AT OUR WITS END
Many of our great financiers are at their wit's end in
these days of bank failures. And when great corporations
are closing their doors thousands of the less fortunate
classes are crying for bread. Charity has taken on a new
role. It is now assuming great proportions. The starving
thousands must be fed. The sick must be cared for, but
where are the means to provide all this service?
The calls are coming to The Life Boat more frequently
and are more insistent,—just pathetic cases. A sweet little
eight-year-old girl with no mother must be left to amuse
herself on the city street while her father looks for work.
"Can you find a home for her?" the father says.
Listen to this letter : A woman writing of a young
girl of 16 who needs the shelter of our Home says, "Her
mother is a poor woman working by the clay and has four
children to support. She needs encouragement and help
as she imagines everyone is against her, and it is no use
to try any more." We must take that girl and care for her,
trusting the Lord will impress someone to send the means.
Here is another one of the many letters that have come
recently : "I am a poor girl. I have no money. Daddy
has poor health and hasn't been able to work much. I
need to come to your Home. Can you take me without
money ?" What shall we do when half the girls in our
Home today are charity cases?
A correspondent in a recent letter told of the loss of
money and added: "We look back and wish we had increased our donations to the Home when we were able to
have done more." Why not invest your money in souls
while it is yours to give? The Life Boat and the Home
need your support. Give and the Lord will bless the gift.
EDITOR.

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Table of Contents
PAGE

A Happy Woman's Prayer on Tranksgiving

Margaret Sangster 290

The Sanitarium Doctor Says
The Weightier, Abundant Life .

W. E. Bliss, M.D. 291
B. S. Prenier 294

Heeding Humanity's Call

.E. R. Potter 296

Abstinence, Not Prohibition

Irene Wakeham 298

Christ's Life Work and Ours

_Ellen G. White 300

A Marvelous Event .

A. Carter 301

The Human Touch

302

Voluntary Service Carries Red Cross Onward
No Smoke Consumer .

lames Walton 304

Janet's Awakening

Mrs. C. T. Redfield 305

One Year Old

Eva Carman 307

The Broken Vase

C. L. Paddock 308

Procrastination

J. M. Humphrey 309

When Father Prays

310

How Much Am I Worth

R. Hare 310

Lifetime
The Home Days

303

Edgar A. Guest 310
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A Call ..... ..........

Selected 311

Haunting Fears

C. J. Armstrong 311
311

Editorial Department

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A Happy Woman's Prayer on Thanksgiving
Dear God, there is so much of pain and sadness
Upon this earth, it almost seems that I
Must have more than my share of joy and gladness,—
The days are all too full as they speed by.
The little things—my baby's soft hand lying,
Like crumpled rose leaves tossed upon my breast,—
Yet other mother hearts like mine, are crying,—
Sad hearts,—unsatisfied, perhaps unguessed.
And other women sit alone, in sorrow,
While there is One who walks with me, Whose care
Paints in warm colors every new tomorrow,
Whose love is just as certain as the air!
The simple duties that I have; the sewing,
The dusting, and the dainty cakes I bake,
Leave me no time to feel that youth is going,—
I have so much to give, so much to take.
I have no time to spend in vain regretting,
My heart has never known a keen despair;
I have no sadnesses that need forgetting,
And so, dear God, I make to you this prayer:
Take just a little of my boundless measure,
Take just a bit—for I am selfish, Lord!
And place it, as you would a priceless treasure,
In some poor woman's heart where pain is stored.
And let her feel the love that is my blessing,
And let her feel my comfort and my peace;
And let her feel my baby's wee head pressing
Down on her shoulder. Let her know release,
For one fair moment from the doubts that taunt her,
One moment drive her loneliness away,—
Let her forget the memories that haunt her,—
This is my prayer upon Thanksgiving Day!
—Margaret E. Sangster.

A View of the Spacious Grounds of the Hinsdale Sanitarium.

The Sanitarium Doctor Says-W. E. Bliss, M. D.
Medical Director, Hinsdale -Sanitarium.
Reported from the Sanitarium Parlor Health Talk.

E AS physicians are anxious to have
all of our patients become as familiar
as possible with the welfare and care
of the human body. We cannot conceive of
any subject more interesting than health.
Health is the greatest of the many temporal
blessings God has bestowed upon His children. Without it an individual is so seriously
handicapped that he cannot participate in
his work nor enjoy recreation with any degree of satisfaction.
I have selected a few questions that come
to me frequently to form the basis of our
discussion. The first of these is:
"Can anything be done to remedy a dilated stomach?"
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goes to college and spends a great deal of
time and effort in preparation for his business career, and in the end knows little
about caring for his health. Very few people, no matter how many degrees in school
they may have, know much about the structure of the body.
The stomach is a receptacle which holds
about three pints, normally. It can of course
be greatly distended, since it is composed
of muscular tissue. In the paper yesterday
I read an article about the champion corn
eater. A man for the sake of the glory that
would come to him if he won, ate 37 ears of
corn. It is almost inconceivable to think
that the human stomach can be distended
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little respect for his own health. There
are many others who have distended their
stomachs in trying to see how much they
could eat, or in simply over-eating, but that
is only one way.
One of the most common ways of distending the stomach is the fermentation of food
in the stomach. Starchy food left in a warm
place ferments, or sours. You know that if
the cork in a bottle of wine is not secured,
the fermentation will in a short time blow
it off, even though the bottle is only half
full. In the same way the stomach becomes
distended with the gas that is created by
fermentation. This produces a great deal of
damage as well as discomfort.
I examined a young man today who said
he was troubled with aches and shooting
pains. He looked all right in every way, his
circulation, heart, and lungs were good, and
yet he complained. I found that his stomach
was in trouble, that he was combining his
food in such a way as to produce fermentation in the stomach and the poisonous gases
were being absorbed by the system.
When these poisons are absorbed they affect all the organs of the body, but especially the nerves, causing shooting pains. We
have a number of patients who have aches
and pains due to absorption of poisons that
are formed in their bodies. We all have a
certain degree of fermentation, as the food
is compelled to remain in the body for a
number of hours; if we are in the most vigorous health, it appears in a slight degree,
and if we are tired, and run down it is in a
greater degree.
Ninety Per Cent of the Headaches,
Are Due to Fermentation
Many times patients come to us and tell us
that they feel tired, and worn out. We are
able to find no serious difficulty or trouble.
Most of the trouble is due to the fact that
the energy that should be used in the ordinary activities of living, is used combating
the poisons of which so many are formed.
If an individual combines foods that easily
ferment, after a while the muscles become
reduced and the stomach remains distended
even though the diet is corrected. Now
comes our original question. How are we
to overcome this dilitation?

Exercise to Restore Muscle Tone
If the muscle in your arm is weak we can
put that muscle in tone again by advising the
patient to take exercises. Even when he is
too weak to do this, exercise can be given
by means-of massage. When the tone of
the stomach is once destroyed it can also
be restored by exercise and massage. We
have quite a number of these exercises. In
addition to that we have to caution the 'Patient to make the proper combinations Of
food.
Why We Have Sanitariums
This brings us to the question, why we
have sanitariums, instead of simply private
practitioners. The average practicing physician can prescribe some remedy to relieve
the condition. But he has no time to find
out what is the cause of that disorder and
tell you what to do to correct it. It is
usually only in sanitariums that we take
time to tell the patients how to conduct their
lives so as to avoid diseases.
Having the Food Well Cooked
On this subject of fermentation, let me
emphasize the importance of having the
food well cooked. Raw potato is simply
raw starch. There are a number of ways
of preparing it,—boiling, baking, etc., but
it must be cooked. The starch is changed
to sugar in the process of cooking. The
baked apple or potato has a sweet taste and
is very easy to digest. A baked potato
would never ferment if used with the right
foods.
When we combine fruit and milk, fermentation is often caused. A fig or date or even
a prune (which contain very little acid) may
be taken with milk, but even then there
would be some fermentation.
Acid Fruits and Cereals
The question often arises, "Why is it better to eat acid fruit at the end of the meal,
after the cereal has been eaten?" In most
eating places we have cooked cereals served
at the end of the meal after the fruit has
been eaten, but this is a mistake. Cereals
contain a large amount of starch. The
mouth is a mill, and there digestion of this
starch begins. If the farmer takes his wheat
to the miller to be ground and it comes back
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would complain that it did not make good
bread. That is because it was not properly
prepared. That is why it is absolutely imperative that we have good teeth and thoroughly masticate our food.
In the mouth we have three glands which
•secrete saliva. Every article of food should
be kept in the mouth until it becomes sweet
to the taste. The mouth changes the starch
into dextrin, a form of sugar. So if we put
food in the mouth and wash it down immediately with a sip of water, tea, or coffee, we
do not permit the digestive juices in the
mouth to do their work. All of this saliva
that is secreted is alkiline and it does not act
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sometimes become so careless with our bodies that we forget we are responsible. Then
when something happens to them as a result
of the treatment we give them we do not
like it. It is simply because we do not take
better care of them.
There is a real, personal devil. Some people do not believe that, but others of us
have had enough experience to know that it
is true. He tries in every way possible to
undermine our health. One of the times in
which he tried to tempt our Saviour was
when He had fasted forty days and was
weak physically. He may come to us with
some temptation when our health is undermined, knowing that then the mind is also

Dietetic Errois Bring Discomfort as Well as Ill Health

tion. If we put an acid fruit in the mouth
we all know that it would neutralize the saliva and its alkilinity would be destroyed.
The saliva would then have no effect on the
starchy food at all. This could be easily
prevented if we ate our cereals first and
fruits at the close of the meal.
Stewards of Our Bodies
God created our bodies, and He has placed
them in our care, just as a banker is responsible for the money placed in his care. We

weakened, and the moral resistance lowered.
The mind is the only avenue through which
God can communicate to the soul.
Animals have only a degree of intelligence.
They have instinct, but not reason. The cat
or dog will smell of a thing, and by instinct
can tell if it is good or bad. If bad he will
leave it alone. A human being, on the other
hand, will eat almost anything. We do not
use our intelligence and our reason as we
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taking care of our bodies. If we take care
of them, we will possess health. God does
not punish an individual by making him
sick.
You tell a little child not to put his hand
on the hot stove. He does not regard your
warning, and his hand gets burned. You
did.. not want the little child to be burned,
neither does God want us to suffer pain. He
says, "This is the way, walk ye in it."
Nature is God at work. The planets never
interfere with God's plan. If they did we
would have confusion in the heavens. The
beautiful flowers do not interfere with God's
making them beautiful. Man is the only
object in the creation who disobeys the laws
of nature, and thus brings on disease and
death.
The human body is a combination of millions of little cells. These little cells combine to form tissues, the tissues combine to
form organs, the organs to form systems,
but the mind controls all these things. We
have been told how to take care of these
wonderful bodies, but we disregard the
warnings. That is why we suffer pain. We
do not allow God to carry out His full purpose in our lives. When these cells become

disorganized they produce cancer. Cancer is
healthy cells disorganized, and eventually
causes death. When our bodies do not harmonize and co-operate with the laws of nature, disease and death result. It is bound
to, because of the law of cause and effect.
God the Great Healer
God wants every one of us to live out our
natural lives. He wants our bodies to be
used for His glory. But most of us want to
use all our energy on the gratification of
self_ Sickness in the world is brought about
by the -violation of nature's laws. The apple does not decay until the skin is broken.
It is just as possible for the human body to
be in such a perfect state of health that one
is practkally immune to the infectious diseases._ Most of us are not in this state, and
when an epidemic comes along we have
nothing with which to fight it, so we develop
the disease.
No, physician in the world ever cured a patient. The farmer cannot grow corn. He
can cultivate and harrow and irrigate, but
God grows the corn. That is all the physician can do—cultivate the patient "back to
health.

The Weightier, Abundant Life
H. S. Prenier
Chaplain, Hinsdale Sanitarium.

E WERE on board steamer in the Carribean Sea, when we took on a Moravian missionary at Trinidad and dropped him at Barbadoes. The glimpse of the
good man, just that little while, made us
think of the Moravians who made over John
Wesley, from a high English churchman to a
World-Parish evangelist.
A group of returning missionaries looked
down from the first class and intermediate
decks as our Moravian brother mingled with
the steerage passengers. Here he stroked a
little head, there he wiped a tear. His radiant face brought cheer to strong men, and
worried mothers found him helpful. His
kindly ways and tender words were an "open

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sesame" to the hearts of these humble folk.
Although an utter stranger, he was recognized as a universal friend. Many nationalities mixed and milled in common on the
steerage deck, but the one who could tune
to the cords of men's hearts was God's
man. More power to him!
Little did he know that the dignified
churchmen and doctors and seminary leaders envied this man's open countenance and
scattered good ways. How much they longed
to be like him who was so much like HIM.
He left us at the next port of call, another
English island, but our lives were emptier
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Atlantic making South American ports. The
steerage was a mass of teeming humanity,
but the leading spirit among ..men was a
strong-featured man with a robe and a crucifix.
He had brought his flock of refugees from
the interior of Russia. They were bound together by the ties of a common faith. God
was personified in that one man. The new
life and the hope of starting new homes in a
new country on a new continent was centered in that one person. What a responsibility!
Early each day his hearty "Good morning!" from the deck above brought a chorus
of salutations and goodwill from many voices
below. Their morning worship was impressive, and evenings at dusk, in the quiet
of a tropical moon, meditations were followed by a call to prayer in which all the colony
took part. There below, barely discernible
for the darkness, were the many souls shepherded and corralled for the night. That was
an ineffacable picture of faithful stewardship.
Would that we had more like him in all our
churches.
Visions of Spanish missions and colonies
passed before us. Trails blazed through
Arizona, New Mexico, and California, which
in time became a King's highway because of
men like that. Devotion to a vision gave
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water ports of our Great Lakes, and the upper tiers of the United States. This blessed
spirit of service of men, for men, along the
Louisiana frontier and up the Mississippi
was right there on the deck of a bobbing
steamer on the high seas. History was repeating itself before our very eyes. There
was a little world all its own with its own
man of God. What confidence men do bestow on character! In these stories I do not mean to eulogize
any religious system, but I speak in high
terms of the Spirit of God, that possessed
the spirit of real men, to sacrifice for the
love of others.
At one time I was invited to a college
center to address them at commencement. I
had put in months of hardest study and application. I thought my masterpiece would
stir the people, when in reality the oration
was only a passing lovely song. The reaction of my presence there with the humbler
people came from an entirely different
source. One little lady came down the
church aisle and asked me to look into her
eyes. She reminded me that I had prayed
for her when she was going blind and that
immediately relief came to her after that
day. I had forgotten the experience until
she spoke of it and we rejoiced together.
It was a life-centered weightier matter than
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From just behind her stepped up a man we sicians and surgeons who gave him one
knew in the old days as a wayward and bad chance in ten that an operation might help
man. He started: "We want to thank you. him for a short time. The local physician
You remember wife slipping away—broken and a Boston surgeon verified the same diagagain.
Well! there
she is! She
never had
in
body—we
despaired
of seeing
her nosis. We had been called in to his bedside
as a last resort to pray for him. _ He bethat trouble come back any more." I had lieved the Lord could heal him, and He did.
let that side of my service to those people The next morning he was on the streets in
be forgotten. Then there came the consci- uniform. He married the widow of his budousness of others. I could single them out dy who had died in action "over there" and
from that large congregation. Better than with her two children went into the West
Hampshire woods to lumber.
silver and gold, better than the adulation of
There he was months later, in the opposite
an immense audience because of public effort
is the "God bless you!" the pressure of a seat of a Boston express, a picture of vigorgrateful hand and the sincerity in a tremu- ous health and spiritual energy. Another
lous voice as they thank you for the hum- specimen of the healing grace of God, and
prayerful, weightier service for men.
ble service.
"The weightier matters of the law,
One day on the Boston express who
judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought
should I see but a young overseas buddy who
ye to have done, and not leave the other
had had his fling and who had settled down.
undone."—Jesus.
He had been given up by three army phy-

A Group of Welfare Workers Assembled in Conference at Hinsdale

Heeding Humanity's Call
[Realizing the increasing need for relief and welfare organizations to take care of the suffering
families of the unemployed, the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in Illinois has taken advance
steps in community Welfark Work. Evangelist E. R. Potter, Secretary of the Home Missionary Department of the Illinois Conference writes on this subject.—Editor.]

MEETING of the Seventh-day Adventist leaders in the State of Illinois was
held at the Hinsdale Sanitarium September 5 and 6. Among other items of importance considered was the matter of community relief work.
In the past our 5,000 members in the State

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of Illinois have Tever given liberally of time
and money and effort to help the sick and
needy in their own communities. Our records, incomplete as we know them to be, reveal the fact that within our territory $32,239
was spent last year by our members in their
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the contributions our members have made to
other welfare organizations.
The time given by members to do the
work of nurses and other helpful ministration would equal during the year the services
of a trained nurse for a period of some 12
to 15 years. More than two thousand families were supplied with clothing, and food to
the value of several thousand dollars was
given to the needy.
But our eighty organizations within the
State of Illinois are anxious and ready to do
a larger work the coming year. The members of one church, the Shiloh colored
church, located at 46th and St. Lawrence,
Chicago, are now installing a clinic in the
basement of their church where doctors and
nurses will give their services to those in
need of the attention they can give.
Concerning this work, Dr. Bundesen, Commissioner of Health of the City of Chicago
says:
"Relative to the course of instruction in
home nursing, which you are giving at the
__Seventh-day Adventist church of this city, I
wish to state that the Department of Health
is always interested in scientific movements
for the improvement of the living conditions,
health and life of our community.
"It is our opinion that there are no activities more deserving of support than those
which have to do with the conservation of
health, and the preservation of life.
"I am very pleased to know that you are
adopting this type of community service at
your church, and it is hoped that you will
have a great deal of success with the undertaking."
That the work of our various churches
and organizations may be better co-ordinated
and strengthened the following action was
taken by the Executive Committee of our
Illinois Conference during the time of the
meeting at Hinsdale September 5 and 6.
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ganized for missionary purposes including
ministration to the physical and spiritual
welfare of families and individuals, and in
view of the special need of physical relief
work at this time,
"Resolved, that we now form a state-wide
organization to be known as the Illinois
Welfare Association of Seventh-day Adventists, to encourage, assist, and help to increase the welfare work now being done in
our various organizations within the State
of Illinois and Lake County, Indiana."
These facts will indicate that Seventhday Adventists believe that mission work begins at home. And it is worthy of note that
Seventh-day Adventists as a denomination
believe that mission work should not only
begin at home, but should reach out to the
most needy in all parts of the world. Today
we find their work being carried forward
in 139 countries and in 394 languages, adding
on an average of a new language every ten
days. They are supporting in mission lands
8,297 active workers, such as physicians,
nurses, teachers, colporteurs and evangelists,
and for the past eleven years have averaged
sending out a worker every second day. They
maintain in the world field 95 medical units,
2,175 schools with an enrollment of 90,000
students, 58 publishing houses issuing gospel
and health literature in 141 languages.
The members of the organizations within
the United States during 1930 contributed
$26,500,000.00 for the uplift and betterment
of humanity in all its lines of activity, to
which was added $841,786.00 contributed by
friends during the Ingathering for Missions
campaign.
All these activities are carried forward in
the firm belief that the Saviour's commission, "Go ye into all the world" applies with
special force in this day of opportunity and
appealing need. We believe with William
Carey, the father of modern missions, that
our duty is to "expect great things from God
and attempt great things for God."

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Abstinence, Not Prohibition
Irene Wakeham
ROHIBITION. It should be written
Pr—n, for few if any admittedly "bad"
words rouse such violent debates, such
choleric word battles, such incriminations
and recriminations as this Prohibition.
In the first place the word started out with
a bad handicap. Its connotation was against
it. In our junior years we wanted to . dip
our fingers in that cute little inkwell and
make delightful splotches on not-so-long-ago
white paper or blouse. But it was prohibited. Perhaps later we wanted to throw a
packed snow spheroid in the general direction of the mayor's silk hat. That, too, it
seems, was prohibited. It naturally seemed
to us that nothing was prohibited except
those things that were wholly enjoyable.
Then later, when to a greater or less de-gree reason came to predominate over impulse, we more fully developed an already
present instinctive rebellion against prohibition. In America particularly this attitude
of independence is fostered. We hate restrictions, limitations, prohibitions. The
glamorous -myth of personal liberty still
wins our whole souled assent.
So that by the time we reach adult maturity, entwined in our make-up is a more
subtle, more unconscious, therefore more
insidious distaste for the word prohibition
than for the commonly vulgar word drunk.
- But we as the thinking, governing public
of America are capable of overcoming so
primitive a prejudice. We can think in
positive, not negative terms. We can think
abstinence, not prohibition. When we hear
or read prohibition, we need no longer think
ball and chain. We can think of voluntary,
active, self-control. We can think in particular of a measure we of our own volition
enacted in this country. The majority did
not need this measure. If they had needed
it, it could not have been put across. The
vast majority are capable of self-prohibition.
National prohibition is necessary only for
those who through hereditary weakness or
acquired tendency are unable to control themselves.
It is necessary for those who drive' auto-

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mobiles that do not know the way home, as
old Dobbin did. It is necessary for the industrial worker in our highly electrified,
complex, and mechanized system, with high
speed, high power, high tension, and exacting demands. - It is necessary for him
who does not vote for it. Be who can
take his drink or leave it, alone will leave
it alone for the benefit of society. He who
cannot leave it alone for his own sake must
do so for the sake of .society.
Beverage alcohol is itself negative in effect. To assure a positive from a negative
we must add another negative. That negative is prohibition. The inevitably resulting positive will appear in the future 'generations with untainted heredity, who scorn
the liquor trade as we scorn the dope trade,
who abstain without being prohibited.
Impossible as it is to obtain absolutely
reliable statistics in regard to the consumption of liquor under prohibition, that should
not worry the advocates of the law. The
assumption is of innocence until guilt is
proved, therefore the burden of proof rests
upon those who affirm that the law is being
transgressed. However, the following statement is made by an authority, and in reasonable fairness can be accepted as true.
"If the 20 million former drinkers were
all living and were unreformed, the 15
million gallons of possible liquor made from
diverted alcohol, plus an unverified 10
million gallons -from smuggled supplies or
moonshine sources, plus even such an unlikely estimate as• 250 million gallons of
home brew, would give each of the old time
drinkers less than 13% of their former 108.7
gallons yearly." Unlucky—for them—or is
it?
One wrong never excuses another. To say
that other laws are violated does not condone the violations of the prohibition laws.
Such comparisons are useful merely to restore in our minds a reasonable sense of
proportion. To deflate the bubble of frontpage publicity that has somehow been
blown about the bibulous orgies that still
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Eighteenth Amendment is not the one most
violated. "It is conservative to estimate
that there are more violations of the traffic
laws in the United States in a week than
there are violations of the prohibition laws
in a year."
On this subject of enforcement, there is
considerable cloudy misunderstanding. When
a bandit commits a hold-up, perhaps shoots
a man, and is later caught and meted out a

Under Prohibition, Mother and Children
Welcome Daddy's Return, Instead of Dreading it, as Formerly.

summary justice, do we say that law is unenforced? Yet claims of the wets that prohibition is disregarded are based on the number of arrests and raids made by prohibition
officers. Such raids and arrests only prove
that enforcement exists.
Another grim proof of the reality of the
contest is the death toll of federal agents.
During the past decade, from January 17,
1920, to June 30, 1930, eighty-five good men
and true were killed in the pursuit of their
duty. They are dead. No amount of glorying over their martyrdom will bring them
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to the state. But let us look at the other
side. Deaths from alcoholism during 1916
averaged 58 per million population. That
was about the average for the period from
1901 to 1917. Under national prohibition
the highest rate for any one year (1926) was
39 per million population. On this basis it
can be shown that there were 16,000 fewer
alcoholism deaths in the first seven years of
national prohibition than there would have
been had there prevailed the average preprohibition rate of the, years 1912 to 1917.
Taking year for year and life for life, for
each prohibition agent who died with his
boots on there are 269 persons living who
would have died had he failed.
I could quote statements supporting prohibition by scientists from Einstein to Edison, by financiers from Ford to Samuel
Crowther, but to what point? They have
had their say. Why should I?
I was not yet in my teens when the
Eighteenth Amendment became a part of
our glorious constitution. At no time in
my life have I seen, smelled, or tasted alcoholic liquors. Though I have frequented
large cities from Chicago to Denver I have
never seen a person drunk. I have never
passed a driver who was any more tipsy
than I must have seemed when I learned
to drive. I believe I am merely one of thousands.
When I read of the agitation for repeal, I
think of this great country,—of these
thouSands who, like me, know of liquor only
from second hand sources. Shall we and
each succeeding generation insist on learning first hand the grim realities of the liquor
traffic? Will this great people, that have so
characteristically relegated the memories of
pre-war conditions to that hazy classification
"the good old days"—will this nation insist
on learning all over again the hundred-year
lesson of total abstinence?

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Christ's Life Work and Ours
Ellen G. White
E READ of One who walked on this
earth in meekness and lowliness, who
went about "doing good," who spent
His life in loving service, comforting the
sorrowing, ministering to the needy, lifting
up the bowed down. He had no home in
this world, only as the kindness of His
friends provided for Him as a wayfarer. Yet
it was heaven to be in His presence. Day
by day He met trials and temptations, yet
He did not fail or become discOuraged. He
was surrounded by transgression, yet He
kept His Father's commandments. He was
always patient and cheerful, and the afflicted
hailed Him as a messenger of life and peace
and health. He saw the needs of men and
women, and to all He gives the invitation,
"Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take
My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, for I
am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall
find rest unto your souls. For My yoke
is easy and My burden is light."
What an example Christ has left us in
His life-work! Who of His children are
living as He did, for the glory of. God? He
is the light of the world, and he who works
successfully for the Master must kindle his
taper from His divine life.
To His disciples Christ said, "Ye are the
salt of the earth; but if the salt have lost its
savor, it is henceforth good for nothing but
to be cast out, and trodden underfoot of
men." How careful then we should be to
follow the example of Christ in our life-work.
Unless we do this, we are worthless to the
world,—salt which has lost its savor. . . .
God uses a diversity of talents in His
cause. He carries on His work for the
church by a variety of instruments. No man
who desires to make of himself the only
teacher in the church is working for God.
No one who says, I want my influence only
to tell in the church over which I preside,
is letting his light shine for God. Those
who areuncourteous to their fellow-workers
must reckon with God. By their influence
they, keep out of the church the light which

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God desires His people to have. They manifest a spirit which God cannot endorse.
Christ the Pattern
Christ was sent to the world to look after
His Father's interests. He is our pattern
in all things. The variety of His teaching
is a lesson we need/ to study.
All workers are not alike in their understanding and- experience or in their administration of the Word. Some are constantly

"He Did Not Fail or Become Discouraged"

partaking of Christ's flesh and blood. They
eat the leaves of the tree of life. They are
constant learners in the school of Christ.
They make daily progress in goodness, and
gain an experience which fits them to labor
for the Master. Their influence is a savor
of life unto life. So spiritually minded are
they that they readily discern spiritual things.
The Bible is their study. Magazines, newspapers, and books which treat of nothing
heavenly or divine have no attraction for
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stantly more precious to them. God draws
near and speaks to them in language which
cannot be misunderstood.
There are others who have not learned how
to fix their minds so intently upon the Scriptures that they draw from them each day a
fresh supply of grace.
Some men have a special message from
heaven. They are to be sent to waken the
people, not to hover over the churches to
their own detriment and the hindrance of
the work of God. It does a church no good
to have two or three ministers waiting upon
it. Were these ministers to go forth to
labor for those in darkness, their work would
show some results. Let the experienced
men take the young men who are preparing
for the ministry and go forth into new territory to proclaim the message of warning.
Those who believe the truth will be greatly blessed as they impart the blessings God
has given them, letting their light shine
forth in good works. As they let their light
shine by personal piety, by revealing sound
principles in all business transactions, they
will magnify the principles of God's law.
God calls upon His workers to annex new
territory for Him. With intense earnestness
we are to work for those who are without
hope and without God in the world. There
are rich fields of toil waiting for the faithful worker.
The laborers in God's cause should bow
before Him in humble, earnest prayer, and
then go forth, Bible in hand, to arouse the
benumbed senses of those represented in the
Word, as dead in trespasses and sins. Those
who do this work will be greatly blessed.
Those who know the truth are to strengthen
one another, saying to the ministers, "Go
forth into the harvest field in the name of
the Lord, and our prayers shall go with you
as sharp sickles." Thus our churches should
bear decided witness for God, and they
should also bring Him their gifts and offerings, that those who go forth into the field
may have wherewith to labor for souls.
Who is working faithfully for the Master
in this age of the world, when the corruption
of the earth is even as the corruption of
Sodom and Gomorrah? Who is helping those
around him to win eternal life? Are we
cleansed and sanctified, fit to be used by

the Lord as vessels unto honor? Will every
church member now remember that deformity is not from God? The Divine Being is to be worshipped in the beauty of
holiness; for He is excellent in majesty and
power. . . .
God desires His people to show by their
lives the advantages of Christianity over
worldliness. We are to live so that God can
use us in His work of converting men and
women and leading- them to wash their garments of character and make them white in
the blood of the Lamb. We are His workmanship, "created in Christ Jesus unto
good works." Through us God desires to
reveal His manifold wisdom. Therefore He
bids us to let our light shine forth in good
works.—M S-73 A-1907.
A MARVELOUS EVENT
A. CARTER

"He closed his eyes in the sleep that knows
no awakening." Such was the statement of
a modern Sadducee in a newspaper report of
the death of a citizen. Is this true? Let
us see.
The Word of God tells us "There shall be
a resurrection of the dead both of the just
and the unjust" (Acts 24:15). So affirms
the apostle Paul, and Jesus Christ, Who has
the power to raise the dead, says, "Marvel
not at this; for the hour cometh in which all
that are in the grave shall hear His voice and
shall come forth; they that have done good
unto the resurrection, of life; and they that
have done evil unto the resurrection of
damnation" (John 5:28, 29).
The Lord here refers to two resurrections.
These important events are one thousand
years apart. "Blessed and holy is he that
hath part in the first resurrection," but "the
rest of the dead lived not until the thousand
years should be finished" (Rev. 20:5, 6).
Dear reader, what a solemn. question for
you to answer! Will I have a part in the
first resurrection? The apostle Paul was so
deeply impressed with the importance of this
thrilling event and preached it with such
fervor that the Jewish priests and Sadducees
were "wearied of hearing it."
In Acts 26:23 we read Christ brought "the
foremost out of a ressurection of dead men"
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ous event that Paul desired' so much to participate in. His great wish was "to get to
know Him (Christ) and the power of His
resurrection and fellowship of His sufferings,
being conformed to His death; if by any
means I may advance into the out-resurrection" (Phil. 3:10, 11, Rotherham translation).
What does the apostle mean? His mode of
expression in American revised version is,
"I may attain unto the resurrection from the
dead." That will be the first resurrection.
How do we know that this is a certainty?
Because Christ has risen "from among the
dead, a first fruit of those who have fallen
asleep" (I Cor. 15: 20, Rotherham). The vast
throng of redeemed souls gathered from all
countries will not be a confused crowd, for
Paul says, "Each one, however, in his proper
rank" (I Cor. 15:23, Rotherham); for "God
is not a God of confusion" (I Cor. 14:33).
"When before him shall be gathered all nations he will separate them the one from the
other as a shepherd divideth sheep from
the goats."
The same Almighty Power will no doubt
separate and arrange in perfect order that
multitude of the redeemed so that each of the
twelve tribes of the spiritual Israel will enter
that gate of the New Jerusalem which is
allotted to it and is distinguished by the
name of the tribe inscribed thereon (Rev.
21:12, 13).
As the arrangement of the camp of ancient Israel was a divine model of order so
the gathering of the spiritual Israel at the
time of the first resurrection will be controlled by the great Master mind. Then will
be the assembling of many nationalities, but
all in the perfection of order, each individual
-in "his proper rank." The stupendous event
of raising all the righteous dead from the
days of Adam until the second advent will
be a manifestation of Christ's power new to
the universe of God.
All will be "changed in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye" (I Cor. 15:51, 52).
"The resurrection of life" sets at liberty for..,ever the assembled hosts of redeemed humanity, every one having a glorified body of
wonderful beauty and energy. All will then
be fully "conformed to the image" of God's
Son and filled with the Spirit. Thus all will
be thoroughly prepared for that endless life

the Almighty has planned for His children.
Now is "the day of salvation," now is the
time to prepare for that marvelous and most
thrilling event, the first resurrection.
"As I live, saith the Lord 'God, I have no
pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that
the, wicked turn from his way and live" .
(Ezek. 23:11).
THE HUMAN TOUCH
'Tis the human touch in this world that
counts,
The touch of your hand and mine,
Which means far more to the fainting heart
Than shelter and bread and wine,
For shelter is gone when the night is o'er,
And bread lasts only a day,
But the touch of the hand and the sound of
the voice
Sing on in the soul alway.—The Crusader.

If radio's slim fingers
Can cluck a melody
From night, and toss it
O'er continent or sea;
If the petalled white notes
Of a violin
Are _borne across the country,
Or a city's din;
If songs like crimson roses
Are culled from thin blue air-Why, should mortals wonder
If God hears prayer?—Selected.

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Voluntary Service Carries Red Cross Onward
«vOLUNTEERS did the work for all of
us." In that terse sentence, James L.
Fieser, vice-chairman in charge of
domestic operations of the American Red
Cross, describes how the society so successfully conducted the 1930-31 drought relief
program, greatest peace-time task ever assigned to the organization.
In greater numbers than ever before in this
country, volunteers assembled beneath the
banner of the Red Cross during the last
fiscal year, ended June 30. Shoulder to
shoulder these legions of volunteers toiled in'
an effort to alleviate suffering in the 22
states which lay parched by the prolonged
dryness of a year ago. Fifty-nine thousand
individuals put aside their personal responsibilities in the drought area to lend aid to
their neighbors. Each of these persons gave
50 hours or more service as volunteers.
Many additional thousands gave less time
during the year. The wages of these soldiers
of mercy were the satisfaction that they
had helped to preserve life, health and the
spirit of mutual help. Without them the
drought relief operations of the Red Cross
would have been paralyzed.
Although many months have passed since
he uttered the tribute to volunteer workers,
a member of President Hoover's cabinet, in
addressing a delegation of Junior Red Cross
members said:
"The volunteer—in any service, whether
in armed forces of the nation, in a community project, in the ranks of an organization, or in the development of new resources,
or the opening of a new country—is always
the pioneer. He blazes the path which thousands of others will follow after him. No
greater satisfaction can come to a man or
woman than that of being a volunteer—in
any cause, great or small. His is the devotion of sacrifice, which comes from giving
of himself without expectation of reward.
One need not have great resources to enlist
in the ranks of the 'vOlunteers—all that is
needed is the spirit of service, and the willingness to devote spare hours to the cause."
Response by Red Cross volunteer workers
in emergencies is merely one reflection of

their faithfulness. Every one of the society's 3,500 local chapters maintains regular activities to help build happier and sturdier communities. The chapter work, particularly in the smaller communities, is conducted, for the most part, by volunteers. In
lesser volume, but with equal earnestness, all
the volunteer services which were carried
on by the chapters during the World War
still are maintained. In the last fiscal year
the tens of thousands of volunteer workers
outside the drought' area experienced a busy
period as well as those in the drought
stricken sections. To meet the needs of the
Red Cross, these volunteers made more than
200,000 garments and more than 3,520,000
surgical dressings. Forty-six thousand persons were served in canteens, and 33,493 motor corps calls were answered.
In one of the newest services of the volunteers—the transcribing of books into Braille
for blind readers—the unselfish workers prepared 221,847 pages of Braille to bring joy
to those who dwell in a world of darkness.
Glowing letters of tribute from the blind
and their loved ones have been received by
National Headquarters in large numbers
since the service was inaugurated following
the World War.
In order that they will be in readiness to
answer calls incident to disaster or other
emergencies, approximately 800 Red Cross
chapters in all parts of the nation maintain
emergency closets. These storerooms are
packed with surgical dressings, layettes for
babies, clothing for children of all ages and
supplies for the injured. These supplies represent many hours of work by women who
assemble regularly in many places to design the handiwork.
Since war days Red Cross volunteers have
clung to the tradition of providing Christmas cheer to the nation's fighting forces who
are far from home. Many months before
the Yuletide season each year hundreds of
women volunteers begin preparing holiday
packages, filled with comforts, for soldiers
and sailors of this country who otherwise
would be overlooked. By reason of this
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enthusiastically endorses,the volunteer service than the enlisted men.
Miss Mabel Boardman, secretary of the
society, and national director of the volunteer service, has served the Red Cross in an
official capacity for more than a quartercentury. During all those years she has
asked no compensation for her tireless work.
As a tribute to Miss Boardman for her service, President Hoover, who is president of
the American Red Cross, said in an address

at the society's Fiftieth Anniversary dinner
in Washington, D. C., this year:
"A woman founded the Red Cross and a
woman has enlarged its usefulness. Miss
Mabel Boardman enjoys a deserved national
honor for 'her tireless and effective work in
the enlargement of its powers."
Volunteers of all ages answer the Red.
Cross call. In the schools throughout the
United States the Junior Red Cross operates. There are 7,100,000 children enrolled
in the junior society. The purposes of this
organization are to promote health, to give

practice in good citizenship, to develop altruistic tendencies in children and to promote international friendliness and understanding. In addition to their regular programs, the Juniors join hands with adult Red
Cross workers in time of disaster or other
emergencies. They also assist in Roll Call
duties and in many other ways lessen the
burdens of the senior Red Cross Leaders.
An army of volunteers again will be mustered this fall to conduct the society's annual membership campaign. The Roll Call
is to be opened on Armistice Day, November 11, and will extend through Thanksgiving, November 26. Between those dates the
public will be afforded an opportunity to
become part of the society, now celebrating
its Fiftieth Anniversary in this country.
. NO SMOKE CONSUMER
I have walked in summer meadows where
the sunbeams flashed and broke,
But I never saw the cattle nor the sheep or
horses smoke;
I have watched the birds with wonder when
the grass with dew was wet,
But I never saw a robin puffing at a cigarette.
I have fished in many a river where the
sucker crop, was ripe,
But I never saw a catfish puffing at a briar
pipe.
Man's the only living creature that pervades
this vale of tears
Like a blooming traction engine puffing
smoke from nose and ears;
If dame nature had intended when she first
invented man, that he'd smoke
She'd have built him on a widely different
plan.
She'd have fixed him with a stove pipe and a
daniper and a grate,
And she'd had a smoke consumer that was
strictly up to date.
—James Walton, Our Message.
The man who becomes puffed up is ready
to fall down.
The road of humble service_ is the road
to true greatness.
Before you backslide you must first sit
down.

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These Twin BabieS Which the West Suburban Home Sheltered Are Now Bringing Sunshine
and Cheer to a Childless Home.

Janet's Awakening
Mrs. C. T. Redfield
Matron, West Suburban Home, Hinsdale.

ii i HAVE a different view on life altogether and with .God's help I aim to
become useful in this world like you,
by making people happy and reminding them
of God and His justice," said Janet, who
just grew up of herself. She had no mother
to counsel and direct her. She barely remembers that her mother sickened and died
when she was small. Her father seemed
not to care what became of her. He had
his haunts where he would go when his day's
work was done, and there he would drink
with his friends. Nothing else mattered with
him. Small wonder that Janet was a fa-

miliar character on the streets and participated in many a frakas among the street
waifs!
When she reached the age of sixteen, the
probation officer became concerned as to her
future and expressed a wish that Janet
should be placed in the State School for
Girls. To avoid such confinement, Janet
and her boy friend ran away from home
and were married in another state.
It was shortly after this marriage that
she found herself knocking at the door of
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few friends, and a husband who was unkind
to her. At the Home she found the shelter
and care she needed during the time when
she entered upon the sacred responsibility of
motherhood.
With her baby on her arm she again returned to try the art of home-making, with
which she was not familiar, only to fail
miserably. In a few months she came flying
back to our haven of shelter with her neck,
chest, and shoulders black and blue from
the beating her husband had given,her.
"I ran away," she said. "I can't stand it
any longer." She looked so thin and haggard we scarcely knew her. "I haven't but
one penny to my name. But won't you •help
me to find work? I cannot live with my husband any longer."
The Art of Home-Making
Most girls are taught not only the art of
housekeeping but also the art of real home
making. Janet knows nothing about it,
neither does her husband. He is just a boy
grown tall. When he found her a few days
later it was our privilege to point out to
both of them some of the rocks over which
they have been stumbling and how easily
the roughness of the way can be made
smooth when the love of Christ is allowed
to come into the heart. "A soft answer
turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir
up anger."
They both needed to learn how to speak
soft 'words, how to show their love for each

other and each to work for the interest of
the other, and together give their baby boy
the love and protection he deserves.
The young man confessed his sins, and
Janet promised to try again, so they went off
together.
Janet learned many things in the four
months she was with us in the Home and
she appreciated the love and protection that
was extended to her. Now she writes of the
change that has come into her home as both
she and her husband are trying to be a blessing to 'each other. "All that you people
have done for me, and taught me I shall never
forget," she writes. Then she says, "Such
kindness I have never known. Your. Home
is the only one I have known. It will always be Home to me."
Educational Work at the Home
We are constantly carrying a heavy burden to keep up the finances of the Home.
If our institution were endowed and we
knew the money would come when needed
instead of our having to spend 'our time
searching for meal to put in the bottom of
the barrel we would be able to build up an
educational department in the Home. We
desire to conduct regular courses ih home
economics and home nursing, especially the
care of infants, so that our girls while with
us can receive a special training to better
prepare them to face life and its problems.
We thank our Life Boat friends for the
generous and kindly interest you have
shown in the Home.

The West Suburban Home endeavors to teach every girl who enters its doors the art
of cooking and home making, giving them practical experience under the direction of a
trained Christian woman.

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ONE YEAR OLD
Dear little girl:
Words can't express the joy we knew,
When one day not so long ago,
In answer to a prayer breathed low
God sent us dear little, sweet little you.
Wee little girl:
'You can't do much this world calls great;
But more you've done in one short year
To gladden hearts and bring real cheer
Than stately men could undertake.
Gin' little girl:
How oft our hearts are swelled with pride
By things you do and things you say.
They mean so much to us each day.
Our hearts you've captured, let me confide.
God's little girl:
•,
For, dear, God loves you more than we;
This truth, I hope, you'll learn some day
To cherish in your heart for aye.
Oh, ,give Him your heart, and He'll keep thee.
•
Dear Jesus Mine:
From -whom in prayer I daily seek
For strength and wisdom—all I need
To nurture this fair lamb for Thee;
"Make her like Thee: noble, pure and meek.
—Eva Carman.
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HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO HELP
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The West Suburban Home will conduct a sale, beginning November
30, of all sorts of useful articles for gifts for the Holiday season. This
will be a benefit sale for the support of the Home. Every woman can
easily find or make some useful or ornamental article to contribute to
this sale. As a suggestion we would list the following :
Sheets, pillow slips, bath towels, hand towels, guest towels, dish towels, tray cloths, napkins, luncheon sets, baby clothes, baby layettes,
gloves, hand bags, handkerchiefs, dresses for small children, children's.
wear of all kinds, bed lamps, door stops, sofa pillows, boudoir pillows,
bed spreads, quilts, doilies, dresser scarfs, table runners, pictures, glass
and china ware, fancy articles of all kinds, anything that will be attractive as gifts.
Send your contributions prepaid to The West Suburban Home, Hinsdale, Ill., and help to keep its door open through the winter months.

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The Broken Vase
C. L. Paddock
NOBLEMAN of dissolute habits once
visited the famous Wedgewood potteries.
In the presence of a mere lad who was
working in the place he spoke disdainfully,
scornfully, of religion and sacred things. At
first the boy, who was the son of God-fearing
parents, was amazed and showed his surprise
in his face. As the nobleman talked on, the
boy manifested an interest, and finally broke
into a boisterous, jeering laugh. Surely so
great a nobleman could not say anything
wrong.
Mr. Wedgewood, the proprietor of the potteries and a devout Christian, longed to teach
the visitor a lesson. He therefore showed
him one of the most beautiful vases in the
factory, explaining the delicate processes
through which it passed in the making. The
nobleman manifested great delight, and expressed a desire to purchase the vase for his
collection. Just as he reached to take it from
his guide, Mr. Wedgewood threw it on to
the floor, breaking it in many pieces.
When the nobleman rebuked his host for
being so careless, Mr. Wedgewood replied,
"Do you forget, my lord, that the soul of
that lad who just left us came innocent into
the world? that parents, friends, all good
influences, have been at work during his
whole life to make him a vessel fit for the
Master's use? that you, with your touch
have undone the work of years? No human
hand can bind together again what you have
broken.
For a moment the nobleman stood motionless, silent, as if in deep thought. Then
he looked Mr. Wedgewood in the eye, held
out his hand, and in a frank tone replied,
"I had never before thought of the influence
of my words."
"An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in
his lips there is as a burning fire." Proverbs
16:27. Lives have been ruined by the careless,
unadvised word. Weigh your words, friend,,
weigh them carefully.
Ships in distress, buffeted by the angry
ocean, have been reached by rescue parties
and the lives of those in danger saved by the
simple process of pouring oil on the water.

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One drop of oil will spread itself over seven
square feet of water, and a gallon of oil will
cover almost a square mile of the ocean's
surface. "A soft answer turneth away wrath:
but grievous words stir up anger." Not often
will a soft answer be met with harsh, unkind words. When things go wrong in the
home, try the "soft answer." "A word spoken
in due season, how good it isl" Proverbs
15:23.
Do it better or you won't have a chance
by and by to do it at all.
Cheaters cheat themselves most of all.
To be happy, be friendly.
Work is what you make it, your best
friend or your worst enemy.

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Procrastination
J. M. Humphrey

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B

OAST not thyself of tomorrow; for
thou knowest not what a day may
bring forth." Prov. 27:1.
Satan is by no means a novice and unskilled in the soul deceiving business. He is
wide •awake and on the alert. He is well
aware of the fact that it requires different
methods and new tactics to reach various
classes of people.
There is a class of easy-going, respectable,
moral sinners that he can not reach with
strong drink, card playing, dancing, and such
like. Therefore in order to run them down
and wreck them for ever, he has to adopt
another method different from that of sin
and vice. I mean outward sin, that which
others might see. He has one, however, in
reserve, that he uses especially on them—
procrastination. Where all other forms of
sin and unrighteousnesses have slain their
thousands, procrastination has slain its tens
of thousands. It readily agrees with sinners
that they should give their hearts to God
and get ready for the judgment. But it tells
them, "There is no special hurry, no need

of getting excited over the matter. There
is time enough yet." Nearly every sinner
in Christendom, no doubt, intends to give
his heart to God and be a Christian some
day, but he or she says, "Not now."
Sinners do not seem to have awakened to
the fact that tomorrow is not promised to
man on earth. Today is all the time we
can claim. We are all within one heartbeat of heaven,—or hell—a sea of glass or
a lake of fire and brimstone, endless bliss
or endless death. He who expects to be
saved and gain a home in heaven should act
today. As God's word says, "Today is the
accepted time."
Bewitching word, the germ of woe.
Indulged so often by friend and foe,
On land or sea, where 'ere we go,
O fickle, false "Tomorrow!"
Her path is paved with pain and grief,
And ruined hopes so vain and brief,
Which faded like a blasted leaf,
O blighting bane, Tomorrow!
Her hands are stained with human gore,
Her council fraught with Satan's lore,
Which sinks the soul to rise no more;
O view-less foe, Tomorrow!

Before Another Sun Has Set Your,S1bance For Eternal Life May Have Passed.

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WHEN FATHER PRAYS
When father prays, he doesn't use
The words the preacher does;
There's different things for different days,
But mostly it's for us.
When father prays, the house is still,
His voice is slow and deep;
We shut our eyes, the clock ticks loud,
So quiet we must keep!
He prays that we may be good boys,
And later on good men;
And then we squirm, and think we won't
Have any quarrels again.
You'd never think, to look at dad,
He once had tempers, too!
I guess if father needs to pray,
We youngsters surely do.
Sometimes the prayer gets very long
And hard to understand;
And then I wiggle up quite close,
And let him hold my hand.
I can't remember all of it,
I'm little yet, you see;
But one thing I cannot forget,—
My father prays for me!
—R. W. T.

HOW MUCH AM I WORTH?
How much as I worth? I
I live in the fashion, with
High heels, why of course,
The girls would all laugh
shoe,
And then, let me whisper,

wonder who knows?—
up-to-date clothes,
what else could I do?
at the old fashioned
I like something new!

How much am I worth? Say, who will declare!—
My dresses are short and bobbed is my hair,
My cheeks, toned vermillion, are painted, I know,
But still do not think it is only for show—
No! Just in the fashion, for that's where I go.
How much am I worth? These garments are rare,
I bought them all cheap at Anthony's fair,
The ring on my finger may not be all gold,
But then, it looks nice, at least so I am told,
Though some may decide it looks rather bold.
How much am I worth? My stockings both shine,
My neck-pin just sparkles, a gem from the mine,
And when I step out in my Sunday attire
The boys on the street all look and admire,
And that you must know, meets my fondest desire.
How much am I worth ?—Here let me confess—
I long for something beyond a short dress!
The world with its fashion and all its vain show,
Is registered only on pages below,
It passes away as the swift waters flow!—
How much will my life be worth at the last,
When summer is ended and "harvest is past?"
—R. Hare.

LIFETIME
It isn't trouble for the bird to learn to fly,
The dog picks up its instinct in the twinkling of
an eye.
But life has countless lessons and endless blows
to give
Before a man can truly say that he has learned
to live.
The lifetime of a •bird is brief; give dogs their
food and drink,
They do not ever lie awake at night to plan and
think.
But man has endless problems to be solved as best
he can
And he must suffer many woes to learn to be a
man.

He follows this and follows that to find his folly
- out,
In search of peace and pleasure long he gropes
his way about.
His blunders and his failures cause him suffering
and distress,
For age discovers truths to him which youth
could never guess.
He slowly learns that character by strength of
will is made,
He has to teach himself to stand when other flee,
afraid.
So much there is that puzzles man at every bend
and turn
That seventy years are not enough for all he. wants
to learn.
He reads, he thinks, experiments, builds first his
hope on gold
To find at last that wealth and fame bring little
he can hold,
And dwelling on the lasting joys which friendship
had to give
He sighs to think that he must die just when
he'd learned to live,
—Edgar A. Guest.

THE HOME DAYS
When the goldenrod has withered, and the maple
leaves are red,
When the robin's nest is empty, and the cricket's
prayers are said,
In the silence and the shadow of the swiftly hastening fall.
Come the dear and happy home days, days we
love the best. of all.
Then the household gathers early, and the firelight leaps and glows
Till the old earth in its brightness wears the glory
of the rose;
Then the grandsire thinks of stories, and the children cluster sweet,
And the floor is just a keyboard for the baby's pattering feet.
If the raindrops dance ,cotillions on the roof and
on the eaves,
If the chill wind sweeps the meadows, shorn and
bare and bound in sheaves,
If the snowflakes come like fairies, shod in
shoes of silence, we
Only crowd the closer, closer, where the cheery
-kindred be.
Oh, the dear face of the mother, as she tucks
the laddies in,
Oh, the big voice of the father, heard o'er all the
merry din!
Home, and happy, homely loved ones, how they
weave their spells around
Heart and life and creed and memory, in the
farmer's holy ground!
When the goldenrod haS faded,. when the maple
leaves are red,
When the empty nest is clinging to the branches
overhead,
In the . silence and the shadow of the hurrying
later fall
Come the dear days, come the home days, in _the
year the best of all.
.—Margaret E. Sangster.

INASMUCH
If I should see
A brother languishing in sore distress,
And I should turn and leave him comfortless
When I might be
A messenger of hope and happiness,
How - could I ask to have what I denied
In my own hour of bitterness supplied?
If I might share
A brother's load along the dustyWay, —
-And I should turn and walk alone that day,
How could I dare—
When in the evening watch I knelt to pray—
To ask for help to -bear my pain and loss
If I had heeded not my brother's cross?

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If I might sing
A little song to cheer a fainting heart
And I should seal my lips and sit apart
When I might bring
A bit of sunshine for life's ache and smart—
How could I hope to have my grief relieved,
If I kept silent when my brother grieved?
And so I know
That day is lost wherein I failed to lend
A helping hand to some wayfaring friend,
But if it show
A burden lightened by the cheer I sent
Then do I hold the golden hours well spent
And lay me down to sleep in sweet content.
—Selected.

A CALL
"There's a cry in the wind tonight,
From the land where the Lord is unknown,
While the Shepherd above in His pitiful love,
Intercedes at His Father's throne.
"There's a call from the dark tonight,
That haunts the lighted room,
From His 'other sheep' on the broken steep
At the end of eternal doom.
"There's a pain at my heart tonight
From the heart of God it came,
For I cannot forget that He loves them yet,
And they've never heard of His name.
"There's a- sob in my prayer tonight,
When I think of the million homes
Where never a word for the Lord is heard,
Nor a message from Jesus comes."
, —Selected.

HAUNTING FEARS
Children alone in the dark often imagine
that someone is following them. Most childhood tales become the bases for other imaginary situations. Finally a habit of being
afraid is formed. If the child happens to

be a nervous individual, the stage is set for
a long career of misery.
Some adults act like children. They also
imagine they are being followed, sometimes
even in broad daylight. Attic stairs, dark
basement passages, narrow alleys, wardrobes,
and long unopened trunks are a few of the
things they hesitate to enter or explore. Such
dreads are, however, fairly ,easy to overcome, for one can think them over, and then
test them out. In either case the outcome is
apt to be favorable, for the fear turns out
to be what it is—pure fiction.
The worst type of haunting fear is that
which takes the form of supposing other
people are talking about' or secretly trying
to defeat one's purposes. Ninety-nine times
out of a hundred, this haunting ghost has no
more reality than the ghosts of childhood.
Some few persons, however, do develop such
haunting fears to the extent of creating what
are commonly known as persecution complexes. There are perhaps no other haunting fears quite so ruinous. The sufferer will
go to any length in trying to evade these
ghosts. The complex usually takes the form
of gossip about everyone to everyone in the
hope of building up a defense against the
imagined persecution. Many anonymous letters can be traced to these haunting persecution complexes.—C. J. Armstrong.

THE PRISONER'S CORNER
THE DEVIL'S MOST USEFUL TOOL
(Contributed by a' Prisoner in Anamosa, Iowa.)

It was once announced that the devil was
going out of business and would offer all his
tools for sale to any one who would pay
the price.
On the night of the sale, the tools were
all attractively displayed, and a bad looking
lot they were. Malice, hatred, envy, jealousy, sensuality, deceit, and all other implements of evil were spread out, each
marked with its price.
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priced much higher than any of the other
tools. Some one asked the devil what it
was. He replied, "That's discouragement."
"Why have you priced it so high?"
"Because," replied the devil, "it is more
useful to me than any of the others . . .
I can pry open and get inside a man's conscience with that when I could not get near
him with any of the others, and when once
inside, I can use him in whatever way suits
me best. It is much worn because I have
used it with nearly everybody, and very few
yet know it belongs to me."

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WILL APPRECIATE A CORRESPONDENT

(From a Prisoner in San Quentin,' Calif.)

It has been a long time since I wrote to
you, but I have not forgotten the kind letters that I have received from you, and
from a number of others whom you have
asked to write to me. The monthly visits of
The Life Boat, are greatly appreciated and I
much enjoy reading it. The Prisoners' Page
particularly is intensely interesting. I shall
be very glad to hear from any of your readers who care to write, and will answer all
letters promptly. It has been a long time
since I have heard from anyone, and the
letters that I did receive were so helpful- and
encouraging that I miss them greatly.
IT HAS HELPED HIM
(From a Prisoner in Waupun, Wis.)

I am writing this letter to tell you some
time ago I read one of your Life Boat magazines, and found it very good. I liked
it just fine. One thing is sure, I have read
a lot of magazines but I never read one
as good as the Life Boat is or one that I
have liked as well.
I see that The Life Boat magazine is 15c a
copy and one' dollar a year. For my part I
will say one dollar a year is not enough for
that magazine. Two dollars a year would
not be too much. If I had the money to
order that magazine with I surely would
be glad to give you two dollars a year
for it. But I have no money, so I am going
to ask you if you will please be kind enough
to send me your magazine for a year, and I
will pay you well for it when my time is up.
I am coming down to see you, and also I
am going to see if I can sell a few subscriptions for you, before I come.
A CHANCE TO THINK OF HIM
(From a Prisoner.)

I feel much improved after receiving your
nice letter and The Life Boat. It surely
makes it nice to see that some on.e on the
outside takes an interest in us. We feel we
are lost at times, but the letters and Life
Boat are so cheerful.
I worry so much at times over my loved
ones. I hear from them occasionally, and
they are real poorly, and I am so helpless

to help them. I sought to protect my home,
wife, and babies.
It is hard to pray, when I think of it all,
but then I sometimes think the Lord put me
here to give me a chance to think more of
Him. But I do miss my darling wife and
dear babies. They are so far away from
here.
MY FIRST NIGHT IN PRISON
(From a Prisoner in Anamosa, Iowa.)

I have just finished reading the September issue of The Life Boat, reading every article with interest. The rescue work, and
H. M. Tippett's message were at the head
of the list. I note with interest the account
of Mr. McB;ride's life-work, and am so
glad that God is still working through redeemed sinners.
I did not see -the July issue of The Life
Boat. Every number that comes to the institution is passed on to others until it is
worn out. I took a Bible Course with the
Salvation Army .last year, and have a set of
D. L. Moody's books-now which are very
helpful. The Moody Bible Institute and the
Salvation Army are doing a great work in
institutions. They offer no Bible courses
at present, but there have been several men
in study with them during my time here.
Our Christian Endeavor and Sunday
School class is growing in number. It is
hard to get prisoners to co-operate unless
there is an outsider working to help them.
But an ex-inmate can handle prisoners and
really do more with them than outsiders because they know he has been to the bottom
and has come to help them see the better
ways of life. I have experienced all this.
Fifty per cent of our so-called criminals
profess to be atheists, but when their tim.e
is ,up on earth they sing a different tune. 1
remember once being in an accident in Omaha, Nebraska, with the hardest hearted man
I ever met. Both of us were facing the
deep blue, and he really prayed. That was
proof to me that atheists so-called know how
to pray and God will rescue them. I can
never understand the goodness of God, why
the many times I faced death and 'yet He
spared me in my wickedness. But ;ow I
see. God started working on me in March,
1927, while I was waiting in Humboldt,

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Iowa. I was confined there 52 days, at which
time one of my brothers passed on to that
great beyond. He knew nothing of my trouble. That was the first that started me
thinking; second, I was imprisoned, and
third, one year later, a sister was taken by
death. Then came the trouble with my
wife, but God has sustained me in all things,
and is sufficient to keep me clothed in righteousnesss and in my right mind.
I like to tell of my first night in prison. I
was just like a broncho horse in a box stall
facing his master. In entering my cell, I noticed a calendar hanging on the wall. There
was April facing me, and a large picture
which cut me to the heart. Never before
had I had time to think clearly. - There was
before me a picture of Jesus and the three
women who were so dear to Him. There was
a verse of scripture for each day of the
month. I drew from my pocket a pencil,

unconscious of what I was doing, and drew
a horizontal line across two verses, dating
April the first and second, writing date of
sentence, and entering in, I noticed the
verses in fine print. The date of entrance
read like this: As we have born the image
of the earthly, we shall also bear the heavenly . . . Come ye after Me and I will make
you to become fishers of men. (I Cor. 15:49,
Mark 1:7). So I found earthly friends, I
found music, but yet no peace, no comfort.
But thank God, I found that old book,
called the Book of Books, sixty-six in all,
and I found comfort, sufficient for a multitude of sinners. Then and there I made
peace with God, and found a friend in Jesus
Christ our Lord and Saviour, who is requiring the right and only way of salvation.
Just seven months from tonight I will be
free, and if God will, I will start for other
prisons to help others. I covet your prayers.

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
CAROLINE LOUISE CLOUGH
Editor in Chief
D. H. KRESS, M. D.
Associate Editor

MEETING THE UNEMPLOYMENT
PROBLEM IN SAN FRANCISCO
Working on the basis that "I am my
brother's keeper," a group of people in San
Francisco have launched an extensive relief
campaign for the unemployed and their families, which has been in operation now for
several months.
Thus far practically all their help has been
voluntary service, a building was procured
rent free, food in abundance donated, 'and
tons of fruit otherwise going to waste has
been gathered and put down for winter use.
All this has been done at very little expense.
The unemployed themselves have given
willing service and the public have not been
asked to donate a penny.
What they have done is this:

Contributing Staff:
P. T. MAGAN, M. D.
J. G. LAMSON
M. W. NEALL, M. D.
J. F. MORSE, M. D.

Established a nickel lunch opened from
11:30 to 3:30 each day. This is not a
bread line, but a lunch room and delicatessen
where a wholesome, well-balanced and satisfying meal can be obtained for five cents,
also food to take home for little children or
the sick. The charge of a nickel a meal is
made to preserve the self-respect of its patrons and it also helps to provide the food.
However, those who have spent their last
nickel never go hungry at the Nickel Lunch,
There is food provided for them.
Tons and tons of fruit going to waste on
the ranches have been dried or canned and
hauled into the city and stored away for
further use. This has also been done by volunteer service.
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gotten in the effort to sustain life in the
body. A free educational service has been
established. A community reading room,
free lectures on health and diet as well as a
cooking school have been established. While
no religious meetings are held at the Nickel
Lunch, all inquirers are invited to services in
the auditorium.
The people benefited by this service are
not the floating homeless class of people who
frequent free lunch counters and bread lines.
They are unemployed clerks, restaurant
helpers, mechanics, musicians, carpenters,
plumbers, housewives, electricians, etc.,
many truly pitiful cases—but nearly all,pay
nickels, others gladly work at preparing vegetables, washing dishes, etc., and there is an
increasing number of fine type of women
and families being served.
HOW GOD RESCUED A MORPHINE
ADDICT
While in attendance at a camprneeting recently, I overheard a man along in years
say, "I want to see Dr. Kress." I stepped
forward and said, "I am Dr. Kress." "Oh
Dr. Kress," he said, "I am so glad to see
you again. I have thought of you so many
times." I looked at him but failed to recognize him. He then said "Don't you remember me? Don't you remember when in my
city fifteen years ago you called at my home
and prayed for me?" It all came back to me
then, and I was able to recall a part of our
conversation.
This man was a confirmed and apparently
a hopeless morphine addict. At the time I
visited him he was almost beside himself.
Again and again lie attempted to give up the
drug and failed. He was desperate and
would have gone to almost any length to obtain just enough to afford temporary relief.
It was at this point that I, providentially
it seemed, called at his home. After talking
with him and trying to assure him of God's
willingness and anxiety to help the helpless,
I gave him some instruction regarding his
diet, and then knelt in prayer with him. It
was a simple prayer I offered. It must have
been a very ordinary prayer, for the incident
was soon forgotten by me. With tears in
his eyes and a trembling voice, he said, "Dr.
Kress, God heard your prayer. From that

day to this (a period of 15 years) God has
kept me. He took away all desire for the
drug." He then informed me that even now
at the age of nearly eighty years he was
canvassing for our Christian literature and
trying to help others who are needy.
It is difficult for me to express in words
the feeling of gratitude that filled my heart,
as with tears in my own eyes, I put my arm
around the aged brother, and said to him,
"I trust we shall have the joy of greeting
each other in the hereafter."
The thought comes to me, Is not this
what it means to "enter into the joy" of the
One, "who for the joy that was set before
him, endured the cross?" Certainly no joy
could compare to the joy of meeting in the
hereafter those who shall come to us as did
this brother reminding us of some little forgotten kindness shown that God used in
their salvation. "When saw we thee an hungred and fed thee,". will be said by the redeemed. The answer comes back "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the
least of these my brethren, ye have done it
unto me." Somehow to me, meeting this
brand, plucked from the burning, was a
foretaste of heaven.
The day following this greeting, he came
to me again and said, "Doctor, I have never
told you, but a couple of nights before you
called on me, I had a dream. In that dream
I was told a healer was coming to my city,
and he would call at my home and would
pray for me, and I would be cured of the
morphine habit."
All of this may seem strange to us in these
modern times, and yet it ought not to appear
strange. In the past God has heard the
earnest and sincere prayers of those in need,
and in dreams he sometimes prepared them
to receive messages from His messengers.
In a dream God answered the prayer of Cornelius and said to him, "Send men to Joppa
and call for one Simon, whose surname is
Peter. . . . he shall tell thee what thou
oughtest to do." Acts. 10. This same God
still lives. It should not seem strange therefore that he should hear a poor morphine
addict as he pleads for freedom from a habit
that is ruinous to both health and morals.
Dreams, however, .are not infallible, and
should not always be depended upon as com-

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ing from God. When with Christ in the
holy mount, at the transfiguration, Peter
heard a voce from heaven saying "This is
my beloved son in whom I am well pleased;
hear him." Peter said "This voice which
came from heaven we heard," in other words,
"We have something that is very much surer
than is a voice coming down out of the sky;
we have something that is surer than dreams,
something by which all voices, and all
dreams, and all impressions, should be
tested." He said, "We have also a more sure
word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well
that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth
in a dark place." The words of the prophets
are more sure, for "holy men of God spake
as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 2
Pet. 1:16-21. "God spake in times past unto
the fathers by the prophets." Heb. 1:1. It
was not the prophets that spoke. It was
God who spoke by the prophets.
This has been, and still is, God's way of
communicating with his people. Anciently,
it was "By a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he
preserved." Hosea 12:13.
The people were instructed in those days
not to be guided by their impressions after
praying earnestly, or to depend upon voices
coming from the heavens, or to be guided by
dreams. They were instructed to pray, but
they were to look to the prophet for guidance after praying. We read "Beforetime in
Israel, when a man went to enquire of. God,
thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the
seer; for he that is now called a prophet
was beforetime called a seer." 1 Sam. 9:9.
"Men ought always to pray." It is a good
thing to pray and to inquire of God, but it is
not always safe to follow the impressions
received while praying, and conclude they
are from the Spirit of God. The fact is, nine
times out of ten, these impressions are merely our own preferences and desires, and this
is true of dreams. "The heart is deceitful
above all things and desperately wicked; who
can know it?" Since this is so, we read "He
that trusteth in his own heart is a fool."
The danger of being guided by impressions received while in prayer and calling it
divine guidance still exists. Jesus said, in
referring to the days preceeding His second
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false prophets." "If it were possible they
shall deceive the very elect." Referring to
such we read, They "prophesy lies in my
name, saying I have dreamed, I have dreamed . . . they are prophets of the deceit
of their own hearts." The Lord says, "The
prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a
dream; and he that bath my word, let him
speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff
to the wheat?" Jer. 23: 25-28.
While we are living in the days spoken of
by the prophet Joel when "old men shall
dream dreams," let us not forget that while
God may still give dreams, all dreams must
stand the test of. God's word.—D. H. K.
ECHOES OF THE PAST
Are you one of those who on a shadowy,
moist and misty day sometimes feel the
mood to go up into the attic and there under
the rafters rummage among old yellowed
letters, papers, and dust-covered trinkets?
The Life Boat office has an attic under the
rafters, too, with dingy volumes of ancient
correspondence, files of Life Boats published
in those stirring early days, and old dustcovered cuts picturing the stately, prim styles
of a quarter century ago.
Who knows how much of vital human interest reposes in those quiet files? Take
for example two old copies of The Life
Boat, one published in '24, the other in '26.
While these two Life Boats are comparatively young, they are worn and dog-eared
by many eager hands. Within dark prison
walls those pages have been scanned by
many men whose faces have lit up with joy
at the cheering message they have found
there.
One article told of a hope that will enable
a man to stand the loss of property, of position, to endure persecution, and even to meet
a martyr's death with a smile on his lips
and a song in his heart,—a hope that brings
the greatest blessing in the world into the
life. At the close of this someone had written with a worn-down pencil, "good reading."
Another article told the thrilling story of
conquest in far-flung mission lands. "Fine
to read" was inscribed at its close.
And so on through the magazine. "This
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appeared again and again on the thumbed
and yellowed pages.
Under a charming baby picture was the
caption, "One of the reasons why we must
keep our doors open." "Yes, keep them
open wide!" was written beside it.
A Home article entitled, "A House Full of
Joy and Sorrow" told of the babies, children, and girls who were being cared for.
"Our beautiful Jerry, with her winning smile
and laughing eyes has left . . . she is in
her own home." And at the bottom of the
page was written over and over like an inarticulate cry, "Our beautiful Jerry, our
beautiful Jerry." Perhaps the hand that
wrote those words had in happier times
caressed the tiny tousled head of some other
Jerry. Or perhaps it was merely an indefinable expression of love-hunger.
On another page beneath a picture of some
half-dozen Home children some heart-lonely
prisoner had written the pitiful appeal,
"Pretty children to love—bring me one!"
Who, after seeing these silent tokens of
response from unknown men, can still think
The Life Boat is unappreciated? May these
voices from the past stir us anew to more
faithful service for the unfortunate of earth
today.—I. W.

what can you do when you have 1,000 too
many men to take cal e of?"
"We are doing the best we can to segregate first offenders. A new cellhouse with
a capacity of 800 is now being built. When
it is finished we can do some segregating.
At present young men charged with a comparatively minor offense must oftentimes be
put in cells with lifers or habitual offenders."
According to the committee there should
be at least two physicians giving their full
time to the medical needs of the prisoners,
instead of the one who visits the prison
part of the time each day.
The parole board meets only once a month
and then considers more than 150 cases in
less than two days. There should be one
member of the board present in the prison
all the time to study parole applications.
It is to these men, in over-crowded lodgings, in enforced idleness, lacking even in
medical attention—to say nothing of spiritual
counsel—that we are sending The Life Boat.
By sending one dollar or more you may become a member of the Lighthouse Crew for
one year and your dollar will send Life
Boats into these prisons.

ONE THOUSAND MEN TOO MANY
The prison committee of the State Legislature of Illinois, recently back from a trip
through the prisons of Europe, found poorer
methods used in the handling of men in this
country than exist in the inferior institutions
of Europe, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Though the penitentiary at Stateville, near
Joliet, is well equipped with modern buildings, it is overcrowded, and hundreds of
the men live in enforced idleness.
"Why can't these men be put at some
useful work which would occupy their
minds?" queried one of 'the committeemen
during the inspection of Stateville.
"We wish we had work for them, replied
the warden, but we're overcrowded. We're
lucky to find employment for one-third of
/
the men."
The practice of putting two men in a cell
was also criticized, to which the warden
replied, "I know it's not a good thing, but

LIQUIDATING A DEBT WITH THE
LORD
I will relate a circumstance that happened
to me May 27, 1931. I went to town and
obtained $5.00 in one dollar bills. I used
two, and put the three one's in my pocketbook, came home and put it away till next
time. I went to pay for what I had ordered,
and lo and behold I had none. It has been
well searched for. I have asked the Lord
all along to show me where it was and I
would give it, all to Him. Today He has
answered. I opened a box and there they
lay as I left them, for I never could remember anything about where they could be.
So I will send you a check for two dollars
to use for those most needy cases you speak
of in the August Life Boat. The third dollar I am giving to our Sabbath School, so as
to liquidate my debt with the Lord at once.
—From our mail bag.

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NEWS HERE AND THERE
Miss Rose Andre, matron of the Sanitarium, spent a few days in Berrien Springs,
Michigan, with her sister, Mrs. Cummins.
Mr. J. C. Shull and his wife, missionary
appointees to China, visited the Hinsdale
Sanitarium enroute to their field. They will
connect with Dr. Miller's Sanitarium in
China.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Pulver of Washington,
D. C., were guests of the Hinsdale Sanitarium this week. Mr. Pulver is manager of
the Washington Sanitarium located at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
Mrs. C. T. Redfield, Matron, West Suburban Home for Girls, has been invited to
accompany her niece and husband, Dr. and
Mrs. Clemen Hamer of Glendale, Calif., on a
motor trip through the South to Southern
California, leaving this week.
Mr. Claude Conard, assistant treasurer of
the General Conference at Washington, D.
C., visited the Sanitarium on his way to the
Fall Council at Omaha.
Mr. R. J. Brown, Business Manager of the
Boulder, Colorado Sanitarium, visited the
Hinsdale Sanitarium over a recent weekend.
The Sanitarium Chaplain, H. S. Prenier,
was called to occupy the pulpit of the North
Shore Church in Chicago on a recent Sabbath.
Miss Myrtle Foreman, R. N., supervisor
at the West Suburban Home, and her sister from Michigan, spent a week at their
home in Williamsfield, Ill., this month.
Miss Erma Henise, class of 1921, and Miss
Maud Erickson, class of 1919, who are motoring through to New York from California,
stopped for a short visit at the Hinsdale
Sanitarium recently.
Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Bliss have been entertaining Mrs. R. A. Howe, a sister of
Mrs. Bliss from Malden, Mass. Dr. Bliss is
medical director of the Hinsdale Sanitarium,
who came to us from the east.

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Professor H. I. Morey, formerly head of
the vocal department of Emmanuel Missionary College at Berrien Springs, Michigan, is
now organizing a Hinsdale Sanitarium choir,
also a mixed chorus.
Mr. Wiley Pleasant, of Stewardson, Illinois, a graduate of the Hinsdale Sanitarium
class of 1911, surprised the older members
of the Sanitarium family by spending a day
here recently.
Mr. C. T. Redfield, industrial manager of
the West Suburban Home, showed some of
his prize thoroughbred goats at the State
Fair in Springfield, and won five prizes. The
West Suburban Home is fortunate in having
goat's milk for its babies and for individuals
who desire it.
Miss Elizabeth Birkenstock, graduate of
the class of '31, and sister of Dr. Birkenstock, medical director of the Hinsdale Sanitarium from 1928 to 1930, is now on her way
to South Africa to give her services for the
care of the sick natives.
The West Suburban Home has just held
its annual drive for funds. Nearly 200
friends of the work sold tags on the street
corners on Monday, September 14. The
day was a pleasant one and everyone made
a special effort to gather in funds for the
work.
Mr. L. M. Bowen from Portland, Oregon,
has arrived and taken up work as manager
of the Hinsdale Sanitarium. Mr. Bowen
has had a wide experience in managerial
work, both in Sanitariums and other business
corporations. We believe he will be a real
asset to the Sanitarium and to the community.
The next four months are harvest months
for magazine selling. Do you need extra
money to help yourself through school? Sell
The Life Boat magazine in your spare time.
Do you want to help some charity, or have
a part in some church activity but have
not the means? Take a few Life Boats under your arm and go out. You will be surprised how easily they sell. Write for full
particulars.

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WANTED

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HINSDALE, ILL., OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 1961.
Caroline Louise Clough
Editor

D. H. Kress, M. D.
Associate Editor

Contributing Staff:
J. G. Lamson
P. T. Magan, M. D.
Mary Paulson Neall, M.3/ J. F. Morse, M. D.
The Life Boat is published at Hinsdale, Ill., by
the Workingmen's Home and Life Boat Mission,
Incorporated.
Checks, drafts and money orders should be made
payable to The Life Boat; Hinsdale, Ill.
Do not send currency in your letters, as The Life
Boat will not be responsible for receipt of the same.
Single copies. 16 cents.
Yearly subscription, $1.00.
Special discounts when a number are, sent to one
address.
Expirations
The date on the wrapper indicates when your
subscription expires. We do not continue any
names on our list after the expiration of the subscription, so please renew your subscription
promptly.
Change of Address
When writing to have the address of The Life
Boat changed, be sure to give the old address at
well as the new one.

Women in need of a permanent home and
medical care can receive same by applying
to The Life Boat, Hinsdale, Ill. A comfortable, modern home, automatically heated
for winter, with hot and cold water day or
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is available for a limited number. Prices
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A MINISTER WRITES
Although one by one the magazines which
we subscribed to in the days gone by are
being given up on account of financial depression and the going to the wall of five big
banks in Toledo, within a short time, nevertheless I cannot yet include The Life Boat
in the list of those that must be given up.
It is doing too good a work, it is too valuable to set aside. So I will send you a- dollar once more for a year's subscription.
Keep the Life Boat afloat, and may you
rescue and save many a fainting, struggling
seaman.

THOUSANDS OF WORKERS
NEEDED!
"Rush to me 1,000 August Life Boats" writes a
worker in another state. "I'm selling 40 to 50 every day."
- Other workers are disposing of hundreds each month.
Some are giving their spare time to The Life Boat and
ordering fifty to one hundred a month.
Thousands more are needed to give all or part time to
selling The Life Boat.
Ten copies will be sent free to all applicants.
Attractive discounts to agents.
Order today.

The Life Boat., Hinsdale, Ill.

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The Hinsdale Sanitarium desires to borrow several thousand dollars in sums of two
hundred and upward. Good security given.
Address, Manager, Hinsdale Sanitarium,
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You may have a part in this good work by
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Remember the West Suburban Home for
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Here is a form to follow:
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the West Suburban Home for Girls, a corporation organized and existing under the
State of Illinois, the sum of
dollars, to be paid out• of real or personal
estate owned by me at my decease, this
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