MARCH 24, 1977

ADVENT REVIEW ANDevie SABBATH HERALD • GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

Huguley Memorial Medical Center Opens in Texas Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe, center, cut the first of seven ribbons that officially opened the Huguley Memorial Hospi- tal in Fort Worth; Texas, to the public. Others who participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony were, left to right, B. E. Leach, Southwestern Union Conference president; William V. Wiist (back to camera), hospital administrator; Robert H. Pierson, General Conference president; Cliff Overcash, Fort Worth mayor; and Betty Andujar, State senator. Be- low, the most recent architect's drawing of the Huguley Memorial Medical Center shows the hospital and adjacent medi- cal offices as they appeared on the opening-day ceremonies. Landscaping is partially completed. See page 13 for the story. Editor's Viewpoint

to its possessors, and through their influence it is a curse Theory v. Practice to the world."—Ibid., pp. 309, 310. Human beings cannot, of course, make themselves When Jesus was here upon earth, He "went about "sincere, kind, patient, forbearing, [and] heavenly- doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the minded." They cannot change their hearts. They cannot devil" (Acts 10:38). He said of Himself: "The Son of make themselves righteous. But God can, and He has man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister" made full provision to accomplish this. "I will dwell in (Matt. 20:28). The one great object of Christ's life was them, and walk in them" (2 Cor. 6:16), He has promised. service—helping others. If people were hungry, He de- By His Spirit Christ lives within the believer (John nied Himself food, if necessary, in order to supply their 14:17), bringing a new controlling principle into the life. need. If people were discouraged or bruised in spirit, He Love replaces selfishness, and the believer lives in har- spoke words of courage and comfort. If people needed mony with the Ten Commandments, the law of love. money, He drew on His limited funds and gave what He "The soul thus touched will hate its selfishness, abhor its could. If people were sick, He reached for their hand of self-love, and will seek, through Christ's righteousness, faith and healed them. for the purity of heart that is in harmony with the law of Jesus' selfless attention to the needs of others was not God and the character of Christ."—Steps to Christ, p. the result of external compulsion. He lived the way He 29. did, not for duty's sake, but because He loved, and love "seeketh not her own" (1 Cor. 13:5). God is love, and Selfishness Must Die Christ, as God, revealed the divine character. Before Jesus left His disciples, to return to His Father Now, Christians enjoy talking of Christ's unselfish in heaven, He said: "It is expedient for you that I go character. They express admiration for His willingness to away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come accept effrontery, poverty, fatigue, hunger, pain, and unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you" (John numerous other jolts to the spirit and body, in order to 16:7). "Through the Spirit, Christ was to abide contin- bless others. And it is well that they should. Christ was ually in the hearts of His children. Their union with Him the most noble, inspiring Being who ever lived on earth. was closer than when He was personally with them. The But merely admiring Jesus is not enough. Merely talk- light, and love, and power of the indwelling Christ shone ing about His loving, unselfish, others-centered life is not out through them. "—Ibid., p. 75. enough. Christians must be like Him. They must reveal "Only when selfishness is dead, when strife for su- Him to the world. "He that saith he abideth in him ought premacy is banished, when gratitude fills the heart, and himself also so to walk, even as he walked" (1 John 2:6). love makes fragrant the life—it is only then that Christ is "Christians are to represent Christ. Unless there is abiding in the soul, and we are recognized as laborers practical self-sacrifice for the good of others, in the together with God."—Christ's Object Lessons, p. 402. family circle, in the neighborhood, in the church, and Let us review the line of thought we have been fol- wherever we may be, then whatever our profession, we lowing: (1) Jesus lived for others; His life was controlled are not Christians."—The Desire of Ages, p. 504. by love, not selfishness. (2) Christ's followers are to live In Christ's day the rabbis were exceedingly well in- as He lived (see Steps to Christ, p. 115). (3) This is formed about the theory of truth. They could philoso- possible for, through the Spirit, Christ lives in them. (4) phize about, and debate endlessly, the fine points of the The Holy Spirit transforms the life, replacing selfishness law. They knew the rites and ceremonies of their reli- with love as the controlling principle. gion. They had a clear grasp of the intellectual content of Do God's people understand clearly what He expects their faith. They knew "the truth," and they assented to of them, and that He has made provision through the it all. Spirit for them to reflect the image of Jesus fully? Do But there was a great disjunction between their theory they realize that self-seeking is completely alien to the and their practice. They talked piously about the needs of spirit of heaven? Do they realize that jealousy, backbit- the poor, but oppressed and robbed the needy. They ing, immorality, dishonesty, and other sins reveal that talked of sacrifice, but worked feverishly to satisfy their selfishness still controls the life? Do they know that greed. They boasted that God had committed to them the people who are controlled by selfishness cannot be ad- divine oracles, but they disregarded the moral precepts mitted into heaven? Do they know that love—the antith- whenever it was to their advantage to do so. esis of selfishness and sin—will govern totally the lives of Unfortunately, the terrible mistake of accepting the Christ's true followers who will be translated to heaven theory of truth intellectually but failing to put it into when Jesus comes? practice is being repeated in our day. "Many take it for God has been patient with His remnant people. But granted that they are Christians, simply because they how much longer will He wait for them to understand the subscribe to certain theological tenets. But they have not nature of true religion, to open their hearts to the in- brought the truth into practical life. . . . Men may profess dwelling Christ, to replace selfishness with love as the faith in the truth; but if it does not make them sincere, controlling principle of the life, and bring forth the fruits kind, patient, forbearing, heavenly-minded, it is a curse of the Spirit? K. H. W. 2 (298) R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 This Week

Contents places mentioned in the Bible Pharaoh are thousands of years New English Bible. © The Dele- Cover Story Pages 1, 13 such as Cush, Sheba, and Cyrene old, the intricate and exquisite gates of the Oxford University General Articles 4 can be located on today's map of workmanship shows, as do the Press and the Syndics of the Report to the Church 6 the world? R. W. Taylor, secre- pyramids and other monuments, Cambridge University Press 1970. Fellowship of Prayer 7 tary of the Australasian Division, the many capabilities of that an- Reprinted by permission. Texts For the Younger Set 8 solves part of the mystery in cient civilization. credited to T.L.B. are taken from Family Living 9 "Africa in the Bible" (p. 4). An Robert H. Pierson, president of The Living Bible, Paraphrased Especially for Women 10 area of the world with a highly the General Conference, in a re- (Wheaton: Tyndale House Pub- From the Editors 11 developed culture centuries be- port to the church ("When the lishers, 1971). Used by permis- Inspired Gems 11 fore the birth of Christ, ancient Church Is Taken to Court," p. 6) sion. Respsonse From Readers 12 Africa, especially Egypt, was the talks about several court cases Art and Photo Credits: P. 5, Newsfront 15 focus of attention recently in involving the Seventh-day Ad- Harold Munson; p. 8, H. Arm- News Notes 20 Washington, D.C., where the ventist Church and the possible strong Roberts; p. 9, Skip Baker; Bulletin Board 22 treasures of Tutankhamen were effect these cases' outcome can p. 11, Ken Photo Shop; p. 23, Spotlight on God's Law 23 on display at the National Gallery have upon the church. Tom Dunbebin; all other photos, Back Page 24 of Art. Although the treasures Bible Credits: Texts in this issue courtesy of the respective au- Have you ever wondered where from the tomb of this minor credited to N.E.B. are from The thors. Letters [Letters submitted for publication cannot our apologies for having included beings were a new and distinct but instead, as in the case of Gen- be acknowledged or returned. All must carry the writer's name and address. Short letters the anecdote in our article, and order. They were made 'in the esis 6:1-4, the absolutely ridicu- (less than 250 words) will be given preference. our assurances that we will make image of God,' and it was the lous idea that supernatural beings All will be edited to meet space and literary requirements. The views presented do not every effort to avoid mistakes like Creator's design that they should were involved in sexual relations necessarily represent those of the editors or this one in the future. populate the earth."—Review and with human females. The idea was of the denomination.] MADELEINE EDMONDSON Herald, Feb. '11, 1902. I conclude so preposterous that we felt no The Pioneers For the Editors from this that no creatures made refutation was necessary, the Ad- I would like to salute the pio- Newsweek Magazine prior to human beings, including ventist position on this Genesis neers who made possible the New York, New York the angels in heaven, were capa- passage, confirmed by Ellen glowing reports of mission ad- ble of populating or reproducing. White, being well known. But vance we read in the REVIEW. I Avoiding a Crisis " 'The sons of God saw the readers unfamiliar with the Ad- know of one missionary who in Now that the series "A Church daughters of men that they were ventist position will appreciate the seven years baptized only seven in Crisis" (Jan. 13, 20, 27, Feb. 3, fair.' The children of Seth, at- information contained in the persons. However, he did a tre- 10, 17) has concluded, I hasten to tracted by the beauty of the above letter. mendous amount of literature send a word of appreciation to the daughters of Cain's descendants, translation. These translated REVIEW. I have tried to keep up displeased the Lord by intermar- A Warm Thank-you works have helped make possible on this controversy for the past rying with them. . . . Mingling Re "The Magdalene" (cover, the present success. five years, and I can say that this with the depraved, they became Sept. 30, 1976). The pictures im- My father was one of these pi- analysis was the most balanced like them in spirit and in deeds; mediately caught my eye, and oneers who did a lot of translating and perceptive that I have read. the restrictions of the seventh each stanza of the poem pointed in addition to his other work. He Of course, it was all the more commandment were disregarded, out easy, practical ways of letting lost his health in the mission field, important for Seventh-day Ad- `and they took them wives of all our light shine for the Saviour. A but I am sure his work lives on. ventists. Its timely message ad- which they chose.' "—Patriarchs warm thank-you to Mary Hobbs Thank you, pioneers! dressed all of us who love our and Prophets, p. 81. and Elfred Lee for sharing their JANET SKILTON church and who therefore want to In the light of God's Word, talents. Keene, Texas avoid precipitating a similar crisis both in the Scriptures and through CAROLINE DYER in our own midst. Such a crisis the Spirit of Prophecy, one would Colton, California Newsweek Replies would surely deflect us from the conclude that the Good News Re Editor's Viewpoint, " 'The mission to which our Lord has Bible translation of Genesis 6:1-4 Tender, Loving Care Boom in Doom' " (Feb. 24). called us. is indeed false doctrine. The sons "Tender, Loving Care" (Jan. Since Newsweek's religion arti- LAWRENCE T. GERATY of God were faithful followers of 13), which told of the fine work cle "The Boom in Doom" (Jan. Berrien Springs, Michigan God's remnant, and they pro- done in Adventist hospitals, re- 10) appeared, we have received duced offspring by their wrongful minds me of my experience eight letters from several readers in re- Supernatural Beings? alliances with the daughters of years ago. My husband had a lation to the William Miller story, It was with a great deal of in- men, the daughters of Cain's de- brain tumor and was in the advising us that the legend that terest that I read the REVIEW edi- scendants. Florida Hospital in Orlando for Miller and his followers donned torial (Jan. 27) entitled "Super- JOHN V. STEVENS, SR. several months. white robes in 1844 and waited on natural or Human Beings?" Many Westlake Village, California When it was determined that he a hilltop for Christ belongs to the serious questions were raised, had only three months to live, the realm of myth, rather than of fact. and I would like to suggest an ► The editorial referred to in this hospital had a cot placed in his The legend was widely enough answer to the title, which perhaps letter was one in a series on the room so that I could stay with circulated to have found its way inadvertently was left out. Good News Bible. Genesis 6:1-4 him. My stay gave me the oppor- into our library reference files, Jesus clearly indicates that was cited as a prime example of tunity to observe firsthand the and we are grateful for the con- after the righteous are given im- the danger of using a Bible whose care and love the personnel there cern and attention that prompted mortality, "they neither marry, translators follow the dynamic give to their patients. Every night you and others to notify us of the nor are given in marriage; but are method. The editorial pointed out at the end of the second shift be- inaccuracy. as the angels which are in that readers may not be getting at fore going off duty my husband's We hope that you will accept heaven" (Mark 12:25). "Human all what the Holy Spirit intended, Continued on page 12

The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald is published every Thursday by the Review and Herald Publishing Association, 6856 Eastern Avenue NW., Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C. Copyright © 1977. Subscription price, $15.95 for one year. Vol. 154, No. 12. R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 (299) 3 hard questions (verse 1). She came to Jerusalem with a great caravan, bringing spices, gold, and precious stones. Africa The land of Sheba must have been great in resources to be able to give away such gifts. The Queen of Sheba took the religion of Solomon back in the Bible to her country. Levites were sent to Ethiopia to instruct the people in how to worship the true God of heaven. All of this took place 1,000 years before the birth of Christ. The great southern continent Africa was often involved in the history of Israel. The nineteenth chapter of Isaiah is a prophecy to Egypt. The played an important role eighteenth chapter speaks of the land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, now Kenya and Uganda. At that time the entire eastern section of Africa was known as Ethiopia in God's purpose for Israel. and Egypt. Ebedmelech, an Honored Ethiopian It is also interesting to note that an Ethiopian served in the household of one of the kings of Judah. The king was Zedekiah, and the Ethiopian was Ebedmelech. The story is found in Jeremiah 38. The king had given Jeremiah, the prophet, to wicked men who placed him in a dungeon to die. But Ebedmelech, the Ethiopian, a good man who served God with a true heart, intervened in behalf of Jeremiah. We read in Jeremiah 38:8-13 that "Ebedme- By R. W. TAYLOR lech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, My lord the king, these men have done evil WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY about Africa? Did in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom Africans play a part in Bible history? Did any Bible they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for prophecies include parts of Africa? hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more In Genesis 10, we are told that Noah and his three bread in the city. Then the king commanded Ebedmelech sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—populated the world. the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with Ham's son, Mizraim, became the father of the Egyp- thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dun- tians; Mizraim's son, Cush, became the father of the geon, before he die. So Ebedmelech took the men with Ethiopians, and Cush's descendants spread across him, and went into the house of the king under the Africa. Some ancient maps label Africa the land of Ham treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten or Cush. Even today some Bible maps of Africa do so. rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Africa is mentioned in the first book of the Bible. Jeremiah. And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Genesis 15 tells us that God would send Abraham's Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags descendants to Africa, that they might grow and multiply under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did in a favorable environment. When they returned to the so. So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and they took land God had given them they had grown in number to a him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the great nation. court of the prison." African women also played an important role in his- God honored the work of Ebedmelech in rescuing the tory. One of Abraham's wives—Hagar--was an African. prophet, giving the Ethiopian a special message telling Joseph's two sons, who became the tribes of Manasseh him not to fear when the enemy should take Jerusalem and Ephraim, had an African mother, Asenath (Gen. captive: "Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, 41:50). saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Moses, the greatest Jewish leader of all time, was born Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and in Africa. In his day, about 3,500 years ago, the land of not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day Africa was already populated. before thee. But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the King Solomon of Israel had a navy that sailed to Lord: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the Tarshish, sometimes identified as Africa, every three men of whom thou art afraid. For I will surely deliver years, bringing back gold, silver, ivory, apes, and pea- thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life cocks (1 Kings 10:22). They may have sailed down the shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy east coast of Africa, along the coasts of Ethiopia, Kenya, trust in me, saith the Lord" (Jer. 39:16-18). Here was and farther south. another African whom God honored and to whom He Solomon became one of the greatest kings of Israel, sent a special message. with a worldwide reputation for wisdom. The Queen of Egypt is still the study of archeologists—its knowledge Sheba, hearing of his wisdom, came to see if he was as of medicine, its culture, and its sciences. Nobody knows wise and great as had been reported to her. Some have how the great pyramids of Egypt were built. Egypt was identified Sheba with Ethiopia. The queen was evidently one of the most advanced countries of the world at that well-educated; the Bible says she came to prove him with time. Two thousand years ago, when Jesus was born, His R. W. Taylor is secretary of the Australasian Division. earthly parents were told by God to flee to Africa with 4 (300) R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 Him, because the Jewish leaders sought to take His life. of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to When I was in Egypt I was shown the place thought by worship." God sent Philip to tell this Ethiopian eunuch some to be where the Christ child lived. When Israel was the gospel of Jesus, that he might take it back to Africa becoming a nation, God Himself chose Egypt as a place with him. A comforting thought for the African today! of refuge, and there the Israelites grew and multiplied. Africa and the Gospel When the Christ child came to this earth, God once again chose Africa as a place for His Son to be protected. When Jesus commissioned His disciples to go "unto At the time of Christ, and for many years after, Africa the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1:8), surely He was was the educational center of the world. For many gen- thinking of Africa, as well as the other countries of the erations Alexandria was the gathering place of the intel- world. Its people are among His "other sheep" (John lectuals of the world. 10:16). In that "one fold" will be people from Africa: A son of Africa was perhaps the most honored of all "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall men at the time of the Crucifixion. When Jesus was too set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant weak to carry His cross, a man from Africa bore the of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from cruel burden—not Simon Peter, but Simon of Cyrene, Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush" (Isa. 11:11). which today is Libya. What a blessing that was to him, God is calling the people of Africa to Him in this our and what a story he could tell! He had helped the Son of day. God's message is still the same for each African. God in His trying hour. The kingdom is yours. Reach out for it! Accept it today! In Acts 8:27 we read of "an eunuch of great authority God wants you in that eternal kingdom. Won't you under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge plan to be there? ❑ R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 (301) 5 workers, or does the State remuneration than a single control this important factor worker with no family re- When the Church in church administration? sponsibilities. It is also true Since its inception, the Sev- that in the past in some cases enth-day Adventist Church women received a lower wage has structured its wage scale than a man in the same posi- Is Taken to Court on what we have termed a tion—a practice widespread modest "living" income. Our outside the church, as well. wage scale brochure puts it The church is now in compli- this way: ance with the law on both of The General Conference "The philosophy of this these points. There is no wage scale is predicated upon head-of-household differen- president reports to the the fact that a spirit of sacri- tial, and a woman holding the fice and dedication should same position and doing the mark God's workers irrespec- same work as a man receives church on current tive of the position they hold the same salary and benefits or the department they repre- pertaining to the post. sent. The work of the church, The third question involved litigation involving the including every denomina- in present litigation is: tional organization, is a mis- 3. Does the church have the denomination. sion to which lives are dedi- right to employ whomsoever it cated rather than a business or will to carry on its work in commercial venture. The institutions and other areas of church wage scale does not its ministry? By ROBERT H. PIERSON always compensate its dedi- It is the contention of cated workers in monetary church leadership—and we units commensurate with their believe our general church AT PRESENT the Sev- country, as has been sug- talents, accomplishments, and membership supports us in enth-day Adventist Church is gested in the public press. On contributions, but does pro- this position—that to operate the defendant in several law- the contrary, it is because we vide workers with a modest truly Seventh-day Adventist suits. The results of these feel that basic issues of reli- living income, which gives schools, health-care institu- court cases could have rather gious liberty, assured under recognition of responsibilities tions, and publishing houses, far-reaching effects on the the First Amendment, are in- borne, preparation under- staffing by committed Sev- church. Upon the advice of volved that we are seeking taken, professional attain- enth-day Adventist Church our attorneys we have re- legal redress. We feel that not ment, previous experience, members is essential. frained from reporting these all laws apply to the church, and years of service."—Wage It is also the contention of court cases in the public press since the First Amendment Scale, effective July 1, 1976, the Seventh-day Adventist while the cases are pending. offers certain protections to pp. 2, 3. Church—as indicated by a We have made statements in the church. Areas of the traditional plan General Conference session public gatherings on occa- The three sensitive areas for remuneration of workers action in Vienna—that the in- sions, but for legal reasons concerned in the present suits followed by the church for stitutions of our church are have not released information are: many decades have been the church carrying out her to the public press on the 1. Does the church have the challenged by Government various ministries. Our pub- issues involved. right to determine who shall agencies, and some of the lishing houses are the pub- There appears to be a dif- and who shall not author the current court cases involve lishing arm of the church car- ference between the interpre- books and articles printed by questions of remuneration, rying out her literature tation of the United States our publishing houses? Al- with the church as the de- ministry. Our schools are the Government and the Seventh- though freedom of the press fendant. educational arm of the church day Adventist Church with per se has not been ques- This "living" wage often ministering to the educational regard to provisions of the tioned by the court in any of provides an income less than needs of our church and First Amendment, which the current suits, our right to the person would receive for young people. Our health-care reads, "Congress shall make refuse to publish manuscripts comparable employment in institutions are the medical no law respecting an estab- arm of the church ministering lishment of religion, or pro- to the needs not only of Sev- hibiting the free exercise enth-day Adventists but of all thereof ; or abridging the free- who need health and healing, dom of speech, or of the Report to the Church regardless of their national, press; or the right of the peo- cultural, racial, or religious ple peaceably to assemble, backgrounds. Our institutions and to petition the Govern- submitted by persons under the community. We believe in their operations are indeed ment for a redress of griev- some circumstances has been that service in the cause of the Seventh-day Adventist ances." challenged. Some believe that God is a privilege and that Church in action on all fronts Three areas of our church such a position is not conso- part of the remuneration we of its spiritual, philanthropic program are involved in the nant with the provisions of the receive is the knowledge that endeavor. current cases. All three of First Amendment. We believe we are working for God and The Seventh-day Adventist these issues are vital to the the church has the right to that by accepting a lower sal- Church has not initiated any life and operation of our publish or not to publish ma- ary we help the church's of the current court cases. We church. We believe that we terials submitted for publica- funds to go further so that are defendants in every case. are protected by the First tion not only on the basis of more workers can be em- We do not like to be involved Amendment in each of the the acceptability of the manu- ployed, and the work of the in court cases. We believe three areas. We do not believe script but also on the basis of church will go more rapidly. there are better ways of set- that the church is above the the relationship of the author Until more recent years this tling differences in the church, law or that the Seventh-day to the church, providing such scale provided that the "head but sometimes a situation de- Adventist Church is not sub- material is not in violation of of household" (the wage velops or deteriorates to the ject to the laws of this law. earner in a family, in contra- extent that we have no other 2. Does the church have the distinction to a worker with course than to defend the Robert H. Pierson is president right to structure its own sys- only himself/herself to sup- church when it is sued in of the General Conference. tem of remunerating its port) should receive a higher court. 6 (302) R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 As stated above, the Sev- the challenged church pro enth-day Adventist Church gram or terminating it. Fellowship of Prayer per se does not feel that it is 3. When the church feels above the law or that it is not Government is operating be- subject to city, State, or Fed- yond its rightful sphere, or eral laws. Seventh-day Ad- where the church differs with ventists are traditionally law- Government in interpreting a abiding citizens, and the statute, where it dislikes a law church counsels our members or stands to suffer a disad- Trust God's Wisdom to keep the laws of the land. vantage or loss on the grounds "Ask, then; ask, and ye shall receive. Ask for humility, wisdom, "Let every soul be subject of public policy or cost, the courage, increase of faith. To every sincere prayer an answer will unto the higher powers. For church would state clearly to come. It may not come just as you desire, or at the time you look for there is no power but of God: both Government and church it; but it will come in the way and at the time that will best meet your the powers that be are or- members why it differs with need. The prayers you offer in loneliness, in weariness, in trial, God dained of God" (Rom. 13:1). Government. If the church answers, not always according to your expectations, but always for "It is our duty in every case to subsequently fails to convince your good."—Messages to Young People, p. 250. obey the laws of our land, un- Government, it would again "God regards us as His children. He has redeemed us out of the less they conflict with the have to decide whether to ad- careless world and has chosen us to become members of the royal higher law which God spoke just the challenged church family, sons and daughters of the heavenly King. He invites us to with an audible voice from program or to terminate it. trust in Him with a trust deeper and stronger than that of a child in Sinai, and afterward engraved 4. When the church has his earthly father. Parents love their children, but the love of God is on stone with His own problems outside the United larger, broader, deeper, than human love can possibly be. It is finger."—Testimonies, vol. 1, States, the above system per- immeasurable. Then if earthly parents know how to give good gifts p. 361. haps could be adapted to al- to their children, how much more shall our Father in heaven give the The vast majority of civil most every country. Where Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"—Christ's Object Lessons, p. laws in the United States have there are constitutions and/or 142. nothing to do with religion or laws protecting the religious "But God is too wise and good to answer our prayers always at with the church. As Seventh- rights of citizens and institu- just the time and in just the manner we desire. He will do more and day Adventists we support the tions, the approach would be better for us than to accomplish all our wishes. And because we can legal system that is set up to substantially as outlined trust His wisdom and love, we should not ask Him to concede to our govern the nation. It is unu- above. In a country where will, but should seek to enter into and accomplish His purpose. Our legal options are more limited, sual indeed when we take desires and interests should be lost in His will."—The Ministry of the approach would be re- issue with the ordinances or Healing, p. 231. the directives of the Govern- duced to circumstances as ment. outlined in No. 1: the church "When we do not receive the very things we ask for, at the time we The General Conference would obey the Government ask, we are still to believe that the Lord hears and that He will an- has developed guidelines that except where demands violate swer our prayers. We are so erring and shortsighted that we some- govern our church-State rela- a "Thus saith the Lord." times ask for things that would not be a blessing to us, and our heav- tionships. Here is a review of We believe that Adventist enly Father in love answers our prayers by giving us that which will these guidelines in principle: church members generally be for our highest good—that which we ourselves would desire if 1. In cases where the will agree that these guide- with vision divinely enlightened we could see all things as they really church feels that Government lines represent a reasonable are."—Steps to Christ, p. 96. demands are a violation of a approach to church-State rela- plain "Thus saith the Lord" tionships and that they under- ► Some time ago I wrote re- operative around the house, and we would be prepared to pur- score our desire to be law- questing prayer for my hus- generally seems to appreciate sue all possible civil remedies abiding citizens supportive of band, that he might be able to his home and parents more. We to the fullest extent. We Government in every respect. find a steady job where he are very happy to have him would go to the highest court, Only when matters of con- would not have to work on Sab- back, but ask for your prayers as well as to the legislative science conflict with legal re- bath or join the union. The Lord again in his behalf, as there are and executive branches of the quirements would we be un- answered our prayers, and it has still problems. He is not attend- Government, if necessary, to able to comply fully with the enabled us to keep our children ing church, but works on the seek redress. If relief were laws of the land. We believe in church school. We thank God Sabbath. And he has a problem denied in a matter pertaining that the U.S. Government for the many ways He has with the cigarette habit. We to conscience, the church stands for freedom of wor- blessed us. Once again I am re- pray that our son will surrender might be forced to take a posi- ship, and we pray it will never questing prayer for my husband his whole heart to the Lord.— tion that could be interpreted ask us to do things that would and myself. We realize that we C. G., of Georgia. be in open conflict with our need a total consecration in as being civilly disobedient. I know the joy of answered conscience. every area of our lives, and ► Determining what is a prayer and want to share an ex- "Thus saith the Lord" would There is one other area in especially in our home life, that we may be a help and blessing to perience with those who prayed be by properly constituted recent court procedures that with me for my husband's con- church bodies, such as the has concerned a few who our children and not a stumbling block. We want to be ready version. He has been rebaptized General Conference Commit- have read the affidavits filed and is working in one of our tee, Annual Council, the Gen- by church leaders. Apparently when Jesus comes.—L. V., of California. institutions. I'm not sure which eral Conference in session. there was fear on the part of of us was more blessed, as I Where the church feels some that the use of first min- 2. Thank you to all who have witnessed the way the Lord as ► Government violates the es- ister and spiritual leader been praying with us for our turned a seemingly hopeless sit- tablishment, free-exercise, applied to two General Con- wayward son. We would like to uation into one where there is equal-protec- ference officers in two affida- due-process, share the good news that he has peace and joy. Thank you for tion, or any other clause in the vits meant that a new form of returned home, giving up the letting us participate in prayer U.S. Constitution, it would church polity was aborning. life-style of a hippie. He has for one another.—F. M., of state clearly to both Govern- These terms were initiated by found a good, steady job, is co- California. ment and church members attorneys who are not Sev- why it differs with Govern- enth-day Adventists. They [We are admonished by the Scriptures to "pray for one another" (James 5:16). This ment. If the church subse- were using language they no column is designed to encourage united prayer for personal, family, and church problems. The appointed time of prayer is at sunset each Friday evening. Participants believe "it is a quently fails to convince doubt felt would be well un- part of God's plan to grant us, in answer to the prayer of faith, that which He would not Government and/or the Su- derstood in the courtroom. If bestow did we not thus ask."—The Great Controversy, p. 525. Portions of letters reporting preme Court, it would there- we erred in accepting counsel answers to prayer will be published as space permits.] after obey the law, adjusting in this area, we will try to do R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 (303) 7 better next time. In the Ad- conference administrative ciently for so many decades. prophecy declares it. Current ventist ministry we do not system and functions simply Today the church is passing events already confirm it. have various "orders," with as a single independent through one of the most criti- In such days your leaders some "outranking" others. It church unit. The Seventh-day cal periods in its history. This on every "level" of adminis- is true that some have larger Adventist Church has adopted is a time when "the dragon" tration—from the local church parishes than others, but ba- and continues to maintain a is "wroth with the woman" through the General Confer- sically we are all in this great "representative" form of and has declared war on "the ence—need your understand- cause together, and we would church government, which in remnant of her seed" (Rev. ing and your prayers. Like not have it any other way. an organizational context is 12:17). There are troubles and you, we are only human. We The use of the term hierar- probably closer to the hierar- problems in almost every may make mistakes, but we chical system by attorneys chical organization than to the country where our work is do much earnest praying and also disturbed a few people. congregationalist. carried on. In some lands give careful, thoughtful con- Hierarchy was selected by the The system of Seventh-day there is overt war or political sideration to the decisions lawyers because of its legal Adventist polity has not been turmoil. In others we have made. We sincerely endeavor significance in defining a changed nor could it be workers in prison, our schools to stay close to the counsel church organizational struc- changed other than by a vote have been taken over by the given us in the Bible and the ture with different levels of of the delegates attending a Government, our funds have Spirit of Prophecy. As far as administrative authority such General Conference quin- been frozen, our members are is humanly possible we want as our local churches, local quennial session. I know of no restricted in worship. We to carry on God's work in conferences, union confer- steps being taken—nor have should not be surprised when God's way. We want to see ences, divisions, and the any ever been mentioned— these conditions obtain. They His work finished and the General Conference, in con- that would revise or change are signs of the early triumph Saviour return so that very trast to a purely "congrega- the wonderful, God-given or- of the Advent Movement. soon we can all be with Him in tional" form of church gov- ganization that has served this Before things get better they that land He has gone to pre- ernment that has no central church effectively and effi- will get much worse. Bible pare. ❑

For theYounger Set

before she left. He must be around mother. "I'm so March Winds Blow Change starving! She tried to hurry sorry," she gasped. "I didn't home, but her boots were mean to be away so long, and "Oh, yes," Patty bright- heavy with sticky mud and I'm sorry you're so tired and By PEARL J. BRADLEY ened. "I love lambs." she was now a long way from Blacky's so hungry and . . . " "All right. I'll feed all three the farm. Patty was crying, her head PATTY WAS sitting in the of them in the morning while By the time she got back it against mother's arm. attic, enjoying the fresh air you're in school, but you can was almost dark. Panting, "I hope you won't do that and March winds she could feed yours as soon as you get Patty slipped through the again," mother said. "If we feel and hear from the small home, and again in the eve- partly opened barn door, then all ran away whenever we felt window near her. After a ning. Don't forget or it will go stopped. Mother stood feed- like it, we would all go long, dark, bitterly cold hungry." ing Blacky, whose small body hungry, like Blacky." winter she could hardly be- Patty picked Blacky, who was quivering in his eagerness "I know. I'll do my share lieve that the rest of the snow was named after the four to eat. Patty noticed how tired from now on, you'll see. I would soon melt, after which black socks that came half- mother looked. Then Patty promise." the land would dry under the way up his knobby legs. He remembered that mother and As Patty and mother whistling March winds. was adorable, and soon he her sisters had started spring walked to the house arm in Could this breeze be the was running to meet Patty housecleaning in the base- arm, a sudden, cold gust of same air that had screamed when she came to feed him. ment today. For the first time wind made Patty shiver. She around the old house such a Patty loved her new pet. Patty wondered who had done remembered what her grand- few short weeks ago, carrying But Patty still disappeared the jobs that would have been father often said, "March icy sheets of snow like deadly when there was work to do, hers. Did her walk mean that winds blow change." She clouds? Each spring was a and sulked when she was mother had had to work much knew he meant the change miracle—a gift straight from found. harder? from winter to spring, but she God. She wished she could One beautiful, warm day Patty burst into tears and felt that she too had changed play outside. Then she heard Patty came home from school rushed to throw her arms on this March day. her sister coming. "Patty, go and slipped outside. She downstairs," Beth told her. splashed through some pud- "Mother wants you to help dles with her boots, and then her with the baking while she saw a gopher. Patty Mary and I clean house." rushed after him and laughed Patty groaned, then as he popped into a hole, only stomped down to the kitchen. to pop out again with a drip- Mother sighed at the sight of ping face, and streak off to Patty's long face. What could another hole. The ground was she do to get Patty to help very wet from melting snow. without sulking? She kept finding interesting Then mother had an idea. things to look at or follow, "Patty," she said, "would and before she knew it it was you like to pick out one of the getting late. lambs that needs to be fed by Suddenly a terrible thought hand and feed it every after- flashed into her mind. Blacky! noon and evening?" She had forgotten to feed him

8 (304) R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 Family Living

those pieces into the shape of a full heart. Always I came up with a grotesque shape, not resembling the heart I was Half a Heart searching for. I had taught a primary Sabbath school class that morning, the lesson being on the rich young ruler who and a Song asked Jesus, "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" The lesson helps had said to bring a whole heart and a Tears blurred my eyes as Becky "half a heart," and talk to the children about what it means to give only half a heart to Jesus. I had asked the class, "What must you do to be finished and sat down. saved?" Joel said, "Be true." "Be kind," Tammy added, and then Michelle, who was always thoughtful, added, "Have faith." Michelle's arrow was on its way to my heart, or more truthfully, my half a heart. "What do you mean?" I asked Michelle. Together we discussed what it meant to have faith. "To have faith that By CONNIE W. NOWLAN God knew what was best when He gave the Ten Com- mandments. To have faith that He can and will forgive. —0 GOD, THOU ART MERCIFUL, merciful to To have faith that we may have the power to overcome." me.' " Becky finished singing and went back to her place. We talked about the half a heart the young ruler had. Her sincere face and the message of her song sank like an He didn't want to give his money to Jesus. He would give arrow of truth into my heart, or more accurately, my only half a heart. The bell rang, and classtime was over. "half a heart." The class left, and I sat looking at that half a heart I had For weeks I had been struggling with the pieces, like a made. The arrow was coming closer. window broken by a rock, trying desperately to arrange I, primary Sabbath school leader, leader of a prayer group, giver of Bible studies each week, had only given Connie W. Nowlan has been an academy dean and half a heart to Christ. That rich young ruler and I were English teacher and is presently a homemaker in Boulder, brothers. Like him, I had two choices. I could accept the Colorado. reproof or turn away. I struggled. The truth hurt. R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 (305) 9 Reading had always been my first love. I could pick up heart full of the love of Jesus. The puzzle was more a book, any book, and become involved. The characters complex now. I knew God had given me the words to became friends, and we traveled together in whatever speak to Jean. His Holy Spirit had reached Jean's heart. they did. I knew that that pastime could be good or bad, But down deep I knew those words God had given me depending on what I read. I had already eliminated the came from only half a heart. Yes, that rich young ruler really vulgar books from my menu, I prided myself. But and I were brothers. The choice was mine. God had given my own words to my Sabbath school class were striking me the facts. I must choose. Could I, Jean's teacher, deep, and they condemned me. I was a half-a-heart change as Jean was willing to change? Christian. God Waited for Me I had read in The Adventist Home that fiction weans a soul from prayer and from the love of spiritual things, but Becky's full-hearted song had filled the church. " '0 I felt that I was an exception. After all, I read only good God, Thou art merciful, merciful to me.' " The words stories. Fiction reading didn't hurt me. I had a well- haunted me as she sang, and then suddenly I knew the defined time for study and personal prayer. I took time "me" she was singing about was me. God is merciful. He for God daily. I loved these times and had grown close to accepted and used that half a heart of mine, ever waiting my Lord. in mercy for more. He was kind and patient, waiting until Then there was Jean. We had been studying the Bible I saw my own condition. And then He waited again for together for three months, and just this week she had me to choose. What a God! learned that Saturday is the Sabbath. As we talked she Tears blurred my eyes as Becky finished and sat down. had said, "This may make the biggest change in my "God, You know what is best for me. I am not an whole life. I wouldn't know about this if people like you exception. Fiction reading will wean me away from spir- hadn't come and told me." Jean was willing to change. itual things, as You have said. I want You to have a How about Jean's teacher? whole heart, my heart. And, God, thank You for being People like me are supposed to have a full heart, a merciful, merciful to me. Amen." ❑

Especially forWomen By BETTY HOLBROOK

by observing the chaste and He be like the others, atten- Must It Be—Believer reverent behaviour of their tive and pliable in the hands wives" (1 Peter 3:1, 2, of their religious leaders? v. Unbeliever? N.E.B.). Couldn't He bend just a little It's harder to live the gos- to keep peace and harmony? "I'M A CHANGED may be. When it comes to pel than to preach it. It While we dare not sacri- woman. If only the change religion it's even harder to means, in a sense, that we fice principles, neither do we would have come years understand. (We're right, have to carry a double bur- dare forget the words of ago." The pain, the desper- you know!) We're also jubi- den—ours and his. It means John: "Little children, let us ation in Rita's face, told the lant when we've experi- extra study and prayer—for stop just saying we love story of what might have enced a conversion or a re- our own strength and for his people; let us really love been. conversion. We have new conversion. It also means no them, and show it by our In the satin-lined casket truth, new concepts, new compromise of principles. If actions" (1 John 3:18, lay her husband, father of ardor. We want to share. it is a true principle (not just T.L.B.). her children and provider for Unfortunately, when it's a stubbornness or anger) we This is a time to make many years. She had wanted spouse we want to share would deny the importance home a genuinely pleasant so much for him to give his with (and this could be true of that principle if we were place to come to as Maria heart to the Lord. with an Adventist as well as to give in. did. We met her in a little Years earlier Rita had a non-Adventist husband) That's the dark side. jungle town on the Amazon. found "the truth." She had we aren't always concerned The bright side is that we When she became a Chris- been searching for it, so about tact or patience. We don't have to do all this tian she determined to win when she found it she was don't seem to be afraid to alone. There is One who un- Jose. She cleaned and enthusiastic. It was all so hurt the one we love the derstands. He tasted it when cooked; she smiled and plain to her, so beautiful. most. Paul's words, "Love He lived among us here. sang; she studied and Why couldn't her husband is patient; love is kind," Jesus' brothers were not prayed. see it too? Stubbornness? have eluded us (1 Cor. 13:4, always kind to Him. They Jose wasn't a bit im- Contrariness? She would N.E.B.). did not believe He was sent pressed. He grumbled and convince him, she would The apostle Peter suggests of God, and through Mary scolded, and often threat- argue every point of doc- a very different method— "they tried to correct the ened. But Maria was un- trine, she would win. Any one that isn't easy to put into practices of Jesus according daunted, her faith strong. In other alternative was un- practice: to their standard." The time Jose's resistance began thinkable. But her method "In the same way you priests and the teachers also to crumble and his interest didn't work. women must accept the au- appealed to Mary, and she grew until at last Maria's Rita's mistake is a com- thority of your husbands, so "often remonstrated with love drew him in. mon one. It's hard for us to that if there are any of them Jesus, and urged Him to God loves us—all of accept the fact that others who disbelieve the Gospel conform to the usages of the us—in spite of our faults. He don't respond exactly as we they may be won over, rabbis."—The Desire of goes on loving. He doesn't do—whatever the conflict without a word being said, Ages, p. 90. Why couldn't let go. Do we?

10 (306) R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 From the Editors

the sun's light and heat from certain parts of the earth. Are Weather Freaks It's as though someone is sitting up there in the upper atmosphere pulling the slats on a venetian blind.' "— a Sign of the Times? February 22, 1977. But there is one culprit Mr. O'Toole did not mention, The Eastern States of the United States are recovering nor, for that matter, has any author of the numerous from one of the coldest winters on record. Meanwhile, analyses appearing in the press of late, seeking to explain sections of the Western States have been experiencing a the current freaks of weather. This culprit is Satan. Ellen severe drought. White identifies him as one source of natural disasters: Speculating as to the cause, scientists have come up "Satan works through the elements also to garner his with various suggestions. Among the culprits they blame harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied the secrets is the sun, whose surface activity has been at a prolonged of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to low. Sunspot activity reaches a high every 11 years. The control the elements as far as God allows. When he was latest high occurred in 1969. It should have reached a suffered to afflict Job, how quickly flocks and herds, minimum in 1975, but the low has continued and only in servants, houses, children, were swept away, one trouble the last month and a half has activity begun to pick up. succeeding another as in a moment. It is God that shields The manner in which the sun's activity affects the His creatures and hedges them in from the power of the weather is believed to be that a change in the solar wind . destroyer."—The Great Controversy, p. 589. affects the circulation of air currents in the upper at- Though described in the chapter titled "The Impending mosphere, which, in turn, affects the weather. Conflict," Satan's tampering with the elements is not Sunspot activity also affects the amount of carbon-14 something merely to be expected in the future. "Even that reaches the earth's atmosphere. When the activity is now [a reference to the time of writing, about 1883] he is down, the number of particles goes up. Carbon-14 is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, absorbed by plants. Since it is radioactive, it decays at a in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific fixed rate. Thus, after the death of a plant, the amount of hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, decay provides a time clock by which to measure the age and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, of organic materials. From time to time the REVIEW has Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the discussed this method of dating and has sought to answer ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He questions as to the degree of the method's reliability. imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by An examination of the amount of carbon-14 in tree the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and rings confirms the 11-year sunspot cycle. A further study more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon of droughts in the West shows that a drought hits the both man and beast. 'The earth mourneth and fadeth West every 22 years, or every other sunspot cycle. A away,' the haughty people . . . do languish. The earth study in Arizona has shown that carbon-14 levels were high 22 years ago and again 44 years ago and again 66 years ago. These correspond to the drought in the West in the 50's, the dust bowl of the 30's, and the drought of Inspired Gems 1910. Inspired Gems The Search for Culprits Favorite Bible Texts and Spirit of Prophecy quotations Whatever influence the sun may have on the weather, selected by local conference presidents of according to The Washington Post staff writer Thomas North America. O'Toole, "Scientists still believe the main culprits in any • changes in the weather are the dust, pollution, carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide that climb into the upper atmosphere from the surface of the earth, causing tem- perature and wind changes. "Dust has been blown all over the globe the last two years by winds carrying sand out of the Sahara desert. William C. Hatch Aerosols—small particles—from industrial pollution are Colorado Conference at a record high and more and more carbon and sulfur • "He hath shewed thee, 0 man, what is good; and what dioxide is reaching the upper atmosphere as more and doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love more coal, oil, and natural gas are being burned by the mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" (Micah 6:8). industrial civilizations of the earth." • "Not more surely is the place prepared for us in the Then quoting Dr. John A. Eddy of the Harvard Uni- heavenly mansions than is the special place designated on versity-Smithsonian Observatory Center for Astrophys- earth where we are to work for God."—Christ's Object ics, he adds, " 'This is why you get worldwide weather Lessons, p. 327. shifts—the amounts of dust and, pollution that can cut off R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 (307) 11 also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they These are momentous days. Recognizing the severe have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, bro- setback that could come to God's work, not only in ken the everlasting covenant.' Isaiah 24:4, 5."—Ibid., the United States but in all the world, should Satan sweep pp. 589, 590. away the Western harvests, the North American Divi- Are the calamities of nature, then, signs of the times? sion Committee on Administration has appointed Sab- Although one may not have the information to identify bath, March 26, as a day of fasting and prayer. We invite any specific calamity as executed directly by Satan "to all members in the North American Division to take part, garner his harvest of unprepared souls," certainly Ellen not only seeking personal spiritual renewal but uniting White is clear in stating that "these visitations are to their prayers with those of others so that tragedy may be become more and more frequent and disastrous." Since averted. (See Neal C. Wilson's appeal, cover, March 10.) there have been disasters of nature all through human Simply because prophecy predicts certain events is no history, such disasters may not pinpoint the time as reason that Christians should sit back and await their ful- precisely as, for example, the prophecies of Revelation. fillment. These are times for earnest effort. Many are un- The great events having to do with the beast, his image, ready. They need to be warned. his mark, the death decree, and the seven last plagues are Angels belt the globe, keeping Satan at bay. It is the great events of the future, for the signs of which the proper to pray that they will continue to hold him at bay Christian ought to be carefully looking. But these signs until the servants of God are sealed in their foreheads. will be accompanied by Satan's increased activities in the The united prayers of God's people can affect signifi- realm of natural disasters. cantly the issues in the great controversy. D. F. N.

Letters Continued from page 3 nurse offered to pray with him. But it can be argued that the swift entire Synod had the true issue, split and the events that led up to I couldn't have had more love exodus of Concordia Seminary the two thirds of the iceberg it have, I am sure, saddened anywhere than I received in the faculty and students (over the ex- rather than the tip, suddenly sur- Christians of all faiths. Let us months that I spent with my hus- traneous issue of ratifying a doc- faced and been met head-on. pray that God can lead Seventh- band in the hospital. They did all ument that scholarship considera- MYLAS MARTIN day Adventists as a body, as well they could for him, making his tions prevented their endorsing) New York, New York as individuals, and that this shat- last days comfortable, for which I was, for the immediate present, tering experience will not be re- am profoundly thankful. quite beneficial. The articles on the Lutheran peated. I am now a member of the Sev- Their leaving staved off a later, Church-Missouri Synod have ELWOOD E. STAFF enth-day Adventist Church. I was far more disastrous blow to the been instructive and moving. This Redlands, California baptized shortly after moving to my present home. BERTHA M. PAINTER Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania Response From Readers Beasts and Baptism In the December 16, 1976, REVIEW I noticed that the An- drews University Heritage Room had recently received seven pa- great blessings. With our pier-mâché beasts representing Foster a Family own immediate families liv- the creatures of Daniel and Reve- ing 2,000 miles away, it is a lation. Those replicas were used "FOSTER FAMILIES" lady, also took the time to comfort to know that there by W. W. Simpson in his evan- really struck a chord with teach me how to knit and is a close friend we can turn gelistic meetings in California me. It would seem that some crochet when I was 14. To to should an emergency ever during 1906. When I was a young families are so closely knit this day I am grateful to her arise. girl I attended his meetings in that it is virtually impossible for the patience she had with Perhaps some who read Oakland, California. Elder Simp- for "outsiders" to make an me. I was also permitted to the foster-family article son was a powerful and convinc- entry. practice my music lessons have hesitated to carry out ing speaker. After the meetings he As I look back to my on their piano, as we didn't the suggestion. I would en- baptized me. teen-age years, I cherish my have one in our home. There courage them to do so. JUANITA BIRKENSTOCK fond memories of happy were also picnics, family Surely there are lonely Anerley, South Africa outings spent with a family worships, Saturday-night senior citizens, single who were next-door neigh- parties. Never do I re- parents, or teen-agers living Missouri Synod bors. When they went member ever feeling like the close by. Surely they would camping they took two cars "fifth wheel." I now have a benefit from a little extra Re "A Church in Crisis" (Jan. and three tents. Each of home of my own. My hus- brotherly love and attention. 13, 20,.27, Feb. 3, 10, 17). their three children brought band being a minister, we During the past year we For conservative churches, along a friend. When camp have many visitors in our have received several letters scriptural exegesis and "liberaliz- was pitched, the parents home. We have had the op- of appreciation that lead us ing" trends in their seminaries are slept in one tent while the portunity of "adopting" to feel it was well worth the always the tip of the iceberg. But boys had another tent and families into our family cir- effort. To have someone say questions of teaching authority, the girls slept in yet another. cle, a practice that has paid that your home feels like polity, and control are the iceberg What a wonderful weekend great dividends. Sharing a home away from home itself. we'd have camping among birthday cake, little surprise makes you feel extraordi- Champions of academic free- the Rockies of Banff Na- gifts now and again, or per- narily good inside. dom may be dismayed. And con- tional Park. haps Sabbath-evening wor- MRS. VERA WIERE servative observers may deplore Niagara Falls, Ontario the recent schism within the Lu- "Aunty," as I called this ship with friends, can bring theran Church-Missouri Synod. 12 (308) R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 COVER STORY Huguley Memorial Medical Center Opens in Texas By MARVIN MOORE

SEVENTH-DAY AD- Robert H. Pierson, General to establish a hospital. When men from several of Fort VENTISTS joined hands Conference president, gave sold his property provided Worth's largest banks and in- with the city of Fort Worth, the commission. "A church- more than $6 million, and thus dustries. These leaders Texas, to make medical his- operated hospital assumes a established the financial base pledged to raise $3.25 million tory on February 20. An esti- special trust," he said, "a from which the Huguley Me- over a two-year period. mated 3,500 persons trust to reflect the character of morial Medical Center has Among the major contribu- attended the ribbon-cutting God. Those who come to this been built. tors to the Huguley hospital's ceremonies of the Huguley hospital deserve the best Dr. Huguley also specified voluntary fund effort were the Memorial Medical Center in treatment that Christian med- in his will that the medical Sid W. Richardson Founda- the southern part of the city. icine can provide. I urge the work carried on through his tion, the Amon G. Carter The Huguley hospital is the physicians and staff to pray bequest be named in honor of Foundation, and the Fort newest in the worldwide each day for the insight to his parents, William J. and Worth Clearing House. All of chain of Seventh-day Advent- care for each patient's Areta-Taylor Huguley, who these are based in Fort Worth. ist health-care institutions. needs." Elder Pierson also for many years were members The Mabee Foundation of The hospital admitted its first gave a brief summary of the of the Dallas First Seventh- Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the patient on March 1. worldwide medical work of day Adventist church. Kresge Foundation of De- Seventh-day Adventists. troit, Michigan, also were The Honorable Dolph Bris- Fort Worth Selected coe, governor of the State of Huguley Medical Center is major supporters of the vol- Texas, was the featured the result of a bequest ex- Dr. Huguley died in May, untary fund effort. A Fort speaker at the opening cere- ceeding $6 million by the late 1967. Seventh-day Adventists Worth citizen, Paul H. Pewitt, monies. "I can think of noth- Herbert Taylor Huguley, who were immediately notified of donated a $400,000 tract of ing that is more in keeping for many years had a dental his will written in their behalf. land for the construction site with the great tradition of the practice in Dallas, Texas. Dr. There followed three years of on interstate highway 35-W, Lone Star State than the con- Huguley was also active in court proceedings to settle the and Seventh-day Adventist cern for humanity that this real-estate development in legality of the will. Early in entities contributed $316,000. hospital represents," Gover- Dallas, through which he ac- 1970 the church received a fa- The $3.25-million goal was nor Briscoe said. He com- quired property in the near- vorable judgment, and plans reached on February 14, just mended the hospital's Board downtown area that came to for a major medical institution six days prior to the February of Trustees and the leadership be worth millions of dollars. in the Dallas/Fort Worth me- 20 opening date. of the city of Fort Worth and Dr. Huguley wanted his life troplex began in earnest. Se- Dr. Huguley's $6-million surrounding communities for work to accomplish some- lecting a site was the first task. bequest, together with the their foresight and hard work thing significant. About a year The Fort Worth Chamber $3.25 million in voluntary in bringing the institution to before his death, he wrote a of Commerce had just com- funds, means that Huguley reality. will that named the Seventh- pleted a survey of its hospital Medical Center is opening day Adventist. Church as the needs to the end of the cen- with $9.25 million of its total Marvin Moore is a free-lance major beneficiary of his es- tury, which indicated that a $16.25-million cost in hand. writer living in Keene, Texas. tate, specifying that it be used large hospital must be in Only $7 million, or about 43 operation in the southern part per cent, was financed of the city by 1980. When Fort through long-term loans. Most Worth leaders learned that new hospitals open with more Seventh-day Adventists were than 70 per cent of the total seeking a site to build a major cost financed through loans. medical center, they immedi- In June, 1971, the hospital's ately extended an invitation to Board of Trustees invited locate in their city. The site William V. Wiist, administra- they offered, just 20 minutes' tor of the Ardmore, Okla- drive from Southwestern homa, Adventist hospital, to Union College, would provide lead out in the planning and excellent clinical facilities for construction of the Huguley the college's nursing program. hospital. Ground was broken Before accepting the Fort in October, 1974. The archi- Worth offer, however, the tectural and construction church asked Fort Worth firms, Arnold-Scribner and leaders to make a major com- Associates of Westlake Vil- mitment themselves toward lage, California, and Haystad the construction of the hospi- and Hudson of Loma Linda, tal. These leaders organized California, are both operated the Fort Worth Leadership by Seventh-day Adventists. Committee with Louis J. The Huguley Memorial Levy, an orthopedic surgeon Medical Center opened with who for years had been active 70 patient beds on the first two in civic affairs, as chairman. floors of its six-floor nursing Huguley Memorial Hospital's six-floor nursing tower combines architec- Other committee members in- tower and ten in the intensive- tural beauty with functional efficiency. No patient is more than 65 cluded three former presi- care unit. The next two floors feet from a nurses' station. Two floors were completed when the hospi- dents of the Fort Worth are completed except for fur- tal opened, two more will be furnished and opened when the patient Chamber of Commerce, and nishings, and will be occupied count grows, and two more floors will be finished as the need arises. presidents and board chair- in the near future as the pa- R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 (309) 13 dent count grows. The top The hospital's two-floor Fort Worth leaders are par- Several more plan to come in two floors in the nursing tower portion adjacent to the nurs- ticularly pleased with Hugu- the near future. Adjacent to have been shelled in, and the ing tower provides all the ley's plan for emergency the hospital, but under sepa- rooms will be completed and space that will be needed for service. The hospital has a rate construction, is a two- occupied as the need arises. administrative offices and an- staff physician in the building floor medical building with Long-range plans call for the cillary (supporting) services 24 hours a day. Stuart Nelson, space for as many as 20 construction of another nurs- even when expansion occurs. one of the few emergency- suites. Seven of these have ing tower that will bring the This section includes 11,000 medicine specialists in the na- been completed, and the total bed count to 530. square feet of surgery floor tion, is in charge of the emer- others will be completed as A vital part of the nursing space, with four operating gency department. physicians are available to care at Huguley is the single- suites, a cysto suite for urol- Seventh-day Adventists occupy them. room concept. Each patient ogy procedures, and a day- pioneered in the field of pre- The Seventh-day Adventist room, slightly triangular in surgery suite for outpatient ventive medicine more than Church operates smaller hos- shape, contains one bed, a surgery. Also part of the an- 100 years ago. Huguley Medi- pitals in six communities in built-in dresser, a wall- cillary services are a 7,500- cal Center will incorporate Texas and Oklahoma. Hugu- mounted console for nursing square-foot radiology unit, a this feature of Adventist medi- ley Medical Center, affiliating care, and a bathroom with modern laboratory, physical cal philosophy. A full-time with the nurse's training pro- toilet, shower, and basin. A therapy and emergency de- health educator will conduct gram at Southwestern Union telephone and television set partments, and a pharmacy, smoking clinics, weight-con- College, will fill a vital, need in are also part of the furnishings nursery, and cafeteria. trol clinics, cooking and nu- providing nurses to staff its in each room. trition classes, and other pre- own and other Adventist hos- The single-room concept ventive programs both in the pitals in the Southwest. The gives the patient and his phy- hospital and in the commu- college already has estab- sicians and nurses greater nity. The hospital will coop- lished an Associate Degree privacy for examinations and erate with local public-health nursing program in anticipa- treatments. He can be in- agencies to survey the com- tion of Huguley's opening. stantly isolated for contagious munity and identify prevail- Long ago Ellen White diseases, obviating the need ing health problems. Hospital wrote, "The Lord is still will- for moving the patient. And it patients prior to discharge will ing to move upon the hearts of eliminates the inconvenience receive special instructions those in possession of His of having to match patients on how they can assist with goods, in behalf of the cause according to sex, age, or their own recovery and avoid of truth."—Prophets and medical condition. The future hospitalization. Kings, p. 634. Surely Dr. Hu- slightly greater construction Huguley Medical Center guley was one of these. The cost for the single-room hos- welcomes to its medical staff impact of his bequest, among pital is largely offset by the any physician who meets the the largest gifts ever made to operating advantages it offers, standards that have been set the Seventh-day Adventist More than $6 million left to the thus making it possible to church by Herbert Taylor Huguley, for staff privileges. Eleven Church, will be felt by both provide the patient with pri- a dentist in Dallas, formed the Seventh-day Adventist physi- the church and the community vate-room care at semi- financial base from which the new cians already have moved into in the Southwest for years to private rates. hospital in Fort Worth was built. the area and set up practice. come. ❑

New Fort Worth Facility: a Challenge to the Church Huguley Memorial Medical Center is an impressive stature identify and cooperate with us in a venture that edifice. Its architectural lines boldly underscore the builds community well-being is gratifying. More than one character of the building and its medical services to Fort Fort Worth leader told how pleased he or she was to have Worth. However, imposing as the physical structure may an opportunity to work with us on the Huguley Medical be on the Texas horizon, its full dimensions are to be Center. One major donor expressed the "extreme pleas- measured by the enrichment it will bring to the lives of ure that is ours to be a participant in the building of this men and women and by its effectiveness in turning the hospital." Another business leader noted that "the bring- minds of people to the Master Physician. ing of this facility to Fort Worth gives me more personal As a participant in the February 18 to 20 inaugural events pleasure than any other similar project on which I have with civic, business, professional, and Seventh-day Ad- worked." ventist Church leaders, I had three vital and important Third: Our medical institutions have a challenging op- points confirmed in my mind. portunity to influence men and women of social, eco- First: Huguley Medical Center is, in a sense, a product nomic, and government stature, and this increases each of its established sister institutions. A civic-minded leader day. Though we have appreciated this fact before, the who was among the prime movers inviting Adventists to Huguley Medical Center event underscored it again. Gov- Fort Worth told how his mother always remembered the ernor Briscoe, several State senators and representatives, extra-special care and attention she received at the Hins- five mayors, a regent of the University of Texas, chief-ex- dale Sanitarium and Hospital in Illinois. She had been ecutive officers from major corporations, bank presidents, hospitalized in many other institutions across the country. and scores of other officials heard General Conference Her appreciation for Adventists prompted him to work President Robert H. Pierson outline the commitment we energetically to bring the Huguley Medical Center to Fort have to the healing of mankind, physically and spiritually. Worth. In another case a Texas foundation awarded a They also heard the prayer of dedication, which called for a grant whose announcement letter said: "Since being personal commitment to minister to the injured and sick asked for financial support we have become aware of the and to bring spiritual healing to mankind. various quality medical facilities you operate throughout May God bless the Christlike service and witness of the the country." Huguley Memorial Medical Center and every other Sev- The full "multiplier-effect" of our collective medical enth-day Adventist health-care center. institutions will not be fully known on this earth. NEAL C. WILSON Second: The readiness with which men and women of General Conference Vice-President for North America

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sponsored an institute for em- ployees' wives, in addition to a Sabbath school rally day designed specifically for em- ployees and their families. "Most of the wives are happy with what has hap- pened at the factory," states the Ministerial Association secretary. "Now their hus- bands do not drink liquor or smoke tobacco. They do not carouse at night and are faith- ful husbands." The factory owner reports that he has seen a dramatic drop in the number of acci- dents with the company's trucks. He has a fleet of 50 trucks to haul charcoal from the factory to stores in the vicinity, and previously his drivers had a bad record of accidents as a result of drunken driving. Today he says there are no such acci- dents. Mr. Kim has outlined goals At a glance, Kim Yong Ki's charcoal factory looks like any other charcoal factory in Korea, but upon investiga- and plans for TARGET '80. tion one learns that much evangelistic activity goes on here. Each SDA employee is expected to be a soul winner. These goals, which he hopes to reach by 1980, are listed on a flip chart in his office: 1. try with physical revival he might to win all factory employees Factory Sparks also experience a spiritual re- to Christ; 2. try to win all vival. Her prayer was an- wives of employees to Christ; swered, for he was healed and 3. try to win all store keepers Evangelistic Activity subsequently accepted her re- (who sell his charcoal bri- ligion. quettes) to Christ; and 4. try By JANE ALLEN Mr. Kim, whose factory to win the families of these has made him a millionaire, salesmen to Christ. KIM YONG KI has turned trucks bear the same emblem. immediately recognized the He hopes to reach these his charcoal factory into an He has also established TAR- importance of paying tithe goals through a five-point evangelistic center. It's still a GET '80 goals specifically for and decided that all his em- program that includes having charcoal factory; in fact, with the factory church. ployees also should give one daily morning worship at the a working force of 205, it's the Situated in a rural area near tenth of their earnings to the factory; 2. urging employees largest of its kind in the Kwangju, the charcoal-fac- church. When this plan was to attend special meetings; 3. Kwangju district of South tory church is a rather new announced, however, many conduct baptismal classes Korea. project because Mr. Kim has complained and even went to continuously, with baptisms At a glance one might think been a Seventh-day Adventist government officials to take held three times per year; 4. that it is like any other char- only five years. Although his legal action against him. But offer spiritual counsel; and 5. coal factory turning out the wife had been a church Mr. Kim thought of a way in plan certain activities specifi- briquettes of black fuel used member for approximately 10 which he could require tithe cally for families. for cooking and heating in years before his conversion, of his workers and still keep The emphasis for 1977 and Korean homes. The dif- Mr. Kim disagreed with her them happy. He gave them a 1978, explains the factory ference is that Mr. Kim has religious practices and vio- 15 per cent raise in pay, thus owner, is directed toward made his a center of evangel- lently protested her faith. His settling the squabble. families of employees. The istic activity. Already 96 of father actually beat the Some time ago T. C. Kim, emphasis for 1979 and 1980 his workers have been bap- woman for maintaining her Korean Union Ministerial As- will be the salesmen in the tized and all employees pay beliefs, yet she never wa- sociation secretary, con- stores. Each store will receive tithe. He has built a chapel in vered. Instead, she kept pray- ducted an evangelistic cru- a subscription to the Korean the office building, where ing for her husband and his sade at the factory church, Signs magazine, and special church service is held every family. during which many of the em- meetings will be held for this week and morning worship is Not until he was stricken ployees were baptized. Ap- target audience. In the future held daily. He has designed a with heart trouble and became proximately half are now Ad- he would like to construct a factory flag with a Christian very ill did Mr. Kim turn to ventists. church in his Kwangju office, cross insignia, and all his God. At that time his recovery Mr. Kim is interested not where he could hold church was questionable, and it was only in his employees but also services for the salesmen and Jane Allen is associate com- thought that probably he in their wives and families, so their families in the city. munication director of the Far would die; however, Mrs. has planned special meetings Mr. Kim once belived that a Eastern Division. Kim prayed for him—that for them. Last December he person would become poor if

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he became a Seventh-day Ad- OREGON son were baptized. Another FRANCE ventist and was required to convert has been holding a give so much of his earnings Hospital Reports number of Bible studies her- Speaker Talks on to the church, but now he self, and saw her first convert says, "I have proved that 52 Baptisms baptized before the end of the Religious Liberty when one becomes an Ad- From January through De- year. An active retired cou- The cause of religious lib- ventist he does not become cember of 1976, 52 persons ple, happy in their new-found erty has received impetus in poor." The charcoal-factory joined Seventh-day Adventist faith, have given their full France by lectures and public church has the highest record churches in the Portland, time to assisting with three meetings on the subject by the of tithe paying in the South- Oregon, area as a result of the evangelistic series. Euro-Africa Division religious west Korean Mission. medical ministry of Portland There has been a close re- liberty director, Pierre Lan- "I am very thankful to my Adventist Hospital. Among lationship between chaplain ares. Newspaper publicity wife and her faithfulness," them are three physicians, workers and conference and photographs helped to Mr. Kim states as he watches with family members; pa- evangelistic programs. It has extend this outreach and the production line of short, tients; and hospital employees been found that a combination called attention to dangers sturdy men with their broad from a variety of work areas. of hospital ministries, private threatening individual con- faces blackened from char- This has been made possi- study, and public meetings sciences today. coal dust. "I was against her ble by the hospital adminis- provides most effective re- The International Associa- religion for many years and tration's adequate staffing for sults. tion for the Defence of Reli- was unkind to her, but she had chaplain services. A budget of Many thrilling stories can gious Liberty arranged meet- the truth. Now I have it and I five chaplain workers, includ- be told. A young couple were ings in Grenoble, Montpellier want to share it with all these ing three women Bible in- successful in "kicking the (in the conference room of the workers in my factory." structors, is recommended for habit" at one of our health Faculty of Law at the univer- It is difficult to tell whether a hospital the size of Portland education's Five-Day Plans to sity), Marseilles, Castres, and Mr. Kim's evangelistic out- Adventist Hospital, which has Stop Smoking. The wife then Pau for Dr. Lanares. All the reach is a part of his charcoal 276 beds. attended the Joy of Woman- meetings, which were well-at- factory or whether his char- One of those baptized in hood series conducted by one tended, emphasized the ne- coal factory is a branch of his 1976 was a patient who shared of our Bible instructors, after cessity of safeguarding an evangelistic program. No her weekly Bible study les- which she and her husband often-neglected heritage, doubt this accounts for the sons with her physician. As a signed up for group Bible namely, the freedom to wor- success of both. result the physician and his studies. Now that they are ship or not to worship—the Seventh-day Adventists their liberty of conscience. Those home is the scene of weekly who attended expressed ap- group studies in which other preciation for the valuable members of their immediate contribution made by the family are making personal semiannual magazine, Con- commitments. science et Liberte, which Dr. The cooperation of non- Lanares edits. This journal Adventist pastors making has been printed in German hospital visits must not be since 1974, and the first edi- overlooked. Through them tion in Dutch has just come many patients have been off the press. spiritually strengthened and EDWARD E. WHITE encouraged to walk closer to Education Director Christ. It is hoped that these Euro-Africa Division patients will accept further truth as their Christ-centered relationship grows. ZAIRE Christian literature con- tinues to play a significant role Kasai Project in these soul-winning minis- tries. One couple at Portland Holds Retreat Adventist Hospital found new Sixty-four national workers hope and truth in Jesus from the Kasai provinces of through material in one of the Zaire assembled recently at reading racks. Lulengele Mission, Kasai It is hoped that the influ- Project headquarters, for a ence of this medical ministry week-long quarterly workers' will continue to move out like meeting. At the request of the ripples from a pebble tossed workers (the entire working into a pond. Only when the staff of the field: district lead- ripples lap on the shores of ers, evangelists, colporteurs, eternity will the full extent of and pastoral students) three the loving, healing power of meetings a day were devoted God be realized by those priv- to an intensive study of last- ileged to have had a part in day events. Problems and When Kim Yong Ki was convinced of the necessity of paying tithe, he God's work. projects of the field were dis- wanted all his employees to give 10 per cent of their income to the church CALVIN V. HARTNELL cussed between meetings. as well. When those who were non-Adventists complained, Mr. Kim Director, Chaplain Services M. L. Mills, Trans-Africa settled the squabble by giving all his employees a 15 per cent raise. Portland Adventist Hospital Division president; M. 16 (312) R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 all during the dark days of the rebellion, after overseas workers had to leave the country, Pastor Katambayi faithfully worked to keep the church group intact with his time, means, and influence. When the overseas workers returned and found the church serenely functioning, they suggested that Pastor Katam- bayi go to the Cameroon to study for the ministry and be- come better qualified to serve his people. It is felt that the recent week-long retreat was a deeply spiritual experience for the men, and enthusiasm ran high. "We don't have to try to figure out how to get our Pastoral interns from the Kasai provinces were given felt sets from friends in the United States. The sets con- men inspired and moving," tained dark-skinned modern figures, Bible story manuals in the Tshiluba language, flannel boards, and cases. Elder Long commented. "It's all we can do to keep a step Mbyirukira, Zaire Union every Sabbath in the Kasai country, we deeply appreciate ahead of them. These men are president; and E. G. Har- provinces," commented Mrs. each box that comes to us truly on fire for the Lord!" combe, union treasurer, flew Long. from our stateside ALICE FAHRBACH in by mission plane for the Two new Kasai Project field churches." * A VSC Worker in Zaire session. secretaries were appointed To attend the session, one The retreat was coordinated from among the African lead- of the workers, Pastor Ka- by A. M. Long, Kasai Project ers: Mpoyi Katambayi, in the tambayi, rode 500 kilometers director. The mere logistics of area of stewardship and su- on his Moby-lette (Mo-ped) accommodating this many pervision of church building, laden with petrol, various re- workers on a small mission and R. Madandi, as the repre- ports, and tithes and offer- station, with no motels or res- sentative of Seventh-day Ad- ings. Pastor Katambayi had taurants, was monumental. ventists in the Kasai provinces been a wealthy merchant in An outdoor kitchen was set to the ECZ (Eglise du Christ the diamond capital of East up, and cooks were hired to au Zaire) and as Sabbath Kasai Province. He was prepare meals. Some workers school director. Two other brought to Christ and the stayed in homes, but at least new "workers" also were in- Seventh-day Adventist 40 slept on straw mats on a troduced on Saturday night at Church by a colporteur, and schoolroom floor. a temperance program• A talk on branch Sabbath Smoking Kabasele and Smok- *Boxes should be tied and placed in gun- nysacks and sewed securely shut. Labels ad- school evangelism on Sunday ing Kapinga. These were dem- dressed to Lulengele Mission, B.P. 1359, morning by Mrs. A. M. Long onstrated by the pastor of the Kananga, Zaire, should be sewed on and marked "Used Clothing—No Commercial The pastor of the Kananga church ended with the presentation of Kananga church. Value." Send leisure suits but not men's suit 25 basic felt sets, a gift from a On Sunday a large bundle jackets or ties. Shoes and summer clothing demonstrates Smoking Kabasele, a for families are needed. new temperance "worker" inZaire. group in the United States. of clothing, with at least one Since one of the problems item for every family pastors often encounter is member, was presented to how to convince people that each worker. Guided by an heaven is not for white people information sheet collected only, the set contained white early in the week, Mrs. Long robes and golden crowns to and Ruth Matter had assem- place on dark-skinned con- bled the bundles from a large temporary figures. Bible story shipment of clothing received manuals in the Tshiluba lan- from the Caldwell, Idaho, guage, folding flannel boards, church's Community Services and cases were included with center. This clothing was des- each felt set. The untold hours perately needed, for as food of cutting and gluing and as- prices soar higher and higher, sembling by the missionary nearly all of each worker's wives were also a gift. salary is required to provide Another gift was 700 pic- for his family the barest min- ture rolls, all sent from U.S. imum of food. Sabbath schools. "Even with "These workers do their 700, we didn't begin to have best to dress in a representa- enough picture rolls to give tive way," Mrs. Long ex- each leader one for each plained. "Since SAWS ship- Mpoyi Katambayi, left, and an evangelist friend rode Moby-lettes 500 church or group that meets ments are not allowed in the kilometers to the recent workers' meeting held at Lulengele Mission.

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AFRO-MIDEAST DIVISION students at Nairobi University Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, the students and local church one Friday evening. It is im- is in an isolated area. The new members. Leaders Visit portant that we as a church Cessna 206, made available Not long ago the church continue to encourage and through the generosity of The operated four hospitals in AMD Institutions support these young people in Quiet Hour program, makes it Ethiopia, but now Gimbie, in Immediately after the year- their various fields of en- possible for those stationed western Ethiopia, is the only end meetings of the Afro- deavor, because, as time goes there to get supplies easier one left. Most of the time this Mideast Division in Nairobi, on, the responsibility of car- and to provide much-needed 80-bed hospital runs at 100 per Kenya, I accompanied J. rying forward the work of the ambulance service. cent occupancy. Two physi- Wayne McFarland, of the church will rest on their In western Kenya, on the cians, Bill Richli and K. Hog- General Conference Health shoulders. A budget has been shore of Lake Victoria, head- ganvik, and two expatriate Department, on an inspection approved for a full-time chap- waters for the White Nile, is nurses, Misses Kristel and trip of the hospitals and some lain so that the spiritual needs Kendu Mission Hospital, Veslemy Hogganvik, are kept of the schools in East Africa of the many Adventist stu- which is in the final stages of very busy taking care of the and Ethiopia. dents at the university can be being rebuilt. E. C. Kraft and needs of the hospital. The We met with some of the cared for. his staff have put in many West and South Ethiopia national medical and dental Heri Hospital, close to hours of hard work on this fields are where Adventist project. church work is growing rap- Some 230 miles to the south idly, and we hope that our and west of Kampala, the hospital in Gimbie can con- capital of Uganda, is the hos- tinue to operate and to give pital at Ishaka. The hospital is stability to the church work in situated on a rather high hill, that area. T. S. FLAtz overlooking the beautiful Acting Health Director countryside. Some 80 beds Afro-Mideast Division are available, but with the heavy patient load many pa- tients are forced to sleep on SWAZILAND the floor between beds. S. I. Biraro and his staff conduct daily worship with the pa- African Students tients in both wards. It is Spend Holidays hoped that as soon as condi- tions permit, the problem of in Fellowship overcrowding can be cared The ninth annual conven- for. tion of the Seventh-day Ad- Arusha Seminary, in Tan- ventist Student Association zania, is situated on a 200-acre (SDASA) was held from De- tract of land at the foot of cember 23 to January 2 on the Mount Meru. At this school campus of the Royal Matsapa SHAWNEE MISSION MEDICAL CENTER Kenneth Hart and his staff are Manzini Secondary School in training lay workers and min- Swaziland. Attending were DONATES HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT isters in health evangelism. more than 300 delegates from A refrigerator being sent to Honduras is prepared for The rural setting of this cam- all parts of South Africa, Le- shipment at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Shawnee pus makes it an ideal place to sotho, Transkei, Botswana, Mission, Kansas. Helping tighten the chains are Ronald study and to enjoy the beauty and Swaziland. Weekend McBroom, business manager of the Valley of the Angels of nature. As young people meetings also were attended Hospital in Honduras; R. Spotts, director of materials man- from East Africa finish their by church members from agement at Shawnee Mission Medical Center; and Joseph education at this school and Manzini and the surrounding Langloys, assistant executive director at Shawnee Mission proceed to their posts of re- areas. Medical Center. sponsibility, they should be in C. P. D. Ntsikeni, SDASA As part of its current $27.35 million expansion program, a much better position to care president, led out at the con- which will increase its patient bed capacity to 404, Shawnee for not only the spiritual vention. He was assisted by Mission Medical Center received much new equipment and needs of the community but the vice-president and secre- furniture. also the physical needs. tary, Mr. and Mrs. Mafuya, When getting ready to auction off the replaced equipment, At Moshi Center, a 300-bed and by the Swaziland chapter J. Russell Shawver, executive director, received a telephone interdenominational teaching leader, E. Mngayi. call from Mr. McBroom. Upon learning of the needs in hospital in the shadow of The aim of the organization Honduras, Shawnee Mission Medical Center decided to help Mount Kilimanjaro, are quite is to maintain active contact equip this mission endeavor, giving away a complete food- a few Seventh-day Adventist among Adventist students, service set-up. Other items donated were obstetrical tables, students in various paramedi- many of whom attend gov- patient beds, X-ray machines, inhalation therapy equipment, cal courses. Also at this hos- ernment schools or are iso- laboratory supplies, a generator, and 25 wheel chairs. pital are two Seventh-day Ad- lated from other Adventists. Penang Adventist Hospital in Malaysia received 125 sets of ventist physicians, Norman A further aim is to stimulate beds, mattresses, and bedside furniture. A self-supporting Peckham, a pathologist, and members of all ages to con- mission clinic in Guadalajara, Mexico, was given 25 sets of Allan Workman, in orthope- tinually develop their poten- hospital bedroom furniture and other miscellaneous pieces dics. They and their families tial through study. of equipment. DUANE HALLOCK are much appreciated in the T. V. GORLE Public Relations Assistant community and are giving Education Director Shawnee Mission Medical Center strong spiritual leadership to Trans-Africa Division 18 (314) R&H, MARCH 24, 1977

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culture to help teachers use • Twelve student missionary Afro-Mideast the Pilipino language as a me- appointments have been an- Columbia Union dium of instruction on the nounced by Paul B. Riley, • The Charleroi, Pennsyl- • Middle East College, elementary school level. Sev- dean of students at Atlantic vania, church presented its Beirut, Lebanon, which has eral lectures presented by Union College: Laurin Brain- annual Community Relations been operating on a limited personnel from the Institute ard to Rhodesia as a literature Day award to the city's local academic program because of of National Language were evangelist; Gerald Cheney to newspaper, The Valley Inde- communication difficulties in followed by open-forum ses- the English-language school in pendent. Ron Paglia, city edi- the country, will return to a sions led by PUC faculty Jakarta, Indonesia; Vicky Fox tor, accepted the award on full program in September. members. to Ekamai Adventist English behalf of the newspaper. Attempts to fill faculty vacan- School in Thailand; David Hill cies are meeting with a favor- to Bella Vista Hospital in • A number of members of able response, according to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; Val- the Prince George's County Ralph Koorenny, president. Trans-Africa erie Phillips to the Israel Mis- police department stopped sion; Roseanne Field and smoking after attending a • Plans to present two During a recent steward- • Denise Gagne to Kobe Ad- Five-Day Plan to Stop Smok- weekly broadcasts from ship series in the Kalinzi ventist Hospital in Kobe, ing conducted January 31 to Radio Kigali in Rwanda have church in northern Rwanda, Japan, as nursing assistants; February 4 for them at the been approved by the Arlo- 205 persons signed a steward- Marcia Davitt to Northern Police Academy in Forest- Mideast Division in collab- ship covenant, and 40 former Ireland for evangelism; Joc- ville, Maryland, by Leland oration with Adventist World members returned to church. Memorial Hospital staff Radio. It is hoped that The series was conducted by elyn Qualie to Guam Mission Academy to teach physical members. The Plan followed a the programs, in Kiswahili Eliazafani Ntakirutimana, education, business, and typ- free computerized pulmo- (the major language of East Central African Union stew- ing; Joyce Runnals to Koror nary-function test given by Africa) and English, will be on ardship director. Elementary School in Palau, the hospital to more than 400 the air in May. policemen three months ear- • as a primary teacher; and Garth Bainbridge, Rhode- lier. • Nathan Hanna, in charge sia Conference evangelist, Daniel Timon to Palau Mis- of the youth work connected began a series of meetings in sion Academy as a secondary • Memorial services were with the Cairo Evangelistic the border town of Umtali on teacher. held Wednesday, January 19, Centre, in Egypt, reports that February 5. He is being as- in Maryland at Takoma Acad- during 1976 six young people sisted by Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Canadian Union emy gymnasium-chapel for were baptized as a result of Pond and Dan Schlatter, a Mrs. John Jay Hopkins, who MV programs. Mr. Hanna has student missionary from • Fifteen students graduated died the previous Sunday at begun a youth program in Union College. recently from the third the age of 78. Mrs. Hopkins, Giza, where some of the health-aides class sponsored whose financial generosity • Church members at Lower nearest neighbors are the pyr- by the Willowdale, Ontario, provided the $50,000 chapel Gwelo College in Rhodesia amids. church. and gym, had given a total of were inspired on Sabbath af- more than $325,000 to proj- ternoon, November 6, when • Teachers from the Mari- ects in the Takoma Park area 106 candidates publicly indi- time Conference met with during the past 13 years. In- Far Eastern cated their desire to follow teachers from Newfoundland cluded were a $145,000 Christ and unite with the in St. John's, Newfoundland. coronary-care unit at Wash- • An ordination service was church. Eighty-one of these The emphasis of the conven- ington Adventist Hospital; held at the close of the Jan- candidates were young people tion was "Evangelism in the $100,000 for the Takoma Park uary workers' meeting of the from the school, and 25 were Classroom." South Minahasa Mission in Youth Center; and $25,000 to from the local community. • Literature Evangelist Glenn East Indonesia. The three Columbia Union College for a A. Hanson, of British Colum- ministers ordained were J. music library, student schol- bia, delivered 1,400 copies of Legoh and A. R. Prang, dis- arships, and the college radio The Great Controversy during trict pastors, and Nathan Ru- North American station. three months last winter. His hupatty, mission publishing work has resulted in five bap- director. R. I. Mamarimbing, Atlantic Union • Ribbon-cutting ceremonies tisms. for the Allegheny West Con- pastor of the Parigi district of • On Christmas Day 16 per- the Central Sulawesi Mission, ference's new $160,000 Hill- sons were baptized into the top church in Columbus, East Indonesia Union, also Norwich, New York, church. Central Union was ordained to the gospel Ohio, were conducted De- ministry in January. He • Brad Thorp, who has • Jim Little is the new camp cember 18. Fund raising for worked for two years as an worked with the Mark Finley ranger at Camp Arrowhead, the church began nine years intern and three years as a evangelistic team, is preparing the Nebraska Conference ago with a $10 contribution by district pastor. for an evangelistic series to be youth camp. Wayne Humphrey, then a held March 26 through April theology student at Oakwood E. E. Lutz, Jr., new Col- • More than 100 Adventist 30 in Greenfield, Massachu- • College. and several non-Adventist setts. The Shelburne Falls, orado Conference secretary, teachers in the Philippines at- Massachusetts, church is is the former pastor of the Grand Junction district. tended a bilingual education helping to prepare for these Lake Union Twenty-seven decisions to seminar-workshop, January meetings. Although church • • Pathfinders of the Mar- 18 to 20, on the campus of membership is small (approx- join the Seventh-day Advent- shall, Michigan, Morning Star Philippine Union College, in imately 40), members distrib- ist Church were made at the Club made 90 valentines for close of a series of meetings in Manila. Such programs are uted 4,500 gift-Bible cards and residents of a local rest home. encouraged by the national are working with the 122 per- Delta, Colorado, by Jack Bo- department of education and sons who returned cards. hannon and his associates. • Special recognition was

20 (316) R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 given recently to the Clear newly completed church age young people attended has just taken over the opera- Lake, Wisconsin, church for building. one or the other of two Caro- tion of the county hospital in the 983 hours 61 members • The Northern Union Home lina Bible conferences the Pecos and is moving in staff. spent soliciting 18 towns dur- Health Education Service weekends of January 29 and It is expected that this new ing the 17-day Ingathering continues to operate on a fi- February 5 at Nosoca Pines church, in a city previously campaign. nancially sound basis. Its re- Ranch. Juniors and seniors unentered by Adventists, will • Chesaning, Michigan, serve for bad debts exceeds attended the first weekend, grow rapidly. Community Services workers the General Conference rec- underclassmen the second. recently made 18 lap robes for ommendation by 16 per cent. Larry Caviness and John Loma Linda University residents of the Chesaning Thurber led out in the con- rest home. ference. • Loma Linda University Pacific Union School of Nursing will be im- • Eighteen persons were • The students in grades 1 to 7 at Captain Gilmer Elemen- plementing curriculum baptized at the end of the • The Wasatch Hills church changes beginning this fall to "impromptu" Discovering in Salt Lake City, Utah, par- tary School in Fletcher, North increase the flexibility of the Life evangelistic crusade in ticipated in an interdenomina- Carolina, raised $1,400 to be curriculum and to prepare Flint, Michigan, conducted in tional Religious Awareness used for education among the "tree people" of Indonesia. graduates who will be more place of a previously sched- Week at the University of competent, more confident uled crusade that had been Utah. Adventists showed the The gift was a Christmas project for the seven grades. providers of nursing care cancelled. film Arrow of Prophecy three when they enter the work sit- times and took part in the dis- Eighth graders provided a uation. • The Pioneer Memorial cussions. Christmas dinner and gifts for church in Berrien Springs, retired denominational • School of Dentistry stu- Michigan, is conducting its • Norwalk, California, workers. dents and alumni attended the first continuing-education members have dedicated their seventeenth annual Alumni- program with 170 persons church complex, including the • Orlando Junior Academy Student Convention held on enrolled in eight classes. One educational wing. One of the reports a record enrollment of the Loma Linda campus Feb- unit of continuing-education oldest Adventist churches in 310 this year, 55 more than ruary 20 to 28. Highlighting credit is offered for each Los Angeles County, the last school year. the convention was the return class. Norwalk congregation was of many of the graduates of established in 1883 by blind • By February 12 evangelis- Evangelist E. A. Briggs. tic meetings in Raleigh, North the first class to receive the North Pacific Union Carolina, conducted by Rich- Doctor of Dental Surgery de- • Pham Truong Thanh is now ard Pollard, Barry Mahorney, gree 20 years ago. • Joseph C. Hansen, for 12 the pastor for Vietnamese be- and H. L. Gallimore had re- years president of the Alaska lievers in Loma Linda, Cali- sulted in 25 baptisms. • Chapel programs for the Mission and more recently a fornia. winter quarter on the Loma pastor in the Oregon Confer- Linda campus of the univer- ence, has been named associ- • The local Catholic school Southwestern Union sity are featuring "The Pro- ate director of public affairs in and various townspeople of- fessional as a Witness." the North Pacific Union Con- fered books, desks, and man- • The Southwestern Union, ference. power for rebuilding to the Southwestern Union College, • Two Sikorsky S-55 jet- Adventist church in Flagstaff, the Texas Conference, and powered helicopters have • The total tithe for the Arizona, whose school was the Keene church are funding been purchased by Loma North Pacific Union Confer- destroyed by fire on a Friday a $72,000 television equip- Linda University Medical ence in 1976 amounted to night in February. ment package to televise Ron Center for its Air Medical $20,127,587, a 13 per cent gain Halverson's Wednesday night Service. The craft were pur- over the previous year's tithe. • H. M. S. Richards, Leslie prayer meetings in Keene, chased from a firm in Alaska Mission offerings totaled Hardinge, and Morris Venden where attendance runs from and are identical to the air more than $2.6 million, an 8 headed the list of speakers at 1,000 to 1,200 a night. Tele- ambulance that crashed in per cent increase. the biennial Evangelistic vising will be in the Cajon Pass last September. Council and Bible Instructors Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Both of the craft are equipped Institute, arranged by C. Northern Union • Southwestern Union has with a full range of cardiac Lloyd Wyman, Pacific Union and respiratory apparatus. • When fire recently de- Ministerial secretary. One adopted the adjusted These stroyed the two-story home of feature was studies by former Times-Message Magazine • Approval for a two-year members of other churches, 1977 goal of two per member, continuation of an affiliation Denver and Shirley Roberts, between Loma Linda Univer- North Dakota literature evan- who gave suggestions on how as suggested by the Southern gelists, other literature evan- to interest persons in these Publishing Association. This sity and Middle East College churches in Adventism. will mean a 38 per cent gain was approved by the univer- gelists and workers through- over 1976 subscriptions. sity trustees during their Jan- out the union responded with uary board meeting. The pur- gifts to help them through the Southern Union • Ingathering goals for next year were approved recently pose of the affiliation is to crisis. assist Middle East College in • By December 31, Advent- for the Southwestern Union, • Sixty persons have been whose officers hope the union offering the type of academic baptized in Grand Forks, ist Book Centers in the program whereby the degrees Southern Union registered will reach the Silver Vanguard North Dakota, as a result of objective again in 1978. it offers will be recognized. evangelistic meetings con- sales of $363,230 ahead of the The program also assists ducted by Don Edwards, con- same period the year before. • The new Pecos, Texas, Loma Linda University by ference evangelist. The Grand The fiscal year ends March 31. church was organized with 19 providing a setting for several Forks congregation has Each ABC recorded in- charter members on January of the university's programs, passed the 200 mark in mem- creases. 22. The Southwest Adventist such as the Middle Eastern bership and is enjoying a • More than 260 academy- Health Services Corporation Studies program.

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Home, North Carolina, left New serving as relief physician, Mala- To New Posts York City, December 9, 1976, to mulo Hospital, Makwasa, Ma- Review join her husband, Daryl L. lawi. [Worker transfers within union conferences Meyers, departmental secre- • 1M MC. STUDENT MISSIONARIES are not listed here. Such transfers, when tary/evangelist, Nigerian Union, IMNA brought to our attention, may be found in News Notes.) Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. Eugenio Castillo (LLU), of Riv- Vel Reuben Beck, secretary-treas- erside, California, to serve in ADVENTIST VOLUNTEER Advent Review & Sabbath Herald urer, Idaho Conference, formerly pastoral work, Bolivia Mission, 127th Year of Continuous Publication same position, North Dakota SERVICE CORPS, La Paz, Bolivia, left Los Angeles, EDITOR SUSTENTATION OVERSEAS Kenneth H. Wood Conference. California, January 12, 1977, with SERVICE, SPECIAL SERVICE his wife, Sonia Y. (Jalapa) Cas- ASSOCIATE EDITORS Beverly Blake, instructor in Raymond F. Cottrell, Don F. Neufeld nursing, Andrews University, Robert N. Brown (SS) (LLU tillo, who will serve as a special- ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR formerly same position, Union '40), to serve as medical director, service Bible worker. Eugene F. Durand College. Malamulo Hospital, Makwasa, Timothy Wayne Vigil (PUC), of ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY Corinne Russ G. T. Blandford, evangelist, Malawi, and Rosalie A. (Rumsey) Hanford, California, to serve as assistant youth pastor, Bolivia EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Florida Conference, formerly Brown, of Simi Valley, Califor- Aileen Andres, Jocelyn Fay minister, Kansas Conference. nia, left New York City, January Training School, Cochabamba, EDITORIAL SECRETARIES Daniel Escamilla, associate pas- 17, 1977. Bolivia, left Los Angeles, Cali- Annette Bradley, Pat Hill tor, Denver Spanish church, for- Sonia Y. (Jalapa) Castillo (SS), fornia, January 29, 1977. ART merly pastor, Texas Conference. to serve as Bible worker, Bolivia Linda Susan Walters (PUC), of Designer, G. W. Busch Harold F. Googe, chairman, de- Mission, La Paz, Bolivia, left Los Lynwood, California, to serve as CONSULTING EDITORS Robert H. Pierson, W. Duncan Eva, partment of health services, Cen- Angeles, California, January 12, teacher, Bolivia Mission, La Paz, W. J. Hackett, Richard Hammill, C. D. tral Union Conference, formerly 1977, with her husband, Eugenio Bolivia, left Los Angeles, Cali- Henri, Alf Lohne, M. S. Nigri, G. Ralph Thompson, Francis W. Wernick, associate chairman, Department Castillo, who will serve as a stu- fornia, January 15, 1977. Neal C. Wilson of Health Education, School of dent missionary. SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS Health, Loma Linda University. Everett F. Coleman (LLU '44) C. 0. Franz. K. H. Emmerson, R. R. Figuhr, B. L. Archbold, W. T. Clark, Eloy Martinez, director, youth (SS), to serve as physician, Davis K. S. Parmenter, R. S. Lowry, and temperance departments, At- Memorial Hospital, Georgetown, Deaths Edwin Ludescher, M. L. Mills, Enoch Oliveira, W. R. L. Scragg, C. D. lantic Union Conference, for- Guyana, and Corinne (Brenton) Watson merly same position, Inca Union. Coleman, of Yakima, Washing- CROOKS, Amy May-b. Dec. 31, EDITORS, SPANISH EDITIONS Charles Paulien, associate pub- ton, left Los Angeles, California, 1872, Newton County, Mo.; d. Jan. 26, Inter-America, Wanda Sample 1977, Garden Grove, Calif., aged 104. North America, Fernando Chaij lishing director, Colorado Con- January 10, 1977. She was instrumental in raising up the South America, Gaston Clouzet ference, formerly literature evan- Alice (Le Bonte) Halsey (San first Seventh-day Adventist church in CORRESPONDENTS, gelist, Wyoming Conference. Francisco State '63) (SOS), to Fullerton, California. WORLD DIVISIONS Afro-Mideast, Charles D. Watson; Marvin Ponder, associate pas- serve as teacher, Indonesia Union HOWLETT, Doris Ann Smith-b. Australasian, Robert H. Parr, M. G. tor, Loma Linda University College, Bandung, Java, Indone- July 31, 1917, Taloga, Okla.; d. Jan. Townend; Euro-Africa, E. E. White; church, formerly campus chap- sia, of Cottonwood, Arizona, left 20, 1977, Napa, Calif. A graduate of Far Eastern, H. K. West, Jane Allen; Pacific Union College in 1937, she Inter-American, Tulio R. Haylock; lain, Union College. San Francisco, California, De- served for 11 years as office secretary Northern Europe-West Africa, Paul Sundquist; South American, Arthur S. Robert Reynolds, associate pas- cember 29. 1976. in the Central, Southeastern, and Valle; Southern Asia, A. M. Peterson; tor, Denver, Colorado, First Robert I. Haverstock (U. of Southern California conferences. On Trans-Africa, Perry A. Parks church, formerly pastor, Illinois Col. '49) (SS), to serve as relief Feb. 8, 1953, she was married to Rol- CORRESPONDENTS, land H. Howlett. Together they moved NORTH AMERICA Conference. physician, Nicaragua Adventist to Monterey Bay Academy, where she Don Russell, nuclear physicist, Hospital, La Trinidad, Nicaragua, served as secretary to the principal, UNIONS: Atlantic, Geraldine I. Grout; and as secretarial-science and physi- Canadian, A. N. How; Central, Clara Florida Hospital, formerly asso- and M. Georgene (Hall) Haver- cal-education teacher. In 1962 they Anderson; Columbia, Franklin W. ciate professor of physics, Union stock (U. of Calif. '70) and three Hudgins; Lake, Jere Wallack; North went to Sandia View Academy, Albu- Pacific, Cecil Coffey; Northern, Halle College. children, of Sonora, California, querque, New Mexico, where she Crowson; Pacific, Shirley Burton; Henry A. Uhl, pastor of the left Los Angeles, California, Jan- headed the secretarial-science depart- Southern, Oscar L. Heinrich; ment until 1966. In 1967 she accom- Southwestern, W. headquarters church, Calhoun, uary 9, 1977. R. May panied her husband to Antillian Col- UNIVERSITIES: Andrea's, Opal Georgia, Georgia-Cumberland Lulu G. Smith (SS), to serve as lege, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, where Young; Loma Linda, Richard Conference, formerly lay-activi- teacher, Salisbury elementary he served as president until 1974, when Weismeyer ties, Sabbath school, and stew- school, Salisbury, Rhodesia, of they moved to Pacific Union College. CIRCULATION She served a total of 23 years. Sur- Manager, Edmund M. Peterson ardship secretary, New York Safford, Arizona, left New York vivors include her husband, Rolland SUBSCRIPTIONS Conference. City, January 6, 1977. H. Howlett; two stepdaughters, Patri- US$15.95. Single copy, 45 cents. Tom Whitsett, pastor, Grand Waldemar W. Stoehr (George cia Ann O'Neil and Louise Mae Address all correspondence concerning Junction, Colorado, formerly Washington U. '71) (SOS), to Driver; five grandchildren; and one subscriptions to the Manager, sister, Soletha Smith. Periodical Department, Review and same position, South Dakota serve as teacher, East Brazil Herald Publishing Association, 6856 Eastern Avenue NW., Washington, Conference. Academy, Petropolis, Rio de Ja- OFT, Melvin H.-b. June 15, 1924, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. neiro, Brazil, and Neida (Klein) Harvey, Ill.; d. Nov. 7, 1976, Avon FROM HOME BASE Monthly editions in English and Stoehr, of Carmichael, California, Park, Fla. He served as Book and Spanish and a quarterly edition in TO FRONT LINE Bible House manager in the Nevada- Braille are available. For information left Weaverville, California, Feb- Utah Conference and the Hawaiian write to the Manager, Periodical Raymond Ermshar (LLU '43), ruary 1, 1977. Mission, and also as a colporteur in Department. to serve as director of medical Louis E. Thayer (SS), to serve Michigan. Survivors include his wife, TO CONTRIBUTORS Juvernia; two sons, Milo and Daryl; Send news stories and pictures, articles, department, Central Amazon as builder, North Zambia Field, two daughters, Krystal Bishop and and letters to the editor. Unsolicited Mission, Manaus, Amazonas, Zambia Union, Mansa, Zambia, Twyla; and one grandchild. manuscripts are welcome, but will be accepted without remuneration and Brazil, and Marian M. (Halliwell) of Minneapolis, Minnesota, left O'HARE, Clara Grace-b. Oct. 29, will be returned only if accompanied by Ermshar, of Modesto, California, Miami, Florida, January 13, 1977. 1887, Lakeview, N.Y.; d. Feb. 7, 1977, a stamped, self-addressed envelope. left Miami, Florida, February 3, Amy (Reed) Westphal (SS), of Reno, Nev. She served as a Bible An index is published in the last 1977. Menard, Texas, left New York worker for 20 years in the New York Review of June and December. The Conference. Survivors include a niece, Review is indexed in the Seventh-day Kerstin M. (Pettersson) Meyers, City, January 5, 1977, to join her Adventist Periodical Index. Betty Seaward; and two nephews, and two children, of Mountain husband, Herbert M. Westphal, Daniel and Robert Wruck.

22 (318) R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 are the Ten Commandments rel- work of God. Careless criticism evant to you fellows?" thus leads a person to break the "What do you mean?" they first commandment. countered, looking for clarifica- The second commandment is tion. more specific. Though it pro- "To be specific," I replied, scribes the worship of God in "what do the first two com- the form of graven images, it mandments mean to you strikes at all material objects E.Robert Reynolds today?" that turn the mind away from "Not much," answered the God, and thus at materialism it- one who spoke for the three. He self. It hits status symbols. spoke decisively but without de- Good food, too much or too fiance. These boys honored their often, is another icon. Paul parents, loved God, kept the speaks of a class of people Sabbath, were honest and truth- whose "god is their appetite" ful. Like the rich young ruler, (Phil. 3:19, T.L.B.) or as Charles they felt they had observed all B. Williams translates these the Ten Commandments. "We words, "Their stomach is their don't worship other gods or bow god." John the Baptist's life of down to graven images," they simplicity in diet and in dress explained. rebuked many people of his The first and second com- generation. mandments prohibit idolatry. "He was a representative of But Adventists do not bow down those living in the last days, to to graven images. whom God has entrusted sacred The first of the Ten is short: truths to present before the peo- "You shall have no other gods ple, to prepare the way for the before me." God is supreme. second appearing of Christ. And His lordship, His sovereignty, is the same principles of temper- paramount. Nothing else, how- ance which John practiced ever good, must be permitted to should be observed by those hold first place in a person's who in our day are to warn the heart. God is first. This fact world of the coming of the Son makes the selfishness of human, of man."—Temperance, p. 91. unregenerate nature the target of "Temperance in all things is the first commandment without to be connected with the mes- regard to race or language. God sage, to turn the people of God underscored this truth by a sec- from their idolatry, their glut- ond commandment. tony, and their extravagance in Self-love is the basic cause of dress and other things."—Testi- all sin. It brought about Lu- monies, vol. 3, p. 62. cifer's downfall in heaven (Isa. We may not make graven 14:12-14). The saints need to images of Moloch, but we may make a god of a sliver of apple "`You shall have no other overcome such things as pride of pie or a scoop of ice cream. gods before me. You shall not opinion, headstrong, stubborn make for yourself a graven wills, arrogance over achieve- When we read this command- image, or any likeness of any- ment, love of display, injured ment we may think of crocodiles thing that is in heaven above, or feelings, all instances of "crea- or golden calves. We draw our that is in the earth beneath, or ture-Creatorship" (the covert or coats a little tighter and smugly that is in the water under the unconscious identification of an think, That doesn't apply to me. earth; you shall not bow down to individual with the role of deity), We prefer our modern icons. them or serve them; for I the and even the unequaled affec- Nor are the poor immune. A Lord your God am a jealous tion of their loved ones. man may not even own his idols. God, visiting the iniquity of the Overesteem for the opinion of Desire for what a neighbor has fathers upon the children to the others versus the expressed will may lead him to break both the third and fourth generation of of God also breaks this com- second and the tenth command- those who hate me, but showing mandment. "Whatever we ments. steadfast love to thousands of cherish that tends to lessen our God's mercy is for thousands those who love me and keep my love for God or to interfere with of generations of those who love commandments' " (Ex. 20:3-6, the service due Him, of that do Him and keep His command- R. S . V.). we make a god."—Patriarchs ments. Mercy is a predominant and Prophets, p. 305. By this characteristic of God. He is a AS MY THREE SONS, then standard a church member, even God of love and mercy, not a academy- and college-age youth, a minister, may be an idolator. hard, demanding autocrat wait- sat eating their Sabbath morning Destructive criticism leads to ing for a poor sinner to make a breakfast, I asked them, "How a rejection of the Holy Spirit mistake that He can judge with (The Desire of Ages, p. 323). stern equity and rigid justice. He E. Robert Reynolds is a retired This is probably because, in crit- draws His people to Himself missionary living in Riverside, icizing, we are guilty of judging, with arms of lovingkindness. ❑ California. which is taking to ourselves the To be continued

R&H, MARCH 24, 1977 (319) 23 General Conference associate from North America to vari- Churches Damaged publishing director, spoke at N.A. Ingathering ous parts of the world. Pastor in Romania Quake the dedication service. Report-10 Hon is the first overseas SOS Among other guests were worker in North America. The total amount of Ingath- Early reports indicate that Marvin H. Reeder, General Metro Ministry administra- ering raised during the 1977 12 Seventh-day Adventist Conference associate com- tive offices at the New York campaign is $8,559,135.51, or churches in Romania were se- munication director, and A. Center are officially open, and $16.29 per member in the verely damaged in the earth- M. Peterson, Southern Asia visitors are welcome. The ad- North American Division. It quake felt from Rome to Division communication dress is 227 West 46th Street, is a gain of $206,436.97 over Moscow, but centering in director. New York, New York 10036. last year's total. Romania. 'The Labirint church Workers in Bangladesh are The Metro staff will be happy The Southwestern Union in downtown Bucharest, ad- limited to printing Bible les- to provide information on its reached the Silver Vanguard jacent to the Romanian Union sons and pamphlets because objectives to visiting Advent- goal, becoming the first union Conference office, is one of of lack of equipment for ists. The staff can be reached to do this in a number of the damaged churches, ac- printing books, but they hope by calling (212) 354-4360. years. Fourteen conferences cording to Edwin Ludescher, eventually to be able to keep NIKOLAUS SA fELMAJER reached or exceeded the Sil- Euro-Africa Division presi- up with the demand for both ver Vanguard goal (per capita dent. Elder Ludescher added books and literature in the figures given): that to his knowledge no Sev- Bengali language. In Brief enth-day Adventist lost his life RUDI H. HENNING in the disaster. Newfoundland $43.63 Died: E. J. Lorntz, 86, on Seventh-day Adventist Arkansas-Louisiana 30.47 March 8, in Loma Linda, Cal- World Service, in cooperation ABC Sales Texico 28.87 ifornia. A long-time mission- with the Romanian Govern- New York 27.54 ary to the Inter-American and ment and the Euro-Africa Di- Increase Steadily Oklahoma 27.44 Northern Europe-West Africa Pennsylvania 26.81 vision, is providing humani- Figures just released show divisions, Elder Lorntz was a Texas 26.34 tarian relief in the amount of that the 1975-1976 Adventist field secretary of the General Indiana 25.88 $50,000. The money, which Book Center sales are more Conference when he retired. Alabama-Mississippi 25.74 will be used to purchase med- than $3 million above the Greater New York 25.61 ical and surgical supplies, 1974-1975 sales. These figures Illinois 25.37 among other things, has been show an increasing interest on r Kansas 25.23 presented to the Romanian the part of North American New Jersey 25.01 ambassador, Nicolae Nicolae. church members in spiritual Northern New England 25.00 H. D. BURBANK and health literature for their families, friends, and commu- Seven unions (Southwest- IS/ESDA Scales nity, leaders feel. Net sales ern, Southern, Canadian, Pa- for the past five years total cific, Atlantic, North Pacific, Down Service $93,349,981. A year-by-year and Central) and 38 confer- In harmony with the de- breakdown is as follows: ences exceeded their final cision of church administra- 1975-1976 $23,263,206 totals for last year. The Pa- tion, IS/ESDA will scale down 1974-1975 20,067,785 cific, Southern, and Columbia its scope of activities so as to 1973-1974 19,946,608 unions all raised more than $1 limit operation to the pur- 1972-1973 15,248,240 million. C. C. WEIS chase of supplies and equip- 1971-1972 14,824,142 ment exclusively for church BRUCE M. WICKWIRE institutions, organizations, First SOS Worker

and missionary families This U change of operation entails the Record Third Arrives in U.S.A. u l3 MQ liquidation of most of the Eric W. Hon, of the Aus- awe present inventories and the Quarter Offering tralasian Division, a Sustenta- d) closing of the Takoma Park Members of Sabbath tion Overseas Service worker, SSGIpp d asea1 salesroom. Both the River- schools around the world is serving as the director of i .!

side and the Takoma Park contributed $1,083,702.16 on Metro Ministry of Seventh- (1 offices will continue operation the thirteenth Sabbath of the day Adventists, New York. under Erwin Mack, the new third quarter, 1976. Of this Along with Nikolaus Satel- general manager. offering, the largest ever given majer and Ted N. C. Wilson, F. C. WEBSTER in a third quarter, $270,925.54 he is heading up an organiza- will go to the Far Eastern Di- tion to evangelize the metro- vision to assist in relocating politan New York area. The Workers Dedicate East Visayan Academy in the organization is sponsored Central Philippine Union Mis- jointly by the General Con- Bangladesh Press sion and to build new ference, the Atlantic Union, Although small, Bangladesh churches and jungle airstrips and the Greater New York Publishing House in Dacca is in the division. Conference. launching an accelerated pub- The remaining $812,776.62 According to the General lishing program. On February will increase the World Mis- Conference Secretariat, the 22 the press's greatly enlarged sion Fund to support the work SOS program was begun in 0 factory rooms were dedi- of evangelism in every divi- 1971, and since then more cated. Rudi H. Henning, sion. H. F. RAmyroN than 100 workers have gone

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