. Here comes the second step in
successful processes date from Hertz in 1888. Its the parallel.
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SIGNING THE MORNING WATCH PLEDGE IN SERBIA
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The Morning Watch has its earnest observers in old Serbia. Perhaps
they take the signing of the pledge a bit more seriously than do most
of us. A special meeting is appointed for the study of what it means.
As they come forward to attach their names to the pledge, each one in
his turn stands before the table, bows his head in silent prayer, then
signs. They consider this a sacred promise, and we have reason to
believe that they are faithful Morning Watch observers, for the Lord is
using them in giving Serbia the Reformation movement which passed
them by in the sixteenth century. These young people are suffering
persecution, floggings, imprisonment, and confinement; still they remain
true to the message, happy to be counted worthy to suffer for His name.
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2. By a man's prayer, a warmth of soul has come
to him. If we seek the answer from the Word, we
hear, " We know not how to pray as we ought; but
the Spirit Himself maketh intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered." The Holy Spirit
is the transformer in the transmission. He vitalizes
our message. He speeds it on. The Holy Spirit is
the magnetizing power.
3. Wireless telegraphy has a medium through which
its message goes. The magnetic disturbance of the
ether goes on and on and on. Impinging somewhere
on a sensitive receiver, it conveys its message there.
This is a material transference, after all. In prayer
the transference is not material, but spiritual.
4. As our prayer wings its way, it finds a resolving
coherer. This is our Christ. He catches the message.
So Paul tells us, Christ " liveth to make intercession."
" He is able to save to the uttermost, . . . seeing
ever liveth to make intercession." " If any man sin,
we have an advocate with the Father." So He resolves
the message for us as He presents it to the receiver.
April 27, 1926
5. The sympathetic receiver. The ear of God is
open to hear our cry. So is our text true. We pray
to our Father in secret, and the Father who seeth in
secret will reward us openly. As John puts it, " This
is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask
anything according to His will, He heareth us." So
our prayer is heard by the Father.
6. The answer comes because He is a powerful
Helper. So Jesus could positively declare, " Ask, and
ye shall receive."
But one tremendously important fact needs yet to
be noticed. Positive certainty of wireless communication demands that the aerials be in tune. Sometimes we ask why prayer is not answered. For the
same reason a wireless message might pass by unheard.
We are not in tune with the Infinite. David expressed
it, " If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will
not hear me." The prayer of faith puts us in tune.
Therefore, we may ask with the expectation of receiving, for we have the certainty that He will hear.
— G. W. Cassidy.
"M. D.'s" of the South Seas
ELVA E. TIIORPE
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N these days, when medical knowledge has
increased at such a marvelous rate, when we
of civilized lands can, at a moment's notice,
call to our aid skilled physicians, we are liable to forget that in many dark corners of the world
are those who cling to their own crude methods of
restoring to health the unfortunate sick — yes, unfortunate in the truest sense of the term.
There are cures and great healing powers in nature, and, thank God, He has shown us how to use
these natural remedies. The natives of the South
Seas, however, who have no idea of the workings of
the delicate human machinery, and who have no
knowledge of the first principles of chemistry, use
blindly for medicine almost every plant and tree that
grows.
No university course, no Edinburgh degree, .is necessary to qualify these would-be doctors. Old women
and young men alike may take the title.
The, ways and means used for the preparation of
medicines are many and varied. One common method
is for an old woman to get a collection of leaves and
roots, and proceed to chew them to the right consistency. This being done, there may be two ways in
which our doctor will apply her medicine. She may
take the mash she has made, and smear it all over
the patient's head and body ; or, on the other hand,
she may squeeze the fluid out of the mixture, and
pour it down her victim's throat, and no pleading or
struggling on the part of the sick one will avail anything. A cleaner doctor pounds the leaves instead
of chewing them.
Chilies are commonly employed, both for internal
use and as a remedy for sore eyes, and in many cases
have caused total blindness. Lichen is applied to
yaws, a very contagious sore. Iron rust is also used
for the same thing, but the cruelest method is to
take the patient to the seaside, and cut and scrape
the ulcer with shells. To cure bad blood, a cut is
made in the arm or leg, and a tiny green orange inQPrted and bound in with a dirty rag.
Many methods and treatments used in European
countries find their parallel in the South Seas. But
the " tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." Massage is sometimes used in the treatment of consumptive patients, when the chest is pommeled and the
back walked upon, in order to get rid of the, evil
spirit which is supposed to possess the patient. In
one case where such violence was used, several ribs
were broken.
As a rule, water is forbidden in cases of sickness.
A sick person may be without a bath for months,
and during this time his body will be smeared with
many kinds of chewed leaves, and he will be compelled to drink a score of medicines. The result of
this awful treatment, together with the ravages of
the disease, is a sight dreadful to behold.
Witchcraft is not a thing of the past. A man wishing to protect a heavily laden fruit tree, will concoct
a mixture, tie it in a black rag, and attach it to the
tree. Any one who steals from this tree becomes sick,
and only the owner can effectively treat the thief.
Of course this necessitates a confession, and thus the
culprit is found out.
The work of European doctors is often frustrated,
because the people will not follow their orders implicitly, but will give the native medicine to the sick
secretly. The doctors cannot prosecute, because the
native police will not faithfully gather evidence, and
oftentimes those who are in high and influential positions have not been weaned from their heathen ideas
and customs.
The natives do not have much patience. If one
medicine does not make a marked change for the better in a few hours, another medicine man is called
in, and so it goes on until, as very often happens, the
patient dies.
It is only fair to say that some of the native cures
are good, and some are harmless, but these are few
and far between. The great need of the South Sea
Island world is medical missionaries who are filled
with the love of God.
" He who expects ,to be rich in twelve months is likely to be a beggar in six."
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The Message in the Fireplace
MRS. MARION E. CADY
HEN we were visiting in New England last that time of terror. Sometimes trickery and injustice
summer, we drove from Melrose, Massa- also were practised in those days, to the personal adchusetts, over to Salem one afternoon. Salem vantage of unscrupulous people. You may remember
was settled in 1626, and is the place of that Hawthorne has immortalized some of these unwitchcraft fame. History tells us it is also the place just practices in his writings,- which caused much
where the first Congregational church was built in bitter feeling and criticism at the time of their pubAmerica, so called because it was built for congrega- lication.
tional worship.
While in Salem we went to see the " house of seven
The historians of Salem, which is now a city of gables," made famous by Hawthorne's book which
35,000, and a great Mecca for tourists, also tell us bears that name. The early checkered history of the
that the tradition of witch burning is unfounded. place is incorporated in the chapters of this book,
They produce facts to prove that the nineteen people though that fact is denied by some writers. Anyway,
who were put to death for practising witchcraft were it is an entertaining old place to visit. And it actually
all hanged on " Gallows Hill," with the exception of has seven gables, facing about every point of the
one, Giles Corey, who, after giving condemnatory evi- compass. It was built in 1662, and is filled with
dence against his own wife, came to the conclusion relics of that far-away time, which are interesting,
that witchcraft had no
but not so much so to
foundation in fact. He
me as the architecture
himself was afterward
of the old house, which
arrested for practising
still looks quite livable,
the black art, b u t
in spite of its more than
pleaded " not guilty,"
two hundred fifty years
and refused to put himof service.
self upon " God and
One of the features
his country," having bethat arrested our atcome convinced, doubttention was the secret
less, that God had nothstairway. On either
ing to do with the
side of the fireplace
charge of witchcraft.
in the sitting-room are
" Therefore he could not
small recesses, about
be tried by jury, and
large enough for one to
for this, as provided by
stand in. In the back
immemorial law and
of one of them is a secret
The Old Witch House in Salem. Massachusetts, Where Victims of
usage of the realm, he
door
very cleverly conthe Witchcraft Delusion Were Condemned to Punishment
was pressed to death."
cealed. This opens into
He was placed betwe6n two planks, with a heavy a stairway, which is a twisted, narrow flight following
weight on top, and given a " morsel of bread one day up the great chimney of the fireplace. It is quite
and a drink of water " the next, until he died.
difficult of ascent, but I fancy it would be easy enough
In the new courthouse we saw the one death warrant if one were suspected of being a witch, and there was
remaining of that awful period. It is indorsed with need of a hurried escape. This secret flight of stairs
the sheriff's return of the woman's execution. We opens into a room on the second floor, the door of
read a portion of it, which is written in a beautiful, which is concealed in one of the wall panels. We
fine hand. But as it is a very long document, and now were glad to use the regular stairway when we regrown faded and dim with the years, we could not take turned to the first floor, which revealed another mystime to read it all. Also in the same ease is a bottle tery — a very unusual and surprising one.
filled with the pins said to have been used by the
The crowd of sight-seers was passing through the
accused persons to inflict torture upon their victims. quaint old parlor of the place when I heard my name
These pins were formerly pinned to the documents called by one of our party. On turning, I saw a
as a part of the evidence, but as they kept disappear- beckoning finger calling me back into the room. There
ing, even though in a glass case, they are now kept I observed people making what seemed a rather strange
in a sealed bottle. Such strange habits do souvenir obeisance in front of the ancient fireplace, which was
collectors develop ! Personally. I had my doubts about wide and deep, but very low. Each one in his turn
the authenticity of the few little pins in the bottle. would bow nearly to the floor, gaze intently into the
But maybe I am naturally incredulous. Anyway, shadows for a few puzzled minutes, then suddenly a
hose few bent old pins do certainly draw the tourists' light would break over the face, and with an amused
interest, for the guide says they are the first things expression, but never a word of explanation, he would
most people ask to see among all the really authentic pass on.
and important exhibitions in that special room.
I followed the fashion, and spelled out the secret.
It is written that Judge Sewall, one of the judges There, wrought in the iron back of that old, old firein those days of belief in witchcraft, once said, in a place, is this age-old bit of wisdom, " An ape can never
humorous moment, " We know who's who, but not be a man." I, too; smiled thoughtfully, and passed on.
Into the kitchen we went. It is kept just as kitchens
which is witch." But undoubtedly this pun was not
appreciated by those whose property was injured, were more than two centuries ago. A cavernous firewhose homes were broken up, and who were thrown place filled one whole side of the room. In it were
into jail with scarcely a moment's warning, during cranes on which hung iron kettles of many shapes and
" You can attend to your own business without being meddlesome."
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sizes, black with the smoke of generations of use. But
our time was limited, and we passed outside into the
garden of the fascinating " house of seven gables,"
where we spent a few minutes in quiet meditation.
But that which impressed me most was the strange
inscription wrought in the iron back of that old fireplace, which only he who stooped could see. Was it
the work of some wise, far-seeing genius of that day,
who wished to impress on the high and lifted up in
mind of his own as well as succeeding generations,
a much-needed lesson? For is it not true that only
as we bow before the great Ruler of the universe, do
we learn the mysteries of creation that are hid from
the worldly wise, who stand proud and self-sufficient
in their own explanation of creation's secrets ? " With
the lowly is wisdom," the wise man tells us.
Has not this lowliness of mind always been the
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attitude of the truly great who have discovered the
wonderful mysteries of creation?
Said Kepler, the noted astronomer, on discovering
the movements of the planets. " 0 God, I think Thy
thoughts after Thee." Isaac Newton's humility grew
in proportion to his discoveries. When nearing the
close of his life's work, he said, in substance, " I seem
to have found but a pebble here and there on the beach,
while the great ocean lies unexplored before me."
We can only conjecture as to the purpose of the
quaint inscription in this unique old fireplace, but
its lesson came to me with new force as I pondered.
Scientists, falsely so called, may give their everchanging versions of creation. But God has spoken.
Let us bow before His power and wisdom, and accept
His word, which is an adequate answer to the evolutionists of every generation.
Growing Land in China
K. H. WOOD
lIERE are many curious customs in China land. The next process is the curing of the land. This
which attract the interest of the traveler is accomplished by digging canals to unite with the
from the Occident, and it is not unusual to 'inland streams, thus providing an abundance of fresh
hear expressions of surprise and wonder at water for irrigating purposes. The soil obtained from
the ingenuity of the Chinese people in accomplishing • the newly made canals is used to fill in the land,
the most delicate work with the crudest and most • bringing it sufficiently above sea level for cultivaantique instruments.
tion.
Those who have resided in China for many years,
When traveling along the coast, one crosses many
confess that the longer their acquaintance with them, of these old dikes, which now serve merely as roads.
the greater is their admiration for the achievements Another reminder of the fact that this process has been
of this ancient people, and for the civilization of their • going on for many centuries, is the age and condition
country, which has withstood the elements of decay of the buildings, trees, and other landmarks.
for more than four thousand years.
As the " harvests " of land reach out farther and
The " growing " of land along certain portions of farther into the sea, many islands formerly miles from
the seacoast is one of the many interesting things the coast are gradually overtaken, and become a part
one finds in China, and largely explains the topogra- of the mainland. It is not unusual to find mountains
phy of some of the provinces bordering on the sea- of solid rock jutting abruptly out of cultivated ricecoast, and those through which the great Yangtze- fields which extend as far as the eye can reach, thus
kiang and other large rivers flow. The " harvests " presenting a picture not unlike that in which these
of land are perhaps the greatest along the coast of same mountains once figured as islands surrounded
Chekiang Province, protected as it is from storms by the briny sea, instead of waving ricefields.
It is interesting to learn
and heavy seas by chains
that some cities, now
of islands a short distance
many miles inland, in anfrom the coast. Here the
cient times were directly
silt that is carried down
on the coast or at the
the rivers to the sea, is
mouth of some large river.
deposited on the beach by
Of other cities it is rethe incoming tide, where
corded that they were sitit settles and remains.
uated on islands off the
adding a thin layer of
coast, while now they are
rich soil twice every day,
on the mainland, far from
until at last what was
the sea.
once ocean bed is so comThe study of the counpletely- filled as to betry and people of China
come a part of the shore
is extremely interesting,
land.
and if pursued with a
At this stage, the ownwillingness to recognize
ers of the land bordering
the many admirable qualon the coast quickly unite
ities of the Chinese peoat low tide in throwing
ple, cannot but result in
up a dike along the seathe conviction that we
ward side of the newly
should spare no effort in
grown " stretch of shore
order to share with them
land, thus permanently
" Little Orphan,- an Island in the Yangtze River.
the blessings we enjoy in
Showing a Native Chinese Monastery
adding to their farms
the gospel.
many acres of rich silt
A Dying Race
G.
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STERLING
HE Marquesas archipelago lies, roughly Taiohae Bay, Nukahiva. Chief Hape received them,
speaking, 3,000 miles west of Panama and and built a house for them, but later he became un3,000 miles south of San Francisco, being friendly. Owing to tribal wars, their lives were
about 500 miles south of the equator.
threatened, and after eight months they all left,
This group was discovered by the Spanish explorer, having passed through very trying experiences.
Mendaila, in 1595, though it was not until 1842 that
In 1834 a company of English missionaries arrived at
the French secured possession, making Taiohae the the island of Tahuata, but in 1841 all were compelled
seat of government.
to leave, not having achieved any lasting success. The
In the year 1813, Commodore Porter, of the United natives said, " What will we get for hearing your
States Navy, arrived in Taiohae Bay. He gained a lessons? You seem to wish to make speeches to us.
foothold ashore, planting the American Stars and Very well ; give us powder, and we will hear you
Stripes. The heathen chief and natives were friendly afterward."
toward him, partly, perhaps, because he had promised
Nothing further was done in these islands by Protto assist them in their tribal wars. The few natives estant societies until the arrival of the native Hastill remaining in the valley of Ta ipivai point out wnii a n missionaries in 1853. They came out under
the long stone wall built
t h e following circumby their heathen ancesstances :
tors along the hillside,
The native chief of the
from behind which they
islaild of Fatu-hiva, with
fought against their enehis son-in-law, went to the
mies. Nothing came of
Hawaiian Islands by a
this visit of American
whaling vessel for the
vessels to Nukahiva, save
purpose of securing arms
the giving of a new
and ammunition. But,
name by which some
acting on the advice of
native might be known.
the son-in-law, the chief
The name of " Pota " still
concealed the real pursurvives.
pose of his coming by askUpon my first visit to
ing for teachers, that his
people might be taught
the island of Uapou I had
the Word of God. The
the pleasure of meeting
Hawaiian church w a s
some of the descendants
moved by this appeal
of the faithful Hawaiian
from a heathen chief, and
missionary, James Keset to, raised funds, charkela, and from a book in
tered a vessel, and sent
possession of his son,
out six native missionSamuel, I secured a fund
aries to the Marquesas Lsof information concernlands. James Kekela was
ing early missionary work
one of the party.
done in this group. KeThese faithful men,
kela was one of six brave
filled with love for their
native Hawaiian missionMaster, endured privaaries sent out to the heations, and often suffered
then Marquesans.
A Marquesan Beauty
at the hands of the heaThe first missionaries
to these islands were Europeans, Messrs. Harris and then, frequent attempts being made to secure their
W. Pascoe Crook, of the mission ship " Duff," which bodies for cannibal feasts. One of these, Kaivi, after
brought out the first group of workers to Tahiti. nineteen years of labor, during which time he had
These two men landed on the island of Tahuata as raised up a church from among the heathen, became
early as 1797. Mr. Harris stayed but one night, but deranged in mind, and was taken back to Honolulu.
The grave of another, Kauwealoha, was visited by
Mr. Crook remained for eight months, at the end of
which he was compelled to flee by night to a vessel us while at Uapou. It is said of him that when at
in the harbor, owing to the hostility of the natives. one time it was suggested to him that the mission be
Finding the inhabitants of Taiohae more friendly, he abandoned, owing to shortage of funds and discourdetermined to remain among them, but was finally aging results, he replied that he would not desert his
forced to flee for his life to a passing ship, which took work, even though his salary might be taken away
from him; but would dress, if need be, as the natives
him to Tahiti.
In 1825 Mr. Crook returned again to Tahuata, with did, and labor with his hands to support himself
native teachers, but they were all compelled to flee at while in the field.
James Kekela labored among the degraded and dethe end of two months. Other attempts were made
to gain an entrance, but so hostile were the Marque- bauched natives of Puamau valley on the island of
sans to the gospel, that no missionary could long re- Hiva-oa. His courage and disinterested love are illustrated by the following incident related of him, and
main among them alive.
In 1833 three white families of an American mis- verified by his son, Samuel, to the writer :
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sionary society sent out from Honolulu, arrived in
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NTO the small repair shop of Ari Davis, " Handy
Man and Mechanic," there came one day, in 1837,
a small, delicate-appearing lad of eighteen. He
was awkward and shabby, plainly a country boy,
and on his first visit to Boston, the shrewd proprietor
guessed immediately.
Thinking that perhaps the visitor, who wore an odd air
of dignity, had called to ask his advice about some invention,— advice much sought after by would-be inventors of
all sorts of machinery to meet the needs of the rapidly
growing industries of the United States,— Mr. Davis
stepped forward, with a pleasant word of greeting.
" I am looking for work," said the young man, in answer
to his inquiry, " and thought perhaps you might have something."
Now the rush of work that had come into his shop in
recent years had necessitated the employment of a staff of
helpers, but just now there was no vacancy, especially for
an untrained apprentice, such as this applicant appeared
to be ; yet somehow the busy mechanic paused for a second
thought before refusing to give the applicant consideration.
Evidently the boy needed work. Perhaps he could use him
for a few days at least, and he might be a genius.
" I may have an opening," he answered at last. " What
experience have you had ? And when he found that the
lad was the son of a farmer and miller of Spencer, Massachusetts. hence accustomed since childhood to working with
the crude agricultural and grinding machinery of that day ;
and that he had had two years' actual experience with industrial machinery as a hand in a cotton machinery factory
at Lowell, and as a hemp carder in a machine shop in Cambridge, he waited to hear no more, but engaged him as a
helper, and immediately set him to doing simple repair
work.
That day Ari Davis was the unwitting servant of fate,
for " the ungainly but manly and engaging youth who
stood before him asking for employment," says Robert E.
Martin, writing in a recent number of Popular Mechanics,
was Elias Howe, " destined within a few short years to
invent and perfect the sewing machine, that wonderful
contrivance that freed millions of women in every land
from the thraldom of toil, and made possible the amazing
variety and cheapness of modern clothing and virtually all
other textile products — the device which, of all those developed in the golden age of invention that began in the
nineteenth century, is possibly the most useful in the life
of every human being.
" Because, strange though it may seem, had Davis sent
young Howe away that day, the latter might never have
invented the sewing machine. It was in the Davis shop that
the idea for the machine occurred to him, or rather was
thrust upon him. It was in that shop that he acquired
most of the skill with tools that enabled him to fashion and
assemble the intricate parts of his first machine. And it
was in that same shop, while performing the amazing variety of mechanical tasks for which its proprietor contracted, that young Howe learned resourcefulness, developed his ingenuity, and caught the handy man's knack of
making whatever materials and tools he had at hand serve
for the job he had to do."
It was only a few months after Elias Howe joined Davis'
staff of workmen, as Mr. Martin tells the story, that there
entered the shop one day a man with a large bundle, which
he carried very carefully, as though it contained something
precious. Removing the wrappings, he drew out an elaborate contrivance of wood, a triumph of the whittler's art.
Moving a lever at its base back and forth, he set into motion the weird assortment of cogs, wheels, and driving rods.
" What is it 1" inquired Mr. Davis, with just the suspicion of a smile.
April
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" A knitting machine," announced
the visitor, mysteriously. " It's just
what the cotton and woolen mills
need."
"You're mistaken," said Mr. Davis,
who was an adept at getting rid of
enthusiastic callers bearing inventions whose commercial possibilities.
to his practised eye. seemed negligible.
" You're wasting your time. Why
don't you occupy yourself with something useful — a — a — sewing machine, for example? "
" That's impossible," exclaimed
the man.
" Not at all," Mr. Davis answered.
Elias Ho
Sri
" Why, I could invent a sewing machine myself, if I only had the time
to devote to it. Why don't you try?
It will certainly make your fortune.
I'll be glad to examine your model when you have col
pleted it."
The visitor departed, promising to think it over, and t
proprietor of the repair shop went back to his work, gri
ning over the success of his subterfuge.
His older workmen, used to their employer's wa3
laughed with him, but one young man who had been wor
ing near by during this interview, saw no humor in t
incident. The words " sewing machine " had sunk deep
into Elias Howe's consciousness. He had ambitions f
beyond any he had ever voiced.
His work in the shop had taught him that though soi
of his fellows might surpass him in skill with tools, he w
their master when it came to ingenuity ; and a-s the wee
passed, lie had felt a growing desire to invent somethit
himself. But what ? Now the
question was answered. He
would invent a sewing machine!
Why not ? It met all the requirements of the successful invention. It was useful. It filled
a human need which was wellnigh universal. The young mechanic felt strangely exalted,
and went to his lodgings that
night fairly walking on air.
Yes, he would invent a sewing
machine. The road to fame and
fortune opened before him.
And then for almost six years
Howe did nothing more than
think about his invention! • It
was not due to laziness, or lack
of courage. On the contrary,
the very fact that he continued
to think about it, is proof of his
courage and steadfastness. The
trouble was that the machine
failed to assemble itself properly U. S. National Museum. W
in his mind.
The first sewing machi
After six years, however, in Jr., in 1845, said by hint
1843, the idea received an im- machinery, in April of thi
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petus from two might \ fore, — love
and necessity. The young mechanic
had married, and was the father of
three children. The returns from his
work in Davis' shop failed to keep
pace with his added responsibilities.
To complicate matters further, instead of being merely physically frail,
he became actually ill. There were
times when he could not work at all,
and his young wife, in an endeavor
to make up the deficit in the family
budget, began to sew for the neighbors.
It was torture to one of Howe's
self-reliant
and sensitive spirit to
the
watch his bride become hollow-eyed
and stoop-shouldered from long days
and nights spent plying her needle.
For all his brooding over the idea of
[
-ing machine, never had he realized the crying necesor the invention until it was thus brought home to
He determined to wait no longer for the detailed
to form themselves in his mind, and began the
etion of a machine by the " cut and try " method
eriment. His first efforts — and they lasted for a
— were fiat failures.
persevered, building machine after machine. Each
though, failed to sew. And then suddenly it occurred
m that all along he had been on the wrong track.
t he wanted was not an automaton that would imitat$
or less faithfully the movements of a woman in sewbut a machine that would accomplish the same results
own way. A lock stitch — thread fed from both above
below the cloth simultaneously and joining together,
instead of a single strand moving
in and out; an eye placed, not
at the blunt end, but just above
the point of the needle — here
was the solution!
The idea seized him with such
overwhelming force that almost
before he knew it he had given
up his job with Mr. Davis to
devote his whole time to the development of his machine. His
friends and neighbors expostulated with him, some abusively,
calling him a fool and a shirker
thus to cast aside the duty he
owed his family to pursue a willo'-the-wisp.
But his wife, with noble courage, redoubled her efforts to earn
for the family, and urged her
husband to proceed with his invention. His father, with equal
faith in his ultimate success, offered them all a home on his
farm. Before the end of 1844,
f made by Elias Howe,
Elias Howe had completed a
the host seam made by
model machine.
At this juncture, with his goal virtually in sight, he was
forced to stop work on his invention through lack of funds.'
Desperate, he at last demonstrated his model to George
Fisher, a wealthy fuel dealer of Spencer, Massachusetts.,
The latter was impressed favorably, and offered to advance
$500 for materials and tools in return for a half share in
the invention, if it proved patentable. Howe agreed, and
by April, 1845, had produced a machine that sewed
smoothly and evenly. This machine is now on exhibit in
the United States National Museum, as you will notice
from the illustration.
After sewing a suit of clothes for Mr. Fisher and one for
himself, Howe invited several Boston tailors to inspect his
machine. They declined, so he took his model to the Quincy
Hall Clothing Factory, and for two weeks demonstrated
it to all who visited the place. But human nature's proverbial distrust of anything new held people off. Boston
remained indifferent, unfriendly even, both to the invention
and to its inventor. Howe gritted his teeth, and set to
work building a second model for the Patent Office in
Washington.
During the nine years he had been dreaming about and
working on his invention, it had seemed to Howe that with
the patent papers in his hand his long struggle would be
over. On the contrary, discouragements worse than any
he had experienced before arose to confront him. He exhibited his machine at a fair, but no one would either buy
it or rent it. George Fisher, who had financed him to the
extent of $2,000, began to complain. Wherever he showed
his machine, it met either indifference or ridicule. Slowly
but certainly, poverty, ill health, and his failure to arouse
public interest in his invention began to undermine Howe's
morale.
He sent his brother to London, and the latter succeeded
in selling one of the machines to a corset manufacturer
named William Thomas for £250. Then Howe himself
went to England with his family, and for a paltry weekly
wage spent eight months in building a special corset machine for Thomas. When the manufacturer sought to persuade him to remain on the same terms to " execute miscellaneous repairs," the inventor declined, sent his family
back to America, and began the construction of another
sewing machine.
When this was finished, Howe had not a cent. He sold
it for £5, taking a promissory note in payment. This he
discounted, and with the proceeds sailed for home, landing
in New York with 60 cents in his pocket. Within a few
months after his arrival his wife died of tuberculosis, and
the inventor, sadly bruised in spirit, sought work as a
journeyman machinist.
Broken in health by overwork, worry, and the privations
incidental to poverty, Howe had every reason to believe
that fate had marked him for a failure. His days were
filled with exhausting work, his nights with bitter memories.
And then one day there came to him the astounding
tidings that the sewing machine he had invented was
proving a great suceess! It was a success, though, in which
he was not sharing, for others had seized on his invention
during his absence in London, and were reaping a harvest.
It was a situation that would have daunted any man.
And yet, penniless and sick, with his original model and
his patent pledged for debt in. London, Howe determined
to fight. His backer, Mr. Fisher, seeking to save himself
from total loss, sold his half interest in the invention
to George Bliss. The latter yielded to Howe's importunities, and agreed to advance money to attack the infringers
of the sewing-machine patent.
Through court after court the suit dragged, until at
last, in 1854, seventeen years after the idea of the sewing
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" He who argues in a rage lacks for good reasons."
OUR LAW
BY
rap the Meatus Watch.
Do my honest pail.
Care lor my body.
Keep a teal eye.
Sc candour and oltedient.
Walk softly In the =ulna).
Keep a sang in my heart.
Go ow Gas errands.
the grace of God. —
I will Ec pure Lad kind
and trot.
I will kap Me Imam
Law.
I will be a servant of
God and a Mend to
man
How Much?
" That's arithmetic," said Dora.
ESTERDAY was mother's birthday," reDora was the oldest of them all. She was bolstered
marked Billy Stone, as he walked proudly
by the side of Miss Fowler, his Sunday school tip in a big chair by the fire; she had been ill for
several weeks.
teacher. " We gave her presents."
" How much? " repeated Robin. " How can you
" How nice! I suppose you love her very much,
tell how much you love a person ? "
don't you ? "
" In plenty of ways," said Billy, wisely. " I'll tell
" Lots."
" Well, Billy, my man," said Miss Fowler, stopping you one right now. I love mother a. boxful."
With that he picked up the kindling box and
a minute at the corner where she was to turn off,
" don't forget our lesson last Sunday. You know marched out into the shed.
A light broke upon the twins.
what the Bible tells us about
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0-ho ! cried Harry, " that's
how true love shows itself."
what you mean, is it ? Well, I
Yes, Billy knew. He walked
love her a pailful," seizing the
on thinking of it, and presently
Teaching School
water bucket and starting for
his round face grew very sober.
DON'T like doing housework,"
the pump.
" Yesterday we told mother
Said little Milly Brown.
I love her a scuttle full,"
that we gave her the presents
don't like washing dishes,
.
said
Robin; and lie plunged
with our love. Today is only a
Or sweeping cobwebs down.
+
do not like ironing.
down the cellar steps after coal.
day off, and I wouldn't get up
Or making bread and pie:
Dora looked at the clock. She
in time for breakfast. I was late ti
hate to do the scrubbing.
had
looked at it five minutes beat school, I made the twins mad,
And sewing makes me sigh.
fore,
and had said to herself :
and I sneaked out of the back
' 1 do believe that my darling
door so as not to have to go for
" But there's one thing I do like,
In weather hot or cool.
mother is going to forget the
the mail. I can't see how anyFrom morning until evening.
medicine this time. I shall not
body by looking at the way I've
1 rust love teaching school.
remind her, that is one thing
acted could tell that I liked my
So, early every morning
certain,
sure! "
mother at all."
I rake my little broom.
But I guess," she said now,
And teach him how to hurry
It was beginning to rain when
And sweep the sitting-room.
reaching for the bottle with a
Billy reached home. He and the
wry face, " I guess at least I
twins, who had been playing in
And then I teach the duster
can love her a spoonful."
the yard, all went into the shelThe furniture to clean.
There was a shout of laughter.
ter of the kitchen together.
Till everything is shining
Mrs. Stone heard, and glanced
That room's four walls between.
Mrs. Stone, at work in the
Each day I teach the dishcloth
anxiously toward the door.
next room, looked out of the
To wash the cups and spoons,
" I hope that there is no
window with a sigh. She had
And all the time we study
mischief on foot. I'm in such
so much to do, and there was so
We sing the gayest tunes.
a hurry to get this sewing
liable to be trouble when the
I teach my little iron
done."
children must stay indoors.
To gallop here and there.
Kitty Stone had roused herBilly thought of this, too.
And leave the clothes behind him
self
from her book in the oldThe twins were hanging their
All shining. smooth, and fair.
fashioned
window seat to listen
caps up with a scuffle.
I teach my little mopstick
to Billy and the rest. So far,
To scrub the kitchen floor;
" I say, Robin," asked Billy
He says his lessons better
she said nothing. But when
abruptly, " how much do you
Each day than e'er before.
the kindling box was full, and
love mother this afternoon ? "
the pail, and the scuttle, and the
Robin turned around and
" I teach my little needle
medicine
bottle was a little less
To hem, to stitch, and run:
stared at him. What a queer
And, oh, he smiles so proudly
full, the covers of Kitty's book
question ! It was not a bit like
When well the lesson's done!
went together with a snap.
a boy.
At night, when school is over.
" Don't you think," she said,
" Why ? " he giggled. " Do you
And lessons all are, said.
" that all of us together, if we
want to write poetry about it ?
I teach my feet to carry
The teacher off to bed."
hurried, could love mother this
" Poetry ! " sniffed Billy. " T
whole roomful before she came
— Selected.
want to know how much— just
clean the
in and caught us?
plain how much. That isn't
stove out and blacken it."
poetry, is it I "
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" Our greatest troubles are those that never happen."
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H. J. Hall
A Happy Family
They worked like beavers. The last tin was hung
on its nail, and the last chair set back to the wall,
when Mrs. Stone's step was heard coming rapidly
down the hall.
" Dora, child, your medicine! " she said.
" Yes'm," said Dora demurely ; " I took it for pure
love — to you, not to it."
Her mother looked around the tidy room, and when
she saw how spick and span it was, and when she saw
the ring of smiling faces, she kissed them every one,
and her own was just as bright as the brightest.
" There's no other mother in the country," said
Mrs. Stone, " who has such children as mine! "
" There now, do you see? " said Billy to Robin.
" Can't you tell how much you love a person ! It
feels nice, doesn't it ? "— Sallie Campbell.
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Sue's Neighbors
'M surprised that you haven't become better
acquainted with your neighbors — six months
since you moved here," Cousin Lemuel remarked to Sue. " Out in the country, you
should make the most of all your neighbors." Why, Cousin Lemuel,—" Sue's voice and eyes
expressed surprise,—" what do you mean ? I've entered into everything. I've met all the neighbors, or
practically all of them, and I feel as much at home
in Edgewood already as if we'd been here a year
or two! "
Cousin Lemuel shook his head. " I've received a
very different impression since I've been here — and
you certainly don't know the homes of all your nearest neighbors."
" Why, I do ! " Sue was surprised out of her or-
dinary courtesy, then made a laughing apology .fors
her flat contradiction. " I really don't know whac.t
you're talking about, Cousin Lemuel, and you do, so
please explain."
" Hear that bird calling? " her cousin asked, wit
seeming irrelevance.
" Yes," Sue answered, surprised. " I believe I've
heard that bird before, now you speak of it. But I
don't how many of the birds ! "
" That's just what I was saying — you don't know
half your neighbors."
" Oh, if you.mean that ! " Sue dimpled back at him.
" ' That' happens to be an ovenbird. Listen when
he strikes up again. With a little stretching of the
imagination, you can make out that he is calling vehemently for "reacher, teacher, teacher 1 ' That's the
way the song is interpreted in the bird books. By the
way, we met several ovenbirds when we were out
yesterday. Don't you remember them — brown, trimlooking birds walking, not hopping, over the dead
leaves? "
" Oh, yes, I remember ; I told you I thought they
must have nests in some of our trees near by, from
the way they were acting."
" Yes, I remember, and that remark of yours was
uppermost in my mind a moment ago when I said
you evidently didn't know the homes of some of your
neighbors. Ovenbirds don't build in trees, but make
ground nests, very skilfully and cunningly hidden
among the brown leaves and earth. I've seen only
two or three of them myself ; but perhaps you and I
can locate one belonging to some of these particular
neighbors of yours."
" Let's try it," said Sue, with a stirring of interest.
" With your bright eyes you ought to know dozens
and dozens of different birds by sight and song out
here. You don't really make neighbors out of the
birds till you can call them by name and recognize
their songs. I notice you speak of them merely as
' little brown birds' or gray or ' red' ones. You
don't seem to have a real friendly acquaintance with
them."
" No, sir," said Sue, with mock meekness. " Anything else, Cousin Lemuel? "
" Yes ; while we're on the subject we may as well
do it up thoroughly. How many of the trees and
shrubs growing back there in your own woods do you
know by name ? "
" Very few," admitted Sue.
" I was shocked yesterday," said Cousin Lemuel,
with pretended severity, " to hear you referring to
the fringed orchis as ' that little purple flower.' It is
purple ; you're by no means color-blind. But to think
of being able to run across a fringed orchis without
any apparent thrill, and not even to know its name!
A real orchid, too! "
" I'm sorry, sir." Sue looked up with half-real, halfpretending penitence. " I suppose I've been wasting
my opportunities."
" You certainly have." Cousin Lemuel's tone was
decided. " Your new home is surrounded by charming
neighbors that you cannot afford to neglect. Suppose
we go out for a ramble, and you let me introduce you
to a few this very afternoon ! "— Selected.
" WHAT have we to expect? Anything.
What have we to fear? Nothing.
What have we to hope for? Everything.
For the battle of life is God's."
Today's duties are more important than tomorrow's cares."
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The " Backward Glance "
ISS HEYWOOD tapped at Hazel's bedroom
door. " I presumed on being your godmother, and came right up," she called.
A minute later a tear-stained, girlish face
peeped out, and Miss Heywood was drawn inside a
room that looked as if a whirlwind had just passed
through it.
" Horrible, isn't it? " Hazel agreed, as Miss Heywood glanced about. " You see, I was late to breakfast without doing a thing to this room, and then I
rushed off .to school, and mother left it all just for
a lesson to me. And, oh, Ned has had that nice Mr.
Wilson up in his room, and Mr. Wilson knows this
is my bedroom, and when I asked Ned why he couldn't
have had the brotherliness to close my door, he said
— oh, he said — he was so used — to seeing it like
this — he never thought ! " and a wet hollow in a
pillow which had evidently been doing duty before
received Hazel's unhappy face.
" Hazel," said Miss Heywood, presently, " if you'll
take orders from me for sixty seconds, I'll teach you
something that will prevent your ever having this
trouble again. I call it the ' backward glance.'"
Hazel was sitting up in surprise.
" Go stand by the door," began Miss Heywood, taking out her watch. " We'll suppose you are starting
down to breakfast, but as you reach the door, you
give one backward glance to make sure that your room
looks as you'd like to have it if the person whose
opinion you value most were to pass the door.
" You see several things to do, don't you ? But you
have just one minute to do them in.
" Now, ready, begin ! Pick up that nightgown from
the floor, and hang it on its hook. Take the slippers
from the bed and those shoes from the middle of the
room, and put them in the closet. Good! Snatch that
towel from the back of the chair, and hang it on the
rack. Lay those gloves and dangling ribbons and that
collar inside the drawer, and close all the drawers.
Quick, please ! Take that tangled mass of bed clothing
and turn it smoothly over the foot of the bed. Lay the
pillows on that chair by the window, and throw up
the window. Good ! Hazel Marston, you did all that
in one minute 1 "
" You stretched it ! " laughed Hazel, breathless with
the race.
" Not one second," denied Miss Heywood, " and if
my room looks tidier than yours today, it is simply
because I never, from the hour it was taught me, have
forgotten to give the backward glance as I reached
my door. Tell me, now," and she took the girl's face
in both her hands, " wouldn't it pay to get up just
one minute earlier? "—Selected.
A Dying Race
(Continued from page 7)
An officer from an American whaling vessel, on
coming ashore to purchase food of the natives, was
seized by them, stripped of his clothing, and carried
inland, where drums began to beat and preparations
were made for a cannibal feast. He was bound and
tortured by having his thumbs bent backward. Kekela hurried inland to where the natives were gathered, and entering in among them, began making
offers for the release of the prisoner. At last the,
chief said, " Give us your new six-oared boat, and you
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u►ay have him." The boat had been sent out from
Honolulu to assist Kekela in his mission work, but
he agreed; the man was released, and later returned
to the vessel. Through the intercession of another
chief, Kekela's gun and some smaller articles were
accepted in place of the boat. Upon hearing of the
incident, President Lincoln sent him a beautiful gold
watch engraved with the name " Kekela." We saw
the watch in possession of his son Samuel, while we
were visiting on the island of Uapou.
The results of missionary work in the Marquesas
Islands have far from equaled the means expended
and efforts put forth. Rev. James Alexander says,
" No mission field in the Pacific has been more discouraging." And this is indeed true.
A sad spectacle meets the eye of the visitor today.
Once these islands were teeming with population. We
are told that the valley of Taiohae alone had a population of at least 2,000 before the white man gained
possession; and today, by actual count, its total population, native and European, is only 129.
One is filled with deep pity as he contemplates the
sudden disappearance of a race so numerous, strong,
and vigorous only one hundred years ago. One writer
says of them, " I was especially struck by the physical
strength and beauty they displayed." Figueroa, who
described Mendalia's voyage of discovery, speaks of
their " good stature and fine form." Captain Cook,
who also visited this group in the early days, says,
" They were in almost every instance of lofty stature,
scarcely ever less than six feet in height." But the
once-flourishing population became the unfortunate
subjects of diseases brought by their, white visitors,
which rapidly decimated their numbers.
It was about the year 1863 that a Peruvian slave
ship with smallpox on board, called at the island of
Nukahiva. The simple native people, knowing nothing about sanitation or quarantine, were unable to
cope with such a disease, and in a few weeks whole
families and villages were wiped out by this dread
disease. Decaying bodies and bones lay everywhere,
there not being enough well persons to bury the dead.
At another time a whaling vessel left on one of the
southern islands of the group a man in the last stages
of tuberculosis. The natives, out of sympathy, and
not knowing the nature of the disease, received the
sufferer, caring for him kindly until his death. This
plague also spread, and still claims many victims
every year.
A form of leprosy has taken and is still taking its
toll of human life.
A survey of the records of births and deaths is
proof that soon the Marquesans will have no further
need of missionaries. All will be gone. The official
who records the vital statistics in the valley of Hatiheu, where I am writing these lines, told me recently
that during the nine months just passed, he had recorded thirteen deaths and only four births.
Probably in few islands of the Pacific have natives
debauched themselves as in the Marquesas. Beer and
wine and stronger drinks were frequently given to
workmen by their employers. At one time five saloons
lined the shore of Taiohae Bay. The white man
brought his rum, tobacco, tea, and coffee, offering
them for sale, all of which the Marquesan readily
purchased as fast as his purse, or his cocoanut trees,
would allow. When unable to secure the white man's
rum, the native made and still makes his own, this
being a vile concoction. When the white man intro-
" It is useless to fret before trouble comes, or growl after it goes away."
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tea, the native chose his own way of brewing
it, putting a quarter or half pound of tea in one teakettle of water, producing a very black beverage,
which he drinks either hot or cold without the addition of milk or sugar.
The Chinese at one time imported opium, and sold
it to the natives of these islands. The Marquesan did
not learn to smoke opium, but he chewed it or ate it
instead. Many, many were the addicts to this drug
before the government took the matter in hand and
stopped its importation. The native would go long
distances for it, or do a good day's work for a single
small pill.
Poor eyesight of natives before middle age is very
common. I have been on no island of the Eastern
Pacific where so many suffer from failing eyesight as
here. We have been unable to secure Bibles with
large print for these people, and many are unable to
read the print of the small Bibles that we have.
Curiosity led me to search into the cause of their
eye weaknesses, and I think I am quite safe in saying that the past debauchery, with the excessive use
of tobacco by the present generation, is sufficient explanation. Nature cannot bear up forever under mistreatment, and today mute evidence is proclaiming
the truthfulness of the words, " Whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap."
Dear friends, think not too harshly of these unfortunate people whom boasted white civilization has
caused to fall so low; but with hearts full of sympathy, pray with us to the God of heaven that their
dull ears may be attuned by heaven to hear the message of life that we bring to them.
Auced
a a a
Elias Howe and His Sewing Machine
(Concluded from page 9)
machine had first taken root in Howe's mind, his
patent was declared valid, and the judge decreed that
all who had infringed upon it must pay tribute to him.
So extensive had the manufacture of sewing machines
become, however, that money began to flow into the
pockets of the impoverished inventor in a flood that
surprised him. Up to the time of his death it is estimated that royalties amounting to more than $2,000,000 were paid him, an immense sum in that day.
Today the civilized world owes a debt of gratitude
which it can never pay to the brave and dauntless man
who in the face of sickness, ridicule, neglect, discouragement, injustice, and slander, struggled on to perfect the sewing machine which is in almost universal
use at the present time.
Our Counsel Corner
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"Is it considered wrong for one to wear a dress that is beaded?
I do not mean one that is trimmed to the extreme, but one with
a neat design beaded on skirt, sleeves, etc. I did not know that
it was any worse to embroider with beads than with anything
else, but oite lady told me that it was wrong to wear a beaded
article, though she uses common embroidery on clothes. Please
tell me which is right."
There are certain principles that should determine the dress
of Christians. God Himself has given the principles, but their
working out must remain largely with the individual. It will be
helpful to study the instruction that has been given on the subject of dress. Look in the index for the subject " Dress " in
" The Ministry of Healing," " Counsels to Teachers," and the
" Testimonies," especially Volumes I, II, and IV.
April 27, 1926
Clothing is provided for warmth and for a covering. Then
let us consider modesty and health and comfort in planning
clothing. These are too little considered in this time.
Ornamentation of clothing requires time and money, therefore, we must take both into consideration. Plainness of dress
is becoming to Christians. Cheap, shoddy material should not
be used, but rather, material that is durable and neat in
appearance.
It is well not to strain at gnats and swallow something larger.
So far as bead embroidery and floss embroidery are concerned,
I know no difference. I know no reason why glass is sinful and
silk thread not sinful. I do, however, well remember when I,
too, planned to put a bit of bead trimming on a blouse. A sister
who was innocent of my intentions spoke in such decided terms
against bead trimming that I decided, if beads make my brother
(or sister) to offend, I will wear no beads while the world
stands. (See 1 Cor. 8: 13.)
P. H. W.
The Sabbath School
Young People's Lesson
VI - Watchful Preparation
(May 8)
LESSON SCRIPTURE: Matt. 24: 32-51.
PARALLEL SCRIPTURES: Mark 13: 28-33; Luke 21: 29-38.
MEMORY VERSE: Matt. 24: 36.
LESSON HELP: " The Desire of Ages," pp. 832-636.
Questions
Parable of the Fig Tree
1. After relating some of the events that were to take placebefore His second coming, what parable did Jesus speak? Of'
what would all these things be proof'? Matt. 24: 32, 33, margin.
2. What announcement did Jesus then make? How enduring are His words? Verses 34, 35.
3. Who only knows the exact time of His coming? Verse 36.
4. What comparison is made between the conditions existing•
in the days of Noah and those preceding Jesus' second advent!
Verses 37-39. Note 1.
5. How did Jesus illustrate the separation to take place in.
the judgment hour? Verses 40, 41.
The Wisdom of Watching
6. Because the exact hour of Jesus' coming is not known,.
what admonition is given? Verse 42. Note 2.
7. What illustration did Jesus use to impress the need of
watchfulness? In what condition did He urge His followers to.
be? Why should they always be ready? Verses 43, 44.
8. What is the faithful servant represented as doing while•
waiting for his lord's return? Verse 45. Note 3.
9. What is said of such a servant? What will be his reward?'
Verses 46, 47.
10. What will the evil servant say in his heart? What will
his doubting cause him to dot Verses 48, 49. Note 4.
11. How suddenly will the lord come to such a servant? What
will be his experience? Verses 50, 51.
Notes
1. It is very evident from a study of the Bible that " the el'ose•
of human probation comes when men and women are going about
the ordinary duties and pursuits of life. There may be no•
immediate outward sign to mark the change. Human affairs
will be going on apparently as before. Men will go to their
offices, stores, and shops. Women will work, and dress, and'
visit as they do now. The children will play and study and
shout and run. The world will not know when the door is closed.
The door of the ark was shut seven days before the windows of
heaven were opened and the fountains of the great deep broken
up,' when there was as yet no cloud in the sky, no awful portent
on the earth. Noah and those who were with him in the ark
knew that they were shut in, but the busy, scoffing world didi
not know that they were forever shut out; they learned that
later. So shall also the coming of the Son of man be.' "" Heralds of the King," p. 119.
2. " Watchfulness is keeping awake! We are beset by temptations to sleep. Bunyan said that we are traveling over the
Enchanted Ground, the air of which is very heavy and sleepproducing. How dull we are to perceive the unseen, or to meet'
the great opportunities of life! . . . We had best wait for our
" Try and trust."
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April 27, 1926
Lord while engaged in carefully discharging our appointed
tasks. The church is a big household in which each has his
To labor is to pray; ' to serve is to be ready."niche.
F. B. Meyer.
3. " Meat in due season' means here God's message for the
last generation. The preaching of Noah was meat in due
season' for the people of his day. Jonah's warning was meat
in due season' to the inhabitants of Nineveh. John's message
was meat in due season' to his generation. So also is the
threefold message of Revelation 14: 6-12 meat in due season'
to the generation now living on the earth. Some will sound this
warning; they will faithfully give this message, whether men
will hear, or whether they will forbear.' "-" Heralds of the
King," pp. 125, 126.
4. " We have also in these verses a plain intimation that
there will be a class of religious teachers who will deny the
truth, who will say, at least in their hearts if not with their lips,
My Lord idelayeth His coming,' and they will indulge their
appetites, lilac like the careless world around them, and oppose
the teaching of the doctrine of the second advent"- Id., p. 126.
Topics for Round-Table Discussion
1. Examples of great judgments upon the earth and the
warnings given.
2. What will one do who is diligently watching for his Lord's
return? (See " The Desire of Ages," p. 634.)
3. What shows that God does not judge from outward appearance,
4. The result of neglecting to heed God's warning.
A Harmony of the Gospels
Continue the outline as suggested in previous lessons.
Junior Lesson
VI - Watchful Preparation
(May 8)
LEssom SCRIPTURE: Matt. 24: 32-51.
SCRIPTURES: Mark 13: 28-33; Luke 21: 29-38.
MEMORY VERSE: "But of that day and hour knoweth no man,
no, not the angels of heaven, but My Father only." Matt. 24: 36.
LEssoN HELP: " The Desire of Ages," pp. 632-636.
PERsoNs: Jesus and His disciples.
PLACE: The Mount of Olives.
PARALLEL
Setting of the Lesson
The portion of Jesus' talk with His disciples which is the topic
of this lesson, deals almost entirely with the preparation which
the people of God should be making at this time, for the second
coming of Jesus.
" Solemnly there come to us down through the centuries the
warning words of our Lord from the Mount of Olives: Take
heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged
with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so
that day come upon you unawares.' Watch ye therefore, and
pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all
these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the
Son of man.' "-" The Desire of Ages," p. 636.
Questions
1. After telling of the signs which show that His coming is
near, what parable did Jesus speak ? What may we know when
the signs He gave come to pass! Matt. 24: 32, 33, margin.
2. What did Jesus say of the generation that should see the
signs He had given? Verse 34.
3. How surely will His words be fulfilled? Verse 35.
4. Although His people may know from these signs when
His coming is near at hand, what do they not know? Verse 36.
5. In what respects will the last days be like the days of
Noah? Verses 37-39. Note 1.
6. What illustration did Jesus give showing the separation
that will take place! Verses 40, 41. Note 2.
7. What should each servant of the Lord now be doing!
Verse 42. Note 3.
8. About what should they be watchful? What should accompany their watching? Luke 21: 34-36.
9. If a man knew that a thief was coming to his house, what
would he do? Matt. 24: 43.
10. Therefore, what should those do who know that the day
of the Lord is coming? Verse 44.
11. What kind of servant does an earthly lord seek to set
over his household? Verse 45.
12. When is that servant called blessed? How will his faithfulness be rewarded? Verses 46, 47.
13. What will an unfaithful servant say in his heart?
Verse 48.
14. How does his evil thought bear fruit! Verse 49.
15. How will such a servant be taken unawares? Verse 50..
16. With whom will he receive his punishment? Verse 51.
Note 4.
Topics for Discussion
How to get ready for the coming of the Lord.
Danger in delaying preparation.
What does each of the parables in this lesson teach?
Notes
1. It was not because that generation living at the time of
the flood had not heard the warning of the coming deluge.
They had heard it so long that it had become to them an old
story. They "knew not," because they believed not God's
message. Having cast aside God's word as uncertain, they at
last looked upon Noah's work as a delusion, and the flood came
to them as a surprise. So will it be in the end of the world.
2. Speaking of the time when the record books shall be opened
in heaven, the time when the cases of all will be decided, Jeans
says that " one shall be taken, and the other left." The reason
for this is that one has confessed his sins, and is serving the
Lord day by day, watching and ready for the coming of Jesus.
The other has not made the proper preparation, and is not ready.
3. " Jesus has left us word, Watch ye therefore: for ye know
not when the Master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming
suddenly He find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say
unto all, Watch.' We are waiting and watching for the return
of the Master, who is to bring the morning, lest coining suddenly He find us sleeping. What time is here referred to? Not
to the revelation of Christ in the clouds of heaven to find a
people asleep. No; but to His return from His ministration
in the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary, when He lays
off His priestly attire, and clothes Himself with garments of
vengeance, and when the mandate goes forth, He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be
filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still:
and he that is holy, let him be holy still.' "-" Testimonies,"
Vol. II, pp. 190, 191.
4. " Probation closes; Christ's intercessions cease in heaven.
This time finally comes suddenly upon all, and those who have
neglected to purify their souls by obeying the truth, are found
sleeping. They became weary of waiting and watching; they
became indifferent in regard to the coming of their Master.
. . . If such had only known that the work of Christ in the
heavenly sanctuary would close so soon, how differently would
they have conducted themselves! How earnestly would they
have watched! The Master, anticipating all this, gives them
timely warning in the command to watch. He distinctly states
the suddenness of His coining. He does not measure the time,
lest we shall neglect a momentary preparation, and in our
indolence look ahead to the time when we think He will come,
and defer the preparation."- Id., p. 191.
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BUSY
WORLD
ACCORDING to a recent estimate, no fewer than 7,000 different
beauty preparations for the skin, lips, and hair are now on sale
in America.
THE workers in Uncle Sam's Bureau of Standards have recently discovered that the much-maligned wild artichoke will
produce sugar — a sugar sweeter by far than the famous beet
sugar which at present holds a corner on this popular titbit.
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MRS. BERTHA K. LANDES, wife of a University of Washitigton
professor, has been elected mayor of Seattle, Washington, running against the present mayor. The city has apparently defeated the city-manager form of government, which would abolish the elective office of mayor.
THE Daniel Boone Trail Highway, beginning at the Boone
farm near Salisbury, North Carolina, and ending at Los Angeles,
California, is to be constructed as a memorial to the famous
frontiersman who is one of the most stalwart figures in the
early national history of the United States.
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THE ne'er-do-wells in business fall into two classes: First,
those who operate on such a niggardly basis that they will not
spend $1 to make $2. Second, those who operate on such a
lavish basis that they spend $2 to make $1. To strike the golden
mean of these two policies is an ideal toward which to strive.
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PARIS recently had real prohibition for the first time in its
history, but it lasted only two hours. The saloons and cafés
closed for that period, with restaurants and shops in general,
as a protest against financial measures pending in parliament.
They objected to retroactive taxes and to being more heavily
taxed than the farmers.
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A $25,000 automobile with a trailer has been presented to
the king of Siam by the members of the royal household. The
car has a dining-room, sitting-room, and a bath. In the trailer
are a bedroom and a sitting-room. Both are furnished in
polished mahogany, and the whole weighs sixteen tons. The
combination cannot exceed fourteen miles an hour.
THE president of Johns Hopkins University marked the
fiftieth anniversary of that institution by announcing that the
university is to give up its undergraduate department and return
to its original principles of a foundation for graduate instruction and research. It will accept students who have accomplished two years of college work and offer them a three years'
course for the degree of Master of Arts and a four years' course
for that of Doctor of Philosophy. The college degree of Bachelor of Arts will not be conferred. President Goodnow believes
that the student who desires to concentrate on special subjects
and to do productive research work therein, isinow obliged to
give up too many years to general study in the undergraduate
college.
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IN the Himalayas, on the side facing India, the limit of
perpetual snow is about 6,000 feet higher than in the Alps.
One result of this is that various forms of life ate found in the
great Asian mountains at an elevation that seems extraordinary.
Among these are many species of ants, which have been particularly studied by Dr. Forel. Up to nearly 10,000 feet the
ants are very abundant, and even at the elevation of 12,000
feet four species have been found, and it is believed that more
careful investigation would show that they exist even. at 13,000
feet or more. A unique fact, not found in any other great
mountain range, is that the Himalayas possess an immense
variety of local species of ants. Out of 116 forms recognized
in the Himalayas, fifty are peculiar to those mountains.
April 27. 1926
ON March 10, 1876, fifty years ago, the speaking telephone
was born, a feeble infant destined in the beginning to be despised and laughed at by all the world save only its inventor
and a few men of imagination and vision. For many years
previous to the invention of the telephone, the idea of transmitting speech electrically had been dreamed of by scientists
and inventors. But it remained for Alexander Graham Bell, a
young and imaginative experimenter, working with apparatus
to devise a " harmonic telegraph," to hit upon the invention
which was to transform the dream into a reality. Even then,
after the young enthusiast had conclusively demonstrated that
elementary sounds could be transmitted by wire, his backers
urged him to stick to his " harmonic telegraph," which they
were sure could be put to some practical use. The years from
1874 to 1876 were hard and discouraging ones for the young
inventor. On a meager salary as a tutor of deaf mutes, he
lived from hand to mouth, and devoted all his spare time and
energy to his experiments. With Thomas A. Watson, ,himself
a mechanician and electrician of no mean ability, lie bent his
entire efforts toward running to the ground his will-o'-the-wisp
of a " speaking telephone." "If I could make a current of
electricity vary in intensity precisely as the air varies in density
during the production of a sound," he said to Watson in 1875,
" I should be able to transmit speech telegraphically." On that
memorable tenth of March, in the little garret workshop in
Boston, the first intelligible sentence was transmitted by telephone. Watson, hot and dusty, was in the basement of the
house, with a rude instrument connected by wire with a similar
instrument in the attic. Suddenly the telephone became articulate. It said, clearly and distinctly, " Mr. Watson, come here,
I want you." Many and varied were the troubles that beset the
young inventor for a number of years following the granting
of his patent. He was harassed by gibes and ridicule, and hiesummiw
brilliant invention was condescendingly labeled " an ingenious
toy" in the public prints. To make a living and to popularize
his telephone, he was forced to give a series of lectures explaining his invention, in which the talented Mr. Watson sang, in a
penetrating voice, into an instrument some miles away, and had
the satisfaction of hearing his efforts wildly applauded by an
unseen audience. Recognition came at last, however, and ten
years later telephones were not only tolerated, but depended
upon by many business houses, despite the poor and uncertain
quality of the service. Since then, the growth of the telephone
industry has been nothing short of astounding. Today the Bell
System serves more than sixteen million telephones in the United
States, and employs an army of 332,000 people to maintain its
standard of service to the public.
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Is' all the airplane explorations of the arctic come off as
scheduled, the neighborhood of the north pole will be almost
busy enough to require the services of a traffic officer. Besides
the Stefansson-Wilkins expedition and the Byrd expedition,
there will probably be one directed by Lieut. Leigh Wade,
U. S. A., who, it will be remembered, was one of the Army
air-men who made the first flight round the globe two years ago.
Lieutenant Wade says he will resign from the Army, and fly,
probably from Point Barrow, in Alaska, sometime in July. The
expedition is financed, we learn, by graduates of several American universities, and will be known as the American University
Alumni expedition.
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THE Rodman Wanamaker collection of rare Italian violins,
violas, and cellos assembled in Europe last season by experts
solely for concert purposes, was recently played for the first
time in the United States at a concert given in the auditorium
of the great Wauamaker store in Manhattan. Alfredo Casella,
famed Italian composer, led the musicians, picked from the
personnel of the New York Philharmonic.
As the result of a nation-wide campaign, the famous flagship
of Admiral Togo, the " Mikasa," will be preserved as a Japanese
national monument. From this vessel the admiral directed the
battle of the Sea of Japan in which the Russian fleet was destroyed. The ship will be embedded in concrete halfway up
her hull, and gangplanks will connect it with the shore.
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DURING the past three months, approximately 2,000 motor
ears have been imported into Egypt. Of this number 1,200
are of American make. Good roads are being developed rapidly
in Egypt, and in other parts of Africa as well. It is now
possible to go from Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope by motor.
"Revenge costs more than forgiveness."