VOLUME 52, No. 35
Missions Extension Day and Offering, September 13 SOUTHERN TIDINGS
we are tithing now, and the big million dollar offering has taken all we can "1 Was One of God's Best Robbers" spare." A Faith for Today Experience Faith for Today workers might naturally consider it a tragedy when T is often said of some worthy in- question was a natural one, "How viewers divert their gifts elsewhere. I dividual, "He is one of God's can I tithe when I am not a member But actually, just the opposite is true. best workers," but did you ever hear of a church?" Success in terms of the television min- of one of "God's best robbers ?" Prob- Doubtless, that is one question that istry means leading viewers into the ably not. But that is what a Faith for every Adventist would enjoy answer- church, which includes total conse- Today TV viewer said of herself a ing: "The tithe is to be paid into the cration of the pocketbook to the ex- few days ago, after watching a tele- church," and surely no better answer panding program of the church. This vision program on tithing. could be given. But, this viewer was is the ultimate goal of every telecast. "I have been one of God's best not yet satisfied. She raised no objec- We count it a joy to have a part robbers," she wrote, "I never really tion to giving her tithe to the Advent- in transforming "God's best robbers" did tithe." ist church, but that one television into "God's best givers," staunch mem- bers of the Seventh-day Adventist We all know that honest confession story on stewardship certainly stirred up her conscience, for the next query church. is good for the soul, but to be effective, FAITH FOR TODAY confession must be followed by some was, "How about all those years when kind of action. It is all very well to I didn't tithe?" 0 give assent to the principle of tithing If a TV viewer can be thus in- ADVENTIST NEWS BRIEFS as taught on a television program, fluenced to action, one wonders what GOGONA, BILLONA, SOLOMON IS- but what are the results? Does any results can be expected when a viewer LANDS—The Seventh-day Adventist additional money actually come in? is converted and has been baptized into church here sports an unusual pew Like hundreds of others who saw the church. An answer to this query which is used by the village chief, the tithing telecast, this viewer deter- comes from a new member who wrote, a member of the church—a pilot's mined to act on her conviction. But "This is my regular gift. I would seat from an American bomber which how and to whom could she pay her like it to be a real generous offering crashed on the island during World tithe? She had never attended one of for all the blessings our family has War II. A family from another village our churches. In fact, she was not a received from Faith for Today, and I is living in the body of the plane. regular churchgoer at all. So, her next shall plan to send more later. But * * * BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN—.More than 200 members of the Seventh-day Adventist Tabernacle here read the entire Bible through in 1957. Many are repeating the practice in 1958, some for the second time, some having done so for many years. * * * TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, CHIAPAS, MEXICO—A new Seventh-day Advent- ist college, Colegio Linda Vista, is be- ing built on a sweeping 1,000-acre plot directly on the historic mule trail marked out by the conquistadores near here. Located in southern Mexico's verdant rain forest, the new college is being built from raw materials found on the land. * * * PONTIANAK, WEST KALIMANTAN, BORNEO—The newest Seventh-day Adventist medical clinic in a chain of more than 80 around the world (plus 113 hospitals) has just been opened here. The clinic is a "satellite" unit of the Adventists' Bandung (Java) Mis- Favorite hymns of all churches are sung by the male quartet. Standing around the studio camera are (left to right) Roger McNeily, first tenor; Walter Isensee, sion Hospital and will send its serious second tenor; Herbert Hohensee, baritone: and Torn Studley, bass. cases to that 75-bed institution.
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