Hiding-Place From The Wind and A Covert From The: The Youth'S Instructor

G' raY •
YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR.
mind when he wrote, "And a Man shall be as an

hiding-place from the wind and a covert from the
tempest."
Dear children, what can we say to lead you to
flee to the Saviour as your city of refuge, before
the storm of God's wrath shall burst with all its fu-
ry upon the world? Look at the man in the pic-
ture ; see how he runs ! He has been doing wrong,
and is fleeing for life while the avenger of blood is
hard on his track. So you have done wrong, not
only once, but thousands of times ; and the law
which you have broken says, "Thou shalt surely
die." But Christ died for our transgressions, and
in his word he says, " Come unto me, all ye that
labor and are heavy laden, and I will give-you rest."
Here we may be safe from our enemies, our sins,
and find the peace of God that passeth all under-
standing. Little readers, come at once and confess
your sins to God, get a hiding-place in the Saviour,
and you will " have confidence and not be ashamed
before him at his coming."
Running for Life !
E have, in several places in the Old Testa-
Receipts.
) ment, interesting accounts of the Hebrews'
Annexed to each receipt in the following List, is the Volume
cities of refuge. And lest some of my and Number of the Youth's Instructor, TO which the money re-
young readers have not fully understood ceipted pays.
what the Bible says about this singular custom, I S. M. Webster xi, 1. M. P. Shaw xi, 1. M. L.
will here try to explain it to them. Maxon, xi, 1. L. Martin xi, 1. S. Martin xi, 1.
W. Wells xi, 1. M. E. Wilch xii, 1. L. Willey xi,
In ancient times when God brought his people out
1. H. E. Colby xi, 1. Mrs. S. Gray xi, 1. A. E.
from the land of Egypt into the country of Canaan,
Smith xi, 1. J. D. Rathbun 1. H. S. Pierce x,
he commanded them to appoint several cities as a
1. T. Adams xi, 1. H. Hames xi, 1. E. Wick xi,
place of retreat for those who had killed some one,
1. Miss E. Seeley xi, 1. A. Bliss xi, 1. P. Erb
either through mistake or purposely. These cities
xi, 1. W. Pratt xi, 1. J. H. Graham xi, 1. E. J.
were six in number, and so situated that a person
Lake xi, 1. E. Dayton xi, 1. F. P. Jackson xi, 1.
might reach them in a few hours from any part of
S. D. Covey xi, 1. J. Ferguson xi, 1. A. E. Bry-
the Jews' country. To all of these towns there
ant xi, 1. E. Stafford xi, 1. H. C. McDearman
were good roads leading, and at different points
xi, 1. J. Cramer xi, 1. J. Wilson xi, 1. C. M.
guide-boards were posted to guide the poor fugitive
Coburn xi, 1. J. F. Carman xi, 1. A. A. Lockwood
aright. When the man who had killed another
xi, 1. N. J. Berry xi, 6. R. Eaton xi, 1. W.
came to the gate of any of these cities of refuge, he
declared his cause to the elders of the city, and Martin xi, 1. L. M. Gates xi, 1. A. Stebbins xi,
then they let him in. And if he had taken some 1. L. Stebbins xi, 1. C. Cornell xi, 1. A. Cole
one's life away through anger and hatred, the con- xi, 1. E. Brackett jr. xi, 1. S. B. Smith xii, 1.
gregation immediately passed sentence upon him, J. Berry xi, 1. H. M. Aldrich xi, 1. T. Lewis xi,
and he was stoned to death. But if he had killed 1. S. Shoemaker xi, 1. James Wiley x, 1. L.
one of his fellows accidently, he was suffered to Tarbell xi, 1. M. J. Chapman xi, 1. E. M. Kim-
ball xi, 1. A. Chase xi, 1. G. W. Newman xi, 1.
live, providing he kept within the city, or its sub-
urbs, which reached a mile or so each way. And John Woods xi, 1. John Curren xi, 1. Jos. Kel-
when the high priest of the country died, he was logg x, 1. M. J. Sutten xi, 1. I. Russell xi, 1.
at liberty to return home, and attend to his affairs E. H. Root xi, 1. J. H. Ginley xi, 1. M. A. Wicks
as before, and no one could harm him. But if at xi, 7 C. Fleming xi, 1. E. Thompson xi, 1. M.
any time before the high priest died he was caught Hill xi, 1. J. McMunegal xi, 1. Each 25 cents.
straggling away from the city of refuge, any one J. Francisco xi, 1. A. Monson xi, 1. M. A.
might take his life with impunity. Rathbun xi, 1. M. B. Ferree xii, 1. Miss L.
Rathbun xi, 1. R. Vaughan xi, 1. A. Belden xii,
But what, say you, does all this mean? Well, I 1. S. F. Gove xi, 1. Each 50 cents.
will tell you. In the Old Testament the most pre- W. Olds (1t copies) xi, 1. Hattie E. Stone xviii,
cious truths are revealed to us through what we 1. L. Hastings (2 copies) xii, 1. Each $1,00.
call types. A type is an emblem or representation M. E. Kimble (for C. Russell) 14 cts. to xi, 1.
of something else, as a daguerreotype is a repre-
sentation of a person's face. Thus the land of Ca-
naan was a type of the New Earth ; the earthly THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR
sanctuary of the Jews was a type of the Christian's
Sanctuary in heaven; the brazen serpent Moses IS PUBLISHED !MONTHLY BY THE
put on a pole, was a type of the Saviour on the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association.
cross ; and the six cities of refuge were a most
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have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to Those unable to pay:, . . . . . Free.
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prophet Isaiah must have had this custom in his Address Eld. JAMES WHITE, Battle Creek, Mich.

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