For a year we have kept in mind a certain interrogation mark standing alone in a whole column by the side of other black columns of irregular height, each one indicating the amount of the Sabbath-school gifts to missions for a year.
It is strange how loudly a silent question mark can speak. Every time the eye rested upon its curved figure, it seemed to say: Well, what are you going to do for missions this year? You think you have done pretty well in the past; are you going to stop now? Are you tired of giving to missions? Is the world-wide need any less than before?
SABBATH-SCHOOL RECORD FOR TWENTY-FOUR YEARS $929,063.17 TO MISSIONS.
These questions have been splendidly answered. The diagram is presented now with the question mark obliterated by the answer. And the answer is as loud as the question. Most emphatically, the Sabbath-schools have said: Although we have been doing quite well in giving to missions, this year we are going to do better. We are not thinking of stopping. We are not tired of giving to missions. We recognize the world-wide need and the world-wide opportunity as greater than ever. And you may count on us.
When the exact height of that last column was accurately determined, it was found that the border must be broken to make room for it. Our faith once more had failed to provide room for our blessings.
But a glance at the diagram is not sufficient. We must study the exact figures to understand it fully.
Our motto for 1909 was, “One hundred thousand dollars for missions.” The schools in all the world gave $112,000. During 1910 we asked the schools in the home land to take the world-wide motto for theirs. They did. And the schools in the United States and Canada gave $101,000.
The Honor Roll Growing
During the last quarter of 1910, seven conferences were added to the Honor Roll for the first time: Southern Oregon, Virginia, St. Louis Mission, West Kansas, Ohio, East Kansas, and Upper Columbia. Fifteen conferences in this country are not yet on the roll. The complete Honor Roll, fifty-seven conferences long, is as follows:—
N. New England North Carolina
Alberta Southern Illinois
Saskatchewan Kentucky
Quebec West Virginia
W. New York Wyoming
Texas W. Colorado
North Dakota New Jersey
Louisiana S. New England
Iowa Mississippi
Southern Idaho New Mexico
Montana South Texas
Massachusetts S. Union Mission
Chesapeake Newfoundland
Georgia Indiana
Gr. New York Tennessee River
British Columbia Ontario
Florida Maritime
Maine S. Missouri
Manitoba W. Washington
W. Pennsylvania Arizona
West Texas South Carolina
Alabama Southern Oregon
New York Virginia
South Dakota St. Louis Mission
Dis. of Columbia West Kansas
Cumberland Ohio
Oklahoma East Kansas
Arkansas Upper Columbia
Union Conference Honor Roll
Western Canadian Southwestern Canadian
Atlantic Southeastern
16Four union conferences have but one conference in each reporting any expense.
Foreign Fields
A number of the large union conferences in foreign lands give their regular contributions to missions. These are the Australasian Union, East German Union, Latin Union, Levant Union, Russian Union, West German Union, and South American Union. China, India, and Japan also belong to this list. All parts of the field are gradually but steadily falling into line in this matter.
Number of Conversions
Request was made for the number of Sabbath-school pupils converted or baptized during the quarter ending in December. The number reported was 661. Fifteen hundred Sabbath-school scholars gave their hearts to the Lord during the last six months of 1910. Most of these are the results of the consecration services held by many schools.
Our hearts are full of courage and gladness for what God has wrought through our Sabbath-schools in 1910.
MRS. L. FLORA PLUMMER.
How the Missionary Volunteer Work Answers the Needs of the Young People
By Arthur G. Daniells
The Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department was organized, and is being carried on, in the interests of our young people in all parts of the world. It is estimated that fully one third of the one hundred thousand members of our denomination are young people. Thirty thousand young people! Who can measure the responsibility that rests upon some one in their behalf? And upon whom does that tremendous responsibility rest if not upon the senior members of our denomination?
These young people are full of life and activity. They have their conceptions and ideals of life. They have courage and hope regarding the future. But in all these respects they are immature. They need help. They need warnings of the dangers around and ahead of them. They need instruction and direction. Ay, more, they must be laid hold of by a power that will mold them aright while they are in the formative period of life.
To aid in the accomplishment of this great work is the one great object of the Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department. And by the blessing of God, the earnest efforts of the department are being crowned with success. Through the earnest, practical, systematic efforts of the department since its organization four years ago, thousands of our young people have been converted, and are now working earnestly to lead other young people to the Saviour. The aim of the department is not only to prevail upon young people to surrender to Christ, but constantly to grow in grace, and to become successful in soul-winning service. To accomplish this, simple yet vital conditions of spiritual growth set forth in the Scriptures are kept constantly before these young Christians. A constant effort is made to impress upon their minds the importance and value of prayer, Bible study, and the reading of good books.
As we advance in age and experience, we all come to realize more keenly the value of secret prayer and personal study of the Bible. A returned missionary from China, when addressing some candidates for that field, said: “You may live in Chinese houses, eat with chop-sticks, speak Chinese fluently, and even wear a queue; but unless you pray and study your Bible daily, you will be a failure as a foreign missionary.” Communion with Heaven is the secret of spiritual growth and successful missionary service. To encourage this daily, constant communion, the department has for four years prepared and sent out the Morning Watch Calendar. Hundreds testify that this little daily reminder is helping them to form the all-important habit of regular secret prayer and personal Bible study. The increase of the circulation of this little booklet among our young people testifies to their appreciation of it. The first number had a circulation of seven thousand, while the number for the present year has a circulation of over twenty-two thousand, and many orders have come in since the edition was exhausted.
This year the Reading Courses conducted by the Missionary Volunteer Department have an enrolment of about fifteen hundred young people and children. These courses are helping to protect these youth from the destructive influence of pernicious literature by giving them a desire to read that which will help them to build strong Christian characters. One Missionary Volunteer secretary gives expression to the experience of others when she says: “Those who have taken the Reading Courses are anxious for more education, and many of them are in school, or are taking the Correspondence School work.”
The Standard of Attainment plan has stimulated many young people to become better Bible students and better acquainted with our denominational history. About one hundred seventy-five young persons have passed the examinations, and hold certificates of Attainment. Many more are preparing to take this test. More than one third of the Missionary Volunteers in Australia are studying Bible doctrines. In a number of conferences, resolutions have been passed recommending that the workers take these Standard of Attainment tests.
God has made the young people's workers in the conferences a means of bringing salvation to many young people. Some time ago one secretary wrote: “I thank God that the Missionary Volunteer organization in this conference has been instrumental in saving seventy-six young people this year.” Another reported eighty-three conversions; and still another, one hundred thirty-two. These young people are being saved to serve.
We rejoice to see the interest that is being created among the young people in missionary work; for not only does God's great cause on earth need the young people, but they greatly need the work God has appointed them to do. The world is bidding high for young men and women. They are made the special target for her innumerable inducements; and there is nothing that will so certainly protect our young people against these temptations, or so securely bind them to God's cause, as Christian service. We thank God that he is using the Missionary Volunteer work to help bind their hearts to this precious truth.
The pledge distributed among the young people demands faithfulness in missionary work. It reads:—
“Loving the Lord Jesus, and desiring to co-operate with him in the closing message of salvation, I promise to take an active part in the work of the Young People's Missionary Volunteer society, doing what I can to help others, and to finish the work of the gospel in all the world.”
Thousands of young men and women have signed this pledge. It has doubtless spurred them on to greater activity in all lines of missionary work. During the last three years much effort has been given to the temperance cause. Our Missionary Volunteers have held many temperance rallies, circulated great quantities of the Temperance numbers of the Instructor, and distributed about twenty-five thousand temperance pledges.
Those who watch the reports of the department must be encouraged by the17progress this good phase of our work is making. Although our conference officers and ministers in home and foreign fields are pressed with many burdens, they are giving this line of work more and more attention. Missionary Volunteer societies are being organized and cared for in all our conferences and mission fields throughout the world. Australasia reports nearly two thousand earnest Missionary Volunteers. In Europe, Africa, and South America, thousands of our young people are receiving new ideals of life and new inspiration to live for God and a lost world through the very practical lines of work being carried on by the Missionary Volunteer Department.
The value of this endeavor for our young people is clearly and impressively presented to us by the picture of two churches. One has put forth no special effort in behalf of her children and young people. Most of the young people of that church have drifted into the world; scarcely any of them have given their lives to the work of this cause. The other church has made earnest efforts to save her young people. A Missionary Volunteer society has been organized and looked after. Note the result. One of that society, when expressing his gratitude for what had been accomplished, said: “The years have flown swiftly by, and to-day those who were faithful in doing the work are taking up the burdens of older laborers. To my personal knowledge two are in the ministry, one is a member of a conference committee, one is director of the normal department of a college, while another is doing efficient work as a conference tract society secretary.” Nearly every church has an experience similar to one of these, and surely the results plead eloquently for more earnest efforts in behalf of our children and young people.
Here have been given some of the methods whereby the Missionary Volunteer organization is endeavoring to enlist, to hold, and to train the young people of this denomination; and through God's blessing we believe these methods are all contributing much toward the salvation of our youth, and their preparation for service.
A. G. DANIELLS.
CARLYLE B. HAYNES
By Carlyle B. Haynes
Maryland
BLYTHEDALE.—Oct. 23, 1910, it was my privilege to begin a series of meetings in Blythedale. The meetings continued until December 20. A good interest was manifested all the way through; and after New-year’s I continued Sunday-night meetings. Many of the truths presented were familiar to those attending, and all seemed delighted to hear them again. When we came to the law, the Sabbath, and other blessed truths of the third angel’s message, some at once set themselves against the truth; but the interest still continued unabated. It seemed for a while that there were to be no results. Then suddenly one began, with his wife, to observe the Sabbath, to be followed at once by another man whose wife and daughter accepted the truth with him. Then another man, with his wife and daughter, accepted the message, also a young woman who had never before made a profession of religion. In January these were organized into a Sabbath-school of eighteen members; and on April 1, assisted by Elders R. T. Baer and C. E. Tickner, it was my privilege to organize a Seventh-day Adventist church of seven members in Blythedale. Four more will join shortly, with others to follow.
BALTIMORE.—The work in Baltimore still advances. God has been very gracious to us here in adding members to the church. There are a number of persons in the city who retain their interest in the truth from the tent-meetings of last summer. It is hoped that many of these will fully accept it during the coming summer. The church-membership now numbers about one hundred thirty-five, and is growing continually.
Sabbath, April 8, I enjoyed the blessed privilege of baptizing eight persons in the Fourth Baptist church. Three of these were young people of the church, taking their first steps in the Christian way; the other five were adults just taking hold of the truth.
CARLYLE B. HAYNES
Young People's Work
By M. E. Kern; Matilda Erickson
Conducted by the Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department of the General Conference
M. E. KERN Secretary
MATILDA ERICKSON - Corresponding Secretary
Missionary Volunteer Institute
By Mrs. Carrie R. Moon
THE Lake Union Conference has been greatly blessed by a Missionary Volunteer institute which was held at Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mich., March 31 to April 9. We had the help of Elder Meade MacGuire and Miss Matilda Erickson during the entire time, and of Prof. H. R. Salisbury for the first few days.
The Missionary Volunteer secretary of each conference in the union was present, as were also representatives from nearly all the societies and from many churches where no society has as yet been organized. Thus about fifty visitors were present; these, with the students at the school and the resident church-members, made a company of about four hundred.
The regular chapel hour each day and an hour each evening were devoted to inspiring talks upon different phases of the young people's work, while the remainder of the day was given to a study of plans and methods of work, educational features, and missionary problems.
The importance of an individual experience in service, opportunities for missionary work, the influence of reading, the importance of the Missionary Volunteer Reading Courses, the Standard of Attainment, and the Morning Watch were among the topics that received interested attention.
We were glad to have with us Prof. T. M. French, from West Africa. His talks concerning the conditions and needs of West Africa were full of interest, and they aroused in several of the young people a desire to give their lives to God to be used in that needy field.
The entire institute was characterized by an earnest seeking after God, by repentance, confession, and a determined putting away of everything that could hinder the work of the Holy Spirit. The one desire, expressed by nearly all present, was to be baptized for service. The Lord graciously came in by his Holy Spirit, and gave blessings even beyond what we had faith to ask for.
Much time was spent in prayer, both in secret and in prayer bands, and to this fact we attribute the abundant success of the institute.
We believe that every one went away from the institute with a strong determination to be more faithful in service, and with a better preparation to serve; and that those who remain in Emmanuel Missionary College will work and study, henceforth, with a new purpose. The wish that was universally expressed was that we may not be satisfied to live upon the blessing received at this time, but have each day a new experience, which will make us unobstructed channels of light and blessing to others.
MRS. CARRIE R. MOON.
That Camp-Meeting Was a Success
By M. E.
There is a reason why that camp-meeting was a success. God does not spread whitening fields and purple vineyards over uncultivated areas. He waits for man's co-operation. He is no respecter of persons, but he is a respecter of earnest prayer, unwavering faith, and untiring effort. See if you do not detect these three essentials to success in the following extracts from a letter written by a Missionary Volunteer secretary:—
“Some weeks before camp-meeting I wrote to, and visited personally with, about a dozen chosen young people in different parts of the State, and asked them to pray especially for the young people's work at camp-meeting, and to act as leaders of personal work bands at that time. At the close of our first meeting, those present who wished to engage in personal work were requested to remain. An outline of what we wished to accomplish during the meeting in the line of personal work was then given, and the meeting was dismissed.
“Just at the rear of the young people's tent, we had two small tents pitched, one marked Young Women's Rest Tent, and the other Young Men's Rest Tent. These were floored and carpeted, and made as homelike as possible, with table, chairs, writing material, late copies of our papers, and some books; and the young people were invited by our band leaders to go to these tents for visiting, prayer, and small band meetings.
“We also had our young people's tent decorated with a large sign,—Young People's Tent Meetings at 5:30 A. M. and 5 P. M. Each Day. I also had several mottoes painted on cloth to display at the front of the tent, and changed these every day or two. One about forty feet long read: The Advent Message to All the World in This Generation—The Love of Christ Constraineth Us. Other mottoes were: Unless Jesus Christ Is Lord of All, He Is Not Lord at All; It Is the Mission of the Whole Church to Give the Whole Gospel to the Whole World; We Can Not Serve God and Mammon, but We Can Serve God With Mammon; Jesus Christ Alone Can Save the World, but Jesus Christ Can Not Save the World Alone. These gave the young people something to think about while gathering in and waiting for meetings to begin, and attracted quite a little attention.
“A young woman looked after the six young ladies' bands, counseled with their leaders, etc.; and a young man did the same work with the young men's bands. About the middle of the meeting we felt that closer work ought to be done, so we had an early morning prayer-meeting before the beginning of the regular meeting. About twenty of the young men met each morning for the remainder of the meeting for this purpose. There was much good work done by these personal work bands, and as those for whom they worked became interested, and made a start, they were added to the bands. The camp was not districted, but every one worked where he wished.
“A directory of all camping on the ground was taken by the young people, and we knew from this and the number of young people who made a start, that quite effective work was done throughout the camp. At the baptismal service, fifty-two were baptized, forty-three of whom were under thirty years of age. I am corresponding with these and the churches near or in which they are located, to see that they receive the proper attention from the church officers, and are enrolled as members.”
A Word to Parents
Are you praying for the conversion of your children? Are you daily asking God to lead those who profess his name to deeper consecration? And now will you not give God a favorable opportunity to answer your prayers? Do you not think that the young people who attended the camp-meeting mentioned above turned away from that gathering better fitted for service, and better equipped to battle against the evils they must meet? Whether your camp-meeting comes this spring or not until fall, will you not begin at once to plan for your children to attend? John, who is not particularly anxious to go, may be the one who will be most benefited by attending. Mary, you say, is so indifferent that she will not go to enough meetings to pay you to send her. Do not be so sure. At one of our camp-meetings, a girl who was very worldly, and manifested a defiant spirit, came to the worker in charge of the youth's meetings, and said, with tears: “I can not hold out another minute. I know you have been praying for me, and I am going to be a Christian.”18
God is anxious to save your children, but he wants your co-operation. Isa. 49:25. How suddenly and unexpectedly, often, does the last opportunity slip out of our grasp! It is gone, and we sigh; but it returns no more. This camp-meeting season may not be your last special opportunity to work for the salvation of your children; but to some it will be the last, perhaps to you. Will you not improve it? And then saturate the time of the camp-meeting with prayer, knowing that “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
M. E.
How to Hold Bible Readings
By John Norton Loughborough
First Reading
THE giving of Bible readings has proved a very efficient means of imparting religious instruction to inquiring minds. To ask a question or make a statement respecting the truth contained in a Scripture text, at once calls attention to the subject, or a particular branch of it, which may be under consideration, and thus tends to impress it vividly upon the mind. If wisdom is exercised in framing the question or statement, and a text is selected for the reply that directly and plainly answers the question, without explanation or comment from the person conducting the reading, then the reader has on his own mind what the Word of God says, and not merely men's opinions or reasonings.
In giving the readings, it is well to bear in mind that our readers may be persons who are not familiar with Bible subjects; and for this reason, particular care must be taken not to confuse the mind by mixing subjects, or calling attention to more than one subject in one reading. For the same reason it is best for those who prepare the readings to select such scriptures as bear directly upon the subject they would elucidate, and to arrange them in a way that will systematically open the subject. Avoid the use of texts that will lead to side issues, or open controversy or debate on other topics than the one you are desirous of bringing to the attention of your reader.
To illustrate: If you are taking up the subject of Christ's second coming, it may be opened by asking the question: (1) Did our Saviour promise to come again? This might be answered by quoting John 14:3: “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (2) How will he come? Ans.—“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him: . . . and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.” Rev. 1:7. (3) What was the testimony borne to those who saw him ascend? Ans.—“Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” Acts 1:11.
Having advanced thus far, when we come to speak of the object of his coming, it makes some difference whether we introduce such a text as Rev. 22:12: “Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be;” or one like 2 Thess. 1:7-9: “And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power.”
By using the former text in this connection, we have a simple statement that, at Christ's second coming, all will receive according to their works; but in the latter text we introduce the subject of everlasting punishment, which would be quite likely to divert the minds of our readers from the direct topic of the Lord's personal coming. The doctrine of everlasting punishment should have its appropriate time and place in our course of readings, but it would better not be mixed with this reading or any other very early in the course of readings.
It should not be deemed essential in preparing a Bible reading that we present all there is in the Bible on the subject we may have before us. From fifteen to twenty texts have been thought sufficient for most readings, rather than to get so many before the mind that the reader can not retain them. It is better to have a few plain, pointed texts, arranged in a connected manner, than to have so many that only a confused impression is left upon the mind.
It would also be well for the individual who is to give the reading to be sure that the subject thereof is clear and distinct to his own mind, not because he is familiar with it, but because it is made so by the texts that he is to use in said reading. It might be a good plan to criticize the reading before giving it, as if you knew nothing of the subject, and, like those to whom you are to give the reading, were hearing it for the first time. With this thought in mind, see19what idea you would get from the scriptures presented.
Some who have never had the opportunity of attending a course of instruction in Bible readings, wish to do good, and to introduce the truth by holding readings with their neighbors. Such inquire if we would advise taking the book called ‘Bible Readings’ along, and giving readings from that. I would not advise thus taking the book, even if I wished to use the readings in it, unless it might be to read some of the historical facts. In case I wished to use a reading in ‘Bible Readings,’ I would think it preferable to copy on a slip of paper, which I could put in my Bible, the texts and questions I wished to use, rather than to read the questions from the book.
In giving Bible readings, it is highly important to consider the order of subjects presented. The time was when an almost stereotyped plan was followed. Beginning with Daniel 2, 7, and so on, ten or twelve readings were given; then conversion or some other subject having a practical bearing on the conscience of the reader, was introduced. This was about the same plan that was followed by the ministers in presenting the truth in new fields. But our ministers are finding out a better way. They now introduce the power of Christ and the power of his Word as soon as practicable; and why should not the Bible workers do so too? On this point I quote a few words from Elder G. B. Starr:—
‘Bible readings, as well as sermons, should be remodeled. We should not even keep the old outlines, the old ‘shucks,’ as it were, and endeavor to work new life into them. Instead, let every reading be arranged with the view of teaching Christ, first and last and all the time, and of teaching nothing but Christ.’
As an illustration of this manner of working, he refers to a method of treating the work of redemption through Christ, and says: ‘We might begin with a reading on creation, comparing Genesis 1 with John 1, Colossians 1, and Hebrews 1, showing Christ as the Creator. Here the Sabbath should be introduced, and Christ as its author, no allusion being made to its change or to any difference of opinion on the subject. What an opportunity is here offered to lay the foundation for further study! Then follows the fall of man; Satan and his connection with it; who Satan is, and the nature of his work. Then the wonderful plan of redemption, as shown in early promises and types; then Christ in the prophecies; and the prophecies of the nations of the earth as they relate themselves to the plan and work of redemption. In taking up the papacy, why not treat it under the head of Antichrist,—his work in opposing Christ,—and compare the mystery of godliness with the mystery of iniquity?’ So also in considering the question of immortality, he suggests treating it as ‘life through Christ only.’ Thus Christ is exalted in our work all the time.
This course was followed years ago by those giving instruction in the Chicago Central Bible School. The Lord drew near to us in the class exercises; and those who were giving the readings according to this plan saw a marked and rapid change in results obtained, which was a good token of the Lord’s approval.
One of the most essential things in giving Bible readings is a close connection with the Lord, that he may guide our minds as to what reading to give, and also what scriptures we should use in giving a reading to any particular case; for there is a marked difference in cases. We can not have a stereotyped set of readings that will fit every individual whom we may meet. If those giving the readings live near the Lord, and seek his guidance, he will lead them to select the proper texts for each individual, and sometimes in the midst of a reading will bring to their minds texts to use,—texts that they had not thought of using when they were preparing the reading.
All engaged in the work of giving Bible readings should become more and more familiar with the Scriptures every day; then the Lord, as occasion may require, can bring to their remembrance what he sees is for the best good of those to whom they may be giving the readings.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
The Missionary and Publishing Work
Notes, Plans, Reports, Statistics, and Other Information Regarding Missionary Endeavor and the Circulation of Gospel Literature
Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference
E. R. PALMER . . . . . Secretary
N. Z. TOWN . . . . . Assistant Secretary
A. J. S. BOURDEAU . . . . . Missionary Secretary
Suggestive Program for Fourth Sabbath Home Missionary Service
THE last assignments in the Reading Courses for this year will soon appear in the INSTRUCTOR. How many young people in your community will complete one of these courses? How many will do so because of the words of encouragement you have dropped from time to time? Several, I hope; for surely John G. Paton could not fail to lead a thoughtful reader to deeper consecration, and he who reads “Christ’s Object Lessons” must turn away from its precious pages prepared for better service. The books in the Junior Course are also good. The first contains intensely interesting and useful information; the second is strong in Bible doctrines; while the last is a thrilling missionary story. Encourage your young people to complete the reading.
Morning Watch Calendar
Do you know that the little Morning Watch Calendar has been making friends with startling rapidity? Although five thousand more copies were printed this year than last, it has been impossible to fill the late orders. What a transformation this year will make in the lives of all who are faithfully keeping their morning appointments with God! What will it mean if the twenty-two thousand Morning Watch calendars that went out from this office are being used daily! Encourage your young people to keep the little calendar where it will be a daily reminder of this important duty.
The Rags Made Clean
A WOMAN working in one of the great paper-mills of Glasgow was converted through the efforts of a city missionary, and became a person of great devoutness of character. She described the process of her salvation in these terms: “I was like the rags that go into the paper-mill. They are torn and filthy, but they come out clean, white paper. Such a work as this is what Jesus is doing for me.”—Selected.
Keep Sweet-Tempered
KEEP sweet-tempered. Hold yourself in check. If you allow yourself to get nervously wrought up over little annoyances, or irritated at the actions or remarks of others, you will be sure to do and say that which will be out of place, and cause you many regrets. Words shot from the bowstring of a tense spirit fly swiftly and may pierce deeply. When you are talking with an angry person, use self-control and remember that “a soft answer turneth away wrath.”—Selected.
