" God's Day—We Stop !"

AN Army detail on one of the South Pacific Islands was making a forced march. The native cariers were members of one of the Seventh-day Adventist missions on the island. They were faithful, honest, dependable, and clean in their personal habits; all of which was much appreciated by the Army men.

Friday came, and they carried their burdens over the tortuous mountain trails until close to sunset. Then they stopped, set down their loads, even though it was not yet dark, and prepared to make camp.

The Army officers were in a hurry, naturally, and in consternation inquired what was happening, and why.

“Sun he go down,” the natives explained, pointing. “God’s day he come, we stop.”

And they stopped! There seemed to be nothing that the Army could do about it, even though they argued their case mightily.

“Sun he go down. God’s day he come.

We stop,” was the ultimatum.

So, at last, the Army decided that it might as well stop, too. And it rested from sunset on Friday to sunset on Sat urday. Then the carriers cheerfully took up their burdens and took to the trail, with right good will.

The military man telling the story smiled a reminiscent smile at the mem ory of an American Army stopped by a group of simple black men who had such a high regard for the Sabbath of the Bible that they absolutely refused to travel on that dav. —“Youth’s Instructor,”

Usa, 26/10/43.

The few thousand people of the Poly nesian Wallis Group, island dependency of New Caledonia, 900 miles north-east of Fiji, have subscribed 33.242 francs to the French Empire Fund for patriots resisting the Germans.